Daqian Night Emperor

Chapter 54 I gave you dignity!

The tea room was completely silent.

The only thing standing between Zhao Qian and Yu Zhen was silence.

When Zhao Qian'an pointed his finger at the dagger, he said nothing, but his meaning was clear.

Yu Zhen stared blankly at the dagger stuck in the wooden table. After a long moment, he raised his hand and reached for the dagger.

Zhao Qi'an didn't even look at it. He lowered his head to pour himself some tea.

As her hand got closer and closer to the dagger, her arm began to tremble more and more, shaking like a sieve.

Finally, her fingertips touched the handle of the dagger. The icy touch of the metal surface made her shudder instantly, and she retracted her hand as if she had been electrocuted.

She didn't dare.

"Ah."

Zhao Qi'an laughed: "Death is the easiest thing in the world, but also the hardest thing. You don't have the courage."

He pulled out the dagger and played with it with his head down: "If you had died cleanly just now, I would have respected your courage and followed your wish. But now, there will be no such good thing."

Zhao Qi'an put away the dagger and put it back into his sleeve. He then took out some things from his arms and placed them on the table.

Yu Zhen's gaze slowly moved to the table and looked at those things.

There were some pieces of paper and some badges.

Her pupils suddenly shrank. The more she looked at these things, the more familiar they looked, and she had a bad feeling in her heart.

Zhao Qi'an picked up the pieces of letter paper and waved them in front of her: "These letters are the ones you asked someone to send to the palace for you these past two days. Some are for Concubine Zhen, some are for the Fourth Prince, and some are for the eunuch Wuhou Qiansui who holds the seal of the Imperial Household Department beside His Majesty..."

He handed the letter to Yu Zhen: "Look, see if there is anything left."

Yu Zhen couldn't help but tremble all over, staring at the pieces of letter paper, but she didn't dare to take them.

Seeing that she didn't take it, Zhao Qi'an put the letter back on the table and then picked up one of the waist cards, turned it around and read the words on it: "Zhang Fu'an... a eunuch from Fuyan Palace, married into the princess's mansion and was in charge of the mansion's purchases. He left the mansion two days ago to go to the countryside for purchases. On his way back, he encountered robbers and died at their hands."

He picked up another waist badge and glanced at the name on it: "Li Yonggui, the head of the bird garden in charge of the flowers and birds in the princess's mansion. He accidentally fell into the river after drinking with his friends yesterday. He was just fished out of the river this morning."

"Chen Fuhai..."

"Xu Cui'e..."

Every time Zhao Qi'an read a name, Yu Zhen's face turned paler.

She remembered all these people; they were all elders from Fuyan Palace, and they all held important positions in the princess's mansion.

But now... they are all dead.

These days, the servants she thought she could bribe delivered all the letters that should have been sent to the palace to Zhao Qian'an without any errors.

She hoped that her confidants who could discover clues and report to the palace were also dug out and dealt with one by one by Zhao Qi'an.

Every word Zhao Qi'an read shattered her hope a little, and every name he spoke was a heavy blow to her heart.

Yu Zhen's inner defense finally collapsed, and she interrupted him with a scream:

"That's enough! Stop reading!"

She raised her head and cried, "Zhao Qi'an, how could you be so cruel..."

"cruel?"

Zhao Qi'an stood up suddenly and kicked over the box at his feet: "Compared to you, how can I be considered cruel?!"

The hard wooden box was broken into pieces by his kick, and the broken wood chips flew everywhere, one of which scratched Yu Zhen's cheek.

But she didn't care about the pain on her face, nor did she bother to wipe the blood from the wound. She just lowered her head and stared blankly at the books in the wooden box that were kicked and scattered all over the floor.

Several pages of the book were spread out on the ground, and on them were written names of people!
Niu Er, Ma Tieshuan, Yang San, Zhao Gousheng, Sun Fulai, Zhou Xishun...

These ordinary names were all crossed out with a big "X" in red ink. A breeze blew through the room, blowing the scattered books on the ground. The pages turned over, and the names flashed by one by one.

What caught Yu Zhen’s eyes was... red!

Densely packed, red everywhere!

Zhao Qi'an pointed to the ground and asked coldly, "Do you know who these people are?"

Yu Zhen answered subconsciously: "How would I know..."

"Snapped!"

Before she could finish her words, a slap hit her hard on the face.

Zhao Qian'an's chest rose and fell, and he shouted, "This is the 'pill' you ate! This is the 'Immortality Pill' that the Savior Cult refined!"

He grabbed Yu Zhen's hair and made her crawl on the ground with her face almost touching the pages of the book.

"Open your eyes and look carefully! This box contains the lives of 130,000 people in Jingzhou! This is only what I found, not all!"

"Yuzhen! Are you going to recreate the 'Yongan Massacre'?!"

An angry shout sounded like thunder in Yu Zhen's mind, frightening her to death.

Even she realized what this box of lists represented.

The massacre of Prince Yong'an Ji Hongde was no more tragic than this. As an eyewitness in the palace, she knew very well what kind of fate her uncle had suffered.

“No…” She broke down, sobbing profusely, “It’s not me, I, I don’t know… I really don’t know…”

Zhao Qi'an was no longer as easy-going as before. He glared at him and shouted, "How dare you say you don't know how to make the Immortal Pill?"

"me……"

She was at a loss, crying and saying, "I didn't know so many people would die. I thought, I thought..."

She cried so hard that she was out of breath and couldn't utter a complete sentence.

Zhao Qi'an simply said the next words for her, sneering: "You think that the lives of just three or five lowly people can be refined into the 'Ascension Pill'. The lives of three or five lowly people can complete the foundation for you, a high and mighty princess. Do you even think that this is an honor for these lowly people?"

Yuzhen didn't answer, but stopped crying for a while.

She almost crawled to Zhao Qi'an's feet, hugged him and cried, "I beg you, I beg you not to tell anyone about this, don't let my father know... I can do anything you want, Zhao Qi'an, aren't we husband and wife?"

This noble princess, who usually never gets stained by dust, was now so servile that she even wanted to wipe the dirty mud off Zhao Qian'an's shoes.

But Zhao Qi'an was bored.

Until now, she still wanted to protect herself and stay out of trouble.

She... had never even felt ashamed of those 130,000 lives.

Zhao Qi'an raised his foot and kicked her away.

He took out the dagger from his sleeve again, looked at Yu Zhen, and said: "Don't say that I don't care about the relationship between husband and wife. I have given you respect, but you didn't want it!"

"but now!"

"How can one life be worth 130,000 lives!"

"Yuzhen, I'll let you live a little longer. Just open your eyes and watch carefully! Let's see how big a mess you've made!"

The dagger made of black iron slowly deformed under Zhao Qian'an's fingers.

finally……

There was a "click" sound.

The two broken blades fell to the ground under Yu Zhen's shocked and horrified gaze.

There will be another chapter later today, so it may be a little late. For godfathers who have to go to work or school tomorrow morning, please get up tomorrow and read it~
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