The Prince Wants to Assassinate Me Every Day-Chapter 782 - 368 Gu Xingchuan’s Grief (Part 1)

All civil and military officials knelt and performed the ritual greetings to welcome Xiao Jinxing back victorious from battle, their presence magnificent.

Xiao Jinxing said only, "Please rise."

Then, he seemed to glance at Gu Xingchuan, who was kneeling on the ground.

He walked into the Imperial Palace.

Having exchanged pleasantries with all the civil and military officials.

Xiao Jinxing returned to his sleeping quarters.

Xiao Hezhen, Wu Xufan, Gu Xingchuan, Song Yanqing, and others, naturally including the young attendant, all followed him closely.

Xie Ruotong accompanied the procession at the court and then left the Imperial Palace.

In the grand hall.

"Big brother, you’re finally back," Xiao Hezhen couldn’t help but exclaim in excitement.

From now on, she wouldn’t have to exhaust herself like this.

Xiao Jinxing responded with a sound.

"You won’t leave again now that you’re back, will you?" Xiao Hezhen asked expectantly.

"Hmm."

"That’s great," Xiao Hezhen said with undisguised relief, "I’m going to pack my things and leave the Imperial Palace right away."

Xiao Jinxing glanced at Xiao Hezhen.

He chose to tacitly consent.

Xiao Hezhen always felt something was off with her brother today.

Just now, as he dealt with the civil and military officials, it seemed as though he was indifferent to everyone’s flattery.

He simply numbly accepted the homage of the officials.

Xiao Hezhen thought it must be because her brother was too tired, having just won a battle and then journeyed here, leading to his lack of energy.

"Brother, if you are tired, go rest for a while. The palace affairs can wait; they can be dealt with tomorrow," Xiao Hezhen said considerately, and after a pause, as if suddenly remembering something, she asked, "Right, where is my sister-in-law? Why didn’t she come back with you? She didn’t want to enter the palace with you, did she?"

With that phrase from Xiao Hezhen.

All the people in the grand hall showed an obvious emotional fluctuation.

Wu Xufan also wanted to ask, but Xiao Hezhen had been talking incessantly, and he couldn’t get a word in.

Gu Xingchuan also wanted to know where Ye Qichi had gone.

However, due to the sovereign-subject relationship, he dared not ask rashly.

Song Yanqing looked sideways at Xiao Jinxing.

Watching his indifferent face, as if there was a touch of emotion, and yet as if it was an illusion.

Song Yanqing was pondering.

Could it be that the Prince could only live his life in a way that suppressed his emotions, not daring to reveal any feelings, for fear that a slight loss of control might lead to complete breakdown?

Suddenly, silence fell.

Xiao Hezhen’s smile on her face retracted.

For a moment, she felt as though something terrible was about to happen.

Wu Xufan naturally had the same feeling.

Having followed Xiao Jinxing for many years, he knew Xiao Jinxing’s personality very well.

The greater the grief, the more chilling the ensuing indifference would be.

The faint joy in Gu Xingchuan’s eyes was slowly fading.

In the grand hall.

The only sound was Xiao Jinxing’s low and slow voice, saying, "Ye Qichi, has passed away."

In that instant.

All expressions on everyone’s faces froze.

As if thunder had struck on a clear day.

The grand hall became so quiet that even breathing seemed to have ceased.

Long after the statement was made, no one spoke.

Everyone was wondering if they had heard wrong.

How could Ye Qichi, who seemed to be forever full of vitality, simply die?

It must be a lie, right?!

Xiao Hezhen gazed at her eldest brother.

Tears instantly fell like large beads spilling down.

She felt this was the saddest and most devastating news she had heard.

It was no less shocking than the death of her emperor father.

"Is it true?" Xiao Hezhen’s choked voice asked.

Grief made her want to wail in sorrow.

She had always regarded her sister-in-law as her best friend.

How could she have fallen in battle?

How could she never return?!

Xiao Jinxing didn’t answer.

His Adam’s apple seemed to bob up and down.

His fist clenched, body taut as a bow.

Yet his face remained unchanged, as if it was dusted in frost.

In the grand hall.

Xiao Hezhen’s unstoppable sobbing echoed.

The agony was too much to bear in silence.

Gu Xingchuan simply listened, simply watched Xiao Jinxing take the highest seat in Daxuan Kingdom, saw him held in reverence by thousands.

And Ye Qichi...

Yet he perished in that stretch of sandy soil.

His eyes already brimmed with a deep red.

The word ’death’.

It really could shatter all his sanity.

As if a piece of his heart was suddenly ripped out.

Missing, many, many pieces.

Shattered into bits.

The promise was to protect what’s theirs.

How could such promises be casually broken?

Gu Xingchuan, step by step, walked toward Xiao Jinxing.

Xiao Jinxing raised his eyes to look at him.

Looking at his bloodshot eyes, disregarding status and etiquette, he walked straight up to him.

The next moment.

"Clang!"

Gu Xingchuan’s fist, directly struck Xiao Jinxing’s face.

Xiao Hezhen cried heartbreakingly.

At this moment, due to Gu Xingchuan’s action, he was so frightened that he couldn’t even cry.

Wu Xufan’s eyes moved slightly.

They too were tinged with red.

Knowing full well that Gu Xingchuan’s every act at this moment is an outrageous defiance, yet he just couldn’t bring himself to advise against it.

Song Yanqing also just watched, indifferently.

Even the closest attendant beside Xiao Jinxing, Xiao Wu, chose to turn a blind eye.

Xiao Jinxing’s face was heavily reddened.

Such a refined and gentle person, yet he chose the most violent way to vent his emotions.

He said, "To die for you, huh?"

Indeed.

One could guess it in an instant.

After all, Ye Qichi wouldn’t die that easily.

She wouldn’t.

Unless.

For someone else.

The most likely would be.

Xiao Jinxing.

"Mhm." Xiao Jinxing responded.

His tone was cold and detached, betraying no hint of emotion.

"Clang!" Another punch.

Gu Xingchuan fiercely delivered another blow to Xiao Jinxing’s face.

Xiao Jinxing took both punches from Gu Xingchuan, without even attempting to dodge.

With Xiao Jinxing’s martial arts skills, it was impossible for him not to have anticipated Gu Xingchuan’s actions in advance.

Everyone remained silent, their eyes filled with a hint of worry.

Not for Xiao Jinxing.

But for Gu Xingchuan.

Gu Xingchuan’s actions today, even a death penalty wouldn’t be excessive.

After the beating.

Gu Xingchuan seemed to have regained his calm.

But his calm face was filled with such sorrow.

He stepped back a few paces.

Then he knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "This subject committed lèse-majesté; my crimes warrant a thousand deaths. I beg the Prince to execute me."

Xiao Hezhen looked at Gu Xingchuan’s state.

And cried even more uncontrollably.

Wu Xufan embraced Xiao Hezhen into his arms.

Xiao Hezhen did not resist. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

She even longed for something to lean on.

She was truly suffering.

The death of Ye Qichi made her heart hurt so much it felt like she couldn’t breathe.

The profound love Gu Xingchuan had for Ye Qichi deepened her sorrow.

If only.

If only the third sister-in-law had chosen Gu Xingchuan, how nice that would have been.

Why did she have to be with him, her third elder brother?

Xiao Jinxing looked at Gu Xingchuan, who was kneeling on the ground.

From those two punches, he knew all of Gu Xingchuan’s intentions.

Hating Ye Qichi was one aspect.

He wanted more, to accompany Ye Qichi leaving this world together.

In the end, Xiao Jinxing’s eyes were also tinged with a hint of red.

He averted his gaze, his voice icy and devoid of emotion as he said, "In consideration of your overwhelming grief and your service in aiding Hezhen, I will not hold this against you this time. Let this be the last!"