Chapter 1111: Chapter 1111: 1108 Zi Wei: Don't You Want Me Anymore?

Su Yingxue approached her, looking down with disdain in her eyes, “Rest assured, Her Majesty will not let you die, but you will certainly speak the words that Her Majesty wants to hear. Lu Ying, she can’t escape her fate, and the entire Lu Family will have to join her in death!”

Su Yingxue’s tone was fierce, shocking Xuan Ye to her core, “Don’t even think about it! Even if you are the empress, you can’t wrongfully kill my Miss and the Master. The Master is a high official of the imperial court, and Miss is the young madam of the Marquis’s Manor. You can’t cover the sky with one hand!”

“A high official of the imperial court? A high official who betrays his country and sides with the enemy?”

A sarcastic curve formed on Su Yingxue’s lips as she watched Xuan Ye’s complexion gradually turn green and her eyes sink.

Su Yingxue rarely left the palace, so she took the opportunity to visit Wu Jinyan.

Wu Jinyan’s child was already half a year old, yet she hadn’t been able to see them even once.

Today, Wu Jinyan seemed to be anticipating something, and it seemed like the child was telepathically in tune with her.

She waited until midnight and actually managed to wait for Su Yingxue to come.

She knelt down excitedly, “This commoner pays respect to the empress!”

“Get up!” Sister Jinyan, I sneaked out tonight, with you calling out like this, how can I continue to be the empress?” Su Yingxue gave her a reproachful glance.

Wu Jinyan, both joyful and excited, “Yes, Your Majesty, I’ll keep my voice down.”

Zi Wei stood guard outside for them, Wu Jinyan pulled Su Yingxue over to the bed to look at the child.

Being half a year older than her little monster, Su Chenyang was almost eight months now, extremely fair and lovely, with a soft, round face like a peeled eggshell.

Looking at his peaceful sleeping face, Su Yingxue couldn’t help but sigh, “I really envy sister. My little monster, even in his sleep, is full of quirks, sometimes crying out in his dreams, always startling me awake. Look how much hair I’ve lost. If he keeps this up, I’ll soon become the bald-headed empress.”

“Pfft!”

Wu Jinyan couldn’t help but laugh, “What empress personally takes such pains to care for a child day and night? How many servants are there in the palace? It’s just because Your Majesty is too devoted to your child to trust others, insisting on doing everything by yourself.”

“That’s not it. My childbirth was difficult, and there was no one to operate, so I was scared of him. But once I left him to others, I became so restless. After settling palace affairs, am I supposed to walk and exercise in the palace every day?” Su Yingxue said with a sense of helplessness in her voice.

Wu Jinyan understood, “The long days of solitude in the palace truly pale in comparison to our past, where we could leave the manor to stroll around and entertain ourselves at the Thousand-Jiao Pavilion.”

“It’s good that sister understands. Has brother written you any letters recently?” Su Yingxue changed the subject.

“He has.”

Wu Jinyan brought out a large chest, “Su Hao writes daily, except during battles. His letters have never stopped.”

Su Yingxue looked at the large chest full of letters, thinking of Su Hao at the border, still managing to show such care for Wu Jinyan.

Wu Jinyan always kept faith in him; even with such a long separation, their affection remained strong.

“He just recently asked someone to buy some clothes for the child and send them over, saying he wanted me to paint a portrait of the child for him. Sadly, my painting skills are poor, so I asked Sister Han to do it instead. When he received the portrait, he wrote back saying he really likes the child, that the child looks like him when he was younger. Even Sister Han said it looks like him…”

As she spoke, a trace of sorrow appeared in Wu Jinyan’s eyes.

Yet no matter how much they said the child resembled him, it was nothing but a consolation.

The child’s origins remained a mystery.

“If brother says he looks like him, then he looks like him! Besides, the child already carries his surname. If not him, who else would the child resemble?” Su Yingxue soothed her heart.

She took a few extra glances at Su Chenyang, with his refined bone structure, thinking he truly did bear some resemblance to Su Hao.

She harbored a bold guess in her heart, but since she hadn’t gotten Xuan Ye to confess the truth yet, she didn’t share the speculation with Wu Jinyan. Only when certainty was established could she reveal the truth to the world.

She and Zi Wei returned to the palace together. Just before reaching the secret passage, Su Yingxue stopped, turned back to Zi Wei with a smile, “Zi Wei, you can go home after taking me this far.”n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Zi Wei nodded. “Okay.”

When she looked for him, that’s when he would come.

“Wait a moment.”

Su Yingxue called to Zi Wei.

Zi Wei paused slightly, “Is there something else?”

Every time Su Yingxue called him, there would be a gleam in his eyes, accompanied by a faint anticipation.

“Zi Wei, from now on, you don’t need to come looking for me anymore, and I won’t ask you to do anything either. You should return to Yue Lian’s side, be a good husband to her,” Su Yingxue patted Zi Wei on the shoulder with gratitude in her eyes.

“Why?” Panic flickered in Zi Wei’s eyes, “Is it… because I didn’t do well?”

Did he return with his men too late?

Or didn’t he extract the outcome Su Yingxue wanted?

He was willing to act again, to give Su Yingxue anything she desired.

“No… don’t want.”

In his panic, Zi Wei kept shaking his head.

“Zi Wei!”

Su Yingxue held his shoulder, “Don’t think wildly. There’s nothing you’ve done wrong. It’s just… all my affairs are now settled. It’s time to return you to Yue Lian, to your family.”

“No! I need you!”

In his disarray, Zi Wei revealed his true feelings.

Seeing Su Yingxue’s expression change, he immediately panicked and tried to cover it up, “I… need to be by your side, to protect you! It’s my duty.”

“Zi Wei, you have no obligations to me anymore,” Su Yingxue said with a gentle smile. Under the moonlight, her unadorned beauty was striking, like a fairy beneath the moon, distant and unattainable.

“I do,” Zi Wei insisted.

He had an obligation; he needed to protect her for life!

“You don’t!”

Su Yingxue’s tone hardened, “Zi Wei, do you understand? The one who gives you obligations is Yue Lian, not me! Moreover, you and I are even now, owing nothing to each other.”

“Owing nothing to each other…”

Zi Wei’s fist clenched tightly, his heart shattered as if punched, fracturing into countless cracks.

“Yes, when I snatched you back from the Silver Moon Pavilion to protect me and I treated your wounds, you have fully recovered and I have become the empress. I no longer need someone to protect me closely, nor can I occupy your time any longer. You should return to your home, to your wife’s side!”

When Su Yingxue thought of Yue Lian, she felt very reassured, “Your wife is truly a kind woman, born to a prominent family, warm and caring. You should treat her well. Starting today, you are no longer my bodyguard. You have no relation to me anymore. You are Zi Wei, a new person, Yue Lian’s husband, the father of her future children.”

“It’s not…”

The murmur that escaped from Zi Wei was very quiet, and his eyes began to redden.

Unfortunately, the corners of his eyes were purple, and Su Yingxue couldn’t see the pain and grievance in his eyes.

“You… don’t want me anymore?”

Zi Wei’s hand gripping the knife behind his back trembled violently as if he were a dog about to be abandoned.

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