Jinwuzang charming boy

"...This is my last concession."

Empress Dowager Dou looked at the man in the imperial robe with neither joy nor sorrow. On the table between the two of them, lying in the jade box was the tiger amulet representing the military power of the Han Dynasty.

"You just need to take out the position of queen and prince. I will remove the worries for you. From now on, you and Gillian can do whatever you want. After I die, no one in the world will dare to stop—"

There was a sudden pause in the voice, Empress Dou stared at the person for a few seconds, and then slowly turned away, "But, if you really want to guard those two positions that you can't use, then don't blame the imperial grandmother It's gone...I can't just sit back and watch the Liu family change hands."

Liu Che, who had been pondering for a long time, finally raised his eyes, and there was a trace of sarcasm in his eyes: "The position of queen and prince is given to the emperor's grandmother, so how do I know whether the future emperor is really surnamed Liu?"

Empress Dowager Dou was really choked for a moment, and she couldn't hide the anger in her tone: "If your majesty really cares about this issue, then choose a concubine and accept the empress and do it yourself?"

Liu Che was not annoyed at all, but shook his head seriously: "If I touch someone else and then get close to my brother, wouldn't it be equivalent to letting others get in touch with my brother? ——That's impossible."

Empress Dowager Dou has calmed down about the emperor's grandson who immediately turned into Shenjingbing when Chen Ajiao was involved: "...the prince will only be the child of the queen and your eighth brother, Liu Duan...he has to be a man, the future prince will be His only son, you don't have to worry about the chaos of the throne. How about this?"

Empress Dowager Dou did not expect Liu Che to shake her head——

"The secrets of the royal family cannot be spread outside...but what if my brother is sad?"

Hearing this, the old man sneered: "If he is really sad, you should thank the old man instead."

Liu Che's eyes lit up first, then he seemed to think of something again, he shook his head: "...I don't want him to be sad."

"..."

If it wasn't for her lack of will, Queen Dowager Dou really wanted to throw her grandson into the water to sober up—could he be any more useless? !

"—Then you just keep getting involved like this, and you lock him up like this for the rest of your life? Waiting for the courtiers to jointly sign a letter to force you to accept your concubine, and waiting for him to take the opportunity to leave completely without mercy? "

Liu Che's eyes in the pavilion darkened suddenly after the "leave".

Empress Dowager Dou sighed softly: "...Are you also worried that one day you will be escaped by that person because of your negligence? Even if you chain him up in Guantao Palace, you will feel uneasy. You have been entangled all this time, maybe It's a good thing, if we are separated for a while, maybe he will cherish it more...not to mention, how bad can the situation between you be?"

Liu Che raised his eyes coldly.

It's just that he admitted it in his heart... After more than two years of torment, he obviously wanted to be entangled when he heard the man's weeping low/groaning, but he always felt the emptiness in his chest that could not be ignored after the sigh at the end ——He gave all his emotions to his brother, and all he got back was indifference.

...How could there be any difference between them?

And just like his imperial grandmother's position - what he can't bear the most is the possibility that any of those people will leave.

The fingertips that were clasped on the jade box suddenly turned white due to the force——

"...Okay, I agree to the emperor's grandmother....I will ask the emperor's grandmother to arrange for the empress."

Guantao Palace.

Chen Xiaojiao's hand holding the teacup suddenly trembled, and a cup of hot tea poured upside down into the air.

"what--"

Ah Qiu and the servant Gu who were standing at the side exclaimed in surprise, but Chen Xiaojiao was in a daze, staring blankly at her fingertips that were red from the tea.

The servant rushed up in shock, and just bent down to touch the trousers that were stained with hot tea, but then stopped suddenly, and turned to look at Aqiu, who was stupidly aside: "...Come over and roll for the young master." Clothes?——I'll call the medical staff."

Only then did Aqiu come back to his senses, and hurriedly stepped forward and squatted down, stretching out his hand to hold the trousers of the young master drenched in hot tea, and on the exposed delicate white leg, Aqiu looked I saw red marks here and there on the skin that was not burned but only slightly pink.

...hickey.

Ah Qiu almost couldn't help covering his mouth.

Although I had guessed after I came in just now, I still couldn't believe it when I saw it... Such a beauty like snow jade was hidden in the palace by the young emperor for several years?

Little Houye... the 20-year-old Xiaohouye... is clearly the little Houye Chen who has been said to be the son of God, right?

No wonder people all over the world said that the people who were inseparable back then did not gain power after His Royal Highness the Son of God ascended the throne, and even the eldest princess was sent out of the palace——

...but it turned out to be like this.

Ah Qiu couldn't help raising his head, but saw that pair of beautiful black eyes also turned to him, but the inside was foggy and dazed——

"...Did that person just say that Archer went to see Queen Mother Dou?"

Amidst the distraught voice, it took a while for Ah Qiu to realize that "Archer" refers to the current emperor.

... so intimate?

Ah Qiu nodded.

Then she saw that the man's eyes that were not bright at first dimmed more and more.

"...It's been more than two years, he should be tired too."

After speaking, the young master who had been expressionless all this time suddenly hooked his lips.

It's just that the arc fell into Ah Qiu's eyes, but no matter how he looked at it, he felt miserable and sad.

Ah Qiu inexplicably felt a little distressed.

"...if I were really 'Chen Ajiao'...if I was a woman..."

Ah Qiu saw that the young master closed his eyes but still had reddish eye circles, and a light voice that seemed to be exhausted from his pale lips spit out a curse that was different from his appearance——

"What a f*ck/muck..."

The man spoke in a calm tone, but Ah Qiu was so sad that he was about to cry.

"Little Marquis..."

Ah Qiu couldn't help but speak, but was interrupted lightly by that person——

"...I'm about to accept my fate...Archer..."

The man took out a small brocade bag out of nowhere, and held it tightly in his hand.

"..."

Aqiu didn't see Emperor Wu go to Guantao Palace until he was leaving that day.

At night, she thought about the expressionless young master, those hickey marks, that chain, and that miserable smile. She felt so uncomfortable for a long time before falling asleep.

The next day, she heard rumors inside and outside the palace that the emperor had decreed that at the end of this month, she would marry the daughter of Taiwei Tian's family.

Ah Qiu stayed for a long time after hearing the news, and when she regained her senses, she thought that the icy and snowy Chen Xiaohou would definitely not cry.

If the ice and snow shed tears, it would probably turn into a puddle of snow under this dazzlingly bright spring day.

But she couldn't help shedding a tear for him.

Liu Che had no intention of hiding the matter of the wedding, and Chen Xiaojiao found out after a few days.

The servant who seemed to be "inadvertently" carefully observed Chen Xiaojiao's expression, and saw that the person still had the usual indifferent expression, but somehow felt that the person's face had become thinner in the past few days, and he thought that it was only a few days... ...Mostly it is an illusion, so there is no need to tell His Majesty; besides, Your Majesty is busy with the wedding ceremony, and probably doesn't have much time...

So the servant looked at the man with some pity, said a few words and then backed away.

After the servant left, the whole hall was empty, Chen Xiaojiao looked at the air for a long time, and then she seemed to slowly regain her senses.

He has been feeling tight in his chest for the past few days. The medicinal soup that the medical staff took care of to drink a few days ago was really bitter... It made him lose his appetite, so he secretly poured it out without Archer noticing.

...Oh, he forgot, Archer is probably busy these days, maybe he is sick.

He told the medical staff not to say anything.

Tired from sitting, Chen Xiaojiao stood up while supporting the table, her chest was still a little tight, she gritted her teeth and took two steps forward, then suddenly stopped.

He seemed to have a premonition, and suddenly stretched out his hand to cover his mouth.

After a suppressed light cough, Chen Xiaojiao's spine froze slightly.

After a while, the man in plain white went to the table to take the teacup, then went to the window, followed the place where he had poured the soup, and washed away the dark red blood in his hands expressionlessly.

Let someone prepare a handkerchief next time... he thought.

Time never speeds up or slows down because of a certain person's emotions. Half a month has passed, and seeing that tomorrow is the emperor's wedding ceremony, everyone in the palace is extremely busy.

Only Guantao Palace was a little coldly silent.

In the inner palace of Guantao Palace, there is an ambiguous atmosphere in the room, the man after the love/event is standing outside the couch with the curtain hanging down, his voice suppressed and undulating——

"...Brother, if you say that you don't want to, Archer will immediately cancel tomorrow's marriage."

There was no response from the hall, and the people in the curtain seemed to have fallen asleep.

Liu Che closed his eyes heavily, then opened them again, and walked out of the palace, "...Archer will not come to Guantao Palace tomorrow night."

Until the man left, the palace was still silent.

After nearly half a stick of incense passed, the figure inside the curtain suddenly trembled, and his body trembled slightly uncontrollably. The man lifted the quilt under his body with trembling fingertips and grabbed a white kerchief dyed red. , suddenly drew back and covered his mouth, and then coughed uncontrollably.

That voice echoed in the empty atrium and palace, each sound seemed to be coughing up his own internal organs.

...It would be great if I could cough it up...wouldn't it be such a dull pain...the man thought while clutching his handkerchief.

The already familiar smell of blood permeated the nostrils.

…………

On the night of the big wedding ceremony the next day, someone coughed all night while clutching their handkerchief. Someone sent a servant to send the new empress to another man's bed. He closed his eyes and thought about another person. /ditch.

…………

Ah Qiu has been very sad recently.

It's been more than three months.

The emperor has not been to Guantao Palace for more than three months.

She felt that the little duke had lost so much weight recently...I always felt that he was about to fall down when the wind blew...and he was so pale.

The people in the palace are very snobbish, the servant who went to Guantao Palace with her today, with a look of reluctance, even told Xiaohou that the queen was pregnant for two months Grandpa said it out.

When she saw the young master's eyes were all extinguished... She should have cried when she saw the young master, but he didn't cry.

...as if he had no tears.

Ah Qiu always thought that the young master had no tears.Until today, the young master couldn't hold back his cough and covered his mouth with the hidden handkerchief——

The white handkerchief that the young master asked her for more than three months ago has almost been dyed red now.

Ah Qiu bit her lip and choked up her sobs, but she still couldn't hold back her tears.

She didn't know until today that it's not that the young master has no tears. His tears turned into blood in his heart, and he coughed them up one by one.

"...Little Marquis...don't do this..."

She heard her own voice intermittent, but she didn't know what to say... Don't do this... Don't do this... But what should I do?

All she could do was watch this man cough up the blood from her body one mouthful at a time, dyeing the veil over and over again as if paying off a debt, making it more red than the emperor's wedding robe.

Ah Qiu cried until he couldn't breathe.

"...Don't cry, I'm not dead yet..."

The man's plain but slightly cool hand stroked her forehead lightly.

Ah Qiu struggled to get up: "——I want to call the emperor——I won't listen to you——"

"……do not go……"

The little duke shook his head at her, "...the queen is raising a baby, so don't bother him..."

Aqiu was still crying: "—You are like this—! You are coughing up blood!——I’m going to tell him——!"

"...If you tell him, I won't be able to save him."

The young master sighed softly. "Aqiu..."

"——I didn't tell him that you coughed up blood——I just said that you want to see him, can't you?!"

But Aqiu couldn't hold back her sadness any longer, she stood up and ran out of the palace.

After leaving the palace gate of Guantao Palace, Aqiu went straight to the direction of Weiyang Palace; a while after she turned and left, a luxuriously dressed woman, accompanied by a group of maids and servants, walked slowly Entered Guantao Palace.

If Aqiu was here, he would definitely recognize that woman, she was the empress Tian who was the most popular in the palace and pregnant with Liujia.

But when the dignified and beautiful Empress Tian saw the inscription on Guantao Palace, a moment of ferocity flashed across her face——

... She knew that it was the person who lived here who made her the queen of a big man but wanted to have sex with a perverted and disgusting man, who made her admired by all the women in the world but didn't even care about the young emperor's husband she admired. It was so hard to see that she had to conceive the child of the person she hated the most for the sake of the so-called family mission.

She hated this man—!

"...You all wait outside, I just go in by myself."

Chen Xiaojiao sat silently by the table, staring at the jade wrench in her hand in a daze.

...His queen is already two months pregnant...

...I haven't seen each other for three months...Did I lose the bet in the end...

I'm really not reconciled......

Chen Xiaojiao took out the brocade bag from her bosom, opened it with trembling fingertips, and the yellow talisman paper that she had rubbed many times inside fell out.

Chen Xiaojiao stared at the talisman in a daze for a long time until she felt a dull pain in her chest.

This time he didn't suppress it, he let the blood cough up straight, splashed on the yellow talisman paper, and then the red trace disappeared.

Save yourself from harming yourself... Chen Xiaojiao thought.

He took the piece of talisman paper to the table, picked up a pen and wrote two seal characters on the talisman paper, and those two characters disappeared on the talisman paper like the bloodstains before.

Chen Xiaojiao picked up the torch prepared by the side, lit the yellow talisman paper, and poured the burnt ash into the teacup, enduring the choking smell and pouring it down.

An indescribable sense of strangeness spread all over the body.

After a while, Chen Xiaojiao came back to the Lingtai Qingming after a long absence, and he curled his lips mockingly... Is this the legendary flashback?

……Not bad.

It's a pity that the strange feeling didn't last long before being interrupted——

"Chen Ajiao—"

The woman's voice had nothing to do with the word polite, and the somewhat ferocious expression distorted the dignified and beautiful face.

Chen Xiaojiao looked up at the woman, and then moved her gaze down to the man's abdomen.

... two months pregnant, still can't see anything.

...Archer's child, right there?

Complicated emotions that couldn't tell whether it was sadness or jealousy gnawed in her heart, and Chen Xiaojiao looked at the woman in a daze.

"It seems that you already know my identity."

The woman's smile is still a bit ferocious, "You are probably the only one in this palace who can be called a sister to me—Master Chen, as a man Cheng/Huan under his brother-in-law, tactfully moaning like a woman /Yin,...do you still want face?...Is your Chen family's honorable pet relying on you to sell your body so cheaply? "

"—What nonsense are you talking about?!"

The sudden voice came all the way from outside the hall, Ah Qiu's flushed face was full of excitement.

"Where did the lowly maid come from - dare to talk to me like that?!"

The woman who was talking turned her finger at Chen Xiaojiao again: "——Why, after the young master fell out of favor, even the servants are so uneducated?"

"—Who fell out of favor?!"

When Aqiu heard this, his eyes became even redder, "—His Majesty will come to visit the young master later! I just came first! Then you will fall out of favor——!"

Hearing this, Empress Tian's expression froze, and strong jealousy flashed in her eyes: "I am the empress of the main palace—he is a shameless male favorite who doesn't even have a name! Who should fall out of favor?!"

Aqiu was so anxious that she blushed and wanted to say something, but was supported by Chen Xiaojiao: "...Aqiu, don't choke with the mad dog..."

"you--"

Empress Tian was extremely angry, her eyes turned wildly, and she suddenly saw the dragon-carved jade on the central table with a finger: "—Bold! You dare to use dragon patterns as accessories! You intend to rebel!"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to grab the wrench by force.

"—don't touch it—"

Chen Xiaojiao, who hadn't seen any emotion from the beginning, suddenly changed her face.

Ah Qiu also rushed forward in a hurry.

"His Majesty--"

"--what!"

"—Help the Empress——!"

After the chaos of a big drama, Chen Xiaojiao's face faded from panic, and he looked coldly at the woman who fell to the ground, whose blood was stained red with the animal skin, and the courtiers who were pretending.

"His Majesty--"

The woman who was fierce and domineering before was crying, "My child... He let the palace maid knock down my child—"

Liu Che, who had fixed his eyes on Chen Xiaojiao since he came in, turned his eyes away, and looked at Aqiu, who gritted his teeth and raised his head, who was shivering. Aqiu held back his fear: "——Young Master didn't instruct me, it was me -"

"...I hit it."

Chen Xiaojiao took the call lightly, and instead of looking at Liu Che who opened his eyes angrily after hearing this, he bowed and helped Aqiu up who was trembling slightly, "You all read wrong...I bumped into it. "

"Why--?!"

Liu Che's gaze was like a fierce sword, and he aimed straight at Chen Xiaojiao's hand that was supporting Ah Qiu.

"……why……?"

Chen Xiaojiao suddenly smiled, but that smile seemed to fade away in an instant, "...because I swore...I swear, I, Chen Ajiao, will do my best to make your Liu family's incense and fortune extinguished. The Liu family is full of extremely dirty blood—how can you continue—I wish you all died without burial—"

"Snapped--!"

That slap suddenly interrupted his voice.

Liu Che's eyes were full of deep pain.He squeezed his fists hard, and the shocked servants who passed by walked up to Empress Tian who was still lying on the ground, bent down to hug him up, and suppressed all his emotions so as not to turn around and look at the person's expression.

At this moment, if he took a wrong step, the person behind him would be doomed, and he would endure the heartache until death.

Behind Liu Che, Chen Xiaojiao's heart and face were numb.He stared blankly at some scattered focus in the air.

...is it still here...

He lost this gamble in the end.

No one can complain.

"...Archer..."

He heard his own voice was unexpectedly calm, like a piece of stagnant water that could no longer make waves.

In the gradually blurred vision, the man's body paused, but he didn't look back. He only saw the woman lying in his Archer's arms and grinning at him.

"Archer... you won..."

The corners of his lips curled up abruptly, his body that couldn't hold on any longer slumped to the ground amidst the exclamation, bright blood that couldn't stop pouring out from his mouth and nose without any warning——

...It must be so ugly... Chen Xiaojiao thought sadly.

It's just that he still couldn't bear to close his eyes, he insisted on looking at the man who suddenly turned around and rushed over like crazy.

"... So... you... still care about... me..."

The blood in the throat seemed to be overflowing hot, and every word was stained with dazzling red.

"No-no-no-!! The medical worker--! Go call the medical worker--go call--!!"

The man's warm palms desperately tried to cover the surging blood—he never knew in this person's body—how could there be so much blood in this person's body—

The man's handsome face was distorted like a ghost at this time, and even the voice he liked was hoarse and shrill. Chen Xiaojiao coughed, but couldn't hold it back. After coughing, he spit out a mouthful of blood. He felt that the blood in his body was probably gone. Not much left, the whole person is light...

"...Liu Che...your child....life...I will pay you back...the two will not see each other in the next life...let me go..."

"No no no-!!!"

The man wrapped him in his arms like crazy, staggered up and rushed out: "—medical engineer—medical engineer—!——medical engineer——!"

The violent bumps made Chen Xiaojiao close her eyes in pain, his consciousness was already dying——

"...Liu Che...are you sad...then you can live a good life...I want you...life is better than death...to live..."

The last word was so light that the person in his arms lost his last breath.