"You know where the jade seal is, it's really beyond my expectation."
"But, it's just a jade seal. For Xiao Ling, it's important to say it's important, and it's not important to say it's not important."
"He could have threatened my life to hand me over, but guess, why would he keep me by his side? Wouldn't he like me at all?"
"Or, if he really cares about you, why would he always tolerate me designing and framing you?"
I have to say that Zhao Li’s words hit the nail on the head.
It penetrated directly into Yuan Dai's lung tube.
In the final analysis, her many conflicts with Xiao Ling were just to see how important she was in Xiao Ling's heart and to make him choose between her and Zhao Li. In fact, it was because she felt insecure.
After all, Zhao Li and Xiao Ling are the male and female protagonists. Xiao Ling has always kept her by his side, tolerated her in every possible way, and even abandoned her many times to go to Zhao Li first. All this made Yuan Dai feel extremely concerned from the bottom of her heart.
When Zhao Li saw Yuan Dai's eyes flickering slightly, she knew she was right.
She smiled and continued: "Then let me reveal the secret to you. Let's see if Xiao Ling, who already knows where the jade seal is, will choose you first or me first?"
At this time, Feng Jingyao had already arrived at Xiao Ling Palace. At first, Yuan Dai said that he knew where the jade seal was, but he didn't believe it. Today, he received a letter from Yuan Dai and asked the master to dig it up. Unexpectedly,
I actually dug up the jade seal.
Feng Jingyao was immediately overjoyed and walked excitedly towards Xiao Ling's palace with Yuxi.
By chance, he bumped into Xiao Ling who was coming out of the palace. Feng Jingyao suddenly beamed with joy, "Brother Emperor..."
Before Feng Jingyao finished speaking, Xiao Ling passed by him and walked over quickly. There was wind under his feet and the aura around him became even more gloomy.
Feng Jingyao couldn't help being shocked. He hadn't seen the emperor like this for a long time. The last time he saw him was when Xiao Ling led the troops to fight.
I couldn't help but retreat three feet.
Feng Jingyao hesitated for a while and then chased after him, but was stopped by Furui.
"Fu Rui, why are you stopping my prince? I have something important to report to the emperor."
"Prince Feng, haven't you seen what the emperor is like now? The emperor has something urgent to do now. If you have anything to do, please put it aside for now."
"Urgent matter? No matter how urgent it is, it can't be as important as what I want to say!"
"How is that possible? Of course the matter at hand is important to the Emperor."
"It's a joke, I'm the most important!"
The two of them were talking to each other, and Furui felt that his head was a little big. He didn't have time to argue with Feng Jingyao now, so he hesitated for a while and finally told the matter.
"The Queen was kidnapped by people from the Southern Kingdom!"
"What?!" Feng Jingyao was so shocked that he lost his voice.
From this point of view, it is indeed the matter at hand that the imperial brother is more important.
Feng Jingyao quickly followed, but Xiao Ling had already galloped away with his men on horses.
Feng Jingyao gritted his teeth and said, "Fu Rui, prepare a horse for me!"
"Your Majesty...this matter is of vital importance."
The implication is, Prince Feng, you better not join in the fun.
However, Feng Jingyao was the kind of person who could listen. He emphasized his tone and said, "It is because it is extremely important that I am going. Hurry and prepare your horses!"
Xiao Ling's horse galloped all the way, and the people following him were swinging their whips wildly, but they could only keep up with Xiao Ling's back and couldn't keep up with his speed at all. Despite this, Xiao Ling did not slow down, but instead
Get up faster and faster.
He waved the whip vigorously, the horse galloped, and the cold autumn and winter wind was like a knife, scratching his face painfully. However, Xiao Ling seemed to be unconscious. All of this was incomparable to the anxiety in his heart.
News came that people from the Southern Kingdom had kidnapped Yuan Dai and Zhao Li. They probably wanted to use them to threaten him. There was a high probability that Yuan Dai's life was not in danger.
But Xiao Ling was still afraid, afraid of what might happen.
What if she gets hurt, what if she...
As soon as he thought about this possibility, his heart suddenly felt like a knife.
He could not imagine how he would spend his days if Yuan Dai left.
Xiao Ling swung the riding whip a little harder, causing the horse to neigh in pain and run faster on all fours.
Xiao Ling drove very fast and arrived at the destination within half an hour.
It was a cliff. Xiao Ling got off his horse and looked towards the edge of the cliff.
On the edge of the cliff were Yuan Dai and Zhao Li, both of whom had a knife on their necks.
Yuan Dai was already close to the edge of the cliff, her thin body teetering on the edge, like a fallen leaf that would float away in the wind at any time.
Xiao Ling suddenly felt panicked for no reason.
At this moment, the gangster said, "Xiao Ling, I've been waiting for a long time."
Xiao Ling's expression was calm, "Whatever conditions you have, just talk to me. If you tell me about the two concubines in my harem, you will be laughed at."
The gangster laughed loudly, "A soldier never tires of deceit, what is there to be laughed at?"
"If that's the case, then tell me, what are the conditions?"
"Of course the conditions are met, but... I only plan to let one of these two concubines go, but I would like to ask Emperor Xiao, which one should I choose?"
When the gangster said these words, Xiao Ling's heart tightened, his eyes darkened slightly, and violence rose in his heart.
But Xiao Ling quickly calmed down.
His eyes fell on Zhao Li, and without any hesitation, he said, "Choose her."
The moment Xiao Ling's voice fell, Yuan Dai felt as if her heart had been pierced by something, and a cold wind blew in.
From the first second Xiao Ling arrived, his nervous eyes had been focused on Zhao Li.
Perhaps she should have guessed a long time ago that Xiao Ling liked her, but it was just a love for pet cats and puppies, whether it was between the princess and her, his concubine and her, or...
..Between Zhao Li and her, she was never the chosen one.
Maybe Zhao Li is his destined heroine.
And she actually tried to make her choose between Zhao Li and herself. How ridiculous and sad. As early as the moment he took Zhao Li away that day, the answer to this question was already there. It was her, it was her.
I was still deceiving myself, telling myself that it was because of Yuxi, and it was because of Yuxi that Xiao Ling took Zhao Li away.
But in fact, just as Zhao Li said, Xiao Ling would not choose her even if there was no Yuxi.
Before, it could be explained that it was because of Yuxi, but now? Even if Xiao Ling knew the whereabouts of Yuxi, he still would not choose her.
She opened her eyes again, and what came into view was Zhao Li's arrogant and proud smile. This smile magnified infinitely in front of her, and in a daze, it merged with the smile of the little girl in the orphanage.
Yuan Dai felt as if she was back in the orphanage. On the darkest day in her life, the cactus she carefully fed was broken, the dean's indifferent words, the little girl's proud smile, and the adoptive couple.
Looking at her disappointed eyes, time and space reversed, she was abandoned again, and fell into the quagmire again...