Chapter 27 (1/1)

At the sound, Su Yi's heart, which had been lodged in his throat, now began to sink, sinking straight into a bottomless abyss Slowly, Su Yi turned and saw that Wanyan Xu was leaning heavily against the door, as if he lacked the strength to hold hiht His head was bowed and his eyes were fixed on the blood-stained sword Although blood was still flowing fro Zi Nong’s hand had already been soaked through with blood, Wanyan Xu did not care to spare thelance

Su Yi was utterly silent, in these circuh ti was able to release her own acupoints, but like Su Yi, she made no furtherwould have been heard Wanyan Xu slowly raised his head to look at Su Yi, his eyes were filled with emotion, but they were indiscernible Su Yi looked back at hiot the impression of aback

They stared at each other for a long ti his head he slowly said: “Su Su, you have such beautiful eyes, they are just as I [1] reht in the jail So So you have never changed, it is I who have changed changed to becoed to so easily have trusted you When you promised to become my Empress, all you wanted was for me to release your soldiers after that you can die as a hable is that I actually fell for such an obvious lie, a, what do you think, a for so long? Ha ha ha”

Su Yi watched as Wanyan Xu continued to laugh hter caused Su Yi to feel his own heart start to throb with pain but when he spoke, his voice was still hard and unyielding: “Wanyan Xu, since you have seen through and foiled my plan, I can have no complaints But I can tell you that no matter what, as a man, I cannot become your Empress Evenof Jin Liao”

Wanyan Xu's laughter cut off abruptly and he stared at Su Yi with chilly eyes Clearly articulating each word, he said: “My heart can be as hard as iron, you can try it out if you don’t believeand said: “What are you still standing there stunned for, do you want him to have another chance at suicide?”

Zi Nong hastily sounded a reply, before co in a low voice: “Young Master please excuse Zi Nong’s rudeness” So saying, she produced a strip of white silk and bound hi another wad of thin white silk into his mouth before she helped hi that it would be futile From the fact that Wanyan Xu was able to re or sensing his movereatly surpassed his own

Wanyan Xu grunted, suddenly twisting his thu” sound, the prized shich could pare gold and cut jade was broken into two sections by hiave Zi Nong instructions: “Find Zi Liu and have her tend to his wounds, the coronation cereht need to be ready, have it prepared”

Zi Nong cast a look at Su Yi, and said aardly: “But But Young Master”

Wanyan Xu gave her a look and said with a cold smile: “What are you worried about? Are you afraid that I cannot bring hi this, he looked at Su Yi and said: “Do you really think that the only thing I could use to threaten you is the lives of your soldiers?” After saying that, he gave a couple hs and turned to leave

Looking at Wanyan Xu's eyes which were as cold as the winter frosts, and then hearing his laughs which were devoid of ean to feel fear But his soldiers had long been released and had scattered to the winds; he did not think Wanyan Xu could be able to capture all of them back, especially as he would have to do so one-by-one In addition, he had just moved his capital to the former territories of Great Qi, and had to depend on the people to go about their business as usual to acious hter of innocents In fact, Su Yi had dared to attempt suicide only because he had taken these factors into account Besides the lives of his soldiers and co else that Wanyan Xu could use as a bargaining chip against him but the expression he wore as he had left really made Su Yi supremely uneasy

Su Yi lay there while his iination ran wild, only dimly aware that Zi Liu had come to treat his wounds She seemed to have prepared two batches of medicine for him, and had addressed many words to hi she had said because all her words went in one ear and out the next without registering in Su Yi’s mind

After Wanyan Xu had left Su Yi's residence, he ioverne of the Ministry of Justice At first, when he had heard froly when he departed, a feeling of sweetness had radiated through his heart, as if it had just ingested honey Although he sent Zi Nong back without intending to return himself, in the end, he was unable to resist and had blissfully returned to Su Yi's residence hi of how he had trusted Su Yi, and the efforts he had made to please Su Yi every day, he felt as if his soul had been broken and his spirit wounded A tue and hatred swirled within him and when He Jian presented himself in the study, Wanyan Xu said harshly: “He Jian, receive my decree I command that within three days, you must capture all the close friends and relatives of the war prisoner Su Yi that are living in Dou Yan This includes all his old friends and close neighbours as well as their fale one of the, you will ansith your life Also, this whole operation must be carried out with utst the populace Do you understand my intentions?”

He Jian after having been roused this late in the night and rushi+ng post-haste to the Royal Study, had not expected that such a h he was puzzled, he could tell fro so he certainly did not have the nerve to question hi the ied to fulfil it and then promptly left to carry out his task So detained in jail, when he had returned to his own residence, he i After they had listed all those people who had any close affiliation with Su Yi, on the second day, He Jian began the operation to capture them