When Wei Changtian and Li Wutong were staring at the moon in the Princess Mansion, when You Jia and Ning Yongnian were walking on the path down the mountain, when Li Si and Bai Youheng passed by each other in Yuanzhou City...
With the moonlight above his head, Li Qiyi stood alone at the door of the Criminal Prison.
After hesitating for three days, he finally stood here.
Maybe Wei Changtian is right.
In addition to being a man, he was also the emperor of Dafeng.
Therefore, he must be responsible for the thousands of miles of land built by the ancestors of the Li family, and for the tens of thousands of people living on this land.
In the night wind, the white robe embroidered with a five-clawed golden dragon rustled fiercely with the wind, and then disappeared into the long tunnel of the Tianlao.
"..."
"emperor!"
At the end of the tunnel, outside the door of Tianzijia No. 1 cell.
Several jailers knelt down on the ground with surprised expressions, as if they didn't understand why Li Qi appeared here silently.
The latter had no intention of explaining, and just waved his hand calmly.
"Open the door."
"yes!"
Although Wei Changtian had ordered no one except him to interrogate Yu Pingjun again, the emperor's order was greater than anything else, so several jailers immediately inserted the key into the keyhole and then slowly pushed the heavy prison door open.
"Squeak..."
The friction sound of the metal mechanism was clear and harsh, and the dim firelight in the cell faintly illuminated the figure lying on the stone bed.
"close the door."
He gave an order in a deep voice, and then stepped forward step by step.
Li Qi's steps became slower and slower, and Yu Pingjun suddenly opened his eyes at this time.
A brief moment of surprise flashed by, and then only hatred remained in these eyes.
This was the first time the two met after that night.
Maybe it's the last time we meet.
"..."
Without avoiding Yu Pingjun's gaze, Li Qi walked all the way to the stone bed and untied the former's acupoints amidst the "rumbling" sound of the prison door closing.
As the firelight flickered, the cell fell into silence.
Both of them seemed to have a lot to say, but neither seemed willing to speak first.
In the end, it was Li Qi's slightly bitter voice that sounded first.
"you lost weight."
"..."
"Cluck, cluck, cluck..."
It was as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world, and the laughter slowly rose from small to loud, and then became almost crazy.
"Hahahaha, Your Majesty..."
"I never imagined that your first words when you see me would be this."
"Lose weight? Hahaha..."
One hand pressed on his chest that was constantly rising and falling, and the other pointed at Li Qi, who was frowning.
Lord Yu Ping laughed so hard that he could hardly breathe. While laughing, he tried his best to sarcastically say: "Your Majesty, I look at you as if you have lost some weight."
"Keke, but I wonder what your reason is?"
"Is it because of my concubine?"
"Cluck cluck..."
"..."
The penetrating laughter echoed in the dark cell, one after another.
Li Qi just stood silently until Yu Pingjun was tired of laughing and then slowly opened his mouth again and said:
"Pingjun, I only have three words to say to you this time."
"I know you may not want to hear it, but... these may be the last three words I say to you."
"..."
The last three sentences.
The meaning behind these words could not be more obvious, that is——
No matter what, you will die.
"Um?"
Seemingly surprised by Li Qi's frankness, the smile on Yu Pingjun's face finally slowly faded away at this moment.
She tried her best to support her body and sat up on the edge of the bed with her back against the stone wall.
Then, he stared straight at the man in front of him and said something coldly.
"Your Majesty, please speak, I am listening."
"..."
"good."
...
The remaining light of the candlelight was swallowed up by the darkness, leaving no ripples on the tight stone walls.
At this moment, the cell, which is obviously very spacious, is like a coffin, located in the most remote corner of the prison, crowded with depression and sadness.
"Ping Jun, I have thought about what you and Ding Zhong did for a long time...but I still can't overcome this hurdle in my heart."
The palms hidden in his sleeves were clenched into fists, and Li Qi said the first sentence dryly but calmly.
For some reason, he no longer called himself "I", but replaced himself with the most common "I".
"I will find a justifiable reason for your death, and no one will know what you did."
"As for other members of the Yu family...who have nothing to do with this matter, I will let them go."
"..."
They looked at each other in silence. After Li Qi finished his first sentence, the expression on Yu Pingjun's face did not change at all.
She knew that it was actually not easy for the latter to achieve this level, but...
"The second thing, about her..."
On the other side, Li Qi seemed to have never thought about getting a response from Yu Pingjun. He paused for a moment and then spoke again.
"Yes, I have never forgotten her."
"That's why I don't want to have any more children."
"This matter... you may have already guessed it, and I won't hide it from you."
"It's just that Tong'er is innocent. Since she really regards you as her mother, you shouldn't treat her like this."
"..."
First he confessed that he would definitely kill Mr. Yu Ping, and then he confessed that he really had never forgotten that woman.
It can be said that what Li Qi said now was completely opposite to what Wei Changtian wanted him to say.
But this is all from the heart.
After a few breaths of silence again, he slowly raised his head.
Li Qi looked at Yu Pingjun's eyes that contained all kinds of complicated emotions, and his shoulders suddenly trembled slightly.
He took a gentle breath, took a hesitant step closer, and seemed to have summoned up great courage to finally say the last sentence, which was also the apology that Yu Pingjun had been waiting for twenty years.
"One last thing..."
"Jun Ping, whether you believe it or not, I never knew you had such great resentment towards me."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "If I had known what you were thinking, I would never have forced you to recognize Tong'er, nor would I have been so indifferent to you."
"I know it's too late to say this now."
"But...for the past twenty years, I have been sorry for you."
"It's me, I'm sorry for you..."
"..."
Lowering his head little by little, Li Qi repeated the last six words over and over again.
These six words were actually written on the piece of paper left by Wei Changtian, but at this time they were also Li Qi's true words.
For Yu Pingjun, she can naturally tell whether this sentence is true or false.
Because of this, her vision became blurred at this time.
"Pap..."
A big tear fell on the prison uniform, and his pale lips were bitten with traces of blood.
At this moment, Yu Pingjun suddenly remembered the two poems Wei Changtian once said to him.
"If life is just like the first time we met, why would the autumn wind be so sad as to draw a fan?"
"It's easy to change people's hearts, but it's easy to change people's hearts."
"..."
Regret that had never happened in twenty years came to my heart, and then turned into deeper sadness.
Just like what Li Qi said.
If I had known this, why would I do it in the first place?
Isn’t that what I am doing?
Is everything that happens now really what I want?
"emperor......"
Raising his head with tears in his eyes, Yu Pingjun slowly stretched out a hand, as if he wanted to caress the trembling shoulder of the man in front of him.
But at this moment, with a muffled "click" sound, the heavy prison door behind the two people was suddenly pushed open bit by bit.
The violently shaking firelight squeezed in through the slowly widening gap, illuminating several long shining knives and faintly illuminating the dark red blood flowing on the ground.