mesbooks Chapter 516 A man’s mouth is deceptive
Chapter 516 A man’s mouth is deceptive
(East Wing, Late Night)
After Lin Ci'an dismissed everyone, he sat alone beside the couch. The candlelight cast a butterfly-like shadow on Chu Ziyu's eyelashes. He reached out his hand for some unknown reason, but suddenly retracted his fist before he could touch it.
Seeing the other person's eyelashes trembling, he pretended to be asleep.
"woke up?"
The fingertips suddenly pinched the other person's chin without using any force.
Chu Ziyu let out a soft "hiss" and the corners of his eyes immediately turned red. He deliberately let Lin Ci'an's hand touch the bandage on his shoulder, and he felt the grip loosen by three points.
"My Lord..." He opened his eyes weakly and suddenly started coughing violently.
His thin chest trembled, and the blood foam from his lips dyed Lin Ci'an's cuffs red.
(System 6872: "Master, take it easy! Your health has just recovered to 60%!")
Lin Ci'an subconsciously reached for his back, but his palms felt the jagged spine. His pale neck tilted up as he coughed, revealing the pale blue veins on his Adam's apple - like fragile thin porcelain.
"Drink the medicine." He picked up the medicine bowl roughly, but slowed down his movements when the edge of the bowl touched Chu Ziyu's lips.
Chu Ziyu lowered his eyes to look at the dark brown medicine juice, and suddenly tilted his head to cough: "Bitter..."
The word was spoken very softly, with a hint of the nobleness typical of a young man from an aristocratic family, but the ending tone trembled like a coquettish tone.
The tip of his snow-white teeth bit his lower lip, leaving a spot of bright red on the pale lips.
Lin Ci'an's forehead was throbbing with veins: "Do you think I'm the easy-to-please fool like Pei Zheng?"
Having said that, he turned around and took the candied fruit from Duobao Pavilion. When he came back, he saw Chu Ziyu dipping his fingertips into the juice and drawing something on the table - it was a border defense map, and a valley was specially circled.
"Three days later..." Chu Ziyu panted and pointed there, "There will be a blizzard..."
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly lost his strength and fell forward. Lin Ci'an rushed forward, knocking the medicine bowl to the ground, and the brown juice formed a strange totem on the green bricks.
(System prompt: Darkening value +20! Currently 120/100)
Lin Ci'an's knuckles suddenly tightened, and the fragments of the medicine bowl pierced deeply into his palm, and blood dripped along his wrist bone onto Chu Ziyu's snow-white pajamas.
He felt no pain at all, and only stared at the pale blue blood vessels of the person on the couch - they trembled slightly with the weak breathing, like the last lamp about to go out in a snowstorm.
"Three days later... there will be a blizzard..."
This sentence was like thunder in his ears. The snowstorm at the border in his previous life was the fuse for his rebellion - 30,000 shi of grain and grass were buried, and the court did not help. When he received the urgent report, the bodies of the frozen soldiers had already piled up into a snow wall.
(How would he know?)
Lin Ci'an's eyes were filled with blood. At this time in his previous life, the news of the blizzard had not yet reached the capital. Unless... Chu Ziyu had experienced the same tragedy as him.
Or...is this simply a new trap set by the emperor?
(System 6872: "Boss! The Darkness Value has jumped to 150! His eyes are so scary!")
Chu Ziyu chuckled in the depths of his consciousness: "He suspects that I am a reborn person." The pale fingers grabbed Lin Ci'an's bloodstained cuffs without leaving a trace, "Xiao An must be thinking now - is this a coincidence, or am I plotting against him again?"
The candle flames burst into a spark, illuminating Lin Ci'an's silhouette in half light and half dark. He suddenly leaned over, and his bloody fingers touched Chu Ziyu's pulse on the side of his neck, and his thumb pressed on the other's Adam's apple - this was a common method used when interrogating spies in his previous life, which could control breathing and sense heartbeats.
"Speak clearly." His voice was so low that it seemed to have crawled out of hell. "How did you calculate the blizzard?"
(System 6872: "Boss, why are you saying these things on purpose?")
"His heart is tied up in his past life. I have always been a blank slate. How could he be so angry?"
"Shh..." Chu Ziyu soothed the system in his mind, "The more complicated the lie, the easier it is to break."
He deliberately made his breathing quicken, his Adam's apple sliding fragilely in Lin Ci'an's palm: "My Lord... do you still remember... the astrology books that Xiliang offered as tribute last year..."
Lin Ci'an's pupils shrank suddenly. This incident did happen last year, but the box of bamboo slips was piled up in the warehouse and covered with dust. The whole government had only...
"You peeked into my private collection?" He increased the strength of his hands, but relaxed the moment Chu Ziyu was suffocating and trembling. On a snowy night in his previous life, he did run into Chu Ziyu sorting books in the warehouse. The man was so panicked that he knocked over the lampstand, and the flames almost burned his white sleeves.
(System 6872: "Boss, when did you start reading the astrology book?")
"Of course I haven't seen it. What are you thinking? Men's words are always deceiving."