The Phoenix is Back - Chapter 172

Chapter 172 Scum Confession
After packing up, Xiao Xiwei went to the back hall of Chao An Temple.

Ever since Xizhi knew that the back hall of Chao An Temple held her mother’s reincarnation token, he had quietly moved Chen Clan’s token to a spot in front of him.

“Mother, my daughter has come to see you.” Looking at Chen’s tablet, Xiao Xiwei’s lips curled into a faint smile. She lowered her eyes and raised her hand to caress her protruding abdomen. “And your grandson. Mother, you’re going to be a grandmother.”

If only my mother were still alive.

Xiao Xi stood up slightly and slowly reached out to gently stroke Chen shi’s tablet.

Mother, if you are alive, you must ensure that Xizhi is safe and sound, and that we can safely survive this calamity.

“What a coincidence to see the princess again.” Behind him, Chu Yanzhi’s voice suddenly sounded.

Xiao Xiwei withdrew his hand and slowly turned around to bless the visitor.

Zi Yan bowed and supported Xiao Xiwei while smiling mockingly at Chu Yanzhi, “What a coincidence. How come our princess can meet your highness wherever she goes?”

“Perhaps this is fate.” Chu Yanzhi looked at Xiao Xiwei and smiled.

Xiao Xiwei slowly raised his head. His eyes were like motionless waves of water, without the slightest ripple.

Fate? She and Chu Yanzhi? Even if they still had fate in this life, it would still be a bad fate.

“If Your Highness does not have any other instructions, then this concubine will have to go and visit Mother Concubine.” Xiao Xiwei’s voice was extremely cold. As soon as she finished speaking, she helped Zi Yan to leave.

“Your Highness went to visit Abbess Hui Shi who is not in her room.” Behind him, Chu Yanzhi’s voice sounded.

Xiao Xi remained silent and continued to walk out of the door.

“Xi Wei, let’s talk. It’s just you and me.” Chu Yanzhi’s voice continued to ring.

Xiao Xiwei stopped. A moment later, she turned around and coldly looked at Chu Yanzhi, “What does Your Highness want to talk about?”

“Princess.” Seeing that Xiao Xiwei seemed to be about to agree to Chu Yanzhi, Zi Yan frowned slightly and tugged at the corner of her sleeve worriedly.

Xiao Xiwei did not move, only coldly looking into Chu Yanzhi’s eyes.

A smile slowly crept up from the corner of his lips.

“I heard that the scenery of the Marriage Pool is pretty good. Why don’t I accompany the princess there for a walk?” Chu Yanzhi smiled.

Marriage pool.

Xiao Xiwei raised his eyebrows slightly. Looking at the smile on Chu Yanzhi’s lips, he remembered that he had repeatedly said that he wanted to give her a new choice …

Could it be that he really liked her?

She looked at Chu Yanzhi and slowly lowered her eyes to hide the cold mockery in her eyes.

How ridiculous. In her previous life, she had treated him wholeheartedly, wishing she could tear her heart out for him, but he was so disdainful that he burned everything about her, including her life, with a big fire in the end. But now, he had reincarnated her with the hatred of his previous life, and he had actually fallen in love with her …

For someone like Chu Yanzhi, what he couldn’t obtain was always the best, just like Xiao Xile in his previous life. Because he didn’t obtain it, he cherished it all.

It was already evening, and the afterglow of the setting sun shattered on the quiet surface of the pool. Every step he took, countless rays of light flowed. Adding on the lush pine trees by the pool, the scenery was really very pleasant.

“This king remembers that the last time I met you in this marriage pool, you were standing in this position.” Chu Yanzhi pointed to where he was standing and said, “I still remember that you were wearing a silver dress embroidered with magnolia flowers.”

Xiao Xiwei’s slender eyelashes moved, and the corner of his mouth curved into a faint smile. “I also remember when my sister pulled His Highness’s hand and asked if you came to the Marriage Pool to seek marriage.”

Chu Yanzhi frowned slightly. Just as he was about to speak, Xiao Xiwei’s voice sounded again.

“Your Highness, do you still remember your sister?” Xiao Xi looked up at Chu Yanzhi’s eyes quietly and said.

Chu Yanzhi slightly narrowed his eyes and then curled the corners of his lips. “I heard that Third Miss Xiao has diarrhea, so I was sent to the country manor by Lord Xiao. I heard that she died of illness a few months ago.”

“Dysentery?” Xiao Xi raised his eyebrows slightly, and the corner of his lips curved into a cold smile. “Does Your Highness really think so?”

“Otherwise?” Chu Yanzhi raised his eyebrows and asked.

Yeah. Otherwise? To Chu Yanzhi, Xiao Xile was only a chess piece. When this chess piece was useless, it should naturally be abandoned.

“Your Highness is not sad at all? Sister is your unmarried wife.” Xiao Xiwei smiled as he looked at Chu Yanzhi.

A faint smile gradually condensed at the corner of Chu Yanzhi’s mouth. His ink eyes stared at Xiao Xiwei motionlessly, “Then, the princess? Is the princess sad? Compared to my empty and famous’fiance ‘, the princess is her biological sister.”

“For those who want me dead, no matter how miserable her final outcome is, I will not be sad.” Xiao Xiwei looked at Chu Yanzhi, and a deathly cold gathered in his originally indifferent eyes.

At this moment, Chu Yanzhi felt his chest tighten, and his cheeks seemed to be ruthlessly blown by the wind with a steel saber in it. He felt a chill in his heart for some reason. He wanted to explain, but he found that he didn’t say anything.

“Xiwei …”

“Your Highness, call me Princess Yan.” Xiao Xiwei stared at Chu Yanzhi and spoke in the same voice as her eyes at this moment, carrying a dense chill. “Unexpectedly, not everyone can call me by my name.”

Chu Yanzhi’s pitch-black eyes sank.

It turned out that after taking so many turns, she still mercilessly rejected him in the end.

He gave her so many opportunities, but she still chose to push him away.

Why?

How could he be inferior to Chu Xizhi?

A faint flame burned in his chest, causing his chest to feel a faint perm pain.

“Presumably, Your Highness doesn’t have anything to talk to me about now. Since that’s the case, then I’ll take a step forward.” As Xiao Xiwei spoke, he indifferently withdrew his gaze and turned towards Chu Yanzhi Fu. He turned around and prepared to leave, but she had just taken two steps when someone forcefully gripped her right hand.

“What exactly do you hate about me?”

If it was said that it was because his birth and momentum were inferior to Chu Xizhi’s, but now, he was already above all the princes of Ling Yue and would even be crowned as the Crown Prince in a few days. In the future, he would be ranked in the Ninth Five-Year Plan, but why would she refuse him again and again?

He really didn’t understand.

Xiao Xiwei turned around, his indifferent eyes shining with a cold light. She looked coldly at Chu Yanzhi, a cold and mocking smile appearing on the corner of her lips. “Then what exactly does His Highness like about me?” Without waiting for Chu Yanzhi’s reply, she continued, “Do you like my appearance? But Xiao Xile’s appearance is not necessarily worse than mine? Or do you like me to have some intelligence, but there are also many intelligent women in this world? So, what does Your Highness like about me?” At this point, Xiao Xiwei pulled out Chu Yanzhi’s hand and the corner of his lips curled into a mocking smile. “I like my status as the first daughter of the brave Marquis Mansion, but Xiao Xile is also the first daughter of the brave Marquis Mansion. She was even more favored by my father at that time. Since that’s the case, the only possibility is that … I have the richest uncle in Jiangnan.” “Your Highness, the ‘Hero Saving Beauty’ incident at Chao An Temple must have been your plan, but unfortunately …”

Unfortunately, he had caught the wrong person by mistake.

Chu Yanzhi felt slightly embarrassed when Xiao Xiwei exposed his thoughts. However, he quickly explained, “That was only the past. Xiwei, I do not deny that approaching you back then was exactly what you said, but afterwards … I really fell in love with you.”

This sentence had been suppressed in his heart for a long time, so long that it sprouted in his heart, and even quietly grew into a towering tree when he was unaware of it.

Lu Haiyang once said that he was too persistent towards her, but in fact, not only was he persistent, he had already entered the demon realm.

“Xi Wei, I’ve never liked anyone before. However, the moment I saw you, I felt that you should be mine.” Chu Yanzhi looked at Xiao Xiwei, his eyes revealing a gentle and longing that he had never seen before. The smile at the corner of his mouth was exceptionally bright under the afterglow of the evening sun.

I wonder if Xiao Xile from his previous life has seen his current expression?

This thought suddenly flashed through Xiao Xiwei’s mind. Thinking of this, the corners of her lips curled into a smile.

“Xiwei …”

He spoke of the deep love in his heart, and he was eager to get her reply.

“The weather on the mountain is cold. Could it be that His Highness has a fever and is spouting nonsense?” Xiao Xiwei smiled sweetly at the ripples in the marriage pool. In an instant, it was as if the ice and snow had melted and a hundred flowers were blooming. In an instant, it was so dazzling that one couldn’t move their eyes away. However, what she said was like a sharp dagger that mercilessly pierced through his imagination.

In an instant, anger, humiliation, jealousy, hatred … All of his thoughts mixed together, forming a black undercurrent in his eyes as his veins flowed down.

‘”Do you think his purpose in marrying you was simple? People around the imperial power don’t have some selfishness in their love! Xiwei, I can give you anything that he, Chu Xizhi, can give you. I can even give you more and better than him. I can even give you the position of empress. Do you believe me?” Chu Yanzhi gritted his teeth and said.

Even though every time she refused, it was like a dagger piercing through his chest, he still couldn’t let go of it.

In her dream, she smiled at him so sweetly and so softly, and the ripples in her eyes sucked him in like a whirlpool. That feeling was so real, as if it had really existed before. But when he woke up and saw this face, there was only a deep indifference.

Xiao Xiwei looked at Chu Yanzhi’s earnest face and suddenly chuckled. He slowly lowered his eyes.

She did.

Of course she does.

Didn’t he bring her to the throne of empress back then, but after that? When his throne was firmly seated, when she was useless, the only thing waiting for her was that heartless fire.

“Xiwei, are you refusing to turn around because he’s still alive?” Looking at the sarcastic smile on Xiao Xiwei’s lips, Chu Yanzhi’s face gradually sank, and his pitch-black eyes faintly flashed with killing intent.

Xiao Xiwei was stunned for a moment, and then a light flashed across her eyes. She took a step forward and grabbed onto the corner of Chu Yanzhi’s sleeve. Her voice carried an uncontrollable excitement and joy, “What did you say? You said that Xizhi is still alive?”