Chapter 17#

After that, Chu Ruiyuan sent someone to take me to live in the side hall of his palace.

I was really bored after staying in the palace for ten days. Besides teasing the little prince who came to play with me, I acted out the drama of my heart being cut like a knife twice in front of the little prince’s father who came to see me.

Every time, the little prince’s father would leave with a pale face, looking as if it was him who was heartbroken, not me.

Three days later, I heard from the eunuch who passed on the message that Dugu Yan said that this love Gu could only be cured by a medicine called “Broken Fate”, but the last “Broken Fate” in the world had been used by the new emperor next door five years ago.

The love Gu between me and Dugu Yan was incurable.

Another ten days passed, and Chu Ruiyuan refused to let Dugu Yan out of the heavenly prison, nor would he let me out of the palace.

I was really suffocated and a little worried about that brat Dugu Yan, so I asked the eunuch to pass a message to Chu Ruiyuan, saying that I wanted to go to the heavenly prison to persuade the brat and see if there were any other ways.

Chu Ruiyuan approved.

So I saw Dugu Yan in the heavenly prison, who had been tortured to the point of being almost unrecognizable.

While I felt sorry for the brat for the suffering he had endured for a mistake he had made for a while, I was also shocked at how ruthless the CEO of this dynasty was.

After I asked everyone else to leave the heavenly prison, I whispered to him, “Why do you have to do this…”

Dugu Yan coughed a few times and said hoarsely, “This love Gu is really incurable… Even if there is a cure, I won’t tell him. Brother… Even if I can’t be the love of your life, I want to be with you in life and death…”

So when it comes to the healthy growth of teenagers, you can’t just look at the body, you also have to look at the mind.

I thought it was twisted enough that Chu Ruiyuan wanted to take my brother by force and then accepted me as a substitute; who knew that ten years later, I would meet someone even more twisted.

It’s simply that when a chuunibyou has power/knows how to use Gu, no one can stop them.

I talked with Dugu Yan for a long time. I couldn’t persuade him to tell me the way to cure the Gu (I guess there really isn’t one), nor could I understand how he, who was only twelve years old and had lived with me for more than half a year, had fallen so deeply in love with me. In the end, I could only admit defeat and leave the heavenly prison.

However, when I went back, I asked the eunuch to pass a message to Chu Ruiyuan, saying that the brat was willing to cure the Gu, on the condition that this dynasty would let him return to Southern Xinjiang safely.

Anyway, I didn’t feel particularly heartbroken when I saw Chu Ruiyuan. If I pretended that the love Gu was cured, he wouldn’t be able to tell.

The CEO of this dynasty really did agree.

Considering that the love Gu also had a life-and-death skill that was really fatal, I “passed on the message” again, saying that Dugu Yan asked him to swear by his ancestors that he would ensure Dugu Yan’s safe return to his country, otherwise he would lose the most precious thing in this world and would not have a good end himself.

The CEO of this dynasty also agreed, and even went to the heavenly prison to swear to the heavens in front of the bewildered Dugu Yan.

Then the love Gu on me was “cured”, and then Dugu Yan was escorted back to his country by more than a dozen elite secret agents under Chu Ruiyuan.

I went to see Dugu Yan off when he was leaving. His expression had changed from bewildered to extremely shocked.

I think he guessed that I wasn’t as deeply in love with Chu Ruiyuan as I had shown.

But he was smart for once, and only said to me, “I’m still too weak, wait for me for another five years,” and then left.

After Dugu Yan left, Chu Ruiyuan still refused to let me go back to the Prime Minister’s residence. Every day after the morning court and after handling political affairs, he would either hold me and talk about some random things like before, or we would have sex.

It was as if all the twists and turns in the past two months, from the case of the prince being poisoned to now, had never happened.

Sometimes I think that when it comes to acting, he may not be worse than me.

Well, maybe he’s a little worse.

Not only can I pretend that nothing has happened, but I can also pretend that the faint pain of the love Gu in my heart doesn’t exist.

Chu Ruiyuan and I resumed our relationship as friends with benefits, and we had sex again and again for eight or nine days.

One morning when he was about to go to court, he suddenly smiled, looking cold and triumphant.

I felt a little strange in my heart and couldn’t help but ask him what he was laughing at.

“I swore to send Dugu Yan back to Southern Xinjiang safely, but I didn’t promise him that I wouldn’t take his life in his own country… Counting the days, he should be about to enter the Southern Barbarian territory, and the secret guards I sent should be making their move.” After Chu Ruiyuan finished speaking, he smiled at me, “If I really give him another five years, who knows what kind of trouble he will become.”

Excuse me?!

Just as I was about to speak, I felt a sharp pain in my heart.

It was as if a thousand fine needles had pierced into my heart at the same time, and it was as if someone had cut open my chest, grabbed that red thing, and crushed it.

I couldn’t say a word and fell straight down in front of Chu Ruiyuan.

Before all my consciousness faded, I only had one thought in my mind: the “Zihou” that my father gave me really did shorten my life.