Qin Ruwang grabbed his wrist, and the cold temperature came from the place where his skin met. Ji Ning stared at him in a daze. Before he could say anything, he saw a few waves on Qin Ruwang's face, and flashed A trace of confusion, raised his hand to support his forehead.
Seeing such a reaction from him, Ji Ning's heart moved, pretending to be ignorant of the title "Son of God", and called out to him, "Ruwang?"
"… Owner."
After a while, Qin Ruwang put down his hand and his face returned to calm. He bowed his head slightly and called to Ji Ning respectfully, making Ji Ning feel a little more at ease, confirming that Qin Ruwang has not recovered the memory of his previous life, but that something similar appeared. sign.
This kind of reaction was within Ji Ning's expectations, but the speed was much faster than he expected, which surprised him.
In fact, this is also a good thing. He used his strength to help Ruwang regain his sanity, and when Ruwang completely woke up, he could leave this world, but he didn't know how Ruwang would react at that time.
Ji Ning picked up the silver mask that was placed beside the pillow, stroked the uneven texture on it with the pads of her fingers, and sighed softly.
He remembered what happened to him in that world again. Because of pity for the young and lonely Qin Ruwang, he made a request to the king of Daxia as the son of God and kept Qin Ruwang by his side. The favored prince suddenly entered everyone's sight.
Before that, many people didn't know that there was such a child in the palace. After hurriedly inquiring about the news, they learned that the boy who was favored by the son of God was the ninth prince and his name was Qin Ruwang. This was not even registered in the ceremony. The name on the book, but his mother who was a slave girl took it for him.
At first, everyone was just in an uproar, and they didn't know why the Son of God brought Qin Ruwang by his side, but soon everyone saw that the Son of God was almost responsive to this child, and he loved and loved him very much, which made everyone in the palace envious. .
Even the goddess was curious. She had asked Ji Ning in private why she was so jealous of this child, but Ji Ning just smiled and didn't answer her question.
"I hope this child can understand your pains."
The goddess shook her head slightly, lowered her eyes and sighed softly. She would not interfere with Ji Ning's actions, but she was worried about him in her heart.
When this child faced them, his attitude was very indifferent. If it was only for her, it would be fine. She had indirectly killed his mother. He would hate her. She could fully understand that, but Ji Ning was also involved. The child's alienation and neglect made her unbearable.
Ji Ning smiled lightly. The goddess didn't know yet that Qin Ruwang had even stabbed him, but he had already concealed this matter. Otherwise, Qin Ruwang was charged with assassinating the Son of God, and it would only be a dead end.
That night, he told Qin Ruwang that in the future, he would become the King of Great Xia above all people, so he would treat him so well. After that, Qin Ruwang finally restrained his emotions, forbeared silence, and stopped hunger strike. Instead, he began to obey all Ji Ning's arrangements.
Ji Ning knew that this didn't mean Qin Ruwang accepted it. On the contrary, Qin Ruwang buried his hatred deeply in his heart, in order to one day be able to take charge of the Great Xia and bring down the kingdom of God.
He knew that Qin Ruwang also hated him, which was also the result of his intentional guidance, because only in this way, Qin Ruwang would become the ruler of a country in the future, and his hatred in his heart would not be wiped out because of his kindness to him.
Naturally, in order to complete the task, he had to make Qin Ruwang fall in love with him, and they were destined to have a love-hate relationship.
In order to train him, Ji Ning made a request to the King of Daxia to invite a high school scholar from the DPRK to teach Qin Ruwang his homework, and to have a famous martial artist who taught the prince's archery to teach Qin Ruwang together.
Qin Ruwang did not live up to Ji Ning's expectations for him. His hard work and intelligence soon made the scholars and famous scholars who were quite critical of the matter praise him, and began to teach him carefully to cultivate him into a talent.
And Qin Ruwang's character is also constantly changing. After growing up as a teenager, he has long ceased to be silent and gloomy.
During these years, he has enjoyed great popularity in the palace. Some princes and disciples of famous families began to befriend Qin Ruwang under the insinuation of the family. At first, it was because of Ji Ning's relationship, but later they were all convinced by Qin Ruwang himself. They really made friends with him, and their family secretly supported their decision to get closer and closer to Qin Ruwang.
The court and the opposition were gradually divided into two factions, one was the supporters of the prince, and the other supported the ninth prince Qin Ruwang who was favored by the son of God.
In the Great Xia Kingdom, becoming a prince does not mean that you will be on the throne in the future, and it may change at any time due to the Kingdom of God.
The young and noble prince was gentle and elegant, and even treated the goddess with courtesy. The goddess was very relieved, because Qin Ruwang's attitude towards Ji Ning was also very intimate, she thought he had let go of his hatred and truly accepted Ji Ning. .
Only Ji Ning knew that all of this was just Qin Ruwang's disguise. When only the two of them got along, Qin Ruwang would never show a smile to him.
At that time, Qin Ruwang was still young, but his mind was getting deeper and deeper. He was learning to restrain his sharpness and tried to smile at Ji Ning, but Ji Ning pointed it out.
"In front of me, you don't have to hide it, I know what kind of person you are."
Ji Ning leaned on the soft slump, raised the corners of his lips to the slightly stiff boy, and said, "You can rest assured, no matter what you do to me, I will never abandon you, because you will be the future summer. monarch."
The boy's smile slowly disappeared, and the icy look that he hadn't seen for a long time reappeared on his face.
Even now, Qin Ruwang has moved out of the Palace of the Envoys and has his own palace. He still visits the two envoys from time to time and spends a moment alone with the Son of God.
He seems to have not forgotten the kindness of the Son of God to him back then, but in fact he sat in Ji Ning's palace, silent every time, only when Ji Ning told him to speak, and reported his recent situation. Apart from that, he never said a word, and left immediately when the time came.
Only in front of Ji Ning would he show his truest and most unbearable side.
Qin Ruwang came to visit that day, and still entered Ji Ning's palace and sat opposite him. The palace was lit with incense, and the incense was lingering. The weak Ji Ning lay on the side of the bed, smiled at him, and said.
"Have you been doing well these days?"
Qin Ruwang lowered his eyes and said nothing. Ji Ning leaned on the bed, changed his posture, and said.
"How about you stay with me tonight? I have asked someone to clean the room you lived in."
"Why do you want me to stay here?" Qin Ruwang did not agree immediately, but instead asked Ji Ning.
"Why… "
Ji Ning raised her snow-white slender hand, stroked the mask on her face, and said with a smile, "Because I'm afraid I won't have such a chance in the future. I heard that you met the famous Liu Sanniang yesterday, you should Are you satisfied?"
The Liu family was one of the most powerful and influential families in the dynasty. Today’s noble concubine was born in the Liu family. The family head of this generation was a first-rank member of the dynasty and was also the elder brother of Liu Guifei. His third daughter was also Liu Guifei’s niece. There is a famous talented woman in the capital, beautiful in appearance, gentle and virtuous, and very talented. In the future, she will enter the palace and marry a certain prince.
The imperial concubine had never given birth to a son, but only had two daughters. The Liu family did not want to support the prince whose biological mother was the queen, so they valued Qin Ruwang and let Liu Sanniang contact Qin Ruwang, which meant that as long as he married Sanniang, the Liu family would In the future, he will fully assist Qin Ruwang to ascend to the throne.
This time the meeting was relatively secret. He didn't expect him to know. Qin Ruwang raised his head abruptly, staring at Ji Ning with his dark eyes, and asked in a deep voice, "What do you mean?"
"If you marry her, you will definitely be more secure when you take the throne in the future." Ning said, "I heard that she has a beautiful appearance, a gentle personality, a noble birth, and is a perfect match for you, aren't you happy?"
"It's none of your business."
Qin Ruwang stood up with a cold face and clenched his fingers tightly. For some reason, when he heard that Ji Ning was optimistic about this marriage, a nameless fire started in his heart for no reason, and it made his heart hurt.
"I don't plan to marry her either." He said, "If a mere woman can control my throne, I don't want the throne of the country."
"If you are so willful..."
Ji Ning sighed softly and didn't finish her sentence, but Qin Ruwang's decision seemed to disappoint him a little.
Qin Ruwang's eyes were already extremely cold, and he didn't want to say any more, and walked out of the palace.
Ji Ning suddenly stopped him, "It's okay, I won't talk about it, but stay with me tonight. Since you left, the palace has suddenly become deserted a lot. Everyone misses you very much."
"… "
The young prince stopped, and finally listened to Ji Ning's words and stayed here that night.
The room he lived in was right next to Ji Ning's room, it was late at night, Qin Ruwang was still restless, and thinking about Ji Ning sleeping next to him and what Ji Ning said before, he was even more annoyed Without any sleepiness, he simply lit the lamp and sat under the lamp to read the military book.
"Dong dong."
Suddenly, there was a light knock on the door outside, Qin Ruwang frowned slightly, he couldn't imagine who was outside the door, and would disturb him in the middle of the night.
But he was used to pretending to be friendly. Although he was impatient, he regained his calm expression and went to open the door. After opening the door, he was slightly startled, because he didn't expect that the person who came looking for him was actually Ji Ning. .
Having lived here for a few years, Qin Ruwang knew about Ji Ning's work and rest. As the god child of the Wushen Kingdom, he was very weak and always went to bed early at night, so he had no idea that Ji Ning would come to him at this time. .
The two palace servants supported Ji Ning, Qin Ruwang immediately took over and personally supported Ji Ning, pretending to be respectful and close in front of others, and said to Ji Ning with concern, "Lord God, why did you come to find me late at night? ?"
"I can't sleep, come out for a walk, and see that the light is still on in your room, I'll come and see you."
Ji Ning smiled and turned to the two palace servants, "Go and rest, Ruwang and I have something to say."
The two palace servants had hesitant expressions on their faces, as if they were vaguely worried about something, but they obeyed Ji Ning's instructions and withdrew respectfully.
As soon as they left, the soft color on Qin Ruwang's face disappeared instantly, and he looked at Ji Ning coldly.
When the two were alone on weekdays, although he didn't laugh, his attitude was not so cold. Every time he met with Ji Ning, he never asked how Ji Ning was doing, but in fact he had already bought it off in private. The servants of the envoy palace, let the palace staff report to him on a regular basis, so as to keep abreast of Ji Ning's current situation.
He didn't know why he did this. He obviously hated everyone in the kingdom of God, including Ji Ning. Just like now, he didn't understand why he was angry, just because Ji Ning was optimistic about him and Liu Shi. female marriage.
"I have nothing to say with you." He said coldly, "I want to rest, you can go back too."
He wanted to drive Ji Ning back to sleep because he was annoyed and annoyed. He didn't want to see Ji Ning now. He also heard that Ji Ning's condition was not very good recently.
"I can not sleep."
The gentle and beautiful God Child smiled, pointed to the lights and the military book beside the low table, and said, "Aren't you working hard too? It's okay, just keep reading, I'll just sit next to you and watch you."
His request was a little weird, but when he heard that he wanted to accompany him, Qin Ruwang's anger subsided a little. He helped him to the low table and let him sit down. While reading the part I just read, I was a little absent-minded because Ji Ning was by my side, and I hadn't turned the page for a long time.
"I haven't finished this page yet? Is there anything you don't understand?"
Ji Ning suddenly approached Qin Ruwang's side, stuck close to his arm, and gently placed his hand on the back of his hand. There was a warm body temperature: "Let me take a look at you?"
"No need."
Qin Ruwang's heart trembled slightly, as if he had been scalded. He threw off Ji Ning's hand and hurriedly turned to a new page. He didn't care whether he had finished the previous page or not, he forced himself to fix his eyes on the book. To notice that Ji Ning was clinging to his body.
Ji Ning leaned on him and sat quietly for a while, seeing that Qin Ruwang was only wearing a thin coat, he took off the coat that was draped over his shoulders and put it on Qin Ruwang's body, smiling: "The night is dark and the weather is cold. , you have to take care of your health."
He took off his coat, and he didn't wear much himself. Qin Ruwang pulled the coat that was about to fall off, breathing in the faint medicinal fragrance from above, looking at Ji Ning's slightly pale face, his emotions were inexplicable, sour and bitter. Bulging, he abruptly took off his coat and put it on Ji Ning again, and said in a cold voice, "I don't need it."
"I'll get you clothes..."
Ji Ning propped up on the table and wanted to get up, but her body was unstable because of her weakness, and she was about to fall down. Qin Ruwang didn't think about it, she reached out to pick him up, and hugged him all at once.
"Don't be ridiculous." Qin Ruwang reprimanded him with a stern face.
"Then... go get it yourself." Ji Ning still just smiled, "I'm just worried about your cold."
The more gentle he was, the more tormented Qin Ruwang became. A strong taste of pain and bitterness surged in his heart. When Ji Ning pushed him away, he couldn't help but hug Ji Ning into his arms, his arms clenched tightly. He closed his face, buried his face in the side of Ji Ning's neck, his fingertips trembled slightly, if he wanted to rub him into his own blood.
He couldn't stand Ji Ning being so nice to him.
Obviously he is the god son of the Wushen Kingdom, and he is the target he wants to eliminate together, and this person is good to him only because he is the future King of Xia in the prophecy. Everything Ji Ning does is to correct him. Daxia's national fortune fulfilled his duty as the Son of God.
But... If you are just doing your duty, why should you be caring and considerate to him everywhere, and why are his eyes always so soft and joyful, as if full of love.
He was not blind, so he could naturally see that Ji Ning was only so gentle towards him, and his attitude was so special that he couldn't tell whether it was just Ji Ning doing his duty or genuinely wanting to be nice to him.
Every time he couldn't help but want to believe that Ji Ning really wanted to be nice to him, but Ji Ning kept smiling and saying some cruel words, reminding him that he only regarded him as the king of the Great Xia, not the king. Qin Ruwang.
Just like this time, he even wanted him to marry Liu's daughter, how could he think so...
Qin Ruwang slowly released Ji Ning from his tightly locked embrace, but instead of letting him go, he pushed him down on the carpet, rolled over on top of him, leaned over and stared deeply at Ji Ning's Face.
Although Ji Ning's face was covered with half a mask, the eyes under the mask were exceptionally beautiful. The lower half of the face had soft lines, her lips were light and moist, her long black hair was scattered all over the floor, and the collar of her shirt was slightly loose. Open, revealing the snow-white neck, exuding a tempting breath.
Qin Ruwang's eyes darkened.
He met Liu's daughter yesterday. Through the silk screen, he could vaguely see her graceful face in the light. She was indeed a rare beauty, but in his eyes, she was not even half as good as the Son of God. 's appearance.
If only he could take off this mask...
His heart throbbed, his fingers caressed Ji Ning's face, his fingertips touched the icy mask, he suddenly felt that the mask was unsightly like never before, he wanted to gently lift it, but his fingers were suddenly held down.
"Can't."
Ji Ning's eyes were calm, and Qin Ruwang's emotional color was reflected in his clear pupils, but it was like a basin of cold water, quenching the eagerness in his heart, causing him to wake up suddenly.
How could he forget why his mother died, because he saw the real face under the mask, and now, he almost took the initiative to repeat the same mistake...
Qin Ruwang's heart suddenly became icy cold, recalling his actions just now, his hands tightened suddenly, his eyes were filled with anger and pain, but not at Ji Ning, but at his own gaffe.
He must never make the same mistake again, and he must never forget what his forbearance and strategies for so many years were for.
"You should go back."
He pulled Ji Ning up, lowered his eyelashes, and said in a hoarse voice.
"That's good." Ji Ning supported his arm and smiled weakly, "Go to sleep."
Qin Ruwang called the palace servants and asked them to help Ji Ning back. Ji Ning looked back at him one last time and walked out of the house slowly, but suddenly bent down and coughed violently.
"Lord God Son!"
The two palace servants showed a look of panic, and they were so anxious that they immediately took out the medicine they carried with them and waited for Ji Ning to take it.
Qin Ruwang didn't know why they reacted in such a panic. He raised his eyes and looked over, only to find that Ji Ning's face was pale and cold sweat was oozing from his head.
Then Qin Ruwang's expression changed slightly.
Even though the lights in the room were dim, he could clearly see the blood on Ji Ning's lips, as well as the blood on his white underwear.