Quick Wear: Beautiful, Strong, Miserable, Whitening Guide

"No...it's not like that..."

Chu Ziyu muttered to himself, his head splitting as those deliberately forgotten or blurred memory fragments began to crash into his mind frantically.

The Queen Mother's coercion, the contempt of the court officials, the cold suffocation when falling into the water, Lin Ci'an's contradictory attitude of sometimes cold and sometimes gentle, the deception of the word "husband", the chains...

And the hysterical accusations of the Queen Mother before me...

All the images and sounds intertwined together, eventually converging into the cold touch on the ankle and Lin Ci'an's eyes.

"what--"

Chu Ziyu let out a low groan of pain.

For a moment, everything was silent.

He stopped struggling and slowly raised his head.

The frightened and confused look on his face disappeared completely, replaced by an extreme tiredness.

Empress Dowager Liu was startled by his sudden change, and the hand that was pinching his chin subconsciously loosened a little.

Chu Ziyu looked at her, his voice frighteningly calm, even with a hint of sarcasm.

"So what? The Queen Mother is holding me hostage now, hoping to use me, a locked-up 'pet', to threaten that 'madman'?"

Empress Dowager Liu was enraged by his reaction and became even more frantic.

"So what! If I can't survive, none of you will have a good life! Especially you! Chu Ziyu! You are just like your short-lived father, a disaster! You are here to bring disaster to our Liu family!"

Chu Ziyu closed his eyes, as if he no longer had the energy to argue with her, leaving only boundless despair.

It turned out that from the beginning to the end, his so-called dependence and warmth were just a more sophisticated scam.

6872: (Ding! Personal attack detected! Boss, do you need me to curse back? I just downloaded the Zaun vocabulary!)

(…No thanks. Just be as quiet as a chicken.)

At this moment, the sound of rapid and chaotic fighting came from outside!

Empress Dowager Liu suddenly woke up and went completely crazy. She roughly dragged Chu Ziyu off the bed, pressed a dagger against his neck, and dragged him all the way back to the abandoned bell tower in the northwest corner of the palace.

(The view from this bell tower is nice, but it's a bit dusty. When Lin Ci'an comes later, should I touch the porcelain first or the porcelain first?)

At the highest point of the bell tower, the wind was howling.

Empress Dowager Liu's hair was disheveled, her phoenix robe was stained, and she looked like a mad woman. She held Chu Ziyu's neck tightly, the dagger pressed against his carotid artery.

Chu Ziyu let her hold him hostage, his face was almost transparently pale and his eyes were empty.

There were tiny blood marks and a few splashes of mud on the side of the neck caused by the dagger.

Lin Ci'an and his personal guards also followed.

"Lin Ci'an! If you take another step forward, I'll kill him immediately!"

Empress Dowager Liu screamed, her eyes dazed and crazy.

"The Liu family is finished anyway! I'm finished too! Drag him down with us! He'll be a perfect companion for our burial!"

Lin Ci'an suddenly stopped ten steps away, his heart almost jumping out of his chest.

He stared at the gleaming dagger.

"Let him go! Liu! If you dare to hurt him, I will wipe out all nine members of your Liu family!"

"Nine clans? Hahahaha!"

Empress Dowager Liu laughed wildly, "Lin Ci'an! Look at the canary you raised! He looks half dead now. Does he still satisfy you?

As you wish? Don’t you like to keep him locked up? Wait till I kill him and I’ll let you lock him up as much as you want!

"Shut up!"

Lin Ci'an shouted, but his eyes were fixed on Chu Ziyu, trying to find a trace of the past in his eyes, but he only saw a cold desert.

She was very emotional, and the dagger left a tiny bloody mark on Chu Ziyu's neck.

Lin Ci'an's pupils suddenly shrank, and his breathing stagnated: "Stop!"

He forced himself to calm down and tried to deal with her, distracting her attention: "Liu, you and Liu Chen colluded with Prince An, plotting to depose and enthrone the emperor, and even intended to poison His Majesty. Who is the traitor?!"

"You forced me to do that!"

Empress Dowager Liu roared, "If you hadn't controlled the Emperor and left us no chance of survival, how could we have ended up like this?! The Emperor is clearly the blood of my Liu family, yet he has become your private property, Lin Ci'an! Why?!"

"He's no one's property!"

Lin Ci'an retorted sharply, his eyes fixed on Chu Ziyu, fearing that he would be harmed in the slightest. "Everything I did was just to protect him! From being eaten by you termites!"

"Protect? Haha! That sounds nice!"

Empress Dowager Liu sneered, her wrist trembling slightly with excitement, "You are a complete lunatic! You think you won?

I tell you, if I die, he won't be able to live! I won't be at a loss if the emperor accompanies me on my way to the underworld!

A crossbow arrow, which had been lying in wait in the shadows in the distance, flew through the air and pierced Empress Dowager Liu's throat!

"Uh!"

All the sounds of Empress Dowager Liu stopped abruptly, her eyes widened in disbelief, and a crazy expression froze on her face.

Warm, scarlet blood spurted out from the wound on her neck like ink, splashing all over the side face and neck of Chu Ziyu in front of her!

Chu Ziyu trembled all over when the warm blood plasma splashed on him, and his eyelashes trembled slightly.

He didn't even look at the fallen empress dowager, but just slowly, extremely slowly raised his hand and wiped his cheek.

The fingertips were stained with a glaring red.

He looked down at his fingers, then slowly raised his eyes and looked at Lin Ci'an who was rushing towards him anxiously.

Lin Ci'an hugged him tightly in his arms and repeated in a trembling voice: "Zi Yu! It's okay! Don't be afraid, I'm here..."

He was eager to check the wound on Chu Ziyu's neck and wipe the blood off his face.

However, the body in his arms was cold and stiff, without any response.

Chu Ziyu did not push him away, nor did she get close to him as dependently as before.

He just let Lin Ci'an hold him.

Then, in an extremely calm tone, he gently asked:

"Lord Regent...are you going to lock me...back in?"