Chapter 236: I was wrong. I was really wrong.

Inside the clerical room, a few oil lamps illuminated a desk with rows of bookshelves next to it.

Crown Prince Zhu Hailin sat alone at the table, undoing the ties of the dossier and scrutinizing it, with quite a number of dossiers and accounts that he had already read piled up by his hand.

Thunderstorm outside the tightly closed doors and windows. There was no wind indoors, and the flame of the oil lamp suddenly fluttered a few times, gradually turning into a weird ghostly green color ……

“Snap.”

“Snap, Snap ……”

It was as if the sound of rain dripping on a wooden floor resounded in the quiet, airtight chamber.

Zhu Hailin’s heart flinched as he looked back around, only to see wooden boxes piled up in the corners of the walls, bookshelves hibernating in the darkness, and the chamber empty.

“Snap!”

The sound was loud and clear at his side. He turned his head to look beside the seat, and at some point there was a dark red, sticky mass of blood on the floor.

He jerked his head up, the beams were also empty, where did the blood come from?

“Who’s playing God? Come out!” Zhu Helin immediately leapt up, sheathing his sword at his waist.

His movement brought up a light breeze, and the lamp flame swayed even more.

A “plop” sound in the ear, like a dull thunder, followed by a splash of water, the sound of people struggling in the water ……

Obviously, it was a dark room with no one in it, why would there be all sorts of strange sounds and visions? Zhu Hailin breathed a little sharply and shouted, “Someone come!”

A portion of the Eastern Palace guards were guarding the door of the Clerical Room, and it was reasonable to say that they would immediately break down the door when they heard his call. But when he gave this order, there was not the slightest reaction at the door.

“…… Injustice ah! His Highness the Prince forced to kill me, I’m unjust ah ……” The man’s voice ghost cried as if floating vaguely in the chamber, accompanied by the more and more intense sound of lapping water and gurgling bubbling sound.

Zhu Hailin suddenly remembered the officer of the Yi Shan Bureau who had thrown himself into a well.

What is this, a ghost still haunting him? Zhu Helin calmed down. He grew up with a strong courage, the attitude towards ghosts and gods, unlike ordinary people like fear, not like the King of Yu that because of the lack of faith and scorn, but a kind of “to come then come, I am all cleaned up,” the courage of the blood of the brazen.

He struck the ground twice with the tip of his sword and said in a deep voice, “Either show yourself and give my lord a clear explanation; or split you up in smoke and save you even from reincarnation, choose for yourself!”

As soon as the words fell, the room suddenly quieted down, and there was no more sound.

Coward! Before Zhu Hailin could utter a mutter, the light flame abruptly went out. In the thick ink like darkness emerged one pair of eyes after another pair of scarlet like blood ……

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When Su Yan rushed to the paperwork storehouse, he saw that the guards guarding the door had fallen across the floor.

The accompanying Wei Commander was alarmed and shouted, “Something’s wrong, quickly escort the driver!”

A group of weapon-wielding Eastern Palace guards kicked open the door of the room and poured into the chamber.

Su Yan also wanted to follow and rush in, but was stopped by the Yu Wangfu guards behind him. The guard said, “His Majesty has ordered me to protect Lord Su’s safety, the situation inside is not clear, please stay here and leave the escorting to the East Palace guards.”

Su Yan was so worried and anxious at the moment that he couldn’t care less about King Yu’s goodwill, and forcefully broke the guard’s hand that was blocking the way, “The Crown Prince’s safety is more important than me! You guys don’t just focus on me, hurry in and help.”

The guards insisted, “His Highness King Yu’s orders are military orders, military orders are like mountains, I hope you’ll forgive me.”

Su Yan was so anxious that he wanted to jump to his feet, “Then you divide half of your manpower to protect me, and the other half go in to help, okay?”

As he spoke, a loud shout from Commander Wei came from inside the house, “There are assassins! Take them down and protect the young master!”

“Go!” Su Yan urged, “In case something happens to Little Master, your Highness King Yu will be charged with failing to protect the driver, and you won’t be able to take the blame!”

These words touched the guards of the Yu Wang Mansion, and after a slight hesitation, the head leader obeyed Su Yan’s order to bring half of his men inside for support.

The remaining royal guards wanted to protect Su Yan to withdraw, Su Yan refused to leave, listening to the banging and fighting inside the house, so nervous that his fingers were gripping his cloak.

With a loud rumble, the window suddenly cracked and several figures crashed out of the house, rolling a few times on the mud-covered ground, getting up and continuing the fight.

Through the lightning that illuminated the sky, Su Yan glimpsed one of the black-robed men, with scarlet eyes showing above the masked black scarf, and immediately warned in a loud voice, “It’s the blood-pupil assassins of the Seven Slaughter Battalion, don’t meet their eyes, beware of the mesmerizing technique!”

That head of the guards from the Yu Wang Mansion rushed out of the room and said to Su Yan, “Why is Your Excellency still here? Hurry up!”

Su Yan grabbed him and asked, “How is Little Master?”

The leader replied, “When I went in, the East Palace guards were already fighting with those black-clad assassins. The young master also held a sword to kill, just look a little wrong, not distinguish between enemy and self to see people cut, cut several guards, crazy like.”

Su Yan was alarmed, “This is hit by the nightmare charm of the blood pupil assassin’s art, and the consciousness is caught in the ecstasy realm. Little master is in danger, not only to prevent him from hurting people, but also to prevent him from hurting himself, can you think of a way …… to knock him out, to knock out, and then tied up.”

“My humble servant tries.”

The leader was about to turn around and enter the house when a sword light broke through the door, smashing the entire row of four paneled sectional doors to smithereens, splattering wood shavings in all directions.

Su Yan raised his sleeve to cover up, his feet took a few steps back, inadvertently stepped on the edge of the steps, and with a cry of surprise, he lost his balance and fell backward.

The clustered guards instantly tugged at him, not letting him roll down the steps.

In front of the shattered fan door, Zhu He Lin held a blood-stained long sword, his face full of berserk color like he was shaken by the shout, his eyes blankly looking in Su Yan’s direction.

Su Yan grabbed the guard’s arm to stand still, caught his breath, and called out, “Little Master!”

Zhu Hailin opened his mouth as if he wanted to respond, but he couldn’t make a sound.

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“Little master ay. The matter is settled, so why do you have to resist the decree and offend the Emperor?”

Zhu Hailin slightly lifted his sagging head and opened his heavy eyelids, a pair of leather boots worn by the attendant and the cloud python pattern on the hem of his robe came into view.

“Great Companion ……” he opened and closed his dry cracked lips, and his hands tugged at the chains on both sides of the torture rack with a clattering crunch, “I’m not willing, I’m really not willing… …”

Lan Xi flung his duster: ”What can you do if you are willing or not? A ruler is before his father and a subject is before his son. Little master, you listen to the slave girl a word of advice, to the emperor lowered his head to admit a sin, and then properly offer a congratulatory gift – the big day, the emperor no matter how will also look at the face of Princess Su, pardon you offended the charge of the crime ……”

Zhu Helin raised his head violently and glared angrily, ”He’s not any Princess Su! He is Su Yan Su Qinghe! How can a scholar and court official use a man as a woman, fill the harem, and spend his days competing for favor with the concubines who flaunt their heads? Ridiculous! Ridiculous! Father is really old and confused, or do you want to follow the path of Xia Jie and Shang Zhou, and become a famous emperor in history?”

Lan Xi was so angry that she stomped her feet: ”Little master, being so stubborn is only bad for you! The emperor has already put out the word that it is better to have a son who is unfilial than none at all, do you really want to be stubborn to the end and throw away the throne and your own life? Besides, Concubine Su may not accept your love.”

Zhu Hailin was stunned: ”He …… he volunteered? No, that’s impossible! I don’t believe it!”

“Whether it is possible or not, that would have to be seen with my own eyes to know. But you are now in this state, the imperial master one day does not get rid of the anger, you can not see the sky one day, how can you still see him?” Lan Xi sighed, “The first Empress is merciful, there is a favor to the slave girl, the slave girl is also in her face, only specially personally run this trip, the last time to persuade the little master. If you are bent on having your own way, there is nothing you can do about it. The only thing is that in the future, who will live and who will die, who will be honored and who will fall, and who will be in charge of the East Palace, it will have nothing to do with the little master.”

Zhu Hailin clenched his fists, tugging on the chains with a clatter, and biting his teeth to the point that his mouth was filled with the taste of rust. “No, I can’t stay locked up in this dungeon for the rest of my life ……” he muttered, “I have to get out ……”

Not only to get out, but to take back everything that is theirs.

“Zhu Helin, you have no choice now, much less a way back. Some words, do not wait for you to climb to the peak road: “This day I really waited too long, has waited until the heart like ashes. Even if I let me back to the court, where there is still standing position, adding to the shame of others just. Little master …… not, the emperor if still care about the old days of a little old love, just allow me to remove the hairpin, take off the female skirt, let me out of the palace to go to the life of ordinary people it!”

Zhu Hailin’s fingers clasped Su Yan’s shoulders, engulfed by the fear of total loss.

At this moment he suddenly understood his father, after he had likewise possessed supreme power.

A thought of life and death, a thought of gain and loss, the whole country and the billions of living beings in the hands, how can not keep the people in the arms?

After a lifetime of being tied to a golden cage and burdened with this heavy responsibility, how can he still not get what he wants, or have to restrain himself, condescend to himself, and cut off the flesh of his heart in exchange for a reputation in history?

Why can everyone have selfishness, but not him? Whether he is a wise ruler or a foolish one, he cares nothing, but only seeks one person.

“What foolish words to say.” Zhu Helin softly said, “Years ago, I said that you are the one who will stand by my side.”

The last bit of light under Su Fei’s eyes went out. After a moment of silence, he asked, “Then can I still change and dress?”

“Of course, you can dress up however you want. If you want to go back to the court, or live in the harem, it’s all at your disposal.”

Princess Su calmly thanked the grace and turned to the inner hall to freshen up and change her clothes.

Zhu Hailin sat patiently in his chair and waited, waiting for his green-clothed scholar to return to the front once again, as he did on the day they first met.

He waited for a corpse whose throat had been slit with a sharpened half of a wattled board. There was also a suicide note with only four words in blood:

Never lose sight of each other.

“I am genuinely doing this for your own good, wanting to see you grow up and mature, strive for excellence, and in the future ascend the throne and succeed to the throne, protect the people of the borderlands, and create a prosperous world where all the nations will come to the throne.”

“Since I chose to board this ship, Your Highness the Crown Prince, I will use my meager strength to cut through the waves for you. Of course, it is also so that I can rely on the blessings of this ship and not suffer from wind, rain, thunder and lightning.”

“Qinghe, you and I hereby promise to never fail each other!”

In an instant, thousands of memories from when he was a teenager swept over him, crushing him under the heavy waves of anger and unable to move. Zhu Helin screamed, agonized and desperate: “I was wrong! Qinghe, Qinghe! I was wrong, forgive me!”

He hugged the corpse and shook it, “You get up and curse me! Take the ruler and beat me! I will change, really …… It’s not the first time I’ve made a mistake. In the past, you were willing to persuade me and scold me, why can’t you do it this time? Is it because I’ve become the emperor? Then I don’t want to be, you get up, get up and say to me – ‘Go and do what needs to be done!’ Say it!”

No one will ever say that to him again.

Zhu Hailin can’t figure out why this is the case. Between people, the beginning is always hot, close, hate to pull out the heart to prove that this sincere and sincere, and then experienced a variety of various twists and turns, hot become cold, close become distant, sincere into the words, sincere into the pros and cons of the trade-offs. Does time really change everything?

“Let’s go back.” He murmured to the cold corpse in his arms, “Go back to when you were a teenager, I’ll call you ‘Qinghe’ and you’ll call me ‘Little Master’ again …… “

How can we turn back from the dead? He looked toward the half-polished, sharp-edged wattles that Su Yan had pinched in his hands.

–

“–Master!”

As if a thunderclap had exploded in his ears, the violent impact caused Zhu Hailin to stumble a few steps, and his hand holding the sword was clutched in a death grip.

He opened his eyes as if yanked out of an extremely deep and depressing nightmare, sweating and gasping for breath.

In front of him was Su Yan’s rain-soaked, young and translucent face.

Zhu Helin shouted without thinking, “Qinghe, I’m wrong, I’m really wrong, I’m wrong, you can scold me and beat me, just don’t think about it, I’ll listen to you in everything from now on, you believe me!” Fearing interruption and rejection, he spewed out his heart until he was hoarse.

Suyan: “……”

Is this kid stupid?

The surrounding cadre of guards: “……”

We didn’t hear anything.

Su Yan coughed dryly, “Little master, are you alright?”

Zhu Hailin was stunned for a long time, “What happened to me?”

Su Yan touched his forehead with the back of his hand and scrutinized his face, seeing that his eyes gradually became clear, he sighed in relief: “It’s alright. Just now, you should have been hit by the nightmare charm technique and fallen into the realm of lost souls. Vertigo realm is a bizarre and strange place, as if it is another period of twisted and disorganized life, if the consciousness is deeply trapped in it, it will hurt people and self-injury.”

“Vertigo …… realm?”

Su Yan nodded, “Onlookers can’t help. One must be able to break through by oneself, and the consciousness will be able to break free.”

Zhu Hailin was a bit confused, frowning in contemplation, then said with certainty, “It was Qinghe who dragged me out.”

Su Yan said, “It doesn’t matter who it is, it’s good that little master is fine.”

Zhu Hailin threw his sword away and hugged him hard in front of the guards.

The surrounding cadre of guards: “……”

We didn’t see anything.

Thunder once again broke through the rainy night, illuminating the black-clothed assassins and guards in the midst of the killing and fighting, and Zhu Hailin’s eyes skimmed over Su Yan’s sideburns to see a masked, red-robed man standing on the top of the enclosure at some point.

He whispered in Su Yan’s ear, “I saw the Seven Slaughter Battalion Master.”

Su Yan grasped his arm and huffed slightly, “That guy has excellent martial arts skills, even Ah Chui can’t beat him. I’m afraid that all the guards present combined are not his match.”

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