MLIAM Chapter 90

Chapter 90: I Accept the Order! What Makes You Think You Can Negotiate With Me?!…

Chapter 90: I Accept the Order! What Makes You Think You Can Negotiate With Me?!…

It was already late at night, and the torrential rain poured down, the raindrops like broken pearls, densely beating against the eaves of the palace, making a dull sound.

Beneath the long corridor, densely packed soldiers stood grimly, like eerie ghostly figures.

In the torrential rain, the man slowly threw away his umbrella, revealing a handsome face in the alternating light of lightning flashes, he curved his lips into a smile, but the smile was sinister and terrifying: “You still want to save this broken Da Liang? What a naive idea.”

The two of them were soaked to the bone in the rain, their voices lost in the sound of the rain, leaving behind delicate water droplets.

Yu Shuli glanced at the groups of soldiers in dark red and silver armor beside him, his face particularly cold and stern under the coldly glinting knives: “No matter what Da Liang becomes, what does it have to do with you, a Xizhao person?”

“Heh.” Wanyan Jun’s tone was full of provocation and disdain: “The Da Liang emperor and heir are both useless, I am just helping the Da Liang people to see them clearly as soon as possible.” With a wave of his hand, he spread himself out in the rain: “Isn’t it good now? I will end this incompetent rule and reshape this country!”

Yu Shuli held his sword horizontally, interrupting Wanyan Jun’s fantasy. “Wanyan Jun, as long as I am here, don’t even think about touching Da Liang.”

Wanyan Jun narrowed his eyes slightly: “You mean, you must be against me?”

Yu Shuli took out a signal flare from his robe, about to ignite it, but found that the gunpowder had been soaked by the heavy rain.

He pursed his lips and met Wanyan Jun’s mocking gaze.

Their eyes met in the air, and Yu Shuli suddenly hooked his lips.

Wanyan Jun’s heart jumped, and he suddenly retreated.

However, the moment he retreated, Yu Shuli seemed to have anticipated his movements, his figure flashed, his movements as fast as lightning, and he quickly moved in front of Wanyan Jun, blocking his path, while pointing the blade at his neck.

Wanyan Jun’s eyes widened, his face changed slightly, but he quickly returned to his hideous smile: “You alone, can’t save Da Liang, you might as well…” He put his lips close to Yu Shuli’s cheek as if he wasn’t afraid of death: “Submit to me, and I can save your life.”

Yu Shuli dodged his movement, and the blade of his sword slashed across his neck, he chuckled: “Whose life is in danger now?”

Wanyan Jun raised his hand, and soldiers who had been lying in ambush for a long time suddenly appeared, each holding weapons and looking at Yu Shuli fiercely.

He smiled: “I was just playing with you.”

Yu Shuli’s face turned white for a moment. The hand resting on Wanyan Jun’s neck did not move, but his heartbeat gradually accelerated because he had no confidence.

But Yu Shuli knew that he had no way out: “My life, in exchange for your life, in exchange for the stability of the entire Da Liang, is not a loss.”

“Ji An, if I die, Wei Yan will undoubtedly die.” Wanyan Jun’s fingers gently rested on Yu Shuli’s hand, enticingly: “We can have a better solution, can’t we?”

At this moment, a deafening explosion suddenly rang out above the city gate, the huge sound was frightening, like a raging tide of beasts, resounding through the pervading dark night.

Gunsmoke mixed in the rain, becoming soil flowers in the mud, the trees in the distance were blown up, and broken branches flew across, tearing through the silence of the night sky.

Wanyan Jun’s face changed drastically: “What happened?!”

Yu Shuli hooked his lips: “Don’t you think you are extremely smart? How could you not expect this?”

“What did you do?!”

“Instead of asking what I did, why not ask what the useless heir of Da Liang you mentioned did.” Yu Shuli raised his eyebrows: “Didn’t you instigate the emperor to protect the crown prince? Thanks to you.”

A trace of astonishment flashed in Wanyan Jun’s eyes: “You said Zhao Yong?! That useless thing?! He wants to rebel?!”

“Tit for tat.” Yu Shuli smiled: “You and him are just birds of a feather, haven’t you thought about this day?”

Wanyan Jun was stunned: “How do you know that I instigated the emperor to protect Zhao Yong?”

Yu Shuli smiled: “If not you, who else would guide the crown prince step by step to become what he is now? Isn’t the trajectory of the crown prince’s gradual depravity all guided by you? You are very happy that the crown prince is useless, right? Watching him struggle along the trajectory you guided, walking the old road you walked, eking out a living, you will have a sense of accomplishment? Even my second sister’s disappearance… is also your doing, right? Did you take her away?”

The air was filled with the metallic and bloody smell of iron, the troops attacking the Imperial Palace were gradually approaching, soldiers shuttled in the darkness, rain dripped, and the ground under their feet became muddy due to trampling.

Wanyan Jun chuckled lowly, looked at Yu Shuli’s face in the light, and praised: “Ji An, you really… are very different.”

Before he could finish speaking, his face suddenly changed, and he gritted his teeth and said, “Zhao Yong, walking my old road? Is he worthy?! Do you think that in the matter of your second sister, he was just a cold-faced bystander who condoned his subordinates? You’re wrong.”

Yu Shuli remained calm: “You mean… there are other secrets in what happened back then?”

Wanyan Jun nodded: “Zhao Yong is your second sister’s first man. It was he who condoned his subordinates, touching his woman in front of him. How ridiculous, the two of them clearly had someone they cared about, but they could still sleep together, how disgusting?”

“They have been plotting for ten years to calculate for this throne, to calculate for Wei Yan, to calculate for you.” Wanyan Jun smiled, taking credit: “I helped you solve your second sister, shouldn’t you be happy?”

“Happy.” Waves surged in Yu Shuli’s heart, and he tried hard to hide it: “If not for these things, how would I know the truth many years ago? My second sister’s matter can make me more careful to distinguish people’s hearts in the future, but for me and Wei Yan, it is just a passing cloud.”

“But Wanyan Jun, you are so clear about other people’s affairs, but you can’t imagine that Xunyang Hou, a dog who has followed you for many years, is not only a two-faced hypocrite, but also a true villain who can defect at any time.”

Wanyan Jun’s lips moved, and his smile broke: “What do you mean?”

Yu Shuli moved his arm, which had been stiff and sore from maintaining one action for a long time, and said: “I have been wondering before, how Xunyang Hou can always receive various rumors, how can he be caught, at first, I thought you were manipulating him. But later I understood that he was serving you on one hand, and still standing on the emperor’s side on the other, supporting the crown prince. In this way, he can stand in an invincible position. A servant with three surnames, collecting clues and signals from both sides, can naturally evacuate in time when something happens.”

“Wanyan Jun, Xunyang Hou has defected, and you don’t have enough troops in your hands. Even without me, today you, a foreign prince, attempting to assassinate the Da Liang emperor, will not be able to leave the Imperial Palace alive.”

Wanyan Jun looked around, and sure enough, he saw that more than half of the soldiers who originally came to protect him had disappeared silently.

The archers surrounding him immediately turned their arrows and aimed at him.

“So,” Wanyan Jun’s face remained unchanged, and his fingers tapped on the blade that Yu Shuli was tightly pressing against him, “are you sure you still want to waste time with me here? You and I are not considered deadly enemies with any beneficial relationship now, why not let each other go? I’ve been standing here for so long, and my feet are a little numb.”

Yu Shuli glanced at the increasingly bright fire, knowing that Zhao Yong’s rebel troops had broken in.

He gritted his teeth, trying to negotiate terms with Wanyan Jun: “You let go of the people you have kidnapped.”

“Let go?” Wanyan Jun said with a gloomy face: “You are in the same situation as me now, what makes you think you can negotiate terms with me?!”

He laughed loudly: “To tell you the truth, you can’t find Wei Yan, because I have already smuggled him back to my country. If there are no accidents, in a few days, he will appear on the city gate of the Xizhao Capitol, beheaded to apologize.”

Yu Shuli’s lips were tightly pursed into a straight line, and his face was distorted by anger, his body trembled, his fingers clenched the hilt of his sword tightly, and a slight sound came from between his clenched teeth: “You said… what?!”

With a “boom”, another round of explosions exploded near the Imperial Library, the night sky was illuminated by fire, like daytime.

Yu Shuli’s hand trembled from the explosion, and Wanyan Jun turned nimbly, extricating himself from under Yu Shuli’s arm. “Today is really unfortunate, I won’t play with you anymore. If you want to find Wei Yan, please, Marquis of Zhenguo, try to save your own life, and keep it to come to Xizhao to ask me for someone.” He hooked his lips: “But at that time… the conditions we discuss will be different.”

How could Yu Shuli let people leave so easily? He raised his sword to chase, but Wanyan Jun had already been surrounded and protected by the surrounding soldiers, losing the best opportunity to arrest him.

He couldn’t kill him, he could only capture him alive, Yu Shuli’s actions were limited everywhere, and he was soon exhausted by the sea of people.

The back view of Wanyan Jun leading people to escape was swallowed by the dark night, leaving only endless heaviness.

Yu Shuli’s face was as pale as paper.

Thunder rumbled, and the sound of the wind and torrential rain tearing through the leaves rustled, mixed in the chaos of the palace coup, no one could remain calm in this battle, but he had to remain calm.

There was another battle that he needed to fight.

“General!” Ding Sheng led his troops to break in from the side door, and ran into Yu Shuli standing in the rain with a desolate look.

He hurried over, took off his coat to shield Yu Shuli from the rain.

Yu Shuli pushed him away, raised his hand and flicked away the rain on his face, trying to make himself sober: “How is the rebel army being dealt with?”

“The rebel armies in the West Gate and North Gate have been captured. The Second Prince has returned to the Capital after dealing with the temple affairs, and is leading the army to clear the South Gate. Xunyang Hou has been captured alive by Dai Meng, and the whereabouts of His Majesty and the former Crown Prince are currently unknown.”

“Good.” A little smile finally appeared on Yu Shuli’s face: “Organize the army forward, capture the rebel army alive, and support the Second Prince to ascend the throne!”

Swords and swords crossed all night, and Zhao Yong, who plotted to usurp the throne, was captured alive in a dilapidated temple outside the Imperial City, and the Second Prince finally officially ascended the throne with an Imperial Decree from the missing emperor.

But Wanyan Jun ultimately became the fish that slipped through the net and escaped.

A month later, the Xizhao King hosted a banquet to welcome his beloved son back.

On the day of Wanyan Jun’s return to his country, he presented his father with the spoils of war he had obtained from ambushing Da Liang – the Da Liang Emperor.

The Xizhao King was overjoyed, and put the Da Liang Emperor into a cage, parading him through the streets every day, the Da Liang Emperor could not bear the humiliation, and after being tortured for three days, he became crazy and silly, and could not even recognize people.

In the same month, the Xizhao King announced his abdication, and officially let his son Wanyan Jun ascend the throne, becoming the Xizhao King.

On the day of his ascension to the throne, Wanyan Jun announced that he would execute the Da Liang traitor Wei Yan on the city tower on a selected day.

After receiving the news, Yu Shuli hurriedly met Zhao Lan, vowing to take the head of the Xizhao King and rescue Wei Yan.

Zhao Lan glanced at the letter and battle report, and pursed his lips. “Ji An, it’s not that I won’t let you go, but this matter has not been confirmed. Wei Yan’s whereabouts are unknown, and he may not be in their hands.”

Yu Shuli clenched his hands tightly, then suddenly released them, a burst of darkness in front of his eyes: “Your Majesty! Whether the news is true or false, Wanyan Jun’s insult to my Da Liang is true, and war is necessary no matter what.”

“Ji An, I can understand that you are worried about Wei Yan now, but this matter still needs to be considered carefully. Wanyan Jun also has my secret agents by his side, can we wait for someone to send back the message before we make a decision?”

“The old emperor is still in their hands in Xizhao, and the people are full of fighting spirit, now is the best time!” Yu Shuli gritted his teeth: “Anyway, if Your Majesty doesn’t want me to go, I must go!”

“You!” Zhao Lan looked at Yu Shuli’s face, and couldn’t care about being angry, just sighed: “Ji An, you haven’t rested well these days. You should at least take good care of yourself first, so that you can save Wei Yan, right?”

“I’m fine.” Yu Shuli stubbornly raised his head: “I beg Your Majesty for a decree, I will definitely, level Xizhao.”

“Ji An…”

Yu Shuli knelt down with a “bang”, tears spilling on the floor: “I beg Your Majesty to grant my wish.”

“Your Majesty, I never thought that one day I would be bored to be with someone until old age, but later, I gradually realized that if that person is Wei Yan, I can… even… be happy.”

Yu Shuli wiped away his tears: “Once I pulled him out of the darkness on a long street, and from then on, he kept me in his heart day and night. His heart was clearly full of dangerous and decadent Datura flowers, but he was willing to dig up the soil and start again for me, planting forests of winter sweet, covering those cold and twisted things, just so that one day I could stop and stay. Even though I didn’t know, and didn’t know that he planted such a winter sweet for me, he still planted it. He never told me how bitter and painful it was to pull out the roots and replant, he only wanted me to smile in the fragrance of the winter sweet, and always be the carefree boy. Over the years, he has blocked all my wind and rain, blocking himself in front of me, but he has never dared to expect that one day I can seriously respond to him. He loves with inferiority, loves hysterically, but is always worried about gains and losses, thinking carefully, it is I, the lover, who is not qualified enough. But this time I will never escape again.”

He raised his eyes to look at Zhao Lan, and when he cupped his hands to ask, the red thread on his wrist fell a section, it was a simple concentric knot. Zhao Lan did not see it on the day of the wedding banquet. Seeing it today, he was deeply moved.

“Ji An, that winter sweet flower has finally bloomed in your heart.”

Yu Shuli nodded earnestly: “The flowers are as beautiful as brocade, and will flourish forever.”

Zhao Lan was silent for a long time, and finally patted his shoulder with some pity, his voice hoarse: “I, grant your wish.”

“I accept the order!”