Shocking! The actress was dragged to the regent's bedchamber every night.

Chapter 384 You've Been Lying to Me All Along

Su Wuli gripped the collar of his undershirt so tightly that her knuckles turned white.

Yu Chen remained silent, his eyes fixed on the crack in the tent roof.

The crack ran diagonally across the middle of the beam, like an unhealed scar.

Tears dripped onto his chest, soaking the fabric.

She gripped the collar of his shirt, her voice trembling, "What are you saying?"

With a tight throat, he said, "You said you wouldn't die..."

Yu Chen finally looked away and lowered his eyes to look at her.

He gently brushed a stray hair from her forehead behind her ear. "Do you still need the jade pendant?"

Su Wuli turned her head away from his hand. "I don't need gold bars or jade pendants. I need you to live. You promised me."

The tears flowed even more fiercely, running down his chin and then dripping onto his chest.

She gripped his collar tighter, buried her face in his chest, and wiped her tears on his collar.

She slid her fingers down his collar, letting them hang over his chest, then clenched them into a fist and punched him lightly.

She cried and punched him again, this time harder.

Yu Chen neither dodged nor moved.

Su Wuli buried her face in his neck, her voice muffled in the crook of his neck.

"You lied to me...you've been lying to me all along...you said you'd find a way...you said you definitely would...you lied to me..."

Yu Chen remained silent, tightening his arms around her.

"Are you making your final arrangements?" she asked, her voice trembling. "Are you making your final arrangements?"

He didn't answer, but just pursed his lips and tensed his jaw.

"You never thought you could live." She looked at him, tears still welling up in her eyes, blurring her vision.

She blinked, and tears fell.

Choking back tears, she repeated the accusation she had said countless times: "You've been lying to me from the very beginning..."

He reached out and pulled her up from his chest.

He wrapped his arm around her waist and placed his other hand on the back of her head.

Su Wuli bit his collar, swallowing back her sobs.

My throat tightened as I swallowed, and my whole body trembled.

Yu Chen watched as she bit her collar to swallow her sobs and her whole body trembled, and his heart felt like it was being squeezed.

He wanted to lift her face out from under her collar and wipe away her tears.

I wanted to tell you not to cry.

I wanted to tell him he was fine.

However, he couldn't bring himself to say it.

He couldn't fool her, nor could he fool himself.

If that day is going to come eventually, it's better to do it now.

At least he still has time to comfort her now, instead of letting her watch the ending unprepared on that day.

He knew that none of this could be changed.

Those he had killed came back to life, but did not remember that they had died.

One by one, the things he did were erased.

He was like a person walking in the snow, each step he took covered by fresh snow.

There is still a road ahead, but the road he has already traveled is gone.

He didn't know how much further he could go, but the end was already predetermined.

Yu Chen even considered storming the capital and killing Yu Linxi.

Kill those court officials, kill everyone who wanted him dead.

Kill them all, kill them completely, until no one remembers who they are.

and then?

Those people will come back to life.

Everything he did will be erased.

He hated himself for not being able to kill completely.

Yu Chen instinctively hugged her tighter.

"When my father and mother died," he said in a deep voice, "they felt they couldn't go on living. They thought about dying many times, thinking that death would end the pain."

He paused slightly, his jaw twitching slightly, before continuing, "But I still managed to pull through. You can too."

As soon as Yu Chen finished speaking, he felt a tightness in his chest.

That breath was stuck in my throat; I couldn't swallow it down, nor could I spit it out.

He couldn't continue.

He thought that Su Wuli would forget him in the future and not remember him.

He was having trouble breathing, and it felt like a stone was pressing on his chest.

Su Wuli lifted her head from his chest, her face covered in tears.

She looked into the man's unfathomable eyes and his taut jawline.

"You're lying..." Her voice choked and hoarse.

"If you could really forget, how come you remember so clearly? You've never forgotten."

After saying that, tears welled up again and streamed down her face.

It dripped onto his chest.

"You lied to me. You said you wanted me to forget you too, but you lied to me..."

Yu Chen looked at her face covered in tears and her eyes were red and swollen.

He clenched his jaw.

She's right.

He didn't want her to forget him.

He wanted her to remember him, to remember his name, what he looked like, and what he had said.

After he died, she was the only one in the world who remembered him.

"Ah Wu..."

Yu Chen reached out and wiped away the tears on her face, his thumb brushing from her cheekbone to the corner of her lips.

Su Wuli grabbed his hand and pressed it against her face, then buried her face in his palm.

Tears streamed down his face, dripping onto the back of his hand.

"Stop talking." Her voice was muffled in his palm, "I don't want to hear it anymore..."

Yu Chen's fingers were still on her face, and he could feel the warmth of her tears.

He sighed, as if he had been holding it in for a long time.

He then pulled her into his arms, and she buried her face in his chest.

I tried to hold back my tears, but they just wouldn't stop.

Ever since Wang Youke's attempt to revise the original work failed, Su Wuli has been carrying a heavy burden in her heart.

The rock was suspended high up, unable to go up or down, just hanging there.

The swaying and bumping made her heart ache.

She dared not think about that ending, dared not think that Yu Chen would die, and dared not think that he would be tied to the execution ground like in the book.

Every time Su Wuli was about to think about it, she would suppress those images and tell herself that he had said he wouldn't die.

Yu Chen never fails to keep his promises.

She believed him; she always believed him.

Yu Chen was the person Su Wuli trusted most in her life.

But now, he tells her that there is no turning back.

It's not that he doesn't want to, it's that he can't.

But she couldn't help him; she couldn't help him with anything.

She can't even change the ending of a novel.

Su Wuli's tears flowed even more fiercely.

It welled up in my eyes, unstoppable and impossible to wipe away.

My breathing couldn't keep up with the speed of my tears, and I started gasping for air.

My whole body was shaking, twitching and trembling.