Xie Ke's first reaction was to run away. He immediately retracted his hand, then stared at Fu Zhiyu in disbelief for a while, unable to move his feet at all.
The person he had been thinking about day and night was right in front of him, and now he was looking at him. This scene made Xie Ke unable to move his legs.
I'm afraid Zhiyu has guessed it a long time ago. Even if he runs away now, he is just deceiving himself.
Fu Zhiyu also sat up on the bed at this time and looked him up and down.
Xie Ke was wearing a nightgown, all in black, and he even had his face covered, but it was no use, as the two of them were too familiar with each other and could recognize each other just by looking at their figures. Besides, he was the only one who would do such a thing in the middle of the night.
After Xie Ke was shocked at first, he didn't dare to look him in the eye, but he didn't leave. He just stood stupidly beside the bed. After a long while, he said: "Zhi Yu... I..."
He didn't know where to put his hands and feet, like a child who was caught stealing and had to give back all the time he had spent together. He couldn't finish his explanation halfway through. Xie Ke couldn't find any excuses, so he could only lower his head and sighed, "I'm sorry, I missed you so much that I couldn't help but come here."
Fu Zhiyu's expression was not angry, but rather an indescribable calmness. After all, he had already guessed it, and now it was just a matter of confirmation.
"What's the point of you being so secretive? I think you are just being self-righteous again," Fu Zhiyu shook her head and asked him, "How long have you been here?"
"I just came here in the last month," Xie Ke said honestly, "I heard that they were trying to harm you, and I was afraid..."
Fu Zhiyu interrupted him coldly: "You know they are trying to harm me, so you also know that the sacrifice is fine. I solved it myself, so why are you still here? Also, don't treat me like a fool. I just bought some wine, and you know when they planted the people? I'm afraid it's not been a month, right?"
After being exposed, Xie Ke dared not speak any more. He looked at Fu Zhiyu's face carefully, unable to guess how he felt.
But if I lie at this time and Zhiyu finds out, she will only be even angrier.
"I didn't mean to monitor you, really," Xie Ke explained, "Those people were here long before you arrived in Jiangnan. I arranged these just because I was afraid that you wouldn't have a good life..."
The more Xie Ke spoke, the lower his voice became. Later, he stopped explaining and lowered his head, looking like he was waiting for trial.
When he was in the capital, he knew that Zhiyu didn't plan to stay in the palace for a long time. Wasn't he pretending to be stupid at that time just to stay away? As for where he was going, it was not difficult to guess. After all, Yuan Jiangwen's business was in Jiangnan.
Xie Ke had many selfish motives when he arranged these people. He couldn't suppress his possessiveness and just wanted Zhiyu to be able to touch him wherever he was.
But this thought changed later, he just wanted Zhiyu to live a good life.
After Zhiyu arrived in Jiangnan, Xie Ke was in a coma for a long time. After he woke up, he found that even without management, his arrangements in Jiangnan were running very well. Some shops, such as restaurants, were doing good business and making some money, which was then invested in other places, all secretly revolving around Fu Zhiyu.
They have been working diligently and doing a good job. After Xie Ke woke up, he was afraid that if he went there again, it would have a bad influence, so he forced himself not to read the news there. He was afraid that after reading it, he would not be able to control himself and would go to Jiangnan regardless of everything. He only vaguely knew that Zhiyu was doing well, which made him feel at ease and he could calm down and start working on the things at hand.
But the longer the time went on, the more he couldn't bear it. The longing tortured him like a blunt knife cutting flesh. When his subordinates hesitantly told him that there was an accident, Xie Ke finally came.
However, he did not dare to show up. On the one hand, he sent messages to teach the Deng and Qian families a lesson and asked them to behave themselves. On the other hand, he could not help wanting to get close to Zhiyu.
He was so close to him, but Xie Ke was reluctant to leave.
He found excuse after excuse for himself, such as protecting Zhiyu, but he still couldn't hide the emotions surging in his heart.
"The new Southern Xinjiang-style pastry shop that opened at the door and sells sweet-scented osmanthus candy, was it also created by you?" Fu Zhiyu asked him, "Anything else? Tell me yourself."
Xie Ke didn't dare to hide it from him, so he told him everything.
Fu Zhiyu: “…”
He felt a headache after hearing this. He didn't say many words. In the end, he just looked at Xie Ke and cursed him concisely: "Psycho."
When Fu Zhiyu went to learn about Jiangnan a few days ago, he also discovered that there were many merchants in the Jiangnan area. Some of the caravans were actually very wealthy, and some were even not much worse than the four great merchants. He had not thought that many of the seemingly scattered industries he noticed were actually created by Xie Ke.
"I didn't take care of most of them. They made their own mistakes," Xie Ke explained hastily. "I just provided some help sometimes and controlled them so that they wouldn't have second thoughts. I was also afraid that they would be greedy and hurt you instead."
Xie Ke was always cautious when dealing with Fu Zhiyu. Although these businesses seemed big, they were actually independent of each other. For example, the person who managed the restaurant did not know that the dim sum shop over there was actually part of the same company as his.
Xie Ke was not short of money, and these were originally prepared for Fu Zhiyu.
Zhiyu hadn't taken any action in the three years since he took over Jiangnan. Xie Ke thought that he just didn't want to be involved in this matter anymore and just wanted to live a relaxed and ordinary life. So when the Deng and Qian families offended him, he took action to deal with them, not wanting Zhiyu to worry too much.
But he didn't expect that this incident would change Zhiyu a lot. He went to the government office to read the files every day. Seeing that he was going to be under control, Xie Ke naturally supported all of Zhiyu's choices. He had no intention of disturbing him, but since he came to Jiangnan, he couldn't leave at all. He just wanted to stay here day after day. This place was too close to Zhiyu, and he was like an addict. He found excuses to stay here day by day, trying to get close to Zhiyu again and again, and then... this is the current situation.
"I'm sorry..." Xie Ke took off the black scarf covering his face. He looked at Fu Zhiyu with sincerity in his eyes. "I'm leaving Jiangnan now. I really won't bother you again in the future."
Fu Zhiyu didn't say anything. His silence made Xie Ke even more uneasy.
"If you want to use those businesses, you can use them. It's up to you. They were made for you," Xie Ke said. "It's not easy to realize what you planned for Jiangnan. Although Yuan Jiangwen has money and is willing to help you, his caravan is huge and has complex interests. He has to take care of many people's ideas, and many things are not decided by him. I know he is embarrassed sometimes, but it doesn't matter to me. It's okay for those shops to lose money. They are not short of money."
He was already preparing to leave, so he took the time to chatter and remind Fu Zhiyu about these things, fearing that he might suffer a loss or take a detour without knowing it.
"How do you know what I want to do in Jiangnan?" Fu Zhiyu asked him again, "You've been watching me from beginning to end, Xie Ke, are you a pervert?"
"No, no, I didn't read that. I usually don't dare to get too close to you, for fear that you would find out," Xie Ke explained quickly, "but... in my previous life, I read those political commentaries you left behind."
After Zhiyu left this world in the previous life, the longer time passed, the more Xie Ke could not bear the longing for his lover. He could only rely on some things left by Zhiyu to remind him of her, including the political commentaries written by Zhiyu, which he had read countless times.
Xie Ke actually felt something was wrong at that time. He thought Zhiyu was the actor at that time, so it was normal that his personality was different from the original. Therefore, the political commentary he wrote was very different from the very violent Fu Zhiyu in the original text.
But the more I watch, the more I feel something is wrong. After all, the actors are different from the natives. The political commentaries written by Zhiyu when he was emperor were extremely attentive, and you can see what kind of person he is. He tried to treat his people gently and worked hard to build a better Jilin for them, but it was strange because of this.
The actor doesn't need to do so much. An actor who knows the plot should be very clear that he won't be able to play the emperor for long before his mission is over. Why bother doing such detailed and useless work
Even some of the ideas proposed in Zhi Yu Zheng Lun are of course superior to the original text, which means that his plan is more advanced than the original world, but he has long lost the opportunity to realize it.
But at that time, Xie Ke had preconceived that Fu Zhiyu was a disruptive actor. Even though he had discovered that it was wrong, there was no way to undo it.
"I know you haven't let go of those things in your heart," Xie Ke lowered his head, "I'm sorry, if it weren't for me, you could have achieved it and become a good emperor loved by everyone."
Fu Zhiyu glanced at him, shook his head and said, "It's the same without you. This is the story. It's all in the past. No need to mention it again."
Xie Ke was right. His current plans for Jiangnan were indeed an upgraded version of his ideas from his previous life, with basically no changes.
They were both silent. Xie Ke was the one who spoke before. Now, Fu Zhiyu finally spoke: "Why do you still have to do this?"
Xie Ke was stunned for a moment, looked at his face, and said: "I want to... protect you, Zhiyu, I'm really afraid that something will happen to you."
When Fu Zhiyu heard this, he smiled, but that smile was not a happy one. Instead, it contained a bit of indescribable irony.
"Don't you remember the pain?" Fu Zhiyu looked at you and said, "I shot you with an arrow and you almost died. And you want to come back like this? Don't you hate me at all?"
After hearing this question, Xie Ke sighed and said with a wry smile: "Zhiyu, what do you think of me? How could I... hate you?"