"..." Chu Yunchuan turned his head and grabbed Bai Zhi's right hand. It was unclear whether he wanted to pull it away or hold it tightly. Bai Zhi pulled harder and kept saying, "You have lived a stable and carefree life for more than ten years, but suddenly encountered such a huge change. The first thing that popped into your mind at this time is revenge? No way? Chu Yunchuan, don't you want to go back to your original life? What is hatred? It is a thorn in the flesh that grew later. Revenge must be taken, the Thirteen States must be rebuilt, and King Jing's injustice must be cleared. You have too many things to do, right? It's a pity that human energy is not enough for you to do this and that. You can't hold the knife of hatred firmly anymore, so you can only let hatred drag you forward!"

Chu Yunchuan clenched his teeth, and finally pulled Bai Zhi's hand away, sitting back in his seat as if exhausted. He suddenly chuckled: "Even if what you said is right, Bai Zhi, I have to do all these things, not a single one can be left behind. Now that I have come this far, how can I turn back? Zhi Heng is indeed going to have his hopes dashed."

"The people who waited for you to rebuild the Thirteen States will have their hopes dashed." Bai Zhi stood up and propped open the broken wooden window. The wind and snow rushed in and put out the fire. She raised her voice to cover the wind and snow, "The people of the Thirteen States have a home to return to, but the people of the North will be homeless. Your Highness, in your eyes, do you still need to classify people into different levels?"

"Three, six, nine, and three classes... why not?" Chu Yunchuan was rarely angry, his voice became hoarse and rough, "With one order from the dog emperor, the Thirteen States became a death zone. Not only did he want to accuse my father of treason, he also wanted to kill everyone and burn everything, and he also wanted to turn the devastated Thirteen States into a death zone. Only the people of the Thirteen States have no home to return to. In his mind, aren't the people of the world divided into different classes? If he can divide, then naturally I can too! I just want to watch his people suffer the same hardships as my Thirteen States. When the Northern Di invade, none of those frontier officials in the capital who watched coldly will escape the same bloodbath as my Thirteen States!"

Bai Zhi closed the window and sat back down. She took out a tinder from her bosom and relit the fire. She breathed a sigh of relief as if she was relieved: "Go on, there's nothing to say."

Chu Yunchuan rubbed his brows and whispered, "Why are you talking about this? Aren't you planning to stop caring about the world?"

"I really don't have such plans. Even if the North Territory becomes a sea of ​​blood and corpses tomorrow, it has nothing to do with me. I only care about myself and the people around me. In the end, I can only have a little sympathy for the people in the war." Bai Zhi suddenly raised her head and said mischievously, "Do you want to know why? Tell me everything in your heart, and I will tell you."

"……it is good."

Since the floodgates had been opened just now, it would be much easier to say the following words. Chu Yunchuan sat closer to Bai Zhi, closed his eyes and pondered for a while, and then began to speak slowly to the fire, "Well, let's start from the beginning. Five years ago, after the Jingwang Mansion was wiped out, I pieced together a story from some letters that had not been burned in time: Three months ago, my father discovered that Gu Feng was going to collaborate with the enemy and sell out the country. Gu Feng was considered a loyal and good man at that time, so my father planned to send someone to investigate privately to avoid wrongly accusing a good person, but in the end, he really caught evidence of collusion with the enemy.

"What a coincidence! These evidences were actually shown to the world by Gu Feng. They were the ironclad evidence of my father's collusion with the enemy. It was because of these evidences, which came from nowhere, that Gu Feng sent troops and my parents died inexplicably. At that time, I firmly believed that these things were all done by Gu Feng. After he knew that his collusion with the enemy was discovered, he pushed all the things onto my father in order to save his own life.

"Later, Changfeng took me to flee eastward and hid in a mountain forest. For two years, I followed Changfeng and studied martial arts. I originally wanted to tie up Gu Feng with my own hands, and then take him to the emperor to confess his crimes, and then take out those letters, tell him the truth, and ask him to clear the name of King Jing and rebuild the Thirteen States. Who knew... Who knew that when I arrived in the capital, I heard that Gu Feng had died of illness not long after being conferred the title of Marquis. I hated him so much that I rushed to the Gu family's ancestral tomb in anger, wanting to dig Gu Feng out. My parents' bodies were gone, so why could he rest in peace?"

Chu Yunchuan became more and more hateful as he spoke, and his short armor was pinched into his palm. The wine on the stove was warming up nicely, Bai Zhi poured him a cup, he drank it in one gulp, slowly exhaled a breath of wine, and continued: "That's where I met Gu Yan, and when I saw him, I remembered that I forgot to cover my face, so in order to avoid exposing my identity, I simply knocked him out and took him away. After he woke up, he asked me directly if I was a descendant of King Jing and came here to seek revenge. I wanted to kill him directly, but guess what he said?"

Bai Zhi flattered him: "Did they say you are really pretty?"

Chu Yunchuan laughed and shook his head: "He said that he has been waiting for me for a long time, and if I want revenge, he can help me."

"Oh my, a divine soldier descended from the sky." Bai Zhi asked, "And then?"

"I naturally don't believe that my enemy's son wants to help me get revenge, but I have come up with a brilliant idea through him. Since Gu Feng is dead and there is no evidence, why don't I pretend to be Gu Yan and sneak into the Gu family. After some operations, let the Gu family collude with the enemy again and create the biggest evidence to show the emperor? In this way, the emperor will think that it was Gu Feng who colluded with the enemy back then, and King Jing suffered a great injustice." At this point, Chu Yunchuan's voice suddenly became low, "Everything was going well, but on June 15th, I accidentally learned from an old palace maid that the incident back then was simply caused by the emperor!" Chu Yunchuan's voice became more and more sluggish, and the last few words were directly a breath. Bai Zhi continued for him: "The plan to fabricate evidence for the emperor is not feasible, so you have to help the seventh prince to ascend the throne. Only when the seventh prince becomes emperor can the injustice be made public."

"...Yes. People in the palace are hard to guess, so I only told him that these things were done by Gu Feng." Chu Yunchuan slowly looked out the window. This place would become a sea of ​​blood on New Year's Eve. "After New Year's Eve, the evidence of the Crown Prince's collusion with the Xuanping Marquis' Mansion will be established. The Seventh Prince will send troops to restore order. He will get the throne and I will get the Thirteen States. So Bai Zhi - you must not stop me."

Bai Zhi sighed, "Your Highness, what do you think the survivors of the Thirteen States are missing? A piece of land? Where can they not have a piece of land? What they want is the Thirteen States under the rule of King Jing, where poor people can read and write, and women who bring bad luck to their husbands will not be looked down upon. They want the Thirteen States that are like a paradise, not just hanging moon lanterns every Mid-Autumn Festival and brewing Shouteng wine every now and then."

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