Just after the chaos in Beiqiu Palace, news came from Daye that Emperor Ye was seriously ill and died before leaving a will. According to the custom of the eldest prince, the eldest prince died at an early age, and the most qualified one in the royal family was the second prince, that is, He is the brother of Princess Mingkang.
"What a cute little thing, what do you think?" Gongyang Xie asked Li Xiuning.
Li Xiuning reminded, "Your Majesty, please don't forget the business. This is to defeat the great cause with one blow and regain the land that Beiqiu has lost for a hundred years."
"I have not forgotten that you went through all the trouble to bring this little thing back just to blackmail her brother... Zhao Shi is indeed not the material to be an emperor, but he is a good brother. I believe that he will ask us to hand it over soon. His sister. However, you calculated just by chance, and as expected, Zhao Gouzhi fell seriously ill in just one year, reluctantly leaving the throne to a straw bag." Gongyang Xie said.
"I didn't calculate it accurately, I just saw it accurately. I'm afraid the empress in the middle palace is not the only one who wants his life." Li Xiuning's eyes darkened.
"So, do you know who killed him?"
"What's the point of this answer now? A stone that has been kicked away is no longer a stone blocking the road."
After a long while, he said, "Princess Mingkang...are you okay?" Li Xiuning asked seemingly casually.
"Are you worried about her?"
"If she dies, what will you use as a bargaining chip?"
Gongyang Xie was disdainful, "Without her, I can still conquer the great cause and kill all the Zhao clan."
"But since there is a shortcut, why not take it?"
"She doesn't eat or drink. Even if I want to save her life, she won't live long." Gong Yang said.
"She will be a good chess piece for you. When you regain your great cause and win over people's hearts, Princess Mingkang is indispensable. Don't be too willful, lest nothing will be accomplished in the end."
Gongyang Xie sneered, "Do you need your nonsense?"
"How about I take her out of the palace to live there? She is timid and frail by nature, so she won't listen to you so easily."
Gongyang Xie waved his hand, "When I get tired of playing with her, I'll give her to you."
"It's up to you, but her life, presence or absence, still has some weight to you."
"You don't care what I do to her?"
"Since I said it's up to you, it has nothing to do with me. As long as you achieve a great cause and destroy the Zhao family, then my wish will be fulfilled."
"This is the only thing you want?" Gongyang Xie didn't believe it.
"There is nothing else I want in this life. I just want to see you regain your great cause one day."
Gongyang Xie was helpless, "In the end, am I the king of Beiqiu, or are you? The two of us have switched positions. I am not in a hurry, but you are in a panic."
"Since you don't want me to take her away, just keep her for yourself. You're just having fun. Don't ask me to handle your funeral affairs." He said.
The palace was empty. The little princess was huddled at the leg of the bed. The wind swept over her shoulders and penetrated her bones. She refused to wear Bei Qiu's palace skirt. She still had a thin spring coat underneath. At that time, her mother put it in her hand. This spring coat was not for wearing. Her mother said that it was a safety garment that could protect her from danger and make her journey smooth.
A thin spring coat of purple gauze, with not a single seam of needlework visible from beginning to end. Such fine handwork has always been the unique skill of Daye embroiderers. Within the Seven Kingdoms, Daye's embroidery workers are world-famous.
The fierce-looking man today held her chin and said teasingly, "If I were a little late, you would have become my queen mother. Do you think it's interesting?"
Princess Mingkang didn't know whether she was cold or frightened, her face was pale, and she could only hide away. Gongyang Xie lowered his head and cursed in a low voice, "It's so boring. I can't say anything without being afraid of looking like this."
Princess Mingkang looked away, not wanting to shed tears in front of him.
There was a smile on his face, "You are so good-looking, but you don't look like a mute. It's a pity. It's a pity that you can't speak. By the way, can you bark?"
Princess Mingkang was so frightened that her long eyelashes trembled.
"If I can't even scream, then how quiet it will be when we get together. Tell me, a person like me who doesn't like aloofness, how can I marry someone who can't speak or flatter-"
The little princess suddenly turned her face and stared at him, shedding tears like pearls, silently weeping, her tears fell to the ground, her clean face looked like a beautiful woman with tears in her eyes, like a delicate flower with dewy flowers.
Gongyang Xie smiled and said, "It looks good when you cry. You should cry more in the future. I like to see you cry."
Princess Mingkang crouched beside the bed and buried her face deeply in her hands. Fear and the unease of betrayal struck her.
It turned out that she had been arranged by His Majesty to marry King Beiqiu, an old man who was older than her father.
She held a long fish pendant in her hand, and the jade was deeply embedded in her palm. She didn't know it. She thought Li Xiuning was a trustworthy person, but when she changed hands, he gave her to him.
Seeing that she was still crying, Gongyang Xie had no patience, "Am I not better than my father? You are crying like you are mourning for him."
Princess Mingkang just felt that every word this man said was suffocating, and every word he said casually made her extremely sad.
This man in a black python robe was aloof, with a smile on his face, but everything he said was vicious.
She didn't want to pay attention to him. Gongyang Xie's face began to become cold and there was anger in his eyebrows. "I am talking. Are you mute and unable to use your ears? Are you covering your ears because you don't want to use them? If you don't want to use them, don't you?" Yes, I can cut off your ears."
She hurriedly took a big step back to avoid his hand. She couldn't escape. He picked her up with one hand and threw her on the bed behind her, like he was lifting a dying rabbit. "You have to listen to what I say, otherwise If I were unhappy and accidentally strangled you to death, I don’t know whose fault it was."
After he left, Princess Mingkang sat in the dark palace, her spring clothes wet with cold sweat. She was really afraid of this moody man from the bottom of her heart.
From that day on, she stopped eating and drinking.
As soon as her vision went dark, she lost consciousness. Mingkang seemed to be trapped in endless darkness, and all the dirty things were running towards her in the darkness.
There was only one voice that guided her to open her eyes, but when she opened her eyes, the voice disappeared again. She couldn't even remember whether the voice was male or female.
In front of him was Li Xiuning. He took her out of the palace. Somehow, he persuaded Gongyang Xie to let her out of the palace to raise her.
Li Xiuning was holding the soup and said nothing, with anger on his face.
Princess Mingkang hadn't eaten for a long time and she didn't even have the strength to turn over.
He sat next to her bed and fed her medicine, but Princess Mingkang refused to open her mouth. After a moment, he lost his patience and poured the medicine directly into her mouth.
"If you die, you won't be able to see your brother."
Princess Mingkang suddenly opened her eyes. At this moment, her brother suddenly wanted to come from Daye, which was not a good thing. She didn't know what conspiracy he was planning.
But Li Xiuning didn't seem to bother to explain to her such an inexplicable reason. After pouring the medicine, he said, "Go on and sleep. It's none of your business anyway. You just need to live and show your face."
She found it difficult to breathe. This person who was so indifferent and cold was not like the person who would hold her hand from the chaos and promise her in her ear that he would protect her for the rest of her life. She suddenly felt something in her heart collapse.
Princess Mingkang became angry, struggled to sit up from the bed, grabbed his sleeves, and tightly held the hem of his clothes. She wanted to ask him clearly.
Li Xiuning looked back in surprise, "You can still sit up? I underestimated you. What, what do you want to say to me? Oh, I forgot that His Highness can't speak. Just write."
As always, he handed his palm to her and asked her to write on it.
"what you up to?"
Li Xiuning replied, "It's nothing, I'm just waiting to kill your brother."
An understatement that kills people and kills people.
With a chill on her face, Princess Mingkang continued to write, "You will not succeed, and my brother will never come."
"With you here, how could he still ignore you?"
"mean."
"Thank you for the compliment, Your Highness. I really can't wait. One more day feels like a long time."
She didn't know why he insisted on killing her brother. She just felt that this man was extremely weird, like a wandering immortal who had seen through the mortal world and was playing tricks on the human world.
He was about to take away his hand, but was held tightly by Princess Mingkang. Just like in that turmoil, he held her hand in his palm.
As if he had touched a cup of hot water, Li Xiuning immediately wanted to take back his hand, but Princess Mingkang wrote, "A-Liang, please, please let Daye go and let brother go."
He became more and more impatient, "That's enough. Do you think that the war will stop if you just ask each other? It's impossible. When Beiqiu achieves his great cause, you will obediently be your empress. This is your destiny, and the great cause will be fulfilled." Destruction, this is also the fate of Da Ye. As for your brother, he should not be the king, so he deserves to die."
Until the two armies fought, Mingkang was brought between the two armies. The pain and sorrow she suffered are difficult to describe in any words. No one can protect her. They opened a trap and waited for her brother's army. The poor brother actually took all the risks so that she could return to her mother. The soldiers came to Beiqiu.
The sound of horse hooves is rapid.
There was a big hand behind Princess Mingkang's neck. Gongyang Xie strangled her neck from behind, "Look, I said your brother will come. Guess, can he pick you up today?"
The wind on the battlefield was cold. Before the troops were raised, the wind turned into a sword and pierced Mingkang. She shivered, hoping that this was just a dream. When she woke up from the dream, she was still reading and playing the piano with Hua Yang, lying on the knees of her mother. Look out the window at the falling flowers.
The war broke out and everything was in chaos.
Daye only has 30,000 troops, but Beiqiu's 100,000 troops are recharging their strength, waiting for his brother to die. He knows that giving up on her is the only clear move, but they are connected by blood, and how can they be cut off by swords and interests? Princess Mingkang knew that maybe what Li Xiuning said was right. Her brother should not be the emperor. He was too impulsive. In his eyes, except his mother and her, nothing else mattered. The country of Daye did not need to be taken into consideration. The son of Daye People don’t need to take it seriously. To him, these are too insignificant and he can’t see them.
He only cares about his small family, and he only wants to protect his relatives.
The battle began, and the Beiqiu Army and the Daye Army were entangled. Princess Mingkang was shaking her weak body. The people behind her may not have thought that this woman would dare to break away from his shackles, so she grabbed a horse and rushed into the rebel army.
"Come back!" Li Xiuning shouted at her.
Gongyang Xie went crazy, and he didn't care about the majesty of the emperor. He snatched a horse and went to chase her back. However, the arrow that left the string was faster than the horse.
A wind-piercing arrow flew past Gongyang Xie, and the woman's white clothes were dyed red with blood. He watched her fall from the horse with his own eyes, feeling like a butterfly with broken wings.
In the chaos of the army, he was trampled by thousands of horses until he was trampled into a puddle of mud. His clean, waxy white teeth when he smiled were as bright as the spring breeze in March, and he was trampled into a puddle of mud.
Gongyang Xie turned around, and Li Xiuning slowly put down the bow and arrow in his hand.
He rushed back and grabbed his clothes, "Why did you kill her?"
"If Daye gets her, they will retreat. This is your only chance. It's a good time to kill Daye's emperor in Beiqiu." Li Xiuning said calmly.
"What I'm asking is, why did you kill her?"
Li Xiuning smiled and said, "Your Majesty, you are His Majesty, and you are nothing more than a mere Princess Mingkang. How can you care about her?"
"Li Xiuning!"
Emperor Daye watched his sister die in front of him. Such a delicate flower was crushed into the dust. He closed his eyes and tears fell from his eyes.
Li Xiuning suddenly lowered his head and saw that his hands were full of blood.
He panicked, "Damn it, what's going on?"
In the sad wind of the battlefield, a voice floated, "How do you feel about killing him over and over again in the past?"
Li Xiuning covered his head. The more he didn't want to hear it, the more the voice penetrated into his mind.
Corpses were piled up on the battlefield. Among the countless corpses, a woman in purple clothes was hidden, revealing a trace of gray and purple clothes.
Li Xiuning didn't know why, but suddenly his heart ached, "Get out, who are you!"
Princess Mingkang walked up to him step by step, "Are you looking for me?"
"How could it be you?"
"You thought it was me you killed?"
"What do you mean?"
"Look again, who you killed."
The gray-purple clothes turned into green robes.
Ji Liyou's body was broken into pieces.
Li Xiuning had an unbearable headache, "Who is he?"
"I have to ask you, who is he? Who is this person you kill over and over again?"
Princess Mingkang suddenly disappeared, leaving behind a string of sneers.
"You also have today, hahahahaha..."
"Get out, who are you?"
"Li Xiuning, how does it feel to kill the person you cherish most?"
"Come out, I'm going to kill you."
Princess Mingkang suddenly flashed back, "I know that you came here just for a bet with someone else. You want to tell that person that the seven emotions and six desires in the world have nothing to do with you, but you have forgotten that once you enter the world, you are bound to be secular. How can you not be contaminated by human love?"
"What do you mean? Tell me clearly."
"You really don't know this person?"
Li Xiuning recognized his face among the corpses, and when he saw his closed eyes, his heart suddenly twisted.
"Li...Liyou..."
"You thought you were killing me, but you just killed him over and over again. How about, knowing this, could you feel the pain I felt back then?"
"I killed you, why not kill you again?"
"You think you still have a chance. Let me tell you, if my soul is destroyed, he will also disappear. You use my soul to reshape his soul. Don't you know that he and I are one body?"
(End of chapter)