The Dark and Foolish King: The Fierce and Crazy Concubine Has Infinite Strength

At this time, Liu Shuang ran out, knelt on the ground and saluted Lu Shian, then pulled the hem of Ye Qiandai's skirt and reminded her awkwardly: "Princess, you must salute first when you see the emperor."

"No need!" Before Ye Qiandai could say anything, Lu Shian refuted Liu Shuang's words, "From now on, the queen will not need to bow to me. I will give her a special exception."

Liu Shuang was delighted when he heard this, and immediately kowtowed to express his gratitude: "Thank you, Your Majesty."

Lu Shian asked her to lie down and followed Ye Qiandai into the room.

The outside of the house is quiet and the inside of the room is even simpler, with a set of tables and chairs, a bed and two cabinets.

Hanging on the wall are exquisite calligraphy and paintings, and placed on the table are the four treasures of the study. Apart from that, there is only a pipa in the corner.

Lu Shian sat at the table and looked around the shabby environment. He sighed and asked Ye Qiandai with a lonely look, "This place is really too plain and elegant. Is it unfair for you to live here?"

Ye Qiandai shook her head gently, sat down beside him, picked up the teapot and poured him tea, "I am not wronged, I like this place very much, more than anywhere else."

"Really? Then why did you cry at the banquet today? Don't you want to stay in the palace?"

Lu Shian gave a bitter smile. It was not that he didn't know that Zhu Jingguo had bad intentions, but he just couldn't resist the same look as Qing'er.

Ye Qiandai pushed the poured tea to his hand, stared at him with clear eyes, and answered irrelevantly, "Then why did the emperor's eyes turn red when I played "Changgan Xing"?"

Lu Shian looked down at the tea she handed him, was silent for a moment, raised his lips, his beautiful eyes full of heartbreak, "That song reminded me of an old friend."

"Really?" Ye Qiandai smiled faintly, but the moisture in her eyes gathered more and more, "Is that old friend the one the emperor loves?"

Lu Shian raised his eyelids slightly, his eyes were already red, "That old friend is the one I have been yearning for my whole life, and also the one I have been regretting for my whole life."

Ye Qiandai looked at him with her eyes as clear as rippling water, and the sadness in the corners of her eyes and eyebrows seemed to be even more intense than the person in front of her.

After a long while, she asked again: "Your Majesty is the emperor today. What kind of girl can make your Majesty want her but not want her?"

Lu Shian laughed sadly, his tone full of self-blame and regret, "It was because of the 'Emperor of the Present Day' that I lost her. If we were just ordinary people, perhaps we wouldn't have come to this point today."

"Yes, it would be nice if they were just ordinary people." Ye Qiandai looked at the swaying bamboo outside the window and let out a faint sigh.

"Your Majesty, where did she go?"

Lu Shian lowered his eyes, grief-stricken, "She left forever. I failed to protect her. You could even say that I harmed her."

Ye Qiandai couldn't help but shook her head, "No, maybe she will come back."

"She's dead, she will never come back, but even though I know she won't come back, I still want to wait. What am I waiting for? Waiting for an impossible possibility."

There was some self-mockery in Lu Shian's sad tone, and the bitterness in his heart was as if it had been soaked in Coptis chinensis water.

It turned out that he already knew.

Ye Qiandai's eyes turned red with laughter, and she asked in a hoarse voice, "What kind of girl is she?"

Lu Shian's gaze was taken away by her, and he looked at her and answered softly: "She is beautiful, elegant and quiet, likes to wear green clothes, is good at playing the pipa, and loves green bamboo. She is my childhood sweetheart's fiancée."

After hearing his words, Ye Qiandai was not as surprised and stunned as Lu Shian had expected. Instead, she remained gentle and affectionate, except for the even greater sadness between her brows.

"So, the emperor kept me here because I am similar to that girl?" She went straight to the point, her expression calm.

Lu Shian was surprised at her calmness and thought it was just her personality, so he didn't think too much about it.

He gently stroked her cheek with his big hand, staring at her charming eyes obsessively, with bitterness at the corners of his mouth.

"In fact, you don't look like her at all, but I don't know why, when I saw you, I felt almost the same as when I saw her.

"And the way you looked at me, I've only experienced that with her."

Ye Qiandai's heart was broken. She clenched her fists in her sleeves to hold back the tears, but the sound she made couldn't help but be choked with sobs.

"I see. It is my fortune to be somewhat like the Emperor's beloved."

"This blessing...are you willing to accept it? If you don't want it..." Lu Shian stopped talking halfway.

Alas, who is willing to be a substitute?

If she didn't want to, what should he do? Let her go? But he couldn't bear to do that. I'm afraid there is no other person in the world who is so similar to Qing'er.

Ye Qiandai looked at him steadily, with no other emotion in her eyes except determination and sadness, "I am willing. It is my honor to be the substitute of the emperor's beloved."

Hearing this, Lu Shian was not as happy as he had imagined, and sighed silently: "No one in this world is willing to be a substitute for others. You are so indifferent, it's nothing more than thinking that there is no other choice.

"In fact, I can tell from your eyes that you also have a story. It's just that the ending of the story doesn't seem to be very perfect, right?"

Ye Qiandai smiled bitterly and said sadly: "Your Majesty has good eyesight. Yes, I also have a story. Apart from him, there is nothing in that story that pleases me."

"Him?" Lu Shian heard the key point in her words, "That 'him' is your sweetheart, right?"

Ye Qiandai nodded gently, "In fact, I am similar to the emperor. He is also my childhood sweetheart. He is the only hope and light in my gloomy life. I can even say that I live for him.

"My greatest wish in this life is to marry him and live with him till old age. But I waited and waited, but he didn't come to marry me. What I waited for was... we were separated by the Yin and Yang."

Lu Shian felt a sharp pain in his heart, and his eyes were filled with excruciating pain.

These words are so much like him and Qing'er! Qing'er's heart must be the same, right?

"Is he dead?" He asked, rolling his Adam's apple to relieve the soreness in his throat.

Ye Qiandai lowered her eyes and did not answer, as if she did not want to mention the sad past.

She didn't say anything, and Lu Shian didn't ask any more questions. He took a deep breath and changed the subject: "In this case, you and I are in the same boat, and this can be considered fate.

"From now on, you will stay by my side peacefully. Even if it is to help me relieve my longing for you, I will repay you with endless honors and favors."

"Yes." Ye Qiandai agreed lightly, turned her head to look at the night outside the window, stood up and said, "Your Majesty, it's late, shall we... go to bed and rest?"

Lu Shian also stood up and said bluntly: "From now on, you and I will get along as close friends. No matter how much you look like her, you are not her after all."

After saying that, he asked her to have a good rest and turned to leave the room.

"Farewell, Your Majesty." Liushuang's farewell voice came from outside the door. Ye Qiandai closed her eyes, and two lines of tears slid down like pearls from a broken string.