Chapter 526 Love Across Mountains and Seas
If you only have forty days left to live, would it be more poignant to die in the arms of your loved one, or to watch your loved one break down and cry for you, so that you can live a life without regrets?
Yun Chen didn't know that she chose to escape.
She must escape from the palace as soon as possible and not let Huo Gannian know that she has taken the Soul-Devouring Pill and only has forty days to live.
He must not be allowed to know the methods of killing people, making poisons, and saving lives by curing poisons.
She smiled and said, "It's only forty days. Grit your teeth and it will be over. But he still has a lifetime."
Yan Lang's nose was sore after hearing this that he didn't even dare to look at her directly:
"Okay, I'll go get the carriage. I'll have someone wait for you outside the West Palace for the next five days."
He turned and left, but when he reached the palace gate, he couldn't help but stop and said:
"If the pain is severe, bite a piece of cloth in your mouth."
She was stunned for a moment, then smiled knowingly:
"I know."
The palace door then closed, and Yan Lang's footsteps slowly faded away.
The entire hall suddenly became empty and quiet, plunging into an unfamiliar unease.
Yun Chen sat on the couch for a while, then stood up and tried to walk around.
As Yan Lang said, the poison in her body was temporarily suppressed by the acupuncture. She did not feel the pain she felt when she first took the medicine, but she just felt very weak.
She walked around the entire palace, from the main hall to the east and west side halls. Everywhere she looked, she saw carvings of dragons and paintings of phoenixes, so dazzling and gorgeous that she felt a little dazzled and unreal. Her head was dizzy, so she could only walk back to the bedroom and sit down.
She had just sat down on the couch when she heard the clear sound of a golden gong coming from outside the hall.
Through the hazy window paper of the hall, she could vaguely see a large group of guards approaching, stopping at the door of the hall where she was, and standing in a strict line of alert.
Immediately afterwards, a tall figure in bright yellow walked out, taking steady steps and heading straight towards the palace gate.
Watching Huo Gannian approaching step by step, she felt inexplicably nervous, and her palms were wet with sweat due to nervousness.
When the palace door opened and he walked in, she even subconsciously straightened her back and held her breath.
The guards closed the palace door swiftly.
Everything around became quiet again.
Only Huo Gannian could hear the familiar sound of his footsteps, each one steady and powerful, stepping on her heart like a drumbeat.
She tried to appear calm and natural, thinking she had built an unbreakable wall, but when he walked into the bedroom, her heart suddenly started pounding and her rhythm was disrupted.
He wore a nine-dragon golden crown and a bright yellow dragon robe, the golden light shining brightly and brilliantly, making him look tall and majestic, even more handsome like a god. People almost subconsciously ignored the several scratches on his face and the shallow knife wound next to his Adam's apple on his collar.
This gorgeous and exaggerated color that symbolizes imperial power, when worn on him, not only did not engulf him, but was suppressed by his cold face and deep phoenix eyes, making him look particularly solemn and majestic, which inspired awe.
Yun Chen looked at it and felt that the clothes suited him perfectly, as if he was born to be an emperor.
He really seems like an unattainable king...
Not like Anian at all...
Looking at the man in front of him who was both familiar and unfamiliar, Yun Chen felt a pang of sadness in his heart. He wanted to call him, but suddenly he didn't know how to address him.
Is his name Anian? No, he is no longer.
Should we call him the Emperor? Then should we kneel down and pay our respects like everyone else?
Just as she was hesitating, Huo Gannian had already walked over to the tea table and stood still.
He stood there silently, holding the golden crown on his head with both hands, slowly took it off and placed it on the table. The bleeding bandage on his wrist was particularly eye-catching.
Then, in front of her, he unbuttoned the complicated dragon-shaped buttons one by one, took off the golden dragon robe, and revealed the original clothes underneath.
A wide, crab-shell-green robe with a dark pattern, embroidered with sea water, river cliffs, clouds and flowers, and the collar is embroidered with water ripples.
This was the dress he had worn for the first time when he asked her if she wanted to be a personal guard of the Huo Gang.
Because Yun Chen said that he liked the ripples on his collar, which looked like the reflection of the moon in the water, he asked someone to make dozens of identical ones.
From then on, she wore it over and over again, never getting tired of it. She was so familiar with it that she even remembered clearly the long-bearded black carp embroidered on the end of the robe and the number of scales on the fish.
Now, he took off his dragon robe and crown, and stood there in her favorite clothes, saying nothing. He just looked at her quietly with his sad phoenix eyes, as if to say with his eyes:
Chen'er, I haven't changed, I am still the same Anian.
At this moment, all hatred and resentment dissipated uncontrollably like smoke, leaving only a feeling of grievance and sadness.
Her mind was in great turmoil, so she could only look away and pretend to look at the ceiling of the hall to hold back some of her tears.
He sat down quietly at the table. A long silence fell in the bedroom and no one spoke.
There were only a few steps between the two of them.
It is so close, yet it seems like an insurmountable mountain is standing in the way, making it so far away.
So many things really happened between them, with so many people between them and so many inexplicable grievances and hatreds.
Finally, Huo Gannian spoke first, using the same casual tone as before when chatting with her:
"The Tianwei Army has been stationed outside the capital. Military affairs are temporarily under the command of Rong Jiang and Rong Yi. Palace affairs are in the hands of Duan Jie and Fu Lin. They have been busy counting the casualties of the palace maids, eunuchs, guards, and imperial guards these past few days. The count has been completed today, and all personnel have been reorganized."
She nodded. "They did such a good job in just three days. They are all capable people."
"We held a court meeting this morning. The first priority is to calm the people and clean up the mess caused by the Black Scale Cavalry. Only when the officials are at ease and the people can return to their lives in peace can we truly be considered stable."
"What do Xiyan and Dongyan say?"
"Western Yan is without a ruler and intends to merge with Eastern Yan. Yan Lang has no interest in the throne, and the royal family has no successor. His intention is to bring Eastern and Western Yan to surrender to me, and from now on, the three kingdoms will be united, changing the name to 'Yun'."
"cloud?"
"When success is achieved and governance is established, there will be dance and music at Yunmen. Clouds represent the vastness and breadth of the universe."
"I see. That sounds good."
"It's also very easy to write. 'Huo' is on top, and 'Yun' is on the bottom. It's half heaven and half earth."
"Got it. What about Luojiang? Xiong Dun probably doesn't want to start another war, right?"
"No, he said we need to sign a peace agreement, and hopefully there will be no more war for eternity."
"Using war to end war, the world is at peace. We have finally achieved it."
"Everything is pretty much in order now."
"Um."
It's just you and me, and we haven't made it clear yet.
Huo Gannian didn't say the last sentence.
But needless to say, she understood.
She couldn't respond, and couldn't even figure out what she was feeling.
Change the country’s name to “Yun”?
Are you trying to say that she had half the credit for the Three Kingdoms achievements, and that she had fought with him hand in hand with all her loyalty and blood to build this empire?
But how do we account for all the losses and deceptions?
The past flashed back and forth in her mind. One moment it was behind the broken gate of Guying City, where she and he fought bravely back to back, caring for each other and depending on each other for life and death;
Sometimes they were cuddling together in the cabin of the small cargo ship of Dongzhao Kingdom, reading "The Wedding of the Civet Cat" together;
There was the way he resolutely proposed to Yun Zhongjun, in front of the entire Yun clan, kneeling before the countless ancestral tablets in the Yun clan ancestral hall, and solemnly proposing to her;
There was that brilliant evening when he looked up and smiled at her acting drunkenly on the roof, and said firmly, "A Nian loves you too."
They fought together for the country and the people, lived and died together countless times, and survived desperate situations thousands of times.
But then, she couldn't help but think of the day when she hid behind the dragon throne and was forced to listen to him and Yan Shijiu reviewing the "chess game" full of conspiracy and calculation.
Listen to him say cruelly word by word:
"Yun Chen is a necessary move."
She thought of Hua Jue, Ye Yan, old grandma and Duoji, and even the old man who gave her honey candy...
Endless resentment surged in her heart, and she suddenly felt that she was about to die, which was really a happy thing worth celebrating!
In just forty days she would pass away. Such a sudden death would catch him off guard and leave him devastated, with no room for recovery.
Then her death would hurt him and punish him every day in the long future. This kind of revenge would be really exciting...
But why can't she be happy at all?
How could a person's life be so short? Only forty days left, and we're going to be separated forever...
She couldn't help shaking her head and smiling bitterly, feeling sad for herself:
Yun Chen, oh Yun Chen, at this time, you still only have him in your heart? Using death to avenge someone is too childish.
Don't forget, you are just a "reward" to lure Yan Shijiu.
As for a "reward", whether it's dead or alive, it's actually not that important to Huo Gannian...
Yun Chen just sat there motionless, with countless people and things in her mind gushing out like a deep well, making her feel anxious and headache, and she almost couldn't breathe.
At this moment, Huo Gannian's voice seemed to have paused the world, powerfully calming all the panic in her heart. He said to her gently and with a hint of request:
"Chen'er, can you help me clean my face?"
All her thoughts came to a sudden halt, and all her crazy ideas disappeared.
Seeing that she was a little dazed, he smiled bitterly in a flattering way:
"Everyone has settled down, but I haven't. I don't have anyone close to me."
She understood what he meant. All the servants who had worked in the Huo Mansion were either dead or scattered.
He now has many subordinates around him, but no one to serve him.
She looked at his face carefully and saw some blue stubble. It was indeed a bit unbecoming for an emperor to be like this.
She recalled the first time she cleaned his face and shaved him, and in her heart she said "no", but in her mouth she said:
"Okay, I'll help you."
He seemed very happy and immediately asked someone to bring water and a razor. Then two familiar figures came in from the hall door.
One is Runhe, who is wearing the uniform of the eunuch chief, and the other is Lu Liang, who looks like the chief of the imperial guards.
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