The Prince Wants to Assassinate Me Every Day-Chapter 855 - 439: Reunion with Xie Ruotong (Fourth Update)
An Ning’s face instantly darkened.
Indeed, one cannot expect ivory from a dog’s mouth.
He’s still the same dog even after becoming Emperor.
Song Yanqing saw the Empress’s expression and chuckled softly.
He was just about to say the next sentence.
When his gaze suddenly paused.
It seemed he had seen something.
An Ning turned around.
And immediately saw Xie Ruotong whom she hadn’t seen in five years.
She thought it was Xiao Jinxing who had arrived.
Of course, she wouldn’t be happy if Xiao Jinxing had come.
But with Xie Ruotong’s arrival, she felt delighted.
She just looked at Xie Ruotong standing there, looking at her intently.
From the disbelief in her eyes to the inexplicable emotional excitement, to the evident disappointment after seeing her face clearly.
Clearly, she mistook her silhouette for Ye Qichi.
But was unexpectedly struck upon seeing her true appearance.
That’s why her emotions were complex in her eyes.
She seemed to be unable to react for a moment.
"General Xie." Anqi looked at Xie Ruotong happily.
She ran directly toward Xie Ruotong and eagerly took her hand.
Xie Ruotong lowered her gaze.
Trying hard to hide the moistness in her eyes.
Her lips curved into a smile as she saluted, "I greet the Princess."
"General Xie, my mother has returned to the palace." Anqi told Xie Ruotong very positively and excitedly.
Xie Ruotong regained her composure.
Today, she also received a summons from the Emperor, saying Princess Anqi missed her very much and invited her into the palace to accompany the Princess.
She thought the Emperor’s matchmaking abilities were becoming increasingly adept.
After all, everyone knew Song Yanqing was here as Anqi’s mentor.
But she didn’t refuse.
Not because she wanted any interaction with Song Yanqing, but because she couldn’t let go of Anqi.
She truly didn’t expect to see the "substitute" Gu Xingchuan mentioned that day.
Indeed, there was a striking resemblance.
The feeling was too similar.
If it weren’t for her completely different face.
So did the Emperor arrange for her to come today to let her meet his new woman and accept it?
Xie Ruotong thought ironically.
She still forced herself, saluted reluctantly, "I greet Your Majesty."
Given that Anqi called her "Mother."
Naturally, she was the Empress.
An Ning could also see that Xie Ruotong harbored alienation and hostility toward her.
"I’ve long heard of General Xie’s great name." An Ning smiled, her eyes red.
When she left the border, she truly abandoned them all.
She also knew her death would bring great pain to them.
Especially Xie Ruotong.
That time, Xie Ruotong lost her fiancé, lost her comrade, and lost her.
It’s easy to imagine the discomfort Xie Ruotong felt at that time.
She even thought for a long time, would Xie Ruotong ever bounce back.
Fortunately, later she heard that Xie Ruotong became a valiant general, guarding a region, which truly set her mind at ease.
Otherwise, she wouldn’t know if she might impulsively go back to find Xie Ruotong.
Seeing her at this moment.
An Ning had to admit that a myriad of emotions surged through her.
And at that moment.
She couldn’t hold it any longer and walked up to Xie Ruotong, giving her a big hug.
Xie Ruotong frowned.
The whole person was completely dazed.
How could someone be so forward?
They were complete strangers, and just directly hugged her.
Was it because she knew how much the Emperor favored her now that she wanted to use this method to curry favor, then praise her in front of the Emperor?
Though she hadn’t truly seen the intrigues of the harem, she also knew the harem was the place with the most disputes!
"Your Majesty." After An Ning hugged her for quite a while, Xie Ruotong couldn’t help calling her.
An Ning slightly calmed her emotions and released Xie Ruotong.
She said, "Ruotong, long time no see."
Xie Ruotong stiffened completely.
She stared directly at the person in front of her.
Looking at the familiar smile, the familiar feeling, yet completely unfamiliar appearance.
The tears she had tried hard to suppress now brimmed instantly.
"What did you say?" Xie Ruotong looked at An Ning closely, her voice trembling.
"I said, long time no see. How were the five years?" An Ning replied.
At this moment.
Facing Xie Ruotong’s tearful gaze.
An Ning’s own vision blurred too.
It turned out.
A reunion after a long separation truly moves one, bringing tears of emotion.
Xie Ruotong’s tears just cascaded down her face, drop after drop.
Last time she cried was upon knowing they were all dead, all wiped out.
After that, no matter what happened.
It was as if she’d become numb, unable to cry.
After five years.
Caught off guard by the tears, they seemed uncontrollable.
She said, "Not good at all."
She hadn’t been well at all.
No one was around.
Completely alone, always alone.
An Ning hugged Xie Ruotong again.
This time, Xie Ruotong hugged An Ning tightly without hesitation.
Song Yanqing watched from the side.
With a smile on his lips, his eyes were actually filled with tears.
He thought the Emperor hadn’t told anyone.
After all, he had deduced everything.
And since the Emperor didn’t tell, the Empress wouldn’t tell others.
Perhaps the Empress had her reasons.
Yet he hadn’t expected the Empress to completely reveal her identity to Xie Ruotong without concealment.
An Youyou furrowed her brows.
She was scrutinizing her mommy seriously.
Seeing everyone filled with emotion, while towards her, cold and indifferent.
She feared she was truly picked up from the trash heap.
An Ning and Xie Ruotong hugged for a long time.
Before finally letting go of each other.
Both cried like ghosts.
Gazing at each other’s appearances, they couldn’t help but laugh.
"Let’s go, have a chat." An Ning suggested.
Xie Ruotong nodded.
The Empress was still as clever and empathetic.
Clearly knowing she had many questions now.
The two left Song Yanqing, Anqi, and An Youyou behind and walked away.
An Youyou watched their backs.
Turned to look at Anqi, then at Song Yanqing, beginning to doubt herself.
She murmured, "What exactly did my mom come here for?"
Song Yanqing couldn’t help but chuckle, "Come, I’ll teach you ink painting."
"..." Could she opt out?
She wasn’t interested in ink painting.
Her interest lay only in the dead.
...
An Ning took Xie Ruotong back to Xiaoxiang Palace.
An Ning revealed how she had survived all these years, went to Xuzhou, and then was discovered by this dog Emperor Xiao Jinxing, everything, to Xie Ruotong.
Xie Ruotong listened, "So you changed your appearance to avoid returning to the Imperial Palace and to stop entanglement with the Emperor?"
"It’s not changing appearance, it’s called plastic surgery." An Ning corrected.
"But the Emperor..." Xie Ruotong hesitated, then asked, "Have you really never thought about being with the Emperor?"
"Why would I choose to be with him? I’ve never liked him from the start to the finish." An Ning stated, "This time I came to the Palace because An Youyou, that troublesome child, was discovered and taken by Xiao Jinxing, I had to come to retrieve An Youyou."
"I think the Emperor won’t let you go." Xie Ruotong said tremblingly.
After waiting for five years.
Finally, the person returning, how could she be let go easily.
