The Phoenix is Back - Chapter 181

Chapter 181 Discovered Killing Intent
The next morning, Chu Muzhi, who had heard that Xiao Xiwei had given birth prematurely, rushed to Chao An Temple.

“Sister-in-law, what’s going on?” When Chu Muzhi stepped into the room, he didn’t even care about the snowflakes on his cloak and anxiously said to Xiao Xi.

Xiao Xi leaned against the pillow, covered in a thick brocade quilt, with a bright red Zhaojun condom on her head. Her face was white and transparent, and her originally rosy lips were now completely bloodless. She had lost a whole circle of weight.

“Why are you here on this snowy day?” Xiao Xiwei looked at Chu Muzhi and smiled faintly.

As Chu Muzhi untied the stone-green cloak from his body and handed it to Zi Yan, he sat down at the mahogany stool brought over by Hong Yu and said, “Can I not come? How could something like this happen after I’ve only left for so long?” At this point, Chu Muzhi raised his eyebrows and leaned over to look at Xiao Xiwei. He gritted his teeth and whispered, “Is it him?”

Xiao Xiwei’s slender eyelashes moved. She lowered her head and quietly stroked the scarlet golden silk bracelet in her hand. She did not speak for a long time.

After her accident, Chu Yanzhi swiftly killed Tea Fragrance and Tea Leaf and immediately sent Nurse An down the mountain. If such a reaction was said to have nothing to do with him, even Chu Yanzhi would not believe it. However … at this moment, she suspected that it was indeed another matter.

Duer took her pulse and said she was poisoned. At that time, she and Imperial Concubine Yan thought that Duer had said that the poisoning was due to the tea fragrance added to the water that night when she was bathing, causing her to faint and give birth prematurely. However, when she told Hongyu everything that had happened when she had difficulty giving birth yesterday, she suddenly thought of another possibility. Perhaps, she did do something in the bath water, but thinking about it, this method was a bit risky. What if Ye Hongyu and Zi Yan were by her side?

“Mu Zhi, did you encounter anyone on your way when Du Er handed the pill over to you and asked you to bring it to me?” Xiao Xi looked up at Chu Muzhi’s eyes quietly and said.

Chu Mu was stunned and immediately reacted, “Sister-in-law, do you suspect that there is something wrong with that pill?”

Xiao Xiwei’s expression subsided, and his slender eyebrows couldn’t help but feel raised.

If there wasn’t a problem with the pill, Du Er would definitely not have said that.

Seeing Xiao Xiwei’s expression, Chu Muzhi pondered for a moment. Suddenly, he jumped up from the table and said, “Lu Haiyang.” Seeing Xiao Xiwei look at him, he hurriedly explained, “I happened to meet Lu Haiyang when I left the palace that day. It must be him, it must be him!”

At that time, he inexplicably bumped into him. It seemed that he had taken advantage of that time to exchange for the pills Du Er had given him. Thinking of this, Chu Yanzhi’s heart suddenly surged with a strong sense of guilt.

“Imperial Sister-in-law, I… I’m really sorry.” As Chu Muzhi spoke, he raised his hand and slapped himself fiercely.

If it wasn’t for his carelessness, how could Lu Haiyang take advantage of this opportunity?

Xiao Xiwei was shocked by the crisp voice.

“Mu Zhi, what are you doing?” She hurriedly sat up. She had no choice but to look at Chu Muzhi anxiously and angrily because she had suffered severe damage to her vitality during this difficult labor. She really did not have the strength.

Chu Muzhi lowered his head and gritted his teeth. The guilt in his heart merged into a dark river that almost engulfed him. “Imperial Sister-in-law, I’m sorry for you, and I’m sorry for Seventh Brother …”

He really didn’t dare to imagine what kind of face he would use to meet Seventh Brother if something really happened to her because of his carelessness. He was afraid that even if he died, it would be hard to atone for it.

“Your Highness, don’t you feel even more sad when you say that? How can you be blamed for this? If you want to blame it, blame those scheming villains.” Zi Yan cursed resentfully as she knitted her eyebrows.

Chu Muzhi lowered his head and remained silent. However, he could still see the guilt and entanglement in his heart from his tightly clenched hands.

Xiao Xi looked at his appearance and felt regret in her heart.

If she had known this, she shouldn’t have mentioned anything about pills in front of him just now.

“Has Your Highness gone to pay his respects to Your Highness?” At this moment, Hong Yu, who had been standing beside Xiao Xiwei, said gently.

Chu Mu was stunned. He raised his head and saw Hong Yu’s pair of gentle and tranquil eyes. They were like the quiet night sky in spring night. They were clean and gentle, encompassing everything …

At that moment, it was as if a string had been gently played in his heart.

Hong Yu tilted her body slightly towards Chu Mu’s blessing. “Then, I suppose Your Highness has never seen Your Highness before, right?”

“Yes.” Subconsciously, Chu Muzhi replied, his gaze falling on Hong Yu for a long time.

Hongyu was somewhat confused by his gaze.

Originally, she was only afraid that the princess and Qin Wang would be embarrassed, so, who would have thought that the Qin King would stare at her like this if she wanted to change the topic?

Sensing Hong Yu’s dodging gaze, Chu Mu suddenly regained his senses. He bowed to Xiao Xiwei and said, “Imperial Sister-in-law, then I won’t try to get you to rest.”

Xiao Xi nodded slightly at him.

Chu Muzhi pursed his lips and turned around to leave, not wanting Chu Yanzhi to come in from outside.

“Why is eighth brother here?”

One of Chu Yanzhi’s black robes carried a chilling chill as he looked at Chu Yanzhi with an indiscernible darkness in his eyes.

Chu Muzhi curled his lips and smiled as he looked at Chu Yanzhi. “I heard that Seventh Emperor Sister-in-law gave birth to a rare child, so I came here to take a look. I wonder where Fourth Emperor Brother is calling from?”

“Don’t you know, eighth brother?” Chu Yanzhi looked at Chu Muzhi and raised his eyebrows.

On the night that Xiao Xiwei had difficulty giving birth, his spies in Chao An Temple suddenly found traces of suspicious people in the woods ten miles away from Chao An Temple. Following a fierce battle, two of them were finally captured alive last night. These two people were King Yan Chu Yanzhi’s secret guards. He interrogated him all night and used all kinds of criminal laws, but those people clenched their teeth and didn’t reveal anything.

He faintly felt that these few hidden guards might have something to do with Chu Muzhi in front of him.

“What are you talking about, Fourth Emperor Brother? I don’t have the ability to predict. How can I know where Fourth Emperor Brother is coming from?” Chu Muzhi said with a calm expression.

Chu Yanzhi suddenly smiled. His smile was full of kindness. It seemed that there was also a bit of the elegant king’s wind color that had been praised in the past. However, Chu Muzhi knew that there were countless terrifying schemes hidden beneath the surface of this kindness.

“That’s right. Eighth brother is not Zhuge Kongming, so how can he not know? Actually, it’s nothing. He just caught a few little thieves last night.”

Chu Muzhi smiled and his gaze did not fluctuate. “So that’s the case. Fourth Emperor Brother, I still have to go pay my respects to Mother Concubine and look at Tian Ye. If Fourth Emperor Brother has nothing else to do, let me leave first.” After saying that, he nodded slightly at Chu Yanzhi and then turned around and walked out.

After Chu Mu left, Chu Yanzhi gathered his thoughts and cast his gaze at Xiao Xiwei.

Xiao Xiwei, who was still talking to Chu Muzhi before Chu Yanzhi came in, was already lying down, and her back was facing Chu Yanzhi.

Chu Yanzhi didn’t care either. He just waved his hand and took an exquisite brocade box from the attendant’s hand and handed it to Hong Yu, who was standing beside the bed. “This is snow ginseng. You can cook it for the princess later.”

Before Hongyu could reach out to pick it up, the purple smoke beside her could no longer restrain itself. “Your Highness, it’s better to put away your things. Our princess can’t bear your things.”

Chu Yanzhi’s slender and long eyes suddenly flashed with a trace of a killer. The brocade box in his hand suddenly moved, and with a cold killing intent, it directly hit Zi Yan’s eyebrows. Zi Yan was shocked. He moved to the side and raised his hand to chop Chu Yanzhi’s bowl. Unexpectedly, Chu Yanzhi’s hand holding the brocade box suddenly retracted. In the blink of an eye, he could not see his movements clearly. His right hand had already grabbed Zi Yan’s wrist. At the same time, he raised his toes and the brocade box that had just fallen flew into the air, landing firmly on his left hand. All of this happened in an instant. Zi Yan was enraged. She bent down to avoid Chu Yan’s restraint. She did not want to, but someone kicked her knee fiercely. Her entire body was kicked to the ground. Immediately after, she heard a loud’pa ‘sound. It was the sound of her wrist dislocating.

“Did Your Highness come here specifically to teach me a lesson?” Xiao Xiwei had already sat up at this moment, and traces of hatred burst out from her cold eyes. Her gaze seemed to be about to devour Chu Yanzhi alive.

“What’s the use of keeping such a useless girl?” Chu Yanzhi’s expression was gloomy, and his slender eyes were filled with fierce killing intent.

He had already tolerated enough of this girl who had been acting so presumptuously in front of him over and over again.

“Indeed, purple smoke is indeed useless.” Xiao Xi smiled coldly following Chu Yanzhi’s words.

Zi Yan was shocked. She endured the intense pain on her wrist and raised her head to look at Xiao Xiwei hurriedly. “Princess …”

“If she listened to His Highness like the two girls, Tea Fragrance and Tea Leaf, then why would His Highness work so hard to deal with her?” Xiao Xiwei said coldly as he looked at Chu Yanzhi.

Chu Yanzhi did not move. He looked at Xiao Xiwei with emotions that even he himself could not identify. “Xiwei, I did not intend to hurt you. This incident was an accident.”

“Accident? Where are the tea fragrance and tea leaves? And who was the person who was suddenly sent down the mountain by His Highness?” Xiao Xiwei’s eyes stared at Chu Yanzhi with resentment. Those eyes seemed to ignite two clusters of flames, vowing to burn Chu Yanzhi to ashes.

Her chest felt a burst of pain from the fire in her eyes, but after the pain, waves of anger and resentment immediately surged up.

He could actually explain, but he didn’t, because she didn’t mean to listen to him. In her heart, no matter what he did for her, she would not be able to see it. She only had Chu Xizhi in her eyes. In her eyes, Xiao Xiwei, he, Chu Yanzhi, was like a lowly and disgusting ant. No matter how much he tried to please her and cherish her, she would always trample him under her feet again and again …

“Is that so? No matter what I do, I won’t be able to get your heart.” Finally, Chu Yanzhi stared into Xiao Xiwei’s eyes and slowly spoke.

Xiao Xiwei’s lips suddenly curved into a clear arc. At the same time, her clear eyes were filled with cold sarcasm and disgust, “Do you think you’re worthy?”

Do you think you deserve it?

Do you think you deserve it?

Do you think you deserve it?

Countless voices kept repeating these words in his ears.

It was as if someone was holding a cold dagger and constantly stabbing him in the heart. He pulled it out and stabbed it down again and again. Countless red blood gushed out from those invisible wounds, causing him to twitch in pain.

The most terrifying thing was that the person holding the dagger was the woman he loved.

He cut out his own heart and gave it to her. She just disdained it, but now she still wanted to throw his heart to the ground and trample on it ruthlessly.

Xiao Xiwei!

Do you really think I don’t dare to kill you?

At this moment, countless resentment and hatred in his eyes spread out in an instant. Finally, a sharp killing intent gathered in his eyes. Subconsciously, he slowly raised his hand that was hanging by his side …