After I killed him for 9,000 years, he was reborn.

In a private room of the restaurant closest to the imperial palace, Dali Temple Minister Meng Qisui and Princess Sheng'an Li Shiliu sat opposite each other. Nanyang Yao, who deliberately took a half step slower, was the last one to enter. He closed the door casually and sat down quietly next to Li Shiliu.

Seeing that Nanyang Yao actually took the initiative to sit next to Li Shiliu, and the two people in front of him looked very familiar, Meng Qisui paused in surprise.

"Do you know?"

Hearing Meng Qisui's question, Li Shiliu did not answer immediately, but looked at Nanyang Yao. Nanyang Yao smiled proudly and said, "It's more than just knowing each other. Our relationship is extraordinary. We are so familiar with each other that we can communicate closely often."

Nanyang Yao took the initiative to answer, and while speaking, he also moved closer to Li Shiliu beside him in an intimate and showy manner.

Li Shiliu was slightly stunned and couldn't help but feel amused that Nanyang Yao would actually express his emotions so directly.

She secretly glanced at Meng Qisui and saw a hint of surprise on his face, but he quickly regained his composure.

"Is Nanyang Yao jealous?

It’s quite cute…” Li Shiliu smiled secretly in her heart, and found Nanyang Yao’s performance somewhat interesting.

She originally just wanted to see Nanyang Yao's reaction, but she didn't expect him to express his possessiveness of her so directly.

However, Li Shiliu did not reject Nanyang Yao's initiative, which was also tacit agreement with Nanyang Yao's statement. She decided to give Nanyang Yao a chance. After all, no matter how bad he was, he couldn't just eat and not admit it, right? If he really did that, Nanyang Yao would probably go to the palace to file a complaint.

Seeing the two people in front of him being so close to each other, Meng Qisui couldn't help but feel a ripple in his heart, which was in sharp contrast to his usual indifference.

He tried hard to suppress the strangeness in his heart, lowered his eyes pretending to be calm, and took a sip of tea, but found that today's tea seemed particularly bitter, as if it was mixed with Coptis chinensis.

After his three wives died in succession, Meng Qisui had long lost hope in love. He knew very well that he had a tough life and that he had killed three wives, so he chose to devote all his energy to his work.

However, at this moment, the tightly closed emotional door in his heart seemed to be gently pushed open a crack...

In fact, no one knows that Li Shiliu occupies a unique place in Meng Qisui's heart.

Unlike other women, Li Shiliu is full of vitality and energy, extremely intelligent, and has no fear of the notorious Meng Qisui. She sincerely regards Meng Qisui as an ordinary person and expresses her admiration for Meng Qisui without any concealment.

Although he remained calm on the surface, the 30-year-old Meng Qisui was deeply touched in his heart, and his heart, which had been dead for many years, seemed to start beating again.

However, precisely because he was moved, he became even more afraid to hurt her.

As a man born with a bad luck and a wife-killing fate, Meng Qisui felt timid, so he resolutely rejected Emperor Jiade's proposal of marriage.

However, when he learned that Emperor Jiade had actually betrothed his beloved Li Shiliu to the incompetent young master of Duke Yue's mansion, Meng Qisui felt endless regret for the first time in his thirty years of life.

If I had not refused the marriage so resolutely at the beginning, would Li Shiliu have not had to step into the dangerous place of Duke Yue's Mansion?

Maybe Li Shiliu will be the accident?

Did Meng Qisui have a moment when he impulsively wanted to find Emperor Jiade, tell him that he was willing to marry Li Shiliu, and ask the emperor to revoke the imperial edict?