Chapter 285:
She pushed the person away with one shove, then hurriedly drew back the hand that was being held, Xie Wanning gazing toward the courtyard entrance.
Her expression was panicked.
Ji Chengfeng, who had been ruthlessly pushed away, followed her line of sight and looked over as well, his gaze narrowing slightly.
The two men’s gazes met in the air for an instant.
In a flash, Xie Wanning suddenly sprang up and whispered to the person beside her, “Don’t come over,” before quickly walking toward the door.
The courtyard was quite large, the distance not short.
As she walked closer and closer, Xie Wanning’s footsteps grew increasingly hesitant.
Countless emotions surged over her.
How did he find his way here.
How was it such a coincidence, running into this scene.
What would he think.
Their first meeting after her fake death, yet she was embracing another man.
They had been apart for a full five years.
Not five days, not five months.
In five years, he had gone from a nineteen-year-old youth to an emperor who ruled the world with unfathomable depths.
……Still a bloodthirsty emperor who massacred countless cities.
Thinking of the sea of corpses and blood in her dream, Xie Wanning shivered and immediately stopped in her tracks.
By now, she had reached the door, merely a few paces from the man outside.
At such a close distance, it was enough for them to clearly see each other, enough for Xie Wanning to see just what the man before her had become.
Emaciated to the bone, graying temples, eyes dark and inscrutable; even at the brightest hour of daylight, he seemed shrouded in darkness.
Desolate, bleak.
Like an elder with qi and blood decline, utterly lifeless.
His eyes fixed on her unwaveringly.
No thunderous rage, no killing intent spreading.
Even no trace of fluctuation.
He simply looked at her like this, his gaze even serene.
Xie Wanning froze; being looked at like this, she suddenly felt a sense of timidity like one returning home after a long journey.
The person before her seemed changed.
No longer the youth from her memory, shameless and without bottom line, desperate only for her to turn back.
But heartache still overpowered everything; she pursed her lips. “Lu Ziyan, how did you end up like this?”
The moment the crisp female voice rang out, the man before her seemed to awaken from a dream and snapped back to his senses.
His gaze shifted from her face, passing over her shoulder to land directly on the man in the courtyard.
Dark currents surged in his eyes.
Just one glance made Xie Wanning jump in fright.
“Don’t!” She rushed forward abruptly, wrapping her arms around his waist, and said urgently: “Don’t kill anyone anymore.”
The soft soft young lady threw herself into his arms, familiar fragrance filling him; Lu Ziyan blinked his eyes extremely slowly.
Then he reached out to gather her waist, tightening inch by inch.
The force at her waist grew stronger and stronger; Xie Wanning couldn’t hold back and cried out in pain.
Soft, hot, and crying out in pain…
“Wanwan…” He was utterly calm. “…You’re doing just fine.”
Fled from his side.
To live together with another man.
When did they get together.
Five years.
They had been together for a full five years.
Lu Ziyan’s breathing trembled slightly as he showed a smile that was like crying or laughing. “Am I not coming at the right time?”
“It’s not what you think,” Xie Wanning’s heart suddenly clenched; she said urgently: “There’s nothing improper between him and me; don’t think nonsense.”
Nothing improper……
Ferocity exploded in his eyes; he gripped her waist and pinned her against the courtyard wall. “What counts as improper!”
The servants sweeping in the courtyard, along with Ji Chengfeng, had all been acupointed and restrained by the shadow guards he brought, quietly taken away without a sound.
