Favoring a concubine and destroying the wife? I'll abandon my husband and children and wipe out

As soon as Cheng Nanzhi finished speaking, she felt the man beside her tighten his grip on her hand.

Cheng Nanzhi then looked at Nan Rong in the state, raised the corners of her mouth reassuringly, and indicated that it was nothing.

Nan Rong looked at her for a moment, then his expression softened. He murmured, "I'll wait for you to come back so we can have dinner together. How about I make you the Sichuan-style shark fin noodles you mentioned last night?"

Cheng Nanzhi immediately remembered the taste he had described last night, and her appetite returned instantly. She nodded at him.

Nan Rong chuckled and offered her hand.

During this time, Qi Yu, who was standing outside the cloth, coldly watched Nan Rong in the state before stepping around them and walking towards the dock.

Looking at him, Cheng Yuchuan looked at Cheng Nanzhi with concern.

Lang Shu and the others seemed hesitant to speak.

Cheng Nanzhi smiled and said it was nothing, then followed.

"So we'll just wait here?" Qin Niu glanced at Nan Rongzaizhou's expression and said in a low voice. The others also looked at Nan Rongzaizhou.

Unexpectedly, Nan Rong shook his head in the state and said calmly, "Go back to your residence to settle down."

Several people:"?"

“Nan Zhi just said,” Nan Rong said with a slight smile, “that she wants to eat Sichuan-style shark fin noodles. I’ll make it for her when I get back, so it’ll be perfect for her to eat when she returns.”

After saying that, he turned around and walked into the village, looking very calm and composed.

If you ignore the fact that his hands were clenched tightly at his sides.

The others looked at each other, glanced in Cheng Nanzhi's direction, and then, following Nanrong in the prefecture, followed her with a constant backward glance.

Cheng Nanzhi and Qi Yu quickly arrived at the dock one after the other.

As the sun sets, it paints the sea with a mesmerizing and breathtaking golden hue.

The sea was far from calm, with waves crashing against the rocks and the clear cries of seagulls gliding low overhead, offering a brief moment of peace.

Qi Yu stopped ahead.

Cheng Nanzhi stepped forward with a calm expression, stopping two steps behind Qi Yu. Together they gazed at the vast horizon where the sea met the sky, and she asked, "Your Majesty, what would you like to say to me?"

A distant, unfamiliar form of address made the tense man instantly lose his temper.

Qi Yu turned around abruptly.

You never used to call me that.

There was a hint of helplessness in Cheng Nanzhi's eyes. "The past is the past, Your Majesty. Now you are the ruler, and I am your subject. If I don't pay attention, my father will nag me to death when he finds out."

"An excuse," Qi Yu said hoarsely. "You just want to distance yourself from me."

Cheng Nanzhi shook her head: "I have never denied the past. The friendship we shared in the past still remains in my heart. I have always regarded Your Majesty as the person I knew before."

These words made the man's face turn slightly pale.

Qi Yu stared intently at her.

The hoarse voice seemed to convey pain.

“You know perfectly well that this isn’t what I want to hear! You…” He smiled bitterly, his shoulders slumping limply, and said self-deprecatingly, “You’re clearly taking advantage of the fact that I still love you to bully me.”

Cheng Nanzhi remained silent; she couldn't respond to those words at all.

She could only say, "I made myself very clear when we met last time."

My eyes suddenly reddened.

Cheng Nanzhi thought for a moment and then added earnestly, "I do not belittle any precious sentiment, but I am sorry, Your Majesty has given it to the wrong person. As I said before, I hope Your Majesty will find your true love soon."

The atmosphere between the two froze instantly upon hearing this.

Qi Yu subconsciously reached out his hand.

Before they even met Cheng Nanzhi, Cheng Nanzhi took a step back, lowered her head slightly, and looked respectful.

His hand remained frozen in mid-air.

a long time.

"Not anymore."

A man's deep, husky voice rang out.

“From my past life,” he said, “I will never get what I want.”

The air fell silent.

Cheng Nanzhi realized what the man was saying, and suddenly looked up, her face full of astonishment.

Qi Yu's dark eyes reddened, and Cheng Nanzhi's appearance became somewhat blurry in his eyes. Under Cheng Nanzhi's incredulous gaze, he continued in a hoarse voice.

"I remember you once asked me what I would do if we hadn't met and formed an alliance again—would I have taken revenge alone, or something else?"

"Now I can answer you."

He stared intently at Cheng Nanzhi. "I originally thought that if you were still alive and well in the Zhao family, I wouldn't do anything. But I didn't expect that I would find out so late. I only found out after you died in the Zhao family."

"By then, it was too late for me to do anything; you were already gone."

“I want to avenge you and make the Zhao family pay the price, but before I can do it, I accidentally learned about the Shennong Pearl from my father. It can bring you back to life.”

Cheng Nanzhi's eyes widened slightly.

"But at that time, my father no longer had the Shennong Pearl, and my third brother forced me to abdicate. His death was too sudden. Fortunately, I found his imperial tomb and discovered some clues there, including the Buyi tribe. My third brother was worried about me leaving the capital, so I faked my death to escape and go find the Buyi tribe."

"Finally, I found it in the surviving members of the Buyi tribe."

Qi Yu asked, "Do you know who I've found?"

Cheng Nanzhi opened her mouth.

Qi Yu's dark eyes gazed at her silently.

"That is, Nanrong is in the state."

Cheng Nanzhi's pupils constricted slightly.

Qi Yu clenched his fists at his sides, forcing himself to calm down, but the sound of his teeth clenching still betrayed some of his emotions.

“I found out that he is related to Shennong Pearl.”

"I delivered the news of your death to him."

He said he would save you.

"Then, in order to get him out of the Southern Shu palace at that time, I... died there."

In just a few words, he conveyed the murderous intent and the bloodshed.

Cheng Nanzhi was stunned, and it took her a long time to speak, "How...how did you know all this?"

“I’ve been keeping an eye on your whereabouts, and the last message I received was that you went out to sea from here and never came back,” Qi Yu said. “So I came here.”

"But ten days ago, I suddenly had a dream, a dream about that absurd past life."

Qi Yu asked her in a hoarse voice, "But I know those things are true. You must know them too, and you must have had such dreams. That's why you knew so much about what the Zhao family was hiding from you, why you went to Qingzhou to investigate Zhao Ye, and why you knew so much when you cooperated with me, right?"

Cheng Nanzhi remained silent.

The man suddenly stepped forward, forcing the unprepared Cheng Nanzhi to retreat.

“Tell me, isn’t that right?” he pleaded, his voice thick with emotion.

Cheng Nanzhi remained silent for a long time before finally nodding.

Qi Yu stared at her blankly, then burst out laughing, his laughter filled with intense resentment. But as if afraid of frightening the person in front of him, he suppressed it tightly, making his tense expression look particularly unpleasant.

"So why?" he said. "I want to know why, even though you know we... have such a deep connection, even though you've known all along what I've done for you, and you know my feelings, you still... don't choose me?"

He had been waiting here for days, just to ask this one question.

Why, knowing so much, do you still... not give him a chance?