"That's the 'drug' you gave this king yourself."

Chen Fenglin smiled, "Thank you, Your Highness, for your trust, but trusting a person too much is also a bad thing."

"What did you say?"

"That's not a drug, it's a poison."

Looking at Chen Fenglin's strange smile, the high fortress in Lu Yuan's heart was instantly shattered. His belief, his life, and everything he had held tightly in his hands made him doubt at this moment—he really got these?Wrong, he is a joke from beginning to end, even without Lu Rongjue, he is still a complete waste!

Chen Fenglin came over and pulled Huo Zhi's hair, his frivolous movements were still the same as before, "Thank you Mr. Huo for helping me, I haven't seen you for a long time, you still amaze Xiao Wang like this."

"Do not touch me!"

Huo Zhi avoided Chen Fenglin's hand, he looked at Lu Rongjue who was gradually losing consciousness, his eyes hurt terribly, a few tears slipped down his cheeks unconsciously, and dripped on the back of Lu Rongjue's hand, it was cold.

"Don't cry." Lu Rongjue looked back at Huo Zhi weakly, and pulled out a smile, "I always thought I was a person who was not afraid of life and death, but I didn't expect that at this time... I'm still scared .”

Huo Zhi held his cold hand tightly, and the tears fell even more fiercely.

It was his fault... It was all his fault that Lu Rongjue would become what he is now.

"It wasn't your fault," Lu Rongjue seemed to be able to read his heart, and smiled hoarsely, "Actually, Lu Yuan is right, this is what I did to myself... This is retribution, isn't it?"

"no......"

Lu Yuan's eyes were red, "Where's the antidote? Chen Fenglin, take out the antidote!"

"There is an antidote," Chen Fenglin chuckled, "As long as His Highness can come and get it, Xiao Wang will give it to you."

Huo Zhi shouted, "Lu Yuan, don't go there!"

But Lu Yuan had already walked towards Chen Fenglin without hesitation, and the next moment a sharp knife was put on his neck like this, and the person holding this knife was the best friend he had identified in this life.

"Where's the antidote?" Lu Yuan repeated desperately, "Hand over the antidote, and my life will be at your disposal."

"Xiao Wang doesn't want your life," Chen Fenglin locked his eyes on Lu Rongjue, and smiled, "Give me the throne, and I will give you the antidote."

"You are dreaming." Lu Rongjue squeezed out a few words from his throat, "Death or life is up to fate, but even if I die, I can't let the throne fall into the hands of outsiders!"

"You're still stubborn when you're about to die, come here."

The guard presented the imperial edict, and Chen Fenglin threw it on the bed, saying coldly, "Take out the jade seal, and I will personally watch you write it."

Lu Rongjue grabbed the edict and threw it heavily on the ground.

"I won't write... Do you not understand human speech?"

Chen Fenglin's eyebrows twitched, "Come here, hold down the emperor and let him write my name on the imperial edict."

"Yes."

Lu Yuan roared angrily, "Chen Fenglin, don't go too far!"

Chen Fenglin chuckled lightly, "I have all the military talismans in my hands, and now I just want to have another throne, how can I go too far?"

The guard stepped forward and held down Lu Rongjue's body. At this time, Lu Rongjue had no strength left to resist. He stared at the edict, and a mouthful of blood sprayed out from his mouth again, staining the bedding and red Huo Zhi's eyes.

"Lu Rongjue!!"

Lu Rongjue's heavy body just fell on Huo Zhi's body, and at this moment he was no longer in such pain.In the blur, Lu Rongjue looked at Huo Zhi's moist eyes and smiled slowly, and exhausted his last strength to say a word, just three words, and exhausted his last breath.

"......sorry."

Time stopped abruptly at this moment.

In the end, Huo Zhi finally heard these three words from Lu Rongjue, but he never had a chance to answer his words.

Huo Zhi clutched his chest because of the pain.It was the pain from the flesh and blood, tearing him so that he couldn't cry out or cry out. Is this the feeling from the original owner?Or maybe it was mixed with his selfishness, so that he seemed to have to close his eyes just like this, so as to isolate all the senses that would suffocate him.

"The emperor... is dead!"

Lu Yuan's ears were replaced by a piercing sound, and he suddenly couldn't hear any sound, but a pair of red eyes still forced him to look at the facts in front of him, cutting his flesh and blood as if he was lingering.Chen Fenglin looked at Lu Rongjue who was no longer breathing, and the look in his eyes was full of sarcasm.

"It doesn't matter if you die, the throne will be passed on to you, Your Highness, and you will complete the rest of the edict."

Lu Yuan didn't know what sorrow and joy were, but he just looked at Chen Fenglin's mouth opening and closing, and what appeared in his mind was the scene of them drinking together, talking about poetry and painting, and his voice was already hoarse, "Chen Fenglin, from the beginning to the end, you Are you plotting against me?"

Chen Fenglin glanced at him, "Yes."

"Since we met, did you treat me as a true friend for a moment?"

"Maybe it was when I was a child," Chen Fenglin smiled, "but not later."

Lu Yuan heard his own voice asking, "Why?"

"You don't understand, this position is my father's lifelong wish. It is only because he is a concubine, and only because he is not favored by the old emperor, that this position falls into the hands of your father," Chen Fenglin seemed to be caught in a trap. Recalling, whispering, "Since I was sensible, he has been telling me every day, telling me how hard he used to work, how hard he worked, even though his grades in every subject were better than Lu Rongjue, but the old emperor's gaze He didn't even look at him. Just because Lu Rongjue looks like the old emperor, just because Lu Rongjue is the prince, God destined him to be a virtuous prince in his life."

"That's your father's fate, it's not my father's fault at all."

"No, it's Lu Rongjue's fault! If it weren't for Lu Rongjue, my father would be able to sit on the throne, and I'm also the only second noble prince in the Northern Qin Dynasty!" Chen Fenglin's hand holding the sword tightened fiercely, and the blade pierced faintly. It scratched Lu Yuan's skin, leaving a bloodstain, "My father told me since I was a child that only by establishing a good relationship with you can I succeed in replacing you in the future. I did this. It took me more than ten years , I let everyone around me believe that Chen Fenglin is a dandy who cannot be supported by mud, that I have no ambitions, and that I can be manipulated by others—this is all a joke!"

There was a tingling pain in Lu Yuan's wound, but it was less than one-thousandth of his heart. The bloody flesh was peeled off bit by bit by Chen Fenglin. The friendship he cherished all these years turned out to be his own passion.

"Your Highness, you said that Lu Rongjue forced you to marry a woman you didn't love. You said that Lu Rongjue sent people to monitor you and didn't give you freedom, but what about me?" Chen Fenglin laughed loudly, "I forced myself to marry a woman I didn't love. Woman, I force myself to wear this hypocritical mask day and night, I force myself to study hard in the dark, I force myself to persevere, and not let my ten years of hard work go to waste——You Say, which of us is more worthy of the throne?"

No one could speak, only Chen Fenglin's voice echoed in the crowded palace, piercing Lu Yuan's ears over and over again, leaving him speechless except silence.

"Say it, Lu Yuan, tell me the answer in your heart, tell me!"

"Give me the edict."

Chen Fenglin was startled for a moment, then looked at Lu Yuan's numb eyes, and finally he let out a deep laugh, seemingly joyful or disappointed.

Lu Yuan held the edict tightly, "I will finish writing the edict, and you put down your sword, so I can feel at ease."

Chen Fenglin didn't move.

"Chen Fenglin, I'm not you," Lu Yuan looked at him, and smiled bitterly, "To you, the emotion of the past ten years is hypocrisy, but to me, you are the only friend that Lu Yuan recognizes."

"I don't believe you."

"Okay, okay, I'll write, as if I have spent more than ten years, but in the end I ended up with nothing."

Chen Fenglin looked at the grief in his eyes, several emotions crossed his heart, made his wrist turn, and the blade pointed to the ground.

Under his gaze, Lu Yuan finished writing the edict word by word. When he wrote the last few words, he asked aloud, "How will you deal with me?"

Chen Fenglin stared at the tip of his pen, "It depends on your luck."

"I understand," Lu Rongjue let out a long breath, "If I want to leave the imperial city, will you agree?"

Chen Fenglin seemed eager to hear the answer, "Of course."

Chen Fenglin's eyes followed the edict, until the last word fell, and the expression in his eyes was finally filled with a smile.Lu Rongjue handed the imperial edict to Chen Fenglin with both hands, and he said softly, "Chen Fenglin, just give me one last gift as parting."

"what?"

Before Chen Fenglin's hands touched the edict, a sharp pain came from his lower abdomen. Chen Fenglin lowered his head, and saw that under the edict, it was Lu Yuan who stabbed his abdomen with a dagger.The next moment, at the same moment when he raised the sword in his hand, Lu Yuan also pulled out the dagger and stabbed it into his chest again, and this time, it hit the red heart.

"You..." A bloodstain left from the corner of Chen Fenglin's mouth, he staggered a few steps while clutching his lower abdomen, and smiled fiercely, "Come here, kill him!"

The guard pulled out his sword and rushed towards Lu Yuan. Lu Yuan desperately pressed Chen Fenglin on the ground and stabbed again with the knife. Huo Zhi almost instantly ran up and took the sword from Chen Fenglin's hand, and threw it far away.

"Lu Yuan, be careful!"

Huo Zhi stood in front of him and blocked the attack for him with great difficulty. In front of Chen Fenglin's red eyes, Lu Yuan ruthlessly tore up the edict, and shouted, "The late emperor died, and this king will be the one from now on." The emperor of Northern Qin, who else dares to touch me!?"

At this moment, all the lights of the sword subsided, and everyone looked at Chen Fenglin, who was as angry as a silk, and Lu Yuan, who was full of murderous intent, and knelt down.

"Long live my emperor! Long live!"

"Lu...Yuan," Chen Fenglin held the bloody hole in his chest, spitting blood while laughing, "You are cruel enough."

"Last night, I noticed something was wrong, so I brought an extra weapon beforehand," Lu Yuan said with a sullen face, "But I never thought that I would stab it into your body."

Chen Fenglin laughed wildly, consuming his last breath like crazy, Huo Zhi looked at everything that was finally over, and no longer had the strength to collapse. He was hugged tightly by Lu Yuan, but they didn't Noticing that Chen Fenglin, who was lying on the ground, quietly took out a pill from his arms and swallowed it into his mouth.

"I'm sorry to scare you," Lu Yuan comforted one after another, trembling, "It's all over, we won, Huo Zhi."

"No, we didn't win," Huo Zhi's tears had dried up on his face, "Lu Rongjue is dead, we all lost."

Lu Yuan didn't understand, he couldn't say anything else, it turns out that people can really lose so many things in an instant - relatives, best friends...fortunately, he still has Huo Zhi, his lover , and he was with him.Lu Yuan tightened his hands, closed his eyes, as if he wanted to rub Huo Zhi into his body, into his own flesh and blood, so hard.

This is the last thing he has...

"careful!"

Everything happened in an instant, when Huo Zhi hugged him and turned around forcefully, when the scene in front of him suddenly turned around, Lu Yuan didn't even take back his smile, the sound of a sharp weapon piercing into his clothes was heard in his arms. The sound suddenly sounded in his ears, tearing apart all the fantasies he had just established in his mind, and fell into darkness at that moment.

Huo Zhi groaned in pain, Chen Fenglin didn't seem to expect that he would block the knife, and smiled sullenly, "Well, if I can't kill you, then I will kill the person you love the most."

"Huo... Zhi?" Lu Yuan hugged Huo Zhi's increasingly heavy body tightly, calling Huo Zhi's name over and over again until his hoarse voice could no longer utter a single syllable.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, I owe you this." Huo Zhi could only feel more and more blood dripping from his back, and his eyelids began to get heavy, "You have to...live well."

"Huo Zhi, Huo Zhi... Huo Zhi!?" Lu Rongjue's tears flowed down uncontrollably at this moment. He looked at Huo Zhi's face with his eyes closed, and looked up again. At the beginning, he looked at Chen Fenglin as if he was looking at a dead person.

"Chen, Feng, Lin."

Chen Fenglin already understood that he couldn't escape.

Lu Yuan never thought that he could raise the knife so decisively. The hand that used to hold the paintbrush can now easily swing the sword. As the blood sprayed from his neck stained his clothes red, Chen Fenglin's face was finally His expression was also frozen there forever, not pain, not sadness, but the ease and satisfaction after releasing everything.

The look in Lu Yuan's eyes had long since lost any color, it was just empty gray. Looking at the mess in front of him, he lowered his head and smiled softly.And this laughter became more presumptuous when he saw the jade pendant on Chen Fenglin's waist, he laughed so much that he was about to burst into tears, and his heart hurt from laughing.

—— "What kind of etiquette do you use between us? Today is your great joy. I have sent the gift to the house. When you see it, you will definitely like it."

—— "Then Xiao Wang will thank His Highness first."

At that time, he never thought that there would be such a day that he, Lu Yuan, would end up with nothing like today.

He won the throne, but lost everything.

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