The Marquis Is Innocent - 170.2

Chapter 170.2

Wei Shao was currently playing with Fei Fei. To make his daughter happy, he supported his fat body, jumping up and down vigorously, rolling all over the ground. Fei Fei was constantly laughing when suddenly she called, ‘Father.’

Wei Shao subconsciously gave a belch but heard himself ‘meow’ instead. He turned to see his daughter had left him and ran away.

Not far away, the Emperor’s figure came out from Jiade Palace.

Wei Shao stopped where he was, puffing and panting with his mouth open, staring at Fei Fei with a jealous gaze as he happily called him ‘Father Emperor’ while dashing towards him.

“Father!” Fei Fei ran to the Emperor and stopped.

After running for a while, she was slightly out of breath, but her eyes were bright, and a sweet smile hung on her cute little face as she tilted her head to look at the Emperor, “Father! When I was in the Da Ming Temple, I thought of my mother and Father every day!” Her voice was soft.

The Emperor looked at the bean-sized girl in front of him who darted towards him, and after a slight hesitation, he squatted down and opened his arms towards her.

“Father!”

Fei Fei flung herself into his arms, and after being picked up by the Emperor, her soft two little arms wrapped around his neck and kissed him on the cheek.

The Emperor was stunned by this kiss from the fragrant and soft little person.

Fei Fei, however, didn’t notice the Emperor’s abnormality in the slightest.

Mother kissed her on the cheek and said it was an expression of affection. She often saw Father and Emperor kissing Mother’s face. That was because Father Emperor loved Mother.

She also liked her mother and her father.

“Father Emperor, I just saw you crying ……”

Her heart remembered her Father Emperor’s appearance just now, and she couldn’t rest assured. She tilted her head to look at him. Inside her beautiful big eyes, she revealed a color of worry, “Father Emperor, why are you sad?”

The Emperor could not speak for a moment.

“Father, Fei Fei does not want you to be sad ……”

She stretched out a small hand and comfortingly touched his cheek. Her eyes suddenly lit up, “Mother said that Grandmother Dowager gave me a name that means forgetting your sorrows. Mother also often says that I am the Princess of Worriless. Father, you can talk to Fei Fei if you are sad, and Fei Fei will help you.”

The Emperor looked fixedly at this little person who had wrapped her arms around his neck and seriously comforted himself. His heart swells with an unfamiliar feeling of softness and sourness.

This was his daughter ah, his Wei Shao’s daughter in this life, Princess Worriless.

He blinked, trying desperately to push back the heat gradually flowing into his eyes. He smiled, gathering his arms around the little person and holding her close.

……

At nightfall, the Emperor returned to his chamber. Xiao Qiao personally helped him undress as usual.

“Where is Fei Fei?”

The Emperor slightly lowered his head, gazing at her face. Hearing the rustling sound of the clothing material as she undressed, he suddenly felt the surrounding quietness made his mind restless. After fixing his mind, he opened his mouth as if he had no intention of asking her.

“Fei Fei has already gone to sleep.” Xiao Qiao responded.

In the daytime, Fei Fei and the cat played crazy in the imperial garden. In the evening, when brought back by Chun Niang, she was covered in sweat, and after taking a bath, she fell asleep early.

The Emperor gave an ‘oh’ sound, wanting to say something more, but did not know what topic to start.

Xiao Qiao helped him remove his clothes, raised her eyes, and smiled, “Has His Majesty gone to bathe?”

The Emperor did not move, only staring at her, and suddenly slowly raised his hand towards her cheeks. When his fingers were about to touch her skin, a white shadow shook behind him. The cat unexpectedly rushed out of some corner and knocked over a goblet standing on the cabinet.

The goblet fell to the ground with a ‘bang.’

The Emperor stopped his hand. He turned and saw that fat cat squatting between him and the Empress. It blocked in front of the Empress with its eyes opened like copper bells, the whole body hairs are erected and eyeing himself, ready to scratch its claw.

The Emperor froze for a moment.

Empress Dowager had returned to the palace, so the cat should also return to the Jiade Palace, but it stuck to Fei Fei and was unwilling to leave. Fei Fei also wanted it to accompany her to sleep, and Xiao Qiao couldn’t do anything about it. She then called the palace maid to send its nest to Fei Fei’s chamber.

It should have gone to sleep. Unexpectedly at this moment, it had popped up again and knocked over things, startling people.

Compared to before, this cat seemed to have become spirited, but its demeanor was also strange. It always seemed as if it wanted to express something. It was a pity that it could not speak human language.

Xiao Qiao froze.

The Emperor suddenly sneezed and shrugged his shoulders with a strange expression. Xiao Qiao immediately understood, knew that the cat was too close to him, and caused him allergies, hurriedly leaned over and picked up the cat, loudly called the palace maid to come in, passing the struggling cat over, and instructed them to close the door of the palace, not to let it sneak in again.

The cat meowed all the way but was held forcefully by the maid.

Xiao Qiao hurriedly went to wash her hands, fetched the anti-itching ointment, and told the Emperor to sit down and take off his clothes.

Sure enough, within only a moment, small red bumps covered his neck and chest.

As if he was very itchy, his mouth hissed softly and reached out to scratch.

“Don’t scratch.”

Xiao Qiao stopped him, dabbed some ointment on his skin with the red rash, then helped him gently smooth it out.

“Alright, bear with it. It won’t itch anymore soon.” She said, taking the small jade bottle containing the ointment. When she got up, the Emperor held her other hand.

Xiao Qiao stopped and turned her head to look at him.

The Emperor was silent, only looking up at her, holding her hand in his palm, gently kneading it.

Xiao Qiao was slightly stunned, then tried to pull away her hand. “I’ll go put the medicine bottle ……” she smiled.

The Emperor suddenly exerted a slight force, and with a pull, Xiao Qiao flung herself into his arms and sat on his lap.

With their faces close together, a burst of hot air hit her face.

“What’s wrong with you?” Xiao Qiao was stunned, the smile slowly fading from her face.

The Emperor gazed at her without speaking and gently pressed her down onto the dragon bed, touching her forehead with his lips, slowly moving to her eyelids.

“You are so beautiful …… so beautiful ……”

Accompanied by kisses, his murmured voice rang in her ears.

Xiao Qiao’s eyelashes fluttered slightly.

His lips gradually moved downwards and kissed her lips. His strength gradually increased, and when he attempted to pry open her lips, Xiao Qiao opened her eyes and raised her hand to block his mouth.

The Emperor then kissed her hand gently in response, lifted her face, and looked at her with a color of delight in his eyes.

“Empress,” he paused for a moment, “Man Man ……” he gently called out her name, slightly serious, “What’s wrong?”

“You are not that husband of mine.” Xiao Qiao stared into his eyes, “Who are you?”

The Emperor was stunned, and the delightful color in his eyes slowly disappeared. He released her and sat up. Silence fell.

“I am me.” The Emperor finally said, sounding a little harsh.

“But not my husband.”

The Emperor raised his eyes and looked at her before finally nodding, “Yes. I am me, yet not the same me in this life.”

“I was originally dead. An arrow pierced through my throat. But I woke up again, and the first thing I saw was you.” He said slowly.

Xiao Qiao’s eyes widened. Ever since the thunderstorm that almost shattered one’s heart and soul, Xiao Qiao was keenly aware of the difference in the person beside her in the bed. She felt like her husband was a different person. He was still Wei Shao, yet he was not the same Wei Shao she was familiar with.

Doubts slowly settled in her heart. Finally, she was unable to resist asking. His answer clarified all her previous suspicions. She slowly sat up.

“What about my husband?” She asked, trembling slightly.

The Emperor watched her.

“I don’t know how he is. I woke up as me in this present world. Grandmother is alive and well. I have you, and we have Fei Fei. I look back on my previous life as if it were a nightmare. In this life, I know how I should live it.”

“Man Man ……”

He called out her name and held her hand once again. But Xiao Qiao quickly pulled her hand out.

“You are not my husband.” She shook her head, “Where is my husband? Where did he go?” She repeated the question.

The Emperor fixed his eyes on her face.

“Are you afraid of me?” He asked her. His voice was soft. “Don’t be afraid of me. I won’t harm you in the slightest.”

“No. I am not afraid of you.” Xiao Qiao shook her head.

“Then, are you blaming me for killing your Qiao family members in the past? Don’t worry. I won’t do it again in this life. In my last life, I killed all the people I wanted to kill, but I never got any real pleasure, much less knew what relief was like. It was only now that I seemed to understand. I regret, I also envy, even jealous of this life. It was me all the same, but why these two me, their situations are so vastly different ……”

His tone gradually became agitated, closed his eyes, and took a long breath.

Xiao Qiao looked at this handsome face in front of her that she was so familiar with she could depict it with her eyes closed, and softly said, “It’s good that you understand. Since you understand, you should return to wherever you came from ……”

He turned a deaf ear. “I realize that I like you,” he said, “From the first moment I saw you, I had that feeling. I want to be close to you. You bring pleasure and satisfaction to my heart in a way that I never felt before– He may never come back again, or he may have become one with me. For I am he, and he is me!”

The Emperor’s tone suddenly intensified as he said this sentence.

“You may be him. He also carried your shadow with him in this life. But you are not the husband I love. This is all just an illusion for you, and when the illusion is gone, everything will return to its original state.”

Xiao Qiao said.

The Emperor’s eyes gazed at her fixedly, and he suddenly gathered her into his arms and kissed her lips once again.

“I am him, and he is me. You have to believe ……”

He repeated in her ear, over and over again, with irresistible power.

He wrapped his arms around her, wanting to embed her into his body.

Xiao Qiao’s body trembled slightly at the familiar scent of him surrounding her, couldn’t resist.

……

Wei Shao had exhausted his strength to climb the bed chamber’s window sill. With trembling, he poked through an opening, which allowed him to see this scene on the dragon bed, and immediately exploded in anger.

Robbing his grandmother was fine, but then he looted his little princess.

Although he was unhappy, he barely tolerated it. Yet now, he even wanted to rob his beautiful Empress from him!

Fuck!

Wei Shao meowed loudly and crashed through the window pane fiercely. With the scattered flying wood shavings, he leaped, landed, and rolled like a tiger toward the Emperor that still embraced Xiao Qiao.

……

“Husband! Husband!”

When he heard Xiao Qiao’s voice calling out to him, his blood boiled even more fervently, his teeth and claws flailing, his throat ho-ho-ho, fighting to the death. He suddenly felt someone slapped him a few times.

“Let Man Man go!” He roared. He snapped his eyes open and popped into a sitting position.

Xiao Qiao was lying on the edge of the bed, startled by him and shivered, almost falling off the dragon bed. She patted her chest and crawled over to sit on her knees beside him, frowning slightly, “What’s wrong with you? What let go of me? Grinding your teeth in your sleep and kicking me so many times!”

Wei Shao’s heart was beating so hard it almost popped out of his throat. He gasped for air and slowly came back to his senses. He met Xiao Qiao’s line of sight and then suddenly lowered his head to look down at his hands and feet, his voice still trembling, “Man Man! Am I a human or a cat? Am I still there? Touch me, am I me?”

After having been made suffer by him, Xiao Qiao was extremely tired. She was asleep, but his kick awakened her, and she almost flew under the bed. When she opened his eyes, she saw that he was lying there with his eyes closed, gnashing his teeth and looking terrified.

Initially, she was angry, but his pale, sweaty face made her heartache. She hurriedly took a towel to wipe his sweat. She asked: “What exactly did you dream of? Scared you into this state?”

“What day is today?” He asked, his eyes still fuzzy.

“The eighth day of the first month.”

“The Cliff was just sent to Da Ming Temple last night?”

Xiao Qiao nodded.

“Grandmother is still at the Da Ming Temple?”

“She shall return tomorrow.”

“We just …… have been sleeping?”

Xiao Qiao unhappily glared at him, “Isn’t you who came back in the middle of the day, dragging and insisting on sleeping with me ……” She stopped when he suddenly raised his hand to pinch himself. After closing his eyes for a while, he jumped from the bed, not caring that he was still naked, and wildly laughed.

Xiao Qiao was startled by him again and shouted, “Wei Shao! If you keep going absurd like this, I’ll get annoyed!”

“Man Man! Man Man! Excellent! I’m still me! I was scared to death!”

Wei Shao lunged toward her, knocking her down on the dragon bed.

Xiao Qiao slapped him, but he didn’t care. He hugged her tightly and incessantly kissed her face, leading her to roll on the dragon bed.

“Man Man, hit me! As hard as you can! Wake me up!”

Xiao Qiao shouted twice before he gagged her mouth.

……

The Emperor and Empress had been in the chamber since mid-afternoon and had not come out. The Emperor even ordered to send the evening meal.

The prime minister and a few other ministers sought him for something to discuss. After waiting a long time in the Imperial Study without seeing the Emperor, they asked the palace staff to send a message to the Guang Hua Palace.

“Pass on my words; I have suffered quite a shock today and must rest well for a whole night! Let’s talk about heavenly matters tomorrow!”

The Emperor was interrupted when he was doing a good deed. He lifted the curtain and roared outwards.

The palace staff was startled, hurriedly bowing and responding. They were about to exit when the Emperor seemed to remember something.

“Also, the Empress Dowager’s cat, keep an eye on it for me! It is not allowed to appear in the Guang Hua Palace! If it comes one step closer, I will hold you all accountable!”

The Emperor’s roar echoed in the Guang Hua Palace, buzzing for a long time.