Chapter 31: She would live with this monster, day and night,...
Qingtao tearfully told Yan Shu what happened yesterday.
Originally, according to Yan Shu's plan, Qingtao was to wait for her at the place closest to the palace gate with their packages yesterday. After Yan Shu got the clearance certificate, she immediately went to meet up with Qingtao.
Yesterday, Qingtao had just walked out of Baohua Palace with their luggage when she was captured and guarded on the spot. Qingtao didn't even have the chance to report the news.
Yan Shu inquired further about Qingtao's possible punishment in captivity. Fortunately, Qingtao shook her head, explaining that she was locked up and not allowed to leave, and that even her meals hadn't been deprived. However, Qingtao was so preoccupied with worrying about her princess that she couldn't eat.
"Princess, I was so worried about you yesterday. Fortunately, you are okay!" Qingtao wiped her tears and sobbed.
Yan Shu wiped away Qingtao's tears guiltily, and her eyes felt a little sore.
"I'm the one who implicated you this time."
Hearing Yan Shu's words, Qing Tao immediately shook her head in denial: "How could the princess say such a thing? I've already said, wherever the princess goes, I'll go!"
Yan Shu couldn't help crying after hearing Qingtao's words. The master and servant hugged each other and cried together.
After all, they are all young girls. Even if they are careful in their daily lives, how can they not be afraid when they are in this situation?
Fortunately, the two are now reunited and can comfort each other.
Qingtao initially thought that the king did not punish his princess severely, perhaps because he felt pity for his princess and could not bear to do so. However, when she helped the princess to stand up and saw the pair of gold rings on her ankles, her face turned pale.
"Princess, what's going on!" Qingtao pulled the thin chain on the golden ring with heartache, but it was completely in vain.
Yan Shu had gotten over the initial shock and fear of discovering she was chained, and she found it ridiculous that with the experience of being imprisoned for a year in her previous life, she was now accustomed to the existence of these chains.
"Why did the king lock up the princess?" Qingtao shed tears, and when she saw that the girl looked normal, her tears flowed even more.
Yan Shu sighed and comforted Qingtao.
"Qingtao, remember what I told you about my past life? Perhaps this is my retribution. Even if I schemed in every possible way, I can't escape this fate in the end."
Qingtao choked up, and when she thought of what the princess had said about the ending of her previous life, tears suddenly fell.
"Then the king is really going to do as he did in his previous life—" Qingtao trembled, reluctantly saying, "Is he going to poison the princess...with wine?"
Yan Shu shook her head upon hearing this, a trace of melancholy flashing across her delicate and rosy face. She sighed and said, "I don't know either, but it shouldn't be now."
In her previous life, Xiao Yu had also imprisoned her for a year, only to have Yan Qingwan bring poisoned wine when he had grown tired of playing with her body. Now that she had only just been imprisoned, Xiao Yu might not have tortured her enough yet and would certainly not let her die so easily.
After hearing Yan Shu's words, Qingtao's face turned pale and her eyes were full of worry.
Seeing this, Yan Shu spoke to comfort her: "Qingtao, Xiao Yu wants to take revenge on me. I will definitely ask him to let you leave the palace. Then you can take those gold and silver jewelry with you. When you return to Yan State, you can buy a house and live a good life."
Qingtao listened to the girl's arrangements, shaking her head and crying, "Qingtao will not leave. If anything happens to the princess, Qingtao will never live in vain!"
Yan Shu raised her hand to wipe away the tears on Qingtao's face, and said earnestly: "Silly girl, nothing in this world is more important than being alive. Your life is your own, not someone else's. Now as long as there is a chance to live, you must hold on to it."
Qing Tao choked up and looked at Yan Shu: "Does the princess really have no chance? Since God has given the princess a second life, I don't believe that the princess will have the same ending as her previous life!"
Qingtao's expression was firm, but the words she left behind made Yan Shu dazed for a moment.
Does she really have a chance to live now?
Yan Shu lowered her eyes and looked at the gold ring on her ankle, a trace of confusion appearing in her watery eyes.
In her previous life, she was imprisoned for a whole year. No matter whether she took a bath, ate, or did anything else, she could never break free from the thin golden chain.
Falling from the top to the bottom of the valley, Yan Shu at that time could not accept such a huge gap. She felt like a puppet with all its energy drained away, and could only live numbly every day.
But Xiao Yu still came to favor her every day, using those disgusting means to play with her. In Yan Shu's view, those were not favors, but humiliations to her.
But every fifteenth day of the lunar month, when the Hehuan poison in her body would flare up, she would still wag her tail and beg Xiao Yu to help her get rid of the poison.
Yan Shu's former pride was crushed underfoot by her undignified behavior.
Yan Shu couldn't help but shiver when she thought that such a day would happen again.
Even in this life, she has one more crime to blame, and Xiao Yu's hatred for her will only increase.
Rather than being humiliated and dying in pain after being given poisoned wine, she might as well find an opportunity to end her life.
Seeing Yan Shu's desire to die, Qing Tao immediately stepped forward and said anxiously, "Princess, didn't you just tell me that as long as there's a chance of survival, I must seize it? Now that Prince Xiao has no intention of killing you, there's still hope. Princess, you naturally can't give up on yourself!"
"And not only did Prince Xiao not kill me, he even asked me to come and serve the princess. This means that the princess must have a place in Prince Xiao's heart now."
Qingtao's words weighed heavily on Yan Shu's heart.
Does she really have a place in Xiao Yu's heart?
In the past, she was pushed into the snake cave, and now she was drugged. After two deceptions, could Xiao Yu still be heartless towards her?
Even if it was Yan Shu, she couldn't help but hate him, let alone a madman like Xiao Yu.
But as Qingtao said, Yan Shu really didn't want to die.
She had died once before, and she knew too well how unpleasant that feeling was. Now that she had finally been reborn, she was dying in vain. Yan Shu was truly unwilling to accept this.
"Princess, all you have to do now is live well. As long as you're alive, things will definitely turn around." Qingtao held Yan Shu's hands, her eyes fixed. "Princess, you said that in your previous life, the cup of poisoned wine was sent by Wan Ji. Now Wan Ji is no longer by your side, and there is no chance for her to get close to King Xiao. Princess, you will never be betrayed by her again like in your previous life."
Yan Shu looked at the worried Qingtao, her eyelashes drooping slightly. Perhaps she really shouldn't give up like this.
Regardless of whether Xiao Yu didn't kill her now because he was reluctant or just had some attachment to her body, she would make good use of it.
Yan Shu raised her eyes, reached out her hand to push away the black hair that was scattered on both sides of her cheeks, and there was a hint of calmness in her dark eyes.
"Qingtao, help me dress up."
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"Noble Lady Chu secretly escaped from the palace last night and was accidentally killed by thieves outside the palace. The king has executed those thieves today. I hope the Queen Mother will accept my condolences."
Zhou Tong, who was beside Xiao Yu, had already left the Suning Palace, but the words he said this morning still echoed in her ears for a long time, making Empress Dowager Zhao Jing feel angry and sad.
"This madman!" Empress Dowager Zhao Jing swept away all the jade ornaments on the table with a wave of her sleeves.
All the palace maids in Suining Palace were so frightened that they knelt on the ground.
"Ah, my Yuan'er, my Yuan'er..." Empress Dowager Zhaojing had tears in her eyes and her heart ached.
Empress Dowager Zhaojing never expected that Xiao Yu would dare to execute her own niece without any scruples, and even send the body to her Suining Palace in a dignified manner.
Who could know how heartbroken she felt when she saw Yuan'er's body today?
What she wanted to see was clearly Yan Shu's corpse, but what those people sent was actually her own niece!
The assassins she arranged at the palace gate to take Yan Shu's life were all executed on the spot by Xiao Yu as thieves.
She originally thought of a good way to kill two birds with one stone, but she never expected that Jing would cause her Yuaner to lose her life in vain.
But now, even though Empress Dowager Zhao Jing knew that Chu Yuan was killed by Xiao Yu, because she was the one who arranged the drugging, she could only swallow her grief and admit that Chu Yuan was killed by a thief outside the palace.
She underestimated Xiao Yu.
Her nominal son is by no means as simple as he appeared in the past. His mind is unfathomable and his methods are ruthless.
Empress Dowager Zhao Jing's face turned pale, as if she thought of something, and her heart suddenly began to beat fast.
She held onto the desk and immediately whispered an instruction to the palace maid beside her.
"Quick, Marquis Qingmingyi, come here! I want to see him!"
Upon hearing this, the palace maid immediately responded and went to invite him.
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After finishing her meal, Yan Shu sat on the couch, holding her chin with her hand and looking at the lotus flowers in the yard outside the window. Her dark almond eyes seemed to be covered with a little mist.
The lotus flowers in the water tank were still blooming brilliantly, but she no longer had the chance to appreciate them up close.
Qingtao saw that Yan Shu was heartbroken, so she immediately left the yard, picked a lotus flower from the water tank and put it in a celadon narrow-mouthed vase, then went back to the house and placed it on the small sandalwood table in front of Yan Shu.
Yan Shu looked at the lotus in the narrow-mouthed vase and felt that her current situation was similar to it.
It wouldn't last long in her house before it withered and died.
"Qingtao, how many days do you think it can last here?" Yan Shu touched the petals lightly with her fingertips, her voice soft.
"Princess, don't worry. This flower branch has roots and can continue to survive if it is inserted into the mud of the pond." Qingtao replied seriously, hoping that the princess would feel a little more comforted.
Yan Shu paused when she heard this, pursed her lips and smiled, then withdrew her hand.
The girl looked up at Qingtao, and seemed to have regained some vitality. She asked with bright almond eyes, "Qingtao, do I look good today?"
Qingtao was stunned when she heard this, and then nodded vigorously.
"Of course the princess is beautiful!"
This morning, after the princess had cheered up, she asked her to dress her up and even put on her gorgeous peony dress. At this moment, she was so beautiful that it was impossible to take your eyes off her.
Yan Shu lowered her eyes, a hint of self-mockery flashed across her eyes. Being beautiful was enough. At least this beauty could allow her to survive for a while.
After thinking about it, Yan Shu broke off the flower branch in the narrow-mouthed vase, pinned the bright pink lotus flowers in her black hair, and looked calm.
"Qingtao, pass the message out, I want to see King Xiao."
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When Zhou Tong received the message from Baohua Palace, he was anxiously pacing outside Changming Palace.
When his master came back this morning, he locked himself in the palace and did not go out again except asking him to go to Suining Palace to deliver a message.
Zhou Tong asked a few questions tentatively and concernedly, and then he found out that the master's blood parasite had broken out early this month, and as usual, he didn't let anyone in.
But at this moment, a message came from Baohua Palace asking to see someone. That person was the apple of his master's eye, so Zhou Tong naturally had to bite the bullet and deliver the message.
After Zhou Tong carefully delivered the message outside the hall, the hall seemed to be quiet for a moment.
"She said she wanted to see me?"
The young king's voice was hoarse. Zhou Tong, who was standing at the doorway, nodded rapidly, "Absolutely true, Your Majesty! This was directly conveyed by Miss Qingtao of Baohua Palace. Do you wish me to refuse?"
The hall was dim, and a slender figure stood in the backlight.
Xiao Yu lowered his eyes, his long and thick eyelashes drooped slightly, casting a faint shadow on his pale face.
He raised his hand to wipe away the bright bloodstains from the corner of his mouth, his eyelids slightly raised, and his ink-black eyes were filled with waves of death.
He shouldn't go see his Shushu in this disgusting state.
But when he thought of how she cried and called him a "madman" and a "monster" today, Xiao Yu's heart, which felt like it was being gnawed by countless insects, actually gave rise to a secret pleasure.
This at least shows that his Shushu has never forgotten him.
His Shushu still remembers the former hostage Xiao Xun and everything that happened between them.
A strange smile gradually emerged in the dark eyes, which seemed to be extremely happy, and also seemed to be obsessed.
Xiao Yu didn't care whether she was a "madman" or a "monster". He only knew that his Shushu would never have the chance to leave him again.
She would stay with this monster, day and night, forever and ever, and die together.
"Zhou Tong, prepare the sedan chair."
The master's low and hoarse voice came from the hall, and Zhou Tong, who was waiting to refuse, was suddenly startled.
The next moment, the palace door opened from the inside, and a cold air blew towards him.
Zhou Tong shuddered, looking up at his master in front of him. He was dressed in a dark robe, his skin was pale, and there was a trace of blood at the corner of his mouth. He looked like a ghost. Suddenly, he was a little horrified and couldn't help but persuade him, "Your Majesty, are you going to leave like this?"
Unexpectedly, his master actually curved his narrow eyes, and in his dark eyes there was a smile that Zhou Tong could not understand.
"You also think I'm a monster?"
Zhou Tong was horrified and immediately knelt down and confessed his guilt: "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I never meant that!"
Xiao Yu looked at him, his dark eyes showed no anger, but his thin lips curled up in a strange smile.
"Zhou Tong, it's me that Shushu wants to see."
Zhou Tong, who was kneeling on the ground, felt his scalp tingling and understood instantly.
Today's master will no longer pretend.
Now that the veil has been torn off, whether she is a madman or a monster, Lady Yan can only accept it and there is no possibility of resistance anymore.
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The author has something to say: Sorry guys, today's update is late, because that damn WPS swallowed my 300-word manuscript this afternoon [burst into tears], I hate it! I searched for it for a long time but couldn't find it, so I had to re-upload it [chin-supporting]
The next update will be on Monday night. I will update regularly after I become a v-player next week. [Please]
Also, let me say quietly, I am actually a driving enthusiast [狗头], I hope you guys don't make me fat [吻亲], because sometimes after being locked, you can only delete everything before unlocking, and that feeling is completely dry and not right. I just think that young couples still need to stick together more when necessary to have feelings for each other.
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