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EPISODE 109 MAKING LOVE TO THE SHADOWS
Zhao Juren's eyes did not blink looking at the Queen Mother.
"I have given him poison under the tongue. If he did not want to be tortured by the guards of Yan Yue by every inch of his bones, he would choose to swallow the tongue poison. If he dared to survive to open his voice, then he knew his entire family would be massacred in vain on his behalf."
That cruel speech sounded bitter from Zhao Juren's handsome thin lips, really very bitter.
She actually betrayed her little heart as she stood covering up all of the aunt's deeds.
Zhao Juren knew very well, her aunt had caused a lot of chaos but she did not know why, she was so attached to her aunt even though the aunt was struggling with evil.
In her devotion to Suri's mother, she loved her aunt and could not think if her aunt was punished despite what she had done.
"Don't I ever say, aunt. I'm not gonna mind anything that auntie's done inside the harem wall. I'm just asking auntie, don't touch Xiao Yi." Zhao Juren gulped down her saliva that felt stuck in the throat.
"She was just one of Yan Yue's worthless concubines, Juren!" The Queen Mother reminded loudly to Zhao Juren.
Zhao Juren averted her eyes, those red eyes were like they were clouded into the eyes of the buying mother with annoyance towards Zhao Juren's attitude.
"Don't ever call her aunty worthless again! No!"The red eyes bought big with a loud sound of fury snapped full of anger.
The Queen Mother was really surprised to see Zhao Juren's anger, she had never seen Zhao Juren so angry at her, even treating her like this, like losing her respect.
"Juren! Has your sanity been lost because of that woman? Has he used you, so that you have forgotten yourself?" The sneerful question whipped at Zhao Juren, disbelief still filling the mind of the queen mother.
Zhao Kuren approached two steps, her eyes clearly looking so red,
"Auntie, stop trying to harm Xiao Yi, because if aunt continues to do so, I cannot remain silent. I did not hesitate to defend her, even though I had to cut off all ties with aunt. Don't let me forget my aunt, who I consider my own mother. At the end of the day, Xiao Yi was injured, so I was able to slaughter all the inhabitants of the aunt's palace."The tone was laden with threat and was really no joke when it came out of Zhao Juren's mouth.
The Queen Mother was glued to where she was standing, staring at the child she had raised even she had been with him from her still red soles.
He knew in anger though, that Zhao Juren could not turn away from him. But now Zhao Juren was completely different from the person she was very familiar with.
Today he understood why earlier, inside Xingwu's guesthouse, healer Li Sung was more afraid of Zhao Juren than he was.
The Queen Mother took a few steps back, while her eyes were watching Zhao Juren intently.
He loved this child, as he loved himself, educating him with a million cunning affections. But he never took into account the power of love that could destroy the thread he had tied to his Zhao Juren.
"One day, you'll know why I did it all." Suri's mother said before she turned around to leave Zhao Juren's room.
Zhao Juren lowered her head with a sick heart, Xiao Yi's face shimmered like a rainbow in her eyes.
He was sitting on a wooden chair in his room. Her chest was completely claustrophobic as she said everything.
His hand pulled a shabby paper from under the sleeve of his robe, looking at him with a completely wounded heart.
"Why is loving you so hard, Xiao Yi? Even just wanting to see you smile from afar is so hard? Will love always be this heavy?" Zhao Juren said softly, her eyes feeling so sore, as she felt right now.
Opened slowly, the folds of shabby paper, which he always carried with him a blue chai kumala wherever he went, there seemed beautiful writing lined up neatly with ink that began to blur, and there was a beautiful writing,
...Seeing you......
...Like a high moon,...
...Your light is dim but enough for me to walk....
...Dry mouth like a twig,...
...want to let go of longing pieces....
...If only I had realized it from the beginning,...
...I won't be this scared....
...Walk towards you,...
...The closer I get, the more I understand,...
...Your love is the paradise I've been waiting for,...
...*Lotus wallowing in the mud,...
...but he never lost his beauty*....
...I am your lotus, no matter how long I bloom....
...Taking the moon into the morning,...
...I'm staying in the same place,...
...Write my heart to love you....
Xiao Yi - Chenxing^^^^
Zhao Juren looked at the shabby paper with nanar, she had always dreamed this Xiao Yi writing was really for her.
Unfortunately, the paper was only found months ago, in front of the walls of Chue Lian's palace, on the eve of the peak of the spring festival.
The sudden departure of Yan Yue who was in the middle of the party event in Guangli hall that night, naturally attracted Zhao Juren's curiosity.
And he could only be caught swallowing bitterness, standing like a thief behind the walls of Chue Lian, hearing His Majesty's affection with the girl he secretly loved, clutching under the Rongshu tree.
He knew the writing wasn't directed at him. Xiao Yi wrote it as an expression of his feelings to His Majesty but to Zhao Juren those words were his.
At the very least, he convinced himself, despite only making love to Xiao Yi's shadow.
Love does not choose to come to whom, even a warlord a great kingdom will be helpless if he stuck himself in his heart.
That bravery and might become paralyzed if love has tormented him.
...***...
The morning was about to arrive, Xiao Yi remained lying in his quarrel. Silence is not moving.
His eyes straight through the curtains above him that swayed slowly.
He remembered the cold face of His Majesty, laden with disappointment who tried to be ponderous but could not afford it.
Xiao Yi knew, this would all happen, as a consequence of his decision to hide his pregnancy from His Majesty.
But, she felt she had acted right, because the safety of the baby in her birth was more important than anything in this world.
A quarrel with a husband can happen but it will not be easy to make the heart and love turn away.
Slowly Your Majesty will realize, the thousand reasons behind this attitude of Xiao Yi.
As big as Zhao Juren's face played in his eyes, he almost believed it, the man so sincerely loved her that he was even willing to protect her under his own vows of love.
But, last night he realized, from the sight of healer Li Sung, Zhao Juren was involved in this evil plan. He so much made a suspicious trace for his whereabouts tonight, only the intent of everything Xiao Yi did not understand.
Is Zhao Juren slick the queen mother? or is it more cunning?
The question floats like a kiambang, though,
"Why, when I started to believe, that love I could count on to make us friends, turned out that he betrayed me.
I don't even know who else I can trust in this palace, other than His Majesty...." His face was soft on himself.
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