Douluo Jueshi: Who let him join Shrek!

"Jiang Ming is a terrifying person."

Sitting on her bed in her palace, looking at the bright moonlight streaming through the window, Ju Zi felt a chill in her heart.

She knew that Xu Tianran, the emperor of the Sun Moon Empire, and even the entire Sun Moon Empire, had already begun to be plotted against by Jiang Ming.

However, even though she now realizes this, it doesn't seem to make any difference.

If Xu Tianran were still in the same state as before, then if she told Xu Tianran about her discovery, Xu Tianran might still listen.

But things are different now. As the person closest to Xu Tianran, she can sense that Xu Tianran's mentality has become very, very bad in recent years.

And even if she said that, it wouldn't make any difference.

Xu Tianran has already received this message. The terrifying thing about open conspiracy is that even if you are told that they are targeting you, there is nothing you can do about it!

Even if Xu Tianran knew that Jiang Ming's move was intended to make him live in constant fear for the next year, there was nothing Xu Tianran could do about it.

It's even possible that if she tells Xu Tianran about Jiang Ming's open scheme, Xu Tianran might immediately break down!
After all, this means that he has lost again in his game with Jiang Ming!
Given Xu Tianran's current mindset, once he breaks down, everyone else will definitely suffer!
Putting aside everything else, Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen, who relayed the message to Xu Tianran, will certainly be punished.

But she knew that Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen meant well.

After all, if the two of them really wanted to harm Xu Tianran, it would be best to say nothing, and they might even find a chance to leave Mingdu.

Even if Jiang Ming comes to Mingdu to kill Xu Tianran, they won't have to risk their lives to protect him, and they won't even have to bear any infamy. After all, how can they save him if he's not in Mingdu?
All I can say is that Jiang Ming's plan was incredibly sophisticated!

Jiang Ming has schemed so deeply against Xu Tianran that Xu Tianran is almost certainly doomed.
Orange stood up, walked to the window, and looked at the night sky.

She is now tied to Xu Tianran. If Xu Tianran dies, her status as empress will inevitably plummet, and she may even be oppressed and killed by other members of the royal family!
Of course, what was most important to her was not this, but that after losing the position of Empress, she would no longer be able to fulfill her deepest desires.

Because her father died in the war between the Sun Moon Empire and the Star Luo Empire, she has always had a strong desire to unify the continent and end wars!
Now she is the Empress of the Sun Moon Empire. Because of her outstanding military talent, Xu Tianran has also entrusted the Fire Phoenix Soul Master Group of the Guardian Hands to her.

Once Xu Tianran is killed by Jiang Ming, the Fire Phoenix Soul Instructor Group will most likely no longer be in her hands. Even if she has extremely high military talent, the new emperor of the Sun Moon Empire is unlikely to hand over the Fire Phoenix Soul Instructor Group to her.

So, we need to think of a solution.
Somewhere in Mingdu, Mingjiang looked at Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming as they emerged from the palace and sighed softly.

"Master Kong, Master Hongchen, I'm sorry to trouble you two, please suffer a little."

After saying that, Mingjiang's figure disappeared from the spot.

The situation reported by the two to Xu Tianran was within his expectations. Now it was up to Xu Tianran to realize that this was an open conspiracy.

If they realize what's happening, Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen will definitely be scolded, or even punished.

If he doesn't realize it yet, that's okay, someone will remind him.

Regardless of the circumstances, Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming are destined to be punished.

And this is the first step in separating Xu Tianran from Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming!
In fact, no matter what choices Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen make, they are bound to have conflicts with Xu Tianran.

If the two of them didn't tell Xu Tianran about this, but instead tried to leave Mingdu, they would be geographically separated. Moreover, after being separated for a year, Xu Tianran would inevitably discover the problem if he wasn't stupid.

Therefore, no matter what they choose, both of them will have conflicts with Xu Tianran.

Once a conflict arises, it can be escalated!
By gradually escalating the conflict, Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen will become increasingly estranged from Xu Tianran.

Kong Deming might be able to hold out for a little longer, after all, he is from a collateral branch of the royal family, but Jing Hongchen...
The next day, Xu Tianran was awakened by a nightmare.

"Guard! Guard!"

Xu Tianran suddenly opened his eyes, his upper body suddenly stood up like a corpse, but his lower body wanted to move but couldn't, causing his whole body to fall directly onto the bed.

He was sweating profusely, his face was pale, and he kept calling out to the guards.

The guards outside the palace rushed in immediately. When they saw Xu Tianran lying on the bed with a pale face, all the guards immediately went on alert and formed a defensive line around Xu Tianran's bed.

"Your Majesty! What's wrong?"

The captain of the guards quickly helped Xu Tianran up and asked with great concern.

At the same time, his heart was in his throat.

If it really was the negligence of these guards, then given His Majesty's current personality, their heads would probably be on the line right now!
Xu Tianran was breathing heavily, and there were still scarlet blood lines in his eyes.

This state lasted for several minutes before Xu Tianran recovered.

At that moment, Ju Zi also came over and took the place of the captain of the guard to help Xu Tianran.

"His Majesty."

Seeing Xu Tianran's pale face and fear in his eyes, Ju Zi knew that Jiang Ming's scheme had worked.

Xu Tianran was killed within a year, and Xu Tianran began to have a stress reaction only one day after receiving the news.

It's hard to imagine how much Xu Tianran would be tortured in the time that followed.

"It's alright, you may all leave. The Empress is here."

After recovering, Xu Tianran's expression softened somewhat, and the fear in his eyes disappeared.

The guards withdrew from the palace, and Xu Tianran leaned against the headboard, taking a sip of the honey water that Ju Zi had handed him.

"Is Your Majesty having a nightmare?"

"Orange asked softly."

Xu Tianran nodded, letting Ju Zi wipe the cold sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief.

"I dreamt that Jiang Ming stormed into the palace, I dreamt that the palace was engulfed in flames, I dreamt that..."

Xu Tianran didn't finish speaking. After catching his breath, he stopped talking.

He also dreamed of other scenes, but those...
He turned his head to look at the orange beside him and grabbed the orange's hand.

"Ju Zi, you will always stay by my side, right?"

Xu Tianran gripped her tightly, and Ju Zi winced in pain, but she remained calm and even gave a gentle smile to comfort her:
"Of course, Orange will always stay by Your Majesty's side."

Xu Tianran nodded and let go of his hand.

After washing up and changing clothes, Xu Tianran went to court to discuss matters. He watched as the ministers attacked their rivals for their own interests and the nobles from different factions fought over some rare metal resources. He was somewhat distracted.

He actually had some countermeasures against Jiang Ming's threats. In a secret chamber deep within the palace, he possessed methods to deal with Jiang Ming.

But this did little to alleviate his tension and panic; otherwise, he wouldn't have had a nightmare yesterday.

In his dream, Jiang Ming forcibly broke into the palace, burning, killing, looting, and committing all sorts of atrocities. His prepared methods were ineffective. The level nine soul masters fought hard, but Jiang Ming still slaughtered them all as easily as cutting melons and vegetables!

He watched his palace burn to the ground, watched Jiang Ming walk towards him step by step, and even saw Jiang Ming touching his empress and saying things like, "Your empress is very radiant."
That despair, that panic, was unbearable! Even now that he's awake, Xu Tianran still feels that panic in his mind.

Torture! For Xu Tianran, this was truly extreme torture!

But he couldn't tell anyone that he was the emperor, not even his closest confidante, his empress, Ju Zi.

He could only suppress these fears in his heart and force them to subside.

Can.
Every time he thought about Jiang Ming saying he would kill him within a year, the nightmare from last night would resurface in his mind.

After several hours of court sessions, Xu Tianran felt dazed and confused, as if he hadn't accomplished anything.

Over the course of several days, Xu Tianran's complexion worsened. At first, he could recover after waking up from his dream, but later he felt like he couldn't distinguish between reality and dreams.

Fortunately, Ju Zi noticed in time that something was wrong with Xu Tianran's condition and quickly invited the imperial physician to treat him.

Under the treatment of the imperial physician, Xu Tianran's physical condition improved, and his spirits seemed to have calmed down as well.

At least that's how it appears to outsiders.

But Orange, who had been by Xu Tianran's side, knew that Xu Tianran's condition had not improved and had even worsened!

"Your Majesty, it's time to drink medicine."

Inside the palace, Ju Zi took the medicine from the maid and sat by the bed, speaking softly.

"I am not sick! I will not drink this medicine!"

Xu Tianran slapped the medicine bowl out of Ju Zi's hand, and the exquisite porcelain bowl fell to the ground and shattered. The reddish-brown medicine soaked the expensive carpet, and the palace maid standing nearby immediately prostrated herself on the ground, not daring to raise her head.

His breathing was very heavy, and the bloodshot eyes were several times more numerous than when he had the nightmare on the first day.

Seeing this, Ju Zi didn't say anything, but gently hugged Xu Tianran in her arms.

"Your Majesty, it's alright, it's alright, the oranges are here."

With the soothing touch of the orange, Xu Tianran's violent demeanor softened somewhat.

He closed his eyes and fell asleep, looking utterly exhausted.

However, sleep may not be a good thing for him.

In his sleep, Xu Tianran dreamed of the assassination attempt he had been made to. If it weren't for Ju Zi saving him, he would have died long ago.

Even though he survived that ordeal, he lost his lower body forever.

After that incident, he dreamed about the day of the assassination almost every day, just like now, having nightmares every day.

It took him a great deal of effort and a long time to recover.

And now, this terrible experience has come again.

Even more surprisingly, these two nightmares unconsciously converged into a single scene in his mind.

The assassin who tried to kill him, the guy he had already torn to pieces, has now turned into Jiang Ming!

What filled him with despair was that the two dreams overlapped. In the original nightmare, he was still able to fight back against the assassin and even kill him in the dream with his consciousness. But now that the assassin had become Jiang Ming, he was completely outmatched!
In his mind, Jiang Ming was the strongest person on the continent, and he couldn't beat him.

This means that if the assassin in his dream wants to kill him, he will surely die!

Even though he tried his best to recall the methods he used to deal with Jiang Ming in his dream and kill the assassin who looked like Jiang Ming, he couldn't do it.

He couldn't even imagine that method.

He only knew that the thing could stop Jiang Ming, but he didn't have a concrete idea of ​​how it would stop him.

In his dream, the assassin who resembled Jiang Ming stabbed him in the heart with a spear, using the same move he had witnessed from 10,000 meters in the air: the Crouching Dragon Soaring to the Sky.

The level nine soul-guided shield was ineffective, and even Kong Deming's Silver Moon Divine Light Shield, which had become a level ten soul-guided device, was useless because it was pierced through.

Jiang Ming's spear pierced his heart, tearing his chest to shreds. He watched as pieces of his internal organs slid out of the gaping hole in his chest, watched as Jiang Ming killed all the guards who attacked from the surrounding area, and watched as Jiang Ming's face, which he loathed utterly, came into view.

Finally, as he lost all his strength and was about to close his eyes, he saw Jiang Ming pick up the injured orange lying on the ground and then turn to look at him with a mocking gaze.

That look in his eyes seemed to be telling him what a miserable fate his empress would face.

"Bastard! Let her go!"

With a roar, Xu Tianran woke up from his nightmare.

He was panting heavily, his gaze quickly sweeping across the palace.

There was no one there, not a single person.

Xu Tianran's mind went blank for a moment, and the magnificent palace in front of him overlapped with the dilapidated scene in his dream.

Flames, blood, screams.
He covered his head with both hands, and his eyes gradually turned bloodshot.

He struggled to crawl to the bedside, used his soul power to control his body to fly to the wheelchair next to him, and then took out the prosthetic limb that Mingdetang had developed and installed it.

Soon, Xu Tianran stood up, but most of his eyes were already stained with scarlet blood.

At this moment, a palace maid carrying a bowl of water walked in.

Upon seeing Xu Tianran stand up from the bed, a look of surprise flashed across her face, and she instinctively wanted to go to Xu Tianran's side to help him up.

As she walked to Xu Tianran's side and reached out to help him, Xu Tianran suddenly reached out and grabbed her neck!

Amidst the palace maid's constant pleas for mercy, Xu Tianran suddenly increased his strength, and the violent force crushed the palace maid's neck to pieces!
"You dare to assassinate me! How dare you!"

Xu Tianran took out a long sword from his storage soul tool and kept slashing at the palace maid, as if he had some kind of mortal hatred for her.

Outside the palace, Ju Zi, who heard the commotion, rushed in, only to witness this incredibly bloody scene!
Her body was trembling, and when Xu Tianran saw Ju Zi enter, he flashed in front of Ju Zi, his long sword about to slash down.

"His Majesty!"

It took Ju Zi shouting at the top of her lungs to stop Xu Tianran from wielding his longsword.

Xu Tianran looked at Ju Zi's face, and the bloody scene in front of him dissipated a little, making it possible to barely make out that the person in front of him was Ju Zi.

After seeing it clearly, he put down his longsword and turned to look at the corpse that he had hacked to pieces.

That wasn't Jiang Ming's face, nor was it the face of the assassin who had tried to kill him. He remembered this face; it belonged to his palace maid.
Bang!

Xu Tianran dropped his longsword, his blood-stained hands clutching his head, his eyes filled with panic and despair.

"Oranges, I can't tell the difference, I really can't!" (End of Chapter)