"So what if my destiny does not have her. My heart is still filled with her and no one can empty it, not even me." ------------ I despised her. I despised how she schemed to get married to me. I despised her because of her arrogance. " Li Rui, you don't know how many times I have wished to kill you. " But all of this was my illusion. Everything was a mysterious trap of lies. A trap that was laid to trap me. "Rui, I want to protect you from this whole world. I will not ask you to love me.....just don't hate me. Hmm...." --------------- [This is an original story] Buy me a Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/ada_5253 My other book on Webnovel - CEO He: Please Don't Love Me (Ongoing
The Imperial chambers were silent.
Zhao Wang Lei's face didn't have any emotion but inside his heart, he was thinking about what should he say to Xi Ying. He couldn't let Zhao Zhuang Chen's reputation go lower than it already was.
After all, after him, he wanted him to ascend the throne.
Only then he would still be able to have some power over Xin and achieve what he always wanted to have.
To have Yi Jie by his side, he would need power even after he would leave the throne, and that power…he would only be able to get if Zhao Zhuang Chen, who didn't have any mind, would ascend the throne.
The throne would belong to him but it would be his mind that would be working behind him because, by that time, he would have killed Xi Ying…the only person who could see behind these schemes of his.