Chapter 89 – Choice (Part 2)

Forbidden City, Yang Xin Hall.

There was a letter spread on top of Imperial record. The inscription name on it was Li You, with glaring bright red fingerprint engraved next to the name, showing the vein lines evidently.

Right hand, forefinger, and delicate fingertip, indicate the softness, indicate the vein lines that support the right hand. The pattern was like a fine sandy beach that has been flooded for thousands of years. He used to kiss these fingers carefully with his lips, so he was familiar with them.

Ye Zhen Zhen was in his hands.

When he saw the news, his first reaction was greatly relieved.

She is alive.

That day, after the two separated in the flood, Ji Wu Jiu felt into the water. He didn’t dare to arbitrarily struggling. At that time the strength of the flood was weak. He tried to keep his breath, floated in the water for a while. Finally the secret guard came by boat to rescue.

After that, he deployed manpower to search for Ye Zhen Zhen and hurried back to the capital. It was a good time to make a mess when there was no king in the country. However, even though his body in the capital, his heart remained in the flood.

There was not even the slightest news about Ye Zhen Zhen, not even the person or the dead body. A lot of people thought she had probably dead, but Ji Wu Jiu didn’t believe it. He could not accept the result.

After investigation by Gong Bu (1) guanyuan (2), it was confirmed that the riverbank was blown up by someone. Ji Wu Jiu knew that this matter was most likely related to Ji Li You. In addition, there was no news about Ye Zhen Zhen, so he believed that she had been taken away by Ji Li You.

That was the only reason could explain why she was alive but didn’t come back to find him.

Sure enough, his Zhen Zhen was still alive.

In order to force Ji Li You to come out, Ji Wu Jiu had squeezed his personal influences with all his might these days, no longer afraid of inadvertently alert the enemy (3). Even if Ye Zhen Zhen was under house arrest, according to various clues, she must be able to deduce that he was still alive. On the other hand, Bai Jian Cheng had been put into prison, interrogated personally by Xing Bu (4) shilang (5). At the moment, Ji Wu Jiu also didn’t care how much he could provoke that person to reveal. Anyway with such tense rumor, his accomplices were naturally afraid to emerge. Even if there was any move, that would be a desperate action (6). He can track the clues that followed (7).

As expected, Bai Jian Cheng did not move, but unexpectedly Bai Xiang confessed everything.

Of course, people are conditional and the condition was very unusual: she wants to be the empress.

Ji Wu Jiu blatantly told her: Ye Zhen Zhen is washed away by the flood. Zhen wants to leave this position to her.

Every word in this sentence was true, but for Bai Xiang’s ears what she understood was “the empress is dead, afterward the position is vacant”. Furthermore she added a little bit of her own understanding: Empress was died violently, it was not good for such a person to be reincarnated. Her soul might float back and stare at her position.

So, become guifei(8) was fine, she didn’t need to fight a dead person. Moreover, that position was not her ultimate goal. What she wanted was the Emperor’s fondness like before. Status was merely a thing that depends on oneself, but with high position, no one in the hougong(9) could bully her.

Bai Xiang had experienced the hougong, so she was attentive with her thought.

Ji Wu Jiu was more thoughtful than her.

A woman like Bai Xiang, wanted to be a guifei means knowing her place yet means nothing much, she actually dare to be insolence, oh no, seduce him. Ji Wu Jiu had been trained by Ye Zhen Zhen in facing woman’s goodwill. He first think about Ye Zhen Zhen’s reaction. This time, Ye Zhen Zhen’s life or death was unknown, he had no appetite to face other woman’s entice.

But such thing would not always work. He was a man and the hougong was full of woman. Everybody wanted to be insolence, oh no, seduce him. To be prepared just in case (10), if he really went that way, wasn’t Ye Zhen Zhen going to split him?

Think about it, in order to defend his chastity, Ji Wu Jiu had to take the risk.

That night, Tie Taiyi (11) received mysterious yet unimaginable task. He didn’t dare to tell anyone. Restrained bellyful of curiosity, he went back to make a bottle of pills for Ji Wu Jiu, while told him: One pill at a time, one pill would be effective for one day. It’s harmless, no side effect, no negative effect if stop.

Ji Wu Jiu pinch the little pill and couldn’t help to sigh. Since ancient times only heard men eating medicine which supplemented Yang, no man had ever taken the initiative to eat this.

He especially wanted to build himself a memorial arch.