The Blessed

"How could I not understand what you're saying?"

Shoulders collapsed, Zeng Shaoqing lowered his eyelids and continued to say in a muffled voice, " 20 years ago when I was five years old, I accidentally broke into Chu family. The moment I saw him, I said to myself, I would marry him as my wife. Anyhow, I got five elder brothers to. The job of carrying on the family line would never fall over my head. So as long as I could marry him, I swore that I would be a good kid of my parents. I was really thinking it that way at the time. If It hadn’t been that you brought me to make trouble everywhere and let me be the scapegoat, my fame wouldn’t have become so bad. But before I grew up, he put on the wedding gown and married my cousin the crown prince. But I still remembered clearly, I was eight years old that year. No one knew, for that, I went before my cousin to protest, but my cousin only took my words as some kid’s babble. And then, my cousin succeeded the throne, and he became the empress. I needed to ask my mother to ask for the permission when I wanted to see him. One time, two times, and it was still OK. But gradually, my mother also no longer helped me. So I could only bust a gut to make myself strong and have the ability to enter the imperial palace freely. The sarcastic thing was, six years ago, he got abolished. The one I love but couldn’t get, my cousin abandoned him like a pair of worn shoes. How could he do that to him? If it hadn’t been the Chu family, how could he have claimed the throne? After knowing that he had run out of the palace, I felt both lucky and worried. As long as there was a slice of hope, given his gentle personality, how would he have run away? So, at the time I was thinking that if I could find him some day, I would hide him, so no one could find him forever, especially my cousin. But now I have to send him back myself. Shengrui, do you know how I feel in my heart? It feels like someone cutting my heart with a knife. It’s killing me!”

In the end, the almighty Zeng Shaoqing even dropped tears. If the heart could bleed, his heart should have already flown like a river.

If he said he was not touched at all, that was definitely lying. After staring him for quite a while, Yan Shengrui put down the cup, sat over and pinched his shoulder, “Don’t worry. I promise you. My imperial elder brother would never have a chance to touch him. Some day, I will let you get what you want.”

Definitely! He swore in his name that some day he would help him get his love back under the daylight!

Zeng Shaoqing nodded silently, closed his eyes heartbrokenly. How would he not know the only way out for Yunhan and Seven(Qi) was going back. Not only for the Qing Kingdom, but also for themselves. Only if Seven or Shengrui seized the throne would they survive. Otherwise, they’d be found sooner or later. And death would be their only end.

The abolished empress and the imperial legitimate son, only the two titles were enough to send them to hell.

On the other side, Ling Jingxuan brought Chu Yunhan and his son into his work room. Of course, before that, he had already specially warned them what they shouldn’t touch. Any unimpressive little item in it might be deadly poisonous. Chu Yunhan and his son who came here for the first time started to look around out of curiosity. Except that wood chair in the innermost, it was all long tables made of stones. Each table was placed with all kinds of herbs and china bottles, and even a lot of jars and pots with water in, in inside of which were soaked with all kinds of medicinal herbs. The only things they could recognize were that giant ginseng and a pair of odd Ganoderma lucidum, one was red while the other was green.

"Yan’er, I’m afraid this trip would be dangerous. Although your imperial uncle could arrange people to protect you in the dark, I always think the best way to protect yourself is to make yourself strong. Those are all kinds of poison and antidote I worked out. Each bottle is pasted with the application method and its use, etc.. Both of you can choose two of them and take them with you. If meeting some bad people, don’t show mercy, and directly kill them. No one isn’t selfish. Don’t feel guilty or what by killing them. If they don’t take the initiative to try to kill you, you also wouldn’t fight back. And this red china bottle, I call it antidote pills for now. As long as it’s not some kind of long-lost poison, they could detoxify it. You can also keep it with you, just in case. I only have one bottle. So, remember to spare some for your father.”

"Thank you, Uncle Ling. No, I should call you imperial aunt-in-law. Thank you, imperial aunt-in-law.”

Holding those things, Yan Xiaoming couldn’t help having his eyes filled with tears. He had never expected that instead of blaming them for hiding it from him, he actually prepared those things for him. And with those things, he would be safe.

"Silly child, why say thank you? You can only use those things on those who bully you or those you plan to deal with. Facing others’ craftiness and all kinds of setups and schemes, or even your imperial father’s blame, you can only solve it on your own. This is all I can do for you. Oh right, I nearly forgot this.”

In the middle of his words, Ling Jingxuan thought of something and turned back to the back of the specially-made stone table to take out a few bulging leather bags, "The water inside is specially made. Every time, add a little in the water you drink, it’d help building your body, and when practicing martial arts, you’d get twofold results with half the effort. This is all I got. You take it. Later, I will let someone send you more after you go back.”