"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
"Did Minister Xi undergo any attack a day ago?"
Xi Ying had to try very hard to maintain his expression. His fists placed in his lap were clenched tightly as if they restless to strangle the man in front of him.
He remembered how those shadow guard looked crazy to take his wife's life …so crazy that they didn't even care for their own life.
"Yes, Your Majesty. This Minister had visited Li Manor yesterday with his wife. However, on our way back to Xi Manor, we were attacked by the few shadow guards. They were expert in the martial arts."
Inside his mind, Xi Ying was very curious exactly from where did the cunning Emperor wanted to go from this topic.
Will he say the next moment that it was him who had sent those shadow guards to kill his wife?
But it was also impossible. The Emperor clearly knew that he never supported the bloodshed in this battle of snatching power from each other's hands.