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Chapter 129 What if He Forgot...

Nangong Huaxue got more and more excited the more she talked about this: "Hey, I really don't understand. Some people even told me they wanted to divorce and remarry. I remember one person married two people in one month. That's incredible."

Qin Xiao: ...

Qin Xiao felt that if he let her continue, she would talk for a whole day, so he interrupted her and changed the subject: "Does he watch you closely?"

"He watched me very closely at the beginning, and hardly let me leave the palace." Nangong Huaxue seemed to be a little thirsty, and took a sip of the already cold tea. "It's much better after the matter is over. I don't know what he was busy with these two days, so I just asked you out."

Qin Xiao: "...So, you are actually interested in him...What do you like about him?"

“That’s amazing.” Nangong Huaxue blinked, and a pear appeared out of nowhere, and she began to chew it. “She’s efficient, and good for me too… She’s pretty, too… Hehe.”

As he spoke, he seemed to think of some scene and chuckled foolishly.

Qin Xiao: ...

"Aren't you worried that he will betray you one day?" Qin Xiao rubbed his eyebrows and closed his eyes.

"Well... I don't know." Nangong Huaxue said honestly, "But I think if he had such ambitions, he should have done it two years ago. There's no need for him to put on this show for me."

"People change." Qin Xiao said, lowering his eyes, "If he wants to do something to you one day, will you be able to resist?"

"I have the ability to escape." Nangong Huaxue said seriously, "Although I can't beat him, with my strength, I can still run."

Qin Xiao: ...

Perhaps seeing Qin Xiao was speechless, Nangong Huaxue paused and tried to explain her behavior: "The main reason is that I don't have any ambitions. Isn't being an emperor meant to make the people live and work in peace and contentment and make the country prosperous? In recent years, Wang Ji has implemented policies to allow ordinary families to awaken, not just those aristocratic families. He also funded the establishment of various academies - although it is still not as good as those old top academies, it also gives more children the opportunity to go to school, and there are more choices besides Qi cultivation."

"Yuhua is indeed making progress, isn't she?" Nangong Huaxue bit her pear with an indifferent look in her eyes, "So I think that what we have achieved is already very good. What an empire needs is an emperor who can shine like the sun and warm the people. As long as the country can be prosperous and healthy, it doesn't matter who comes, right?"

"If he wants to be the emperor, or if he finds someone more capable than me to nominate that person to be the emperor, I think that's fine." Nangong Huaxue is very open-minded about these things. "As long as we can maintain the current steady pace, it doesn't matter who becomes the emperor."

"What I'm afraid of is that if you don't have the ability but still try to hold on, you'll end up with such a huge empire torn apart, wars everywhere, the emperor not doing a good job, and the people not living well either. That's a real dereliction of duty." Nangong Huaxue threw the pear core into the trash can and took out an apple. "I think it's good now, right? I also contributed to the planning of this competition."

"Really?" Qin Xiao raised his eyebrows, a little skeptical.

"…Okay, a little bit."

Qin Xiao: ...

Looking at Meng Liyun who looked away out of guilt, Qin Xiao was speechless. Thinking about her words, his eyes darkened.

"You look quite open-minded."

"That can't be helped." Nangong Huaxue smiled cheerfully, "In fact, I would rather not be the emperor and go out and travel around. I haven't been out of Luoyun for more than ten years, nor have I been to that kind of academy... I hope there will be a chance in the future."

"I've finished talking about mine, what about you?" Nangong Huaxue didn't want to see Qin Xiao frowning for her, so she changed the subject and looked at him with sparkling eyes, "What's your relationship with Mo Hanyu and those two kids?"

Qin Xiao met her hopeful gaze, paused, and without hiding anything, told her about his experiences over the years, including the treasure related to Mo Ze.

After hearing this, Nangong Huaxue's eyes moved slightly, as if she wanted to say something. She first took out a rolled-up painting from the ring on her right middle finger and handed it to him.

"Look at this."

Qin Xiao took it, unfolded it, and the moment he saw the portrait, his blood almost froze.

"This is……"

"The painting by Mo Ze that was left by the royal family." Nangong Huaxue looked at him, her eyebrows trembling uncontrollably, her face calm, "There are records of his deeds in the royal secret book."

As he spoke, his eyes darkened as he thought of what was recorded in the secret book, and he seemed a little disgusted.

"What is recorded?" Qin Xiao looked at her and asked.

Nangong Huaxue thought about those things, and then looked at Qin Xiao in front of him, and suddenly felt a little indignant: "It says above... he and the founding emperor of Yuhua seem to be very close."

Qin Xiao paused but said nothing, as if waiting for her to continue.

Seeing him like this, Nangong Huaxue gritted her teeth and told him what she had learned from Wang Ji. She was a little angry at the end: "Why is he like this--"

"It's not because of Emperor Ying." Qin Xiao lowered his eyes, his throat dry, "It's because of me."

Nangong Huaxue was stunned and looked at him in surprise.

Qin Xiao told her about the blood in his heart, and his words trembled at the end: "...but I don't know. If I knew...I would never want it."

Nangong Huaxue had a complicated expression. Seeing Qin Xiao like this, she quickly comforted him, "It's not your problem, it's his. You don't have to be like this..."

Qin Xiao didn't listen, and his mind was still recalling the ending she had mentioned -

Dismemberment and cooking of corpses...

Qin Xiao closed his eyes, not even daring to imagine that scene, his lips trembled uncontrollably.

"If it weren't for me...he would never have been treated like that..."

Qin Xiao lowered his eyes, the sadness in his eyes was worrying.

"..."

Nangong Huaxue looked at Qin Xiao who was blaming himself, paused, and decided to speak out: "Actually... I seem to have seen him."

"--What?"

Qin Xiao raised his head suddenly, his eyes shining like sharp light.

Nangong Huaxue's lips were slightly dry. She poured herself another cup of tea, took a sip and got burned again. She gently put the cup down, looked at Qin Xiao in front of her, and said hesitantly, "But I'm not sure, it seems so."

"That was in the last life, after you died..." Nangong Huaxue's eyes darkened again when she mentioned this. "I was holding a knife... I was crying so hard at the time that I didn't pay attention. Suddenly, a hand reached out from the side."

Nangong Huaxue couldn't help but shudder when she recalled that moment: "He suddenly grabbed the knife, and I quickly hugged it. I wanted to see who it was, but... there was no one."

"There was only a hand in the air. I didn't know where it came from. It was like there was a crack in space. It disappeared while holding the knife."

Hearing this, Qin Xiao frowned.

"I thought it was your master or someone else... but no, the knife disappeared into that world... If you want to know why I'm sure -"

As Nangong Huaxue spoke, she took out an object wrapped in cloth from another ring and handed it to him.

As soon as Qin Xiao took it, he knew what it was.

With trembling fingers, he slowly untied the cloth strip, and what came into view was a long knife three fingers wide.

The blade is completely black. The handle is wrapped in a cloth strip and connected to the blade for easy grip. There is a bulge on one side where it connects to the blade. When it is placed under sunlight, a blue pattern can be vaguely seen, which seems to be a beast.

The material of the knife is very strange. It doesn't feel like iron, nor like porcelain. It feels as warm as jade, but with a hint of coolness. The blade is thin, sharp and seems to be able to cut through everything in the world.

"——I got this from the Imperial Master in my lifetime." Nangong Huaxue looked at the knife and said softly, "The old man said that he liked to collect things when he was young, and he would collect anything he found interesting. When I saw it, it was indeed placed among a pile of miscellaneous items, and it was all covered in dust."

Qin Xiao gently stroked the blade and looked at it carefully, his expression complicated and sad, with tears in his eyes that seemed like they would fall at any time.

Nangong Huaxue felt upset when she saw him like this, and turned away: "But speaking of it, what is this knife made of? It doesn't look like metal."

"...I don't know either." Qin Xiao realized that he had lost his composure, wiped his eyes, and shook his head, "He didn't explain when he gave it to me--"

【These are his bones.】

Ji Meng, who had been silent all the time, suddenly spoke, and his voice emerged in his mind.

[This evil bone should have been taken out by Bai Ze at the beginning. I didn't expect to give it to you. 】

"What?!" Qin Xiao's eyes narrowed when he heard Ji Meng's words, and he asked in disbelief, "Bones?"

"What? What bone?" Nangong Huaxue blinked and asked in confusion when she saw him like this.

[This should be carved by him personally, right? I didn't expect it.] Ji Meng muttered, and realized that Qin Xiao was in a bad mood. He thought of Mang Ling belatedly and quickly shut his mouth, no matter how Qin Xiao asked, he didn't say a word.

Qin Xiao asked a few more questions, and seeing that Ji Meng didn't respond, he looked up blankly, facing the equally confused Meng Liyun, and opened his lips slightly: "He said... this is Mo Ze's bone."

Nangong Huaxue: “Ah?”

Nangong Huaxue was surprised: "Is this bone so hard?"

Qin Xiao was equally confused. Thinking back to the look on the man's face when he handed it to him, he couldn't believe that he had just casually thrown something like this to him.

At the beginning, he brought me to Kunlun. At that time, they only got along somewhat harmoniously, but they were not familiar with each other. One day, Mo Ze suddenly asked me if there was anything I wanted. Because I had been following Liu Hongyu before, and was influenced by other things, I decided to focus on practicing swordsmanship, so I thought about it carefully and told him that I wanted a sword.

Mo Ze asked him the reason, listened to him, nodded, and did not continue the topic, but talked about other things.

He thought the matter was over, but a few days later, Mo Ze found him and threw a knife to him like a piece of junk, looking as casual as he could. When he asked about it, he told him that it was not a precious thing and he could just throw it away if he didn't like it.

Although after listening to Mo Ze's words, it felt like the knife was really a piece of unwanted junk, he still put it away carefully.

After that, I found it very useful and easy to use, so I kept using it.

——Now that I hear it, I feel sick all over.

Qin Xiao even admired him a little.

Now that I think about it, when I gave him my heart's blood, I was so casual. I held the jade-like thing made of my heart's blood and asked him if he wanted it. If he wanted it, I would give it to him.

At that time, Qin Xiao also thought that it was a small stone that he picked up from somewhere. After all, he saw so many jade stones along the way, so he just thought that he picked it up from a river in the mountains, so he nodded.

Mo Ze just threw it to him casually and almost dropped it on the ground.

When Qin Xiao thought of this, he felt very complicated, and even his face became conflicted.

Who is...

No, he is not a human...

Qin Xiao rubbed his brows painfully, looked at the lifelike portrait on the drawing paper, and sighed.

Although the painting was very good, the best he had ever seen, it was still not as stunning as he remembered.

Qin Xiao rolled up the paper and wanted to return it to Meng Liyun, but was rejected.

"You can take it. I gave it to you as a souvenir." Nangong Huaxue waved her hand and shook her head. "When I found it for Wang Ji, I even burned a fake one for you."

"What is he looking for this for?" Qin Xiao was grateful but also a little surprised.

"I don't know, it seems to be because of a man named Mo Hanshang? Hey, he seems to be Mo Hanyu's brother." Nangong Huaxue seemed to have figured something out, and clapped his hands suddenly, "Is it related to his Mo family?"

"...I don't know." Qin Xiao shook his head and sighed, "Is it really..."

Nangong Huaxue looked at him, feeling somewhat helpless.

Qin Xiao lowered his eyes, finally drank a sip of tea, and thought of something, and asked her: "What kind of person do you think Wang Ji is?"

"Well... I can't explain it." Nangong Huaxue scratched his head and said in confusion, "You know, I'm not used to defining others. I just feel comfortable getting along with him. It's just that he only thinks about that kind of thing in his mind... But it's normal, after all, he is also a man."

As he spoke, he sighed.

Qin Xiao looked at her and decided to ignore what was going on between them: "Then if you get into trouble, you can come to me."

"Yeah." Nangong Huaxue smiled and nodded, and gave him a ring, "Here, it's for communication."

Qin Xiao took it and thought about the rings and bracelets he had saved up. He felt like he could open a store there. "Same as usual?"

"Of course not." Nangong Huaxue taught him step by step, "This can leave a shadow. After injecting Qi, you can choose to speak or leave a shadow. After you leave the shadow, you can transmit it to the other party."

As he said this, he demonstrated it to him.

Qin nodded to show that he understood.

"You ask me who he is and what he does? Is there something wrong?" Nangong Huaxue asked as she watched him tinkering with something.

Qin Xiao hesitated for a moment, but still told her the story: "I might have to go see him later, that is..."

Nangong Huaxue's expression changed after hearing this: "Wait a minute, I seem to have heard you mention before that you and Qingyi asked for Gu, right?"

Qin Xiao paused, recalled his original plan, and looked away: "No."

Nangong Huaxue narrowed her eyes questioningly.

Qin Xiao: ...

Qin Xiao's face was stiff: "I didn't know before, but now that you said that, I won't."

Nangong Huaxue then withdrew his gaze with a look of disbelief.

"Then... I don't know what to do." Nangong Huaxue thought about Qin Xiao's matter and felt a little conflicted. "How about I try to find out from the side?"

"No, if you bring it up, he'll get suspicious." Qin Xiao shook his head and refused, "Forget it, we'll see when the time comes."

Nangong Huaxue felt a little guilty when she heard this: "Sorry... I can't help you again."

"No need to do that." Qin Xiao shook his head and touched her head, "As long as you are doing well."

Hearing his comfort, Nangong Huaxue became even more depressed.

"How about... after the game, I'll give him some medicine and you can run away quickly, how about that?" Nangong Huaxue rolled his eyes and asked with a finger pointed.

Qin Xiao: ...

You are quite thoughtful.

"You can't avoid it if you try." Qin Xiao shook his head, "You have to face it."

"What if he forgets by then..."

Nangong Huaxue didn't finish her words when she met Qin Xiao's indescribable gaze. She also felt that this might be pitifully small, so she could only curl her lips and nod.

"Oh……"

Nangong Huaxue hung her head in dejection: "I understand..."