I looked at him without speaking.

"Or, you and I have nothing to say anymore?"

After hearing his words, I stood up and knelt down to him and said, "A common woman pays homage to the emperor. Long live the emperor."

After saying that, he kowtowed.

Pei Yuanhao sat there, squinting his eyes slightly, watching me kowtow and then stand up. After a while, he slowly said in a low voice: "I understand what you mean. Only with the emperor can you say this.

By the way, you have nothing to say to me, right?"

I lowered my head and didn't speak.

He looked at me, and after a while, he said, "Do you still hate me?"

"Don't dare."

"Don't you dare?" He stood up slowly and walked in front of me. Although I didn't dare to raise my head, I could still feel his eyes looking at me intently. That kind of concentration made people slightly frightened, and he

His breath, heavy and long, blew on my face, as if a hand was brushing against it: "Are you really afraid? Or not?"

"...!"

Although I was shocked, I was not too surprised. He was still able to see through the deepest parts of people's hearts just like before. In front of him, everything about me seemed to be invisible.

At this time, I simply let go and slowly raised my head to look at him: "No."

He seemed a little surprised when he heard these two words.

After a moment of shock, he calmed down. His dark eyes seemed to be flickering with an uncertain light due to the flickering candlelight. After looking at me for a long time, he slowly stretched out his hand, his palm exuding a scorching temperature, and caressed me.

To my face.

As soon as I felt his body temperature on my cold cheek, my whole body felt like I had been pricked by needles, and I quickly took a step back to avoid his touch.

His hand was frozen there.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me."

The hand stopped in the air. I don't know whether it was because it was too cold or for other reasons. The fingers were trembling slightly, and even the joints were turning white. After a while, he slowly said: "You still hate me.

?"

"..."

"You hate me for putting you in jail? Or you hate me for not caring about your life or death, or -" He glanced at me, and something strange flashed in his eyes: "Are you still jealous of her?"

She——of course is Nangong Lizhu.

It turns out that he thought I was jealous of Nangong Lizhu.

Thinking of this, I didn't know why it was funny, but of course I didn't really smile on my face. I lowered my head and said softly: "I was born in this world, and no one has betrayed me, and I have never betrayed anyone."

, how can you say you are jealous?"

After saying these words, the room suddenly became quiet, even the sound of wind disappeared, and his breathing was so clear and sounded so heavy in his ears, rising and falling, as if he was suppressing something.

In fact, my fingers hidden in my sleeves were trembling more than his.

It would be a lie to say that I am not afraid. I have been afraid since he appeared. I was so afraid that it was so difficult to breathe, and every heartbeat hurt. Although he did not get angry as soon as he saw me as I expected, Put me in jail and torture me, or take crazy revenge on Liu Saner, but the more this happens, the more afraid I am.

His moodiness has never been predictable. I don’t even know what undercurrents are hidden behind his calmness, so I say every word carefully because I don’t know which sentence or word will anger him.< /p>

And now, I can no longer afford to lose.

At this time, he suddenly smiled.

It was like a ray of sunshine suddenly cast on the ice, the chill disappeared, and his stern face gained some warmth. He sat back again, pointed to the chair opposite and said to me: "Sit."

I sat down obediently.

"No one has betrayed me, and I have never betrayed anyone." He said, raising his head and looking at me: "I just didn't expect that you actually married a fisherman. At first, I thought that you said It’s just a joke.”

Finally, we have to talk about this matter.

My face changed slightly, and I couldn't help but recall what Yu'er and I said that night before leaving the palace. It was just a joke, but I didn't expect that it became a maxim.

And he still remembers it to this day.

I looked at him with some trembling.

"Is he good to you?"

"...Okay."

"How good?"

"Very..." I thought for a while and said, "Very good."

"So, you like him very much."

"..." I glanced at him and didn't dare to speak.

He raised the wine glass and put it under his nose and smelled it. Perhaps because of the aroma of the wine, he raised the corners of his mouth slightly, revealing a curve that seemed like a smile, and said: "Not only you, but I also like him. It's rare. He is such a motivated person, he is not a echo of what others say, and he still has some brains. It is a pity that he did not read many books, otherwise, he would still have accomplished something."

I was careful about what he said before, but this sentence was really unexpected. I raised my head and looked at him in astonishment, and saw him smiling faintly, without any cold attitude or joking expression. Come on, I also heard Liu San'er say that the two of them can talk, and he has never praised someone like this.

Thinking of this, my heart relaxed slightly: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for the compliment."

"Is it because of him?"

This sentence came out of the blue, and the expression on my face suddenly froze. I raised my head in shock. Pei Yuanhao had already finished a glass of wine. He held the glass in his hand, looked at me, and said slowly: "It's because of him." , you don’t even hate anymore?”

I suddenly felt nervous again.

I didn't know why he asked that, but it involved Liu San'er, so I had to answer every word carefully, so I hurriedly said: "No."

"Oh? Not because of him? Why?"

"..."

"Since when did you stop even hating?"

Since when...

When...

I don’t know why, but when I heard this sentence, I was in a daze. The past came flooding back like a tide. I looked at myself standing on the bow of the boat, just like now, looking at him. Everything in the world was like flowing clouds. Everything seemed like yesterday.

, but the mood is different.

I said softly: "When the civilian woman jumped off the boat."

He was suddenly startled, as if he had been shocked by something, and suddenly opened his eyes wide and looked at me.

"At that time, the civilian woman had already figured it out."

"What have you figured out?"

Recalling that time, I stood on the bow of the boat and showed him the calmest smile. My state of mind at that time, I said softly: "Everyone has his own shackles. Maybe it's asking for nothing, maybe it's love."

But no. No matter how powerful a person is, how noble his status is, or how careful his thoughts are, he is just a pitiful person in front of his feelings."

At that time, when I watched him let Nangong Lizhu go, everything became clear.

He was not even willing to hurt her at all. There was no punishment, no imprisonment, no means to make her surrender, and he did not even force her to stay. Just because that person was Nangong Lizhu, so he let her go and let her go back to the person she loved.

Only those who have given their sincerity will understand this kind of mood.

He is just a poor man.

It's the same with me, Nangong Lizhu, and even Pei Yuanchen. No one can escape from the face of feelings. No matter whether he is scarred or crying, all he wants is to stay with the one he loves.

, that’s all.

From that moment on, I no longer hated it.

I no longer hate the slap he gave me for Nangong Lizhu, I no longer hate him for putting me in jail, and I don’t even hate the torture that made my life worse than death, because I have seen everything clearly and understood everything.

At this time, I looked up at Pei Yuanhao, only to find that there was an almost irrepressible anger on his face. His eyes were bloodshot and red, and he was staring at the wine glass in his hand, as if he wanted to see the wine glass.

Make a hole.

Maybe, he thought of Nangong Lizhu again.

That woman was, after all, a gap in his heart that could not be filled, an eternal wound.

At this time, I didn't dare to speak anymore and could only sit quietly, but he slowly moved his eyes to my face. I don't know why, maybe because his eyes were red and it felt like staring at someone.

It is a dormant beast that wants to devour people. Even the voice it speaks has a strange hoarseness, as if it is suppressing something severely.

"So, you plan to follow him?"

"..."

"Really?"

"..."

I gritted my teeth and finally stood up and knelt down to him: "Please, Your Majesty, grant me your permission!"

I know very well that if he wants to do anything to me and Liu San'er, it's just a word. He can make me and anyone he wants to punish live worse than death without paying any price at all. I have nothing to do with him.

As a bargaining chip, I only hope that he can give me a little mercy, a little compassion, and a way to survive.
To be continued...