In Xiu Xun Palace, Ji Wushang was half asleep. He turned over and wanted to touch the warmth of Tuoba Heyan's fingertips, but unexpectedly, he missed. Ji Wushang opened his eyes immediately.
"Cong, where are you?" Ji Wushang immediately got up, looked around, and saw no one. He was about to get out of bed when he saw a pair of big feet wearing black boots standing in front of him!
"Ah!" Ji Wushang immediately stepped back, staring in horror at the man in front of him! How could he possibly be in Tuoba Heyan's Xiuxun Palace!
"You always scream when you see me," Yiyun Shangcheng said with a smirk. "Does the King have such a terrifying effect on you?"
"You, how did you get in?" Ji Wushang was extremely surprised. Looking at him, she quickly put on her shoes and hurriedly tried to get out of bed.
He stood there, his gaze fixed on Ji Wushang, and said, "If I want to come in, then I will. No place can stop me from coming and going!"
"Tuoba Heyan!" Ji Wushang suddenly shouted. Yiyun Shangcheng immediately turned around, and Ji Wushang quickly ran outside!
But Yiyun Shangcheng appeared as if he had teleported, standing right in front of Ji Wushang. "You've tricked me again." He spoke coldly, his eyes filled with hatred as he looked at Ji Wushang.
He hated himself… Ji Wushang was startled.
They retreated further back.
But isn't this just forcing yourself to go inside?
"What do you want? Stop!" Ji Wushang looked at his tall figure, feeling utterly powerless before him! How infuriating! But why wasn't Tuoba Heyan here? Where had he gone? And how could he, Yiyun Shangcheng, have entered this place so easily? Where were Tuoba Heyan's men? Was the martial arts of Yiyun Shangcheng really that high?
Entering here without alerting anyone!
"I want to ask you, am I good to you?" Yiyun Shangcheng suddenly stopped and asked.
Ji Wushang was dumbfounded. Why would he ask such a question? Asking it at this time and in this setting—had he lost his mind?
“I don’t understand.” Ji Wushang shook his head.
"I'm asking you, am I good to you? Compared to Tuoba Heyan, who treats you better?" Yiyun Shangcheng asked again, a hint of expectation in his eyes. Tuoba Heyan was her later man, and she'd heard he'd forced himself on her during their first time. Why did she seem to like that man so much now?
Yiyun clenched her fists under her sleeves.
"He, he..." Ji Wushang looked at his increasingly intense anger, all the restraint in his eyes, and his tone was somewhat stuttering. He really hoped that Tuoba Heyan could appear immediately and take him away from this unpredictable guy!
"You love him! You've only known him for less than a month, and you've already fallen in love with him! Ji Wushang, why are you doing this to me! Heaven and earth can bear witness to my kindness to you! I haven't seen you for three years, and I've thought of you every single day! I suffered for two years at the foot of the cliff, and endured endless torment buried in the pool of poisonous insects and venomous worms in the Western Regions underground palace, but I still thought of you and worried about you every day!"
I thought I was going to die, but I can't die, I won't die! I am the chieftain of the Yiyun tribe, an immortal! But, did you ever think about the two years I spent at the bottom of the cliff? I was stuck in that mud, I was hungry, and could only eat mud! I was thirsty, and drank muddy water! I was tired, and slept in the mud, thinking of you!
Occasionally, a tiny insect will pass by me; I'll blow it into my mouth, and it becomes my meal! Occasionally, a leaf will fall; that's my vegetable! Every moment I think of you, of your beauty, of you sleeping in my arms! I wonder, have you given birth to our child yet?!
"Ji Wushang!" Yi Yun shouted from the city.
Ji Wushang stumbled backward and collapsed to the ground. "I...I don't know. You...you shouldn't be thinking about me. You shouldn't be torturing yourself like this. You shouldn't, you shouldn't!"
“But if I hadn’t thought of you, I wouldn’t have lasted this long. I wouldn’t have thought of coming back to settle scores with these people!” Yi Yun Shangcheng stepped forward, squatted down, and looked at Ji Wushang, who was sitting on the ground. He stared intently at Ji Wushang.
Ji Wushang stepped back, "I've told you, I've told you, why, why won't you listen! I don't love you, I don't love you! I've told you, I hate you, I hate you! Why won't you listen, why, why do you have to torture yourself? Can't you find something else to do? Can't you find another woman to love?"
“You really don’t understand.” Yi Yun Shangcheng looked at her. “My Black Eagle is dead. On the day Nan Xu Cong and Huangfu Xuan joined forces to kill me, Black Eagle hit a wall and died.”
Ji Wushang didn't understand why he mentioned Black Hawk!
"The Black Eagle is the incarnation of our Western Regions God. It has always soared in the skies of the Western Regions, watching over our people living in peace and prosperity. It is my guardian deity. Now, it thought I was dead, so it chose to be buried with me. Do you understand?"
Ji Wushang nodded. Some animals do indeed act out of loyalty, but what did he mean by bringing this up?
"Don't you understand?" Yi Yun Shangcheng frowned. "If you fall in love with one person, how can you love another? Who can easily let go?"
Ji Wushang finally understood what he meant, "Try to let go."
"It's impossible. Loving you is like a poison; it's seeped in and I can't escape!" Yi Yun Shangcheng looked at Ji Wushang. "I miss you. You should understand that very well."
"Yiyun Shangcheng, can you please put away your love? Your love can be given to all living beings, to the people of the Western Regions, to anyone, but please don't love me, okay?" Ji Wushang sighed. Why did he have to keep pestering him and never let him go?
Yiyun Shangcheng shook her head, "You are really cruel! You can be grateful to Beigong Minhao. Beigong Minhao likes you and has done a lot for you, so you are grateful to him. You even thought about using your body to make it up to him! You are so good to others, but what about me?"
Ji Wushang shook his head violently, "You, you don't understand the situation back then, it wasn't like that, it wasn't what you think!"
"Three years ago, I was too late. In General Murs's mansion, I watched helplessly as you married Nan Xuzong through a crystal ball. Three years later, I was also too late to stop you from marrying Tuoba Heyan again. Wushang, how much have we missed?"
"Do you know how heartbroken I am? How sad I am!" Yi Yun Shangcheng looked at her, tears streaming down her face. "You have no idea how deeply I love you. Why are you so ungrateful!"
"Your love suffocates me... Yiyun Shangcheng, can you please stop forcing me like this? Three years ago, if everything could start over, I wouldn't want to meet you. You destroyed everything I had, turning me into an executioner, making me kill Nan Xuzong with my own hands! Have you forgotten all of this? Is this love? You're destroying me!"
Ji Wushang gradually raised his voice, "I don't want to mention anything from the past, I really don't want to. You don't know how desperate I was, you don't know how deeply you hurt me!" Ji Wushang shook his head, as if recalling the past was unbearable for him!
In all of this, who is tormenting whom, and who is destroying whom?
“I know, I know, so I came. I’ll take you away, take you away from here!” Yi Yun Shangcheng stepped forward and tried to take her hand, but Ji Wushang immediately dodged away.
"I'm not leaving!" Ji Wushang looked at him. "I won't leave Nanxu Cong!"
“Nan Xuzong is dead!” Yi Yunshangcheng looked at her. “Are you still thinking about him? Are you still thinking about him, about a dead man?”
"No, he's not dead, he's not dead! It's all your fault, it's all your fault! You're the one who killed him!" Ji Wushang shouted, immediately shaking off his hand, hoping he wouldn't touch her again!
"You! You're so stubbornly infatuated!" Yi Yun Shangcheng looked at her, her anger rising, and stepped forward to grab Ji Wushang. "Do you really want to stay here and let Tuoba Heyan bully you?!"
"No, no! Let go of me!" Ji Wushang shouted, trying to shake him off, but his arm was made of steel, holding her hand tightly!
"Do you still want to stay here?" Yi Yun Shangcheng lifted Ji Wushang up and tried to hold him tightly in her arms, but Ji Wushang struggled to resist, though to little avail.
"What's there to be nostalgic about!" Ji Wushang gritted his teeth and bit down hard on Yi Yunshangcheng's hand. Yi Yunshangcheng felt the pain, but still didn't let go. "If you're not nostalgic, then leave!"
"He's here, I'm not leaving!" Ji Wushang bared his teeth and viciously tried to headbutt him, but it was completely ineffective!
"Could it be that you are very interested in Tuoba Heyan's forced sexual intercourse?" Seeing that she remained unmoved, Yiyun Shangcheng shouted out in exasperation!
"Wh-what?" Ji Wushang's face turned pale with shock!
"Tuoba Heyan forced you, took you in the Worry-Free Garden, isn't that the truth?!" Yiyun Shangcheng looked at her, her face now deathly pale!
How could he rub salt in his own wounds? And so bluntly! Is he a demon? What was with all this talk about loving himself? Is he happy to destroy himself?
"Let me go!" Ji Wushang shouted the next second!
"I won't let go!" Yi Yun Shangcheng held her tightly. "It was that day, when you had sex with Tuoba Heyan because of the lust curse. He made you feel like you were dying of pleasure, so you were attached to him, huh? How many times a day did you do it with him?!" Yi Yun Shangcheng's eyes were fierce, yet it was impossible to see what kind of feelings they were!
He actually said such a thing! My God, is this really him? Is this the refined prince from the Western Regions I met before? Is this the same little boy I saw at six years old in the training ground, who remained stubbornly silent even while being whipped?
Why, why could he say such things to provoke her!
"No, no!" Ji Wushang shook his head. He couldn't humiliate himself like this! He couldn't!
"No? I don't mind that you've had two men! Isn't that very magnanimous?" Yi Yun Shangcheng looked at her. "How about we test my abilities now? Let's see who can make you happier than those two men?"
Ji Wushang was utterly speechless, his chest heaving with rage, unable to find a way to respond to this madman, this pervert! He felt like he was caught in a nightmare!
"You, you get out, get out of here!" Ji Wushang was so angry that he could hardly breathe. He tried to break free from him, but it was very difficult.
Seeing that she was almost rolling her eyes in anger, Yi Yun Shang Cheng was startled and immediately channeled a burst of internal energy into her.
"I don't need you to save me! Get away!" Ji Wushang was about to push him away with her jade-like hand when he slowly withdrew his inner force. "Damn it, how could he be so ruthless!" Tuoba Heyan's insatiable demands caused her body's quality to decline rapidly!
"It's all your fault! Get out of here! If it weren't for your poison, would I be suffering like this?!" Ji Wushang took a deep breath, broke free from his embrace, and crawled outside. "Please, please don't come looking for me. Ji Wushang is dead, dead! Now, she, she is the Queen of Tuoba Heyan, not anyone else!"
Yi Yun Shangcheng was stunned. Looking at Ji Wushang, who was trying to crawl outside on the ground, she was surprised that she wanted to leave him so strongly.
Yi Yun Shangcheng's eyes darkened. He stepped forward, picked up Ji Wushang from the ground, and ignored her struggles. "You are my queen! Don't forget! As long as I don't depose you, you will always be my queen!" Yi Yun Shangcheng immediately held Ji Wushang in his arms. Ji Wushang shouted loudly, "Help! Help! Someone help me!"
"No need to shout! Thanks to Tuoba Heyan, the soundproofing of this Xiu Xun Palace he built is better than anywhere else! To prevent you from shouting yourself hoarse, you'd better shut up! I will take you back to the Western Regions! As for Tuoba Heyan, he will forget about you!" Yi Yun Shangcheng sneered and immediately pressed Ji Wushang's sleeping acupoint. In an instant, Ji Wushang had fallen asleep peacefully in his arms.
Yi Yun Shangcheng looked at Ji Wushang in her arms with her purple eyes, then turned around and headed towards the inner palace of Xiu Xun Palace. She was not going to be foolish enough to go through the front gate!
"Put her down!" Just then, a cold voice suddenly came from behind them.
"Who are you? Put down my mother! If you harm my mother in the slightest, I will not let you get away with it!" The voice was actually that of a young boy!
Yi Yun Shangcheng turned around with Ji Wushang in his arms. What he saw was Tuoba Heyan wearing a golden mask. Tuoba Heyan was holding Huangfu Jun'an's hand. Because Huangfu Jun'an was not tall, while Tuoba Heyan was at least eight feet tall, Huangfu Jun'an had to raise his small hand high so that Tuoba Heyan could hold it.
“Prince Qingzhao.” Yi Yunshangcheng’s thin lips curled upwards. “And, young master.”
"Put down my queen, and I can let you return to the Western Regions!" Tuoba Heyan's tone was icy. He released Huangfu Jun'an's small hand. "Nianlang, go outside and wait for your father to bring your mother back." Tuoba Heyan patted Huangfu Jun'an's head.
Huangfu Jun'an nodded and said, "Yes." He then glared at Yiyun Shangcheng not far away before running out.
Tuoba Heyan stepped forward, “The King of the Western Regions has broken into my Qingzhao Kingdom at night, and what’s more, he actually tried to abduct my queen! You have some nerve! Tomorrow, the iron cavalry of Qingzhao will surely march into the Western Regions!”
"Are you really unaware, or are you pretending? Ji Wushang was already the Queen of my Western Regions three years ago, becoming the Queen of the Spirit Realm. Haven't you heard?" Yiyun Shangcheng sneered. "As for your claim that the iron cavalry invaded my Western Regions, then come on! Let's see who destroys whom!"
"So, you refuse to return her to me?" Tuoba Heyan's eyes were sinister as he stepped forward, a powerful force already gathering in his hand.
Yiyun Shangcheng narrowed her purple eyes. "Absolutely impossible. She is my queen. It is absolutely impossible for me to hand her over to you!"
"Since that's the case, there's no point in saying more!" Tuoba Heyan said coldly, and immediately attacked Yiyun Upper City. At this moment, many people jumped out from all directions, all pointing their long swords at Yiyun Upper City.
Yi Yun Shangcheng sneered. He looked at Tuoba Heyan and nimbly engaged him in battle, while Ji Wushang in his arms remained tightly held in his embrace! Tuoba Heyan's heart burned with rage, and he attacked Yi Yun Shangcheng even more fiercely.
With one hand missing, Yi Yun Shangcheng was no match for Tuoba Heyan and immediately retreated. Watching Tuoba Heyan's attacks, he was slightly surprised, because while some of the moves were novel and unfamiliar Qingzhao martial arts, many others were extremely familiar! "You, you're not Tuoba Heyan, you're Nan Xu Cong!" Yi Yun Shangcheng exclaimed in surprise! No wonder his gaze seemed so familiar, and his voice and tone were very similar to Nan Xu Cong's! Damn it, could it be that Nan Xu Cong didn't die, and has become Tuoba Heyan?
"Then why don't you put Wu Shang down right now?!" Tuoba Heyan sneered, his moves becoming even more ruthless. How could he let this enemy hold his woman so tightly!
"Since that's the case, I absolutely cannot give it to you, Nan Xuzong. You deserve to die a horrible death!" Yi Yun Shangcheng's eyes turned sinister, instantly turning crimson. Burning within them were endless flames of hatred and sarcasm!
"Go to hell!" Tuoba Heyan roared, leaping forward and striking Yiyun Upper City with a palm!
Yi Yun Shangcheng sneered, but then suddenly flipped over and pushed Ji Wushang away! Tuoba Heyan was taken aback and immediately sent his palm wind swirling around the beam, striking from his left side in an instant!
Yi Yun Shangcheng was surprised by his speed of transformation, but it was too late. Moreover, she did not really intend to push Ji Wushang out to block. Seeing the fierce palm wind of Tuoba Heyan, she could only slightly deflect it, but she still received a palm strike from Tuoba Heyan!
Yi Yun Shangcheng suppressed the urge to vomit blood, held Ji Wushang tightly with one hand, and gathered powerful strength in the other. In the next second, he attacked Tuoba Heyan. Tuoba Heyan saw that he was powerful and dodged the desperate attack. But at this moment, Yi Yun Shangcheng suddenly spat out a thick smoke from his palm wind!
Tuoba Heyan was startled. "Poison!" Instantly, Tuoba Heyan covered his mouth and nose, and all the surrounding guards did the same. Yiyun Shangcheng seized the opportunity, immediately grabbing Ji Wushang and leaping out of the window to disappear. "You want to compete with me for Ji Wushang? If you have the guts, come to Broken Cliff at noon three days from now! That will definitely be your burial ground!" Yiyun Shangcheng had just finished speaking, thinking of gathering her strength to take Ji Wushang away, but unexpectedly, a sharp pain came from her chest!
"Let me go!" Ji Wushang plunged the phoenix jade hairpin deep into Yiyun Shangcheng's chest!
How could she possibly break free of the pressure point she had placed on him to put him to sleep? And how could she be so ruthless to him when he was off guard and completely unprepared?
She struggled to break free from Yiyun Shangcheng's arms, still holding the phoenix jade hairpin in her hand, on which blood was still dripping!
Yi Yun Shangcheng stared at Ji Wushang in disbelief. Blood dripped from her chest, the new wound reopening the old. He didn't know how deep she had stabbed him, only that his heart felt like it was being torn apart! Yet he still clung tightly to Ji Wushang, "You, you really have such a cruel heart!"
"Get out!" Ji Wushang shoved Yi Yunshang away!
Ji Wushang had no idea how much poison gas she had inhaled, but she quickly managed to walk to Tuoba Heyan's side. Tuoba Heyan looked surprised and immediately hugged Ji Wushang tightly in his arms, "Wushang!"
Immediately, Tuoba Heyan unleashed a powerful attack to kill Yiyun Shangcheng, but Ji Wushang suddenly grabbed him tightly around the waist, which puzzled him.
"Save me, Cong..." Ji Wushang weakly cried out, and Yiyun Shangcheng, seeing this, immediately flew away.
After watching the person leave, Tuoba Heyan immediately checked Ji Wushang's pulse. "Wushang! Bear with it!" He then carried her into the inner room.
As the night deepened, Tuoba Heyan looked at Ji Wushang, whose face was deathly pale on the bed. He took the phoenix jade hairpin that she was still clutching tightly from her hand. He looked at Ji Wushang for a long time, and then took out a silk handkerchief and wiped away the black blood from Yiyun Shangcheng.
She turned around, placed the phoenix jade hairpin on the dressing table to the side, and walked out of the outer room.