Both worlds are like dreams

Xue Huang brought Su Linjin to the back door. At this time, the guards of Dong Chu and the people from Shanhe Gate surrounded them and stared at him closely.

Now that Wei Yunzhou is not here, there is no one in the mansion who can fight. Even if all these people are added together, they may not be his match. If a fight were to break out, it would be a very brutal battle.

But Mo Yunchen didn't seem to have any intention of taking action. He just sat in the pavilion, quietly looking at the lake. However, on the table next to him, there was some wine he brought.

Xue Huang waved her hand to let those people retreat. With her current strength, one person was enough.

Su Linjin said, "King Hanxi is in a refined mood. Did he sneak here just to drink?"

"Your Highness probably doesn't want me to pay you a formal visit, right?" Mo Yunchen said indifferently.

"It should be the prince who doesn't want to pay a formal visit, right?" Su Linjin sneered, "After all, General Shen probably never thought of using the poison, forcing the antidote, and turning the candidate for marriage into the prince, right?"

Mo Yunchen stood up and turned to look at them, "Is it important? This matter is a foregone conclusion, isn't it?"

Xue Huang said coldly, "What on earth are you doing here?"

"Shouldn't we talk?" Mo Yunchen raised his eyebrows.

Su Linjin said, "What does Your Majesty want to talk about? Why not just say it."

"Your Highness has misunderstood," Mo Yunchen smiled indifferently, "I just have some small matters to discuss with the princess."

Xue Huang glanced at Su Linjin and said, "You go back first."

Su Linjin looked at her worriedly, "Are you okay with this?"

Xue Huang nodded.

Su Linjin had to leave temporarily, but he did not go far. Instead, he leaned against the gate of the courtyard and watched them quietly.

Mo Yunchen poured two glasses of wine and motioned for her to sit down.

Xue Huang ignored him and looked at the lake. "Since this matter has been settled, shouldn't you honor your previous promise to extend the three-day efficacy of the medicine to fifteen days?"

Mo Yunchen sat on the stool and shook his wine glass. "Is this all we can talk about?"

"What else?" Xue Huang said coldly. "If you want what you want, you only need to threaten me with Gu Qinglan's life. How can I not agree?"

Mo Yunchen's hand paused slightly, "Are you willing to do anything for him?"

"Our deal is, I marry you and you keep him alive. Of course, you can be even more shameless!"

Mo Yunchen put down his wine glass, his expression gradually turned cold, "Don't you remember anything about what happened after you became a medicine man?"

"I remember," Xue Huang said indifferently, "I remember you controlled me to kill people, and I remember you used me to hurt the people I cared about."

Mo Yunchen smiled coldly, "Isn't it better to be controlled by me than by others?"

"Then why do you ask?"

"Is that all you remember?"

Xue Huang sneered, "Then what do you want me to remember?"

Mo Yunchen stood up and walked to her side, "The scenery here is nice, walk with me."

Xue Huang frowned slightly and looked at him coldly, "What are you going to do? I have kept my promise and chose you in front of the emperor. Shouldn't you fulfill your promise?"

Mo Yunchen walked towards the lake by himself, "Why don't you take a few more glances? After the wedding, you will live with me in the palace."

Xue Huang suppressed her anger and followed slowly.

With every step Mo Yunchen took, a layer of frost would form on the ground, and even the lake water was no exception.

A chill lingered around him, as if it were the coldest time of winter.

He stood on the ice and turned to look at Xue Huang who was walking towards him. She was the only one in the world who was not afraid of the coldness on his body.

"I will give you the antidote as promised," he said calmly, "but I also remind you that the antidote can only control the poison. If you continue to be entangled with Gu Qinglan, his poison can break out at any time."

"You don't need to remind me, I will stay away from him." Xue Huang said coldly.

Mo Yunchen looked at her indifferent expression and felt a little depressed. When she became a puppet and was extremely obedient, he was not satisfied. Now that she has regained consciousness, why is he still dissatisfied?

He said nothing more and turned to look at the lake.

Xue Huang naturally had nothing to say to him and just stood quietly behind him.

The wind blew gently, and the world suddenly became extremely quiet, as if there were only the two of them left between heaven and earth.

Until a sound of ice breaking was heard.

When Xue Huang heard the sound, she looked and saw a white line spreading on the ice surface under Mo Yunchen's feet, but he was still standing there motionless.

She said coldly, "If you want to die, give me the antidote first and then die."

Mo Yunchen actually smiled. He turned and walked towards her. The ice under his feet suddenly made strange noises, as if it could break at any time.

An extremely cold air emanated from the Snow Phoenix. The frost on the lake surface became thicker and the cracking sound disappeared.

Mo Yunchen had already come in front of her, looked at her and said: "From now on, even if you hate me, you will not want me to die."

Xue Huang clenched her fists and said nothing.

"You can put forward one more condition for this transaction."

Xue Huang glanced at him, "What do you mean?"

"In addition to the antidote, you can ask me for one thing, and I will grant it to you."

"I hope you will always remember my bottom line."

"Not to hurt the people you care about?" Mo Yunchen sneered, "Then you'd better advise them not to block my way."

"Since you don't even care who becomes the crown prince, then party disputes are nothing to you. What if I say I hope the fifth prince will become the crown prince?"

"You want me to support him?"

"If I say yes, will you change your position?"

"It depends on what kind of value he can bring to me."

Xue Huang smiled sarcastically, "You really are good at calculating everything."

"After all, he is the least advantaged."

"Then what can you promise me?" Xue Huang turned around indifferently, "If you are just trying to trick me, forget it. After all, I don't believe a single word you say."

Mo Yunchen grabbed her wrist and said in a slightly cold tone, "Why don't you believe it?"

"Let go!" Xue Huang said coldly.

"answer me!"

Xue Huang looked at him coldly, "Then I have a lot of conditions, do you want to listen to them?"

Mo Yunchen didn't say anything.

Xue Huang continued, "I want the Fifth Prince to become the Crown Prince, I want the Minister of Revenue to be his man, I want Beiling to stop wanting Beiyuan's people and exempt them from all their crimes, I want Beiling to have a clean political system and the people to no longer suffer from your oppression, and I want everyone I care about to be safe. If you can do any of these, I will believe you. If you can't do anything and still ask me to bring you value first, then I don't need anything."

Mo Yunchen smiled, pulled her into his arms, and looked at her angry eyes, "You are a little greedy."

Xue Huang immediately struggled, "Let me go."

"Be good and listen to me! Otherwise I won't give you the antidote!"

"You are shameless!" Xue Huang said angrily.

Mo Yunchen was very satisfied with her expression, whether she was happy, angry, sad or happy. The only thing he didn't like was her expressionless indifference.

He leaned close to her ear and said, "I can do all these for you. It will be considered as my betrothal gift to you. Are you satisfied, my princess?"

Xue Huang felt a pain in her heart, as if those two words were a thorn piercing her heart. She suddenly became stiff and her vision blurred unconsciously.

Mo Yunchen slowly let her go and placed a medicine bottle in her palm. Seeing the tears in her eyes, he was stunned for a moment. He silently retracted his outstretched hands and took a step back.

After a moment of silence, he spoke in a deep voice, "The antidote's deadline is three days. After the wedding, it will be changed to fifteen days as agreed."

Xue Huang said nothing, turned around and left the lake.

Mo Yunchen followed her, and after getting ashore, he left the forest without saying a word.

Xue Huang also left through the back door.

Su Linjin came over and asked, "Are you okay?"

"Give this to Lin Yu." Xue Huang handed him the medicine bottle, "Please ask him to pass it to Gu Qinglan."

Su Linjin put away the medicine bottle and asked, "Aren't you going to explain it to him in person?"

"I've already told him what I need to say. The rest is up to you. I believe he can figure it out."

"How can it be that easy?" Su Linjin sighed. "You should talk to him in person."

Xue Huang shook her head. "If I get close to him, it will trigger the poison. He disappeared. I'm a little tired, so I'll go back first."

Su Linjin looked at her back and said nothing more. He just sighed and said, "It's just that love is deep but fate is shallow. It's fate that plays tricks on us."

Xue Huang returned to the room and opened the box containing the lily of the valley hairpin. She then put the smoky green jade bracelet on her hand in it, as well as the jade pendant on her waist. After putting everything in place, she closed the lid again, but couldn't help but hug the box and shed tears.

"Princess."

Hearing the voice, Xue Huang quickly wiped away her tears, "What's wrong?"

Yun Qing asked outside the door: "Are you hungry? I'll bring you some food."

"No, I'm a little tired and don't want to eat."

"Why don't you eat something? You didn't eat lunch, and these are all your favorite foods."

"I'm fine, there's really no need."

Seeing her firm attitude, Yun Qing had no choice but to say, "Okay then. If you are hungry, be sure to call me."

"Okay. I want to sleep for a while. If anyone wants to see me, I'll say I'm tired and don't want to see anyone." To be honest, she hugged the box and went to bed, burying her head in the quilt.

Yun Qing sighed outside the door, then left silently with the food.

Xue Huang lay in bed, but couldn't fall asleep no matter how hard she tried. She knocked on the gem, "Can I bring my consciousness to you?"

The boy didn't move.

Xue Huang had no choice but to calm down and count over and over again how many shells were on the wind chimes at the bedside.

She didn't know how long she had been counting, but she finally felt sleepy, but was woken up by knocking on the door again.

"Princess," it was Yun Qing's voice, "Prince Gu is here."

Xue Huang woke up immediately. She sat up from the bed and found that it was already dark.

She got out of bed quietly and came to the door.

Yun Tingting didn't hear her response, so he knocked on the door again, "Princess, are you awake?"

Xue Huang still didn't answer.

There was silence outside for a while, and then Yun Qing continued, "Gu Shizi, the princess is tired, why don't you go back first."

"I'll wait for her here."