Rong Yu asked, "Why is he with you?"
According to the original storyline, after Xianyun was sent away, Ji Yu castrated the King of Qi, threw him into prison and tortured him, and sentenced him to death by slicing. When Xianyun arrived, Ji Yu was already in a state of despair, saying "Kill me". Xianyun then killed him with a knife, and then committed suicide to honor his master.
Now Rongyu is here, the King of Chu has "come back from the dead", and things are naturally different from what they were originally. He did not die on the execution ground, and Xianyun is alive and well now, but since Rongyu traveled through time, Xianyun has never come back.
It turned out that it was detained by Chu Zhuo.
Chu Zhuo said unnaturally: "... It's enough for you to have me to protect you, why do you need a shadow guard?"
In the end, he was in the wrong.
After Xianyun came back from picking flowers, he heard that the palace had changed. The King of Chu had conquered Qi and put the Qi royal family into prison. Xianyun didn't care whether the King of Qi was dead or alive, but was worried about Ji Yu's safety. He was afraid that he would be harmed by the Chu army, so he risked his life to sneak into the palace to find out about Ji Yu.
After the palace was taken over by the battle-hardened and well-trained Chu army, its defense was improved by several levels. Xianyun's whereabouts were exposed, and he was sent to Chu Zhuo as an assassin to kill the King of Chu.
Chu Zhuo never said a word to anyone who tried to assassinate him, and just killed them. But since Xianyun was found near Yuqing Palace, Chu Zhuo was more concerned about Rongyu's safety than himself, so he personally interrogated Xianyun to find out who ordered him to do so.
Xianyun replied that no one was instructing him to do so and he just wanted to know whether Ji Yu was safe and sound.
Chu Zhuo asked, who is he to Ji Yu
Xianyun said that he was Ji Yu's shadow.
A shadow guard who is loyal to his master.
Chu Zhuo immediately sent someone to investigate, and the news he got was true—the assassin was indeed Ji Yu's shadow guard, who had grown up with him and had been protecting him for so many years. The shadow guard's ability was limited, and Ji Yu's life was not very good, but without his protection, life would only be worse.
Considering that Xianyun had protected Ji Yu for so many years, Chu Zhuo did not kill him, but he also did not allow him to go back to protect Ji Yu.
Xianyun asked anxiously: "Why can't I see the master!"
Chu Zhuo glanced at him calmly and said, "He is mine now. How can a shadow have improper thoughts about its master?"
How could Chu Zhuo not see that when Xianyun mentioned Ji Yu, his eyes were filled with concern and care. That was clearly a sign of love for someone.
Xu Jiyu did not notice the feelings of this little shadow guard, and in the eyes of the shadow guard, his master was his everything.
With such a strong possessiveness, how could he allow a man who had improper thoughts about Little Lotus to protect her closely? The past years had made him extremely jealous, but he had no way to care about it. From now on, it was enough for Little Lotus to have him by her side.
After hearing this, Xianyun was so angry that he wanted to rush up to fight. Of course, he was no match for Chuzhuo, who caught his sword with just two fingers and drove him out of the palace. After that, Xianyun kept sneaking into the palace, determined to see his master with his own eyes, but he failed every time.
Later, perhaps because he heard the rumors about how much the King of Chu doted on Master Ji, Xianyun's frequency of sneaking into the palace gradually decreased, and finally seemed to have given up.
The master has found his happiness, the person who can give him everything he has, and he no longer needs a shadow.
Xianyun lived in a thatched cottage on a mountain outside the capital of Chu. From here he could see the direction of the royal palace in the distance. In this way he continued to protect his master.
Protecting the master is the shadow guard's life mission.
I thought my life would go on peacefully, but suddenly one day, the King of Chu came to visit me in person.
Xianyun has mixed feelings towards Chuzhuo. He thanks Chuzhuo for killing the King of Qi, saving his master from suffering, and doting on Ji Yu. But as a man, he doesn't have a good impression of his love rival.
Chu Zhuo asked as soon as he entered the room: "Are you jealous of me?"
Xianyun: “…Yes.”
He was obviously jealous of this man... for being able to possess Ji Yu.
"I'm even more jealous of you." Chu Zhuo chuckled, "You've been guarding him for eight years, and I've only had him for one year. I want to be with him for the rest of his life, but I can't even do this, so I have to entrust him to you."
The emperor, who was high above everyone else, said self-deprecatingly: "People envy me for being the emperor, but I envy you for being his shadow and accompanying him for the rest of his life."
Xianyun was puzzled: "What do you mean?"
He did not wait for Chu Zhuo's answer, because Chu Zhuo's face suddenly turned pale. He sat on the chair, stroking his chest, his eyelashes trembling, and his expression painful.
The man who was so strong that he could catch sword strikes with his bare hands when he first met him, was now so fragile that a child with a sharp weapon could kill him.
Xianyun did not make a move. He knew that this man could protect his master better than he could.
Chu Zhuo recovered and smiled.
"As you can see, I am dying and can no longer protect him."
Xianyun's pupils shrank.
"The group of old foxes in the court have been dissatisfied with your master for a long time. I was the one who supported him before. Once I die, they will kill him. If I let him go in advance, he will be hunted to the ends of the earth." Chu Zhuo carefully considered everything after his death, "So... I asked Dr. Chu for a fake death drug, and left a will. If I die, I will poison Master Ji and ask him to be buried with me. He will wake up from the coffin after taking the fake death drug. My tomb was completed a few days ago, and I asked people to build a secret passage. This is the map of the tomb."
Chu Zhuo handed him the map and said, "Bring him out of the secret passage. He will be a dead man in the eyes of the world and no one will stare at him anymore. The world is so big, you can go anywhere. You can take the gold, silver and jewelry buried with him in the mausoleum, but they are all his. He likes these things, you can't treat him unfairly."
"I used to worry about you being by his side because you love him." Chu Zhuo said calmly, "From now on, I will only worry about you being by his side because you love him."
"I hope he won't fall in love with someone else, and I also hope you can get what you want." Chu Zhuo said softly before leaving, "If he falls in love with you, he won't be so sad for the rest of his life. But I'm not very happy underground either."
"Are you done?" Rong Yu raised his eyebrows.
Chu Zhuo nodded: "That's it."
Rong Yu: "You really arranged everything for me."
"Little Lotus..."
"So," Rong Yu said, "this is why you're detaining my people?"
Chu Zhuo was stunned: "What do you mean your people?"
"Xianyun."
Chu Zhuo's face darkened: "I am yours."
"You can't even stand this." Rong Yu sneered, "How dare you let someone else take me away and make me fall in love with someone else? Chu Zhuo, can you stand it?"
"I can't stand it." Chu Zhuo answered without thinking. He looked at Rong Yu and slowly lowered his eyes. "But this is the most comprehensive arrangement I can make..."
"When you made these arrangements that you claim to be thorough, did you ever ask for my opinion?"
"… No."
"That's not thorough."
"..." Chu Zhuo murmured, "What should I do then?"
"What should we do? Let's get married quickly." Rong Yu said casually, "As for the cup of poisoned wine, please replace it with the real one."
Blood Jade Bracelet: No, Great Demon King, you can’t poison the original owner! Although your bodies are different, your living states are synchronized. If you die, he will die too!
Rong Yu: Shut up.
How could he not know this
Blood Jade Bracelet: Then you still...
Rongyu: I have my own plans.
Chu Zhuo frowned: "Little Lotus, you should live well..."
"To make someone fall in love with you and then let go, so that the person who loves you can live well, this is the most poisonous curse in the world that I have ever heard of." Rong Yu looked at him calmly, "I have seen 3,728 kinds of torture, and none of them is more painful than this. I think that if I hate someone very much one day, I will use this method to retaliate against him."
The Demon King has lived in this world for so many years and has seen countless methods, of course, he usually inflicts them on others.
He had suffered only one form of torture in his life, and that was lovesickness.
Chu Zhuo lowered his eyes.
"If this is what you consider hate."
He smiled and said, "Then I will hate you."
Rong Yu clenched his slender hands into fists.
He said coldly: "I really hate you now."
Chu Zhuo felt bitter in his heart. But what could he do? How could he say, "Xiao Lianhua, I love you. Can you die with me?"
Loving someone won’t be like this.
"Now, we hate each other." Chu Zhuo smiled gently, "Are we still going to get married? To get married, two people need to love each other..."
"Okay." Rong Yu stared at him coldly for a while, then said in a low voice in a huff, "Let's get married in the afterlife together."
On the eve of the wedding, Rong Yu stood in front of the desk, picked up the pen and slowly completed the unfinished painting.
This painting was drawn in the maple forest that day. Rongyu drew Chuzhuo, and Chuzhuo drew Rongyu. Chuzhuo had a heart attack after only half of the maple forest was drawn, so the painting was never completed.
Rong Yu hated incompleteness, so he held the paintbrush and wanted to finish painting the red maple forest. But he was not good at painting scenery, and the leaves he painted were incomplete, like dead leaves withered in the wind.
A hand suddenly held his hand, held the pen and brought it down, adding a bold stroke of ink to the paper.
Rong Yu didn't look back at the person behind him: "Let go, don't you know we are in a cold war now?"
"We're getting married tomorrow." Chu Zhuo's voice came over, "Do you still want to have a cold war?"
"I really want to take you to travel around the mountains and rivers, walk all over the world, and draw all the scenery we have seen." Chu Zhuo sighed lightly, with a regretful tone, "I never thought there would only be such a maple forest, and we couldn't even leave the palace."
"Traveling through thousands of mountains and rivers?" Rong Yu recalled the scene in the previous world where Yan Zhao was trapped in Yuexi Mountain and couldn't get up or down, and said sarcastically, "Forget it, I'll just follow you. I'm lucky not to get lost."
"Why do you think of me like this?" Chu Zhuo defended himself, "I have traveled all over the world on horseback and fought in all kinds of terrain. I can find a way out even in the deep mountains and deserts. My sense of direction is amazing."
Rong Yu: “Oh.”
Then we couldn’t even go down the small Yuexi Mountain.
"But..." Chu Zhuo added, "I hope that after I die, I will become a ghost with poor sense of direction, unable to find the road to the underworld, unable to enter the cycle of reincarnation, unable to drink Meng Po soup, but I will never forget you."
Rong Yu's hand trembled, but fortunately Chu Zhuo held it, so the painting was not ruined.
"What's wrong?" Chu Zhuo let go of his hand. "The maple forest is finished. Be careful not to ruin the painting."
In the painting, the frosty sky is covered with red leaves, the forest is dyed red, and the red sun shines into the deep forest. A pair of lovers stand side by side under the golden light, their red clothes are like fire, their eyebrows are tender, and their hands, fingers clasped together, are wearing real golden flames.
Rong Yu really wants to tear up the painting now.
You said it so nicely, but in the end you still forgot about him.
But the one with poor sense of direction did it.
It's just fucking outrageous.