It is said that Qin Shihuang was controlled by a daughter

The fragrance is very strong and under normal circumstances you can't smell it too much.

Xu Zhi quickly got rid of the nightmare and found that the suffocation feeling on her neck had eased a lot. The light in front of her eyes became whiter and she saw the person clearly.

The bronze lamp halo renders the bedroom hazy like an oil painting.

The faint light reflected on Li Xian's profile, like a devil forcing believers to sell their souls to him.

Xu Zhi is a believer of Qin.

Everything in the Qin State came from their hands two thousand years ago.

But Li Xian's soul and faith were torn to pieces and crushed into dust by the ending twenty years ago.

"Why don't you speak?" he asked.

"In the past ten years, if you count carefully, I have lost more than I have gained, right?" she said.

Her eyes were pitch black, like a pearl thrown into the deep sea, slowly being eroded by the surrounding darkness.

Li Xian heard her sigh, "You know the root cause of Dunzi's matter very well."

"Dun Ruo has left the court," he said.

The moonlight seeps through the gauze curtain.

How can she smooth over these repeated mistakes and sins?

She looked at him and laughed to herself. "I can stay out of it by leaving? If that's the case, then nine months ago I wouldn't have to personally..."

He knew what she was going to say, so he interrupted her abruptly.

"Xu Zhi!" He suddenly became excited.

When she caught a glimpse of the shiny long sword at his waist, she knew that he must have hurried back to Xianyang from Shu County.

She didn't know what Ying Zheng sent him to do in Shu County, but Li Xian had already controlled Lü Ze and Liu Bang in the counties under his supervision. According to Chen Ping, Li Xian particularly liked to make trouble for him.

At this moment, Li Si had already half sat in the position of prime minister.

She also knew that she couldn't let Li Xian's activities be too far away from her sight.

She held his wrist, followed his strength, and slowly moved his hand away from her neck, saying, "I know, Li Xian. I know everything about Handan. Dunruo is different to you. He treats you like his own child. Your anger and sadness are understandable." She took a few deep breaths and suppressed her cough. "Go away. I won't tell my father about what happened tonight."

The look she gave him was no longer as fiery as it had been many years ago. She looked at him calmly, and even the compassion in her pupils was measured by rationality.

He smiled, "You are always so kind."

He pondered, "Some people are here because of the princess's schemes. What do you expect to get?"

Xu Zhi knew that all the secrets would never be hidden between them for too long.

She ignored the sarcasm and looked him straight in the face. "It's not a loss to get some false affection."

He looked at her in surprise.

She curled her lips indifferently, "You seem very confused, you shouldn't show such an incredible expression." She smiled, "It's not hard to guess, Li Xian. Just like now. You risked your life to come here to ask me why I killed Dun Ruo, but you refused to listen to your father's true words. How can this not be a kind of self-deception?"

She looked into his eyes, ignoring the ashes in them.

"I can tell you very clearly that what you hear from me will probably tell you the answer you least want to hear."

Li Xian is extremely smart, there is no way he couldn't figure it out.

Dun Ruo died in the first year of Emperor Qin Shi Huang's reign. This was history. Last time he died of illness, this time he died of a series of events.

Li Si wanted to use Lu Buwei's banned books to restrict Ying Hehua and reverse her ideological deviation.

Li Xian burned down the pavilion and asked Ying Teng to be a guarantor. His original intention was to clear Ying Hehua's suspicion, but it led to two mistakes that could never be reversed.

One is to let Zhang Liang complete the plan.

Zhang Liang ordered Zhang Yuan to contact Chun Yuyue, who persuaded Ying Teng to help Ying Hehua, making her owe Zhang Yuan a favor, which led to a series of events that successfully caused the Zhang family to leave the capital.

The other was to underestimate Dun Ruo.

Dun Ruo went to ask Ying Hehua for accountability in front of all the ministers in Fuqiu Palace. Then Dun Ruo was persuaded by Ying Hehua to turn the gun against Li Si and made the oath that forced Ying Zheng not to appoint Li Si and Yao Jia as prime ministers.

Although he cared about his reputation after his death, he was willing to sacrifice everything! He threw away his fifty years of career achievements. He said he would not care about the empire being built. Once he found a flaw in his promising successor, he would fight for his life!

Although Dun Ruo is not a Qin person, he already has the blood and energy of a Qin person in his bones!

This has become an inescapable fate.

Those who saw through this earlier than them had already stayed out of it.

Zhang Liang.

The one who killed people was Ying Zheng, the reason was Li Si, and the one who assisted him was Ying Hehua.

The fuse was Li Xian himself.

Zhang Liang had never even made a move, but he destroyed the harmony between the new and old ministers in Qin State in one fell swoop, and even alienated important officials of the court from the royal family.

Although this game was delayed by a few years, it was finally done.

He really should, really should have killed him in Xinzheng!

Even if Zhang Liang was not in Xianyang, even if he drank the poisoned wine, they were just chess pieces he had played before, and they had to finish the chess moves he had made.

Only then did Li Xian realize how heavy the meaning of these four words "strategize" was.

He looked at her again, silent for a long time, until the candle flame began to crackle. Finally, he said nothing.

Li Xian felt that he and Xu Zhi had never had any tacit understanding.

And the most interesting thing is that they all thought they knew the truth about Dun Ruo’s death.

Both of them tried hard to suppress the urge to tell each other the cruel truth.

Xu Zhi suddenly brought up something that happened a long time ago.

She said to him, "What happened in the past is in the past. Li Xian, don't be so pessimistic. Actually, if you think about it, you haven't gained nothing."

Li Xian did not comment, "I know what happened in the inner court." His eyes darkened, "Your Majesty will be touring the country soon. Once he leaves Xianyang, don't worry. It won't be long before you hear the news of Zhao Gao's sudden death."

"You are really well-informed." She shook her head, "But that's not what I'm talking about."

In the moonlight, her face glowed with a faint silver glow, and her black hair, without any hairpins, was covered with a layer of gauze, like a piece of silk, more lustrous than the most beautiful Shu silk he had ever seen.

He remembered that when they were in Chu, she ordered him to untie the glass pearls tangled in her hair.

He was stunned for a moment.

Xu Zhi saw his reaction. In her opinion, this was not a daze, but a sign that he was finally mentally normal.

Then she kicked Li Xian's knee lightly.

"Get up first!"

He is really obedient.

She stood under the moonlight, captivating and full of temptation.

She was just using Ying Zheng's edict to offer a gift to Buddha.

"Now that the world is settled, and you have returned at this time, then don't go too far away from Xianyang. The position of Shangqing will be in your pocket."

Li Xian knew what staying in Xianyang meant. It meant that all his information networks in Shu and the four counties would be handed over to her.

That's what she demanded before he jumped out of the attic that night.

"Princess, are you bribing me with the title to trade with you?"

Although she was smiling, she did not hide the sharpness in her eyes.

"Jing Qian."

"I thought I was informing you."

No one will not weigh the pros and cons when looking at his or her own power and status.

Coincidentally, Li Xian, who had never won after dying once, became an exception in this life.

He couldn't refuse this kind of coercion and inducement which he knew was a trap.

So the effect is naturally very good.