After being mistaken for a fellow by Long Aotian

With his face covered in water, Duke Hu followed Xiao Fuzi down to change his clothes with a look of gloom.The emperor seemed to be choking on a mouthful of saliva, leaning against the wall and coughing wildly.

Zhou Xun only looked at the emperor, and the fifth prince stood in front of him, but he ignored him.

Seeing his "no oil and salt" appearance, the fifth prince smiled wryly: "Did you really say nothing about the two years of love between you and me?"

"My lord, please be respectful." Zhou Xun finally turned his face, and said sharply, "Zhou Xun is just a commoner, and there has never been any affection between me and my lord!"

In the eyes of outsiders, he straightened his back and spoke with dignity.Only Zhou Xun knew that he was bluffing at the moment.

Where no one else could see, his nails dug deep into the palm of his hand.He caught himself, as if that was the strength that supported his spine - only he knew that when facing this person, what arose in his heart was not only hatred, not only disgust, not only disgust ...

And fear.

He is his nightmare.

He's shattered the bright future he could have had.Zhou Xun hated him so much that he wanted to eat his flesh raw.However, the fifth prince belongs to the royal family, while Zhou Xun is just a commoner.Facing the oppression from Tianhuang nobles, all his resistance was insignificant.

——For example, the Fifth Prince ordered someone to tie him to the bed for a month just because he jumped into the lake three times in a month and hanged himself once.To tell him to "calm down".

"Ayu..."

The prince was still calling his "name" and stretched out his hand to him.Zhou Xun dodged back, avoiding his palm.

"you……"

Zhou Xun looked at him coldly.The prince withdrew his palm, a little sadly: "I really don't understand, why do you hate me that much?"

He didn't get Zhou Xun's answer, he gritted his teeth and said, "I know, you hated me before, hated me for having Zhou Cai in my heart, and hated me for treating you as his substitute. I also admit that I did make many mistakes before. It made you have a bad time, but... that's all in the past!"

"I think that this year, since last winter, I have treated you well. The food and clothing in the palace are all excellent. You are not in good health and do not want to sleep, and I never force you .I have been trying to make it up to you, and I thought you were planning to live with me, so why did you do that?" When the fifth prince talked about the emotion, his tone became urgent, "What are you doing? Why do such a thing?"

Why do this?

Why assassinate the emperor?

In a trance, Zhou Xun saw the snow from that year again.He sat on the bed and looked out the window at the fresh snow.

At that time, in such a desperate hell, he almost died.He leaned back on the bed, and the room was stripped of everything he could have used to kill himself.He looked at the rope tied around his wrist, and outside the house was the sound of the prince and Zhou Cai talking.

"You gave me to him, and I took him in. But this year, I never treated him...I still miss you...Why do you..."

Amidst the voices of the two getting farther and farther away, he kept looking at his wrist, as if he was thinking about something, but also seemed to have thought of nothing.But he always felt that he should come up with something.

The maid came in with a hot towel and wiped his face.Seeing him staring blankly at his wrist, he sighed, "Young Master Zhou, why are you...why bother?"

Zhou Xun remained silent, and she continued: "There is no such thing as perfection in this world. People come here like this, so what if the prince has someone else in his heart? Even if Zhou Zhuangyuan and him are... it's all in the past, come on. You are the one who stays with the lord every day. The wealth and wealth of the royal mansion is unmatched in the world. Except for the palace, everything is the best in the mansion. People live in this world just for these few short decades, so why bother with yourself What about it? When the prince has figured it out, he will treat you best..."

"...Young Master Zhou, did you hear me?"

"Haha...hahaha..."

In the end, what she heard was not Zhou Xun's echo, but his weeping laughter as if he had finally figured something out.

"Do you know why I hate him so much?" She heard the good-looking young man say strangely, "You think I am fighting for favor, because I have a crush on him... No."

The son finally said: "I hate him because I saw my own future."

"I see myself always trapped between this square inch." Zhou Xun said at the time, he touched the bruise on his neck with his fingers, "I hate him so easily for 'his trivial affair' And ruined the future that I could have had infinite possibilities. Then he looked down at me, decided my future with a benevolent attitude, and gave my future alms."

"He is a nobleman, but I am just a grassroots man. He can use his power to suppress me, but isn't a grassroots man worthy of anger for things other than food and clothing? Even if I wear fancy clothes, I hate it. I hate even living in a palace. The scariest thing in life is a guy who destroys all your freedom with a flick of a finger, and he thinks it's an affair, caused by his own love affair' Misfortune', a 'regret' that can be made up for by oneself."

And now...

The fifth prince stood in front of him, looked at him, and scolded him, with unbelievable disappointment in his eyes, as if he was some heinous sinner.

In his eyes, Zhou Xun thought, I did all of this, and my assassination of the emperor was still because of "I couldn't ask for it" for him.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xun suddenly felt that the man in front of him became funny.

Funny, shallow, mean.

He suddenly felt that he was not so afraid of him.

This man...he didn't even know what the real reason for his "suffering" was.

"Why do you want to assassinate? Why do you want to do such a thing?" Zhou Xun said to him word by word. This is the longest sentence he has ever said since he reunited with the Fifth Prince, "Because in your eyes, I will Go crazy because of your 'love'. Because I hate you, you can easily destroy everything about me and decide my life. But do you know what I hate about you the most?"

The fifth prince was dumbfounded by his question, and said blankly: "What?"

"It's you who can easily 'make up' my life with alms. You think you can do it easily." Zhou Xun said, "In your eyes, I am just an ant, an ant that can be easily given by you. An ant who plays with life. In the face of your compensation, I should be grateful, but—"

"I don't care." Zhou Xun said, "Just as you don't care about my life, I don't care about your 'compensation' either. The so-called rich clothes and jade food, the so-called compensation are things that the prince can easily give, but what I can have Life is something that you will never be willing to give to make up for it. Isn't it too ridiculous for the prince to use his own feathers to make up for another person's Taishan?"

The fifth prince was stunned. He never thought that Zhou Xun would have such an idea.

On the other side, the emperor who finally stopped coughing was leaning on the wall, staring blankly.

"Your Majesty," Xiao Lizi worried, "You want to..."

The emperor waved his hand at him.

Little Li:?

"Come here," the emperor whispered, "to ask you a question about geography."

Xiao Lizi respectfully said: "Your servant will know everything and say everything!"

Emperor: "Where is the poorest place in the Jing Dynasty?"

Little Li: "?"

Emperor: "Where is the place of exile with the highest death rate in the Jing Dynasty?"

Little plum: "

? ”

Emperor: "With the current level of transportation, can people be transported to Siberia to dig oil as coolies?"

Little Lizi: "??"

"Your Majesty, this..."

The emperor laughed "hehe", stared at the Fifth Prince and said, "It's nothing, I'll just ask casually."

Little Lizi: ………

"So you hate me so much." The fifth prince murmured, "But, if you hate me, you only hate me... Do you know that if you do this, you will drag the entire Zhou family into the water? You even your family Do you want it too?"

"Family?" Zhou Xun sneered, "My lord forgot, haven't I been expelled from the Zhou family long ago? My mother was also abandoned by the Zhou family long ago and sent to the temple by them... I, Zhou Xun, have long been married to Zhou Xun." Home has nothing to do with it!"

"That's just uncle's verbal words of anger!" The fifth prince said anxiously, "Even if Uncle Zhou... But what about Zhou Cai? Zhou Cai has never treated you badly, and has always been worried about you... Do you know that, Assassinating the Emperor is a serious crime against the Nine Clans!"

"Punish the Nine Clans?"

Zhou Xun suddenly read these three words in a very strange tone.The fifth prince thought he was touched, so he said: "Don't you know..."

"What I want is Zhu Jiu Clan." Zhou Xun smiled.

He is so pretty when he smiles, like a little fresh snow falling on plum blossoms: "This is really clean."

"you!"

The fifth prince was furious: "You are crazy!"

He seemed to be finally irritated by Zhou Xun. He raised his hands and feet to walk over.Seeing him subconsciously take a step back, Zhou Xun stepped on something and slid back...

Then fell into someone's arms.

Zhou Xun:? ?

He originally thought that he was going to be beaten. When the two of them returned to the Zhou mansion during the Spring Festival, when he humiliated Zhou Cai in public, the prince had such an expression and beat him after returning.

But now...

"Are you okay?" The emperor's voice was full of anger, and he took Zhou Xun into his arms.Then, he looked at the fifth prince coldly: "Who gave you the courage to beat someone under my nose?!"

The fifth prince was stunned for a moment, looking at his hands: "My brother didn't..."

Emperor: "I saw you beat someone with my own eyes!!"

"He fell first..." Fifth Prince still wanted to defend himself.

The emperor: "This road is good. Zhou Xun didn't fall when he walked on it before. Why did you fall when you came here? It must be your problem."

The fifth prince said: "My brother didn't even touch him..."

Emperor: "Your palm has touched him!!"

The fifth prince said: "My brother really didn't..."

"I don't want you to feel that," the emperor said angrily, "I want you to feel that."

Zhou Xun: ...