The next morning, Chen Xing woke up from bed, his head was dizzy, and he sat on the edge of the bed for a long time, unable to stand up.
He was not a drinker, and even though he had lived for three lives, he rarely touched alcohol. He doesn't like to lose control, and only drinks to numb himself when he's in the most pain and helplessness.
"Crack!"
The bedroom door was suddenly opened, and Lao K hurriedly walked in, holding a document with a red seal in his hand.
"Sir, the Northern Princess wants to summon you!" As he said this, Old K handed over the paperwork.
"Does she want to see me?" Chen Xing was still a little confused. He took the document casually, but only glanced at it, and immediately became alert and woke up quickly.
It's not surprising that Aaliya wants to see him, but sending a formal document is a bit uneasy.
When the master wants to see his subordinates, he usually sends someone to say so. But when it comes to formal documents, it is an official matter. Generally, only generals guarding the border will use formal documents to recall.
Because this means that if the person refuses, a formal record will be left.
In other words, Chen Xing had no room for delay. As long as he was still alive and breathing, he had to crawl over.
Otherwise, it is a "sign of rebellion" and can be punished as high as treason.
Chen Xing sat on the edge of the bed and tried to recall whether he said or did anything wrong when they met yesterday.
He was meticulous, not missing a single detail from the moment they met until they left. But upon inspection, he didn't seem to have made any mistakes. Whether he was happy or not was one thing, but Aaliyah smiled brightly.
If it's not a bad thing, it's a good thing.
Maybe he was going to be promoted to an official position.
When I thought in this direction, I suddenly became enlightened.
Among the top leaders of the Northern Alliance, Ye Yang Bailiu is the great priest, and Lei Xi is the chief of guards. In total, they still lack a great commander.
Under the red country's bureaucratic system, the commander-in-chief is the country's highest military officer, equivalent to the "marshal of troops and horses" and "commander-in-chief of the entire army" in other countries, and is in charge of the country's armed forces.
Speaking of which, in the Northern Alliance, he is really the number one choice for the commander-in-chief.
Thinking of this, Chen Xing's pressure was reduced by half.
Why half?
The Witch with Golden Eyes has an unpredictable and moody personality. Her previous life was written in the history books. Who knows which sutra she skipped and what strange thoughts she had.
Even if he suddenly wants to kill him, it is not impossible.
"Sir, it's time to wash up and change clothes."
Old K reminded. He has been a palace steward for more than ten years and knows the weight of this order document. The walk from here to the Red Castle only takes about twenty minutes at walking pace. If you arrive late, it may be detrimental to your master, so I give a warning.
Chen Xing also knew that there would be no results if he sat here thinking about it, so he immediately called the maid, washed and changed clothes, put on leather boots, didn't eat breakfast, drank half a glass of milk and went out.
After a while, he passed the gate of the Red Fort and came to the front door of the Candle Hall. He straightened his collar, took a deep breath, and pushed the door open.
In an instant, thousands of candlelights moved with the wind.
Stepping into the obsidian hall, chills came from all directions, and the burning candles did not bring any warmth.
With the faint light of the fire, two figures could be seen on the high platform, one sitting with his legs crossed, and the other standing on the right side of the throne.
At first, Chen Xing thought it was Lacey, but then he thought, no, Lacey usually stood on the left side.
Walking to the middle of the hall, I finally saw clearly that the person on the right side of the throne was indeed Ye Yang Bailiu.
Looking over, Aaliyah sat on the throne with her legs crossed and her body tilted to one side. Her elbows were supporting the armrests of the throne and one hand was resting on her knees. She looked at him with two red eyes, without any expression on her face.
The moment he entered the hall, Chen Xing felt that something was wrong in the atmosphere.
Although he had no specific feeling and his sense of danger was not activated, he felt something was wrong but couldn't put it into words.
"I have met His Highness."
Chen Xing knelt down on one knee and performed the courtesy of a monarch and a minister. Be cautious and sail the boat for ten thousand years. Although I don’t know what’s going on, it’s definitely right to keep a low profile.
However, after Chen Xing knelt down, there was silence above his head, and the expected response did not come.
He had already sensed that something was wrong in the atmosphere, so naturally he did not dare to get up.
The hall was unusually quiet, with only the faint sound of candles burning.
Time passed by minute by second, and just when Chen Xing felt his legs were a little sore, the voice above his head finally sounded.
"Um……"
The voice was lazy, as if he had just woken up.
Chen Xing stood up subconsciously, but before his waist could straighten up, a huge pressure came down from above.
For a moment, the invisible force was like a mountain pressing down on him, almost making him unable to straighten his knees.
"Did I tell you to get up?"
The voice was faint, but to Chen Xing's ears, it sounded like thunder.
At the same time, there were strong winds and waves in the spiritual sea, and the runes bloomed one after another to resist this pressure that destroyed the world.
The sea water reversed, the sea surface parted, and a burning warship slowly raised its bow.
Whether it relies on the runes of species instinct or the Yuling that relies on the memory of life, they all spontaneously protect the host.
However, the host himself tried his best to suppress this instinctive reaction.
Showing his fangs in front of the most powerful man, doesn't he think he can't die quickly enough?
Chen Xing took a deep breath to calm the fluctuations in the spiritual sea, and knelt down again.
He lowered his head and did not dare to speak.
He doesn't have enough information right now, and speaking rashly may intensify conflicts.
As long as he doesn't speak, Aaliyah will speak first and get the information.
But if Aaliya doesn't even want to say anything and directly kills him, then it will be useless for him to speak now.
Therefore, the option with the highest fault tolerance rate at this stage is to wait and see what happens.
Sure enough, after more than ten minutes of silence, Aaliyah spoke again.
"Chen Xing."
Aaliya called her by her name, and Chen Xing felt cold from head to toe, wishing he could teleport away immediately. Even when we first met in Orchid Town, I never called him such a serious name.
But is running away useful?
Apparently not. Maybe he could hold on for half an hour, but where could he escape after half an hour?
So he could only answer bravely, "I'm here."
"I have a question to ask you." Aaliyah said, her voice calm and no emotion could be heard. But the more she behaves like this, the more scary she becomes.
"Excuse me, Your Highness." Chen Xing said respectfully. But her mind was running rapidly, guessing what questions Aaliya was going to ask so that she could respond in time.
"I'm very curious..." Aaliya glanced at Ye Yang Bailiu beside her and asked, "What is the relationship between you two?"
Chen Xing was suddenly shocked. He thought about many possibilities, but there was no one like this.
From the corner of his eye, he saw that Ye Yang Bailiu was also surprised for a moment, obviously not expecting Aaliya to ask this question.
Chen Xing was worried and asked, "Why does Your Highness ask this?"
He had to figure out why Aaliyah was asking about their relationship in the first place. Is it jealous? If he was jealous, he should have eaten it when we were in Orchid Town, or when we first met a few months ago, there is no need to wait until today.
Aaliyah lowered her folded thighs, leaned forward, and stared at him from the high platform.
"Aren't you allowed to be curious?"
She asked back, her tone getting colder.
"This..." Chen Xing hesitated, glanced at Ye Yang Bailiu secretly, and quickly took it back for fear of being noticed by Aliya.
"Just tell the truth, I won't eat you." Aaliyah said, with a slight curve in the corner of her mouth. That smile was so evil that it sent chills all over.
Ye Yang Bailiu on the side looked down at the ground on the high platform, not knowing what he was thinking.
"this……"
For a moment, Chen Xing didn't know how to answer. He fell into a fierce psychological conflict. If he denied their relationship in front of Ye Yang Bailiu, Ye Yang Bailiu's self-esteem would be greatly hurt.
But he didn't know what the consequences would be if he confessed to Aaliyah about their relationship.
Sometimes, women's jealousy can be very scary. Once something goes wrong, he will not only harm himself, but also implicate Ye Yang Bailiu.
Denial is undoubtedly the option to maximize profits.
However, he kept saying that Ye Yang Bailiu was his fiancée.
If a man doesn't even dare to admit his fiancée, he is still considered a man, and what will his fiancée think of him?
Will you be heartbroken?
He suddenly realized that this issue had escalated to a life or death decision.
If he confesses, the result could be physical death.
If he denies it, he will lose a man's dignity and at the same time a woman who is very important to him.
Ye Yang Bailiu is by no means the kind of woman who can solve problems with money. She has a very strong self-esteem and will definitely break up with him once he denies it.
He didn't know if his feelings for Ye Yang Bailiu were love. He only knew that this woman and he had supported each other over the years until today, and she had a deep love for him.
Losing dignity and love at the same time, what is left for him?
For a man, this is tantamount to spiritual death.
So, no matter what choice he makes, he will face death.
Thinking of this, he raised his head and looked at Ye Yang Bailiu. This time, he didn't avoid Aaliyah.
He looked into his fiancée's eyes, seeking the courage to face life and death decisions.
Ye Yang Bailiu's eyes were very complicated, full of hesitation, uneasiness, hope, worry, everything.
As if seeing his intention from his eyes, Ye Yang Bailiu's eyes gradually became gentle, as tender as water.
Chen Xing closed his eyes and took a step forward, "She..."
The moment he said the first word, he suddenly felt extremely important, and the scene after his death could not help but appear in front of his eyes.
The head maid committed suicide and died, Su Na was left alone, Ye Qian and Li Mei returned to the ship, Orchid Town ushered in a new ruler, and the expeditionary force was in pieces...
When the tree falls, the macaques scatter.
"She, she is..."
Every word was like a mountain weighing on his heart, pressing down one after another, making it impossible for him to breathe.
He swallowed and said with great difficulty, "She is mine, mine..."
Just then, a high-pitched and stern voice interrupted him.
"I have nothing to do with him!"
"Oh?" Aaliyah turned to look at the great priest beside her, with amusement in her eyes.
But Ye Yang Bailiu looked calm, walked to the throne, knelt down on one knee, gritted his teeth and said, "I had nothing to do with him before, I have nothing to do with him now, and I will never have anything to do with him in the future!"
Although Chen Xing was reluctant to admit it, he did feel relieved when Ye Yang Bailiu interrupted him.
"You have nothing to do with him?"
"Hehehe..." Aaliyah sneered, "The dark magic crystal core is contaminated with your aura, and he is even willing to hand over such an important thing to you. How dare you say it doesn't matter?"
"Do you think I'm an idiot?"
Aaliyah spoke word by word, her red eyes gradually turned a layer of gold, her skin ignited with transparent flames, her figure grew in size at a speed visible to the naked eye, and recurved horns grew on her head.
The true form of the Balrog.
Huge coercion swept across the world, strong air currents roared in, and thousands of candles were extinguished instantly.
Above the sky, a pair of golden vertical pupils slowly opened, and the sunlight quickly dimmed. On the ground, countless black shadows were twisting, and the sound of killing was loud, as if thousands of troops were approaching.
"Are you willing to bet your life?"
The princess who transformed into a fire demon stared at her great priest, her golden eyes as deep as the abyss, as if she wanted to swallow all living things into him.
"Alia, if you have any dissatisfaction, come to me!" Chen Xing's body was filled with electricity, and he teleported over with a sizzling sound.
"Go away!" The female Balrog pawed back, and Chen Xing was shot backwards like a cannonball, hitting the stone pillar of the hall with a bang, causing him to vomit blood on the spot.
Ye Yang Bailiu looked back at Chen Xing who fell from the stone pillar, with a determined look on his face, and said loudly, "I have already said that it had nothing to do with him before, it has nothing to do with him now, and there will be nothing to do with him in the future!"
"madness!"
The female Balrog roared, opening her claws, her bright red nails gleaming coldly.
"Hehehe..."
Just as she was about to burst her intestines and stomach, Aaliya laughed without any warning. All the pressure disappeared in an instant, and she returned to her girlish appearance.
"Are you worth it for a man like this?" she asked, sitting back on the throne, supporting her chin on her wrist, and raising her little white feet again.
"I'm just stating the facts." Ye Yang Bailiu did not give in.
"Who are you lying to?" Aaliyah sighed, "Okay, let me show you what kind of man you just risked your life to protect."
"What is your position in his mind?"
As she spoke, Aaliyah raised the black watch on her wrist, entered a command, pointed forward, and shot out a three-dimensional image.
As soon as Chen Xing recovered from the dizziness caused by hitting the back of his head on a stone pillar, he saw a scene that made him freeze up.
In the three-dimensional image, a man and a woman are talking.
"You, you still want me?" The woman in the three-dimensional image looked like she couldn't believe it. "I, I know there are many women around you..."
"They, they are all better than me..."
"In front of them, I feel like an ugly duckling, ugly and useless."
The man in the three-dimensional image smiled and said, "Stupid woman, you are different from them..."
"What's the difference?" The woman in the three-dimensional image had a sparkle in her eyes.
"You are the first woman I fell in love with." The man in the three-dimensional image looked gentle, "Do you know? You are my first love."
Until then, Chen Xing finally understood why Aaliya wanted to trouble him.
But it's already too late...
He never imagined that Aaliya would be following him yesterday afternoon.
Isn't she a dragon? A giant dragon has nothing to do to observe an ant. Is it full of food?
Ye Yang Bailiu stared blankly at the three-dimensional image with his eyes wide open, as if he was completely stunned.
Chen Xing wanted to explain, but he really couldn't think of what to say.
Not to mention, there was a last-hitting guy next to him, "If I remember correctly, they should have known each other when they were in Crow City..."
"I met you after you," she emphasized.
When she said this, Aaliya turned her head and looked at Chen Xing, with resentment and unwillingness in her eyes.
"We have known each other in our last life..." Chen Xing blurted out. He was already running out of words and subconsciously told the truth.
"Oh, you've known each other since my last life?" Aaliyah smiled, a bit miserably and a bit jokingly, "She is indeed the right girl. We've known each other since my last life."
"No, that's not what I meant..." Chen Xing pulled his hair, feeling like he was going crazy.
"Then what do you mean?" Aaliyah said angrily, "Continue to rub salt in the wound and watch our jokes?"
"So that you know how much the wonderful women in this world love you?"
"Bai Liu, listen to my explanation!" Chen Xing shouted almost desperately. Aaliyah has gone crazy and can only look to Ye Yang Bai Liu.
Ye Yang Bailiu slowly turned around and looked at him, with only endless indifference in his eyes.
In that starry eye, it seemed as if a towering glacier had been built, boundless, cutting off all emotions.
The past has been buried in the depths of the ice sea.
"Everything has passed, let's start over, little beauty~"
Ye Yang Bailiu, who was looking at Chen Xing, suddenly tilted his body and was pulled into Aaliya's arms without warning. He kissed her with her soft mouth.
"Um……"
Two super beauties were kissing each other. The scene was extremely fragrant, but Chen Xing's soul was shattered and his whole body was about to burst.
He wanted to stop her, but as soon as he got close, he was entangled in Aaliyah's resistance field, as if he was trapped in a swamp, unable to move even an inch.
He just watched helplessly as Ye Yang Bailiu resisted at the beginning, then became weak and powerless, then indulged in it, and finally took the initiative to accommodate...
The lingering kiss lasted for more than ten minutes.
The two of them were still unfinished, rubbing their ears and temples together on the throne, and the heat was rolling.
It is the millstone that presses the tofu, and the tofu that presses the millstone.
In her spare time, Aaliya glanced at Chen Xing with half-open eyes, her eyes were like looking at a pitiful creature.
"Why are you still standing there? Are you going to watch a movie?"
"If you have nothing to do, go back. You have nothing to do here."
When leaving Qianzhu Hall, Chen Xing's mood could only be described as "devastated". If he suffered tons of damage yesterday, then the damage he received today was ten thousand times that of yesterday.
This was Lacey's first poisonous plan for Aaliyah, to make peace with the inside first and then fight against the outside.
To secure the internal affairs first is to ensure the internal unity of Qianzhu Hall and avoid having an internal informant when dealing with foreign enemies.
Although Chen Xing and Ye Yang Bailiu have always kept a distance from each other openly, Lacey and Aaliya have both had relationships with Chen Xing and know this guy's nature. It is impossible for Ye Yang Bailiu to follow him without taking action.
Moreover, the two of them usually flirted with each other, so it was basically certain that there was something wrong with them.
To win Ye Yang Bailiu over first would be to break Chen Xing's arm, and it would also cause a mental blow.
And Aaliya had wanted to attack Ye Yang Bailiu a long time ago, but Ye Yang Bailiu kept refusing, so it was just right to take them all together.
You know, Aaliyah kills both men and women.
Originally, Lacey would still interfere with it and destroy the relationship between Aaliyah and Ye Yangbailiu, but now Lacey is focused on dealing with Chen Xing, and Yeyang Bailiu doesn't care much about it.
On the battlefield, the enemy of the enemy is the friend. As long as she can bring down Chen Xing, Lacey doesn't care about anything.
She wanted to repay the humiliation she suffered some time ago tenfold and a hundredfold.
In addition to the successive poisonous plots that followed, she also secretly contacted Arqiaomu south of Longhe, and the links were linked together to form a decisive situation.
