Why is it that when I touched Yi Yun Muchen, I didn't feel any power at all, while Ji Wushang could feel it when he touched her?
However, Bei Gong Jue Shi didn't ask, but he believed that Nan Xu Cong would also suspect this point.
The two immediately took their leave of Ji Wushang and Nan Xuzong, and to avoid colliding with those who came to pay their respects, they went out directly through the back door.
Nan Xuzong sat beside her, watching her without speaking, but in his heart he had asked himself a thousand times how to solve this problem! Blood Lotus, Blood Lotus appears, Demon Lord is born! Was it the demonic power of the fetus in Yi Yun Muchen's womb that had disturbed her most primal seal? Was this a death sentence for her?
Ji Wushang looked at him, thinking he was worried about whether she had been injured, and immediately said, "Cong, don't worry, I'm really fine."
"I know." Nan Xuzong smiled, deciding not to put too much pressure on her; she might not even know about this yet!
"Then why are you looking so gloomy? It makes me uneasy." Ji Wushang pouted. Nan Xuzong smiled and picked her up. "Let's go back. Let's not stay here in the wind."
"Don't hold me like this, put me down quickly, otherwise it won't look good if people see us. The manor has just helped with the funeral arrangements, if people see us like this during the day, they will definitely laugh at us." Ji Wushang looked at him, hoping that he would put her down.
"I like holding you like this." Nan Xuzong said stubbornly. "Don't worry, no one will dare to enter Moxuan Garden."
“We should go to the mourning hall. There are probably people coming to pay their respects, and I should still be there to receive them,” Ji Wushang said, looking at him with a hint of pleading in his eyes.
"Okay, I'll go with you." Nan Xuzong thought for a moment and then put her down. "Just rest today and don't fight with them." Watching her fight with this person and that person these past few days had made his heart pound with anxiety.
“I don’t really want to either, but they always try to play mind games with me. Sigh. I’m actually feeling tired.” Ji Wushang sighed. Nan Xuzong took her hand and they walked together to the mourning hall.
The busy day passed quickly, night fell, late spring was over, and naturally early summer arrived, with the temperature already warming up.
At this moment, in the vast palace, a robust man was sitting at his desk. He wore a seductive red robe, his lips were thin and sensual, and he wore a gold and jade crown with a gold hairpin in his hair. He was working on a lot of official documents.
He was surrounded by a pile of letters, each one waiting for him to read and examine.
The palace was filled with red, so alluring it was almost blinding, yet he loved it dearly.
Around these four sides, there was a huge luminous pearl, illuminating the entire palace.
Before this table, a candle was lit, its light steady and still, without a breeze.
Huangfu Xuan finished writing the letter in front of him and then put it into his pocket.
He looked up slightly and saw the candle flicker for a moment. His thin lips moved slightly. "Since you're here, why don't we sit down and talk?" He lowered his head, opened a book, and began to write notes on it.
The newcomer emerged from behind the screen, dressed entirely in black. She walked up to him with light steps, but he could sense her unsteady aura. She had taken a blow from his palm, yet she could still enter so easily—no simple feat.
"Sit." Huangfu Xuan flicked his sleeve, and a stool suddenly flew from a distance towards the man in black. The man in black immediately turned around, intending to grab the chair, but before she could react, Huangfu Xuan was already standing in front of her, instantly removing her veil. "It's you!"
The man in black immediately pushed himself back, covered his face with his hands, and shook his head violently.
Huangfu Xuan immediately stepped forward, "Ruyi, it's you!"
Yu Ruyi kept shaking her head and opening her mouth to babble, but she couldn't say anything.
"You're not dead! You're not dead!" Huangfu Xuan looked at her, his heart filled with excitement. However, as he looked at her, he immediately said, his fiery eyes seeming to spit fire, "But why can't you speak? Why didn't you come to me for so many days and nights? Why? Tell me!" He grabbed her shoulders and shook her almost excitedly.
She was shaken so badly she felt like her whole body was about to fall apart, and the blow she had received from him made her even more uncomfortable, causing her to immediately vomit blood! Her face turned deathly pale.
Huangfu Xuan immediately picked her up and quickly walked towards his bed.
"Waaah!" Yu Ruyi struggled violently, but he looked at her coldly and immediately pressed her pressure points to stop her from moving. "Don't move!" His thick eyebrows furrowed. After placing her on the bed, he immediately took out the antidote from his bosom and fed it to her.
"Why can't you speak? How could you be so heartless as to abandon me? Five years! I've searched for you for five years! Where have you been all these five years?" Huangfu Xuan looked down at her, as if trying to see right through her, but he didn't know what to do! He suddenly sat down on the edge of the bed again and scooped her up from it. "Tell me, tell me, why did you leave me in the first place!"
"Waaah..." Yu Ruyi looked at him, tears streaming down her face. She reached out her hands, wanting to gesticulate and say something, but he couldn't understand her at all. "What did you say? No, I don't understand what you mean! Damn it!" Huangfu Xuan was a little irritable. He immediately went outside and then came back in a few moments later with a brush, ink, paper, and inkstone in his hand. He placed them on the table and said, "Come here and write it down for me!"
As he spoke, he gave orders to the woman on the bed. Yu Ruyi looked at him; his temper was still so volatile, and she thought it was probably impossible for him to change!
Yu Ruyi got out of bed and slowly walked to him, looking at him with cold eyes. He immediately pulled her into his arms. "Have you forgotten how I made you feel? Hmm? Are you trying to test my patience with your audacity?" Huangfu Xuan looked at her with fierce eyes, grabbing her arm and placing it on the table. "Write! Write everything down!"
Yu Ruyi looked at him, trying to struggle free, but Huangfu Xuan held her waist firmly. "Don't even think about moving, or you'll regret it!"
Yu Ruyi had no choice but to remain still and instead picked up her pen to write, “I don’t know what happened. When I woke up, I was in the northern desert. The army captured me.”
"The army? The northern desert? You went to the northern desert? That's the Western Regions. You're working for the King of the Western Regions?" Huangfu Xuan pulled out the paper, crumpled it into a ball, and threw it away. His eyes blazed with anger. "Keep writing!"
"No, I've always wanted to leave. Xuan, I've been looking for you too. But I heard you returned to the capital from the border. I don't know the way, so I had to search for my way here!"
Huangfu Xuan looked at the paper she handed him, took it and read it. A hint of warmth flashed in his eyes, then his dark eyes deepened. "You said you were looking for me?"
Yu Ruyi nodded.
"Then let me ask you, what's wrong with your voice?" Huangfu Xuan looked at her.
Yu Ruyi foreshadowed this, and then wrote, "After I woke up, my mouth was dry. I didn't know what to do, so I drank the water that the army gave us. After drinking it, I became mute... Many of the people in my group who drank it never woke up again."
"After drinking the water, he became unable to speak? That's outrageous!" It was common for people in the army to add mercury to the army's water supply, causing soldiers to die from poisoning after drinking it! Some armies also fed prisoners water mixed with mercury, which could kill or mute them, thus avoiding the annoying wails and cries in the dark!
Huangfu Xuan took a deep breath. "Who led that army?"
“It’s General Murs of the Western Regions. But I’m in a small detachment, and I don’t know who the general is. I only know that we are flying Murs’s banner.” Yu Ruyi handed him the paper.
After reading it, Huangfu Xuan clutched the paper tightly in his hand. "Then why did you suddenly appear in Consort Zhen's Palace?"
“I didn’t know that was the Zhenfei Palace. I was just thinking of entering the palace to find you. The Zhenfei Palace you mentioned is rarely crowded. I can hide there for a while and then try to find out where you are.”
"Then why didn't you acknowledge me when we fought?" Huangfu Xuan stared at her, as if trying to see into her heart through her eyes. This woman, who once said she would spend the rest of her life with him, suddenly disappeared before his eyes! He had searched for her frantically for five years, during which time he had slowly buried these feelings in his heart!
He didn't mind that she was from Japan. The moment he saved her, Huangfu Xuan thought that even if it meant going against the Emperor's wishes, he would marry this woman as his principal wife. But how could she suddenly disappear in front of him? And now she suddenly reappears in front of him?
"I have no face to face you." It took Yu Ruyi a long time to write those few words.
Huangfu Xuan looked at those six words and sneered, "Ashamed to face me? Aren't you nestled in my arms right now? What? Ashamed to face me? Are you planning to keep observing me from the shadows because of those six words? Or are you just going to keep hiding from me like this?"
Yu Ruyi shook her head violently, tears streaming down her face again. Then she leaned over and wrote, "I shouldn't have been in your life in the first place. I shouldn't have hindered you from doing what you're doing. I'm a Japanese, with no background whatsoever. If we were together, it would definitely be detrimental to you. I don't want to be so selfish!"
Huangfu Xuan looked at the paper in front of him with a questioning look. After reading it, he stared intently at her. "No one knows that you are from Japan. I say you are the daughter of a nobleman, so you are the daughter of a nobleman!"
Yu Ruyi shook her head with tears in her eyes, but Huangfu Xuan grabbed her head and forced her to kiss him, saying, "I missed you so much. I thought you were dead!"
Waaah... Yu Ruyi tried to break free from his embrace, but his strength made it impossible for her to break free, especially since she was injured.
His large hand reached up from below, and her hands immediately scrambled to cover her chest, her eyes pleading as she looked at him, not wanting him to continue violating her.
Huangfu Xuan released her lips, then looked at her with a cold gaze, "Seven days from now, I will choose my principal wife. You must come! If you don't come, I will not marry you! I will arrange a new identity for you!"
Yu Ruyi stared wide-eyed in surprise, wanting to speak but unable to. She turned to write, "I am mute, and you are a prince. You cannot marry a mute as your principal wife."
Huangfu Xuan gave a cold smile, "If this prince says it's permissible, who can stop me?"
Yu Ruyi was taken aback. Had he become that powerful? "You'll regret this. From now on, I'll bring you trouble and disadvantage!" She wrote a few more words directly.
Huangfu Xuan glanced at the paper. "This prince never regrets anything!" His large hand then reached for her chest. She immediately recoiled in surprise, but he held her firmly, preventing her from moving. "You still want to hide?"
Yu Ruyi immediately waved her hands in front of her, "No, don't do this!"
Huangfu Xuan sneered, "You took a blow to the chest from me, shouldn't you have it checked?"
She immediately shook her head upon hearing this, saying, "No need!"
"I said, is it necessary?" Huangfu Xuan's words were not to be questioned. He began to undo her belt. She grabbed his hands to stop him, but he grabbed both of her hands and placed them behind her back. "Don't test my patience. I will only say it once!"
She paused, stunned, and didn't move.
His body began to tremble involuntarily.
He carried her directly to the bed, his dark eyes meeting hers, which were filled with panic. She tried to curl up, but he pressed her tightly against the bed.
The large red bed and red curtains made everything seem extremely ambiguous.
Without a word, Huangfu Xuan untied her belt and pulled open her black clothes. His eyes were cold and indifferent as he looked at the beauty before him without being moved in the slightest.
Her face flushed red, but he only made her tremble more in fear in his emotionless eyes. She quickly tried to pull her clothes back up, but Huangfu Xuan swiftly pressed her pressure points. "You've tested my patience. Tell me, what kind of punishment do you want?" Huangfu Xuan's thin lips curled up as he looked at her. In his eyes, she finally saw a desire slowly igniting.
He was a man who didn't easily fall in love, a man who buried himself deep within. He never needed a woman to do things for him, nor did he need any woman to share his joys, sorrows, or grief. She entered his life when she was surrounded by a group of soldiers who tore her clothes to shreds. Those men pressed down on her, intending to commit bestial acts, but he arrived with his troops and dismembered all those who tried to violate her.
He stood majestically atop his powerful Akhal-Teke horse, looking down at her. Her eyes met his, indifferent. Finally, he dismounted, wrapped her in his cloak, placed her on the horse, and carried her back to camp.
He never paid any attention to her, and she never argued or made a fuss, spending her days in that small, cramped tent until he remembered that there was another woman in his tent.
That night, he tore her clothes and tasted her beauty for the first time. He gradually became addicted to her. He never spoke to her about anything, but every night, he would go to her tent. He wouldn't take a thing from her; she would sleep on the couch while he reviewed official documents at his desk, continuing to lead his troops into battle. When he was tired, he would simply fall asleep at his desk. But often, when he woke up, he would have a thicker robe on his back.
They were always silent; seeing that he didn't speak, she didn't speak either.
When he returned from a two-week absence with his troops, she was gone. The surrounding area looked ransacked. Only then did he feel a pang of heartache… Five years, five years of searching. He believed she was not dead. He vowed that even if she had been abducted and forced into prostitution, he would find her.
At this moment, Yu Ruyi's eyes were fixed on him. She couldn't move, but her eyes were very clear.
He pulled her clothes open again and looked at the red cherry blossom bodice.
Huangfu Xuan's lips curled up, "You still long for your Japan."
Her heart skipped a beat, and she looked at him.
“You’re no ordinary person.” Huangfu Xuan’s lips curled up slightly as he tore open her bodice. “Let me guess who you are, who have been lurking by my side for so long, and who has poisoned me for so long.” He suppressed his desire, but his large hand caressed that beautiful place. “You are probably a princess, Fusang, the Jade Princess.”
Her body trembled, and he quickly released her pressure points, but he was already pressing his entire body against hers, binding her hands and feet.
"How can I make you speak?" His eyes burned, landing on the palm print on her chest, where a tiny red tinge remained. "I should have been gentler. If I had known it was you, I should have only used a fraction of my strength." He suddenly grabbed her, and she trembled violently, letting out a soft moan, but she couldn't stop herself from whimpering.
"Do you miss me?" He looked into her eyes, his large hand cupping her chin and gently pinching it. "Say it, you miss me!"
Tears welled up in her eyes again as she looked at him.
"You are truly a beauty... Besides me, do you have any other men?" He pressed himself between her legs, his gaze now a hundred times more agonizing than the last!
He looked at her from above, and she panicked, struggling to escape his violence, but his strength prevented her from moving an inch!
He looked down at her crotch. "We haven't done it in a long time."
Her face paled in shock, and she instinctively tried to kick him. Huangfu Xuan met her eyes again. "How about I give you a taste of death? Let's relive that feeling of dying, let's die together!" he whispered in her ear.
Her eyes widened. No! No! Huangfu Xuan, don't do this!
"Five years, you woman, you're heartless!" Huangfu Xuan looked up at her coldly. "You turned my love into endless hatred. You should know what that feels like!"
She shook her head, tears already streaming down her face.
"Don't try to fool me with tears, Yu Ruyi!" He sneered and began to undress. He pulled out his belt and, in a twisted way, blindfolded her. She panicked even more; this man must be insane!
He smiled slightly. "Don't worry, I've already given you the medicine. You'll be fully conscious. You'll keep feeling me inside you. You'll keep feeling the pain, but you'll keep feeling me!"
He was already on top of her, and before she could even feel anything, he launched his attack!
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As night fell, the body was laid to rest for three days. Zhao Yirou and Aunt Zhao had to kneel before Nan Jinxue's coffin, while Ji Wushang and Nan Xuzong quickly returned to Moxuan Garden. After tidying everything up and having dinner, they cleared everything away.
Ji Wushang went behind the screen to bathe, while Nan Xuzong dealt with matters at his desk.
After finishing, seeing that Ji Wushang was still inside, Nan Xuzong naturally went in and watched as she carefully poured hot water on herself with her back to him. At this moment, his gaze fell on the blood lotus on the back of her neck, which bloomed alluringly and captivated Nan Xuzong's vision.