Recap
Ji Yu drew thousands of mountains and rivers, but he didn’t draw portraits because no one walked into his heart. Rong Yu can’t draw everything, but he is proficient in drawing figures because there is a person who walked into his heart.
His heart is full of one person, and there is no room for everything else.
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Rong Yu drew that picture, almost explicitly agreeing to marry Chu Zhuo. Chu Zhuo was overjoyed and immediately ordered people to prepare for the wedding.
There is a legend in Chu that if you get married in this life, the couple will be tied with a red thread, and they will be able to meet again in the next life.
For this reason, Chu Zhuo had to get married. Otherwise, what if he couldn’t find Little lotus after entering reincarnation?
He rarely liked something to the point of having to have it, but he was greedy for Rong Yu. He didn’t want to let go in this life, and he didn’t want to be separated in the next life.
But his marriage with Little lotus must not be rushed, and it would take several months just to prepare.
These few months are enough for many accidents to happen.
For example, if he suddenly had a heart disease, he could no longer hide it from the world.
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After Rong Yu’s hand healed, Doctor Chu still did not leave the palace. He and Doctor Liu were the only two people who knew Chu Zhuo’s physical condition, so how could he leave at this time?
Chu Zhuo’s heartaches became more and more frequent, and the pain became more and more severe, to the point where even the painkillers had little effect, and he was on the verge of death several times. After a diagnosis, Imperial Doctor Liu shook his head and sighed, and privately discussed with Divine Doctor Chu: “Your Majesty’s health is deteriorating rapidly; I’m afraid he won’t survive this winter.” Chu Zhuo had good hearing, so he heard it.
Winter…
Now it’s autumn.
Chu Zhuo knows his own physical condition best, and he knows what they say is true. This body is at the end of its strength.
He and Rong Yu are inseparable all day long, and if this continues, this condition will soon be discovered.
Chu Zhuo moved the memorial back to the imperial study and used the excuse that working in Yuqing Palace would distract him and greatly reduce his efficiency, so he could spare half a day to not see Rong Yu.
In fact, he had almost no energy to handle official business and basically left it to his trusted ministers. Pain, taking medicine, and pain again… Over and over again. This heart seemed to be really tired, and it protested violently frequently.
Occasionally, it would also occur at night. Chu Zhuo would be hugging Rong Yu, and suddenly he would feel a piercing pain in his heart. He suppressed it tightly, not daring to wake up his sleeping lover, and every time he quietly got off the bed, endured it alone, and waited until the pain was over before returning to continue hugging Rong Yu to sleep as if nothing had happened.
Chu Zhuo didn’t know that when he left, Rong Yu would open his eyes and look at his empty side, and then close his eyes silently when he came back.
Rong Yu: Don’t you have any painkillers in there?
Blood Jade Bracelet: I feel sorry for the Lord God too. If I could, I would have given it to you earlier! But… I am not a special Lord God system after all. When I was assigned it to you, I didn’t intend to give you any cheats, so I didn’t install the system mall, and I can’t exchange medicine…
Rong Yu: Now your master needs it.
Blood Jade Bracelet:…
The next day, people from the Royal Seamstress and the craftsmen came, each presenting a red robes and a pair of rings—Chu Zhuo’s wedding dress was made, and the pair of “True Gold and Blazing Fire” rings were also made.
The embroiderers of the Royal Seamstress didn’t know that this was a wedding robe. In their perception, the majesty’s wedding robes should be dark black. As for this red robes, Mr. Ji has so many red ones. Since their majesty wants to wear the same color as others; who cares?
The robes completely restored the paintings drawn by Rong Yu. The color, shape, and pattern are exactly the same, and it can be seen that it took a lot of effort.
Rong Yu looked at it and found it quite interesting. He drew this robe because Yan Zhao in the previous world wore it like this. But it turned out that the robe was designed according to his painting.
Time and space are so mysterious that everything is possible.
Rong Yu did not have any extra wedding robes. He drew the golden embroidered robes for himself. Chu Zhuo thought about it again and again and felt that no matter what red robes he made, the material would not be more precious than the golden embroidered robes with red lotus thread, so he assumed that the golden embroidered robes was the wedding robes.
And the pair of rings.
It was exactly the same as what Rong Yu saw in the jewelry store.
“Do you like it?” Chu Zhuo saw that he was fascinated by it and couldn’t help asking.
Rong Yu retracted his gaze: “I drew it; of course I like it. You change into the robes.”
Chu Zhuo smiled and said, “What? Want to get married today? That’s not possible; there are still a lot of things that are not ready.”
“Change into it,” Rong Yu emphasized.
“…” Chu Zhuo said, “I’ll go change now.”
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The leaves in the maple forest are all red, a fiery red, covering the sky and the sun. The two people in the forest are wearing red robes like fire, which is very suitable for the scenery.
Chu Zhuo leaned against a maple tree. “Little Lotus, are you done with the painting?”
“Stand still.” Rong Yu sat on a chair with a wooden easel in front of him, painting the person in front of him bit by bit.
The ghost king in the previous life wore this wedding robes for his whole life, but this is the first time he wears it in the true sense.
Such a memorable moment; of course it must be painted.
Chu Zhuo patiently held back and stood in the rustling autumn wind to be a model for Rong Yu. When Rong Yu finally said “OK,” he immediately went to take a look and smile.
In the painting, only he was wearing red, and the maple forest behind him was not painted at all.
“Little Lotus, you said you wanted to shoot on location, so I stood with you in the maple forest for a long time and enjoyed the cold wind. But you didn’t paint a single maple tree. Why don’t you just paint in the room?” Chu Zhuo didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
“Isn’t there still you?” Rong Yu handed him the paintbrush and said, “Now it’s your turn to paint me, and this maple forest is also yours.”
Chu Zhuo took the paintbrush, his expression suddenly a little reluctant, and touched his chest inconspicuously: “Little Lotus, I have something I forgot back in the study.”
Rong Yu asked, “What is more important than me?”
“It’s really important…” Chu Zhuo turned around, his eyebrows showing a trace of pain.
“If you don’t want to paint, then there’s no need to get married.” Rong Yu played “making trouble for no reason” to the fullest.
Chu Zhuo paused.
Blood Jade Bracelet: Big Devil, what are you doing? The autumn wind is also very cold, and the Lord God is now weaker than you. If this continues, he will get sick!
Rong Yu: What I want is for him to get sick in front of me.
Blood Jade Bracelet: You…
Rong Yu: If I don’t keep him, he won’t feel any pain. It still hurts the same. Your master can’t open his mouth, so I open it for him. Isn’t that easier?
Since the Lord God is so passive, the Demon King takes the initiative. It’s meaningless to keep hiding things. Rong Yu is tired of this kind of “You think I don’t know, but I actually know, but I pretend not to know” drama.
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With Rong Yu’s threat of breaking the engagement, Chu Zhuo endured the discomfort and sat down to paint. As he was painting, the figures in front of him began to overlap, and the brush in his hand suddenly fell…
When Chu Zhuo woke up, he was in Yuqing Palace.
Rong Yu sat in front of the bed, and there was no one else in the palace.
Chu Zhuo said, “Little Lotus…”
“The imperial physician said that you were infected with a cold and fell into a coma.” Rong Yu said.
Chu Zhuo breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that neither Imperial Physician Liu nor Divine Doctor Chu would betray him.
“I want to hear the truth.” Rong Yu said, “What’s going on?”
Chu Zhuo’s body stiffened. “That’s all. What the imperial physician said.”
“Do you think I’m stupid? Who said that martial artists are strong and healthy and can’t be knocked down by a mere cold?”
Chu Zhuo held on: “Martial artists are also mortals.”
“Chu Zhuo.” Rong Yu called his name.
He said calmly, “Even if you are going to die tomorrow, as long as you tell me, I will not regret liking you. I will accompany you.”
Chu Zhuo paused: “Why are we talking about death? It’s really just a cold.”
“If you lie to me again, I will hate you until I die.” Rong Yu stared at him and said, “I will never forgive you again.”
Chu Zhuo looked at him for a moment and asked softly, “Do you know something?”
“What can I know?” Rong Yu laughed. “You don’t tell me anything.”
Chu Zhuo saw his cold and resolute eyebrows and suddenly panicked and was at a loss: “Little Lotus, I don’t know what to say.”
Rong Yu looked at him without saying anything.
Chu Zhuo made up his mind and said directly, “I have a heart disease.”
“The imperial physician said…I won’t survive this winter.”
After saying this, Chu Zhuo lowered his head and almost dared not look at Rong Yu’s expression again.
The room was terribly quiet.
After a long time, Rong Yu whispered, “You will not survive this winter?”
“I’m sorry, little lotus…” Chu Zhuo whispered, “I am greedy and mean, and I am dying, but I still want to drag you down… You can break off the engagement; I… will let you leave.”
“Who’s leaving?” Rong Yu asked.
Chu Zhuo was stunned.
“I said it a long time ago; even if you are going to die tomorrow, I will stay with you.”
Rong Yu opened his mouth: “If you can’t survive this winter, then we can get married in the fall.”
Chu Zhuo was shocked.
Little Lotus’s reaction was too calm.
“In fact, I knew it a long time ago.” Rong Yu dropped another bombshell.
Chu Zhuo: “!!!”
“Who told you?”
“No one told me.” Rong Yu said, “We stay together all day. A few days ago, you suddenly had to go back to the imperial study to work, you often got up and left in the middle of the night. Do you really think I don’t know? I was just wondering how long you would keep it a secret from me. I waited for a long time, but you refused to tell me. Son, your father is really disappointed.”
Chu Zhuo: “…”
“Little Lotus, don’t joke at this time.”
“Who is joking with you?” Rong Yu said coldly, “It’s an honor to be recognized as my son. You really act like a grandson when you try so hard to hide it from me.”
Chu Zhuo smiled bitterly. “Little Lotus, calm down. Will you feel better if I call you grandpa?”
“What were you thinking? Not telling me about such a big matter. You want to give me a surprise only after you’re buried 8 feet under?” Rong Yu asked. “Those band of officials following you day in and out are always clamoring for my death. After you die, they will be the first to bury me alive.”
“No they won’t.” Chu Zhuo shook his head, “I have already arranged a guard to protect you. No harm will come to you.”
“How can you be sure that they will be loyal forever?”
Chu Zhuo seemed reluctant: “He might not be loyal to me. But he will always be loyal to you.”
Rong Yu: “Who?”
“……Xianyun.” Chu Zhuo said, “Your shadow guard.”
Rong Yu was quickly searching through his memory for this side character.
Ji Yu was a noble from the country of Zheng and anyone from the noble families would normally have a shadow guard to protect them after they are born. Ji family was one such family. After cultivating a dozen shadow guards, they had no name, and they were called Shadow 1, Shadow 2, etc. They were lined up in the sixth.
The one responsible for Ji Yu was numbered 14, he was the same age as the original owner. He was dispatched to protect Ji Yu when he was 12 years old, the two can be said to have grown up together. However, the shadow guard usually hides in the dark and guards silently. He only comes out to protect his master when danger comes, and he always masks his face. Ji Yu has a limited impression of him. He only remembers that once he met a gangster, Shadow 14 showed up to deal with the gangster, and the young Ji Yu asked him what his name was. The other party answered Shadow 14, and Ji Yu smiled and said, “How can there be such a name? I like Xianyun Yehe. You saved me, and I like you too. You can call yourself Xianyun.”*
*(T/N: Xianyun means idle clouds)
Then, when Ji Yu was preparing to assassinate Emperor Qi, he thought that no matter whether he succeeded or failed this time, he and the people around him would not survive. The shadow guard has protected him for nearly ten years, so why should he die in vain? So he called Xianyun out the day before the assassination, saying that he wanted a flower and asked him to pick it for him.
The flower grew a hundred miles away, the hidden meaning was to send him away and not let him come back.
The shadow guard would not disobey the order of his master, so he left the palace to pick flowers for him.
If Chu Zhuo didn’t mention it, Rong Yu really couldn’t remember this person. The shadow guard is the shadow of the master. No one will remember a shadow. Xianyun got a name because of Ji Yu’s whim. In the end, sending Xianyun away was also Ji Yu’s last act of mercy.
Even Ji Yu himself didn’t pay much attention to this shadow guard, so Rong Yu naturally couldn’t extract him from the original owner’s vast memory.
But now, when he searched for this person, Rong Yu immediately matched his eyes with the masked assassin who appeared at the execution ground when Ji Yu was tortured, stabbed Ji Yu’s heart with a knife, and then committed suicide.
The assassin’s bloodstained hands protected a clean flower.
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T/N: …poor Xianyun, one-sided pining…(˃̣̣̥ᯅ˂̣̣̥)
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