Chapter 311 Transaction

Rong Yu slowly raised his eyes.

Nan Xi looked into his eyes, which were filled with unreserved grief and anxiety, and her heart tightened.

The hall was silent for a long time.

Rong Yu lowered his eyes, and stiffly took Nan Xi's hand and put it on his face, as if this would give him more sense of security. Then he was ready to say something, but after opening his mouth for a long time, he didn't know where to start.

"What should I say first?" he asked in a low voice.

Nan Xi was stunned.

What should I say first?

This question... why did she feel that he was suddenly a little silly at this moment.

"Just say whatever you want to say." She said, "Tell me all the secrets that have been tormenting you in your heart, the truth that makes you uneasy and panic. I will listen to you with the greatest patience, and I promise that after listening, I will not have any dissatisfaction, resentment, or alienation with you. I will like you and love you as always, because we are husband and wife, a husband and wife with a love stronger than gold, and will not be separated by anything."

Husband and wife?

Rong Yu was stunned. Yes, they are husband and wife.

"The Dongling Priest's Hall is a place full of mystery." He lowered his eyes and looked at Nan Xi's five fingers as white as jade. "Dongling is a country blessed by gods."

Hmm?

Nan Xi's brows deepened slightly. Thinking of the high priest's vague hostility towards Rong Yu, she wanted to ask something, but she felt that she shouldn't interrupt Rong Yu's thoughts, so she didn't say anything and just waited quietly.

"The high priest is a true servant of the gods. After reaching a certain level of cultivation, he can have the ability to change his fate against the will of heaven, but it requires a great price."

Change fate against the will of heaven?

Nan Xi's mind flashed, and she seemed to understand something suddenly. She opened her eyes slightly and looked at Rong Yu in surprise.

However, Rong Yu lowered his eyes and did not see her eyes. He pursed his thin lips and said, "The Queen Jinghua I told you about before... is your previous life."

With her intelligence and sharpness, she should have guessed it long ago.

Nan Xi was silent for a moment: "So, you are actually Rong Huaijin?"

Rong Yu nodded: "Yes."

This also explains why he is so cautious. Even though he is in a high position, even though he holds almost all the power in the world in his hands, he still feels insecure, just because they did not have a good end in their previous life, and the reason for not having a good end is because of his jealousy.

Nan Xi was stunned to think of the woman in the dream who rose from the eldest princess to the empress. She was calm and self-sustaining, with an innate noble dignity. She was always elegant and dignified without losing her aristocratic manners, but in the end, she lost control of her emotions because of Rong Huaijin's death. Her sad and shrill crying was full of heartbreaking despair.

To be honest, Nan Xi did not have any empathy for the woman who appeared in the dream. Even if Rong Yu said that the woman was her previous life, she did not feel that she was her at all.

In the dream she had before, she was more like a bystander who was not involved in the matter, with a bit of an outsider attitude. Of course, even if you read a fictional story, you will inevitably feel sad and happy for the characters in the book, not to mention the people who appeared in your dream?

So Nan Xi was indeed affected emotionally before, but the impact was not great.

The person who was really trapped in the situation was Rong Yu, because his memory seemed to have always been there.

Nan Xi pondered for a moment and asked lightly: "Why can you keep your previous memory?"

"This is me..." Rong Yu hesitated, then took a deep breath, "This is a deal between me and the high priest."

Nan Xi was stunned: "Deal?"

Rong Yu pursed his lips, and his face turned three points paler.

Nan Xi frowned and was silent for a moment: "If my understanding is correct, the high priest should be loyal to the emperor, why would he make a deal with you?"

Every question from Nan Xi was difficult for Rong Yu to answer, a bit like torture. The answer to each question was the key to the case and could not be neglected. However, each question could make his heart, which had already sunk to the bottom of the valley, fall again until he fell into the abyss.

"Rong Huaijin has too much blood on his hands and needs to atone for his sins." Rong Yu's voice was hoarse, "But the high priest knows better than anyone that Rong Huaijin is too obsessed. If he is left alone, he will only slaughter the whole world and plunge the people into purgatory."

Nan Xi's voice was calm: "Then what?"

"After Rong Huaijin died, he used some strange magic in the priest's hall to allow him to retain his memories of his previous life." Rong Yu's tone was empty, "The condition is that Rong Huaijin must return a prosperous and peaceful era to the Dongling Sheji."

Nan Xi frowned: "So, Rong Huaijin has been carrying the memories of his previous life, waiting for Empress Jinghua to reincarnate, so that he can find her smoothly and fulfill his long-cherished wish that he has not been able to fulfill before?"

Rong Yu lowered his eyes and nodded imperceptibly.

"But Rong Huaijin was too busy, busy accumulating power, busy regaining power from all sides, busy preparing for the prosperity of Dongling, so he had no time to talk about love, and because of the secrets and uneasiness in his heart, he dared not easily express his emotions, but he was eager to get the woman who was the reincarnation of Empress Jinghua, so he had that seemingly real and cruel dream?"

To be precise, it should be that he didn't know how to win back that person's heart, didn't know how to make her heart return to him when she fell in love with another man, and his heart was full of uneasiness, guilt and regret, so he didn't know where to start.

Rong Yu's lips turned pale, and he looked down at the palace brick floor like a lost soul, and his voice was so soft that it sounded like a whisper: "Yes."

"Since the high priest has made a deal with you, why does he seem to have deep hostility towards you?"

Rong Yu was silent for a moment, and said: "He thinks that Rong Huaijin ruined the life of Empress Jinghua, and thinks he is a disaster, but Empress Jinghua died early, and her destiny has not been completed, and her bad fate with Rong Huaijin has not ended. As the high priest of Dongling to maintain orthodoxy and heaven, he should have eliminated Rong Huaijin, the disaster, but this disaster fate is tied to Empress Jinghua, and he can't do anything, so he has accumulated too much dissatisfaction in his heart."

Disaster?

Nan Xi's mouth twitched. Although she knew that it was a bit inappropriate at the moment, the word "disaster" always made her feel messy when it was used on Rong Yu, and the high priest seemed to be quite miserable. From his perspective of maintaining the royal family, he should indeed eliminate Rong Huaijin, the culprit who killed people like crazy and disrupted the government.

But fate just prevented him from doing so.

Don't blame him for being angry.

The respect that the king, ministers and people of Dongling have for the gods not only constrains the words and deeds of the entire Dongling people, but also invisibly constrains the behavior of the high priest. What he has to consider is not the life or death of an evil person, but the fate of all the people in the world.

Therefore, one cannot act as one pleases, cannot think according to one's own ideas, and even things that should be done in the eyes of many people, the high priest must restrain himself because he can predict the fate of heaven.