Twenty-five years ago, Xue Li was seventeen years old.
He was appointed by the will to become the seventh ruler of the Country of Blood Hades.
Xue Li's half-brother, Blood Eagle, refused to obey the will and led his men to rebel in an attempt to seize the palace. However, he was suppressed by the twelve blood horsemen.
Blood Eagle and his three sons who participated in the rebellion were beheaded in public.
Xue Li exiled a group of women to the border of Blood Hades to fend for themselves.
Xue Li, who succeeded the throne, devoted himself to the prosperity of the country and the peace of the people. He intended to restore Blood Hades to the prosperity and peace of Taizu's era.
Unexpectedly, Blood Eagle's eldest daughter, Xue Yan, took advantage of the fact that Blood Hades Palace was recruiting palace maids to sneak into Blood Hades Palace. She stole Xue Li's one-year-old son, Xue Zhan, and replaced him with a pure black civet cat.
It was a drama of swapping a civet cat for a crown prince.
When Xue Li and his wife, Fengruo, learned of this, they led their men to search the entire palace but could not find any trace of Xue Yan.
She seemed to have disappeared into thin air, taking Xue Zhan, who was still learning how to walk, with her.
Xue Li did not believe that a fourteen year old girl would be able to escape with a toddler in tow. Therefore, he sent more people to search the entire Blood Underworld Realm.
After half a year of searching, there was no news.
In desperation, his wife, Ruo Er, chose to leave the palace to escape the pain of losing her son.
Xue Li was worried that something would happen to her, but he could not leave because of the country's affairs and could not accompany her.
He could only send a group of guards to protect her secretly.
Unexpectedly, in Beiyan City, which bordered Blood Hades and Dahui, Ruo Er was captured by a few remnants of Blood Eagle.
Of the six shadow guards, three were dead and one was injured. The remaining two shadow guards closely followed the Empress's tracks while secretly sending a message to the Blood Hades Palace to report to Xue Li.
After Xue Li brought the twelve Blood Horsemen to the Northern Wild Goose Kingdom and met up with the Shadow Guards, he followed his wife's trail and entered the Dahui Kingdom's border until he reached a small town hundreds of miles away from Feng City, the capital of the Dahui Kingdom. Xue Li and the twelve Blood Horsemen were surrounded by the remnants of Blood Eagle. This was a trap that had been waiting for him for a long time, a trap that made him walk right into the trap.
Using his and the twelve Blood Horsemen's lives in exchange for his wife's life, which one was more important?
In order not to embarrass Xue Li, Fengruo decided to commit suicide by biting her tongue.
At this time, the remnants of Blood Eagle that surrounded Xue Li were killed by the sudden arrow formation. The remaining people that were holding Fengruo hostage were also stabbed in the back by an arrow and fell to the ground dead.
The situation was reversed. Xue Li led the twelve Blood Horsemen to rush out of the encirclement and rescue Fengruo.
The remnants of Blood Eagle were also completely annihilated.
The one who led the arrow team to save the situation was the Fifth Prince of the Dahui Kingdom, Li Wenxiu.
At that time, he was leading his subordinates to the Beilong Mountain to gain experience and inadvertently saved the Empress of the Kingdom of Blood Hades.
"This is the reason why the Blood Hades and the Dahui Kingdom formed a complementary aggression pact.
Li Wenxiu also used this opportunity to obtain the Emperor's position that he always wanted. "
Xue Li slowly finished talking about the past twenty-four years that was almost buried in his heart. He raised his head to look at the silent young man opposite him and added in a low voice.
"Cough …" Su Shuiche gently squeezed Lin Siyao, who had been holding her hands tightly. Seeing that he had no intention of speaking after listening to the past, she looked apologetically at Xue Li, who was full of anticipation, and coughed lightly, "You mean … Ah Yao, he …"
"He is my son who was lost for twenty-four years, the Crown Prince of the Blood Hades, Xue Zhan." Xue Li gave Su Shuiche a grateful look as he answered affirmatively.
Even though she somewhat guessed the intention of this man to tell such a long story, Su Shuiche still couldn't help but gasp when she heard him say Ah Yao's true identity.
God!
Kingdom of the Blood Hades … Crown Prince …
Could it be that she read too many books and was hallucinating?
She thought that her previous identity was shocking enough. Who would have thought that the husband who shared a bed with her was the crown prince of a kingdom … In the future, he would be …
God, she didn't dare to think any further.
None of this was what she wanted!
She only wanted to be with him in the quiet and fresh Flower Town and live a peaceful and carefree life like a farmer's wife.
"Ah Yao?" She felt him tighten his grip on her hands and looked up at him.
"I'm nothing … I'm not going anywhere …" Lin Siyao used an extremely indifferent tone to express his position.
He … he couldn't have heard her thoughts, right?
Otherwise … how could he respond so coincidentally?
"Ah Yao …" She didn't mean it like that.
There was clearly a chance for him to have the happiness and warmth of both his parents. She didn't have the right to take it away.
Moreover, she was his wife. She only wanted him to be happier and not to abandon the past for her.
That kind of him wouldn't necessarily be happy in the depths of his heart.
"I'm fine." Lin Siyao patted her hand and looked up at Xue Li, "Are you done?
Then let's go. "
Pulling Su Shuiche, Lin Siyao expressionlessly left the room.
"Ah Yao?" Su Shuiche called out in a low voice. He was angry. Why?
Shouldn't he be happy that he found his parents who had been separated from him for 24 years?
"You … what kind of attitude is this?
After being separated for so many years, your mother and I were always looking for your whereabouts. We finally found you, but you gave us the cold shoulder.
You … "Xue Li saw that his son didn't know what was good for him and couldn't help but raise his voice.
"Is that so?
It's easy for the ruler of a kingdom to find someone. You actually spent 24 years to find them?
Why didn't you just wait until they were dead? "Lin Siyao coldly retorted.
He had almost died.
Before he died, he didn't know that his biological parents were so glorious.
"You think we didn't try to find you?
Or we clearly knew your situation but didn't come to meet you? "Xue Li heard the questioning tone in Lin Siyao's voice and asked in disbelief.
"Isn't that so?
Don't you think your words are contradictory?
Humph!
The twelve blood horsemen guarding the Blood Hades Palace couldn't even find a woman and a babbling child. What a joke! "Lin Siyao sneered.
"You don't understand. The twelve blood horsemen guarding the palace started after this incident.
Before this, the twelve blood horsemen only protected the ruler.
Zhan 'er, no matter how you don't believe it, your mother and I have never stopped looking for you. This is a fact.
This time, if it weren't for the secret report from Dahui Langxi that there was an organization secretly imitating the twelve blood horsemen, I wouldn't have sent the blood horsemen dragon group to investigate and wouldn't have known about you.
Draconis, who fought with you, saw the purple blood mole behind your ear. That is the hereditary characteristic of the blood race's offspring.
Few people know about it. On the one hand, it is to prevent others from imitating. On the other hand, it involves the hereditary secret and can't be known to outsiders.
But because of this, we were separated for 24 years.
But all the secret guards and the twelve blood horsemen who were ordered to find you didn't know this characteristic. "
Xue Li saw that Lin Siyao was quietly listening to his explanation. He paused and continued, "I can only say that your past life was really too secretive.
Now that I think about it, it was also my negligence. I didn't look for the clue of the Jianghu organization, especially the assassins … I forgot to say, your eldest cousin sister Xue Yan, was found by my people twenty years ago. Her internal organs were already poisoned and she died a few days later.
That was because after she stole you, she found her conscience and gave you to a farmer instead of her master, Lei Ting, one of the rebels of the Blood Hades, so she was poisoned by Lei Ting himself.
Since then, I have been sending people to look for you in the direction of the farmer, but there was no news. "
Speaking of this, Xue Li sighed softly, "After your mother lost you, she washed her face with tears all day long … You don't believe it, right?
In the harem of the Blood Hades, I only have her.
No reason, I just don't want the future generation to have a tragedy like me and the Blood Eagle.
Unfortunately, for so many years, it's not that I didn't think about having another child, but your mother never got pregnant again.
Maybe it's God's punishment for me. Although I managed the Blood Hades well, the family relationship was a mess. Brother Shi lost your son … Ah … It's retribution … "
"I lived in the Yunluo Temple until I was eight years old, spent two years on the streets, spent one year in a teahouse, entered the Fengyao Pavilion when I was eleven, learned martial arts for two years, and killed for … ten years …" Lin Siyao indifferently recounted his past in a few short sentences.
Hearing this, Su Shuiche's heart ached.
That was a past that even she didn't know about.
Now that he had said it so casually in the tone of an outsider, her heart ached even more.
"Ah Yao …" She reached out and wrapped her arms around his waist, hoping to give him her warmth.
"… You've suffered …" Even though Xue Li could guess the suffering his son had to go through, hearing his brief description, he couldn't help but tremble.
He could imagine his son's hard life on the streets and the price he had to pay to become a gold medal assassin.
Growing up in the Imperial Palace, he couldn't understand it.
At this time, he would rather his son grow up in an ordinary family. Although his life was poor, he wouldn't have to go through so much suffering.
However, it was easy to say. When he was separated, he was only one year old. It wasn't easy for him to be taken in and not starve to death. How could he blame the people who took him in?
If he really wanted to blame someone, it would be his negligence.
It was his enmity with the Blood Eagle that harmed his son.
"Now, I'm very good.
I have a wife, a child, and I've completely left the assassin's life. You guys … just pretend you didn't find me. "
Lin Siyao looked straight at Xue Li. After saying this, he pulled Su Shuiche past Xue Li and walked towards the door.
Opening the door from the inside, the woman leaning against the pillar in front of the door was already crying.
"Zhan 'er … My son …" Fengruo sobbed.
But she didn't know how to express her longing.
She had heard every word of the conversation clearly.
She heard her son blaming them. From his resolute tone, she knew that her son wasn't willing to forgive them.
"Sorry, I'm Lin Siyao."
Lin Siyao glanced at her indifferently. After saying this, he took Su Shuiche back to his room.
It didn't matter if he was Xue Li's son or not.
Being an orphan for twenty-four years had already made him used to hiding his emotions.
When he was young, he thought about why his parents abandoned him. Perhaps it was because they died early, or because they couldn't afford to raise him … but he never thought that it was because of this.
Because of the enmity of the previous generation, he had been homeless for twenty-four years … wandering in the dark …
That was enough. The current him was strong enough to not need his parents anymore … not need them anymore …
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