"I can't let go."
Silence, a terrible silence. Why hasn't he left yet?
"Your Majesty, I have a favor to ask of you," Ji Wushang said suddenly, as if remembering something.
"Go on," he said. He vaguely sensed that it must be what he had been thinking. Heh! Everything they did was in his hands, although… a slight mishap had occurred!
Nan Xuzong, we will eventually have a final showdown!
Not just for her, but for so many other things!
"Please spare the second son of the king and the princess of the Western Regions! Please grant them their marriage!" Ji Wushang sat up on the bed and knelt down in front of him.
Yiyun Shangcheng was slightly taken aback, "Don't kneel!"
"Please grant them their wish! Please let them return safely. I don't know why you left the second son of the king in the Western Regions, but I beg you to let him return to the Great Xia Zhou Dynasty. This is his home!"
"I'll keep them. You don't understand. I won't hurt them!" Yi Yun Shangcheng helped her up. She was breathing heavily. He channeled his inner energy into her, and Ji Wushang immediately felt a warm sensation.
"Don't waste it," Ji Wushang said softly.
He didn't answer, but instead increased the pressure in his hand.
After a long while, he pulled his hand back, took the bottle he had just given her, opened it, poured out a red pill, and handed it to her, saying, "Eat it."
Ji Wushang gently shook his head.
He frowned. "Eat."
"Would I harm you?" Yi Yun Shangcheng's veins bulged slightly as he looked at her stubbornness. "If you don't eat, they will all die! And I will definitely not let Nan Xu Cong go!"
Ji Wushang was startled. "No!" she cried, looking up at his bloodshot eyes in even greater surprise. "Your eyes..."
"Eat it." His tone was even colder.
Ji Wushang took the food from his hand with a slight tremor and put it in his mouth, but his eyes remained fixed on his eyes. The pure purple eyes of before were gone, replaced by a bewitching crimson color.
His eyes flickered. "My eyes are fine!"
"You've been poisoned? Show me your hand, let me take a look." Ji Wushang looked at him; he was definitely poisoned, otherwise, it wouldn't have become so terrifying! Friend, friend, it's okay to worry, but don't let the poison change his mind!
Yiyun Shangcheng suddenly smiled. "You were worried about me."
“Of course I should care about my friend,” Ji Wushang said, looking at him. “Extend your left hand.”
He shoved the pill into her mouth, and she choked, swallowing it. Before she could react, he pulled her into his arms. She was wearing a nightgown, and now he held her close to his chest, inhaling the scent of her hair, his hands lingeringly holding her arms.
Ji Wushang struggled violently, "Let me go!"
"Why are you resisting me?" He held her tightly, not letting her move at all.
"I am Nan Xuzong's woman, do you understand? For the rest of my life, there will only be one man, and I will stay by his side until death!" She looked at him angrily, her eyes still bloodshot. Ji Wushang wondered if she would be angered by him.
"Damn it, what do you mean by 'forever'! What do you mean by 'keeping promises'! I'm not a person of your Great Xia Zhou Dynasty, and I don't want to understand your stupid rules! Wu Shang, I will definitely have you!"
"You're incredibly stubborn!" Ji Wushang roared. "Let me go and leave!" It seemed his worries were unnecessary! Unnecessary!
“I am very stubborn.” Yiyun Shangcheng turned her head so she could look at him. “Don’t you know my heart has always been beating for you? It was when you were six, it is now, and it will always be!”
Ji Wushang shook his head. He didn't want to hear this suffocating sound. Every word he said to him, every word he said to let go, only made him more insane... What could he do to stop him from doing this?
Should I give him the world? Or should I give him a perfect woman? Where can I find a woman who can satisfy him?
He didn't know what she was thinking, but he was restless, having longed for this moment for a very long time... He covered her thin lips with his and kissed her small lips fiercely. Ji Wushang was surprised and tried to push him away, but he held her even tighter. His steel-like arms locked her in place, not giving her any chance to move. He fiercely demanded her taste, with endless desire, not gentle, but extremely wild!
"Let go... Waaah... Let go... me!" Ji Wushang tried to utter a sentence, but he swallowed it down. "Wushang, you don't know how much I've wanted this moment!" After saying that, he kissed her soft and sweet lips fiercely again, his tongue rolling into her mouth, sucking in her sweetness.
"You are so beautiful, so beautiful!" Yi Yun Shangcheng's bloodshot eyes were filled with intense lust as he looked at her, his large hands groping her beauty.
Perhaps because she had gotten married, her skin had become even softer and pinker, alluring him. He longed to have her, and he realized he had been a fool not to have her before!
But I'm so scared. I'm scared that she'll disappear from my world, disappear into this vast sea of people, because of some ridiculous custom or rule she talks about... If that's really the case, what reason do I have to live?
His heart skipped a beat, and he looked at her, "Wu Shang, Wu Shang!"
"Please, please let me go!" Ji Wushang struggled violently, tears streaming down her face. She had only wanted what was best for him, but she didn't want him to be like this... Heaven, if it's love, one person's love is enough! But if it's hate, she'd rather be hated by a thousand or ten thousand people!
"I can't, I can't!" Yi Yun Shang Cheng watched her cry, but she couldn't stop. He kissed the tears on her cheeks with his thin lips. "Don't cry, okay? Don't cry."
"No, please..." Ji Wushang's face was covered in tears. His large, fiery hands touched her back, causing her to tremble all over. She shook her head violently, "Please don't do this, you're not like this, are you, Yiyun Shangcheng!"
He didn't hear her cries at all; he only felt a voice inside him calling out to him—the person he loved, the person he had fought for all his life! Everything he had done was for her! Now she was in his arms, under his control! Why should he endure? He had already endured for twenty-one years!
Isn't this the perfect moment? Aren't there beautiful moments like this all the time?
Why let them go?
Don't let it go!
Yi Yun Shangcheng had only one thought in his mind: to take all of her! The more Ji Wushang struggled, the more the beast within him raged. He bit her lips, rubbed her earlobe, and locked her arms tightly above her head, displaying her entire beauty before him.
With a nimble flip, he had already pinned her entirely to the bed!
Ji Wushang suddenly turned her head and shouted, "Let go!" She used both her hands and feet to kick his lower body, but he was very agile and pressed down on her thighs. His tall body was already blocking her way. The position was ambiguous, but it gave Ji Wushang a deep sense of humiliation.
"I hate you, I hate you, Yiyun Shangcheng, I hate you!" Ji Wushang shouted suddenly, his hair soaked with cold sweat from fear.
Yiyun Shangcheng was stunned for a moment, looking at her, and she was also stunned. The next second, she struggled with all her might, but to no avail!
He bit down hard on her shoulder, and Ji Wushang gasped in surprise, "Ah!"
Ji Wushang looked terrified. This...this is the Marquis's residence!
Oh my god, what if someone finds out!
☆、165 Endless longing, Prince Nan returns!
Yiyun Shangcheng was suddenly brought back to her senses by her calmness. Just then, she heard someone outside calling, "Miss, Miss, what's wrong?"
"I...I'm fine, I just had a nightmare. It's nothing, just a nightmare, a nightmare..." Ji Wushang looked at the man in front of her and pushed him away forcefully. "Nightmare, nightmare..." she murmured, backing away. But at that moment, she touched something hard under the bed. Instantly, Ji Wushang's eyes turned cold. She pulled out the dagger from under the bed and held it to her neck. "If you don't leave, I'll die in front of you!"
"No!" Seeing her like this, Yi Yun Shangcheng was alarmed. "Watch out for the dagger!"
"Heh!" Ji Wushang sneered, "You are a nightmare to me, don't you understand? I hate that I'm defenseless and at your mercy, I hate that I'm not strong enough for you, and that you can do whatever you want to me! In Yiyun City, I originally thought you were a gentleman who wouldn't make things difficult for others, but I didn't expect you to be so ruthless and only care about your own feelings! I always remember that you once saved me and my mother, so I won't hold it against you! I remember that you saved me from the icy water, and I'm grateful to you! But gratitude is gratitude, not love, do you understand!"
"Yiyun Shangcheng, since I saved you when I was six, and you've saved me now, let's call it even! From now on, neither of us owes the other anything! I won't beg you to spare the second prince and the princess, I won't beg you to spare Cong, but I will fight you! I, Ji Wushang, from this day forward, have no friend like you. You are the King of the Western Regions, and I am the Princess Consort of the Southern Prince. Nothing more!" Ji Wushang's gaze turned cold, showing no trace of the fear from before, only the dagger pressed against her neck, a trickle of blood seeping out.
Yi Yun Shangcheng listened, speechless for a long time. He looked at her and said, "Good, very good!" Yi Yun Shangcheng nodded repeatedly, her crimson eyes crinkling into crescent moons with laughter. "Ji Wushang, very good!"
Ji Wushang didn't speak, but he tightened his grip on the dagger.
He took a few steps back, standing at a distance. "Very well, Ji Wushang, very well! That's what you said! Ji Wushang, from this day forward, we are no longer friends! Heh, you think you can compete with me? What do you have to compete with me?"
"That's none of your business!"
"Very well! From now on, don't come begging me for anything. Remember! I will make everyone suffer a fate worse than death! All the calamities will be thanks to you! Ji Wushang, do you understand?" He exuded a sinister charm, and the murderous aura around him made people afraid to approach. Ji Wushang stepped back and took a deep breath.
"You think I wouldn't bear to let you die?" Yi Yun took a few steps up the city, then stopped and turned back to meet Ji Wushang's eyes. "In our Western Regions, there is a kind of person who is neither dead nor alive, called a Spirit. Ji Wushang, if you become a Spirit, you can slowly watch how this world turns into a purgatory in my hands!"
Ji Wushang was startled, but he tiptoed and flew out of the window, disappearing from sight.
Ji Wushang immediately lowered the dagger he had been holding to his neck, sprawled out on the bed, and gasped for breath.
Let's end it all, let's just end it all!
"Miss? Would you like Zhu'er to come in and serve you?" Zhu'er called from outside.
Ji Wushang snapped out of his daze. "No need. You can go now. I'm much better now. You don't need to serve me."
Zhu'er stood outside and listened for a long time. When she heard that everything was probably alright, she nodded and said, "Yes, then Zhu'er will go down first. If you need anything, Miss, just call Zhu'er."
"Okay." Ji Wushang uttered a sound, got off the bed, walked to the dressing table, and looked at herself in the mirror. There were some bloodstains on her neck. Ji Wushang wiped them with a damp silk handkerchief and applied medicine, hoping it would heal within the next two days. Otherwise, she didn't know what Nan Xuzong would think if he saw it...
Ji Wushang sighed, looking at the teeth marks on his shoulder. That damned guy! He applied some medicine, hoping it would fade quickly.
She took out several more medicine bottles from the cabinet and placed them one by one in front of the dressing table. She poured out the pills from the small bottle that Yiyun Shangcheng had just given her, put them in another small dish, and carefully analyzed their ingredients...
That very night, he took out several more books from his desk and began studying pharmacology.
There's not enough time, we can't waste any!
Ji Wushang tried his best to put what had just happened out of his mind, hoping that he could do something for them.
Standing atop the high-rise building, Yi Yun Shangcheng's crimson eyes were deep and unfathomable, a slight smile playing on his lips. "I, Yi Yun Shangcheng, will not easily give up on anything. Moreover, I mean what I say!"
Looking out the window, Yiyun Shangcheng felt as if the person was right in front of her.
He gazed for a long time, letting the wind tousle his dark hair and his slightly wild black robe. Yi Yun Shangcheng's eyes flickered. "Ji Wushang...hate me!"
...
Nan Xuzong remained seated in his wheelchair, gazing at the stars outside the window. Night had fallen, yet he had not gone to sleep. He wondered how she was doing. Without him by her side, was she managing things with ease? Was she being bullied? Was she being harassed? He had a hundred worries every day, but all of them were about her.
At that moment, hearing footsteps, Nan Xuzong turned his wheelchair around and looked at the person approaching.
Bei Gong Jue Shi's handsome face met Nan Xu Cong's dark eyes with his heterochromatic pupils. "Missing her?"
"You know?" Nan Xuzong smiled. "I don't know how she is now."
“You and my brother are alike; you always like to look at the moonlight. But the moon hasn't actually come out of the clouds, yet you keep watching—it's all in vain.” Beigong Jueshi stood at the window, also looking at the moonlight outside. “There's no moon at all!”
“This moonlight has astronomical and geographical implications, which you don’t quite understand.” Nan Xuzong turned his head to look at the night sky, where the stars were sparse. “The unusual celestial phenomena suggest something is wrong… I’m worried about her.”
"Can we hide? Or is there any way to resolve this?" Bei Gong Jue Shi pursed his lips. "Oh, I almost forgot, I am extremely grateful to Prince Nan for saving me."
"No need to be so polite?" Nan Xuzong smiled. "The solution lies with you, with me, and with him." He paused, then added, "And with him as well."
"Him? You mean the King of the Western Regions?" Bei Gong Jue Shi looked at Nan Xu Cong.
"Hmm. You are a demon, he is a demon, and I might be a demon." Nan Xuzong's gaze drifted towards the horizon.
"I don't understand." Bei Gong Jue Shi's eyes flickered. "Just because I have heterochromatic eyes, does that make me a demon? Heh!"
"You'll understand later. Tell them what you need to tell them, and live each day as if it were your last. Then you won't have any regrets." Nan Xuzong glanced inside. "The fact that the princess is sleeping without dreams means the poison is gradually dissipating. Fortunately, the princess was originally immune to all poisons, so this poison hasn't left any damage on her body."
What did you mean by what you said earlier?
"At any time, the King of the Western Regions could launch an attack on the Great Xia Zhou Dynasty and seize the world. When that happens, which side will you be on?" Nan Xuzong met his gaze.
Bei Gong Jue Shi was taken aback. He turned his head, glanced at the people inside, and then looked at Nan Xu Cong. "I choose to take her away."
"What a dashing person you are! I'm sure Master Taibai will be pleased to hear what you just said!"
"My master?" Bei Gong Jue Shi smiled slightly. "I will try my best to make him happy."