The Beloved in the Palm

Chapter 280 Taming Techniques

This is a cell nine feet wide and two feet long.

It was not considered small, and it was separated from other cells by high walls, so that it could be protected from intrusion.

Someone delivers meals on time every day and the meals are clean.

This place provides extremely high treatment for prisoners.

But……

Xue Qinghe was curled up in the corner, his hair disheveled. She slowly raised her head and looked at the window on the wall for the first time——

The window opened very high and was extremely narrow. It was only used for ventilation, but it didn't allow much air, and the excretion breath couldn't be completely dissipated.

It lets in a little light, but not much. That light could only fall where Xue Qinghe raised his head and could see it.

It couldn't fall on her body and couldn't dispel her chill.

"Today's meal." The visitor said coldly, opened the railing and pushed in the food box.

The food box hit something and made a "snap" sound.

The guard looked down and said, "Did you eat yesterday's food?"

The two food boxes were piled together.

Xue Qinghe murmured: "Starve me to death."

It would be better to starve her to death.

The food is the same every day, which is too rough to eat.

She lived and excreted in the same room, which trampled her shame repeatedly.

It was actually even sadder than when she was in the Xue family without the care of her eldest brother!

At least she was free at that time. She had books to comfort her every day. She didn't have to be trapped in such darkness. She had maids and servants by her side.

At least... there was someone to talk to.

She didn't know how King Xuan wanted to punish her.

But now she was in even more pain than being in hell...

He made her feel less like she was living as a person in this world.

"Can't you bear this little pain?" the guard sneered.

This... pain?

Xue Qinghe raised his head in a daze.

In their eyes, does her suffering mean nothing?

"You have clean food to eat, clothes to cover your body, and a place to rest... You are better than many people in the world. But you are still not satisfied." The guard sneered coldly.

"I know you are resentful of me because of Princess Xuan. But my sister, your Princess Xuan, is extremely delicate now. Am I born to be like this? Am I only worthy of competing with slaves?" Xue Qinghe smiled bitterly.

"Did you know when the princess was suffering from illness? Did you know when the Wei Palace was looking at her with eager eyes? During the war with the Men, the Men tried to coerce the princess and threaten His Highness Prince Xuan. Did you know?

"Isn't your life good enough? I heard that Young Master Xue took care of you in the past, but now that the war has ended, why have you given the slightest bit of effort? But you have to be named the county lord, and you will marry to the Meng clan to be the queen.

"And what the princess has gained today is all due to the pain she endured. She deserves it. How do you have the dignity to compare with her?"

The guard looked cold and stern, and his words became more intense every time.

Xue Qinghe was slightly stunned.

Did they misunderstand something?

The eldest brother's words had hinted that the king of the Meng clan was interested in Xue Qingyin.

In this case, what kind of suffering did Xue Qingyin suffer from the Mon people? The King of Wei died, and the Palace of Wei had long lost its former glory. The Xu family fell, and Liu Yuerong became a shrunken turtle... Who could compare to her glory?

Even the position of queen was obtained because of Xue Qingyin.

What kind of county head... King Xuan said he would take care of her, didn't he do the same?

At this time, a burst of footsteps suddenly sounded in the prison.

The Yizhou prison is wide, and the footsteps echoed between the high walls.

"Here comes someone." The guard turned around, "Maybe it's what you expected, to send you to death."

Xue Qinghe's heart tightened, and all thoughts disappeared in an instant.

She leaned against the cold wall.

Cold sweat covered his back and slowly slid down his forehead.

How...will she die?

The footsteps moved slowly.

The slower it went, the more breathless it became.

I don’t know if I’m hungry or scared.

Xue Qinghe was dizzy and almost fell down.

But at this time, the footsteps stopped.

The visitor stood in front of the prison.

Xue Qinghe raised his head in a daze, but only saw a vague outline.

She couldn't see the person outside the door clearly, but Xue Qingyin could clearly see her current appearance.

Xue Qinghe broke out in a rash, covering his face and body.

Xue Qinghe felt that living in the Xue family was already very difficult, and being abandoned by He Songning was even more difficult. But I don’t know that there are more miserable things in this world...

In a place like this...

Xue Qingyin raised her eyes and glanced around, then took half a step back.

She couldn't be more fragile now, but don't let her get into trouble.

"Open the door." Xue Qingyin's voice sounded.

Xue Qinghe shuddered and suddenly recovered from the chaos.

The iron door was opened, making a heartbreaking sound.

Her eyes passed the guards and finally landed on Xue Qingyin.

She still couldn't see Xue Qingyin's appearance clearly at this moment, and could only catch a glimpse of her gorgeous clothes, which were embroidered with birds and animals, and their feathers were shining with golden light.

She heard Xue Qingyin ask: "Are you sick?"

Xue Qinghe did not answer her question.

She thought she had missed her last chance.

She woke up from her dreams countless times, hoping that her elder brother would come to save her.

I hoped that the Meng people would be aware of her situation, and that someone from the marriage team sent by the Liang Dynasty would notice her disappearance, but nothing... nothing...

It seemed like she had been forgotten by everyone.

She didn't know how much time had passed on this day, but she finally saw the first person besides the guards.

But it was...Xue Qingyin.

Xue Qinghe murmured: "King Xuan actually allowed you to come here. I thought I would never see you again..."

"Listen to what you said, do you really want to see me?" Xue Qingyin raised her eyebrows and asked in surprise.

"I...I don't know." Xue Qinghe trembled slightly.

Xue Qingyin turned to Azhuo and Yunduo who were following behind and ordered: "Bring her out first."

It's hard enough for her to talk here.

She still kept in mind what King Xuan said, there was too much cold in the prison and she could not stay there for long.

Azhuo responded, stepped in first, and reached out to grab Xue Qinghe.

Xue Qinghe suddenly retracted his hand.

Xue Qingyin couldn't help but tilted her head: "Do you want to continue living here?"

Xue Qinghe shivered, but she still didn't come out.

She squeezed out a suppressed cry: "Why...why is it so hard? Why is it so hard to keep the people around you? Why...is it so hard to go far away? Why is it so hard to live..."

Xue Qingyin looked at her with real sadness.

She thought of the night before she traveled through time, watching the heroine in the original novel being let down by He Songning again and again. She kept looking down, wanting to see when the heroine would get tough and torture others... But she couldn't see it until she traveled through time.

"Big brother told me not to place my hopes on others, not to rely on others..." Xue Qinghe cried heartbrokenly.

Xue Qingyin wondered: "Yes, that's right."

"He's pushing me away, he... he's tired of me... he wants to make it up to you..."

"Oh, so what? Is the sky falling? Why is it so painful for you to be independent?"

"I, I..." Xue Qinghe sat there blankly, and finally uttered a few words, "No one will care about me anymore."

Xue Qingyin: "Then I'm leaving. Goodbye."

Gone...?

Then she would go back to those days of darkness, shame, and maddening silence?

"No, no, don't go, don't go!" Xue Qinghe instinctively spat out his voice and threw himself at the door.

She reacted and looked up at Xue Qingyin: "You came to see me...you care about me?"

How strange, she thought.

How could Xue Qingyin, who was supposed to be incompatible with her, care about her?

Xue Qingyin curled her lips, which indeed shattered her fantasy.

"Of course not. I'm here to ask you, have you made up your mind? Should you go to the Mon tribe and shine, or should you stay here forever?"

Xue Qinghe calmed down a little: "You want to take advantage of me."

"Of course, there is no such thing as love and hate for no reason in this world. Do you really want others to care about you? If your value is greater, wouldn't it mean that you can have as much care as you want?" Xue Qingyin said cruelly and ruthlessly.

Xue Qinghe seemed to be connected to the Ren and Du channels in an instant, and said to himself: "Qiu Xin cares about me because she wants the rising tide to lift all boats. Her desire is more than mine. If I can't marry into a high family, she will be more anxious than me. my uncle cares about me , naturally they also want to use me to save them and organize their affairs. No, they don't even care about me, they just say a few hypocritical words... If you can lose them, you can get others."

"But...but where is the eldest brother? What is there in me that he can use?" Xue Qinghe asked eagerly.

Xue Qingyin: "I don't know, just ask him."

"Why...why..." Xue Qinghe was full of obsession with this question. She murmured and pulled her hair as if she was going crazy.

Xue Qingyin thought that this love brain is difficult to cure.

She frowned and said: "Why are there so many? Today you think the butterfly style is good-looking, but tomorrow a new style comes out, and you think the new style is good-looking..."

Xue Qinghe froze there, as if enlightened: "Brother, I am just like that embroidery style. A new thing that looks good."

Xue Qingyin felt that it was really getting late.

Soon King Xuan might come in and kill people.

"Forget it, let's go." Xue Qingyin turned and walked out, "Get her a basin of hot water."

Xue Qinghe was stunned and unconsciously crossed his legs. Only then did I feel that my entire self-esteem had been completely torn to pieces.

She was having her period.

The blood stained her dress without knowing when...

Xue Qingyin disliked everything about Xue Qinghe.

But as a woman, she doesn't like to humiliate women in this kind of thing...

The guard moved quickly, and in a blink of an eye someone brought hot water.

Xue Qinghe reached into the warm water blankly.

The mud on the hands and the blood stains left when touching the hem of the skirt all fainted in the water...

The warm feeling made her shiver.

Just when Xue Qingyin was about to walk away, she suddenly shouted like crazy: "Don't go, don't go! I promise you, I will go out with you..."

Xue Qingyin was surprised.

Is this... OK?

But she kept walking and got out of the prison first.

Sure enough... King Xuan's car didn't go far at all.

As soon as she came out, King Xuan reached out to roll up the car curtain, and his eyes fell firmly on her.

Xue Qingyin approached the carriage. Before she could lift her skirt, King Xuan took a step forward and picked her up.

"Did she obey you?" King Xuan asked.

Xue Qingyin shook her head, then nodded: "It's strange, she probably doesn't know what she's thinking. But her survival instinct is still there, she wants to live with dignity, so she has to bow her head. You deliberately hid it from me for so long, are you deliberately throwing her in jail to temper her?"

King Xuan said: "For prisoners trapped in jail, he will regret at first, then become crazy, and finally become numb."

"Some officials think that this will not make prisoners repent. So they opened a window in the prison, and light leaked in, but it was difficult to reach their bodies. This will prevent them from giving up hope and longing to see the sun again, but they can only see dim walls all day long, so they are tortured and fall into endless regret."

Xue Qingyin smacked her lips: "No wonder I saw a window in prison. The window was opened in a very anti-human way. It was the same as if it was not opened."

King Xuan looked at her: "Yinyin, you are the window she stumbled in the dark for a long time and finally touched."

Xue Qingyin was stunned.

King Xuan then said lightly: "A person's temperament and situation are destined to determine what kind of people he will like."

"Have you ever thought about why she can't hide her admiration for He Songning even though she is a brother and sister?"

"For her, the Xue family is a fire and water. And He Songning is the one who saved her from the fire and water, and he is the only one. The more she hates her powerlessness, the more she will yearn for He Songning's care. The more people around her flatter her because of He Songning, the more she can't leave He Songning."

"If He Songning is gone, and she is put in a similar or even more cruel situation..."

"Yinyin, the person who saved her from the fire and water now... is you. It is difficult for dodder to grow into a towering tree. When one tree cannot be climbed, she will climb the next one."

He just casually created an extreme environment that just meets the conditions for Xue Qinghe's emotional changes.

Xue Qingyin was stunned.

She was wondering if Xue Qinghe would turn evil because of this... But King Xuan seemed to be certain that Xue Qinghe's character would be difficult to change.

Just like a stupid person, who will never become a smart person after rebirth...

Her personality and experience destined her to repeat the same mistakes instinctively when she encounters the next crisis...

"But it shouldn't be... I am the one who threatens her, and I save her under certain conditions. I am different from He Songning." Xue Qingyin said doubtfully.

King Xuan said indifferently: "No."

"What's wrong?"

"I ordered her to be imprisoned, and I didn't allow her to go to the Meng tribe. Yinyin, from the moment I learned that you fainted and walked into the hall that day, I was her enemy."

King Xuan paused, and continued in a deep voice: "And you, who are pregnant, are the one who has to go to give her a way out despite the pressure from your husband. And you also disdain He Songning. In her heart, whether she admits it or not, you are already more powerful than He Songning."

Xue Qingyin was a little shocked.

She felt that...when it comes to controlling people's hearts, King Xuan should be no less than Emperor Liang De!

Seeing Xue Qingyin suddenly stop talking, King Xuan's expression suddenly changed from indifferent to a little nervous.

He asked: "Is it really because the prison is too cold? What's wrong with you?"

He looked at her, as if he was still afraid... afraid that she would think that the side of him that was slowly revealed now was how cunning and scheming he was.