Reborn to marry the regent and seize the throne as queen

Yan Xiuchen frowned at first, then found it funny and lowered his eyes to look at Jiang Qingwu in his arms.

"This joke is really ridiculous." Yan Xiuchen sneered softly and patted Jiang Qingwu's shoulder gently.

As if coaxing a child, he fell into deep thought, "I just... pity him and feel guilty about him."

"Don't you want to know what a Gu person is?"

"Actually, it's the container of the poison."

As he spoke, Yan Xiuchen raised his body slightly, tilted his head to the side, and looked at Jiang Qingwu in his arms.

"The Fuye tribe is good at using evil magic and poison. They have a kind of insect that is extremely poisonous, called the Gu insect."

"This kind of insect needs the help of human body to reproduce and grow, and human body is the nourishing land."

"So, in order to utilize this Gu worm, the Fuye tribe created Gu people, who actually used captured prisoners and captives as containers."

"Gu Yanbai is the Gu master, and also the container in which they plant the Gu worms."

Jiang Qingwu listened attentively, his hands unconsciously fiddling with Yan Xiuchen's clothes, his brows furrowed as he thought about something.

"Heart-eating insect, is this it?"

Yan Xiuchen nodded gently, looked down at Jiang Qingwu's hand, took a deep breath and nodded, "Yes, that's it."

"The poisonous insect takes root in the human body, is bloodthirsty, and when it grows up it will become part of the container."

"As a container of poison, you have to live with the poison for the rest of your life."

"Fuye plants poison in the container every year."

"The person..."

Yan Xiuchen said this, feeling somewhat reluctant, and even finding it difficult to utter a word.

"Lock the person in a damp water cave, with half of the body submerged in water..."

"You can only move freely for two hours a day, and you cannot leave the water dungeon."

"Because they need to stay still and keep their bodies moist so that the poison can grow."

"Every day, the poisonous insects would be in his body, drinking his blood and biting him."

"I don't know what kind of pain it is, I only know... every year, Fuye has hundreds of containers, but only three or two successfully survive."

"After a year of bloodthirsty biting, the insect grows up and becomes a part of the body."

"At this time, Fuye will plant a second wave of poisonous insects, and the container will continue to be bitten and bloodthirsty."

"Gu Yanbai has been in Fuye for two years and has experienced two planting seasons. During those two years..."

Yan Xiuchen's eyes turned blood red, and Jiang Qingwu felt as if something had stabbed him deeply in the heart when he heard this.

I felt so sad that I couldn't help but cry.

Seeing this, Yan Xiuchen hurriedly changed the subject, "As long as, as long as he doesn't continue to plant the Gu worms, he will be like a normal person and won't feel any pain."

"The Heart-Eating Gu is a poison. It can poison anyone, and it can also activate its own toxins at any time..."

"He can only poison others. He can make an antidote and poison himself..."

As he spoke, Yan Xiuchen explained that he wanted to ease Jiang Qingwu's sadness, but he soon realized something.

"Antidote, he can detoxify, can he detoxify himself?" Jiang Qingwu asked, looking up.

Yan Xiuchen shook his head helplessly, "There is no cure. He has stimulated the toxin himself, so he can only slowly digest it himself."

"It will take twelve hours for it to absorb and digest the poison."

Jiang Qingwu listened, slowly sat up, looked at Yan Xiuchen in surprise, and murmured softly as if he remembered something.

"In order to suppress...in order to suppress the lustful drug Shen Wanrong gave him, he activated the poison in himself."

Thinking of this, Jiang Qingwu closed his eyes tightly and clenched his fists secretly.

"Why...why did he..." Jiang Qingwu felt aggrieved and dazed, and looked up with indignation.

"Who forced you to abandon him in Fuye back then?"

"At that time, he should have trusted you and relied on you."

Jiang Qingwu's voice became louder and louder, and his emotions became more and more agitated.

She couldn't hold back her anger, "At that time, he was only a teenager...like a child."

"Why did you abandon him in Fuye? When you abandoned him, did you know that the Fuye people would treat him like that?"

Jiang Qingwu asked repeatedly, tears welling up in his eyes, and shook his head with a bitter smile, "What unforgivable thing did he do?"

"Why...why must you kill him?"

"He was already a teenager... no, maybe even earlier. Why would you kill a child like him?"

"I don't believe that he committed any heinous crime when he was a teenager."

Yan Xiuchen looked at Jiang Qingwu, his eyes gradually drooped and his gaze gradually darkened.

"The reason behind this is not just the grudges and gains and losses of one person, but it concerns too many people, the world, and the overall situation."

"It's not that I won't tell you, it's that... I can't tell you."

Jiang Qingwu guessed this would be the answer, and sneered, "What do you mean too many people?"

"Why should he be the only one to bear the consequences of something that concerns so many people?"

"What's the use of your pity? What's the use of your guilt?"

"What he wants is the truth, innocence, fair treatment, and the right to survive as a human being."

Jiang Qingwu said, and then suddenly turned over and got out of bed, "Now I know why you have been indulging him and forgiving him from the beginning."

"I was kept in the dark, framed, abandoned in Fuyeh, and hunted by so many people..."

"No one knows how he survived, and no one knows how he escaped from Fuye..."

"No wonder he wanted to poison you and kill you. He loved and hated you so much and tortured himself with such a conflict."

As Jiang Qingwu spoke, he walked behind the screen and changed his clothes.

"Before... I always thought he was crazy and insane. He wanted to kill you one moment, and then he wanted to die in your hands the next."

"On the one hand, I want to kill you, but on the other hand, I can't bear to do it and I protect you everywhere."

"I didn't understand why he was so conflicted, but now I understand."

When Jiang Qingwu walked out from behind the screen, Yan Xiuchen was just taking the cloak prepared on the table and handing it to her.

It was as if he knew she was going to leave, as if he knew he couldn't stop her.

Jiang Qingwu did not take the cloak. She looked at Yan Xiuchen quietly and walked towards him.

"Let me ask you, if sacrificing one person could save the lives of many, what would you do?"

Yan Xiuchen was slightly stunned, and looked at Jiang Qingwu quietly, "You...what will you do?"

Jiang Qingwu sneered and said, "If it were up to me to choose, I would not hesitate to exchange myself for the common people."

"But if the common people raise their knives to kill me, in exchange for their safety, I will kill everyone in the world, and we must die... die together!"

As he spoke, Jiang Qingwu took the cloak that Yan Xiuchen handed over and looked at him with determined eyes.

"Yan Xiuchen, I am officially informing you...I want to help him find the truth."

"I will stand by his side. If he wants to kill the man behind him, I will be the one handing him the knife."

"Fuck the world, fuck the overall situation..."