Chapter 36 He died and Yan Shu died.
Yan Shu's heart skipped a beat when she heard this, and she was a little confused about what Xiao Yu was thinking. But when she thought about the purpose of her visit, she walked towards him with light steps.
Xiao Yu just raised his pair of dark eyes and stared at her inch by inch.
Yan Shu felt a little nervous and couldn't help but slow down her pace.
Just as she walked in front of him, Yan Shu was hesitating whether to say something when someone grabbed her wrist and pulled her over.
In an instant, she fell into an embrace that smelled of snow-covered pine wood.
The slender waist was tightly gripped by the slender and powerful hands, making Yan Shu unable to move easily.
She fluttered her eyelashes, calmed the panic in her heart, and then raised her watery almond eyes to look at the person in front of her.
As soon as Yan Shu raised her eyes, she met Xiao Yu's dark eyes.
There seemed to be an undercurrent in those eyes, which Yan Shu could not ignore, but was somewhat unable to resist. Her heart skipped a beat, and she immediately looked away in panic, thinking of the person she had just met outside the hall. Then she randomly found a sentence to avoid the eager gaze, and these words actually carried a hint of temptation.
"I just saw Sister Wanji outside. She seemed to have brought some nourishing soup for the Queen Mother. Why didn't the King see her?"
Although Yan Shu's words were a test, they also contained some genuine doubts. After all, Yan Qingwan was now Empress Dowager Zhao Jing's person. Xiao Yu had just killed Chu Yuan and didn't know how to explain to Empress Dowager Zhao Jing. Now he refused the tonic soup sent by the Empress Dowager. Could it be that he was not afraid of the Empress Dowager's power?
However, Xiao Yu did not answer after hearing this. He just stared at her with his dark eyes without moving an inch, but the emotion in his eyes was not clear at all.
The heavy and burning gaze seemed to want to peel her apart from head to toe, examining the vitality of her body from the inside out.
Xiao Yu's grip on the girl's waist gradually tightened, and the rich sweet fragrance was faintly entangled with the cedar wood on his body, making him uncontrollably excited.
Is her heart beating passionately?
Is the blood warm beneath her skin?
Will her Shushu never again die cold, gray and silent in his arms like in her previous life?
Xiao Yu's eyes were almost greedy.
At this moment, he had so many things he wanted to ask her.
He wanted to know why his Shushu hated him so much?
He even hated the girl so much that she couldn't stand the pain of having a hair pulled, but she drank the poison while bleeding from all seven orifices and feeling the pain in her internal organs, just to leave him forever.
He didn't sleep all night yesterday, just looking at the girl's peaceful sleeping face beside him all night long.
Xiao Yu didn't dare close his eyes, for he was afraid that when he woke up he would find that everything was just a dream.
He watched her like this until dawn, but left Baohua Palace when Yan Shu was about to wake up.
Relying only on the memories of this life in his mind, Xiao Yu didn't dare to guess whether his Shushu would want to see his face when she woke up.
So he returned to his Changming Palace.
Everything in Changming Palace remains the same, without any change from the previous life.
Zhou Tong, who followed him, was a little more talkative than in his previous life.
He just glanced at him lightly, and Zhou Tong fell silent.
Xiao Yu looked at those memorials, which were basically the same as in his previous life. The only difference in his mind was the memory of Yan Shu after he killed King Xiao Wei.
In this life, Shushu told him about the Hehuan Gu from the very beginning.
But in his previous life, he found out about it through secret investigation by his spies.
In this life, Shushu was gentle and considerate to him, but always a little afraid of him.
She even took the initiative to propose to him that Chu Nu be the queen, and she didn't seem to mind at all.
But in her previous life, after learning that Empress Dowager Zhao Jing wanted him to make Chu Yuan his queen, she acted coquettishly and aggrievedly and asked him for his promise that he would not make anyone else his queen before she felt at ease.
But in this life, Shushu didn't care whether he had a queen or other concubines. She courted him respectfully, instead of relying on him wholeheartedly like she did in her previous life.
She even took the initiative to cooperate with Queen Dowager Zhao Jing, drugged him, and handed him over to the Chu woman.
Everything about this is different from the previous life.
But what remains unchanged is that Shushu in this life, like Shushu after the Paradise Banquet, has always wanted to escape from him.
But why was she different from her previous life? It seemed as if she wanted to leave him from the very beginning.
There was a dark look in Xiao Yu's eyes.
Now everything pointed to an answer for him.
That is, Shushu in this life was also reborn like him, and was reborn earlier than him, so she was so eager to leave him.
In the past, she deceived him and pushed him into the snake cave, and Xiao Yu also hated her.
He hated why she was like everyone else, provoking him but then cruelly pushing him away.
Hate him as a monster and despise his lowly status as a proton.
Xiao Yu was unwilling to accept this.
Perhaps it was the blood parasite in his body that was causing all the snakes that bit him to die from the poison. The others did not dare to approach him. After he killed the snake king with his bare hands, he luckily survived in the snake cave.
The moment he crawled out of the snake cave covered in blood, there was death in the boy's eyes.
He began to hate Yan Shu.
He vowed to take it and abandon it in this life.
He wanted to make her prostrate herself before this despicable monster and repent deeply one day.
On the way back to Xiao State, Xiao Yu met Wei Ziqi, a wealthy businessman from Xiao State. Wei Ziqi formed an alliance with him and said that he was willing to help him ascend to the position of the king of Xiao State.
Xiao Yu agreed.
In the past, he never cared about these positions, but now he needs enough power.
He returned to Yongcheng with Wei Ziqi, and personally engineered the death of the good-for-nothing Xiao Jin, successfully making Madam Zhao Jing recognize him as her legitimate son.
His road to revenge went smoothly.
Those who were afraid and disgusted in the past have all changed their attitudes.
At this point, he was the gentle and elegant young man Xiao Yu, not the lowly hostage Xiao Xun who had been used as a poison vessel since childhood.
King Xiao Wei was dissolute in his early years and had no children, so he was recommended by the court officials to become the crown prince of Xiao as he wished.
In the future, as soon as King Xiao Wei died, he would succeed to the throne smoothly.
But Yan Shu's arrival brought all this forward.
When Xiao Yu heard the news at that time, his blood was filled with excitement. He wanted to know whether Yan Shu would regret what she had done after knowing his identity.
As for that extremely stupid King Xiao Wei, how could he have any contact with her?
So on the night when King Xiao Wei wanted to favor Yan Shu, he personally staged the palace coup.
Haven't seen you for six years.
His Shushu is even more lovable.
She tugged at his clothes and begged him to help her with tears in her eyes.
And it was at that time that Xiao Yu changed his mind.
He suddenly felt that it was good to maintain this hypocritical face.
She would no longer be afraid of him, nor would she dislike or hate him. She would even like him because of his gentleness.
So every day thereafter, he pretended to be a gentle gentleman.
And her Shushu really liked him like this, trusting and relying on him in every way. He was so innocent and naive that he was reluctant to reveal his true face at all.
He thought it would be nice to keep acting like this, at least his Shushu would be with him forever.
Such intimacy, such attachment.
But what Xiao Yu never expected was that his Shushu betrayed him again.
Perhaps she realized that he was the former hostage Xiao Xun, so she felt even more hatred for him.
The moment he saw her smilingly handing the poisoned wine to him, the familiar heart-breaking pain gradually arose.
No matter what he becomes.
Yan Shu will never like him.
She could kill him again and again without mercy.
Looking at her bright smile, Xiao Yu felt disheartened and hatred arose in his heart.
Xiao Yu thought that it was time for him to let her experience what it felt like to be extremely heartbroken and despairing.
So he smiled gently and pushed Yan Shu into the arena.
Looking at her pretty little face, the color suddenly disappeared.
Paleness, fear and confusion appeared on his Shushu's face.
He should feel relieved that even a cruel person like her could be afraid.
But at that time, Xiao Yu didn't feel any pleasure at all.
And at the moment when the wolf pounced on the girl, he shot an arrow through her throat with a dark look in his eyes.
The wolf fell to the ground and died with blood gushing out of his throat, and his Shushu also fainted.
Xiao Yu felt an inexplicable sense of regret in his heart.
He couldn't kill her like that, so he imprisoned her in the temple with golden chains.
He thought that since Yan Shu hated her so much, he had to keep her by his side and use this extremely lowly body in her eyes to harass her every day.
Yan Shu was also very resistant and she was unwilling to respond to his demands.
Every touch of his was humiliating to her.
Only on the fifteenth night of every month, because of the torture of the love poison, she would not suppress her body's instinct to get closer to him. At that time, it seemed as if she had returned to the naive attachment to him two years ago.
Yet, he shamefully yearned for that night, even suspecting that his Shushu had also harbored some attachment to him.
But the next morning, the girl returned to her usual indifference.
Xiao Yu just understood that if it weren't for the poison, Yan Shu would never take the initiative to get close to him.
But he still didn't want to let go.
Yan Shu is his. Even if her heart does not belong to him, he will keep her body and soul by his side forever.
But what Xiao Yu didn't expect was.
Yan Shu is dead.
She drank a cup of poisoned wine without any regrets and died in the Baohua Palace where she had been locked up for a year.
The palace maids who served her all said that she committed suicide.
As Xiao Yu looked at the corpse lying quietly on the couch and cooling down, his blood also turned cold.
He was unwilling to acknowledge Yan Shu's death, but after looking at the pale little face covered in blood, he felt hopeless.
Such a beautiful girl, such a girl who was afraid of pain, died so tragically, just to escape from him.
She didn't want to be locked up like this and humiliated by him every day.
So I would rather die than leave him.
Xiao Yu was unwilling to bury Yan Shu's body. He carefully and calmly wiped the blood off her face, and then gently changed her into her favorite peony dress.
He tied her hair, drew her eyebrows and did her makeup, and finally carried her to the ice couch and lay down with her.
The young king stayed quietly with the corpse for three days.
No one in the huge Xiao Palace dared to speak.
Three days later, King Xiao discovered the source of the poisoned wine and cold-bloodedly executed all the palace maids who had failed to stop Concubine Yan from committing suicide.
Even Empress Dowager Zhaojing of Suining Palace and Concubine Wan Ji, who served Concubine Yan during her lifetime, did not escape.
Even though Wan Ji insisted that Concubine Yan committed suicide and that she and the Queen Mother were merely fulfilling her wish, they were still killed by Prince Xiao.
The death of Empress Dowager Zhaojing caused an uproar in the court. Everyone said that King Xiao had gone mad and that the Kingdom of Xiao would soon change its ruler.
But before everyone could attack him, the young and crazy King Xiao had already committed suicide in Baohua Palace.
He actually died in the same place as that beautiful lady Yan.
What Xiao Yu thought before he died was that even if he became a ghost, he would be entangled with Yan Shu for generations to come.
But after seeing the girl's lively face and the golden ring locked on her ankle last night, he suddenly felt a little scared.
Will his Shushu still be like in the previous life, preferring to die rather than be with a monster like him?
His fingertips gently touched the red marks on the girl's ankles, and a trace of regret flashed in his eyes.
Even though they had indulged in a passionate fight last night, he knew that Yan Shu had compromised for the sake of the maid's life.
If his Shushu was really reborn, and was imprisoned by him again this time, would she hate him deeply in her heart?
Xiao left Baohua Palace. He was a little afraid to see the girl's disgusted and hateful eyes again.
But he didn't expect that Yan Shu would come to him on her own initiative.
Although he had instructed Zhou Tong in advance, he did not see anyone except Yan Shu.
But he never expected that his Shushu would really come.
The moment he saw her, his blood seemed to boil with heat.
He couldn't help but pull her into his arms, and didn't feel at ease until he felt the soft warmth.
Looking at Xiao Yu who didn't answer for a long time, Yan Shu felt uneasy. The slender hand on her waist was cold, but it made her feel inexplicably warm.
Finally, she couldn't help but look up at him and called him softly.
"Your Majesty?"
Xiao Yu seemed to have finally come back to his senses. He lowered his eyes, his dark eyes a little dim. He spoke only after seeing the confused look of the girl in his arms.
"Why does Shushu always care so much about Wanji?"
Xiao Yu suppressed the burning sensation in his heart. At this moment, he had to pretend to be the Xiao Yu who had not been reborn. He could not let Yan Shu notice anything and become more timid and afraid of him.
Yan Shu was stunned when she heard this, and then a trace of guilt flashed across her watery eyes.
Is her performance really that obvious?
But in the end, it was Yan Qingwan who sent the cup of poisoned wine in her previous life, and boasted in front of her that she would be named a beauty by Xiao Yu.
How could she not care about such a tragic death?
But Yan Shu couldn't tell him these words.
She simply replied softly, "I was just asking casually. After all, Wan Ji is from my motherland, so I have to show some concern when I see her."
Xiao Yu's eyes darkened slightly.
Her maid Qingtao, that Wan Ji, and even Empress Dowager Zhaojing and Chu Yuan could become her trusted allies.
Only he can't.
Thinking that in her previous life she had actually asked Empress Dowager Zhao Jing for death, she completely abandoned him after receiving the poisoned wine sent by Yan Qingwan.
The jealousy rising in Xiao Yu's heart began to play tricks on him again. He gently suppressed it, and his slender fingertips lifted a strand of soft black hair by the girl's ear and gently wrapped it around her.
His voice was as chilling as ever.
"I hate those self-righteous fools the most. What do you think of me killing Wan Ji?"
As long as Yan Qingwan is killed, his Shushu will no longer be able to ask her for death and relief.
In that way, the ending of the previous life will not be repeated, his Shushu will live well and stay by his side forever.
Xiao Yu's cold tone startled Yan Shu, who was still sitting in his arms.
Kill Yan Qingwan?
Xiao Yu actually wanted to kill Yan Qingwan?
How could this be possible? Clearly, after imprisoning her in his previous life, Xiao Yu wanted to confer Yan Qingwan the title of Beauty.
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