C36 I will protect you for the rest of your life

The wedding, which was the focus of the nation's attention, took place under the suspicion of the guests because of the departure of the emperor.

No one knew what Wen Jianzheng had said in the end, nor did they know why the emperor would suddenly return to the palace. The empress, on the other hand, wore the graceful smile of a mother as she looked at Shen Lingjue and Feng Ningyan, and nodded in satisfaction.

Hua Ruoyu sat on the guest seat far away from them. She looked at the newbies bowing to him with jealousy, biting her lips until they turned green.

At this time, her eyes suddenly made contact with King Cheng Shen Youhuang who was in the wedding hall. She hurriedly retracted her hatred, and shyly and charmingly smiled.

Shen Youhuang nodded, a look of satisfaction sweeping past her eyes.

"Send him to the bridal room!"

The wedding ceremony had finally reached its final step. Under Shen Lingjue's lead, Feng Ningyan walked towards their new home.

He walked on the stone path, passed through the veranda, climbed the jade steps, and stepped on the embroidered carpet. Step by step, he stepped on the fresh petals.

This was originally a path that made the bride look forward to anxiously, but Feng Ningyan felt that the phoenix crown above her head and the hood was even heavier, causing her to walk on it step by step.

Seeing that she walked so slowly, Shen Lingjue slowed his steps until he was beside her.

"Tired?"

After travelling for many days, she had finally reached the Duke's Palace. She didn't even have time to drink a mouthful of water when she wore a phoenix crown's gown. How could she not be tired when faced with such a complicated wedding?

Feng Ningyan nodded slightly. "Mn, hungry and tired …"

Before she finished speaking, Shen Lingjue had already carried her across his chest and walked towards the bridal room in large strides.

"Your Highness!" She was terrified. "This... This is impolite, quickly let me down! "

"Have we ever done anything unceremonious along the way?" Shen Lingjue blew a hot wind into her ear through the red veil.

Feng Ningyan's ears were itching so much that she hurriedly dodged. Her head was covered in jade and filled with distress.

Shen Lingjue laughed, "This king only wants to quickly enter the bridal chamber and uncover the cover, so that I can have a good look at my imperial concubine …"

His clear and cheerful laughter, made Feng Ningyan somehow feel that it was pleasing to the ears.

"Hmph …" She twisted her sore ankle. "You said to leave it to me and not go back on it later."

Shen Lingjue stopped for a moment, glanced at her, and continued to walk forward speechlessly.

The pavilion that was filled with red lanterns and red silk flowers was right in the middle of the Prince Yu's Mansion's garden.

Shen Lingjue carried Feng Ningyan all the way up the stairs and into the bridal room, then placed her down steadily on the side of the bed.

When the Empress Dowager handed the scale to Shen Lingjue, he ordered everyone to withdraw.

He raised his hand and removed the pearl gold foil covering her head, only to see a brilliant golden light shining from her eyes, revealing Feng Ningyan's beautiful face beneath the phoenix crown.

Feng Ningyan held her sleeves tightly, took a few deep breaths, then raised her head and looked at him.

"Your Highness, can you tell me the reason why you won't marry me?"

The corner of Shen Lingjue's mouth raised into a smile, she picked up the wine bottle on the table and passed it to her: "After drinking this cup of wine, I will definitely tell you."

Feng Ningyan looked at the wine cup, and still took it, and placed it near her mouth, about to drink.

Shen Lingjue quickly took hold of her arm, and also placed the wine cup next to her lips.

"To make a cup of wine, I naturally have to do this."

Feng Ningyan's face reddened, and said angrily: "Your Highness, have you played enough? If you don't tell me, I won't drink. "

Shen Lingjue's eyes turned cold, she looked at the wine in the cup and laughed lightly before placing the cup down.

"Do you know when This King first saw you?"

Feng Ningyan blinked her eyes in shock. Isn't that the day of the general's banquet? "

Shen Lingjue shook her head and laughed, "A year ago, this king had started to have a strange dream. In his dream, there was a girl covered in blood who cried while looking at me … "

Feng Ningyan inhaled a breath of cool air, and with a shake of the wine cup in her hand, all of the wine spilled onto her sleeves.

She suddenly remembered the scene in her previous life when she was in marble temple's hall. She was covered in blood, and looking at him caused her to weep in guilt.

Was it a coincidence that he kept having these dreams?

Shen Lingjue glanced at Feng Ningyan's sleeves, took out a brocade handkerchief and wiped her hands and sleeves, then continued to speak slowly:

"This King can't see her appearance clearly, only her eyes. They are clear and filled with grief and guilt. Following that, the tears suddenly turned into a whirlpool that sucked This King into it... This King went all out to float to the shore, but what he saw was the Shura in hell. This King saw her being cut by a thousand cuts... "

After saying that, Feng Ningyan took two steps back, her face as white as paper.

"No …" "This is impossible..."

A dream was just a dream. Only when one had time to think would one have a dream at night.

But why was Shen Lingjue's dream exactly the same as her dream from her previous life?! How was this possible!

Shen Lingjue walked closer to her seriously, gently supporting her trembling shoulders, and looked into her eyes.

"For more than a year, this nightmare has been haunting me. I have never been able to see her face clearly, only her tearful eyes. "Until..."

"Until what?" Feng Ningyan asked with a trembling voice.

"Until the night of the feast, when I saw your eyes. I could not believe that a woman I had never met would appear in my dreams, I told myself. But strangely, ever since I took away your hairpin and went back to the inn to sleep, I had that dream again. This time, I can finally see that woman's face clearly … "

"It's me?" Feng Ningyan felt like he was suffocating, and his heart also seemed like it was about to stop beating.

"Yes..." Shen Lingjue laughed bitterly, "It was so clear, clear to the point where every single strand of hair was etched deeply in my memory. That night, I even dreamt that the girl Hua Yi had admitted to having an affair with me. I made up my mind, and before I was executed, someone would use your body as a meal and stuff it into my mouth …. My angina pectoris woke me up to find that cold sweat had soaked through the bedding. "

"Stop it!" Didn't you say that it was just a dream? Right! It was just a dream! It has never happened before! "

Feng Ningyan roared and interrupted him, pushing him away and retreating step by step, but she did not know how to escape from the nightmare.

Shen Lingjue looked at her in regret, not daring to get any closer.

"Even if it was just a dream, my heartache is incomparably real. The day I saw you, I had a crazy, uncontrollable thought in my mind. I, Shen Lingjue, will not let this kind of nightmare happen to you again. I, you must use all of my strength, allow you to be rich and honorable, and protect you from any harm that comes your way! "

Feng Ningyan was stunned, she was like a statue, staring at him blankly.

It didn't even brush against her hair, and only she knew that her heart was filled with raging waves of shock.

She could not believe that he had dreamed of the end of their previous life, of their wronged deaths, and that he had been tortured by this nightmare for more than a year.

She could not understand that he had only married her because of the love and cherishment he had for her in his dreams.

This dream was like an exit that overlapped with her previous life, causing her to be unable to tell whether the His Highness King Yu in front of her who had admitted to being guilty of adultery, or the His Highness King Yu who went to the underworld with her, or the Shen Lingjue who took off her veil, took away her silver hairpin, and forcefully proposed marriage on the first encounter at the banquet.

Her eyes blurred.

"Because of this dream. So you want to protect me and marry me even when you put your life on the line in front of the Emperor and have your imperial family protect you? "