I'm the villain in the book

Li Zimu choked with sobs and murmured, letting the tears run down his cheeks, and slowly took the Zimuyu in his hand.

The cold wind whimpered outside the tent, like a panting and trapped beast, "whooping" and rolling past the endless barracks of the army.

Thick air-conditioning and choking dust drifted down behind the wind.

......

......

"My lord, why do you think Miss Li won't be on Chu Xianping's side?"

In another dark tent, Yang Liushi and Wei Changtian were already lying on the bed ready to go to bed, and the session of "chatting before going to bed" was going on right now.

"Aren't you afraid that instead of helping you, she will tell Chu Xianping all these things?"

"Oh~ she won't."

After yawning, Wei Changtian turned over, looked into Yang Liushi's close eyes and replied, "At most she is unwilling to lie to Chu Xianping, but she will never betray me for Chu Xianping."

"why?"

Yang Liushi blinked, and asked puzzledly: "Have you given her the Puppet Pill yet?"

"That's not it."

Wei Changtian curled his lips: "But she's not stupid, knowing that going against me will definitely end badly."

"But Miss Li really likes Chu Xianping."

Yang Liushi argued in a low voice: "Many women will do stupid things for the sake of their sweetheart."

"My family was in Fengqi Pavilion back then, and many sisters around me were deceived by people's rhetoric."

"Those men are mostly poor scholars, or businessmen who can't do business, and they are the most eloquent."

"Many sisters just listened to their words, and they did not hesitate to fall into prostitution to help them get their grades and do business."

"When these men took the money, they all swore that they would redeem their sisters and marry them as their wives when they got their name on the gold list, or when their business got bigger."

"But in the end?"

"Even if there are people who have achieved fame or made a fortune, they are not all treacherous in the end."

"My family has been in Fengqi Hall for five years, but I have never seen a man who came to fulfill his promise..."

"..."

From Li Zimu's association to what he saw and heard in Fengqi Pavilion, Yang Liushi lost track of what he was talking about, and his tone was a little angry, obviously very contemptuous of those "scumbags" behavior.

And Wei Changtian didn't interrupt her, he listened to her until she finished speaking, and then said with a smile:

"You're right about what you said."

"But don't forget, Li Zimu is not your sisters."

"Don't talk about being cheated by a man, it would be nice if she didn't cheat a man."

"Look at Tang Chen, isn't he just being tricked by her now?"

"But my family didn't say that Chu Xianping lied to her..."

Yang Liushi pulled the quilt and explained in a low voice: "I just want to say that once you are trapped by love words, no matter what kind of woman you are, you may do stupid things."

"Even if Miss Li knows that you should not be an enemy of the young master, if Chu Xianping tricks you with sweet words..."

Suddenly, Yang Liushi's voice stopped abruptly, as if she understood something.

And Wei Changtian smiled, followed her thoughts and said:

"Look, you also said it was a lie."

"If Chu Xianping is sincere to Li Zimu, then it is impossible for him to involve Li Zimu."

"Conversely, if Chu Xianping intends to use Li Zimu to deal with me, then he must not be sincere."

"Do you think Li Zimu won't understand this truth?"

"So, no matter what, Li Zimu will at least not do anything against me."

"At most, it's just not helping each other."

"..."

"I see."

Hearing this, Yang Liushi finally understood why Wei Changtian was so confident.

She hesitated for a moment, and asked softly:

"My lord, do you think Chu Xianping is sincere to Miss Li?"

"I don't know that."

Wei Changtian smiled and said, "I'm not Tang Chen, it's too easy for Chu Xianping to hide his thoughts from me."

"But I don't need to know, as long as Li Zimu can see it."

"Besides, whether he is sincere or not, it does no harm to me."

"Well, that's true..."

Yang Liushi nodded approvingly, and her long hair scattered beside the pillow moved accordingly.

"If Chu Xianping is sincere, then as long as Miss Li is still with the young master, he will definitely be afraid when he does things."

"And if he is fake, then Miss Li won't be entangled anymore."

"Yeah, that's the reason."

He yawned again, Wei Changtian was really sleepy now.

"Okay, go to sleep."

"Um......"

"..."

Finally, the "lying talk" between the two came to an end, and the tent was completely peaceful.

On the other side, Li Zimu, who had already received Chu Xianping's reply, was staring at the rice paper in his hand in a daze.

Just now, she sent a message to Chu Xianping, the content was probably "Young Master seems to be suspicious of you, what happened between you and Young Master? Do you need my help?" or something like that.

Of course, what Li Zimu said was just to further strengthen the relationship with Chu Xianping, so that he could gradually judge his real purpose from the latter's reaction.

Chu Xianping's reply to this was only one sentence.

Or there is only one problem.

【Zimu, do you believe me? 】

Chapter 709 That person is just Wei Changtian

Do you believe me or not?

Five words, a seemingly simple question, has a different meaning in Li Zimu's eyes.

As Wei Changtian said, Li Zimu understood very well that Chu Xianping's attitude towards this matter would directly represent his friendship for him.

And since Chu Xianping asked that, it was clear that he didn't want to exclude her.

In other words, Chu Xianping didn't care about his own safety.

At least compared to what he is doing now, he is not the most important thing.

"..."

The struggle and guilt in his eyes slowly receded, replaced by a trace of self-mockery.

It turned out that it was all my own wishful thinking...

Putting down the rice paper in his hand, Li Zimu's expression became cold at this moment.

No matter what conflicts there were between Wei Changtian and Chu Xianping, no matter whether the latter was true or false, her friendship with Chu Xianping disappeared at this moment.

This may sound unbelievable.

After all, she was still in love with her before, so the speed of change was too fast.

But for a person like Li Zimu, the emergence and disappearance of feelings is often an instant thing.

What's more, since she had chosen to side with Wei Changtian just now, it would be impossible for her to have a positive result with Chu Xianping no matter what.

That being the case, it would be better to cut it off earlier.

Anyway, Tang Chen had already been cheated, so what if he cheated one more Chu Xianping?

There is one thing to say, although Li Zimu is not deeply involved in the world, her way of dealing with everything can be said to be very rational, even cold-blooded.

Even in matters of emotion, this is the case where people are most likely to make wrong judgments.

She was able to "sell her appearance" and deceive Tang Chen for the benefit of Wei Changtian before.

Now she can also break up with Chu Xianping for Wei Changtian.

Thinking about it this way, what Li Zimu said to Tang Chen at the beginning, "I can do anything for Mr. Wei" is really not an exaggeration.

At the very least, she is indeed loyal enough to Wei Changtian.

As for why this is...

Li Zimu will always remember a scene.

It was in the Zhongling County Government Office, in a purgatory-like concierge.

Grinning, instruments of torture, blood, animal desire...

It seemed as if all the evil in the world had gathered in that small room, torturing and ravaging her, making her fearful, desperate, and numb to this ugly world.

Then, a person appeared.

Li Zimu will never forget the black robe that covered him in this life, and he will never forget the sentence "Even if you die, it's better to do something meaningful."

Since then, Li Zimu has found the "meaning" of living.

That is not to disappoint Mr. Wei.

That's why she will do whatever it takes to complete everything Wei Changtian asked.

Li Zimu has never regretted it, nor has he wavered.

Because she couldn't be more clear that it wasn't Chu Xianping, Tang Chen, or anyone else who appeared in front of her with a long knife that day and pulled her up from the bottom of the abyss.

That person is just Wei Changtian.

"..."

The candle flame flickered, and a moth, with trembling wings, slowly approached the flame weakly but firmly.

Li Zimu suddenly stretched out his hand to protect the moth in his palm, then picked up the mother-of-pearl jade again, and passed two words to Chu Xianping with indifferent eyes.

【I believe】

......

......

three days later.

Lingzhou, Huailing City.

Although Huailing Mansion was classified as Daning territory and changed to Lingzhou, the name of Huailing City has not changed.

As far as the people in the city are concerned, there is actually no difference whether it is "Huailing Mansion" or "Lingzhou".

Except for the color of the clothes of the defenders in the city, they didn't feel any difference in life.

Because of this, the people of Huailing have become very vague about their "country".

Dafengren?Daning people?

Compared with the above two identities, they are now more accustomed to calling themselves "Huailing people".

And this just reflects the disappointment and evasion of ordinary people towards the concept of "family country" after the country's demise.

The West is at war again?