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In the second year of Tianying, Huainan King Chen Huan, the only king with a different surname in Daliang, sent troops to Kyoto. In just two months, he led 18 cavalry to capture Haojing, beheading Kangdi Li Ji, who had just ascended the throne for only two years, in Zhaohua Hall.After that, in just two days, he ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor with iron-blooded means. The whole court was in an uproar, and most of the civil and military officials succumbed.

Chen Huan sat in the royal study in a brand new dragon robe, lowered his eyebrows and glanced at the two ministers kneeling on the ground, and suddenly squeezed the paper in his hand tightly, the cold voice in the silence made the two ministers endure I couldn't help shaking, "Who wrote this call for rebellion?"

Zhang Zeng, Minister of the Ministry of War, secretly glanced at the Minister of Rites who was still buried in his head, and had no choice but to raise his head, "Return, return to Your Majesty, it's the prime minister, oh no, the former prime minister, the former prime minister Gu Yun wrote the book."

On the first day that King Huainan raised his troops, Prime Minister Gu Yun personally wrote a call for rebellion against the traitors, calling on all armies to kill the rebel king. Now, King Huainan has done the opposite, and this prime minister can only become a former prime minister.

Chen Huan stood up, and slowly unfolded the paper carelessly, "Where is he now?"

Zhang Zeng didn't dare to raise his head, and bowed his head in response, "Return to Your Majesty, the rebellious officials headed by Prime Minister Gu Yun and Shang Shuling Zhao Yuanzheng who refused to submit are all put in prison and await your Majesty's orders at any time."

Chen Huan said casually, "Bring him."

Zhang Zeng was taken aback, brought?Bring it to the royal study?

"Your Majesty, Gu Yun has been imprisoned for several days. If he enters the prison, if he enters the imperial study, it may spoil His Majesty's vision."

Chen Huan was a little impatient, "Then clean him up and bring him back!"

Zhang Zeng didn't dare to say any more, kowtowed, and hurriedly retreated to give orders.

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Gu Yun had never been severely tortured before, but when he first came in, he was whipped twice on the back by the prison chief who was used to picking up high and stepping down low.

"Brother Feng'an, are you okay?" Zhao Yuanzheng is the official secretary. He and Gu Yun were originally the companions of Emperor Kangdi and Li Ji. They not only have the friendship between emperor and minister, but also have a relationship since childhood. Naturally, Not easily attached to others.

Gu Yun turned his head, and saw him take out a bottle of medicine from his mud-stained boot, and handed it to himself.

Gu Yun took it with one hand, opened the plug, but pulled his arm over, sprinkled the powder on his welt, "Zichang, do you regret it?"

Zhao Yuanzheng shook his head, "I don't regret it. I just hate it. I can't stop it after all."

Gu Yun buckled the medicine and handed it back to him, "Zi Chang, although His Majesty was killed, but His Majesty's youngest son is still alive, as long as you have a chance, I hope Brother Zichang can keep the youngest son healthy, or try to get back to work."

Zhao Yuanzheng listened to his words, inexplicably felt that the words were not good, "Feng An, what do you mean?"

But Gu Yun straightened his body, and bowed deeply to him, "You should answer me."

Zhao Yuanzheng quickly stretched out his hand to grab him, but couldn't pull him up for a while, so he could only respond, "I promise you. It's just that what you said is wrong. If you and I find a way out, we can protect the young master's health." yes."

As soon as Gu Yun got up, he heard the sound of boots stamping on the ground, and couldn't help but grabbed Zhao Yuanzheng's hand, "You must remember!"

Zhao Yuanzheng was taken aback for a moment, as if he didn't understand why he suddenly became so anxious, and subconsciously replied, "I remember, I promise."

A few knife-wielding guards in windbreaker shirts stood still outside the cell door, and took off their chains and came in after a while. Without saying a word, they pulled Gu Yun up from the ground, and three or two people dragged him out. At the prison door, Zhao Yuanzheng tore off only half of his cloth in a hurry, and watched him being taken out of sight, and his premonition became more and more bad.

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When Gu Yun was forcibly pushed down by several people and changed into clean linen prison clothes and knelt in the imperial study room, it was already half an hour later.

Gu Yun raised his head, took a look, then lowered his head, and said perfunctorily, "Your official, Gu Yun, has met King Huainan."

King Huainan... As soon as he called this, there were gasps in the imperial study room, and everyone lowered their heads, lest His Majesty would get angry and implicate themselves.

The new eunuch Zhang Gui came to his senses first, and couldn't help shaking his whisk at him, and said in a low voice, "Bold Gu Yun, how dare you disobey His Majesty and speak crazy words, and I haven't seen His Majesty before!"

Chen Huan sat on the chair behind the case, leaning back against the back of the chair, looking down at Gu Yun with a calm face, but didn't speak.

Everyone thought that Gu Yun would refuse to accept it, and they were even prepared to kneel down to plead guilty immediately when His Majesty got angry, but unexpectedly, Gu Yun changed his mouth in a very polite manner, "Gu Yun, the guilty minister, bow to Your Majesty."

Chen Huan waved his hand, and the guards who were suppressing Gu Yun retreated to the side, but they did not go far, ready to be called to step forward at any time.

Gu Yun was loosened from the shackles, but he didn't try to escape, and still knelt firmly on the ground.

Chen Huan held the appeal against rebellion on the case in his hand, "Prime Minister Gu, did you write this?"

Gu Yun didn't raise his head, "Exactly."

Chen Huan stood up suddenly, raised his hand and threw the paper in his face towards his face, his voice was piercingly cold, "The King of Huainan has acted against the heavens, disloyal, filial, benevolent, disregarding human relations, and the behavior of animals. It's hard to escape the blame! Ah!? You scolded me very happily, Prime Minister Gu."

Gu Yun looked up at him, "Your Majesty, it's absurd."

Chen Huan's veins twitched in anger, and he went straight to the table, stepped on the piece of paper, and looked down at him coldly, "Gu Yun, I will give you a chance to live, so don't be ignorant."

Gu Yun suddenly smiled slowly, and the smile got bigger and bigger. He didn't know where the strength came from, and he suddenly jumped up and pulled the guard's knife before he could react in time. Everyone was shocked.

"Escort!"

In a burst of panic, there was only a "clang" sound, and the knife in Gu Yun's hand fell to the ground, his slender wrist instantly swelled up at a speed visible to the naked eye, and he fell to his knees again.

Everyone was taken aback, and subconsciously lowered their heads to look at Chen Huan's somewhat sharp boot toe.

Chen Huan looked down at the traces of blood oozing from Gu Yun's back during his movements, raised his hand and pressed his temple, as if a little irritated by the noise, "Back off."

The guards and officials who hadn't stepped forward immediately retreated.

Chen Huan lowered his hands and said angrily, "Get out!"

It was only then that everyone understood that what he said to retreat was to withdraw from the imperial study, so they didn't dare to delay, and they retreated completely in a short time, leaving only Chen Huan and Gu Yun standing and kneeling, facing each other.

Chen Huan glanced at Zhang Gui, the eunuch who had not completely retreated, "Close the door. Tell people to keep it safe, and no one can come near."

"Yes, slaves follow the order."

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The door was closed tightly, blocking the last bit of direct sunlight in the room. The darkness and silence made the room even more depressing.

After a while, a loud slap broke the silence.

Gu Yun tilted his body and raised his hand to cover his burning face, only to feel that his eyes went dark and his mind was buzzing.

After a few days in prison, his body was already extremely exhausted. Just one slap at this time made his vision blurry and he almost fainted.

In a drowsy state, I heard a cold voice pressing down from the top of my head, "You are so cruel! You are going to die, and you still plan to tire me out again!"

Everyone thought that Gu Yun was going to assassinate him, but how could he not see that he was going to commit suicide!

Where can't you die!If you have to die before your own eyes, you will cause yourself another pain!

Gu Yun regained his strength a little bit, knelt upright again, and lowered his head, "Gu Yun doesn't understand what His Majesty said."

Chen Huan smiled lightly, but there was no smile in his eyes. He slowly squatted down, grabbed his collar, and pushed him to stagger against the door. The scar on his back suddenly hurt. The pain was all over his body, but he only gritted his teeth and kept the pain in his mouth. Chen Huan's other hand quickly penetrated into his thin skirt, pinched the red pill on his chest, twisted it slowly but hard, and brought his face closer to the chest. Next to his ear, he asked him almost gently, "Then, do you understand?"

Gu Yun raised his hand, grabbed his wrist indiscriminately and pulled it out, "Your Majesty...if you want to kill or cut him up, it's up to you. Why bother...to humiliate the criminals like this."

Chen Huan sneered, "Humiliation? When you courted me on my bed a few years ago, you never said it was humiliation. Don't you always like it?"

Gu Yun trembled all over, as if he lost his strength all of a sudden, his whole body slumped against the door panel, closed his eyes weakly, still grasping his wrist vaguely, and said in a low voice, "Please spare me."

Chen Huan's fingertips trembled, but then he pinched even harder, "Forgive you? Have you ever thought about forgiving me? You know that I sent troops to Haojing and encouraged Emperor Kang to block me through Jiangzhou. If it wasn't for my order Darling, I am the one who is going to die now!"

Gu Yun half-closed his eyes, and chuckled, "That's really my fault, I failed to stop you, but let you come here anyway, I owe Emperor Kang."

Chen Huan suddenly felt that his heart was pulled out and thrown into the cold like ice slag, infinite anger and hatred steamed up, stuck in his chest and couldn't get up, couldn't get down, and after a long time, he bent his numb fingers , slowly raised his hand.

Seeing him raise his hand again, Gu Yun subconsciously turned his face to the side, but the expected pain did not fall on his face, he felt a fist with a strong wind brushing past his ears, and the wooden door behind him rattled violently. Gu Yun's ears buzzed for a while.

However, Chen Huan couldn't feel the pain in his hands. He sat on the ground and met his eyes. "Feng An, are you so cruel? Just because of that Li Ji?"

Gu Yun was a little at a loss by his suddenly fragile appearance, his throat was suffocated, and he exhaled slowly, "...I know you, I won't die."

Unexpectedly, when the words fell, Chen Huan returned to his cold and fierce look. It seemed that the fragility just now was an illusion, and it disappeared quickly in the blink of an eye. His cheeks and eyes were slowly bloodshot, but his voice was unprecedentedly calm, "Prime Minister Gu, you know me quite well."

I know you will not die.Ah!I really don't know if he would have said that if he saw the knife that barely brushed past his neck at that time!Does he really think he is a fairy!

His own life is in his hands, a trivial thing that can be counted, discarded, and sold with just a waving of his sleeves.

Seeing his other hand subconsciously touching his neck, Gu Yun couldn't help but look over there, and saw a bloodstain there, which had scabbed over.

All of a sudden, I felt a coldness in my heart.

Chen Huan noticed that his subordinate's face twisted, and when he raised his head, he saw his eyes looking at his neck. He seemed to be surprised and couldn't bear it, so he couldn't help laughing, "Why, my heart hurts?"

Gu Yun looked away and didn't speak.

Chen Huan laughed self-deprecatingly, "So I asked the wrong question. Do you also feel distressed? If I open your heart, I might find that it is made of iron and stone."

Chen Huan let go, stood up slowly, flung the dragon robe on his body, glanced at his swollen wrist, and threw a porcelain bottle to his feet, "Prime Minister Gu is hard-hearted, but I no."

Gu Yun reached out and touched the medicine bottle, held it in his palm for a while, and pulled out the cork with shaking hands.However, due to his physical weakness, he received some actions from him, and after a long time of effort, he still could not remove the tight wooden cork.

Chen Huan originally hugged his chest and looked at him coldly. Seeing that he had been busy for a long time without opening it, he felt angry and helpless. He bent over and snatched it away, pulled out the plug and handed it to him, and said with a sneer. , "Where did Prime Minister Gu's strength to grab the knife from the guard's hand go?"

Gu Yun didn't care about his ridicule, grabbed the door frame to stand up, reached out to wipe the ointment with his fingers, and wiped it towards his neck.

Chen Huan was stunned for a moment, and when he realized it, his neck was already cold, and a slightly cold finger was still wiping left and right.

Chen Huan took a breath, and waved his hand away, "Get up."

Gu Yun lowered his eyes, dipped his finger in the ointment, and stretched it out stubbornly.

Chen Huan's chest heaved violently twice, but he couldn't bring himself to swing him away for the second time.

Gu Yun wiped it for a long time, then suddenly put his face on his neck, and sprayed the warm breath on the wound, causing a numb itching, then he heard him say in a low voice, "Chengxuan, it's because of you that you went astray."

Chen Huan froze. It had been a long time since he called his name close to him.

Chen Huan was silent for a moment, then suddenly raised his hand and grabbed his hair, forcing him to look up at him, and he was a little impatient when he spoke, "Call me again! Call me again!"

Gu Yun struggled for a while, and felt his scalp tightened even more, so he straightened his neck and spoke with difficulty, "Chengxuan—"

Before the words finished, all the hard breathing was blocked back into his mouth. Chen Huan tightly clenched his hair, pressed his lips and tongue together with his own uncontrollably, and swallowed his mouth almost crazily. every breath.

Gu Yun's face turned red quickly, and he felt dizzy for a while, but he didn't dare to push back the person who was struggling like a trapped animal, so he had to endure it, silently hoping that the person would calm down soon...