Chapter 298:
He was right; the entanglement between them was too deep, so deep that she couldn’t forget it even if she wanted to.
Even if she could escape without looking back, she would still inevitably think of him.
If not for thinking of him day in and day out, she probably wouldn’t dream of her past life again after so many years.
Clearly, her rare sweet words were very pleasing to Lu Ziyan.
“Really?” Those eyes that were slightly narrowed softened, but his tone still held some disbelief.
“Of course it’s true,” Xie Wanning said seriously: “Didn’t I just say? Even if you hadn’t come looking, I was planning to return to the capital these past few days.”
Lu Ziyan gave a faint “oh” and just looked at her with a smile.
Xie Wanning inexplicably felt a guilty conscience from his smile.
Indeed, such an explanation was too coincidental; it was understandable that he didn’t believe it.
But what she said was true.
“Whether you believe it or not, I really didn’t deceive you,” Xie Wanning sniffed, saying honestly: “I truly hadn’t thought of returning to the capital before, but… last night I had a dream.”
The word “dream” held special meaning between them, something they both knew clearly.
Upon hearing this, Lu Ziyan’s whole body stiffened.
And the young lady in his arms continued, “I dreamed of everything that happened after my own death.”
Thinking of this person’s ending in the dream, Xie Wanning’s nose stung.
She wrapped her arms around his stiff waist, pressing her face to the hollow of his neck, and carefully kissed it, saying somewhat sadly, “Lu Ziyan, why were you so foolish…”
Becoming the emperor who held the power of the world, what woman couldn’t he have.
No matter how much he loved her, with time’s healing, it would eventually get better.
Why be foolish and seek his own death on the battlefield.
Lu Ziyan’s expression was somewhat dazed.
She had actually dreamed of it, dreamed of those five years in her past life when he lingered alone in the world.
So… she had personally witnessed his pathological madness.
She knew he wasn’t a hero who protected the nation, nor a benevolent ruler who loved his people.
He was just a war machine that regarded human lives as weeds and massacred cities and plundered lands.
He was a madman who committed all kinds of evils and accumulated countless sins of killing.
He not only slaughtered foreign tribes but showed no mercy to his own subjects.
Countless civil officials and military generals in the court and beyond, but anyone who displeased him, whether loyal or treacherous, was killed at his whim.
He was a real madman…
His most tyrannical and cruel side known to the young lady he loved, Lu Ziyan’s face gradually paled.
Xie Wanning had no idea what this man was thinking; she was still immersed in the tragedy of the dream, tightening her arms around his waist in deep attachment.
“I was afraid you’d go to the battlefield and seek your own death like in the past life, so after waking up, I decided to return to the capital to find you.”
As she spoke, her throat choked up, her voice tinged with hoarseness, “Even during those two years when you pestered me relentlessly and I was most annoyed with you, I never wanted you to die.”
The stern and arrogant youth, strong and robust, invincible in battle, with unyielding pride—how could he die.
But he had truly died right in front of her.
One arrow piercing the heart.
Thinking of that scene, Xie Wanning’s heart suddenly ached; she opened her mouth and bit down hard on the side of his neck.
Her sharp teeth broke the skin, Lu Ziyan’s breathing trembled slightly, and then his hand slowly lifted, stroking the back of the young lady’s head in his arms.
Xie Wanning held that piece of flesh in her mouth, gnawing on it for a long time, then gently licked the spilled bloodstains before releasing it.
She looked at the tooth mark she left, saying: “Does it hurt?”
Lu Ziyan’s adam’s apple bobbed slightly, and he gave a low hum.
Very alluring.
But Xie Wanning had just been tormented by him not lightly, so of course she wouldn’t be swayed now.
