Counting on your fingers, the fifth marriage is coming

An ancient star plate exudes the luster of time, and its surface is engraved with the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, the twenty-eight constellations and various mysterious symbols, which seems to be the epitome of the mysteries of the universe.

Xu Shanshan quietly watched the stars for a long time. When he closed his eyes and made hand gestures, the starlight flowing through his fingertips wove a star map between the lines on his palms.

The twenty-eight constellations were reflected in the bronze mirror, and a blood-red vortex appeared in the direction of Kui Constellation - it was Ye City, the fief of Prince Shou.

From time to time, she frowned slightly: "Yecheng?"

"Prince Shou's territory?" Maomao blurted out.

"That's right, Master's spirit is in Yecheng. It seems that Prince Shou also had a hand in this matter."

"You don't seem too surprised?" Maomao looked at Xu Shanshan's expression.

Xu Shanshan said calmly, "For things like what he can do, there is always a way out. I really want to know how those princes who used to be in awe of me have become ugly and vicious people after being corrupted by power."

Mao Mao stopped at her shoulder and said with worry, "Are you going to Yecheng? But there are many evil masters in the Shouwang's fiefdom. Many of the mysterious masters and magicians we expelled back then were accepted by the Shouwang. He probably wants to gather this force to overthrow the government."

"If you go like this... won't you be throwing yourself into the tiger's mouth?"

As the saying goes, "A swarm of ants can kill an elephant." Her soul is damaged now, so she cannot start a big fight. Going deep into the tiger's den is undoubtedly risky.

Unexpectedly, Xu Shanshan had already made plans. She stood facing the wind, her white dress with wide sleeves fluttering like clouds. "I will not go there as Emperor Yue. Xiu Nan will temporarily return to his place of residence. Nangong Fei is also here. I only need to disguise myself and go with him. I will not arouse suspicion from others."

When Maomao heard this, he became curious.

"Who are you going to dress up as?"

"You'll know when the time comes." Xu Shanshan smiled mysteriously.

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Suddenly there was thunder outside the window and heavy rain poured down.

"Your Majesty, the handsome man Nangong Yu has been kneeling outside the palace for a long time. Is it possible..."

As soon as Xu Shanshan came down from the Holy Mountain, he heard the eunuch's report.

She had expected this, and said calmly, "Let him in."

Xu Shanshan did not change her clothes. She sat in the hall in plain white. There was no complicated embroidery or bright colors, only simple and smooth lines that perfectly outlined her slender waist. At this moment, she had shed her powerful aura as a king, and she looked like frost and snow, cold and pure.

Nangong Yu lowered his eyes and knelt down.

"The humble slave Nangong Yu pays homage to His Majesty the Emperor."

There was a cold spring rain outside just now, not heavy, but the dense water droplets wet his hair and clothes. He bent his neck and lowered his head, revealing a piece of his body that looked like a finely carved jade.

"You should have guessed that I am not the Xu Shanshan you know."

Nangong Yu pinched his fingertips into the flesh and pressed his lips into a straight line.

He still doesn't know at this point, he is either stupid or foolish.

"But this body is indeed Xu Shanshan's, so I owe you a debt of gratitude. Since you followed the agreement and took great pains to come to me, I will grant you a wish."

Nangong Yu didn't act pretentiously and said directly: "I want to see Gu Yinyin."

"can."

Xu Shanshan raised her jade hand lightly, and in an instant, a dazzling light formed dense columns in the hall, forming a cage, and Gu Yinyin's withered figure appeared in front of Nangong Yu in such a panic. Nangong Yu stared at the strange and thin Gu Yinyin in front of him, with shock in his eyes, and his heart was like a bottle of five flavors overturned, with all kinds of tastes intertwined and surging.

"She is..."

The hall was filled with ambergris mist, but it could not cover up the chill rising from the steps.

Nangong Yu knelt outside the shark silk curtain, watching the winding ice patterns on the gold bricks gradually crawl up to his knees - that was the residual cold air emanating from Gu Yinyin's body.

"Keep your head up."

Gu Yinyin, who was once as bright as a peony, now looked like a paper doll that had been drained of its essence. Her three thousand black hairs turned into snow flakes, and spider-web-like blue-black veins floated under her exposed skin.

The most horrifying thing was her eyes. She was clearly a living person, but her pupils were filled with two clusters of dark blue icy flames.

"Nannan?" A broken call rolled out from Nangong Yu's throat, and she was surprised to find that this name still carried with it the attachment from her childhood.

Gu Yinyin let out a "chuckle" sound from her throat, tilted her head and thought for a few seconds before she started laughing, with ice crystals falling from the corners of her mouth: "I didn't expect that the last person to come to see me... ahem, it was actually my second brother whose luck I had taken away for twenty years..."

Did she admit her identity? !
Nangong Yu was stunned.

She crawled out, as if she wanted to raise her hand to touch Nangong Yu's face, but her fingertips were burned the moment they touched his brow - that was a restriction set by Xu Shanshan, and if she had any bad intentions, she would suffer backlash.

"what--"

Even at this time, she still wanted to harm Nangong Yu.

Nangong Yu suddenly grabbed her wrist, which was like a dead branch: "Why? Why! Did you kill my parents and my eldest brother? Did you do something to me?!"

The sound of ice crystals shattering exploded in the hall, and Gu Yinyin's wrist bones were actually crushed by him.

She didn't feel any pain, but instead started to giggle. She knew she was doomed.

"Why? Of course it's because it's unfair. Back then, I ran into an evil demon. He bewitched me, claiming that if I sacrificed the lives of my entire family, I would be reborn, become bright and beautiful, have endless good luck, rise to prominence, become a person that everyone looks up to, and never suffer the ridicule and humiliation of others again."

Gu Yinyin's voice was hoarse and dry, and every word seemed to be squeezed out from the depths of her throat.

"I struggled for a long time in pain and entanglement, and I was always wavering in my heart, unable to make up my mind. But fate played tricks on me, and at that time, a natural disaster struck, and the mountains collapsed and the earth cracked. I was obsessed with it and believed that this was the will of heaven and a destined arrangement. Anyway, I would die anyway, so I might as well fulfill my dream. So, not only did I stand idly by and watch my parents' life and death, I even... I even pushed them into the abyss of death with my own hands."

When Nangong Yu heard this, he felt dizzy and the whole world seemed to collapse in an instant.

"What about me? Why didn't you kill me too? Instead, you let me fall into this situation where life is worse than death!"

She coughed out a piece of ice and stared at him hatefully: "You shouldn't be an exception."

Nangong Yu's pupils shrank suddenly. The snowy night in his memory suddenly became clear - the twelve-year-old elder sister came back late at night, with cinnabar talisman paper crumbs in her hair, and changed the direction of the copper lock of the cellar.

"That evil person also said that the Nangong family's ancestral tomb is buried with the remaining energy of the dragon vein, which will protect future generations, but it can only be transferred with the blood of a close relative." Gu Yinyin's eyes were filled with icy flames, "When I tried to harm you, a dragon pattern suddenly appeared on your wrist, and the flood bypassed you by three feet! That's why your mother miraculously saved you."

"So, the lucky person whose ancestors were blessed is you."

Nangong Yu’s face was as pale as a ghost.

He finally understood why his heart felt like it was being bitten by thousands of ants every time a lunar eclipse occurred in recent years - what was being gouged out was not just his luck, but half of his life!

"So you took away my luck and life, watched me being sold, made me suffer all kinds of hardships and humiliation, and served the pleasure of..."

"I regret it!" Gu Yinyin suddenly screamed, and the ice crystals around her body exploded into mist. "He lied to me! He said that as long as I borrowed the life of Emperor Yue, I could maintain my beauty forever, live a long and happy life, and become the most noble person in the world, but..." She ripped open her clothes crazily, revealing the body that had turned into ice at her chest, "Look! I have become a half-human, half-ghost appearance..." (End of this chapter)