At this moment, Sheng Yunqi finally came to his senses. He saw Du Gu Luanyue standing there, and there was no sign of being seriously ill at all.
It turned out that he had been set up.
Most likely, it was this Huo Wei. Huo Wei wanted to control Du Gu Luanyue.
As a man himself, how could he not recognize the aggressive and possessive look in Huo Wei's eyes when he looked at Du Gu Luanyue? It was clear that he wanted to claim her for himself!
His Luanyue was fighting alone in the Northern Yan. And this Huo Wei was like a mad dog, baring his fangs at the woman he loved, eyeing her covetously.
The longer Du Gu Luanyue stayed in the Northern Yan, the more dangerous she would be.
Moreover, Du Gu Luanyue was now in a difficult situation and had no choice but to cooperate with Huo Wei. In this way, it was like sending a rabbit right into the mouth of that mad and vicious dog!
Sheng Yunqi could no longer stay calm. His scarlet eyes were filled with hatred:
"Prince of Yuzhang, you set up all this, didn't you?
You wanted to wipe out all of Luanyue's feelings. You just wanted me dead so that she would be left with only you, didn't you!"
Hearing Sheng Yunqi's words, Du Gu Luanyue was shocked again. She turned to look at him:
"Huo Wei, is it true?
You've been scheming against me and Sheng Yunqi, right?
But why did you involve him? Why don't you come at me instead!
I've never harmed you once. I've even helped you lay out plans in the court and exhausted myself for your cause! And what have you done!"
She had been wondering why Huo Wei showed up so soon after Sheng Yunqi had just entered her palace.
Huo Wei narrowed his black eyes. He didn't know what Du Gu Luanyue was talking about!
In a fit of rage, he stabbed the dagger into the wooden table forcefully. Then he grabbed Sheng Yunqi by the collar and stood up: "Let's go to the silk - worm house now. I'll castrate him myself!"
Du Gu Luanyue rushed towards Huo Wei and grabbed his arm:
"No, don't!
Huo Wei, what on earth do you want to let him go? I'll agree to any conditions!
It was me who deceived you. It's all my fault. But I never lied to you about helping you gain a firm foothold in the court."
Huo Wei's handsome face turned vicious:
"You've been playing me like a monkey. Do you think a few tears can cover it up?"
Du Gu Luanyue refused to let go no matter what. She couldn't let Huo Wei take Sheng Yunqi away and turn him into a real eunuch.
Huo Wei waved his hand and yanked. Du Gu Luanyue lost her balance, and her forehead hit the corner of the wooden table.
The blood trickled down her forehead, from her eyebrows to her eye sockets, quickly staining half of her face red.
With red - rimmed eyes, she quietly glanced at Huo Wei, then reached out and pulled out the dagger from the wooden table.
Huo Wei flung Sheng Yunqi's collar away, strode over, and with lightning speed, grabbed her wrist and threw the dagger out:
"Do you want to assassinate me?"
Du Gu Luanyue struggled and didn't want to be too close to him, but Huo Wei tightly held her arm. She said with hatred:
"It was you who set me up. You deliberately lured him here and then tortured us.
Huo Wei, you've been holding a grudge since the White Horse Temple incident. I can't kill you, so I can only kill myself.
The only son of the Sheng family in the Southern Chu, my fiancé since childhood, will become a eunuch in my hands. I'll be tortured for the rest of my life if I live!"
The entire Sheng family was loyal to the Southern Chu, doing many good deeds for the country and the people.
The Sheng family treated her as their own daughter.
If Sheng Yunqi became a eunuch, with his pride, he would surely end up dead.
But she didn't really want to die. She wasn't an ordinary person. She still had a mission for the Southern Chu to fulfill.
Picking up the knife was just a gamble, a bet on whether Huo Wei would watch her die or stop her.
If he stopped her, there would still be a chance.
The blood dripped onto Huo Wei's arm drop by drop. Looking at the blood on Du Gu Luanyue's forehead, his heart ached faintly, and his voice became desolate:
"You're even willing to give up your life for him."
He gradually let go of Du Gu Luanyue's wrist. He took a look at Du Gu Luanyue and Sheng Yunqi with his deep eyes, said nothing more, and then left the queen's palace.
The figure of Huo Wei as he left seemed to stir up a cold and blood - thirsty wind in the Fengluan Palace, making all the palace servants' hair stand on end.
The God of Killing who destroyed the Liao Kingdom, a general who had killed so many people, truly had a menacing aura.
Du Gu Luanyue finally let out a sigh of relief and quickly said, "Aunt Mei Jiang, send someone quickly to send Young Master Sheng of the Sheng family away tonight!"
Sheng Yunqi staggered over and pressed a handkerchief against her forehead:
"If I leave, how will you deal with Huo Wei? This man is full of hostility. If you go against him, you won't have an easy time."
Du Gu Luanyue said faintly:
"We won't have any more contact. Huo Wei is a man who hates betrayal and deception extremely. Most likely, he won't say a single word to me for the rest of his life."
The path with Huo Wei was completely blocked.
Aunt Mei Jiang quickly walked over, her tone a bit reproachful:
"Young Master Sheng, please don't show up in the Northern Yan again. The queen will really lose her life!"
Du Gu Luanyue pressed her injured forehead: "It's not his fault. He was also set up."
Given their long - standing affection since childhood, neither of them could stay calm when they heard that the other was seriously ill and on the verge of death.
Love was something that went against reason.
Sheng Yunqi looked at the weak and injured woman in front of him. His eyes seemed to be bleeding:
"Luanyue, stay away from Huo Wei, okay?"
Du Gu Luanyue looked at him with tears streaming down her face: "I have no choice. Huo Wei is the most suitable candidate at present."
For some reason, Sheng Yunqi's inner panic had reached its peak.
That mad dog Huo Wei wouldn't stop just because a woman refused him.
He seemed to be a man who would stop at nothing, extremely cruel, and would surely find a way to keep what he coveted firmly in his hands.
When Sheng Yunqi was forcibly taken away, he felt icy cold all over, surrounded by hatred and helplessness.
In the past, Du Gu Luanyue had been so high - spirited in the Southern Chu court. But now, all that was gone, and all that remained was her struggling with men in the harem.
He wasn't afraid of Emperor Wenhui, but he was only worried about that mad dog Huo Wei.
A spring rain fell sadly at night, seeping into his body like ice water.
He looked up at the sky. Above the boundless ink - colored Northern Yan Palace, there were surging undercurrents. But at this moment, Du Gu Luanyue was fighting alone, and he could do nothing.
Aunt Mei Jiang secretly made arrangements to secretly send Sheng Yunqi, disguised as a young eunuch, out of the palace gate. Outside the palace, the Fengling Guards were already waiting.
At this moment, a magnificent carriage was parked not far from the palace gate. The tassels under the carriage curtain were swaying gently in the cold wind, and a sinister wind was rising.
A man got out of the carriage. He was wearing a black robe and a golden crown.
His deep black eyes stared over, and a cold and vicious smile appeared on his face: "Where do you think you're going? Did I give you permission?"
After saying that, he sent someone to force Sheng Yunqi onto the carriage.