There were sounds of objects falling down and porcelain breaking in the house, and the things on the table were scattered all over the floor and rolled to the foot of the bed.

"Xie Zhixing..." Zhou Jinli half-knelt in front of him, revealing a look he had never seen before, with his arms around his waist, carefully avoiding the wound on his shoulder, "Don't leave me."

The man who had always been strong and unruly begged him with such a tone and expression.

Even others would not be able to bear it, but this is Xie Zhixing.

"I can give you anything you want, but I won't let you leave me!"

"Brother, don't you know why I left Kyoto?" Xie Zhixing bit his lips tightly, suppressing his emotions. Tears had already wet his cheeks, suppressing the man's sobbing. The bitter smell of blood spread along his heart, but he suppressed it. "I'm hiding from you, which means I'm rejecting you. Don't you understand?"

"Then do you dare to say that you don't have any thoughts about me in your heart?" Zhou Jin questioned him harshly, pinching his neck with one hand and forcing him to look at him. The madness in his eyes was not concealed at all, as if he was ready to bite Xie Zhixing to pieces and eat him whole.

"Brother, do you think I should have it?" Xie Zhixing closed his eyes, not daring to look at him. His voice and body trembled involuntarily.

"Of course you can." Zhou Jinli loosened his grip and gently stroked his face, placing a cool kiss on his brow. "I know Feifei is the smartest one in our family. You knew from the beginning what your brother thought of you. Even so, you would still let me control you. You were so obedient before, why did you become like this now?"

Xie Zhixing seemed to be embarrassed by him, and he turned his face away and said through gritted teeth: "I will stay until you get married."

He wanted to get up and leave, but he lowered his head so that Zhou Jinli wouldn't notice his expression.

As soon as he stood up, he was hugged by Zhou Jinli and pressed tightly in his arms. He heard someone coldly whisper in his ear: "Do you think I will let you leave?"

When Zhou Jinli thought about him leaving, he could no longer suppress the emotions he had held for so many years. He kissed the boy's neck and shoulders fiercely, then moved up and bit the boy's tightly closed lips.

"Be good and listen to me." The man pinched his chin, forced him to open his mouth, and attacked him.

"Who is it?" The guard's voice suddenly came from outside.

The door of the room was kicked open, and a man in black interrupted Zhou Jinli's good deeds, which made him very dissatisfied, and his eyes were full of murderous intent.

"who are you?"

"I'm here on someone's behalf." Zhou Xing drew his sword, and Zhou Jinli hugged Xie Zhixing and quickly dodged, but he didn't expect that Xie Zhixing would escape.

"Fei..." He looked in shock as the boy who was supposed to be his ran towards someone else.

Xie Fei, who was standing at the door, quickly grabbed Xie Zhixing who was running towards him and whispered, "Have you thought it through?"

Xie Zhixing looked back at Zhou Jinli and nodded, "Well, at least we can't stay here tonight."

"Okay." Xie Fei took Xing and quickly left Prince Qing's Mansion.

Zhou Xing did not leave with him. Instead, he closed the door, picked up a chair, sat at the door, crossed his legs, looked at Zhou Jinli and sneered, "Many times I don't understand what you are thinking."

Zhou Jinli felt a sense of familiarity from the depths of his soul about the man in black who suddenly appeared in front of him, and his eyes even fell on the knife in his hand.

"Your Highness?" The guards outside were ready to go.

Zhou Jinli said coldly: "It's okay, you go down first."

The guards at the door did not dare to disobey him, so they put away their weapons and left the yard.

"What is your purpose?" Zhou Jinli asked him.

Zhou Xing sheathed the knife, held it in his arms, and said coldly: "A passerby who knows all your plans."

Zhou Jinli's pupils shrank sharply, and he drew his weapon directly, pointed the sword at Zhou Xing and asked: "Who are you? Why did you take Xie Zhixing away?"

"It's not us who want to take him with us, it's him who wants to go with us."

These words undoubtedly stabbed Zhou Jinli in the chest. The person he had tried every means to keep was willing to follow others.

Zhou Xing was very satisfied with his current expression and said, "Do you know what the first thing he wants to do before returning to the city today?"

"He wants to see you."

Zhou Xing's words made Zhou Jinli stand there in a daze, and he was even unable to react.

"On the way back to Kyoto, he had only one thought in mind: to see you. But what did you give him? You want to marry her, but you also want to keep him by your side. Have you ever thought about what kind of reputation it will bring to him?"

Every word Zhou Xing said was very heartbreaking.

"What's more, you are half brothers in the eyes of outsiders. You only care about yourself and never think about him."

"You want to sit on a position that everyone admires, thinking that you can keep him by your side. But don't forget that you got the throne by stepping on the corpses of hundreds of people in the Xie family. His parents are in that sea of ​​blood and corpses. How do you want him to cope with it?"

"I..." Although Zhou Jinli was unwilling to admit it, in fact every word this man said was the bloody truth.

The air froze for a moment, and Zhou Jinli said bitterly: "Does he know his own life experience?"

"What if he knows, what if he doesn't know." Zhou Xing looked at the time, stood up and said, "If he doesn't know, you will always be brothers. If he knows, there will be a family feud between you. Which one do you think is better?"

“Neither is good.”

What Zhou Jinli wanted was for everyone in the world to know that Xie Zhixing was the one he loved.

Zhou Xing's appearance tonight disrupted all of Zhou Jinli's plans.

He locked himself in the house for three days, hardly eating or drinking during these three days, and the whole mansion was in a mess.

Finally, Prince Qing asked someone to call Xie Zhixing back before he was willing to open the door.

"It is my fault."

There was no light in the room. When the door opened, Xie Zhixing saw Zhou Jinli kneeling in the shadows.

He seemed to have been kneeling here for a long time, his hair was disheveled, his face was haggard, and he looked like he had lost his soul.

"It is my fault."

It was not until Xie Zhixing slowly approached him that he heard the words he murmured.

"elder brother…"

Xie Zhixing knelt in front of him and hugged him, his eyes red, holding back tears, and said in a hoarse voice: "Brother, why did you become like this?"

"Xie Zhixing." Zhou Jinli recited his name and whispered, "I was wrong, so if you want to leave, go ahead."

Xie Zhixing clenched his hands, unable to believe that he had said these words.

"I have always been the one forcing you and never asked for your consent. I seem to have raised you like a bird trapped in a cage. You should spread your wings and fly high, and you shouldn't belong to me alone."

"Fei Fei, from now on you are free, no matter if you are Xie Zhixing of the Qing Palace, or... you are free."

"Brother, you..." Xie Zhixing could feel that when he said these words, the shackles on his soul seemed to disappear. Just as he said, he was truly free.

"I won't leave you." Xie Zhixing closed his eyes tightly, as if he had compromised. "But I still have things to do. If you need me, I'll always be here."

"oh, I understand now."

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