Chapter 42 I Will Marry You
"Your Majesty! You cannot!"
The dark guard leader knelt weeping in protest.
"He is Xiao Heng.
You are gravely wounded how can you..."
"Shut up!"
Yuwen Huang cut him off.
His gaze turned cold as a blade.
"I have thought it through!"
He turned to look at me.
Pain furrowed his brows yet the corners of his mouth pulled into a roguish yet utterly serious smile.
"You all want me to kill you... even you... even you probably think I want to kill you..."
He gasped.
Blood spread wider across his dragon robe.
"But I refuse!"
"I don't care if you are the Jade-Faced Shura or the Northern Border Crown Prince... I, Yuwen Huang, was going to marry you, Xiao Heng!"
"You would be the Empress! I said so!"
After that earth-shattering declaration he seemed to exhaust every last bit of strength.
His body went limp and he fainted completely in my arms.
His hands however still clutched my collar tightly.
I held his softening body and stood there.
I felt the sticky warmth on my back and heard gasps all around.
The cold Birth Potion in my sleeve now felt scorching.
Yuwen Huang.
You truly are crazy.
And as I stared at his pale face for the first time I felt my iron heart defense cracked open by this mad act.
The empress ceremony?
It seemed this absurd grand play was still far from ending.