The Prince Wants to Assassinate Me Every Day-Chapter 980 - 564: Just One Night, Is That Okay? (Part 4)
An Ning leaves.
Xiao Jinxing and Bai Mowan’s gaze both turned towards her.
They clearly saw An Ning’s arrival and then her departure.
Bai Mowan’s fingers left the zither strings.
She smiled desolately, "Aren’t you going to chase after her?"
Xiao Jinxing turned back and said indifferently, "She wouldn’t care."
"In your heart, An Ning is indeed kind, wise, and magnanimous," Bai Mowan said, her lips curling into a bitter smile.
So.
How could she compare to An Ning?
She should have recognized this reality long ago.
Xiao Jinxing didn’t offer any explanation to Bai Mowan.
The feelings between him and An Ning needed no explanation to outsiders.
Bai Mowan lowered her eyes again and continued to play the zither.
Tonight is truly the last night with Xiao Jinxing.
After tonight.
They will truly face each other with swords drawn, with no feelings left to speak of.
A "clang" resounded.
The zither string suddenly snapped with a break.
The sudden snap cut Bai Mowan’s finger.
Bai Mowan looked at the bloodstain on her finger.
Is this really, the breaking of strings, the death of a person?!
She looked at Xiao Jinxing.
Xiao Jinxing calmly said, "Better not to force it."
It was obvious that her music was not melodious, not even better than that of ordinary girls.
Moreover, her right hand had become weak from injury.
The notes she played always lacked a certain charm.
Bai Mowan smiled slightly, "Indeed, it was forced."
She rose from the side of the zither and walked to the dining table, sitting next to Xiao Jinxing.
Xiao Jinxing was no longer eating at this moment, only drinking wine seemingly absent-mindedly.
The wine jars in front of him were several bottles empty.
Was he also trying to drown his sorrows with alcohol?!
Was it because their break up was making Xiao Jinxing somewhat uncomfortable?
Bai Mowan poured herself some wine and drank along with him.
In the deep of the night, all was quiet.
The hour was unknown.
All things under the heavens seemed to have fallen asleep.
Bai Mowan got drunk and lay down on the table.
Her cheeks rosy, looking harmless.
Xiao Jinxing glanced at her.
That face once unforgettable, now was just a mere glance.
Feelings cannot withstand too much torment.
Once missed, it’s a lifetime missed.
He got up and left.
Tonight, accompanying her this far was his limit.
Or perhaps.
He was merely venting his emotions, seizing the opportunity to drown his sorrows with wine.
"Xing gege."
Bai Mowan called him.
Her voice carried a hint of confusion and a trace of playfulness.
It had been so long since they had been like this.
Their prolonged opposition almost made them forget the beauty of their beginning.
"Don’t go." Bai Mowan tried again to keep him.
"You’ve had too much to drink, get some rest," Xiao Jinxing said indifferently.
But Bai Mowan did not comply.
She got up shakily.
She stood before him, within arm’s reach.
At close range, Xiao Jinxing was still so handsome.
Just like the first time she saw him, she couldn’t believe that such a good-looking man could exist in this world.
She even wondered, if back then, Xiao Jinxing did not possess such devastatingly beautiful features, would she have approached him so proactively, so intimately?!
Her hand involuntarily reached for his cheek.
Before she could touch it.
Xiao Jinxing stepped away.
Bai Mowan’s hand stayed awkwardly in the air.
Still unwilling, is it?!
Even on the last night, he was unwilling to have the slightest bit of intimacy with her?
She lowered her hand, her eyes full of deep affection, carrying expectation, "Just one night, can I, to resolve the biggest regret of my life, serve you for one night?"
Xiao Jinxing was cold, "No."
"I won’t get pregnant, I won’t rise to power through childbirth, and I won’t pose any threat to you or An Ning. I just want to truly give myself to you once, just once, without further desire afterward." Bai Mowan spoke with deep affection, genuinely moving.
"Anything else is possible, except for this," Xiao Jinxing gave a clear answer again.
"Is it just for An Ning?"
"Just for her," Xiao Jinxing spoke clearly.
Bai Mowan’s tears fell in large drops down her cheeks.
"If back then, it was An Ning who was defiled instead of me, would you still treat me this way, would you still do this for An Ning?" Bai Mowan asked him.
Deeply for him.
"I have already said, what I care about has never been you being defiled, what I care about is that person."
"Just that person..." Bai Mowan murmured.
Murmuring with a hint of mockery.
She asked, "Even if it’s out of sympathy, charity, pity, is it not possible?"
"Allowing you to leave the Imperial Palace safely is my greatest leniency towards you," Xiao Jinxing made it clear.
Knowing all she wished to do, yet he still let her leave, was the last thing he could do for her in this life.
She could not, take any further advantage.
After speaking, Xiao Jinxing did not linger another step.
Today’s farewell would be a turning point into strangers.
"Xing gege!" Bai Mowan called out as she watched his figure, unable to hold back any longer.
She embraced him from behind, holding him tightly.
Her cheek nestled against his back.
Giving herself the last bit of hope.
"Let go of me!" Xiao Jinxing said coldly.
His aura, oppressive.
Even without seeing her face, Bai Mowan could entirely feel his anger.
For An Ning.
For that woman, he wouldn’t touch anyone else?!
What was so good about An Ning? So good that Xiao Jinxing would keep himself as pure as jade for her.
Even charity without feelings, he was unwilling.
Bai Mowan tightened her embrace around his body, "No one will know, An Ning won’t know. This is just our secret."
"My fidelity to her is not for her to see," Xiao Jinxing said coldly, "It’s just that, apart from her, no one else will do for me!"
With that,
Xiao Jinxing pushed her off with strength.
Bai Mowan fell heavily to the ground.
Her body felt numb to the pain, with only her heart feeling like it was being cut by a knife.
She had humbled herself to this degree, yet Xiao Jinxing still mercilessly pushed her away.
She was always asking for it.
It was she who humiliated herself time and again.
She just watched Xiao Jinxing as he left her sight.
From now on.
He would truly be completely out of her life!
Xiao Jinxing walked out of Renshou Palace.
His steps suddenly halted.
Eunuch Ping, who had been following the Emperor, felt a jolt in his heart when he saw him suddenly stop.
Could the Emperor have had a moment of weakness and wanted to return?!
The pain, grievances, and heartbreak of Bai the concubine today, even he felt pity.
So was the Emperor moved as well?
Would the Emperor really go and favor Bai the concubine...
Eunuch Ping also found himself quite conflicted.
The Emperor is a ruler of a nation, it’s rightful for the Imperial Palace to have three thousand beauties and for the Emperor to favor the concubines.
Instead, the Emperor’s current abstinence goes against an Emperor’s duty.
Failing to expand the Daxuan Imperial lineage, the Emperor has let down the civil and military officials, the people of dawn!
