The lady sighed, "What a person you are... No wonder he likes you. You look so much like him, you are just the same as he was when he was seventeen."
"So what, even if he gives me his heart, I won't be grateful. To him, I'm just a toy."
"It seems that your Excellency made the wrong payment. He didn't know that you hate him so much. But Cui Ying, as far as I know, Nanxiu is not attracted to you. She only has admiration and admiration for you, and she doesn't even know about you." In the past, if I had known about it, I’m afraid my admiration would be gone.”
"It doesn't matter if she is not tempted at this moment. I will be with her for a long time. If I am the only man beside her, will she still be tempted by others? When I am by her side, I must always be good to her so that she will not Look at other men one more time."
The lady looked at Cui Ying quietly. He didn't know that she had already heard these words once from the Duke. These two people were simply carved from the same mold.
"You are so confident. What if she still won't be tempted by you in the future?"
"Then I will let her go, but I want to be someone else to her, be her brother, friend, mentor, whatever, as long as I can see her every day."
"You have never lowered your posture like this before." She sighed.
"Yes, I didn't live like a human being, just a puppet. I was really alive when I was with her. She gave me a letter saying that she wanted to be my wife for life. I didn't dare to pick it up, but I never had a moment. My heartbeat is faster than it was then. In just a moment, I feel as if I have finished my life. That kind of me is the living me. From now on, when I leave here, I will never return to Bolu. You Don’t worry, he won’t find me.”
"You know there's a way I can help you?"
"You can kill me now or let me go. Kill me. He won't forgive you. Let me go and put all the responsibility on me. He will only hate me and try his best to find me. , maybe one day, he will be tired and stop looking for me."
The lady added, "There is another way. To maintain the status quo, I will do nothing."
"No more."
"What do you mean?"
"I said, you can't do it anymore. I won't be with him again, not even for a day. When he comes back, everything will be too late. If you don't help me, I will curl up next to him and wait for him to come back. While he was sleeping next to me, if he ended this bad relationship with a knife, or if I tried to test that I couldn't kill him, I would make you fall out of favor forever and turn you into a corpse. You know, if I want to, I can do it. .”
The madam felt a chill running down her spine, "If I tell him everything, will you still be able to live?"
"You won't, and neither will he. You know that he is sincere to me. Even if he knows that I want to kill him, he will only control me and keep me by his side until I change my mind. As for you , as long as I am here, you will always be a decoration."
"You are so cruel. When it comes to calculating people's hearts, I'm not as good as you. That girl Nanxiu was the one who was unlucky when she met you."
"What Madam said is wrong. She is lucky." Cui Ying concluded.
The Duke's wife did not continue to say that maybe after he gets Nanxiu, his past will be Nanxiu's future.
This man is so similar to the Duke, or in other words, he has already been exposed to what the Duke is doing by his side, and everything is getting closer to him, but he doesn't know it yet.
"I understand what Madam is thinking. The Duke and I are not the same kind of people. He only wants to plunder and possess. I just want to make her happy and smile like before. When I am by her side for a day, I will Give her everything she wants, even if it costs me my life.”
A few days later, a fire suddenly broke out in the Duke's Mansion. At first it was strangely like a firefly. When I looked at it again, the fire light was like the light in the hand of the watchman. After a while, it was like thousands of candles burning together. When the fire was at its strongest, even the several temples in the city that held blessing lanterns were incomparable. The flying fireworks disturbed the dream of the entire county government, and everyone woke up and ran to put out the fire.
Nanxiu was so crowded among the crowds that it was dark. Suddenly she heard someone calling her name. Before she could stand still, she saw someone walking out of a room that was lit like daylight. She was so smoked by the fire that she couldn't see him clearly. Face.
The man said, "You idiot, you can't even recognize who I am?"
Nanxiu recognized Cui Ying's voice, "Why are you here? It's on fire. Go and take shelter!"
He grabbed her arm and said, "Madam promised me to you, do you still remember?"
Nanxiu thought, it seemed that he was contrary to what he said, and his wife had promised her to him.
"Remember."
"Then would you like to go with me now?"
"I... now? But the house is on fire."
"I know, so this is a good time," he said.
"I do not understand what you mean."
Cui Ying held her shoulders and dragged her to his chest, revealing the word "He" under his collarbone to her.
Nanxiu still couldn't recognize such a difficult-to-read word, "What is this?"
"It's the word "Hi" of Lord Jun Gong, and it's his name."
Nanxiu suddenly understood everything, but she fell into new doubts.
"Why didn't you run away sooner or later, and why are you leaving now?"
"I want to go with you, before he comes back."
"So, why..." She still didn't understand.
"You didn't take what I said before to heart?" He was a little impatient. "I said, if you want to have a family, I can give it to you, but I will not randomly promise a family to a woman. Don't you understand?"
"… I get it now."
"We only have this one chance to leave here, get married, and be an ordinary couple."
Nam Soo belatedly responded.
"Are you afraid and don't dare to run away?"
"It's not that I don't dare, it's just that Madam and Sir treat me badly. They..."
"If I treat you so well, why did the private school teacher come to see your grandpa for the last time when your grandpa passed away, but he was rejected by his wife?"
"What did you say?" Nan Xiu felt heartbroken.
He turned around and went to find Madam.
"what are you going to do?"
"I'm going to ask her if that's the case."
"Even if you confront them face to face, you are just a slave to them. A slave's family affairs are not worthy of their attention at all."
"...It turns out...this is..." Nan Xiu understood, but she still couldn't help but feel sad because she trusted Madam so much.
"Come with me, I will protect you and love you forever, just like your grandpa is as good to you, no, I will be better than him to you, we will become each other's relatives, I will teach you to write and draw pictures for you , you bring my shoes and embroider my belt, and we can live like that from now on, okay?"
Nan Xiu said, "Since I have promised you, I will be with you for the rest of my life. Wherever you go, I will follow you."
(End of chapter)