As the sea of blood receded and the excruciating pain from the hammer pounding his brain subsided, something rushed into his mind.
It was footage from the night of the flood. He was evacuating the villagers, not daring to delay for a moment. The evacuation was basically successful, and most of the villagers were saved. Then he saw it... he saw it...
Yun Zhuo slowly opened his eyes, his eyelashes still damp with sweat. Not only his eyelashes, but his face and body were also covered in sweat, and his hair was soaked.
He met Ye Qingxue's worried eyes, eyes brimming with tears. Yun Zhuo slowly raised his hand and placed it on his cheek, touching a teardrop larger than sweat. So the tear just now was not an illusion; it really was Ye Qingxue's tear.
He wanted to speak, but then realized he had something in his mouth. He slowly reached out and removed the...wrist from his mouth.
It was Ye Qingxue's wrist.
He bit her, and the taste of blood that filled her mouth just now was from him biting her wrist and drawing blood.
And now, he is still being held in Ye Qingxue's arms.
Yun Zhuo stared at her intently for a long time without saying a word or making any movement.
What kind of feeling is this?
His mother died young, and his father wanted to get rid of him... No one in the world loved him, he fell into hell, he was heartbroken and almost lost his soul.
It was Ye Qingxue who, with her fair and slender wrists stained with blood, forcefully pulled him, inch by inch, out of hell, out of the cold, desolate world.
He didn't know what else he could say about this kindness; even giving his life for her wouldn't be enough.
Ye Qingxue was the greatest fortune of his life.
He was soaked in sweat, looking as if he had just been pulled out of the water. He took several breaths and tried to smile at her, but he was too weak, so his smile looked weak as well.
He slowly sat up from Ye Qingxue's embrace.
Then he gently held Ye Qingxue's wrist in his palm, looking at the teeth marks and bloodstains on it, and love and guilt overwhelmed him like a tide.
He didn't know what to say to her. The words "I'm sorry" were too weak, and saying he felt sorry for her wasn't enough to express his feelings.
He could only gaze at her, and gently kiss her wound, licking away the blood.
Last year, when she was suffering from the poisoning, he held out his wrist to her, and she was able to resist biting him.
But today, he completely lost his mind and bit her hand...
"When Xiangsizi wakes up, I will ask him to develop a medicine to remove your scars," Yun Zhuo said, his voice hoarse, as he gently blew on Ye Qingxue's wrist.
Ye Qingxue sat down on the ground with him, touched his face, and smiled slightly: "If you saw me in such pain as you, you would definitely offer your hand for me to bite. You don't need to feel guilty."
Yun Zhuo said, "It's not just guilt, it's also heartache..."
He would rather be covered in wounds himself than let Ye Qingxue get even a scratch, yet he bit Ye Qingxue like this.
Ye Qingxue smiled gently: "Have you remembered things you forgot in the past?"
"Hmm." Yun Zhuo nodded slightly: "On the night of our wedding, I suddenly succumbed to the poison and rushed into the grove. I saw two of you. Now that I think about it, the other you was actually Mi Rao, and the one who came later was the real you."
On the eve of his wedding, he saw Ye Qingxue suddenly appear at his window, flirting with him all the way to the Marquis of Zhongyong's residence. The person that night was not the real Ye Qingxue.
Hearing him say this, Ye Qingxue was no longer surprised. Mi Rao was a member of the Xuanwang couple, and Ji Mingwei had lived in the Marquis's mansion before her wedding, so she was able to lure Yun Zhuo there.
No wonder she felt Yun Zhuo was acting strange that night.
So that's how it is.
As for the night of the wedding, if she hadn't arrived in time, Yun Zhuo would probably have already fallen victim to Mi Rao's poison.
She knew that Consort Cui and the Yunxun couple would definitely make a move that night, but their actions were very discreet.
And the person who jumped into the floodwaters to save him...
Yun Zhuo paused for a moment, then pulled Ye Qingxue up from the ground and sat her down in a chair. The couple quickly tidied their hair and clothes before letting Chu Xianyun and the others in.
After everyone was seated, Yun Zhuo said, "The person I jumped into the water to save that night was my wet nurse. She should have died on the night I was deposed and the Crown Prince's palace was filled with blood."
A wet nurse is like a second mother, and even a prince cannot be disrespectful to his wet nurse.
Even his father and mother had to give his wet nurse some face.
Moreover, his mother died early, and his wet nurse treated him extremely well, regarding him as her own son. When he saw his wet nurse, he was determined to save her at all costs.
In that instant, he guessed that his father might want him dead; the coup in the Eastern Palace might have been orchestrated by his father; keeping the wet nurse alive was probably a backup plan to deal with him, so that he would die while saving the wet nurse.
At that time, he also guessed that his father already knew Empress Shen's identity and that his father had condoned Empress Shen, Prince Ding, and Princess Lingyang in launching a palace coup.
Therefore, Ye Qingxue faced danger at every turn when dealing with Empress Yun Chichen and her group in the palace.
There wasn't time to make too many choices at the time; the wet nurse was in imminent danger, so he had no choice but to order Zhuang Xin to return to the palace immediately to find Ye Qingxue!
Chu Xianyun asked, "Why did the Emperor condone Empress Shen's palace coup? What benefit does it bring him?"
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