Ace's favorite concubine: Xiangmen's concubine

Chapter 454 Return Your Things to You (2)

After Yi Xun served the bowl and chopsticks, Pei Yuzhang put down the chopsticks and said, "You came here from the emperor at this time, you must have not eaten yet, although the food in Qingning Palace is not as good as the emperor's imperial meal, for the common people Said, it is already a delicacy, you can eat as you like."

After Wu Danqing heard this, the light in his eyes dimmed, and the corners of his mouth curved into a bitter arc. He asked in a low voice, "You know everything?"

Pei Yuyan knew that what he was talking about was male favorites, she didn't need to lie to him, she nodded and said, "I went to the palace to ask to see the emperor that day, and I saw you in the imperial garden."

Imperial Garden?Bai Meilin?
Wu Danqing suddenly understood, and his tone became astringent, "So it wasn't my eyesight, you were really in that plum grove that day."

She gave a noncommittal chuckle, paused and said, "Your intelligence must have guessed my intention of inviting you here, and I won't beat around the bush. Can you please be merciful and let the emperor and prince go."

"No."

Pei Yuzhang was stunned, she had imagined many reasons for Wu Danqing's refusal, whether it was for power or gain, or hating Ning Yuyao and the emperor to the bone, but she never thought that he would be so quick and decisive to tell her no.

"why?"

Wu Danqing's eyes fell on Pei Yuzhang's clean bun, took out something from her bosom, walked to her side, carefully pinned the suet white jade hairpin into her bun, and sighed, "Don't you still not understand?"

"Why are you there?" She stared at him as he took out the hairpin and asked tremblingly.

"Lu Boqi designed it for me to retrieve my memory."

Pei Yuyan stroked the hairpin on her head, the familiar warm touch was like the silent care Wu Danqing gave her back then, all kinds of past events came to her mind, she suddenly had the urge to cry, and her throat couldn't help but feel a little choked up.

"Brother Ang, the emperor...but he is a good emperor after all. Lu Boqi wants to push an infant child to the throne for his own selfishness. This is clearly to hold the power in his own hands. He has acted too much. It’s ruthless, and it’s determined not to bring benefits to the people. Don’t you understand the principle of cunning rabbits and dead lackeys?”

Hearing this, Wu Danqing gently brushed Pei Yuyan's temples with his fingers, and let out a chuckle.

After a long silence, he said, "Yu Yan, I thought about wanting fame and wealth, but after experiencing so much, I realized that fame and wealth are like clouds to me. Even the emperor... in a high position also has the loneliness of a high position." I'm not cooperating with Lu Boqi, I don't want to be as powerful as him, I want to be very simple, all I want from the beginning to the end is only you."

Pei Yuyan was stunned for a moment, looking at Wu Danqing for a while, speechless.

His hand slid past her temples and stopped in mid-air, but it still didn't land on her fair face, "Yu Yan, do you still remember what you said to me in this palace on the eve of your wedding?"

She remembered that she said that he would never be able to compare with Ning Yuyao.

Could it be because of such words that he was forced to take the road of killing the king and seizing power?

"Brother Ang, do you still believe me? If I tell you what I said just to make you give up on me, so that you can get out of the haze I brought you, and let you start a new life, do you believe it?"

There was a sudden throbbing pain in her heart, and tears welled up in her eyes. It was she who had failed his sincerity in this life.

But if she could turn back time and go back to that day, she would still say the same thing.

(End of this chapter)