200: Chapter 200 Sharing the same bed in life and the same fur coat in death

"Sister Jiang."

She nodded slightly toward Queen Jiang.

"Could you... lend the King to Demon Concubine Su Daji for one night?"

Queen Jiang paused in her tracks and looked at Su Chen.

Su Chen gave her a gentle nod.

A flash of resentment crossed Queen Jiang's lovely face.

As a woman herself, she naturally knew what Su Daji intended to do.

But at this moment, Su Chen and the Great Yin had reached their final hour.

She thought about how, if Su Chen's plan were to be completed, Su Daji would have to endure a pain ten million times greater than her own in the future.

She ultimately released her supporting hand.

Silently taking a step back, she whispered,

"I will be waiting in the outer room."

With that, she turned and walked out of the sleeping chambers, gently closing the door behind her.

Only two people remained in the hall.

Su Daji walked up to Su Chen and looked up at him.

Her eyes were shimmering with tears.

"My King."

"When Sister Jiang married you, though it was not out of mutual love,"

"She had the Three Matches and Six Proofs, the Phoenix Coronet and Cloud Cape, and an Eight-man Litter to carry her through the main gates of the palace with dignity."

"The whole world knows she is your Queen."

"Though I never saw it with my own eyes, I can guess just by imagining it what a grand honor that must have been."

"But what about Demon Concubine Su Daji?"

"The first time I met the King, I was forced in by that old hag to be a secondary consort."

"Forget an Eight-man Litter; I couldn't even be seen in the light of day."

"My mind was filled with nothing but how to reasonably finish you off, my King."

At this point, she gave a somewhat embarrassed smile.

"Afterward, Demon Concubine Su Daji followed the King for so long in a daze."

"I bore the infamy of being a 'demon consort' and suffered the heart-piercing Love Gu."

"Now... even my life is about to be tied to yours."

"Yet between Demon Concubine Su Daji and the King, there is nothing."

"No Three Matches and Six Proofs, no sharing of the Nuptial Cup, no wedding night by candlelight."

"I can't even call you 'Husband' properly; I can only whisper it secretly here where no one can hear."

"You are willing to burn your own life for the sake of the world."

"But Demon Concubine Su Daji is not willing."

"So, tonight."

"Demon Concubine Su Daji wants to make up for this regret."

"Tonight, Demon Concubine Su Daji wants to consume her King."

"I want to be the King's woman, properly, just once."

"To share a quilt in life, and in death...""

She choked up, unable to continue the rest of her sentence.

She simply stared at him intensely with those tear-filled eyes.

Her fox-like eyes were full of pleading and longing.

Su Chen looked at her, not knowing what to say.

At this moment, he felt somewhere between laughter and tears.

He hadn't expected that with the great enemy at the gates, what Su Daji thought of was...

Consuming him.

This little vixen.

Su Chen didn't even know if his broken body could still...

But looking at the desire that was almost overflowing from her eyes,

A thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

Damn it, a man can die, but he absolutely cannot say he's incapable.

And so.

He gave a gentle nod.

Su Daji's tears turned into a smile.

She took Su Chen's cold hand.

"Then, my King... please follow Demon Concubine Su Daji to the Star-Plucking Tower."

Supporting each other, step by step, they ascended the Star-Plucking Tower where Su Chen had once watched the stars and talked through the night with her.

The place that was also about to become the endpoint of his life.

"The prize pool is still accumulating."

Su Chen thought to himself.

If he were to be killed by Su Daji's own hand in the future at the very place where they were married,

And when he returned to the real world, if Su Daji—like Zhuge Jinyu and the other two—could find the real him...

Cough, cough...

He didn't even dare to imagine the treatment he would receive.

The star-gazing platform at the top of the tower was still vast and empty.

There was no moon tonight.

Only sparse stars looked down coldly upon the mortal world.

When Su Chen married Mirror Lord in the previous round of investment, he at least had some glory as the Prince Regent.

But this time.

There were no guests, no ceremonial music, and no parents present.

There was only a stunning bride in a crimson wedding dress and a groom with frost-tinted hair whose breath was failing him.

Su Daji produced two cups of wine from somewhere.

She stood face-to-face with Su Chen and raised her cup.

"First bow to Heaven and Earth."

They spoke the words, but they did not actually kneel.

On one hand, it was out of consideration for Su Chen's body.

On the other hand,

There was nothing in the night sky above that was worth their kneeling.

"Second bow to the parents."

They first turned toward the direction of the Zhaoge palace, then bowed symbolically toward the direction of Jizhou.

"Third bow to each other."

This was the most solemn bow.

She turned around to face Su Chen.

Their eyes met, tears shimmering in both of their gazes simultaneously.

She looked at him, staring deeply, as if trying to carve him into the cycle of reincarnation.

Then, slowly and solemnly, she leaned down in a bow.

Su Chen also bowed in return.

"The ceremony is complete."

She straightened up, her voice already choked with emotion.

She took a step forward, exchanging her Nuptial Wine cup with the one in Su Chen's hand.

With their arms entwined, they tilted their heads back and drank it all.

The wine was cold as it slid down their throats.

The rites were finished.

Su Daji suddenly lunged into Su Chen's arms, her arms tightly encircling his thin waist as she buried her face deep into his chest.

Finally unable to restrain herself any longer, she wailed loudly.

"My King, since the wedding ceremony is over, Demon Concubine Su Daji begs of you..."

"I don't want a next life, just this one..."

"Su Chen, I beg you not to leave me behind, don't leave Demon Concubine Su Daji all alone..."

"We have performed the bows, we have become husband and wife, we have drunk the Nuptial Wine."

"You are my husband now."

"I beg you... don't go..."

She cried as if her heart were being torn apart.

Su Chen held her tightly, his chin resting on the top of her head.

Investing...

In every round of investment, no matter how cold-blooded a person might be,

They would eventually be unable to help themselves.

He closed his eyes.

He felt the scalding liquid slide from the corners of his eyes.

Quietly, it vanished into her hair, which was like a dark cloud.

...

It was unclear who kissed whom first.

Perhaps it was Su Daji standing on her tiptoes, recklessly sealing Su Chen's pale lips.

Perhaps it was Su Chen, in such an atmosphere, finally casting aside all reason and hesitation.

Their lips touched in an instant.

Almost the moment they joined,

Su Chen tightly entwined his tongue with Su Daji's, fierce and lingering.

Crazily extracting the sweet nectar from that small tongue.

Clothes were pulled off haphazardly amidst gasps and tears.

Su Chen's body, which had long been like a lamp running out of oil, somehow produced a surge of brute strength at this moment.

He swept Su Daji up in his arms, playing with her authentic 'White Rabbit' creamy candies as he stumbled into the only inner room in the tower that was still relatively intact.

There, Su Daji had already—at some unknown time—set up a simple bridal chamber.

Dried flower petals were scattered across the couch, which was covered with thick brocade quilts.

The two of them dove inside with almost no hesitation.

The red candles burned high, reflecting two figures tightly entwined.

Su Daji's skin shimmered with a glow like red jade under the candlelight.

That crimson wedding dress lay discarded on the floor, looking like withered Equinox Flowers after a full bloom.

Her eyes were misty with tears as she gazed infatuatedly at the thin yet still handsome man above her.

Her jade-like arms wrapped around his neck, offering herself without reservation.

"Husband..."

She murmured into his ear.

With the most sincere allure of a fox spirit,

"Take me..."

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