in2ebook Chapter 304 Old events from those days
Chapter 304 Old events from those days
Zhou Shiya felt cold all over and was shaking uncontrollably.
"No, you can't kill me."
"Qin Feiling...can you please not be so cruel to me?"
Qin Feiling leaned over and grabbed her collar tightly with his hands.
His cold eyes stared at her like knives, wishing to torture her to death.
"I am cruel? Zhou Shiya, isn't it you who caused you to end up like this? Even now, you still haven't realized your mistake."
"You always make excuses for your mistakes. Zhou Shiya, I don't want to continue talking nonsense with you. It means nothing to me."
Zhou Shiya gasped, she was shocked by the coldness in his eyes.
Qin Feiling wanted to kill her.
Her body was shaking like a sieve, and her eyes were filled with fear.
"I...I didn't."
"Your Majesty, please spare my life. Even if you don't care about the love we've had as husband and wife for so many years, you should at least remember that incident ten years ago when I risked my life to deliver the letter and help you get reinforcements..."
There was a chill in Qin Feiling's eyes.
He gritted his teeth and stared at Zhou Shiya, as if trying to discern the true emotions in her eyes.
He hadn't asked her yet, but she had already told him.
Qin Feiling was permeated with traces of coldness.
"Even if you don't mention it, I'll still ask... Zhou Shiya, ten years ago in the western suburbs of Beijing, the person who helped me deliver the letter to the government office, are you sure it was you?"
Zhou Shiya's face suddenly turned pale.
Her eyes flickered, and she felt extremely guilty. For a moment, she didn't dare to look into Qin Feiling's eyes.
She lowered her eyes and replied in a trembling voice, "Who else could it be but me? Could it be that Your Majesty, in order to vent his anger on Zhou Lingge, has even forgotten about the old incident?"
She didn't understand why Qin Feiling asked this.
A wave of fear surged in her heart.
Could it be that he discovered something strange about that incident?
No, it's impossible.
Everyone who knew about the incident was dealt with by her.
Even Zhou Lingge, the person involved, didn't remember what happened that year, so how could Qin Feiling know?
As long as she insists on denying it, Qin Feiling will never know the truth of that year.
Qin Feiling looked at Zhou Shiya's guilty face, and flames of anger gradually filled his eyes.
"As expected...that incident back then...you lied to me."
Ten years ago, he was still the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace. To train him, his father sent him out of the palace incognito to observe the people's sentiments. However, his whereabouts were leaked, leading to a near-fatal assassination attempt.
The person behind the scenes spent a large sum of money to hire a martial arts master to intercept him at Shilipo in Kyoto.
The secret guards sent by my father and his confidants all died heroically.
He was seriously injured and escaped by faking his own death.
Those assassins soon discovered that he was not dead, and deployed a sophisticated interception plan between Shilipo and the capital.
He hid in the bushes and did not dare to act rashly.
But he was seriously injured and lost too much blood... His condition was very critical and he couldn't be delayed for much longer.
Otherwise, he would have died from excessive blood loss if he had not been killed by those killers.
There is always a way out... Just then, a Zhou family carriage appeared on the mountain road where he was hiding.
Qin Feiling risked being discovered and slowly crawled out of the bushes.
He had no idea who was sitting in the carriage.
He wrote a letter in blood and threw the broken half of his jade pendant into the carriage through the half-open curtain.
The Zhou family carriage sped past, and he had no idea whether the people in the carriage had noticed the blood letter and broken jade he had thrown in.
He dived back into the bushes.
He waited from dusk till dawn, but there was no sound.
All the blood in his body had almost drained out, and he thought in despair... he might not be able to return to Kyoto and the Imperial Palace.
Unexpectedly, when he woke up again, he had been safely brought back to the palace.
Afterwards, he sent people to investigate the matter and vaguely learned that it was the blood letter he threw into the Zhou family's carriage that worked.
Someone took his handwritten letter in blood and the broken jade and went to the government office to report the news.
That's why he was saved.
When the late emperor learned about this, he became uneasy... He sent someone to summon Zhou Yi to inquire about the matter of reporting the news.
Zhou Yi said that his eldest daughter Zhou Shiya was thrown a blood letter and broken jade on her way back to the city after praying in a Buddhist temple.
Zhou Shiya hesitated again and again, and finally sent someone to the government office to report the news.
After the late emperor understood the whole story, he was immediately delighted and thought of granting the marriage.
He immediately held a palace banquet.
At the palace banquet, Qin Feiling asked Zhou Shiya indirectly. Zhou Shiya lowered her eyes shyly and smiled, then took out the broken jade pendant.
Qin Feiling had some favorable impressions about Zhou Shiya's letter delivery, so he did not object to this arranged marriage. He was the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace, and when he reached the age, he would naturally marry a Crown Princess of prominent status. It didn't matter to him who he married.
Because of delivering the letter, he had many more filters for Zhou Shiya.
So... he was happy to see the arranged marriage with Zhou Shiya.
They were engaged first, and when he came of age, it was natural for him to marry Zhou Shiya.
Over the years, he never suspected that the person who delivered the letter had some ulterior motive.
It was not until he learned that Zhou Shiya had faked her pregnancy and concealed her truth... and had done such a ridiculous thing, that he began to doubt the matter of sending the letter that year.
You don't know about this kind of thing until you investigate it, and once you do, you'll find many doubts.
What surprised him the most was that the people who rode in that carriage that year, besides Zhou Shiya, were also Ge'er...
He asked Ge'er about what happened back then, but Ge'er was only six or seven years old at the time, and she said she couldn't remember many things.
Zhou Shiya took a deep breath and recalled what happened ten years ago.
Her eyes were filled with panic, and she clutched Qin Feiling's sleeve tightly: "No... Your Majesty, I didn't lie to you. Back then... I helped you deliver the letter, helped you find reinforcements, and it was me who saved you. I really am your savior..."
"I still have half of the jade pendant I pawned on me."
Zhou Shiya trembled as she took out a piece of broken jade the size of a thumb from her arms.
She looked at Qin Feiling with tears in her eyes.
"I have kept this piece of broken jade until now."
"Qin Feiling, I beg you...if not for the sake of our past relationship as husband and wife, at least for the sake of my indirect rescue of you back then, please spare my life this time."
"As long as you spare my life... I will never disturb you and Zhou Lingge again. I will never appear in front of you again... I will disappear far away and never get in your way again."
Qin Feiling looked at Zhou Shiya's face full of lies, and his eyes were full of disgust.
He pushed Zhou Shiya away fiercely.
"Don't quibble... I've thoroughly investigated everything... It wasn't just you on that carriage back then... Ge'er was also there. Although Ge'er doesn't remember the specifics, I believe that with your selfish nature, you wouldn't take the risk of delivering a letter out of kindness simply because of the blood letter and the broken jade."