Chapter 10 The System’s Warning
When I open my eyes, it is the System’s notification.
I look at the Gold Chain that appears on my wrist again and sigh long.
“System, I feel like a day’s hard work was for nothing.”
Circling around, I return to the starting point.
The host knows well.
I think this time, like last time, acting spoiled would make Xie Fei remove it.
But he doesn’t.
He is determined to lock me in the palace.
After one-sided quarreling, I finally accept the fact.
I am locked up.
I say angrily, “You can’t lock me up.”
Xie Fei smiles sinisterly and nods. “Alright. Then I’ll have your palace servants and your sister killed.”
I exclaim, “How can you do that?”
How can he be so heartless to human lives?
“Why can’t I?”
Xie Fei’s nose almost touches mine. He says word by word, filled with determination and ferocity.
“Besides you, there is no one in the world who treats me well. Why should I care about them?”
He is the one who bullied even a lowly palace servant when young. It is hard for him to have kindness in his heart for this world.
Perhaps I am really wrong. I shouldn’t have been so good to him, making him overly dependent on me. I shouldn’t have ignored his extreme possessiveness, leading to the point where I couldn’t make up for it today.
Locked, I can’t do anything. I don’t want to deal with the instigator, so I start sleeping.
I have a dream.
In the dream, it is when Xie Fei is sixteen. At that time, we have already cleared his mother concubine’s case and cleared her name.
He has also begun to show his talent and gained the emperor’s favor.
The struggle for the throne is becoming more intense. The emperor sends Xie Fei to Jiangnan to investigate a corruption case that involves many people.
As long as he returns alive, he will be the heir.
I and Xie Fei risk our lives to investigate the case. On the way back to the capital, we are attacked.
It is the Ninth Prince.
He is laying a smooth road for his seventh brother and eliminating all obstacles.
Therefore, all the assassins are elites.
The killing sounds shake the sky. The whole place is red with blood.
I know I can’t lose at this moment. So I trade a lot of points with the System to get the ability to kill the Ninth Prince.
That is my first time killing.
Blood splatters on my face. It is warm. I wipe it off stiffly with my fingers, spreading a piece of pink.
I know it is the temperature and color of life.
The Ninth Prince’s eyes, wide open before death, are like black holes that suck my soul in too.
For Xie Fei, I kill the Ninth Prince.
In the end, it is no different from the Ninth Prince committing murder for Xie Yu.
Too much fear piles up, making me look numb.
But only I know, something is different.
When I wake up again, I am a bit dazed.
It has probably been a long time.
My whole body is burning hot. My throat is dry and hoarse, and I can hardly speak.
I turn my head. It is Xie Fei, with red eyes and extremely haggard.