bullyxtreme Chapter 170 Do you want to hear a story from me?
Chapter 170 Do you want to hear a story from me?
On the way back, the two were silent.
Until they arrived at the palace, Qiao Shinian held Mu Qingchen's hand, but his eyes were fixed on his toes.
The two seemed to have nothing to say, yet seemed to have a lot to say.
It was not until Qiao Shinian came out of the shower that she found Mu Qingchen sitting in the outer room, seemingly waiting for her.
After a long silence, she opened the door and let him into the inner room.
Avoiding the solution will not solve the problem. Only by facing the problem can you solve it.
On the bed, she nestled in Mu Qingchen's arms, holding a booklet full of various plans.
Plan 18: Perhaps, Mu Qingchen can give up his identity and leave Zhou State.
Looking at the unfamiliar words on it, Mu Qingchen did not rush to ask Qiao Shinian what was written on it.
When he first saw these strange words, he thought they were some kind of secret code or secret language. He also copied down some words and sent people to check, but after four months, there was still no clue.
When he and Qiao Shinian entered the second month of the silent period, Wen Jiu asked someone to deliver a letter. Qiao Shinian did not hide it from him and read it in front of him, but the content was only known to her and Wen Jiu.
Mu Qingchen guessed that this might be the language of Qiao Shinian’s hometown. Based on this guess, he sent it to more people.
As long as you can find a place where this kind of writing is used, that is Qiao Shinian’s hometown.
So far, no one has replied saying they found it.
Qiao Shinian stared at Plan 18 in a daze. There were a total of twenty-two plans, and now almost half of them had been realized. For this world, she could be considered to have joined this world.
"Mu Qingchen."
"Yeah." Mu Qingchen responded in a low voice: "Perhaps, do you want to hear a story from me?"
Qiao Shinian turned around and hugged him: "Before you tell the story, I want to ask you a question. Can you go to Chuwen Kingdom with me?
I want you to give up everything you have now, your reputation, status, and wealth will stay here, and you will follow me to Chuwen State.
Perhaps, if you go to Chuwen Country, you will have to suffer a lot of grievances, because your popularity and special status in Zhou Country require you to remain anonymous in Chuwen Country..."
At the end, Qiao Shinian couldn't help but chuckle. What was she doing?
What she just said, even a love-brained person might not do it!
If it were posted online, it would definitely be criticized to pieces.
She turned around, feeling ashamed to face Mu Qingchen. If someone said something like this to her, she would want to pry open that person's head to see if it was filled with tofu brain.
"It's okay, as long as we liked each other." Qiao Shinian forced a smile: "At least, we were happy when we were together. When we separate in the future, we can just find new love. We still have more than two years, so let's have a passionate love affair that will last until the end."
Mu Qingchen tried to stop Qiao Shinian from turning over. He stared at her until she became nervous.
He closed his eyes and hugged her tightly, making it difficult for her to breathe.
"Concubine Liu is my biological mother. I don't know whether I love her, hate her, or feel more guilty towards her now." His voice was low and hoarse, as if he was holding back something, or as if he was complaining about grievances.
"When my father was alive, I was his favorite youngest son. I loved to act like a spoiled child in his and my mother's arms, and I loved to sit with him on his dragon chair and review memorials.
When I thought I would always be happy like this, my father died suddenly of a serious illness. Before I could recover from the shock, my mother became my sister-in-law.
My brother’s favorite thing to do is to be affectionate with my mother in front of me, but my mother just asked me to leave and go back to the palace.
I thought that she had to pretend to be nice to my brother in order to protect me.
Then, a girl was born, I wasn't sure whether she was a sister or a niece.
At that time, I practiced with the old soldiers in the military camp during the day and fought with people in the underground slave fighting field at night. When I first heard about this, I did something excessive.
I used the excuse of visiting her to put infertility drugs in her diet.
I went there for five consecutive days and took the medicine five times.
From then on, she could no longer have children.
Later, I learned that she was originally the emperor's favorite woman, but in order for the emperor to sit in that position, she entered the palace and was favored.
At the beginning, my royal brother did not betray her, but when he learned that she could no longer get pregnant, he came to me.
He said that if I wanted the childless woman to continue to be favored, I had to be obedient, otherwise she would be replaced and disappear.
Qiao Shinian patted his back gently, and Mu Qingchen was trembling as he spoke.
"I have done all the disgusting things, my hands are stained with the blood of loyal and treacherous ministers, I will torture them in the dungeons of the palace, make them betray their accomplices, and make them confess their deeds.
I am the most effective knife in the hands of my brother. I hate him and her. I hate everything. I want to escape from it all the time, but she is my biological mother and I cannot give up everything. "
Qiao Shinian was still held tightly in his arms. She wanted to persuade him, but when the words came to her lips, she realized that she had only integrated into this world on the surface, and her inner thoughts still belonged to the modern world.
The people here value the grace of giving birth and raising children above all else. This is a feudal dynasty, and here, there is no such thing as kicking away anything that makes me unhappy.
Children are bargaining chips, but also tools to bring honor to the family.
"I like you, I want to own you, I want to possess you, I want to protect you. These are all my current thoughts, but you don't belong to me. You are free, you are freer than anyone else, and you are incompatible with us.
Sometimes, I think, maybe it would be nice to live with you in a paradise, but I can't let her go. "
"I was very sad before. You followed Wen Jiu without hesitation and never thought about staying in Zhou State. I thought you didn't have me in your heart at all."
Mu Qingchen let her go and said seriously: "I really want to marry you. You are my only wife in this life. I swear that there will never be another woman."
Qiao Shinian looked into his eyes. At this moment, there were still tears in Mu Qingchen's eyes, but his gaze was so firm. Under the dim candlelight, the two looked into each other's eyes.
"I believe you." My heart was absolutely sincere at this moment.
Qiao Shinian wanted to say something, but in the end he sighed secretly.
As for Mu Qingchen, she thought that he was just a simple liking for her, but when she began to prepare for the countdown to love, two ideas in her mind collided violently.
She wanted to take him away, she wanted to keep him.
She didn't have a single thought of letting him go. She didn't know when she fell in love with him. Maybe it was the initial crush on him, or maybe it was his extraordinary respect for her in this era, or maybe it was the little things she had with him in the palace...
This time, love was very ordinary. Love had sprouted before she realized it. When she discovered it, love had grown into a small tree in the silent nourishment.
"Everything will work out when the time comes, Mu Qingchen, let's not rush." Qiao Shinian hugged Mu Qingchen and rested her head on his chest. She said softly, "Can we think about the future slowly?"
"I am afraid that one day I will wake up and you will leave me. I am afraid of the days without you. If I had never had you, I would not worry about gains and losses. Now that I have you, I have become cautious.
Even today when you and Mo Lin said goodbye, I was scared to death. He provoked me and ignored me. "Mu Qingchen said softly, "And you too, you knew I was following you, but you didn't ask me to join you."
"Well, it's my fault. You've been wronged." Qiao Shinian coaxed in a low voice.
"You won't marry me yet."
There's really no way to appease this.