"It's so nice to hear you call me 'wife' again."
Mei Feixuan closed her eyes, spread out her arms, and suddenly fell backward.
Gu Zhiruo's pupils contracted extremely rapidly. With quick reflexes, he grabbed Mei Feixuan's right hand.
Seeing the worry in Gu Zhiruo's eyes, Mei Feixuan finally smiled. That smile on her face was so extremely beautiful at this moment.
"I shouldn't have explained, Gu Zhiruo, but I really—really love you."
Gu Zhiruo didn't loosen his grip in the slightest.
Mei Feixuan said despairingly, "I'm really sorry too."
She took out a dagger from her bosom and suddenly stabbed at Gu Zhiruo right in front of his eyes.
Gu Zhiruo was startled and suddenly loosened his hand.
Mei Feixuan also stopped her hand in time. She never intended to hurt him.
For so many days and nights, she had been extremely hesitant in her heart. On one hand, she was afraid of being discovered by Gu Zhiruo; on the other hand, she couldn't bear to part with the little life in her belly.
After weighing the pros and cons, no matter what the result was, she had no face to live on.
It's just that she had previously hoped that she could end her own life after giving birth to this child.
Mei Feixuan's body fell extremely rapidly.
Finally, there was a dull thud. Her smile froze on her face. Her right hand slowly dropped, and her left hand gently rested on her lower abdomen.
Mei Feixuan had two wishes in her life. One was the unattainable love of the emperor, and the other was to see her child born and live a peaceful life.
It's just that these two wishes were completely lost because of one wrong step on her part.
Gu Zhiruo supported the palace wall with both hands and stared at the corpse below the city with blood - red eyes.
Was he wrong?
Now he was besieged on all sides. He had no time to think about so many things.
The encirclement on all sides was getting smaller and smaller.
Finally, they all came to the palace wall.
It was about the same as he had imagined. The remaining troops of Qi Huan were about the same in number as the remaining martial artists with Gu Zhiruo.
It seemed that after so many years of lying in wait, the power of Qi Huan in the palace was far more than Gu Zhiruo had imagined.
However, so what? He would never show mercy again.
A woman staggered out from among the martial artists. There was a lot of fresh blood on her body.
Gu Zhiruo faced her. The woman burst into tears before she could speak.
"It's so good that you're okay."
After saying that, she fainted in the crowd.
Gu Zhiruo thought for a while and then remembered.
That woman should be the daughter of Grand Tutor Xu Bin. Every time he went to the mansion, it was she who served tea.
"Yue'er."
Before Gu Zhiruo could react, he first heard Qi Huan's voice.
Gu Zhiruo looked in the direction of the voice. Qi Huan had already rushed towards Xu Yue'er.
Gu Zhiruo squinted his eyes slightly, immediately flew forward, picked up Xu Yue'er in his arms, and carried her back to the city wall.
Qi Huan rushed over, out of breath. As he got closer, Qi Huan's breath caught in his throat.
Gu Zhiruo knew what he had seen. He had seen Mei Feixuan below the palace wall.
The sword in Qi Huan's hand fell to the ground with a snap.
"Gu Zhiruo, you killed her. How could you bear to kill her!"
Qi Huan dismounted and walked up to Mei Feixuan. She had long since stopped breathing.
"Our child, our child."
Qi Huan hugged Mei Feixuan, and there were uncontrollable roars coming from his mouth.
At this time, the court officials were in an uproar. The prime minister was actually having an affair with the queen?
Moreover, he had even made the queen pregnant?
The surrounding soldiers looked at each other in dismay. They never thought that the gentle and kind - hearted queen would cuckold the king.
The king was really patient!
"Qi Huan, I will kill you."
Qi Huan looked up. Above the palace wall, Gu Zhiruo no longer had the gentle aura he had before. There was a murderous look in his eyes.
It could be seen that his anger and unwillingness at this moment were many times greater than Qi Huan's.
The fire in his heart was completely ignited at this moment.
Qi Huan holding Mei Feixuan's corpse in such a crazy state made him feel irritated.
At the beginning, he had no intention of separating the lovers. After hearing that Qi Huan was in love with Mei Feixuan, he had personally gone to the tutor's mansion to ask for the annulment of the marriage. It was Mei Feixuan who stopped him, saying that she had no relationship with Qi Huan, that she was willing to enter the palace, to be the mother of the people of Cangwu Kingdom, and to use her lifelong learning to benefit the people.
However, her subsequent actions were very different from who she was at the beginning.
She said she loved him, but did she know that he had also quietly fallen in love with her many years ago? He just gave her time because he was afraid that she wouldn't be able to accept it for a while.
"Gu Zhiruo, you're not worthy of being the king. You're not worthy of being her man."
"I will kill you. I will seize the world of your Gu family. I will make Xu Yue'er behind you my concubine too. I will become the king of Cangwu Kingdom. I will make you taste the pain of loving someone but not being able to have them."
Gu Zhiruo said coldly, "You're seeking death."
Qi Huan stood up. Gu Zhiruo's moon - white elegant robe was so pure and spotless in the moonlight.
Qi Huan sneered. In fact, after entering the palace, he already knew that he had no chance of winning today. Gu Zhiruo was not as cowardly as he had imagined.
It's just that since he was bound to die, Gu Zhiruo wouldn't be able to live either.
Many years ago, Qi Huan had bribed everyone in the imperial medical office. When Gu Zhiruo had no defense against the Qi family, he had already started preparing.
Qi Huan knew that Gu Zhiruo had practiced a rather cold - natured mental method. So he shouldn't be able to get close to women for decades.
In addition, he couldn't get too angry. If his anger attacked his heart, his qi and blood reversed, and his meridians went against their normal flow, then the final result would surely be sudden death.
This was also the reason why Gu Zhiruo had seemed so weak and gentle for so many years.
"Gu Zhiruo, your only woman, your queen, there's my child in her belly. Do you know that? You've lost. You can't even keep a woman."
"Shut up!"
Gu Zhiruo clenched his fists tightly.
Qi Huan laughed loudly.
"Gu Zhiruo, you're really ridiculous. You're just a curse!"
Gu Zhiruo flew down, trying to capture Qi Huan.
Suddenly, a very strong protective shield appeared around Qi Huan.
It seemed that over the years, he had recruited many alchemists.
"Gu Zhiruo, you're a disciple of Ye Ling, but didn't that empress Ye Ling end up dead in the end?"
"Your only elder brother, Gu Liang, your only relative in this world, but didn't you personally behead him below the city wall in the end?"
"Even your woman, you can't control her. You can't keep either her body or her heart."
"Gu Zhiruo, you're a curse."
Qi Huan laughed wildly.
The soldiers fighting for him saw this and slowly stopped.
The prime minister was crazy. Qi Huan was crazy!
No matter how hard they fought, it would be of no avail.
"Bang!"
The protective shield broke at this moment.
All the soldiers hurriedly knelt down and didn't dare to act recklessly anymore.
But no one noticed that at this moment, Gu Zhiruo was already killing with red eyes.
Blood - red light appeared in all the meridians of his body.
"Hiss—"
At an extremely fast speed, Qi Huan's body was torn into two halves.
Was it all over? No, this was just the beginning of the slaughter.