Chapter 169

As soon as this was said, it was like a thunderclap on the ground, exploding in the hearts of several men.

Zongfang's ears buzzed, and he frowned, suspecting he had heard wrong. The posture that had been unconcerned originally instantly turned into leaning forward, and he questioned Laiboli: "Say that again?"

"I said, I will form a bond with Sui Sui," Laiboli said word by word.

Ka'er laughed in disbelief, Sang Yan looked surprised, a little unable to recover.

Only Luka still maintained a sitting posture, legs crossed, silent.

Zongfang's chest heaved, he turned his head to hold her hand, and asked through gritted teeth: "I want you to say it yourself, did you agree?"

The emotions in Qiao Suisui's eyes were complex, but this time, she was not panicked or guilty, but nodded frankly.

Laiboli stood up and announced to everyone: "That's right, Sui Sui agreed to become my Empress, and from now on, Ausilan will be hers."

Qiao Suisui frowned in confusion; she had never known the information in the second half of the sentence.

Laiboli walked to her, took her hand, and kissed it: "From the day I decided to take down Ausilan, it was the day I started preparing to give you this gift."

Qiao Suisui listened in surprise as he said: "The turbulent situation of the Ausilan Empire at the beginning has now been fully stabilized by me, and there is no need to worry too much later. You just do what you want to do. Sui Sui, do you remember what you said when I decided to leave everything here and take you away? Now I have achieved it all."

She looked at Laiboli's excited eyes, a little dazed.

At that time, she had just escaped from Zongfang's hands, and she said—

"What I want is a stable and safe life. Ashi, thank you very much, but I don't want to live a life of hiding, and I shouldn't live that kind of life."

It turned out to be like this... It turned out that Laiboli had planted a seed in his heart because of a word she said at the time.

"You thought I wasn't strong enough to protect you... Now I've done all these things." Laiboli showed a smile that hadn't been seen on his face for a long time. That smile instantly reminded Qiao Suisui of the elegant and romantic man she first met at the Leguo Palace.

And power, time, and affection mixed together, changing him a lot.

Qiao Suisui was filled with emotion.

She gently withdrew her hand and said her decision: "Ashi, I want to hold a ceremony for five people."

Hearing this, Laiboli's smile froze on his face.

Surprise crossed Luka's eyes, and he looked at her: "Sui Sui... you mean, you and the four of us, form a bond together?"

Zongfang still had a gloomy face, but the murderous intent around him was visibly reduced by half.

Ka'er blinked 3 times in one second, pointed at himself and asked: "I'll confirm, my name should be among these four people, right?"

Qiao Suisui glared at him amusingly, "Without you, the fourth person is A Yao."

When Ka'er heard the name "A Yao", he knew he was stable. He immediately grinned like it didn't cost money, and said stickily: "Okay, I have to practice these days, I've gotten a bit fat."

Laiboli pressed his forehead in endurance. He tried to reason with Qiao Suisui, but was interrupted by her first: "Ashi, do you want to keep dragging them along?"

Instantly, Laiboli's face turned pale rapidly.

"I... Sui Sui, I was just..."

"You don't need to explain."

Qiao Suisui smiled faintly. In fact, Laiboli's words hit her vital point. It seemed she was being manipulated, but in reality, she truly started thinking about the matter of forming a bond. It was precisely because of his words that she realized she had been habitually repeating the pattern of her childhood—when encountering warmth and love, her first reaction wasn't to embrace it happily, but to be uneasy, afraid that one day she would lose it. Until she finally pushed away the person who loved her, she felt relieved while sad, and would comfort herself: See, they would leave after all.

In the final analysis, she had been constantly performing a belief she hadn't even noticed herself—I don't believe I will be loved.

So she had been avoiding facing her feelings for them, because if she admitted they were important to her, she would start to fear losing them, and then repeat the familiar pain.

But Luka's consistent waiting, Anubis's certainty, Zongfang's attitude of not wanting her to get pregnant again, Ka'er's absolute gentlemanly attitude toward her wishes, and even Laiboli's pressure because he wanted to get her, all made her infinitely certain—

They love her, and she is worthy.

Perhaps it was because of the advantage given to her by the childbearing system at the beginning, but she had been trying not to rely on the system to stand on her own in this world, possessing her own economic sources, learning to control mental power, establishing the Zizai organization, investigating the truth of the Rebel Army... Each and every one of them was a path she walked step by step.

No matter if their love will always be there, she is still her.

She is Qiao Suisui, who can find a way to survive in any environment.

"If you don't want to, then let's put this matter aside for now," she picked up the teacup and took a sip, saying faintly.

"Who said I don't want to!" Ka'er sat up straight and expressed his position: "I'm willing. If they don't want to, they can just form a bond with me."

"I'm willing." Luka looked at her, his gaze gentle and subtle, with indescribable emotion in his eyes. The three steady words, like a thousand pounds of weight, settled properly on Qiao Suisui's heart.

She looked at Zongfang and asked: "How about you?"

Zongfang looked back at her for a long time, sighed, and then whispered in her ear: "Qiaoqiao, you clearly know."

He had long ago surrendered in the matter of loving her.

Qiao Suisui smiled knowingly, and finally looked at Laiboli, deliberately angering him: "Then I'll trouble Ashi to prepare for everyone." After speaking, she looked at Sang Yan, who was dazed and distracted, and said: "It's rare to come here, why not call Gaimailun and A Yao to participate in my bond ceremony together?"

Sang Yan's expression froze for a moment, then nodded, squeezed out a smile, and there was lonely blessing in his black eyes: "Okay, I will definitely be there."

Laiboli's eyes were red at some point. He stared at her, his eyes full of heavy, inextricable helplessness. It was like punching cotton, and being wrapped by the cotton.

Qiao Suisui glanced at him and deliberately retaliated: "If you don't want to, then let's hold it for four people this time."

He felt his chest was suffocated to the extreme, all blocked by the three words "Qiao Suisui".

Laiboli swallowed the sourness in his mouth, as if swallowing strong love and unwillingness at the same time. At this moment, the more he loved her, the more he hated her, hated her for being cruel to him.

When the man spoke again, his voice carried a hint of imperceptible trembling: "Okay, I'll do it." After speaking, he could no longer hold back his tears, turned his head in disguise, and walked away in big strides.

Luka touched her hair and comforted her: "Don't worry too much, do you need me to go talk to him?"

Qiao Suisui smiled, "I'm not worried, you'll know tonight."

That night.

The guards of the Imperial Court, the servants coming and going, and the people coming and going, all witnessed the Ausilan Empire's Sun, known for manipulating human hearts, kneeling on the ground and patting the door outside Qiao Suisui's palace door like an ordinary family man, drunk.

According to the guards on duty that night, Miss Qiao even closed the door of the outer palace this time. The Sun kept saying all kinds of things at first, cried after talking, and then a sentence "I want to sleep" came from inside, and he didn't dare to pat the door again. But the person sat outside the palace door and guarded for a whole night.

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