A rebellious minister forced me to be a foolish king

Chapter 529: No Way Out

Even though she spoke coldly, the close connection between her words and him still made Yuwen Huaibi unable to hide his throbbing heart. He always said what he meant, and what he said just now was not to gain sympathy. He really enjoyed the feeling of throwing a live fish into stagnant water and stirring up the waves when she was around. It was like prying open his long-frozen heart, and someone broke into the rotten wooden door that had been silent for many years...

Yuwen Huaibi tried his best to suppress his feelings, fearing that she would notice something strange in him, so he turned his head to look at the sky, but found that it was overcast and looked like it was going to rain.

His clear voice was calm and gentle.

"My old house... that location is really good. It's located in the center of the city and is easily accessible. I'll have someone get a map right away."

"Then I'll trouble you, Your Majesty."

Yuan Wuyou habitually patted his shoulder with her good hand. She smiled and was about to turn her head away, but the man suddenly grabbed her wrist!

He was so strong that Yuan Wuyou, whose left arm was tied like a dumpling and unable to use any strength, broke out in cold sweat, his eyes full of anger!

"Let go! You're bullying me for only having one arm, right?"

The man raised his long eyelashes, and his deep blue eyes were cold and dark.

"Yuan Wuyou! I'm going to ask you one last time, are you willing to return to Chang'an?"

"Why, you still dare to kidnap me and take me to Chang'an?"

Yuan Wuyou was so angry that he reluctantly raised his injured hand to scratch the hand holding his wrist guard. However, he found that the skin he touched was cool, smooth and delicate. The porcelain-white skin of the Xianbei man was extremely sensitive. Just where her fingertips touched, pink scratches appeared. His whole hand was shaking and trembling slightly.

The Xianbei man was as stubborn as a donkey, refusing to loosen his grip on her right wrist, and said in a stern voice -

"I have used my own freedom and life... to exchange for your return to Chang'an. How can you let me down? What's wrong with Chang'an? It's your hometown, your old home! Your old friends are in Chang'an!"

He spoke a lot of crazy words that made no sense, and Yuan Wuyou, in a panic, didn't understand what he was saying at all.

She resisted unwillingly and retorted:
"If you want to trick me back to Chang'an and imprison me before you reward me with a title and salary, then I tell you, I would rather starve to death than accept charity, and I would rather die outside than be locked up in your broken cage!"

Her palms were warm, and she was burning with anger, even her fingertips were hot. When she pinched his naturally cool skin, it burned his scalp and made his porcelain white skin turn red in an instant.

Yuwen Huaibi endured the discomfort in his body, and his deep blue phoenix eyes stared at her eyes fiercely, and an aggressive anger burst out through the Nuo mask——

"Don't you think I can't see it? You've been accumulating prestige and winning the hearts of the people just to return to your homeland? You're trying to wait and see my Chang'an and Lanling Wang in Yecheng from Tongzhou. What's the point? I'm here to give you a way out. If you don't step down now, when will you step down?"

He used all his brute force to tightly grasp her right wrist. Yuan Wuyou's only arm that could be used was clamped, and she couldn't break free. She simply sneered and said,
"I will do it if your Majesty gives me the face I deserve. I will do it, but I have more important things to do now."

The man's sinister deep blue eyes narrowed slightly.
"What's the matter?"

She deliberately said calmly:

"For the sake of checks and balances between the two countries, publicly, I have to stay in Tongzhou to avoid causing a stir in the capital; privately, I have to take down Lanling King's Chunyang first." Hearing her undisguised ambition and lust, Yuwen Huaibi was furious and grabbed her other wrist!
"The capital is not afraid of you, the former crown prince, returning. It's a private matter. Is this what you want? Get him and then abandon him? Do you like to be a heartless woman who abandons her lover after having sex with him?"

At this moment, he was fighting with her in anger. Yuan Wuyou had both of her hands clamped by him, and she was actually unable to beat him. This feeling of weakness and helplessness made her extremely angry! But the more panicked and furious she became, she refused to expose her fear.

She laughed out of anger, but her face showed a relaxed, arrogant and disdainful expression.

"Who said I was unfaithful? I want to marry him!"

Yuwen Huaibi couldn't bear to hear this. His mind exploded and he shouted angrily, "I don't allow it! You can't even think about marrying someone else!!"

The Xianbei Emperor suddenly showed his power and turned into a tyrant, which frightened Yuan Wuyou. How could she know how uncontrollable this guy would be when he went crazy?

"Why don't you allow me to do that? You have three thousand concubines in your harem, and you've changed two queens alone, and you still won't allow me to get married?"

"But I have never performed a grand ceremony or married according to Han customs!"

"Then go and make up for it yourself! Hiss...let go of me! The wound is about to burst open!"

Hearing this, the Xianbei man looked down and saw her frowning face, her hissing and gritting her teeth in pain. It didn't look like she was pretending to be in pain. He then reluctantly let go of her injured left arm, but still stubbornly held her right hand.

Seeing the man who had been shoving and pushing her before showing concern, Yuan Wuyou seemed to have regained some consciousness. He struck while the iron was hot and said:
"Isn't that right? Even if you didn't marry the slave queen captured from Jiangling, you did marry the Turkic princess in a very glorious way. Don't refute me, everyone knows that you rely on the power of the Turks. If you give me a Turkic prince to marry, I can also worship him like a bodhisattva for the sake of his family's power."

The sudden humiliation made Yuwen Huaibi so angry that he suddenly let go of her hands and clenched them into fists at his sides.

The Xianbei man's eyes were fierce and full of resentment.

"Are you deliberately humiliating me? Yes, I really can't prove myself, and I am really despicable...using marriage to win over forces..."

"That's right. Actually, we were supporting each other back then. Now you have concubines and children, and I'm busy with the marriage alliance between the two countries. Let's not criticize each other. The emperors of the two countries each have their own wives. Would it sound good to say that they are each other's concubines? Besides, you haven't shown me any practical benefits except for being immersed in the old love and pestering me. You don't know how to pursue love at all, or you don't care about me."

After taking a breath, Yuan Wuyou rubbed his hands that were pinched by him, squinted at the cold-looking man in the Nuo mask in front of him, and smiled with his lips raised.
"Stop it, Yuwen Huaibi. Our so-called relationship only lasted during the time in Qi State... We shared hardships together. Just based on this, you love me so much that you don't care about your reputation? Who would believe that? I believe that you are trying to win me over in order to recruit generals and soldiers for the Zhou State."

The Xianbei Emperor's eyes were sharp and cold. "Oh... supporting each other? In your eyes, I have always been just an excuse for you to flaunt your deep love and loyalty? Then what does it mean that you chose me during the one-year-old celebration? For so many years, your family has kept this matter a stain and kept silent about it, but you want me to be your child husband, wasting my life in vain!"

Just as he roared out the last words, a loud thunder suddenly struck the gloomy sky!

Miss Yuan, who was rubbing her wrist, was immediately stunned by what she heard.

"What is the week of catching up?"

Looking at her eyes full of confusion, Yuwen Huaibi knew it was too late to regret after talking too much. He turned his face away, gritted his teeth secretly under the Nuo mask, and finally held back the tears that were gushing out.