I walked over step by step with the box. This journey was not long, but it was more difficult than ever before. It seemed that the box of pills in my hand weighed a thousand pounds, which made me almost unable to breathe. Every step could drag me down.

But, the road is still at the end.

I finally walked down the steps and looked up at the closed door in front of me. There were many sounds coming from inside, the sound of the palace maids running back and forth, the sound of the imperial physician trembling and clamoring water, but I felt a strange silence, or silence. Although there were so many sounds, nothing could be heard clearly, and my ears were whirring like blood was rushing wildly.

Only that person's breathing penetrated the doors and windows, and together, it all rang clearly in my ears.

I bit my lower lip tightly and heard the anxious voice of the imperial physician coming from inside: "Where is the medicine?"

"Hurry up, go get it!"

There was a rush of footsteps inside, and then the door was opened suddenly. A little palace maid was about to run out in panic, but when she saw the box in my hand and I was stunned for a moment before saying, "Miss Qing?"

Of course they were familiar with me, but they didn't expect that I would come here to deliver medicine, so they didn't respond for a while.

I spoke, my voice was a little dumb: "I'll send medicine."

"oh oh……"

She hurriedly moved away from her side, and I walked in with the box.

There was a strong smell of blood in the room and an evil spirit that oppressed people.

Pei Yuanhao sat at the table in the middle of the room, putting one hand on his knee and the other on the table. There was no expression on his condensed face, nor any temperature. The evil spirit was radiated from him, as if he wanted to freeze the whole room into ice.

The dark eyes kept staring at the inner room.

Through a layer of gauze curtain, you could vaguely see the extremely luxurious bed inside, Nangong Lizhu was lying quietly. Her pale face was contrasted by bright yellow brocade, making her look bloodless, and her almost transparent sense of clarity made her look so unreal.

The blood on her face has been wiped clean, and the tiny wounds have not been treated, without any damage to her beauty. Looking at such a beauty through the veil will only make people feel more beautiful and pity for them to hold it in their hands.

I walked over slowly and presented the medicine to an imperial physician: "This is medicine."

The imperial doctor turned around impatiently and was about to say something, but when he saw that it was me, his expression changed a few times. Pei Yuanhao turned his head when he heard my voice, and something seemed to flash across his calm face in an instant.

But before I could see clearly, I had returned to peace.

He got up and walked up to me, frowned slightly and looked down at me, and said, "Who asked you to come?"

"I'm here to deliver medicine."

"go back!"

“…”

I looked up at the angular face. Just before, this face was buried in my hair and smiled gently at me. The thin and hot lips kissed my skin, but now, everything seemed to have suddenly changed, so strange.

"go back!"

He said again, seeing that I was still moving, his eyebrows became even tighter, and he grinded his teeth slightly and said, "You're the end--"

Before he finished speaking, a very soft moan came from inside.

He and I turned our heads at the same time, and saw the beauty on the bed frowning slightly, a sad expression appeared on her pale face, her slender eyelashes trembled slightly, and slowly opened her autumn-like eyes.

When he heard this, his face changed immediately. He quickly turned around and brushed the curtain and walked in. The three imperial doctors inside were so scared that they hurriedly retreated and fell to their knees, not daring to speak again.

He walked to the bed and looked down at the person on the bed.

At this time, Nangong Lizhu had already woken up and looked up at him with her eyes open. This was really close, maybe even closer than any time I had seen him in the past. He could touch this person with just one hand, and she could enter his arms as long as she was together.

But neither of them moved, as if that distance was not caused by anyone, but should have been between them from the beginning.

After a while, Pei Yuanhao finally raised his hand and reached into her face.

Just when his fingertips were a little far from that beautiful face, Nangong Lizhu turned his head and avoided his hand.

"Don't touch me."

Her voice was very light, and the voice was as soft as the spring breeze blowing across her face, but the spring breeze seemed to blow from the snow-capped mountains. Although it was soft, it was the coldness of ice and snow inside.

His fingers seemed to be frozen there.

The imperial doctors and the palace maids around all changed their faces, looked around, immediately got up, and retreated.

I think I should also withdraw. People seek benefits and avoid harm. I have clearly felt that staying there is no benefit to me at all, but my legs are not only heavy, but also seem to have been nailed here. No matter how hard I move, I can only stand foolishly on the other end of the veil, looking at Pei Yuanhao's familiar face becoming heavier and heavier at this moment.

After a while, he slowly withdrew his hand and stood up and looked at her.

"Why leave?"

“…”

"Why do you come?"

In contrast, his voice was as dry as if a knife had slashed through the sand and stones. With no sense of weight, he slowly bent down and came to Nangong Lizhu. The two of them almost had their noses against the tip of their noses, and there was nothing else in their eyes except each other: "Since you don't want to see me, why don't you hide all the time?"

“…”

"Why do you show up in front of me?"

Nangong Lizhu looked at him calmly. No woman could still look at Pei Yuanhao indifferently at this time, but she was like this. Even though she was covered in bruises, she was not cowardly at all.

"Why do you ask me?" she said indifferently: "Isn't all this what you want?"

"What?"

Pei Yuanhao frowned and stared at her tightly: "What did you say?"

Nangong Lizhu's delicate cherry lips curled up slightly and said, "Why do you have to do this? If you want to see me, you can turn the entire Yangzhou City over. If you want to kill me, it will be a matter of one sentence. Why do you have to pretend to be someone else?"

She lifted the thin quilt on her body, stood up slowly, looked up at Pei Yuanhao who was slightly shocked, but her smile was still peaceful, so peaceful that it made people feel as if they were just talking about the most ordinary thing-

"If I really want to die in the hands of a person, I hope that person is you."

“…”

"In this way, even if you arrive in front of the Hall of Hell, it will be a cause and effect."

I was so shocked that I couldn't speak - Pei Yuanhao wanted her to die? How could it be?

Pei Yuanhao was also shocked, but he was much calmer than me. He looked at Nangong Lizhu's eyes firmly and said, "You know, I won't hurt you. No matter when."

Nangong Lizhu said, "I believe in the past, but now--" Those bright eyes, as if they were as autumn water, looked at me faintly, and then took it back without a trace, looking at Pei Yuanhao and said, "People will change. Nothing will never change, so if you want to kill me, I won't blame you."

"I said, I didn't."

"Since there isn't, why did those people at Huisheng Pharmacy deal with me?"

"What did you say?!"

Pei Yuanhao opened his eyes wide in shock, and when I heard this, I was stunned.

The person who returned to the pharmacy shop attacked her?

Mo Tieyi and the others?

She was covered in wounds just now, and her clothes were stained with blood. Although she knew at a glance that she must have been attacked, I never thought that it was Mo Tieyi and the others, but how could it be? How could Mo Tieyi and the others kill her?

Nangong Lizhu looked at us in shock and sneered again: "Didn't they listen to you? Haven't you always wanted to recruit those people? If they didn't really surrender to you, how could they suddenly attack me?"

Pei Yuanhao said in a deep voice: "I want to invite them, but I just let those people go back. It's not done. How can I let them attack you?"

Nangong Lizhu laughed: "Who are you and who am I? Don't we know each other the most?"

“…”

"You said that no one can block your way. Including me, isn't it?"

“…”

"You put them back, but yesterday, those people left behind me and I don't know who they met. However, how could other people know about the transaction between Shengjing and the royal family? Of course, only yours. If those people did not meet yours privately and were so provoked, how could I get so many stabs on me?"

yesterday?!

Mo Tieyi and the others did come out yesterday; and they met me, and I did tell them the deal between Shengjing and the royal family.

My mind was buzzing and it was completely messy.

Could it be that they really thought that Shengjing's people deceived them because of what I said, and they attacked Nangong Lizhu in anger?

Pei Yuanhao's body also stiffened for a moment, and he slowly turned his head to look at me.

I stood there with a pale face, and the veil was blown by a wind from somewhere. He walked out step by step, lifted the veil in front of me, walked down at me, and looked down at me.

"Where did you go yesterday?"

“…February Red.”

"Who did you meet?"

“…Mo Tieyi.”

"What did you say to them?"

“…”

My whole body was covered in cold sweat, and the fear in my heart had slowly taken shape, spreading all over my body, and even my heart was about to stop beating.

I raised my head with the last little strength and could no longer speak. My lips were trembling. Looking at his cold eyes as cold as ice, that look - when he was in the palace, he knew that I had killed Liu Ningyan, when I admitted to murdering Xu Youling, he looked at me with such eyes.

I am not happy or angry, but I seem to have no feelings anymore.

I clenched my fists hard and struggled to speak: "I'm not--"
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