Shocking! The actress was dragged to the regent's bedchamber every night.

She wouldn't normally ask these questions.

She never asked about things in the military camp, and she didn't understand those things.

The moment she finished speaking, the man's arms around her froze.

However, it recovered in an instant.

This only deepened Su Wuli's doubts.

We waited for him to speak, but he didn't.

Yu Chen held her silently, without saying a word.

Su Wuli finally looked up at his face and pressed for an answer, "Can't I ask?"

"No," he replied.

Very quickly, so quickly that it was as if he was afraid she would misunderstand something.

Hearing the answer, Su Wuli's doubts did not dissipate; on the contrary, they deepened.

Su Wuli braced herself against his chest with both hands, lifting herself up slightly from his embrace.

Then she looked down into his eyes and asked, "What were you thinking about just now?"

He looked at her but didn't say anything.

The man's face was expressionless, but she could feel his heartbeat as her hand rested on his chest.

Her fingers slowly curled against his chest, then relaxed.

"It's nothing." His tone was the same as usual.

But she felt there was something inside.

After waiting for a while, he didn't continue, seemingly deliberately avoiding the question.

She buried her face back in his chest.

"Go to sleep." The man's voice came from above.

Su Wuli didn't sleep, and neither did he.

Su Wuli knew he was hiding something from her.

For a long time, so long that she thought he had fallen asleep.

She lifted her head from the man's chest and looked at his face.

Undeterred, she pressed on, "What exactly did they discuss?"

With a touch of stubbornness, determined to get an answer.

Yu Chen did not answer immediately.

Su Wuli waited again.

He looked into her eyes without saying a word, but a complex emotion was clearly visible in his eyes.

Su Wuli's heart sank a little.

She didn't dare to ask any further questions, only wanting to wait for him to give her a reassuring answer.

However, Yu Chen didn't say anything, he just looked at her.

Su Wuli waited for a long time, so long that her eyes started to sting.

"We just had a meeting," he finally spoke, his voice low, "We're returning to the capital tomorrow."

As soon as she finished speaking, Su Wuli's hand slid off his clothes, as if someone had removed her bones.

All the joy of today has vanished.

Her hand hung down on his chest, her fingers curling and then relaxing.

Her mind was completely blank except for two words.

Returning to Beijing.

Return to the capital.

In the original story, after he returned from the war, he was subjected to the death by a thousand cuts.

Su Wuli felt as if her breathing had stopped for a moment.

Her eyes were still fixed on Yu Chen, but her pupils had lost focus.

She sat up abruptly, looked down at Nannan, and said, "We can't go back."

Yu Chen did not respond immediately.

He reached out to pull her back, but when his fingers touched her arm, she dodged away.

His hand slipped off her arm and missed.

The large hand paused in mid-air for a moment, then slowly withdrew.

"You promised me," Su Wuli's voice began to tremble, "You said you wouldn't die, you said you would..."

As she spoke, tears suddenly fell, one by one hitting his chest.

She didn't wipe it, she just looked at him.

His hands hung at his sides, clutching the mattress.

However, Yu Chen did not make any promises to her as he had done in the past.

Su Wuli's heart sank, sinking until it was completely out of sight.

"You'll die if you go back..." Her voice was forced out of her throat, as if someone was choking her. "You promised me you wouldn't die..."

She didn't shout, yet every word felt like a shattered illusion, piercing her own throat and his heart.

She suddenly leaned down and grabbed the collar of his undershirt.

He neither dodged nor moved.

Tears fell one by one onto his collarbone, scalding hot.

Yu Chen reached out and pulled her into his arms.

Su Wuli didn't struggle this time; her body stiffened for a moment and then went limp.

Like a string that had been stretched for too long finally snapping, she collapsed against his chest.

She lay on top of the man, burying her face in the crook of his neck.

She didn't cry out loud, but her shoulders were trembling.

The whole person is like a leaf blown away by the wind, unable to find its roots.

"You...stay here..." The voice was muffled in the crook of his neck, broken and intermittent.

"The war is over... You don't have to go back... You don't need to go back..."

She spoke more and more urgently, her words becoming incoherent, as if she were trying to persuade him, or perhaps herself.

"You can stay here... as long as you want... anywhere is fine... just don't go back..."

Su Wuli did not say that going back would mean death.

However, these four words hung between the two people, and everyone could hear them.

She was talking nonsense, she knew it.

But she had no other choice; this was the only solution she could think of.

As long as I don't return to Beijing, I won't die...

Won't……

Su Wuli couldn't care less about anything else. She buried her face in his neck and repeated those words to him over and over again.

Yu Chen held the trembling, crying person tightly in his arms, his eyes fixed on the top of the tent.

He had thought about dying many times.

When his mother died, and when he was feigning madness to survive.

When you are betrayed by your comrade on the battlefield, or when you lie awake at night staring at the rafters, unable to sleep.

He thought he wasn't afraid of death; death was just death.

It's a matter of one cut.

It's a matter of life and death.

He had never been afraid of being slowly sliced ​​to death, but now he was afraid.

I'm afraid I won't be able to see her after I die.

She would laugh in someone's arms, act coquettishly towards others, and look at others with those bright, sparkling eyes.

She can cook longevity noodles for others and sew clothes for them.

She would do to others everything she had done to him, and say to others everything she had said to him.

But that person was no longer him.

Yu Chen closed his eyes.

He wanted to take her away, keep her by his side, take her to his coffin, and take her to the underworld.

However, he nipped the thought in the bud as soon as it arose.

He couldn't bear to part with it.

He couldn't bear to see her in pain, couldn't bear to see her cry, and couldn't bear to see her suffer even the slightest grievance.

If one day he really had the thought of killing her, he would kill himself first.

Yu Chen didn't say these words aloud; he simply hugged her even tighter.

Su Wuli kept snuggling into the man's body, but she still felt it wasn't enough.

What will she do if he dies?

She couldn't imagine life without Yu Chen.

She doesn't want that.

The man's voice came from above, so calm it seemed unreal.

"If you meet someone you like in the future, don't go for someone too shrewd; you can't outsmart them."

As soon as she finished speaking, Su Wuli froze.

She lifted her head from the man's chest, thinking she had misheard, "What did you say?"

"Too naive." He didn't look at her.

He continued, his voice not loud, "Was the gold bars I gave you before enough? Do you need more? I can arrange for some more to be given to you before we return to the capital."

Upon hearing this, Su Wuli's tears fell.

She didn't wipe it, but stared at the man's face.

She stared into his eyes, which were not looking at her.

Su Wuli suddenly realized that Yu Chen was making arrangements for what would happen after his death.

All the promises he made to her were lies.

He never felt he could survive.

He had been lying to her all along.