After forcibly marrying a beautiful, strong and miserable male partner

I fell in love with the handsome, strong and tragic male supporting role, but he didn’t like me.

But I am the vicious female supporting role, and I am best at robbing and plundering.

If a cow doesn’t want to eat grass, you can force it to eat. I have been forcing him to do so for so many years.

He will love me one day.

It wasn’t until I met the male protagonist that I realized it.

Throwing the stone that can’t be warmed up at him, wouldn’t the male protagonist be more attractive?

But this male supporting role seems to be seriously ill.

Why did he suddenly look at me like that, with tears silently streaming down his face?

1

I knew very early on that this world is a storybook.

According to the description in the storybook, I will meet the hero when I reach the age of 15 and use all means to marry him.

In the end, she was divorced by the male protagonist because of her jealousy, and her family fell into poverty, living a miserable life.

I don’t accept it. Why should I have this kind of personality?

As a vicious female supporting character, I have nothing much to offer, except that I am very rebellious.

I weigh 89 kilograms, but my father said I can have a rebellious body weighing 88 kilograms.

So in the year I came of age, I did not follow my father to the capital, but instead went south to the south of the Yangtze River.

It was a windy and snowy year, and I found the seriously injured handsome, strong and tragic male supporting role, Lu Xiheng, on the roadside.

Half of his body was buried in the snow. He was about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a face between a teenager and a young man.

In such heavy snow, he was only wearing a single layer of clothes, leaning against a tree trunk, holding a jade pendant tightly in his arms.

I was probably blinded by his beauty. Even though I knew he was such a troublesome person, I still had the servants put him in the car.

My family is a wealthy and powerful family.

When we arrived at Jiangnan Villa, a doctor was already waiting for us.

But I was worried, so I took care of him for three days without anyone helping, and finally woke him up.

But as soon as he opened his eyes, he wanted to kill me.

Lu Xiheng grabbed my throat and pushed me down onto the bed covered with thick brocade.

“Who are you?!”

I have always been the apple of my family’s eye and have been spoiled for so many years. When have I ever suffered such an injustice?

He immediately threw the bowl with half of the medicine spilled on his shoulder.

“Your savior!”

Lu Xiheng was hit by the medicine bowl and was stunned for a moment. He smeared the medicine on his beautiful fingers, which I had wiped several times with a wet towel, and put them under his nose to sniff.

As if he was sure that I really had no intention of harming him, he put down his hand and stammered something.

“Feel sorry.”

I didn’t respond to him, got up and slammed the door and left.

Although I was angry, I am a kind person after all, so I did not kick him out and let him continue to stay in the other hospital to recuperate.

It is absolutely impossible to admit that I covet his beauty.

I was in the warm room, flipping through the account book while listening to the maid telling me what Lu Xiheng had done in the past few days.

It was only when he asked to see me for the third time that I went to see him with reluctance.

He still couldn’t get out of bed, and when I walked in, he was leaning against the head of the bed coughing.

His face was pale, his handsome and narrow brows were furrowed, and there was a sickly blush on his lips.

The young man with fair complexion and red lips has a pair of eyes as gentle as jade.

The whole person exudes the elegance of a scholar.

I took a quick look at him and saw that this young man had a very thin waist.

When he saw me coming, his brows relaxed and he wanted to get up, but I put my hand on his shoulder.

“You are in poor health. The doctor said that your lungs are damaged by frostbite. You need to take good care of yourself. Get well soon.”

He didn’t try to show off, but leaned against the bedside, “I have no way to repay you for saving my life, I can only…”

I saw him touching the jade pendant on his waist. It was a rare item, the one he had carefully protected before.

But was it for these things that I looked after him so carefully?

I interrupted him, “Then pledge yourself to me.”

He was startled.

“No, I can’t.”

I questioned him, “What are you dissatisfied with? Is there anything about me, Ye Shu, that is not worthy of you?”

He couldn’t say anything, he just looked at me with his pair of beautiful dark eyes, neither humble nor arrogant.

I, Ye Shu, don’t have much, but I am the most rebellious. He doesn’t want to marry me, but I insist on him marrying me!

2

He was detained in the other courtyard for three months and was coaxed into submission, but he remained as unmoved as a rock.

The snow was falling heavily, and it was unknown where his servant came from to find the villa.

The man came here with only his last breath held on. I will only ask someone to get some medicine if Lu Xiheng obeys me.

When the snow melted and spring came, he finally compromised.

Isn’t it just robbery? Isn’t it just a means?

Who am I? I am the vicious female supporting role!

On the wedding day, the handsome young man wore a bright red suit. He was tall and good-looking, but he never smiled during the wedding ceremony.

Under the candlelight, he lifted my veil. I grabbed his wrist and asked, “Are you so unhappy about marrying me?”

He said nothing, just looked at me with lowered brows and eyes, his dark eyes were filled with my aggressive look.

He held my hand and squeezed his, and calmly went through the bridal chamber process. The matchmaker and the others didn’t dare to push the door open and go out with a heavy breath.

I sat on the bed and glared at him.

After a long moment, he sighed.

“My lady.”

After all, he is the young man I fell in love with at first sight. I am a loser. As long as he recognizes me as his wife, I will calm down.

After we got married, I gave his servants good medicine and they soon recovered, but they just didn’t like me.

Yes, in the eyes of the servants, his young master was forced to marry me.

But I’m a bad guy, I don’t care.

Lu Xiheng carries a family feud on his back, and in the future he must pass the imperial examinations to redress the Lu family’s wrongdoings.

He studies late into the night, and I try my best to be a good wife and add charm to his life.

After getting married for more than two years, I stopped playing cards and went out less often to drink and have fun. I focused on accompanying him.

But he never looked at me in a good mood.

I comforted myself by thinking that he was probably born not to like laughing.

But I am the type of person who is used to playing around.

Now whenever I make a fuss, he frowns at me, so I try to be serious.

In the spring of the third year, he was going to Beijing to take the imperial examination.

I packed his luggage at night, but after he left I was still worried, so I traveled thousands of miles in the rain to look for him.

That was my first time in Beijing. The streets were filled with BMWs and luxury cars, and everywhere I looked, there were crowds of people.

I saw him in the crowd.

Under the eaves, he held another girl’s wrist, smiled, and bent down to wipe her skirt.

Then I realized that Lu Xiheng also loves to laugh, and he looks as handsome when he laughs as I imagined.

But, in all these years since we got married, he has never smiled at me once.

“Miss, are we still going?”

The maid held an umbrella for me and asked in a low voice.

Between slapping him and turning away, I chose the latter. After all, he is a scholar and he needs to maintain his dignity.

I felt so miserable, like a stray dog, and I wished I could get away from this place immediately.

Someone happened to call me at this time, and I was annoyed that I ignored him. The person actually trotted around and stopped me.

“Miss, your purse fell!”

Because of this? He chased me away?

Is our Ye family short of money?

I took the purse from his hand and threw it into the lake.

The man was still grumbling.

The cool rain hit my face, and I didn’t know whether I was crying or not. I just kicked the man angrily and ran away.

After returning to the inn, I took a nap first. When I opened my eyes, I saw Lu Xiheng.

Then I remembered that I had spent a lot of money to book a room next to the inn where Lu Xiheng was staying, originally wanting to give him a surprise.

But I didn’t expect him to give me one first.

3

He sat by the bed, looking sad as always, as if the sight of me made him unhappy.

He may not apologize.

Perhaps, they will turn the tables.

Sure enough, I heard him say, “I have to take an exam, why are you following me now?”

I was so angry that I pushed him into a chair.

“I’m making a fuss? Are you blaming me for blocking your career, or for blocking you from being affectionate with others? Lu Xiheng, have you forgotten whose family you feed?”

The look in his eyes when he looked at me changed, but it wasn’t a good look. “Ah Shu, you don’t understand. I have my own things to do.”

I softened my voice and said, “Why don’t you tell me what’s going on? I can help you.”

If he tells me the truth, I’ll do everything I can to help him.

However, Lu Xiheng just touched my hair and didn’t intend to answer.

He didn’t trust me and had been on guard against me for so long.

I slapped his hand away and slammed the door.

The next day I asked someone to find out where the woman lived, and went to her house with a few maids who looked like they were not easy to deal with.

There were several knocks on the door, but no one answered.

My maid has been with me for a long time and has learned a lot from her.

He knocked on the door and called her.

“Come out, don’t be silent, we know you are at home, if you have the guts to steal a man, come out now!”

With a creak, the door opened.

The maid almost slapped her face.

I didn’t notice it from a distance, but when I looked at her now, I realized that the woman was exceptionally tall.

Lu Xiheng was about eight feet tall, and she was actually almost as tall as him.

Before I could say anything, she burst out laughing.

“Are you Yeshu?”

“You know me?”

Judging from her expression, she already knew that Lu Xiheng was married, yet she still shamelessly seduced him.

Bah! Shame on you!

I tried to look generous, “In that case, why don’t you invite us in and have a seat?”

She moved aside to make way for us to enter, speaking in a playful tone.

“That’s really a shame.”

The yard was not big and there were not many servants. I sent her away to get some tea and wanted to search for anything belonging to Lu Xiheng.

However, I didn’t expect to find a rough suit in her closet.

Reckless?!

Didn’t Lu Xiheng want to overturn the verdict on the Lu family? How did this become a rebellion?!

“what you do?”

The woman’s voice sounded from behind me, and I immediately broke out in a cold sweat, not knowing what to do with the rough clothes in my hand.

She chuckled, leaned against the door, and shook off the rough clothes completely.

“What are you doing with my costume?”

“Costumes?”

I looked at her in confusion. Wasn’t she planning to rebel?

She said that there was no plot about Lu Xiheng rebelling in the storybook!

She smiled, her voice a little deeper than that of most women, but also inexplicably pleasant to the ear.

“Then what do you think it is?”

I blushed with shame and pushed her away angrily.

“You talk too much!”

“What is your relationship with my husband?”

She leaned against the box containing her casual clothes and stared at me with her beautiful peach blossom eyes.

“Me? Of course I am your husband’s sweetheart.”

Sweetheart?

“You…are shameless!”

I pointed at her and cursed her out loud, “You have no respect for women! You seduced a married man!”

Even though I scolded her like that, she didn’t seem angry at all. Instead, she came closer to me and almost put her face against mine.

“Anything else?”

She had such a beautiful face, and when she came closer to me suddenly, I subconsciously took a step back and almost sprained my waist.

She held my lower back with one hand and laughed at me, “Be careful, young lady.”

She challenged me!

Before I could figure out what was going on with her, Lu Xiheng suddenly came over quickly and blocked me behind him.

His face looked very grim, his brows were lowered, and his eyes were filled with gloom.

I sneered, feeling sour in my heart and unforgiving in my words.

“What? Are you worried about your sweetheart? If you can, hide her well and don’t let me find her!”

Lu Xiheng: “Little… sweetheart?”

I didn’t understand the meaning of his eyes, as if he had swallowed a fly, but I just felt that this little darling was extremely bold.

Now he even dares to wink at me provocatively. Is he demonstrating to me?

I grabbed Lu Xiheng’s sleeve angrily and pointed at that sweetheart, “Explain yourself, she has admitted that she is your sweetheart.”

I want to see how he continues to write.

I had imagined many lies he might tell, but I didn’t expect that he was too lazy to even tell me a lie.

He actually picked me up and carried me out in his arms.

Hey! Be brave!

“Lu Xiheng, what do you think of me?”

When we got back to the inn, I didn’t treat him well, but he dismissed the servants and walked towards me while taking off his clothes.

4

“My lady.”

It was only after he knocked me down that I came to my senses. He responded with the question I asked him on the road.

Bah! How can you treat someone like a woman like this?

His sweat flowed down his cheeks to his jaw, and then dripped onto my chest. “Ah Shu.”

“There is no one else, there will be no one else.”

He made me feel uncomfortable, but can I believe what a man says at this time?

I didn’t really trust him, so I stayed in the capital and kept an eye on him all the time.

Two days later, news spread that the Third Prince was assassinated while watching a play in the mansion. Many imperial doctors were called in at night, but no one knew what happened.

I suddenly thought of the mangfu I saw that day, but how could such a coincidence happen?

I was so distracted that I didn’t even notice my purse was stolen. By the time the maid noticed, the thief had already run far away.

“The world is going downhill!”

I stamped my feet in hatred, but I didn’t expect that the man who chased me to return my purse that day would come over again with my purse that had been through so much trouble.

He put the purse in front of me with a smile.

“Be careful, little girl.”

This is such a fate, especially between my wallet and him.

I took out a silver ingot and said, “Take it as my thank you gift this time and last time. I’m really sorry for last time.”

He didn’t take it. “Your family has already paid for the reward.”

Have you given it?

He seemed a bit weird, and he made a heart shape with his hands towards me.

He said, “I’m here to take you home.”

When I got home, I realized that he was the person hired by my father.

My father should be here to blame me for marrying without telling him. I thought he didn’t want me to go home.

But should I go home to the Jiangnan Villa or the main house in Hexi? This person can’t even explain clearly. Where did my father find such a stupid person?

When I returned to the inn, Lu Xiheng had not come back yet. He had been leaving early and coming back late these days. I wondered if he had gone to see that sweetheart again.

I ordered a few servants and went to kill them.

But I didn’t expect that there would suddenly be two more guards here.

Is this specifically to protect me?

I sneered and rushed in with my men. The two guards seemed afraid to fight us.

There was a sudden commotion in the yard, and a maid, also tall, came out from the inner room.

“My wife has been too sick to get out of bed these past two days, so she has already gone to bed.”

You were full of energy just two days ago, but suddenly you can’t get out of bed?

The maid and the guard looked at each other, then held up a small lamp and led me in.

When I was five steps away from the tent, the maid wouldn’t let me get any closer. Under the dim light, my sweetheart’s face was indeed as pale as paper.

I am not the kind of person who would make things difficult for others, so I just took them away.

But when I arrived at the inn, I still felt something was wrong. I lay down on the couch and gestured to the maid about the distance between my head and the head of the bed.

“Do you think that little sweetheart has become shorter?”

The maid poured me some water. “The light was dim. The young lady must have seen something wrong. How could this person suddenly become shorter when he was fine?”

When I thought about it, it made sense. The person is still the same person, how could he suddenly become shorter?

“Really, this day has been filled with weird things.”

I was probably too sensitive these days. I fell asleep early after drinking the calming soup at night and didn’t notice when Lu Xiheng came back.

I was only awakened by his not-so-gentle actions, and the messy kiss was filled with the strong smell of alcohol and the cold air from outside.

I was annoyed by him, so I reached out to push him, but he held me back, “Ye Shu, don’t you want me anymore?”

Is there something wrong with your brain? What’s wrong with you in the middle of the night?

“You provoked me first, and now you want to abandon me? Ye Shu, I won’t allow it!”

His voice revealed a cruelty and coldness that I had never heard before, as well as an unknown deep pain.

There were even traces of salty water falling on my face.

“I won’t let you abandon me a second time. I won’t give you this chance.”

Who wants to abandon him? Twice? He must have been drunk.

But his sadness was so pure that my heart wrinkled too.

But before I could feel sorry for him, he tied my wrists to the carved headboard of the bed.

“Lu Xiheng!”

He didn’t respond, which made him look even sicker and not gentle at all. He has never been a person who indulges in sensual pleasures, and it seems like he drank fake wine this time.

After waking up, he looked dignified and cold again, but he kept avoiding my gaze when he saw the miserable marks all over my body.

“I…I did it?”

He looked a lot like the young lady who seemed to be taken advantage of when she first had sex with him.

I was so angry, “Or did I do it myself?”

Why is my brain still not working well after drinking some fake wine?

He blushed and asked me for hot water to help me clean up, but he was really too much last night and I gave him a bad look for several days.

A few days later, Lu Xiheng was going to take part in the imperial examination, so I let him go.

On the day of the scientific examination, I was always nervous and checked his things carefully on the day of taking the exam.

I was afraid that he had forgotten to bring something; after all, this was a big deal.

On the way to send him there, I couldn’t help but keep reminding him that when we arrived at the scientific research site, I could only stand at the door and send him in.

I don’t know if it’s because I was too nervous these days, but I always felt that the examiner on the stage was a bit like the seriously ill little sweetheart.

After leaving the crowd, I couldn’t help but ask a passerby, “Who is the examiner inside?”

“You mean the chief examiner? That’s the Third Prince. I heard he was invigilating despite being ill.”

The third prince? That definitely has nothing to do with the little sweetheart.

After waiting for a long time, Lu Xiheng and other talents came out one after another.

Seeing his thinner waist, I felt so distressed and gave him supplementary food every day.

When the day of announcement came, Lu Xiheng behaved just as described in the storybook.

The first place in the imperial examination is the winner.

“Our Ye family has also produced a number one scholar.”

I was really happy for him, but before I could finish my joy, the next imperial edict made me feel like I was falling into an icy cave.

It was an imperial decree granting marriage to Lu Xiheng and Princess Jingnan Yun Miao.

Yun Miao is the adopted daughter of King Jingnan, and she is the heroine.

5

According to the development of the storybook, Lu Xiheng became the top scorer after the results were announced, and then he was granted marriage to the heroine, and then he overturned the case for the Lu family, and then on the night of the wedding, he died of illness.

In the storybook, I, the supporting female character, had nothing to do with Lu Xiheng, so I did not go to the south of the Yangtze River for him. Lu Xiheng was left unattended and became seriously ill.

Suddenly, I seemed to be surrounded by an irresistible force, and I grabbed Lu Xiheng’s sleeve.

“Don’t they… know that you’re married?”

Lu Xiheng remained silent. He knew it, after all, I had spread the news of my relationship with him very openly in the capital.

“Why is this happening? Why, Lu Xiheng, you can’t agree to this!”

He still looked at me with those dark eyes, and his meaning was obvious.

Then he broke away from me and sighed, “The emperor’s order cannot be disobeyed.”

How can it not be violated? I don’t believe it!

I was so anxious that a layer of cold sweat appeared on my forehead, but he didn’t understand why I was so anxious at all.

“Ah Shu, you don’t have to be like this, just trust me.”

I held his hand and spoke incoherently, “It’s different, Lu Xiheng, I’m not jealous this time, you will die, you… you will die.”

He said nothing, just stared at me in a daze. Well, he had no idea what I was talking about. In his opinion, he might have thought that I was cursing him to death.

He pushed me away and said, “It’s getting late. I have to go to the palace to express my gratitude.”

6

Lu Xiheng went to the palace to meet the emperor, leaving me feeling uneasy.

The strange man who had an inextricable relationship with my purse appeared again, sat on the wall with a smile, and called me, “Let’s go, I’ll treat you to a show.”

How can I be in the mood to watch a play now? I’m going to be a widow!

This guy was also strange. After being rejected by me, he sat on the wall and started singing the play about the True and False Monkey King.

He was not very good at singing, and his hoarse and mocking voice was unbearable to the ears. I threw something at him and he finally stopped. “Do you think the Jade Emperor knows that the monkey is fake?”

How could anyone understand him singing like that? I just said perfunctorily, “You should know.”

“I think so too, otherwise how did the fake monkey die?”

It’s none of my business whether the monkey is dead or not!

I was very annoyed, and when I looked up again, the person on the wall had disappeared.

Lu Xiheng didn’t come back until it was completely dark, and I couldn’t sleep either. I didn’t expect that someone would come to see me at night.

There was a knock on the door outside. It was news from the palace that Lu Xiheng was detained by the emperor and was to be in the palace to edit a book. He also said that Lu Xiheng had something to tell me.

I was about to speak when a pair of big hands stretched out from behind me and covered my mouth tightly.

He was a very tall man, and he held me hostage and carried me down the roof.

They didn’t let me go until we reached a remote and deserted place. I was trembling with fear all the way, and at that moment, a faint light appeared.

Then I saw clearly that the man was the one who had been singing on the wall during the day.

“What…what are you doing?”

His face no longer had the brightness it had during the day, “Lu Xiheng won’t be back.”

“What?”

My throat was choked, and after a long while I spoke, “You lied to me.”

If he says he will come back, he will definitely come back. He hasn’t overturned the verdict yet, so how could he not come back?

The man seemed to know what I was thinking, “Ye Shu, he has already agreed to the marriage to protect himself. The emperor is afraid that he will regret it in the future. Those people tonight are here to kill you.”

My mind was confused and I opened my mouth for a long time without knowing what to say.

He knew I didn’t believe him, so when it was just light outside, I changed my clothes and went to the inn where I had stayed before.

White cloth was covered on my followers’ faces one by one.

Dead, all dead.

I don’t know how I reacted at that moment. When I came to my senses, tears were streaming down my face.

“Can you take me back to Hexi?”

I miss my father. Although he was very strict with me, he always scolded me and cleaned up the mess when I got into trouble when I was a child.

I got married without telling him, and he was very angry. I thought I would bring Lu Xiheng to meet him after his anger subsided over the years, but I didn’t expect it to end like this.

The man opposite sighed.

“Ye Shu, I can’t go back.”

He carefully wiped the water from the corners of my eyes and said, “The entire Ye family has been slaughtered.”

“You can’t save anyone.”

“Ye Shu, come home with me.”

Outside, there was a bustling sound of soldiers searching. “The Ye family attempted to rebel, and now the entire family has been ordered to be executed!”

I felt like the sky was falling in an instant.

Why is this happening?

The storyline is clearly not like this. I am the vicious female supporting role, a passerby. My life has been smooth sailing except that I couldn’t get the male lead. Is it because I stubbornly saved Lu Xiheng?

I laughed and said, “Go home. I don’t have a home anymore.”

The sound of footsteps came closer and closer. He hurriedly held my shoulders and said, “Listen to me, Ye Shu, you are not from this world. I have missed you once. This time I will definitely take you home.”

He took me away from the window, and the pursuers followed us all the way to a Guanyin temple.

He put me into the secret door behind Guanyin, “Ye Shu, you should have read the storybook. Once the hero dies in this book, I can take you home.”

The male protagonist, the male protagonist, who is the male protagonist in the book?

I hastily grabbed his sleeve, “What’s your name?”

He held my hand and said, “Call me Xun.”

“Your parents and relatives are waiting for you at home, Ye Shu, I will take you home.”

He closed the secret door and left. The information was mixed and confusing, and my head was buzzing.

Overnight, I became a loner, not even from this world.

My husband became someone else’s husband, and I became a wanted criminal.

Soon after, the sound of footsteps entered the Guanyin Temple.

“Did you find it?”

“Not here.”

After they left, I just breathed a sigh of relief when suddenly someone knocked twice on the stone brick in front of me.

“You’re not coming out yet?”

Discovered!

The voice was very familiar. When it came out, I was surprised and asked, “Why is it you?”

The sweetheart that Lu Xiheng hides?

She smiled softly, “Come on, I’ll keep you here for a few days.”

How could I believe her when she said that?

We are rivals in love, aren’t we?

I took a few steps back and tried to escape, but I was caught off guard by a pain on the back of my neck and fell into darkness.

At the last moment, a word “trouble” was heard.

7

When I woke up, I was already in a bedroom with carved beams and painted pillars, and my sweetheart was sitting not far away eating grapes.

She was wearing a crimson brocade dress that was not like that of a woman, with one foot on a chair, looking very free and easy.

I finally felt something was wrong.

“You are the master’s concubine?”

He was stunned for a moment, then laughed out loud, without any suppressed voice, and I wanted to slap my former self in the face.

“Are you a man?”

Lu Xiheng, he is also a gay man!

Looking at this wealthy family, could it be that Lu Xiheng is the “spoiled one” who is being supported?

He pressed a cup of hot tea into my hand, held a cup for himself, and clinked glasses with mine.

“Let’s get to know each other again, Yunzhou.”

At one point, I couldn’t hold the cup of hot tea steadily.

Yunzhou, the third prince of the current dynasty, is the final winner in the storybook.

Suddenly, all the contradictions connected.

There has long been a connection between Lu Xiheng and Yunzhou!

I even suspect that Yun Miao and Lu Xiheng’s marriage was a move they made.

But there are still many doubts that cannot be clarified.

Including Yunzhou’s abnormality in the small courtyard, the costume, and Axun.

The scene of the true and false Monkey King flashed through my mind, and a word flashed in my mind: “Li Dai Tao Jiang”.

Looking at the man in front of me, I couldn’t help but wonder, is he really Yunzhou?

Or, is he the real Yunzhou?

What on earth are Lu Xiheng and the others going to do!

And if he is fake, then where is the real Yunzhou?

I felt uneasy, as if something was brewing quietly without my noticing.

Just wait for the loud “bang” and everyone will be blown to pieces.

The courtyard that Yunzhou arranged for me was extremely secluded, and there was only a mute girl serving me.

Whenever I wanted to go out, she stopped me.

This mute girl has some skills and I couldn’t persuade her, which made me even more anxious.

I drank a pot of good wine in the afternoon and for some reason I fell into a deep sleep.

Tiny spots of light fell on my body. I was lying on the stone table and felt someone touching my hand very lightly and carefully, and stuffing something into my palm.

After waking up, I was in a daze for a long time. When I touched my face, I saw wet marks.

When it was getting dark, Yunzhou came over.

“He’s getting married tonight. Do you want to go and see?”

I answered nervously, holding the note that Axun had smuggled in.

Originally, I should have gone to see it. I didn’t know whether his wife was alive or dead. What kind of attitude did Lu Xiheng have in marrying a new wife?

This Kyoto is indeed prosperous. The three thousand lights dazzle the eyes and make people lose their original mind.

I stood outside the crowd and watched him perform the three bows to get married through the light-colored curtain.

It’s really ridiculous.

Wang Gou came out with a tray to distribute wedding gifts, and a group of people swarmed over.

At this moment, someone took my hand and took me upstream.

As I was leaving, I couldn’t help but take one last look back.

Lu Xiheng happened to look up, and we seemed to meet each other’s gazes through the millions of people.

Then I followed Axun and left without looking back.

The people from Yunzhou chased us relentlessly all the way, and when we were about to be caught up, a group of Jinyiwei came from nowhere and dispersed the people from Yunzhou.

We had a lucky escape.

After turning left and right and entering a remote courtyard, we were temporarily safe.

“Once the city gates open tomorrow, I’ll take you to the villa on the outskirts of the city.”

I asked him, “What about you?”

He wiped a dagger under the candlelight, “Kill someone.”

Ah Xun turned around and asked me with a smile, “Are you scared?”

I curled my fingers and didn’t answer.

He reached out his hand, as if to touch my hair, but ended up just taking a bag of candy from the cupboard and giving it to me.

I stayed awake all night, thinking about many things. I always felt that everything was complicated, as if there was a layer of fog in front of my eyes.

When it was daybreak, A Xun took me out of the city.

But I did not escape successfully as Axun planned, but returned to the villa in Yunzhou again.

But this time, I was wearing a human skin mask and pretending to be the mute girl who was originally guarding me, and the real mute girl pretended to be me.

She looked at me with her face, raised her eyebrows in such a charming way, and sneered.

“Are you scared?”

It was not until then that I realized that the mute girl was not dumb, she could speak.

And A Xun’s plan should have been exposed long ago. On the day of Lu Xiheng’s wedding, Yunzhou deliberately let his guard down against me and lured A Xun to rescue me.

Their target was never me from the beginning.

But I am completely trapped here, but the most terrifying thing is not that I have lost my freedom.

But “I” is not “I”.

Soon, Yunzhou came to me to talk about some things outside, and I begged him to let me go.

He was sitting next to the stone table where I was lying at the time. The young man, who had been talking and laughing to himself, suddenly stopped laughing.

The mute girl lowered her head and said nothing.

He stared at me for a long time and suddenly sighed.

“Ye Shu, do you think I’m the one who won’t let you go?”

8

I had a high fever at night and it didn’t go away for a long time.

The doctor sighed beside my bed, “It’s a heart disease.”

I didn’t know how much time had passed, but I vaguely heard someone getting angry a few times.

I was so sick that I couldn’t open my eyes, and all my senses were weakened along with the illness.

I only vaguely realized that someone was holding my hand carefully, with drops of wet and cool liquid.

Who is crying by my bed?

Why did she cry so sadly and so carefully, as if she was afraid of disturbing anything?

Even the sound of sobbing was extremely restrained.

The voice was extremely familiar, like Lu Xiheng.

But how is that possible?

He abandoned me and ruined my entire family, so how could he come here and pretend to be affectionate to me?

A bowl of something with a strong smell of blood was poured into my throat, and after a moment I opened my heavy eyelids.

It turned out to be the place where Axun and I stayed when we were on the run.

A Xun sat by the window with a bloody cloth wrapped around his hands.

“Ye Shu is dead.”

I was confused. What did “Ye Shu is dead” mean?

It wasn’t until three days later that I understood what he meant.

In the attic of the restaurant, I was wearing a muli and watching Lu Xiheng walking downstairs with the coffin.

“How tragic! Miss Ye escaped for so long but still died.”

“It is said that he was shot dead by an assassin. The Third Prince led two teams but failed to catch the assassin.”

Yunzhou was standing not far opposite me in gorgeous clothes, only this time the mute girl was not with him.

I don’t know if the girl lying inside is a mute. If there is, then she must have died for me.

Since we came to Kyoto, everything seemed to be pushed by a pair of big hands, leading us to an inevitable ending.

Who wants my life?

Could it be true, as A Xun said, that the emperor wanted to kill me to prevent future troubles?

When I had completely recovered from my illness, news came that the emperor had fallen ill.

In less than half a month, the emperor fell seriously ill, the crown prince died suddenly, and the third prince Yunzhou, who was once at the peak of his career, also fell ill.

What kind of horrible scene is this?

All of this is out of touch with the storybook.

A huge fear and confusion came over me.

A Xun just kept telling me “I’ll be home soon”.

That day, there was heavy rain accompanied by hail and the sky was thundering.

I met Yun Miao at the door. She was the heroine, but she was in such a mess.

She was holding an umbrella, her body swaying, her face pale, and she knelt in front of me begging me.

“Ye Shu, can you please save Yunzhou?”

“I will return Lu Xiheng to you, please save Yunzhou!”

I didn’t know how to reply to her, I didn’t even know what happened in Yunzhou.

We talked for less than a quarter of an hour in the freezing weather.

When Axun came back in the evening, I sat under the eaves and asked him.

“Axun, does Yunzhou have to die?”

He squatted in front of me, ignoring the fact that his shoulder was half wet.

He told me “yes”.

After that he continued to clean his dagger and I gave him the candy.

He looked at me and smiled brightly.

I suddenly felt a little regretful.

But he had already put it in his mouth.

I suddenly grabbed his hand and said, “Don’t… don’t eat.”

A Xun put my hand on his chest, and his eyes were filled with my reflection.

“You know how I can tell the difference between you and that impostor?”

Before he fell, he murmured, “You are so special, how can you pretend with just a human skin mask?”

There was a knockout drug in the candy. He closed his eyes and looked like he was not drugged but fell into a deep sleep out of exhaustion.

I took the knife from his hand and wanted to cut his palm.

Yun Miao said that just a little bit of Ah Xun’s blood could save Yun Zhou’s life.

But when I raised the knife, I found I couldn’t do it.

A Xun, he is the only person in this world who treats me sincerely, I can’t deceive him like this.

I went to find Yun Miao alone, and she smiled a smile that was uglier than crying.

But it’s not because I failed to save Yunzhou.

“Ye Shu, Lu Xiheng has overturned the case for the Lu family. The world situation has changed. We are no longer useful to you. Run away.”

Before I could move, Yun Miao was shot through the heart by an arrow.

The heroine is dead?!

My back was wet, and Lu Xiheng came riding towards me with a group of guards.

He jumped off his horse, ran towards me, and smiled at me for the first time.

“Ashu, my Ashu.”

When I first married him, I hoped every day that he would smile at me, but it never happened. Today, his smile was so beautiful, but I didn’t feel happy, I just felt that his face was so terrible.

Where he was going was definitely not where I wanted to go.

I stepped back repeatedly, but his eyes turned sinister and he grabbed my wrist.

“Ah Shu, why are you running?”

“Now, no one can hurt you anymore.”

“Ah Shu, I’ve finished what I needed to do. I can go with you wherever you want.”

He hugged me and said, “Stop it, are you still mad at me? Then why don’t you hit me?”

I have never seen Lu Xiheng like this.

He is no longer the weak and reserved young man I knew.

His body is stained with the blood of countless innocent people.

The third prince died suddenly, the young prince succeeded to the throne, and Lu Xiheng became the regent.

He was extremely successful and everyone followed his lead.

He kept me by his side and told me about what happened back then to please me, but I never responded.

Winter came in a flash. It was snowing heavily that day. He was drunk and stumbled and fell.

He sat on the ground and whispered, “Ye Shu, you are really biased.”

He looked full of grievance, just like the lonely and helpless young man when I first met him.

I couldn’t help but reach out and touch his face, but the coldness of the world made me quickly pull my hand back.

He roughly pulled my hand back and pressed it against his face, “How am I inferior to him? Why can you save him on a snowy night and treat him with all your tenderness, but you won’t give me even a little?”

He was too drunk. Wasn’t he the one I saved on that snowy night?

Besides, he doesn’t need my charity at all. I am the one who lost everything.

I don’t know why I am still alive, but I am still alive, maybe there is something I want in my heart.

He fell asleep with traces of tears in his eyes.

After that day, our relationship seemed to have improved.

The emperor wanted to watch a play, so Lu Xiheng took me with him.

I didn’t want to go, but I saw the dagger hanging on the waist of the messenger.

That is Xun’s dagger.

The messenger made eye contact with me.

I realized that in this iron-clad surveillance, this might be my only chance.

My palms were sweating from nervousness along the way, and I don’t know how many times I secretly wiped them on my handkerchief.

I’m just afraid that Lu Xiheng will notice something unusual.

Fortunately, there was no danger along the way and he just thought I was weak.

When we got off the sedan chair, it was snowing outside. Lu Xiheng took the oil-paper umbrella from the young eunuch and held it over my head.

He smiled at me so gently.

I smiled back.

I’m finally leaving this person.

He seemed surprised by my reaction and his eyes turned red.

9

The little emperor was a handsome eight-year-old boy. He sat on a high seat and greeted Lu Xiheng with a smile.

Lu Xiheng and I sat together, and soon the lyrics of a song were heard from the stage.

“The Cat Substitutes for the Prince”.

Lu Xiheng frowned frequently, and I sensed a hint of familiarity through the face of the actor on the stage.

The guard came running over, not knowing what the urgent matter was, Lu Xiheng turned around and talked to him.

In a flash, the actor on the stage suddenly came with a sword in hand and went straight to Lu Xiheng’s back.

Lu Xiheng was caught off guard and let out a muffled groan, and blood slowly spread across his body.

At this moment, he subconsciously protected me behind him and covered my eyes with one hand.

“Don’t be afraid, Ah Shu, don’t be afraid, I’m here.”

I pushed his hand away.

The actor was very skilled in martial arts and killed more than a dozen of Lu Xiheng’s close guards on the spot. His body was covered in blood, and half of his gorgeous makeup was hidden in the blood.

Just a pair of cold eyes, filled with the determination to die.

“Lu Xiheng, I died a worthy death today, but you will surely follow in my footsteps one day.”

He is Yunzhou.

He held the sword that was still bleeding, surrounded by dead bodies. The little emperor not far away huddled under the table.

However, Lu Xiheng still kept his back straight, as if he was sure that he would be fine.

The moment Yunzhou’s sword flashed, an arrow with a pitch-black tail pierced his heart.

The force of the arrow forced him to kneel in front of me, the red of his blood and the white of the snow slowly blending together.

He tried to pick up the sword, but couldn’t lift it.

Then countless arrows pierced him.

Yunzhou is dead.

He was such a beautiful man, but now he is in such a mess.

Lu Xiheng also fell down with a loud bang, and those who rushed over were thrown into chaos.

10

That night, the thick snow was above my ankles.

The ground creaks when you step on it.

“Madam, Lord Lu is seriously injured and in critical condition. You…you should go and see him.”

Lu Xiheng’s follower Wang Gou knelt in the snow and begged me. I stood in this palace with carved railings and jade bricks, examining him from top to bottom.

Lu Xiheng is going to die.

When I thought of that frosty face, I thought I would be somewhat sad for the passing of life, but I wasn’t.

I heard my own laughter.

For the first time in days, I laughed out loud.

“Except for the forced marriage, I have never done him any wrong. I saved his life, and he repaid my entire family with blood debts.”

“Wang Gou, it was Lu Xiheng who betrayed me.”

He wants to overturn the verdict for the Lu family, and I never comment, but he shouldn’t… His Lu family is full of people, but my Ye family is not?

So, I don’t see him.

Wang Gou stared at me for a long time.

The wind and snow blew on my hair, and I suddenly felt that after many twists and turns, my heart could be as cold as the wind and snow.

Lu Xiheng should also know that I will never feel sorry for him again.

He should have known it long ago, from the moment he killed the Ye family, from the moment he started his plan.

He should have known.

“Lu Xiheng, I regret saving him.”

11

Lu Xiheng is not dead.

A strange man from Miaojiang saved him with a poisonous insect.

The poisonous insect sucked his blood and energy, making him drowsy and bedridden for many days again.

However, it is just a lingering survival.

I was trapped in Lu Xiheng’s mansion.

But I’m not afraid, I’m waiting for Axun to come.

In the evening when the sky cleared after the snow, I finally saw that bright young man again.

His body was as light as a wild goose, and he landed in front of me on tiptoe.

“Ye Shu, I’ll take you home.”

The afterglow of the setting sun fell on his face, warm and gentle like a person in a painting.

It came down from the sky like my salvation.

But where can I go back to?

The world is vast and I don’t know where I will belong.

“Axun, Yunzhou is dead.”

He stopped smiling.

Yunzhou is the real male protagonist of the storybook. With his death, everything should have ended.

But no, everything is going on.

He smiled, just like when we first met.

“Ah Shu, do you still remember the story of the cat replacing the prince?”

The True and False Monkey King, the Cat Substituted for the Prince.

“The mute girl pretended to be you and died in your place, and no one could tell the difference. So…”

The actor Yunzhou is fake.

The real Yunzhou is still alive.

Ah Xun took a step back, and I saw him showing his dagger, smiling happily, “Ah Shu, guess why I can enter and leave the palace freely.”

“It should have been a long time ago, but I can’t bear to leave you, Ah Shu.”

A Xun made a heart shape with her hand towards me again.

“Ah Shu, I’m leaving now.”

My heart ached greatly and I ran towards him with all my strength, but I was still not faster than the speed at which the tip of the knife penetrated into A Xun’s body. Suddenly, a golden light became bright in front of my eyes and I couldn’t see anything.

12

I felt my body floating up and scenes of reflections passed by my eyes.

She died suddenly and traveled through time to become the vicious female supporting role in the novel, but the outcome was different from the established plot in the story.

The one I fell in love with was the third prince Yunzhou.

I met him when I was young, and we are destined to be together for three lifetimes. I will marry him with a red wedding dress that will last for ten miles.

The handsome and shy young man lifted my veil under the dim wedding candles.

Lu Xiheng killed Yunzhou in order to overturn the verdict, and I mistakenly drank the poisoned wine for Yunzhou.

Before I died, he cried and asked me what my wish was.

I just made a heart shape with my hands to him and told him not to be sad because I could finally go home.

Yes, that is not a peach heart, but means “love heart”. I forgot it because I traveled through time for so long.

But the mission failed, I was reincarnated over and over again, and could never go back to my home.

Yunzhou gambled all his luck and the fate of the male protagonist and became A Xun.

A Xun, you are looking for the way home for me.

He tried countless times and finally became convinced that only his death could send me home.

That was my original intention which I had long forgotten in the cycle of time.

I want to go home.

He is a reserved and cheerful man. On the day of our wedding, he said he would protect me for the rest of my life.

After my death, he was left alone for the rest of his life and spent all his wealth to find a way for me to return home.

A senior monk gave him a dagger and asked him, “If you fail, you will become a vessel for reincarnation. If you succeed, your soul will be shattered.”

He faced the Buddha and smiled gently and restrainedly.

“I promised to take her home.”

As a husband, you should always keep your word.