Later, the Empress Dowager set fire to herself in Cining Palace and committed suicide. Nan Zhiyun heard about it. Those terrifying memories surged forth, making Nan Zhiyun feel as if her mind was about to explode. She hated him! But she could do nothing.
So Nan Zhiyun had been faking it all along, pretending to be the same as before to make Yu Jingchen let down his guard. And then... she plunged the dagger into his heart. But Nan Zhiyun had underestimated Yu Jingchen's abilities. How could she possibly assassinate him?
"Yu Jingchen, I hate you! I hate you!!!" That was the first time Yu Jingchen heard Nan Zhiyun say she hated him. A dense, gnawing pain bloomed in his heart, but it was quickly replaced by anger.
"So what if you hate me? What can you do?" Yu Jingchen's casually spoken words shattered Nan Zhiyun's defenses.
"Heh... haha..." Nan Zhiyun began to laugh abnormally, her laughter uncontrollable.
Yu Jingchen frowned. The next moment, he saw Nan Zhiyun spit out a mouthful of blood. Yu Jingchen admitted that he panicked at that moment.
That day, all the imperial physicians were gathered around Heyan Hall, and skilled healers from across the martial world also entered the palace. But... they all said that Nan Zhiyun was unwilling to wake up...
Three days later, Nan Zhiyun was no more in this world. She had fallen into a deep sleep, finally liberated...
Nan Zhiyun was gone... This thought suddenly flashed through Yu Jingchen's mind, and he jolted awake. Looking at the dark sky within the room, Yu Jingchen came to his senses. It was all a dream, no, more precisely, it was the past...
Were those recent events... something that had actually happened? Yu Jingchen felt a sense of daze. Sweat was now pouring from his body. Looking at the woman in his arms, he felt a sense of unreality.
Yu Jingchen closed his eyes to calm his emotions. Those things weren't real, were they? How could he have done such things? He wanted to quiet his mind, to convince himself it was a dream. But... as time stretched on and his emotions gradually subsided, those memories flooded into his mind like a tide.
That's right... that was a complete life. In that life, the Empress Dowager had apparently been reborn, but he had not yet. Therefore... he had developed strange emotions towards Nan Zhiyun during that period, possessiveness, control...
In that life, the Empress Dowager had joined hands with Yu Jing'an to rebel to change the outcome of their past lives, but she had never expected that he had already made preparations. After the rebellion failed, he had imprisoned them all as revenge. His subsequent actions towards Nan Zhiyun... so all those things were true.
True... waves of pain surged within Yu Jingchen's heart. So had he really done those things? He looked at the woman in his arms, his heart clenching.
Yu Jingchen gently released Nan Zhiyun and went to the outer room alone. The pain in his heart was so severe that he could barely stand.
Had those things truly happened? He found it hard to believe, yet the memories in his mind became clearer and clearer, even down to the details.
Yu Jingchen could not convince himself that they were false. So what had he done in the past?! Yu Jingchen had never regretted anything as much as he did now. The pain in his heart was immense, and he could only reach up to cover his chest. It hurt so much...