"How … how is this possible?"
Fairy Qing Luo was dumbfounded as she stared blankly at Di Shi. Her face was filled with terror.
"Do you really think that I like the position of Emperor so much?"
Di Shi looked sadly at Qing Luo, his eyes filled with indescribable sorrow and disappointment. "If I really wanted to be the Emperor, then Di Liu would not have had the chance to obtain the Immortal Fate. After all … he is four hundred years younger than me. But I really don't like cultivation, and I don't like the feeling of living like a log despite having an endless lifespan. In this world, every flower, every blade of grass, every insect, every butterfly, everything is more agile than Immortals, they are freer than Immortals. They can go anywhere, but they don't have to be like Immortals, immersed in endless cultivation, or fighting for resources without any freedom …"
"Perhaps, if nothing unexpected happened, I would have been like Fourth Brother, hiding in a remote place and drinking all day …"
"But after Second Brother was killed by the Heavenly Demon and Di Liu disappeared, I still pulled myself together and put down my brush. I inherited the Immortal Fate bestowed upon me by Father and became the Emperor in his eyes. Do you really think that I like this identity?"
His bitter laughter even made Di Shi feel suffocated, as he coughed out blood. However, he wiped the blood off his face with his hand and continued, "I just … I couldn't stand seeing you and Di Liu together. He was such an arrogant man, and he would never be nice to anyone, including us brothers, including you. Back then, I really didn't understand why you were with him every day, being scolded and scolded by him, and had to carefully comfort him, but never taking a glance at me."
"Later, I thought that maybe you liked the Crown Prince, so I became the Crown Prince!"
A trace of coldness gradually appeared on Di Shi's face. "And after I became the Emperor, as expected, you appeared in front of me again. When I comforted you, you were also willing to look at me. Those were truly the happiest days of my life, but I could still sense the dissatisfaction in your heart. Every day, you saw how weak my cultivation was, and every time you saw how crude my abilities were … It was also at that time that I heard other people's discussions. They all said that my cultivation was too low, that I was not worthy of the position of Emperor. Especially when Father was constantly fighting, it was better not to have a Emperor like me. If Di Liu came back, at least …"
"... I was worried that Di Liu would come back and take everything away from me, so I desperately cultivated, desperately tried to increase my strength. Even after a thousand years, I couldn't see you even once. I thought that in order to become a Emperor even stronger than Di Liu, I didn't want you to always look at me so cautiously and vigilantly. I hoped that you could look at me like you did when you were twenty …"
"But I … worked hard for a thousand years, but I still didn't see that kind of gaze …"
Di Shi's expression gradually became extremely pained. "I don't know if I'm too sensitive, or if you're still thinking about Di Liu. I can tolerate everything about you, and I've done many things that Di Liu couldn't do, but you still look at me like that. Every time you smile in front of me, I can feel that you're acting for me. You smile at me, you're angry at me, it's like you're doing it on purpose. This kind of feeling … really, really makes me distressed …"
With every sentence he said, Fairy Qing Luo's expression became even more incredulous. She clutched her chest tightly.
"But you … how could you …"
"My heart has never changed …" Di Shi's eyes were filled with helplessness.
"When Di Liu came back, I was even more panicked than you. I wasn't afraid that he would take everything away, but I was afraid that you would return to his side, until …" At this point, he let out a long sigh, gently shook his head and continued, "Until you came to find me in the foreign battleground and persuaded him to kill him, I finally felt relieved. You don't know how happy I was at that time. At that time, you helped me analyze, saying that I had too many reasons to kill him, but I didn't care about those reasons … I also told you that I would kill him because I had a reason, and that reason …"
He raised his head, looking at Fairy Qing Luo, his eyes filled with sorrow, "... was you!"
"Impossible …"
Fairy Qing Luo suddenly screamed, stepping back in fright, shaking her head hard. After a long while, she seemed to have discovered a flaw in Di Shi's words. She suddenly laughed coldly and said, "Don't try to fool me with these words of coaxing a little girl. Do you really think I would believe you? This is impossible. If it was true, why didn't you tell me earlier? "
"Tell you?"
Di Shi showed a bitter smile and said, "Tell you what?"
"Tell me your feelings …"
Fairy Qing Luo said casually, but she only said half of her sentence before falling silent.
She recalled that Di Shi had indeed said that although he was not good at expressing himself, and would not cling to her, he had indeed expressed his feelings to her a few times. He had said that he had liked her for a long time, and that it was the luckiest thing in his life for her to be by his side. There were a few times when he had said these things to her, and she had almost believed him …
But every time she thought of his intelligence, his strategies, she did not dare to believe him …
As for whether Emperor Shi had ever been nice to her?
Even Qing Luo herself could not remember when Di Shi had treated her badly. As long as she went to see him, no matter if he was in closed-door training or not, he would never refuse to see her. Even if he broke out of closed-door training, he would come out to see her. Even if he was in another world, he would definitely come to see her. Whatever treasures he had, whatever good things, he would always ask someone to send them to her. However, the more he did this, the more uncertain she felt …
Because she always felt that she could not see through Di Shi!
Di Shi was a very smart person. The closer she was to him, the more she felt that his thoughts were as meticulous as the sea!
However, such a smart person, every time he treated her well, she always felt that there was a deeper meaning behind it …
Every time she tried to probe him, he would look at her with a gaze that seemed to know everything, and just smile.
He had never blamed her, no matter what she had done!
But she always thought, if he did not have other intentions, why would he be so lenient towards her?
All of this, compared to what Di Shi had just said, why did it seem so absurd?
Fairy Qing Luo's eyes were extremely complicated, and her heart was even more complicated. She could not understand. If what Di Shi said was true, then what kind of joke would she and Di Shi become? She was one of the Ten Great Female Immortals of the Thirty-three Heavens, not because of her cultivation or appearance, but because of her intelligence and strategies. Di Shi was the same. After he replaced Di Liu as the Emperor, he spent most of his time cultivating, but the few times he made a move, he was always incomparably clever. People said that he had the sun and the moon in his palm …
But could it be that such a smart person had made the biggest mistake in the world?
"Before, I was obsessed with painting, and did not want to get involved in politics and killing. However, after I put down my brush, I found that it was not difficult to understand the politics and cultivation that others had always kept a secret. As long as I deconstructed their personalities like painting, I would naturally know where to start … So, when I calculated everything, people said that I had the sun and the moon in my palm, that I could control everything …"
Di Shi looked at Fairy Qing Luo's dazed face and shook his head lightly. "But I really did not use it on you!"
"Everything I've done to you, I've done it from the bottom of my heart …"
Speaking up to this point, the power vibration released from his body had become extremely weak. He started coughing heavily for a few times in a row. His hands were covered in blood. His eyes were already a bit red, seeming extremely haggard. "Qing Luo, don't you believe me?"
"I … I …"
Fairy Qing Luo's voice trembled.
Boom!
But before she could say anything, the Fairy boat suddenly shook, as if it had been heavily struck by someone outside. Fairy Qing Luo's cultivation was so shocked that she almost tripped and fell. The words that she wanted to say were thrown to the back of her mind.
"Di Shi, why are you still hiding inside at this time?"
Di Liu's voice rang out from outside. "Hurry up and come out!"
Boom!
As his voice fell, the Fairy boat was struck again, and it shook heavily.
"We …"
Fairy Qing Luo's face alternated between green and white. She knew that although this Fairy boat was specially made and had countless restrictions around it that could withstand an attack from a Perfected Golden Immortal, it would shatter sooner or later if it continued to be attacked like this. She could not help but recall what Di Liu had once said to her. "You know that this is the last time I will spare your life, right?"
She could not help but look at the ground.
But the Hundred Demon Painting had already been torn to pieces by her, and she had even burned it to ashes with fire.
She looked at Di Shi again. He was already extremely weak, and his eyes were dim. How could he continue to protect his own life?
"Go, beg him for mercy, ask him to spare your life!"
Di Shi could not help but sigh as he looked at Fairy Qing Luo's panic-stricken face.
"How … how could he spare me?"
Fairy Qing Luo cried out, her voice somewhat shrill.
"He will!"
Di Shi seemed extremely calm at this time, and he only shook his head lightly. "I left behind a back-up plan in Tian Yuan that will be very useful. Di Liu will definitely want to know what it is. If you use this secret to exchange, he will definitely spare you …"
"Really?"
Fairy Qing Luo's eyes lit up when she heard this.
Di Shi sighed softly, and he sent a strand of divine sense into Fairy Qing Luo's mind. Fairy Qing Luo's face immediately lit up with joy.
"Big brother Di Shi, I've wronged you for so many years …"
Fairy Qing Luo suddenly looked at Di Shi, and when she saw the disappointment on his face, she seemed to be unable to bear it. She hurriedly walked up to Di Shi, and slowly squatted down. She held his face with both hands, and looked straight into his eyes. She said tenderly, "Big brother Di Shi, I believe everything you say. I believe that you have always been good to me, and I am truly grateful to you …"
"… but don't blame me if I do something at this time!"
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
