Free Web NovelChapter 1451: Chapter 846: Resentment Lingers (Part 2)
Chu Yezui suddenly couldn’t speak anymore, as Sui Yi clasped her hands, gently pulling them over, bowing his head, pressing them against his brow...
The Seventh Prince had only made this gesture once in his life.
It was when Consort Li passed away, the Seventh Prince sat alone on the stone steps, head bowed, hands clasped against his brow, allowing the boundless snow of heaven and earth to fall upon his hair, upon the princely robe.
It was restrained pain and solitude with nowhere to spread.
The solitary boat gently rocked with the current, the candlelight also flickered slightly.
The palm was ice-cold, unable to warm it up, whether it was her hand or hers.
Ye Zui remained expressionless.
With her other hand, she poured wine, offering the glass to Sui Yi.
"Your Highness, share a drink with me..."
Sui Yi lowered his hands, looking at the wine glass, not moving.
"What, you refuse? Do you find me dirty?" Ye Zui held the wine glass, smiling as gracefully as in her youth...
"In the past, listening to those old folks, speaking indecently, saying that brothel women have arms that serve thousands, lips tasted by countless... before, I only found it filthy and unbearable to hear, but you know this hand..."
That alabaster wrist, delicate and exquisite...
She whispered in Sui Yi’s ear: "Tall ones, thin ones, fat ones, ugly ones, old ones... sometimes one... sometimes two... sometimes three..."
Sui Yi took the wine glass, drinking it all in one go.
She drank decisively, neither causing trouble nor anger.
Now persuading her to drink seems this easy.
Ye Zui, half-smiling, lowered her head, leaning her head on Sui Yi’s shoulder, cheeks touching, entwining breath...
"In the past, etiquette and moral defenses restrained every word and act, but now, entering a brothel... one can be reckless and unrestrained..."
"I say this, you must be feeling sad."
Her finger traced over Sui Yi’s furrowed brows, "Everyone says the Seventh Prince is greatly favored, yet indifferent and detached. But I know you’re the softest-hearted... Clearly so soft-hearted, why do you insist on abandoning me?"
"Your Highness, is Ah Zui so lacking?"
She laughed quietly, but her palm ventured under Sui Yi’s body, caught by Sui Yi’s hand.
Her face was tightly drawn.
Ye Zui remained still, lightly saying: "Disgusted with me? Or shy? Wandering outside for ten years... is it possible that your Highness has never tasted the affairs of men and women... Whether you have or not, you have no reason to reject me... after all, I am your unwed wife..."
She tried to touch Sui Yi’s lips but saw the unavoidable pain in Sui Yi’s brow...
"Ah Zui..."
So gentle, worrying...
In a daze, as if when they first met, anxiously urging her not to jump into the river...
That was the first time she knew the Seventh Prince was such a gentle person.
Ye Zui closed her eyes, breathing deeply... even her breath became so afflicted.
"Your Highness, ten years ago, no matter what, I wouldn’t have imagined there’d be a day... I’d need to use such unbecoming means to sadden you..."
"But if you’re well, how should I be..."
Chu Yezui knew how embarrassing, resentful, scheming, and unscrupulous she appeared now...
The filth isn’t the body, it’s the heart.
But every time she looked in the mirror, she didn’t see her own filth.
But the aging.
She feared she wouldn’t wait for that person to return and would already grow old amidst the debauchery of Swallow Tower.
Luckily, she returned.
But why did she come back?
Disrupted her pool of calm.
"Ah Zui, back then I..." Sui Yi’s lips trembled, her life confined to palace walls, she had only this one friend, considered a close confidant... but... she reached out to hold Ye Zui’s hand, but felt her hand lacking strength.
She closed her eyes.
The wine had a problem.
Ye Zui opened her eyes, seeing Sui Yi clutching her hand, and saw her face somewhat vacant and confused.
She smiled softly.
"For all the men, words spoken in bed are the least true, yet some are the truest.... an official once told me that before my father was beheaded, he said one thing, he said... the emperor orders the minister to die, the minister has no choice but to die..."
Sui Yi’s expression froze, seemingly in disbelief, yet thoroughly embarrassed.
"Your Highness, I will never forget the glance he gave me before being taken away... I didn’t understand then, now I do."
"My greatest mistake was when your mother consort betrothed me, I was so happy I couldn’t contain myself, thinking you felt the same."
"Clearly, the one who cast me aside was you... why did my Chu Family fall into ruin and perish? The emperor’s heart is hard to fathom, but I feel your heart... makes me understand even less."
"Do you know my sister... Xiao Bao, you’ve seen her, praised her innocence and vivacity, even flew kites with her... she was only ten, destroyed to death on the road to exile... I went through seven people to retrieve her remains, clothes unable to cover her body, her skeleton decayed..."
"Do you know how much I hate you, your Highness."
Sui Yi’s face was in her hand, smooth and delicate, elegant, clean and noble like that supreme Jade Seal.
Why is she entirely sullied, while she remains... clean.
If a knife were in hand, Ye Zui would have already plunged it into the heart of the person before her. (I know you must say I, Chu Yezui, am too miserable, about the purity thing... I can only say, the vicissitudes of life, there are far worse miseries, without death, no nirvana, without suffering, no Buddha)
To see what color her heart is.
But she didn’t.
There was only wine here.
"Your martial arts are formidable... even those people’s guards are no match for you in one move, but you should recognize, this is a cup of drunkenness, drink a cup, regardless of your high martial arts, it’s useless... just one cup to pass out, a night of intoxication, troubles disappear, this fine wine was once bestowed by your father emperor, if he knew his most beloved Seventh Prince was now fallen, played with at will, he’d probably be furious."
