Yan Ruyu shook his head.
Su Mu said dejectedly, "She still doesn't want to come back."
"No, I didn't go to find her."
"If Your Majesty the Emperor didn't go to find her, then what were you doing in the Eastern Ze Wilds these days? Isn't your disciple—"
Saying this, seeing the slightly changed expression on the Emperor's face, Su Mu stopped.
A dragon has its reverse scale, and anyone who touches it will die.
The Emperor usually showed no emotion on his face, and his thoughts were extremely hard to fathom. But only when it came to that fiery woman in red, Ye Ling, his expression would always change slightly no matter when she was mentioned.
A slight change in expression was already a once-in-a-century sight for the Emperor.
"Your Majesty the Emperor, it's my fault for saying the wrong thing," Su Mu said.
Yan Ruyu's expression returned to normal. He didn't like to talk in the first place. It was only because Su Mu had been brought up by him that he would say a few more words.
"It doesn't matter."
Yan Ruyu stood up, and Su Mu didn't dare to sit anymore.
"Your Majesty the Emperor, are you leaving?"
Su Mu's expression was flustered. He thought it was his wrong words that had made the Emperor unhappy.
"I can't leave with you in this state. I'll stay in the palace of Qingyun Kingdom for three months. If you have anything to do, just tell me."
Su Mu didn't expect that the Emperor would be willing to stay for such a long time this time.
While secretly rejoicing, he heard Yan Ruyu say, "But don't forget to take your medicine."
Su Mu nodded helplessly.
Although he didn't want to live in this world and had no nostalgia for it, if he could see the Emperor one more day by living one more day, it would be good.
"Your Majesty the Emperor, your room has been tidied up for you."
Yan Ruyu returned to his room and looked at the familiar setting.
He smiled knowingly.
Actually, this place was decorated to imitate the place where he grew up.
There was also a bunch of white magnolias by the window. Every time it was the season when the white magnolias bloomed, the whole room would always be filled with a faint fragrance of magnolias, and sometimes Yan Ruyu would carry a bit of it on him.
During those days when he was constantly on the move with Xiao Ning'er, the fragrance of magnolias on him had faded a bit.
"Xiao Mu has grown up and has more worries," Yan Ruyu murmured.
Yan Ruyu had actually calculated Su Mu's fate. He was destined to have a heart disease.
But the heart disease was not his biggest enemy. His enemy was himself. Su Mu had the destiny of an imperial star. Although his body was weak, his mind was very smart, and he was only slightly inferior to Feng Jin in handling political affairs.
When Su Mu was born, Yan Ruyu happened to pass by that palace.
He was only about two catties when he was born, and his health was not good. So after Su Mu turned three, he had been following Yan Ruyu to practice.
It was not until Su Mu was twelve that he was sent back to the palace.
It was also at this time that Yan Ruyu went to the Eastern Ze Wilds and met Ye Ling, who was in a sorry state.
When Ye Ling threw herself at him, Yan Ruyu could have refused. But he saw the Phoenix Star above Ye Ling's head. Those with this mark were surely the people who could influence the fate of the Eastern Ze Wilds.
Over the years, Yan Ruyu had calculated the fates of many people, and he had rarely made mistakes.
Except for one person, and that was Ye Ling.
Originally, Ye Ling also had the destiny of an imperial star. She was born with a much stronger fate than others. As long as someone guided her growth, she would surely become the most dazzling star in the Eastern Ze Wilds.
But she was the only loophole in Yan Ruyu's divination.
Ye Ling was supposed to have a life of wealth and be widely respected by the world.
But her turning point also came in that year.
Because in that year, Ye Ling said that she wanted to manage the Eastern Ze Wilds in good order after she became an adult and then marry Yan Ruyu.
At that moment, Yan Ruyu was touched.
He had calculated the fates of countless people and also knew his own fate.
He had the fate of a thousand-year lonely and evil star, destined to be heartless and loveless in his life.
But when Ye Ling said this, Yan Ruyu wavered.
He couldn't get close to anyone, and he had never allowed anyone to get close to him before. But he wanted to give it a try. He had been lonely for too long.
Ye Ling said, "Master, when I'm twenty-two, I'll marry you. Is that okay?"
At that time, Ye Ling was already sixteen.
She didn't understand the wickedness of the world yet. Maybe when she said this, it was just a casual remark. After all, she often said such things and often did things that were misleading.
Yan Ruyu had already decided that he would marry Ye Ling when she turned twenty-two.
Ye Ling started to cultivate talents in the Eastern Ze Wilds when she was sixteen. She had a talent and could quickly master any cultivation technique. So many people in the Eastern Ze Wilds would come to her.
During this period, there were also some people with evil intentions. Ye Ling didn't show any mercy and cut off their heads and hung them high on the flags.
At that time, she proudly told Yan Ruyu that she had taken in four disciples. Although they were a bit older, their aptitudes were good. After she taught them five or six times, they could understand.
Looking at Ye Ling's expression at that time, she was really happy.
But Ye Ling didn't expect that the four disciples she had painstakingly taught would later become the four great families in the Eastern Ze Wilds, each occupying a position in the wilds.
It was also them who pulled Ye Ling down from her high position and framed her with countless false charges.
Ye Ling had said that she wanted Yan Ruyu to marry her when she was twenty-two.
But it was also when she was twenty-two that her life ended on the tall sacrificial altar in the palace of the Eastern Ze Wilds.
The divine beast was injured, and her meridians were completely destroyed.
The people Ye Ling had trusted in the past betrayed her for the sake of interests and power.
They pulled her down from the altar, and the four of them joined hands to end her life.
It shouldn't have been like this. Ye Ling's fate shouldn't have been like this.
Yan Ruyu had later calculated step by step. Ye Ling, who should have been on the right track, changed her fate just because Yan Ruyu had fallen in love and wanted to try to accept her.
No matter how strong Ye Ling's fate was, it couldn't withstand Yan Ruyu's thousand-year lonely and evil star fate.
It was him who had changed her.
So when they met this time, Yan Ruyu became extremely cautious. He didn't even do any intimate actions with Zhao Shuning.
He could only treat her like a disciple.
Even if he was unwilling, there was nothing he could do.
"Xiaobai, don't forget to find a spiritual mushroom and bring it back."
Su Mu's illness was ordinary. It was because he had delayed for too long and had a heart disease that it had become like this. As long as the spiritual mushroom was added to the medicine, his illness would surely recover in time.
However, although Yan Ruyu could save his life, he couldn't change his determination to seek death.
"There will be a turning point in your fate," Yan Ruyu said.
As long as Su Mu persevered and waited until he met his fated one, everything would be different.
But could he, Yan Ruyu, still meet such a person?