LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 49 Ji Yucang, do you like me?
The atmosphere in the carriage was a bit subtle.
Shen Ning sat on the left with an expressionless face, her posture upright and her eyebrows bright and indifferent.
Ji Yucang sat on the right with an expressionless expression, his demeanor was cold and dignified.
The carriage moved smoothly along the wide streets of the upper town.
The two of them seemed to be competing with each other, and they didn't speak for a long time. The silence in the carriage was a bit depressing.
In the end, it was Ji Yucang who spoke first: "The art of witchcraft and poison is absolutely not allowed to exist in the royal family. There is no room for discussion on this matter -"
"You don't have to make excuses to stop me." Shen Ning interrupted, "You don't have to think that I'm doing it for you. I just don't want to lose a strong backer."
"You will not lose your backer." Ji Yucang's voice was cold. "Before I die, I will give you the ability to protect yourself. I can even make you a backer for others. No one dares to do anything to you."
If you don't discern the meaning behind his words, and just judge from the tone of their conversation, these words really sound like an emotionless negotiation.
There was no warmth in his tone, and his tone was completely businesslike.
Who would think this is a conversation between husband and wife?
Shen Ning said calmly: "If that's the case, I will save you one more time. After all, it's hard to owe such a big favor."
Ji Yucang's eyebrows darkened.
The low air pressure slowly spread in the carriage, as if the cold winter had entered in advance, and it was bone-chilling.
It's a pity that Shen Ning accepted the coldness calmly and discussed with him contentedly: "If you stop me forcefully, I will have to think of a solution by myself. Whether I can succeed by then or whether an accident will happen, I don't know. Hard to say."
"If you agree to this matter, please find a few trustworthy doctors with superb medical skills to assist me in advance. I will tell them what they need to prepare and let them be my assistants to ensure that if an accident occurs in the future, we can remedy it in time. I will try my best to It’s absolutely foolproof.”
Ji Yucang's eyes were filled with coldness: "What if I lock you up with a chain?"
As soon as these words came out, the air seemed to freeze instantly.
The blood in Shen Ning's body was flowing backwards, and the memories that had not been forgotten seemed to suddenly open the floodgates. After the recovery, the madness swept over her, making her eyes darken.
She seemed to be back in those days of imprisonment.
In the dark abyss of hell, black iron tightly locked her limbs. She was imprisoned like a bereaved dog, without any dignity at all, and her pride was trampled to pieces...
"Shen Ning." The man's tight voice sounded in her ears, and Shen Ning was eagerly pulled into a warm embrace. The arms tightly hugged her waist, and the man's clear and deep breath blew on her head, "I'm sorry, Shen Ning. Sorry, that's not what I meant..."
Shen Ning came back to her senses and felt a sharp stinging sensation. She quickly released her palms and stared at her delicate palms with lowered eyes. Several bright red marks almost pinched the tender flesh of her palms.
"It's time to trim your nails." She said calmly, "otherwise, I don't know when I might hurt myself again."
Ji Yucang lowered his eyes and stared at the top of her head, regretting what he just said, with a bit of self-blame in his eyes: "Sorry, I...I wouldn't do that, it's just..."
"What are you sorry for?" Shen Ning finally came to her senses and suppressed her expression, "You can do whatever you want, I have no right to force you to do anything."
Ji Yucang was shocked and pursed her thin lips.
"You can't ask me not to do anything." Shen Ning tilted her head slightly, staring at the hanging soft smoke curtain, her expression indifferent and ruthless, "Ji Yucang, I married you by imperial decree. I have no ability to resist the decree. As long as the situation is favorable to me, I will do what you are told, but I don’t want to owe you too many favors, and I want to use your power to facilitate myself in the future, so saving you is a cost-effective plan, and I have thought about it carefully. , so you don’t have to stop it, and you can’t stop it.”
After a pause, "Of course, if you really want to chain me up, I won't be able to resist on my own. You can try."
Ji Yucang was silent for a long time before speaking in a low voice: "No."
"Can't do anything?"
"I won't lock you up." Ji Yucang held her hand carefully, "I just think we can find other ways, and it doesn't necessarily have to be risky."
"Even if I make a decision now, it will take at least two months from the beginning of the poison to the harvesting of the heart blood for medicine, which means you will have to endure two months of poisonous torture." Shen Ning said lightly, "If you continue to delay If you go on, you can guarantee that you will be able to find another antidote? If you still can't find another antidote, are you going to die like this?"
Ji Yucang said: "I have prepared for the worst since the day I learned about the poisoning."
"Ji Yucang, do you like me?"
Ji Yucang was stunned for a moment, then pursed his lips: "Why do you ask that?"
"There's nothing special about me. Compared to those ordinary girls from aristocratic families, I just have a bad temper and a tougher temper. I do things by any means, and I'm willing to endure hardships in order to practice martial arts. These qualities are unruly in any person. I can't tolerate ordinary men." Shen Ning said in a calm voice, "Even if you can tolerate him, there's nothing worth appreciating."
Ji Yucang was silent for a moment: "Who said there is nothing worth appreciating? You are too presumptuous about yourself."
"This is not to belittle oneself, but to be self-aware." Shen Ning said, "Princess Jiahe and the others can be bad-tempered and cold-tempered; those military generals can do it if they endure hardship and practice martial arts; even treacherous ministers and sycophants can do it by unscrupulous means. You don't have to think how bad I am. special."
Ji Yucang frowned: "What if I just think you are special?"
"That only proves that you really like me, like me blindly." Shen Ning turned her head and looked at him with firm eyes, "In this case, you have no reason to stop me, right? Do you like someone and don't want to be with her? Growing old together?”
Growing old together?
Ji Yucang was startled and suddenly didn't know how to respond.
The carriage was enveloped in silence for a moment.
After a while, Ji Yucang found his voice: "I never thought about this."
He can't even guarantee how long he can live, so how can he dare to think about growing old together?
"I never thought about it before, but I can think about it now." Shen Ning looked away, her voice as calm as if she was talking about someone else's affairs, "You have to be alive to have infinite possibilities. Once you die, there is nothing."
Therefore, adversity can be overcome and difficulties can be overcome.
Destiny can be fought.
Only death cannot be compromised.
Ji Yucang said nothing, but began to think about her words in his heart.
Growing old together? With her?
He silently recalled the night he married his wife. He stayed up all night in the study and made many plans.
He thought that two years would be enough time for him to plan, enough time for her to conquer the loyal soldiers under his command, enough time for her to support the regent's palace.
Before his death, he would send her safely to the border fiefdom. From then on, he would control an army of 400,000 people and become the untouchable goddess of war and the second regent of the Yong Kingdom.
She is not a soft person. It is precisely because she is unruly that he does not have to worry about her being coerced by the imperial authority or being plotted and framed by others.
Precisely because she is cold and ruthless, he doesn't have to worry about her being kidnapped by her family based on family ties.
But she asked him to think carefully about whether he wanted to grow old together with her.
Growing old together.
Just four words, but it makes people's hearts surge and their internal organs feel hot.
"Do you want me to grow old together?" he asked softly.
Shen Ning's tone was calm: "I'm just talking about a possibility. This possibility only exists if you are alive."
Ji Yucang pursed her thin lips, and suddenly wanted to get an answer: "I just want to know, are you willing to grow old together with me?"
"If you don't use me, don't plot against me, don't plot to kill me..." Shen Ning's voice was cold, "and I guarantee that you can survive until that day, I should have no other choice."