diskusbooks Chapter 429: Memory Loss of Value
Chapter 429: Memory Loss of Value
"Your Majesty." Yizhen retracted her hand as if she had been electrocuted and stood up in panic.
To her, even sitting beside Long Mohan's bed was a great sin and she would be punished.
"What on earth happened?" Long Mohan, who had just woken up, had a mess in his mind, and his gaze subconsciously turned from Yizhen to Eunuch Hua.
Compared to Yizhen, he was more familiar with Eunuch Hua. It was understandable that he asked Eunuch Hua about the situation, but Yizhen became sad because of his small action of looking away. The depressed Yizhen could not hear Eunuch Hua's answer at all. There was only one strong obsession in his heart that was getting stronger and stronger: Your Majesty, look at me, look at me! Don't look away!
Perhaps it was a miracle, Long Mohan suddenly turned his gaze back as if he had heard Yizhen's thoughts.
Feeling Long Mohan's gaze return to her again, Yizhen was startled, and all the pores on her body opened up, and she felt a sense of terror for no apparent reason. The words that Yuan Rong had said when he persuaded her to drink the black water rang in her ears again: "The fox demon has the art of fox charm, which can make others obsessed with her. I can help you become a person that everyone loves, and you don't have to endure the loneliness and helplessness you have now..."
Is this the art of fox charm? Is this the magic trick that can make others obsessed with you?
Yizhen gently pressed her wildly beating heart, and Long Mohan's gaze warmed her stiff and cold body again.
As long as I can be watched by his eyes, as long as I can always be watched by him so intently and infatuatedly...
Even at the cost of one's life, it is worth it.
"Your Majesty..." Yizhen didn't know where she got the courage from, and actually took the initiative to talk to Long Mohan, "Zhao Ji is no longer the Zhao Ji of the past. Although Your Majesty has lost Zhao Ji... there are still other concubines who truly love Your Majesty..."
The sincere gaze was filled with a bewitching magic that would have drawn the soul away if it were someone else. However, Long Mohan was more focused on the first half of the sentence, so he suddenly sobered up and asked, "What do you know?"
If Yizhen didn't know some inside information, she would never say something like "Souji is no longer the Soji of the past" out of thin air.
Yizhen, who had wanted to test whether the black water had any effect, felt a little disappointed when she saw that Long Mohan's eyes suddenly became clear again.
At this time, the experienced eunuch Hua realized that Long Mohan and Yizhen might be discussing some secrets, so he said, "Your Majesty, I'll be serving you outside," and left the room.
As soon as he left, Yizhen suddenly became nervous. She lowered her head and dared not speak. She warned herself not to hold too much hope for Heishui. Perhaps it was just Yuan Rong's malicious conspiracy.
"Yizhen, you are Zhaoji's best friend in the palace, and you must know her affairs best." Although the tone of this sentence is gentle, just like a normal chat, it has a kind of interrogation momentum, and the subtext is to make Yizhen confess everything she knows.
Yizhen didn't have the courage to hide anything from the emperor. In her mind, it was natural to confess everything to the emperor without any reason. If she didn't confess, it would be a great sin that could not be tolerated by heaven. So when Long Mohan asked, she confessed everything honestly: "Your Majesty, Zhaoji is a fox demon. She used the fox demon's charm to capture your heart."
"Fox demon..." Long Mohan only knew that a soul from another world had entered Zhao Ji's body, but he didn't know what the relationship was between Zhao Ji and the fox demon. Although he had a vague feeling that Zhao Ji had a close relationship with the Demon Temple, he never dared to guess that Zhao Ji was a fox demon.
"Who told you that Zhao Ji is a fox demon?" Long Mohan had to confirm further.
"Zhao Ji told me this herself. She also said that Yuan Rong kept pestering her because he wanted to make her his shikigami. Otherwise, why would Yuan Rong, who was only interested in demons and monsters, keep pestering her?"
"Fox demon... How could it be a fox demon..." He repeated this somewhat scary title in a low voice. Considering the various strange things that happened to Zhao Ji, he couldn't help but believe that she was not a fox demon. No wonder she had the courage to break into the Demon Temple at night. It turned out that she was a fox demon... Then did Shui Furong, who broke into the Demon Temple with her at night, already know her identity?
Long Mohan had just thought of this when his thoughts were interrupted by Yizhen's gentle call.
"Your Majesty, you are bewitched by Zhao Ji, and so am I... It's all because we trusted her too much, so we were bewitched by her. So I understand your Majesty's feelings best." Yizhen stared at Long Mohan with too many expressions and too much concentration in her eyes. She seemed very deep and unpredictable, and also a bit bewitching, which made Long Mohan a little difficult to resist.
He looked away, not daring to look Yizhen in the eye.
I don't know why, but Yizhen is a little different today than before...
Although her appearance remained the same, there was now a hint of charm in her gaze and expression.
"Your Majesty, are you just going to leave Zhao Ji alone in the palace? Yuan Rong is causing chaos in the palace because of her!" Yizhen asked nervously when she saw Long Mohan suddenly fall silent. The implication was that if Zhao Ji was not driven out of the palace quickly, Yuan Rong's disturbance would not be quelled.
"She faked her death and wanted to escape the palace with Yun Zhen. Now the guards are searching for their whereabouts..." Long Mohan's breath gradually weakened, unable to hide his weakness. He was already seriously ill, and suffered psychological blows one after another. No matter how strong he was, he could not hold on any longer.
"After finding them, what does the emperor plan to do with them?" Yizhen asked again.
Long Mohan was unable to answer this question for a moment, and he did not think too much about it. Although he said in a rage that he would separate them by life and death, after his anger subsided and he calmed down, he found that there was no need for him to be angry at all.
The innocent question asked by Prince Ming at that time kept echoing in his ears: "Even if she is not my mother, she is the one who takes care of me and cares about me, should I just watch her die? I don't want the kingdom... I want my mother, I want my mother..." The crying sound lingered in Long Mohan's mind like a spell, getting louder and louder, making Long Mohan cover his ears in annoyance and let out a low growl.
"Your Majesty?" Yizhen immediately cast a worried look at him.
"I don't know how I should deal with them... I really want to accept the fact that Soji is dead and no longer exists in this world... But every time I see her, every time I hear her voice, see her making trouble for me, laughing at me... I can't... I can't rationally admit that Soji has disappeared... She is still so vividly alive in front of me, why... I can't find her again..."
If Ji Anni just quietly closed her eyes and lay in bed, Long Mohan could still treat her as a dead person. But once she suddenly stood up and spoke, it would always remind Long Mohan of his longing for Zhao Ji. So when he saw Ji Anni suddenly wake up from her deep sleep and defend Yun Zhen today, Long Mohan became furious and uttered a vicious curse.
"Your Majesty, she is a fox demon... All your feelings for her are controlled by her magic... Why can't you wake up? Maybe even Prince Ming is a spell she cast on you, a curse that makes you obsessed with her!"
Yizhen's roars were getting louder and louder, causing Long Mohan's ears to hurt.
Fox demon...yes, fox demon...
A fox demon is a monster that is good at using charm.
If Zhaoji was a fox demon, then my meeting and falling in love with her in Qi was all a trick played by witchcraft?
Unwilling to believe this was real, Long Mohan covered his increasingly heaving head, "No, Zhao Ji is not a fox demon... Her body is just temporarily occupied by someone from another world, she is not a fox demon..."
"Occupied?" Yizhen then realized that Ji Anni had not confessed everything to her. In addition to the unexpected identity of a fox demon, she was also hiding something from her!
She immediately recalled that when she first entered the palace, Ji Anni had accidentally mentioned an unfamiliar name in front of her - Ji Anni.
"Ji Anni..." Yizhen repeated this unfamiliar name in a low voice, vaguely guessing Ji Anni's secret.
"Ji Anni, everything started because of her. On the first day she entered the palace, Zhao Ji was no longer Zhao Ji, but this strange woman named Ji Anni. If Zhao Ji is really a fox demon... then is her body a fox demon, or is it her soul?" Long Mohan was so confused that he couldn't think about these confusing questions. He instinctively hoped that Zhao Ji was still the same Zhao Ji, and the fox demon was just Ji Anni.
"Your Majesty, Zhao Ji told me that Prince Ming is also a fox demon."
Yizhen's crucial reminder completely shattered Long Mohan's last hope.
"If Prince Ming is also a fox demon, then it means that Zhao Ji was already a fox demon when she was in the Qi Palace. In other words, Your Majesty, she was already a fox demon from the first day she met you - she was born a fox demon." Yizhen said so affirmatively.
Long Mohan stared blankly at her determined expression, and his eyes gradually dimmed.
Is there anything more heartbreaking than hearing news like this?
If Zhao Ji was born a fox demon, and if she used the fox demon's charm on herself, wouldn't all the beautiful memories in her memory turn into worthless dust?
Is the love you give genuine or is it just delusion?
Is the feeling towards her real or fake?
Was she lying to herself? Was she playing a trick on herself?
And Prince Ming… What is this child she gave birth to for herself?
As he pondered these sad and heavy questions, Long Mohan's head became increasingly heavy, until his neck could no longer support it.
He lowered his head dejectedly and covered his forehead and eyes with his right hand.
Suddenly, I felt a warm and wet feeling in my palms. It turned out that my eyes were already wet.
As the lies were exposed, the unreal and disordered memories were like sharp blades in my mind, constantly destroying and tearing apart all the beauty of the past. Everything I once cherished, in the blink of an eye, has lost its value...
The two people he cherished most in his life, his wife Zhaoji and the prince Ming'er, all turned into monsters due to his conspiracy.