It is said that Qin Shihuang was controlled by a daughter

Chapter 537: Spring is far away, but you were once my deceased wife (4)

The Qin Palace is spacious, and so is the Zhilan Palace.

The sunlight on the snowy day was more penetrating than ever before, shining through the window and the screen, illuminating her graceful figure. He just couldn't tell if she had her back to him or was busy with something else...

When Li Xian heard her asking him to follow her, he thought she wanted him to get out of the palace as soon as possible. He didn't expect that she took him to a room. Judging from the bottles, jars and cloth knots there, it was most likely Ayu's medicine room.

He watched the snow light slowly sprinkle on the indoor utensils and medicine table, like a pool of flowing moonlight.

She came out from behind the screen again, holding a lacquer tray in her hand.

There was a cloth and a lamp filled with white water-like liquid on the black lacquer tray, which gave off a strong smell of alcohol.

She took two steps and placed the lacquer tray on the table. "They were confused about who the imperial censor who came to my palace was. We were trying to hide the truth behind the lamp. It would have been fine if Zuo Che had come back and you had let him see you in my palace, but now you're leaving like this, who knows, someone might tell lies again."

Hu Hai just stared at him and started laughing, "Master Li? I've never been here before, and I can't find the way. Can you take me out?"

Li Xian's hatred for Hu Hai was different from his hatred for Zhao Gao. In the political struggle, he was outmaneuvered by schemes and intrigues, and his skills were inferior to his own. But besides Zhao Gao, the person who deserved the most scrutiny was Hu Hai, who was both cruel and bloodthirsty, and even more ignorant and foolish.

A ruler who makes too many guesses is a fool and must never become an emperor.

He will never be able to sit in that position again in his life.

Li Xian didn't want to talk to him much, and also heard from Xu Zhi that she asked Chunyu Yue and the doctoral official to teach him carefully.

Hu Hai looked at him in confusion, then pulled him down to squat and listen to him.

"Hai'er knows you're here to see my sister, so I'm very happy." "But I don't want to walk anymore, please carry me out."

"……promise."

Hu Hai's weight pressed on his back, and later snow water seeped in, making him feel uncomfortable.

"It's not a big deal," he said.

Xu Zhi was surprised. Given his personality, he would actually refuse to do anything. She seemed to recall an incident from the past, when the wind and snow on Mount Vulture Peak lashed their faces and she had worried about his appearance being damaged. He had said the same thing then.

"Your eyes can't be on the back of your head, but you won't feel any pain, right?"

Li Xian was silent for a while, but for the sake of face, he stood there without moving.

The lacquer tray was placed in front of the table where he was sitting.

"Take it off." She said it so directly, with her princess airs still lingering. She held a piece of cloth in one hand and a bottle of alcohol in the other, and didn't think there was anything wrong with it at all.

She looked completely self-satisfied, not treating him as a man at all. It was as if he was a ghost crawling out of hell, not a human, just a shell, and therefore didn't need to follow etiquette?

"...you are..."

"Agao will come find me later. He will definitely be willing to join me in throwing a few more balls of snow at you." Xu Zhi wanted to pull his clothes off, but then she realized something was wrong. "Take them off yourself."

This statement could lead to misunderstanding. However, when Xu Zhi said this, the listener only heard the indifference and indifference in the sentence.

He chuckled softly and reached out to take the white cloth from her hand. "Since Your Highness is unwilling, why not ask me to do it?"

Xu Zhi frowned, "You did it on purpose, didn't you? You wish everyone in the palace would know that you are here with me under the title of Imperial Censor? Besides, I told you ten years ago that there are no eunuchs in my palace."

"Okay then." His straight-hem belt loosened, and his official uniform fell to his waist. The whip marks on his back were red and swollen, some of them had scabs, some had not, and many places were still oozing blood. It looked extremely hideous under the light.

Hu Hai moved around and accidentally disturbed a lock of hair. The hair fell from behind his ear and onto the back of his neck. The damaged hair had a kind of tortured beauty. Some people in the royal family liked it very much.

She was not a pervert and could not appreciate it, but she was just stunned by the injury.

He pulled her back and quickly put a piece of cloth over her eyes, "If you're afraid, don't look."

"What's there to be afraid of?"

"Your Highness is distressed?"

"No." Because she couldn't see, she didn't hold the alcohol firmly in her hand and accidentally spilled some on her hand.

He turned his face to the side and pretended to be sad. "Your Highness's words pain my heart."

"You'll feel more pain elsewhere later."

After he finished speaking, a cool feeling made his back tense instantly.

Immediately afterwards, the wound began to sting, densely packed, like being cut by a knife.

He returned to the night when Fan Zeng slashed him with a sword. The blood was thick and the pain was suffocating. She did the same, pressing the golden wound medicine on his neck, asking him to wake up in the pain and save his life.

Li Xian gasped, his voice as cold as ice: "Your Highness is really heavy-handed."

"I'd like to." Xu Zhi's voice was flat, but his movements subconsciously became lighter. He dipped some more medicine and let it flow down along the whip marks, wetting the clothes around his waist.

"There's alcohol in the medicine, so it can disinfect it." She added this, and after wiping the last wound, she placed the empty medicine bowl on the table and tilted her head. "Okay, you should leave now. I also need to go get Gao and the others to go back early."

Li Xian didn't tell her immediately. He had already tied his robe back on. He held her hand and said, "Your Highness, are you so determined? You don't even have to consider it. You must go your separate ways right now?"

He looked up at her and said, "I was indeed killed by Zhao Gao. Your Highness, don't forget, you were not."

Xu Zhi froze. Back then, it was because of Hu Hai's birth that she vomited blood and died, returning to the modern era.

For a long while, she recalled this life, but could not find any part in which Hu Hai was disobedient or bad.

"He won't."

"No?" He laughed contemptuously. "How about you call Gongzi Gao and ask your brother why he doesn't like your younger brother either?"

Li Xian held her shoulder and said, "Princess, Xianyang is not a place that will remain peaceful just because Zhao Gao leaves."

Xu Zhi paused, and pulled off the restraints on his eyes. "What on earth do you want to say?"

The cloth fell between them, plain white, just like in the previous life.

Li Xian stood up. He smelled a faint scent of alcohol and held her hand, not wanting her hand to be so cold.

"Azhi, our relationship cannot be separated by interests," he said.

When it snows, it is very quiet, so quiet that you can't hear any sound outside.

It was too quiet. She knew Hu Hai's cruelty from what she saw on paper.

But in Qin, she was still a little dazed when she heard Li Xian talk about what Hu Hai did in the two years after he ascended the throne.

Xu Zhi looked at him and took a deep breath. "How many years have passed, Li Xian? Don't you understand what has happened in the past ten years? Even if we can change everything, Dun Ruo is dead, Wang Wan is dead, Zhao Jia is dead... I can't take care of everyone on this road. I dare not think too much about the ending, but there are only five years left. Li Xian, we can't be entangled with each other like enemies or friends anymore."

"Entangle? Ah Zhi, why do you want me to let go with just this word?"

She lowered her eyes, "I have people I want to protect, and you too. I admit that I was too naive when I forced you to become an enemy of your father. I ignored your pain."

He looked at her, even willing her to argue with him. "Azhi, you were the first one to say you wanted to be with me. You were the first one to say you wanted to change the future with me? Why in the end, you told me to let go?"

He was just bringing up old matters.

But she brought up Song Boji, saying that she wanted to remain faithful to her late husband.

He was taken aback by her serious expression. He thought it was abominable that she wasn't someone who followed rules, yet she was using this to harass him.

"Late husband?" "Who was it?" He sneered, "Zhang Liang or Fu Chu?"

Without waiting for Xu Zhi to speak, he held her tight, thought about it, and finally said this.

"But you were my late wife."

She was silent for a moment, "But that's not me."

Li Xian asked, "How do you know it's not?"

Xu Zhi felt that his mental state was worrying, so she turned her head away and dodged the kiss. "Jing Qian, why are you holding on to the past?"

He lowered his eyes, "Then why do you do the same?"