The hero of quick time travel always tricks me

Chapter 174 Secrets of the Shrine (26)

After washing up, Ye Shuying went back to bed with mixed emotions.

Green smoke was billowing in the incense burner, and wisps of light fragrance scrambled into Ye Shuying's nostrils.

Maybe she felt more relaxed after taking a bath, so Ye Shuying's upper and lower eyelids soon started to fight.

Even a little sleepy.

Ye Shuying couldn't help being a little surprised by this.

Originally, she thought that she would have to toss and turn in bed again tonight until midnight, but she didn't expect to be sleepy so soon.

Could it be that today's new incense has a good effect on helping sleep?But just now she had been lying on the bed for a long time, and she didn't feel sleepy at all.

This is really strange.

However, the smell of the incense is particularly pleasant tonight.

Ye Shuying thought in a daze, and soon fell asleep completely.

Just after she fell asleep, Mu Jin cautiously approached her bedside and called twice softly.

"Princess, princess..."

Seeing that Ye Shuying really didn't respond, Mu Jin couldn't help exhaling softly.

It seemed that he was really asleep.

Thinking of this, Mu Jin couldn't help but let out a faint sigh, and retreated lightly.

Next, it was time for her to do something else.

It's time to start making some arrangements.

Late at night, in the study room of the outer courtyard.

After dismissing the servants around him, Xiao Qi was a little tired and leaned on the back of the grand master's chair and squeezed the space between his eyebrows.

In the end, he got up suddenly and walked to the window, gently pushing the half-opened lattice.

The cool night wind blew in front of him, blowing away a lot of the original depression in his heart.

Xiao Qi stared at the courtyard in the distance that was almost engulfed by darkness in a daze, his heart was full of emotions.

At this moment, she should have rested, right?

It's time to take a break too.

After all, just half an hour ago, he had just dismissed the little maid she sent to ask him if he would go back to the house to rest.

Since he had already said that he would not go back to his room, with her temperament, it was probably impossible for her to wait any longer.

But... even if he knew that she should stop waiting for him, he still felt a little uncomfortable because she really didn't wait for him or asked him.

Xiao Qi couldn't tell what kind of mood he was in now, he hoped that Ye Shuying would stop pestering him and let him go.

But when she was really sensible and stopped pestering him, he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

Xiao Qi thought, he is probably what people call hypocritical.

In fact, it's not that he really doesn't want to live a good life with Ye Shuying.

However, as long as he thinks of her deceit, as long as he thinks of her using power to threaten him, and tying him together with all her heart, he will have no way to convince himself to accept him.

In this world, there is probably no one who likes being forced to do something he doesn't like.

In particular, he never thought of becoming a son-in-law.

Dong Liguo's son-in-law sounds like an enviable title. He has status and status, and he was directly promoted to be a relative of the emperor.

It looks like infinite glory, but in fact, it is just a false name.

More importantly, once he really became a son-in-law, it meant that he had nothing to do with official career in his life.

Princesses do not need a powerful son-in-law, just as the emperor does not need a prominent empress.

It is all to prevent foreign relatives from monopolizing power.

Xiao Qi can actually understand this point, and feels that there is nothing wrong with such a regulation.

Because of this, it never occurred to him to become a princess' consort.

What's more, he actually dislikes being a son-in-law.

Because he is talented and ambitious, from childhood to adulthood, the family does not know how much effort has been devoted to him.

His father cultivated him, the clan valued him, and everyone regarded him as the hope of the family's future.

And he himself is eager to make contributions and make a career, which can not only protect the tribe, but also stabilize the country.

But all these hopes were shattered when Ye Shuying asked the emperor for the imperial decree of marriage.

He has become the son-in-law of gold and jade, and he is also destined to never be in court again in this life.

He can neither shed blood on the battlefield to protect the frontier, nor can he calm the world and help the king create a peaceful and prosperous world so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment.

All his ambitions, all his lofty ambitions, could not be realized.

My life turned upside down at this moment, even a good-tempered person like Xiao Qi couldn't help being angry.

Of course he was angry, how could he not be angry?

He obviously planned a good life, why did he suddenly change direction just because he met her and no longer be under his control?

This is not fair!

For the first time in his life, Xiao Qi felt that fate was unfair to him, but he had nothing to do with it.

Because he discovered that for such absurd change, the so-called clansmen he once wanted to protect with all his heart, and the so-called relatives he admired and respected with all his heart, were all very happy to see it happen.

How could they not be happy to see it happen?
After all, from now on, they are all relatives of the emperor.

The so-called one person attains Taoism and ascends to heaven, isn't that the case?

So what's wrong with sacrificing one person for the benefit of the whole family?

Of course there's nothing bad about it, it's even great.

Thinking of this, Xiao Qi couldn't help curling the corners of his mouth mockingly.

He knows that the human heart is actually the ugliest thing in this world.

But even so, he still didn't want to accept his fate.

In other words, he didn't want to bow his head to her and power in such a humiliating manner.

So even though he was forced to marry Ye Shuying as his wife and became the only son-in-law in Dongli country, he was still struggling for the last time.

He refused to be a real husband and wife with her, although Xiao Qi knew very well in his heart that no matter whether they were married or not, after all, they would bear the name of husband and wife for a lifetime.

But he didn't care, he just wanted to be willful for once.

I don't know who is competing, whether it is me, or fate.

Who knows, after all, he really never stepped into the backyard for three whole months, even though she had sent someone to invite him back to the room countless times.

Even, his wife Ye Shuying, the proud girl held in the palm of the emperor's hand, had condescended to visit him many times in the front yard.

She probably wanted to explain something to him, but he didn't want to hear a word.

Not because he was too angry, but because he was afraid that he would soften his heart after hearing her explanation.

In fact, Xiao Qi knows that his current behavior is very naive, and he seems to be relying on her liking and caring to vent his aggrieved and dissatisfied.

To be honest, such behavior is actually quite disgusting.

But what can he do?He couldn't do anything, the only thing he could do to make himself feel better was venting his anger.

Blaming others is really not what a gentleman does.

But... when faced with this kind of unknown and panic about the future, he can only choose to keep the status quo as much as possible in order to make himself more at ease.

(End of this chapter)