Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 291 5 years ago

The long-standing scars on his arms seemed to suddenly come back to life, causing the original pain to slowly awaken from the wounds.

"Noble Concubine An..." Long Mohan looked at the sad smile on Noble Concubine An's face and for the first time felt that her face looked familiar.

Somewhere in my memory, a ferocious cat's cry came faintly.

Then, the face of a girl crying in fear slowly emerged in front of my eyes...

That's right, the girl at that time was Concubine An. The scene in his memory gradually became clear, and Long Mohan seemed to see the scene of that day.

Fifteen years ago, a little guest came to the Queen Mother's Palace. She was a sweet and lovely little girl.

The girl's father is the prime minister An Zhonghuan, and her aunt is Concubine Zhuang An Yiru.

An Yiru brought her little niece to visit the Empress Dowager's Palace, but the little niece was taken to the yard by a butterfly that suddenly flew over.

The yard was full of small white flowers, and when she was about to pick them, she suddenly heard a cat meowing in the corner.

The girl was very brave. Not only was she not scared away, she stared at the wild cat and stomped her feet hard.

I thought this would scare the wild cat away, but it actually angered it.

The wild cat raised the fur on its back, bared its sharp teeth and hissed at the girl.

Looking at the wild cat's sparkling golden eyes, the girl finally became frightened and started sobbing.

When the wild cat saw her crying, it opened its mouth wide and screamed even more fiercely.

The girl was so frightened that she forgot to run away. Her legs felt like iron bars, stuck in the ground and she couldn't lift them up.

The wild cat suddenly pounced forward, and the helpless girl was so scared that she sat down on the ground.

At this moment, a figure suddenly jumped out, stood in front of the girl, and helped her drive away the ferocious wild cat.

The girl who fell to the ground looked at the back of the little hero fighting the wild cat with tears in her eyes. She felt that he was like a god descended from the sky, and his whole body was covered with a layer of warm light from the sun.

At that moment, the girl forgot to be afraid and forgot to cry. Only the heart-pounding feeling remained, blooming in the courtyard covered with white flowers.

This was their encounter fifteen years ago when the hero saved the beauty, and it was also the first encounter that the girl has never forgotten in the past fifteen years.

The boy chased the wild cat away, but several wounds were left on his arms. He didn't have time to treat his wounds, but walked straight to the girl, helped her up from the ground, brushed the dirt off her body, and asked her if she was injured.

The girl shook her head stupidly, having long forgotten the pain, but for some reason, her tears still kept flowing.

"Don't cry."

"But I'm afraid..."

"I have driven it away."

"What if it comes back again?"

"Hmm... How about this, I'll give this to you."

As he said this, the boy took off a piece of gauntlet and put it on the back of the girl's hand. When he was fighting with the wild cat just now, the wild cat bit the gauntlet and almost knocked out his big teeth. After this big loss, the wild cat probably won't bite people wearing gauntlets again.

The boy said seriously: "As long as you wear this gauntlet, it will think you are me and will never dare to bite you again."

After hearing this assurance, the girl finally burst into laughter.

Later, the girl found out that the boy who chased away the wild cat for her was the prince. But not long after, the prince was sent to the distant Qi Palace. After that, for a full fifteen years, they were thousands of miles apart and never met again.

The boy quickly forgot the girl, but the girl left the boy deeply in her heart.

She treasured the hand nails the boy gave her in a lacquer box. Whenever she saw the lacquer box, she seemed to see the boy's smiling face. Whenever she touched the lacquer box, she seemed to feel the warmth of the boy's palm when he helped her up. Fifteen years had not been able to dilute the girl's memory. Even she herself did not know why she remembered it so deeply. Perhaps she would never forget it for the rest of her life.

The long time has made the pictures of memories hazy, and every flower and grass in the memory are as ethereal as a wonderful dream.

The girl grew up slowly and gradually surpassed the age of being immersed in dreams.

With her parents' orders and the matchmaker's words, the wedding date was approaching. Just as she was about to wake up from the dream, an unexpected news suddenly reached her ears, pulling her back to her childhood memories and that distant love.

The boy returned to the palace.

After returning to the palace, he was no longer an insignificant hostage, but the true emperor wearing a jade crown and dragon robe.

Everything seemed so sudden, and the girl's world changed drastically in an instant. After breaking off the engagement, she finally returned to the boy as a concubine. However, the boy had forgotten her and already had a wife and children, and had deeper concerns and love.

During these fifteen years, the girl's heart was filled with the boy, but in the boy's heart, there was not even a trace of the girl.

The cruel reality shattered the dream, and the beautiful memories suddenly turned into nightmares.

Pain, hatred, jealousy, these ugly emotions devoured the girl's heart like poisonous snakes.

The girl thought she would hate him forever, but when that day, Prince Ming was suddenly taken back to the palace by the palace servants...

The darkness that had accumulated in my heart began to slowly dissipate from that moment on.

If Concubine An's heart was a dark prison cell without doors, windows or cracks, then the appearance of Prince Ming was like a ray of sunlight that squeezed in through the cracks in the wall. This faint light suddenly illuminated Concubine An's dark heart.

Because the Prince Ming who appeared in front of Concubine An looked exactly like Long Mohan fifteen years ago.

In an instant, time began to go back, back to the afternoon when they first met, to the garden covered with white flowers.

At that moment, Concubine An began to have an illusion, an illusion that Long Mohan had not changed, but she herself had already aged.

So she took Prince Ming away from Zhao Ji and became Prince Ming's full-mother concubine.

How she longed to possess Prince Ming for herself, because only in this way could she feel that the dream of that year was right beside her.

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Looking at the hand armor in the lacquer box, Concubine An and Long Mohan were both lost in their own memories.

Concubine An, who returned to reality from her memories, sighed softly, "Your Majesty, Prince Ming really looks exactly like you when you were a child... Whenever I see him, I remember how you used to stand in front of me. However, Prince Ming is not as brave as you were back then. He always looks at me and the people around him with fearful eyes, like a fledgling being taken out of its nest, with no sense of security and afraid of everything... But please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will teach him well and make him as brave as you were back then..."

Concubine An spoke to herself, not caring whether Long Mohan heard her or not.

Her voice gradually lowered: "Why... the woman who gave birth to him for you... wasn't me?"

If Long Mohan had not been held hostage in the Qi Palace and had not met Zhao Ji, perhaps all this would have been rewritten.

As the daughter of the prime minister, I should have been his queen long ago, right? Why... did I miss him? Why did he come back so late? Why did he marry another woman?

"Your Majesty, is it too late?" Concubine An closed the lacquer box and put it back on the wooden shelf.

I have remembered it deeply for fifteen years, but for the other party, it is not even a fragment of memory...

I actually forgot, I actually forgot...

Seeing the lacquer box disappear from his sight, Long Mohan turned around. When his eyes followed the lacquer box, he suddenly found a line of clear tears on Concubine An's face. He didn't know when Concubine An started crying. She cried silently, and if he hadn't seen the tears, Long Mohan would not have noticed that she was crying.

"Your Majesty, is it really too late?... I am also your wife, why do you ignore me?... Why do you have to ignore me?" After putting away the lacquer box, Concubine An turned her back and hurriedly wiped the tears from her face.

"Empress An..." Long Mohan subconsciously supported her shoulders.

Although he didn't love her, seeing her crying so sadly in front of him, he couldn't help but want to comfort her.

"Your Majesty..." Concubine An turned around and hugged Long Mohan, leaning on his chest and crying. This time she finally let out her voice, as if she wanted to vent all the loneliness and waiting of the past fifteen years, and burst into tears.

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Following her crying, Ji Anni, who had just parted with Yun Zhen, came over.

Ji Anni stuck half of her head out of the door, looking around cautiously like a thief. She never expected that what she saw was the scene of Long Mohan and Concubine An hugging each other tightly.

Only then did Ji Anni finally understand the shock Princess Tianning felt when she saw Kang Xiaorong and Huarong kissing.

I clearly have no feelings for Long Mohan, and I was almost scared out of my wits and my mind went blank. And Princess Tianning likes Kang Xiaorong so much, she must have almost fainted at that time, right?

Long Mohan had his back to the door and didn't notice Ji Anni's arrival, but Concubine An, who was crying, suddenly looked up and inadvertently saw Ji Anni's half head sticking out of the door. Although she saw it, Concubine An didn't react at all and pretended not to see it. Ji Anni was frightened to death, and quickly retracted her head as if she had a spring.

Oh my god, I'm scared to death...

Ji Anni patted her chest after calming down.

Although she didn't love Long Mohan, maybe because she had been Zhao Ji for too long, she felt a sense of betrayal when she saw her husband cheating.

But what is going on?

Didn't Long Mohan dislike Concubine An? Why did he cuddle with Concubine An?

Forget it. Men just get bored with the old and love the new. When they see a beautiful woman throwing herself at them, they will welcome her with open arms.

Ji Anni thought she had gradually understood Long Mohan's helplessness, but after seeing the scene just now, the little bit of good impression she had accumulated towards him instantly disappeared.

Why did you choose Concubine An... Humph, one day a poisonous snake will bite you to death...

Ji Anni thought as she turned and left the scene.

As soon as he raised his foot, he heard a "bang" and kicked over a flower pot at the door.

After hearing the noise, Long Mohan suddenly came to his senses, pushed Concubine An aside and rushed towards the door.

Oh god...I really didn't mean it...

When Ji Anni heard Long Mohan's footsteps rushing towards the door, she lifted up her skirt and ran away.