The Prince Wants to Assassinate Me Every Day-Chapter 1040 - 631: Hard-Won Reunion, Deeper Wounds (Part 2)

Chapter 1040: Chapter 631: Hard-Won Reunion, Deeper Wounds (Part 2)

Bai Mowan was pondering.

Perhaps she should still feel grateful.

At least in her rebirth, she changed her family’s destiny.

She didn’t let her family be completely destroyed.

It just cost her and her brother’s lives.

Still, it was worth it.

Originally, her rebirth was for revenge, to protect the Bai Family completely.

Xiao Jinsen’s great enmity has been avenged.

The Bai Family has also been thoroughly safeguarded.

Now she suddenly thought, why not protect the Bai Family’s peace in Xiao Jinxing’s way?

Back then, the reason Xiao Jinsen wanted to destroy the Bai Family was because they held great power, overshadowing the ruler, something no monarch could tolerate.

This lifetime, Xiao Jinxing’s consideration was no different; it was because the Bai Family’s power was too great, so of course, he had to reclaim their military authority, and reclaiming it was actually protecting the Bai Family!

Even if this time it was due to An Ning that Xiao Jinxing wanted to reduce the Bai Family’s power, without An Ning, at the very moment Xiao Jinxing truly intended to preserve the Xiao dynasty, he would also act against the Bai Family’s influence.

She failed to understand this truth.

It was her arrogance, and her foolishness, that led her to truly defy Xiao Jinxing.

Which led to such an end.

Now she truly understood everything, and only after understanding did she realize she was merely a joke.

She had played a good hand badly.

Bai Mowan was filled with remorse.

The tears had never stopped, unbearably distressed.

Xiao Jinxing watched Bai Mowan’s breakdown with indifference.

It seemed, not as he had thought, that he couldn’t let her go.

Perhaps he had truly experienced too much, and his feelings for Bai Mowan had worn so thin, allowing him to be so calm.

Xiao Jinxing turned to leave.

"Brother Xing," Bai Mowan called out to him loudly.

Xiao Jinxing pursed his lips.

When she was young, Bai Mowan always called out to him crisply from behind.

At that time, in the whole world, it seemed like there was only her.

Her adorable innocence, pure and untainted, her smiling face always flushed with a rosy hue.

"Can you hug me?" Bai Mowan asked him.

She asked him deeply.

Xiao Jinxing remained silent, not turning around.

"In the end, I am going to die, I’ve committed such a sin, deserving of death, I’ve accepted it," Bai Mowan said heavily, "But before I die, can I really hug you? Like when we were young, without interests, without hatred..."

"No," Xiao Jinxing refused.

His indifferent voice was straight and cold.

"I just want to truly say goodbye to you. Seeing you today, the next time will be in the separation of life and death," Bai Mowan said with deep sadness, "Consider it my last wish, can I hug you one last time?"

Xiao Jinxing turned his head and told her word by word, "There’s no such thing as a last time, the last time was the previous time."

Bai Mowan was in unbearable pain.

Xiao Jinxing had truly pushed her far away.

Xiao Jinxing turned and walked away.

As he left, he threw down a sentence, "Since it’s put down, it’s completely put down. Between us, it’s a complete goodbye."

Bai Mowan looked through tearful eyes at Xiao Jinxing’s indifferent back, seeing him clad in the Dragon Robe, dignified and majestic.

She suddenly smiled, a smile of relief.

Being reborn, having completed her mission, was enough.

Being reborn, watching Xiao Jinxing ascend the throne and live a lifetime with his beloved was enough.

The years she had were but stolen time, now they too, should end.

...

Xiao Jinxing led his entourage out of the Heavenly Prison.

Just as he stepped outside.

He saw An Ning walking towards him.

So, to find him, to accuse him of his cruelty, she had come here.

The two stood two paces apart, looking at each other.

The space was quiet and tense.

Everyone around Xiao Jinxing and An Ning did not dare to breathe.

Song Yanqing also felt the oppressive tension in the atmosphere.

He even wondered if the Empress would lose her temper and slap the Emperor across the face.

He stayed silent, utterly respectful.

Just as Song Yanqing thought a confrontation was imminent... 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

The Empress walked right past the Emperor.

Without a word, without a tantrum, she just walked away.

Left coldly.

Song Yanqing even saw the Emperor’s hand move slightly, as if wanting to grasp the Empress.

Yet his fingers barely lifted before retracting.

He just silently watched as An Ning walked into the Heavenly Prison.

An Ning left.

Xiao Jinxing did not move for a long time.

Everyone could only stand there respectfully, awaiting the Emperor’s response.

After a long time.

Xiao Jinxing suddenly took a step forward.

"Your Majesty, won’t you wait for the Empress?" Song Yanqing asked.

There are still things that could be explained.

The Empress understands many things.

She’s just stubbornly unable to accept Gu Xingchuan’s death.

Xiao Jinxing strode ahead, saying, "Perhaps, someday, she’ll never come back."

It’s better not to expect it.

Better to get used to being alone sooner.

Song Yanqing watched the Emperor’s back.

Clearly aloof, tall, and dignified.

Such an invincible, powerful man, why did he see loneliness through the Emperor’s back?

As if.

The entire world had abandoned him.

As if it returned to the moment the Empress died five years ago, back to those five years without the Empress.

Song Yanqing sighed.

Clearly, they had longed for the Empress to be alive, longed for her to come back, yet it seemed to hurt even more.

...

Inside the Heavenly Prison.

An Ning walked to Gu Xingchuan’s cell.

Gu Xingchuan hadn’t looked up yet but had guessed it was An Ning.

He knew when he was about to die, she would definitely come.

Come to say goodbye to him.

He raised his eyes, and sure enough.

Saw her fair face.

It seemed he had already forgotten An Ning’s past appearance when she was still Ye Qichi.

Now, she finally seemed like her true self.

"Open the cell door," An Ning ordered.

Little Wu naturally did not dare to disobey.

He hurried to open it.

An Ning walked into the cell.

Gu Xingchuan looked at her, with a light smile.

Seeming to tell her, he wasn’t sad at all, he was even happy with this ending.

The more he comforted her this way, the more she felt distressed.

Actually, no one is unafraid of death.

She had died once before.

At the moment of death, perhaps for an instant, it felt like liberation.

But at the true moment of death, there was only overwhelming fear, and a strong desire to live.

She had died once, she knew too well the taste of death.

She knelt down, to be at the same height as Gu Xingchuan, and said, "I’m sorry, in the end, I still couldn’t save you."

"Actually, you knew it was impossible," Gu Xingchuan’s voice was gentle, even as he exposed her understanding, it never made her feel embarrassed.

An Ning bit her lip tightly.

She didn’t want to admit it.

"You were just forcing yourself not to give up, you were even afraid of giving up because once you did, I would truly be abandoned," Gu Xingchuan spoke An Ning’s thoughts clearly.