Binding the Dragon for the Empress

"Empress, please use something. This is a dessert from the imperial dining room. It is a fresh pattern." Qing Mei brought an enamel painted plate to the bedside, which contained peach-shaped pastries.

Ning Zhiyu looked at the green willow Yiyi outside the window, midsummer was coming to an end, and it was already a bit chilly in the afternoon.

"...Ayuan hasn't seen me for 13 days."

"It's the first time he's been this busy since we've known each other."

"Slaves don't understand government affairs, and the emperor is always inseparable." Qingmei comforted in a soft voice. "Yesterday when my servant went to Qiankun Palace to deliver fresh peach juice, the emperor ordered my servant to take good care of you and tell you to take care of yourself. He will come when he is free."

Ning Zhiyu: "I want to meet him."

"If he doesn't come to look for me, I'll go look for him, or make a pot of tea for him."

"Empress, you are not in good health, it is better not to go out casually." Qingmei said worriedly.

Ning Zhiyu shook her head: "I'm fine."

"It may be beneficial to go out for a walk after lying down for too long."

Qingmei knew that she couldn't be persuaded, so she didn't try to persuade him, she waited for Ning Zhiyu to get out of bed, changed him into a white robe and a cape, and then went out.

Qingmei asked someone to prepare a phoenix chariot, but Ning Zhiyu didn't want to sit on it and insisted on walking.

Although the Qiankun Palace is not far from the Luanfeng Palace, it takes half an hour to walk so slowly. Ning Zhiyu's body is so weak, she sweated and panted badly after walking for a long time.The setting sun was setting inside the palace wall, Qingmei followed him with an umbrella, and wiped the sweat off his forehead with a handkerchief.

Seeing that the gate of Qiankun Palace could be seen after turning the corner, Qingmei said happily: "The empress empress will go to see the emperor in person, the emperor will be happy to see you."

"Really." Ning Zhiyu smiled, obviously feeling better.

"Yes."

Chen Yan and Xiao Dezi stood guard outside the hall. When they saw Ning Zhiyu coming, they rushed up to greet him and saluted him. Ning Zhiyu exchanged a few words with them and explained the purpose of coming.

When Chen Yan went in to inform Yan Yuan, Yan Yuan was sitting by the bed and was wiping the face of the unconscious man on the bed. Xuanlong's high fever subsided, but he still hasn't woken up.After hearing Chen Yan's words, Yan Yuan turned her head in surprise.

"Ayu is here?"

"Yes, the empress is waiting for you outside the palace."

"He is unwell, why did he come to look for me in person?" Yan Yuan frowned, threw away her handkerchief, got up and walked out. "It's all my fault. I haven't taken time to see him recently, so I left him out in the cold."

Yan Yuan hurriedly walked, and when she was about to leave the inner hall, there were a few small choking sounds from behind her.He froze, and suddenly turned around to look, only to see the man's hand on the brocade quilt move on the bed.

Yan Yuan returned to the bed excitedly, and called out to Xuanlong: "Abo..."

The dark dragon's eyelashes trembled, and after a few breaths, it slowly opened its ice green eyes.Yan Yuan held his hand: "Abo!"

"You're awake...you're finally awake."

"Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

Xuanlong shook his head.Yan Yuan said with red eyes.

"You scared me to death. You fell into a coma for thirteen days."

"How could you be so sick? I gave you the medicine used by the human race, but it didn't work at all. If you don't wake up again, I don't know what to do."

Ten thousand years of Taoism dissipated in an instant, and he became no different from ordinary people. He was still pregnant with a child, so he would be extremely weak. It is normal to be sick, and it is abnormal not to be sick.

Yan Yuan's hand was holding him so tightly that it hurt a little, Xuanlong saw Yan Yuan was so worried, and didn't know how to explain it to him.

"Is it because it took too much spiritual power to save me?" Yan Yuan once read the story in the story book that the ghost sacrificed half of his body to save people in order to repay his benefactor, and he thought of this.

"No." Xuanlong said hoarsely.He instinctively didn't want Yan Yuan to know the truth.

"Why is that?"

Xuanlong was silent for a while: "Perhaps he is a little tired, so he has been sick for a long time."

"That's good... that's good." Yan Yuan grabbed the back of Xuanlong's hand and pressed it to her face, feeling terrified.

"Then I'm relieved."

Seeing that Yan Yuan hadn't come out for a long time, Chen Yan came in to remind her, stood outside the bead curtain and said, "Your majesty... the empress is still here..." Standing under the sun.

Yan Yuan's eyes met Xuan Long's, feeling a little guilty for some reason, she paused, and said: "You tell him to go back first. I'll go look for him later."

"Your Majesty..." Chen Yan seemed to want to persuade.

"Go." Yan Yuan interrupted him without looking back.

Chen Yan had no choice but to back out.

"Abo...I..." Yan Yuan wanted to explain something, but Ning Zhiyu was the queen he was marrying, and Xuanlong knew about it, so there was nothing to explain.

"He came to look for you, why don't you go?" Xuanlong asked.

Yan Yuan tightened his hand, and said truthfully: "You woke up after a long time, I'm worried about you."

"I'm fine." Xuanlong lowered his eyes and wanted to withdraw his hand.

He's not used to Yan Yuan's abnormal appearance. In the past, Yan Yuan couldn't wait to leave when she heard that Ning Zhiyu had something to do. Why did he change as soon as he woke up from a drowsy sleep?

Yan Yuan refused to let go of Xuanlong's hand, she said unhappy.

"Are you pushing me out now?"

"..."

Seeing Chen Yan coming out, Ning Zhiyu took a step forward unconsciously, and Qingmei immediately followed.Chen Yan closed the palace door and turned around, apologizing.

"Empress, Your Majesty is suddenly entangled in other things and can't get away...I'm afraid I won't be able to see you now."

"You care too much about the phoenix body. The emperor said to see you later, so you should go back first."

"Are you really so busy that you don't even have the time to see each other..." Qingmei muttered.

Ning Zhiyu remained silent for a long time, the setting sun above his head was reflected on his face, elegant and moving, but also pale as paper, he nodded with a smile.

"Well, I see, I have to thank Eunuch Chen."

"Empress, you are welcome." Chen Yan crouched down with his fly whisk in his arms.

Ning Zhiyu turned around, the smile on her lips faded, when she stepped out of Qiankun Palace, her thin body was on the verge of falling, Qingmei nervously supported him: "The Empress..."

Ning Zhiyu seemed gentle, but in fact he was somewhat stubborn. He gently withdrew his hand, avoiding Qingmei's support, and left under the umbrella.

"I once told him that if one day he fell in love with someone else, he would give me a cup of Hedinghong and feed me to drink it with his own hands..."

"It's good to die in his arms."

"Now it seems that even this wish can't be fulfilled... When he doesn't like me, he doesn't even want to look at me."

He walks inside the vermilion palace walls. For many people, this palace is a cage. For Ning Zhiyu, this is the place of salvation in his life. The several-foot-high palace wall is a strong barrier to protect him. , when he is here, he has nothing to fear.

Apart from here, he has nowhere to go.

"Empress, don't say stupid things, how could the emperor give you a red crest..." Qingmei chased after her.

Ning Zhiyu smiled and said nothing.

After returning to the palace, he was so tired that he fell asleep for a long time. When he woke up, it was already late at night. Ning Zhiyu sat up from the bed and asked.

"Has he been here? . . . "

Qingmei shook her head and whispered, "No."

Ning Zhiyu was not surprised, he was absent-minded on the bed for a long time, and ordered: "Qingmei, go and get someone to prepare some food. If he comes, he won't be happy if he doesn't have something warm to eat."

Ning Zhiyu's spirit is obviously not good, Qingmei is very anxious, but she doesn't dare to show it on the face: "What's the empress, the emperor loves you so much, how can I be willing to lose my temper with you."

Ning Zhiyu shook her head, said with a smile, "It's different now."

Qingmei didn't answer, she said with red eyes: "The emperor doesn't know when he will come, you should use something to pad your stomach first. The medicine can only be taken with food."

"No, I want to wait for him." Ning Zhiyu said softly.

After the palace lady withdrew, he was the only one left in the hall in a groggy state. In the middle of the night, he was like a monster with its mouth wide open. The air was filled with endless emptiness and silence, which might swallow him completely at any time.

Yan Yuan reneged on her promise.

He didn't come.

Perhaps it was because the 'later' he said was not tonight.Ning Zhiyu sat on the bed with her legs crossed, maintaining the same posture all night, as if she was thinking about something, but also seemed to be thinking about nothing.

Since the voice who called himself the 'Demon Lord' dropped his words three days ago, it hasn't appeared again. After midnight today, the three-day period will come.

"Is the deity right?"

"He doesn't even want to see you now."

"What are you waiting for?……"

Just as the sound of the watch from outside rang, that deep and magical voice appeared in Ning Zhiyu's mind.

"..."

Seeing that Ning Zhiyu didn't respond, the other party said slowly to himself:

"If you don't act, it will be too late..."

"You are still so young, you will have great prospects in the future, are you really willing to give up like this?"

"You say you want him to give you a red crown, but you ask yourself, are you really willing to die like this? Your happiness only lasted for a few short years."

"Although Yan Yuan and Xuan Long were fairy couples in the previous life, in this life...you are the one who married Yan Yuan, and you, Ning Zhiyu, were the one who met Yan Yuan first."

"Xuanlong is the despicable third party. Shouldn't you get rid of him to vent your anger? As long as you get rid of him, Yan Yuan is yours alone, and he will belong to you for the rest of your life."

People are afraid of the unknown is an instinctive expression, just like Ning Zhiyu's to Xuanlong, when he heard Yan Yuan talking about Xuanlong, he only felt absurd and scared, but he never thought of getting rid of it. other side.

Since childhood, Ning Zhiyu has never even killed a chicken, how could he do such a thing.

"No...no...I can't do it." Ning Zhiyu shook her head, tightly wrapped her body around her body, and said tremblingly.

Demon Venerable said softly: "I didn't ask you to do it yourself, I just asked you to borrow a knife to kill someone."

"No, it's not a human, it's a dragon."

"He's a monster now...you killed him to eliminate harm for the people."

The Demon Lord lives in Ning Zhiyu's body, and can easily obtain all his memories and insight into all his thoughts, thus gradually breaking through his psychological defense.

"He's a demon..." Ning Zhiyu was indeed led away by his thoughts.

"Yes, he is a demon. He will confuse Yan Yuan's mind and take away your lover. He is the chief culprit who took your lover away. If you kill him, everything before will not change."

"The method is very simple. Have you seen the demonic Gu in front of you? As long as you integrate into Yan Yuan's body when he is asleep, he will fall in love with the first person he sees for no reason when he wakes up. All living beings will no longer be important in his eyes."

"When the time comes...whatever you ask him to do, he will do."

While the Mozun was speaking, a small cluster of flame-like things appeared between Ning Zhiyu's forehead and floated in front of his eyes.