"Only you, only you..."

He murmured, repeating these words like a curse, but he felt confused when he heard me.?

just me?

What's the only one?

I didn't understand, and I didn't want to understand at this time. I just struggled and whispered: "Your Majesty, please let go of my minister first."

He didn't speak, but his arms were getting harder and harder. His body, which was already tightly attached, was tightly wrapped by him, almost melting the two of them together. I just felt that it was so suffocating that it was hard to get over it. Subconsciously, I was about to pry open his hand: "Let me go..."

At this moment, I was almost a little embarrassed and angry, but he didn't let go at all, nor was he angry because of my struggle. He still hugged him hard, and the hotter the breath blew across his ears and cheeks, and finally he felt a warm and soft hot feeling touching up.

It was his cheek, which touched mine.

I seemed to be burned and struggled hard without hesitation. As soon as I moved, I heard his low voice silence in my ears: "Don't move."

“…”

This voice had a feeling of depression. While struggling, I also felt the depressing heat in his body, and I suddenly felt the whole body stiff.

"I know, your health is not very good."

“…”

"So, I just hug you like this. Don't move."

“…”

Although I was unwilling to do so, I really didn't dare to move when I heard him say this.

No matter how reluctant I am, I still know his and my identities very well, and I know more clearly how many people's life and death are in his hands. If there is no belief in dying, don't challenge his majesty in the red wall that almost stretches to the horizon.

Thinking of this, I gritted my teeth, stopped moving, and stood there stiffly, allowing him to hug me tightly.

The posture at this moment was extremely ambiguous. I fell into his arms, my cheeks pressed against each other, my breathing tangled, and even the black hairs scattered on my shoulders were wrapped around because of the struggle just now.

A gust of wind blew up and the chill came. I subconsciously shivered, and felt that the powerful arms wrapped me tighter in my arms.

Then, his voice rang in his ears—

"My imperial edict has gone south."

I thought he wanted to say something else, but I didn't expect him to bring up the imperial edict and the south.

Although I stayed quietly these days and didn't go to inquire about the affairs in the court, Chang Qing would still reveal it to me more or less. On the fourth day after I returned from the Dulaiguan, there was an imperial edict in the imperial study room.

That imperial edict was declared forbidden.

Although the six provinces in Jiangnan have broken away from the jurisdiction of the imperial court, they are still under the rule of the Celestial Empire. Overseas merchant ships docked in the southern Gonggang have left the shore, and some other merchant ships have also been forced to turn away.

Of course, this cannot prevent them from "privately giving and receiving", and ironware transactions have never been made public.

I heard that half a month ago, he had another decree to transfer Zhoushan Navy to him. This time, he completely cut off the ties between the southern forces and overseas forces.

In this way, although the situation is not completely reversed, at least he is not so passive.

"If they cut off their weapons, everything will be much easier."

I said calmly: "Congratulations to the Emperor."

His hands tightened a little longer and hugged me deeply in his arms. I felt that my body was impacted by the cold air around me and the heat of his body. It was almost stiff and almost unconscious. Suddenly I heard him slowly say in my ear: "There is another thing, you and I will be happy."

My heart beat.

He and I will be happy...?

Could it be-

I trembled slightly and wanted to look back at him, but I was hugged hard by him and didn't even have any room to move. I spoke, and my voice was trembling: "You mean-"

"Li Er."

Suddenly, it seemed like a thunder blew up in my mind, and for a moment everything was blank and nothing was left.

Back and forth, only those two words echoed in my mind.

Li Er...

Li Er...

I suddenly turned around in his arms, looked at him with wide eyes, and grabbed his clothes with both hands: "What did you say? Li'er?!"

"Yes," he slid down his hands and hugged my waist, as if he felt me ​​trembling unconsciously, trembling so hard that I was almost about to break. He pulled me toward him with a little force, but at this time I could not feel anything, and my whole body and mind were all placed on Li'er. Seeing him bent his eyes slightly, he said to me: "The people I sent have already obtained some clues about her."

"Are you telling the truth? She, she is still alive? Where is she? Is she doing well? She—"

I was completely confused and said incoherently, but I didn't even know what I was going to say. But when I was unconscious, I suddenly felt a hot and hot heat on my face.

Tears came out of my eyes.

I have been so happy for a long time, so happy that I cried and laughed, and I couldn't control myself at all, and I didn't even care who I was facing. What would happen if I smiled in front of him, and what would happen if I cried happily.

My Li'er, my Li'er!

Looking at me like this, a smile appeared on his face, which was originally calm and smiling. He raised his hands to hold my cheeks, wiped the tears on my face with his fingers with a slightly rough calluse, trying to save the flooding, but after a few times, he gave up, and sighed lightly and lowered his head.

When the warm lips were printed on my cheeks, I repeatedly rubbed and ironed them, which brought a hotter temperature. I was stunned and opened my eyes wide in surprise. I felt his lips slowly moving to the corner of my lips. The tip of my tongue with a salty taste slightly raised and invaded my mouth.

"No--"

I suddenly realized that my hand that was holding his clothes was about to push it away, but it was too late. He said nothing, pinched my chin and lifted it up, and kissed it heavily.

“Hmm——!”

I shrank in pain.

I don’t know if it was because of happiness or the vague anger before that made him unable to control his strength. His jaw was pinched a little painful, and his tongue broke in and stirred it in my mouth, almost rudely entangled my tongue.

Too long...it's not like this for too long...

Not only was the pain, but the uneasiness that followed made me tremble. I struggled almost dyingly and finally successfully pushed him away.

"don't want!"

He took two steps back unexpectedly, kicked over the brazier beside him, and charcoal fire suddenly scattered all over the ground, an unpleasant smell filled the whole room, and the ashes burned before also floated and filled the eyes of the two people.

Because I tried too hard, I took two steps back and hit the window frame, breathing slightly.

A dangerous aura emanated from his body.

I looked at him nervously, afraid that he would slap him next moment, but after standing for a while, he did not, nor even the rage he imagined. He just turned his head and looked at the charcoal fire on the ground. Some of them had already burned to the corners of his clothes, and a bad smell of burnt smell came out.

The corners of his mouth curled slightly, and turned his head to look at me.

"It's because I'm not good."

“…”

"I said, I just hug you, but I forgot that your health has not been completely healed."

“…”

"I don't blame you."

I couldn't speak for a moment, and just looked at him with nervous eyes.

He was not angry, maybe it was good, but at this time it only made me even more panicked, because I didn’t know whether the reason behind his anger was that Li’er’s clue made him happy or that there were reasons that could suppress his anger.

He still curled his lips slightly and walked up slowly, without avoiding the charcoal fire on the ground. The creaking sound made me more uneasy, until he walked up to me and looked down at me: "In a few days, the national funeral of the Empress Dowager will be held in Taimiao. You, go with me."

“…”

The Queen Mother's, the country's mourning.

Of course I didn't forget it. Even day by day, it has been more than half a year since the Tian Dynasty put the shelves on fasting and vegetarianism. In fact, the empress dowager had been buried in the imperial tomb since he returned to the court. This time it was a state ceremony, so it was naturally a huge momentum, which was different from other people.

The meaning in my eyes is different.

but--

Of course I will go to the Queen Mother’s national funeral, and he doesn’t even need to remind everyone that the Queen Mother was so friendly with me during her lifetime, and I was with her side before she died. Why did Pei Yuanhao say this specifically at this time?

My anxiety became more and more intense, and I just looked at him tremblingly.

There was still a faint smile on his face: "Li'er already has clues, and I will find her sooner or later. So you - don't think about anything else."

“…”

"I'm afraid you'll think too much, so I'll remove all the people you arranged."

“…!”

My heart suddenly sank.

"What did you say?"

The coolness of the autumn wind suddenly turned into chill, blowing from behind, and in an instant, almost frozen all the blood in my body into ice. I couldn't move, and almost lost my heartbeat. I suffocatedly looking at the face in front of me that always smiled faintly, but I couldn't see a smile from those deep and dark eyes.

He pulled out all my people...

He has already appeared.

In fact, after falling off the cliff in Juma River Valley, although Qinghan and I were determined to escape, we were not so naive that we were sure to escape from his clutches, so before we climbed the valley, we had already made an agreement with him.

Once I was captured by Pei Yuanhao and returned to the palace, I had almost zero chance of escaping. Even when I went out of the palace and came to the hall, I was closely monitored, let alone other times.

The only opportunity is the national mourning of the Queen Mother.

My relationship with the Queen Mother is deep, and I believe he will definitely let me go to Taimiao. Only then is the time when I can escape. So these days, I have been living in simplicity and dare not even take action on things about Nianyun, just because I am afraid that I will fail.

But I didn't expect that it was...

He still saw through it.

He reached out his hand and carefully held up my chin. His movements were very soft, almost pitying.

But it's completely not the case.

He looked down at me, and his dark pupils were full of a pale body that seemed to have lost his soul: "Qingying, do you still remember what I said?"

“…”

"At the time in Shangyang Palace, there were many scheming women, but you were the only one who dared to be scheming at me."

“…”

"I will not let go of anyone who is scheming with me, and you are the only one who stays."

“…”

"Because--" He paused, grinded his teeth, and said slowly: "You are the only woman who moved me."

I could not hear anything, and I opened my eyes wide open. Looking at his face that was close to me, the charcoal seemed to burn the corner of my clothes, almost burning my ankles. I no longer felt anything, and I just looked at him so weakly.

"So, don't challenge my bottom line again."

“…”

"After the national mourning, I will enthrone you."
Chapter completed!