The Empress’s Gigolo

Heavy rain fell on the roof, and the sound of the rain almost drowned out the sound of everything else.

The wooden houses that were built outside the kadsura coccinea forest weren’t destroyed when the jade-waisted slaves passed by and were just nice to provide shelter for everyone.

The empress sat on a coarse wooden bed with Ren Baqian lying on her lap. His eyes were closed and occasionally blood would flow out from his nose from time to time.

The empress silently wiped. There was no one around, so her face didn’t maintain its iciness. Only a profound sadness remained.

Ren Baqian had been in this state for five days and had been unresponsive for the first two days. However, after the second day, his condition deteriorated.

After his condition had worsened, it was as if he had been seriously injured, and his breathing at one time was close to stopping.

This made her tremble.

Fear seized her heart.

She never expected to face the fear of losing the man in front of her.

Since a young age, this was the first time she didn’t reject someone and the first time someone made her so devoted, although he was annoying at times and made her feel like beating him. Even though he was very ugly now, with no hair, eyebrows, or moustache—in other words, totally hairless… these things weren’t within her scope of consideration.

When someone was in her heart, it didn’t matter how he looked.

If Ren Baqian were to die, she wouldn’t be able to face it.

She wasn’t able to do anything despite her rank as the fourth top expert in the world. She didn’t know what had happened to his sea of knowledge and could only wait.

This made her feel powerless.

The sound of footsteps interrupted the sound of the rain. Hong Luan rushed in with a pot of meat that was covered with a leaf to prevent the rain from leaking in.

“Your Majesty, it’s time to eat,” Hong Luan said while holding a pot.

“Put it over there.” The empress’s face became colder, but sadness and worry were hidden in her eyes.

However, from the way she put Ren Baqian on her lap, even without looking at her expression, they knew her feelings.

“Take your leave.” The empress was a little agitated because she didn’t want anyone to disturb her now.

This included even her two trusted attendants, Hong Luan and Qing Yuan.

“Your Majesty… I will leave the food here.” Hong Luan looked worried and put the pot at the head of the bed so that it was within the empress’s reach.

Previously, she usually put the food on that coarse table. The empress didn’t move at all during these two days, and Hong Luan had taken away everything that she had placed there.

Before leaving, she looked worriedly at the empress, then looked at Ren Baqian and prayed, “Sir Ren, wake up quickly!”

At this moment, she saw some movements from under his eyelids and froze.

“Get out!” the empress ordered coldly.

“Your, Your Majesty, Ren, Sir Ren is moving!” Hong Luan stuttered with joy.

Then, she added, “His eyes are moving! He should be waking up soon!”

The empress had already lowered her head to look at Ren Baqian’s face when she heard Hong Luan’s first sentence and saw his eyes softly rolling under his eyelids.

This was the first time in a few days that she saw a response.

The empress kept her eyes fixed on Ren Baqian and didn’t even blink. She was worried that Ren Baqian would relapse to his former state in the blink of an eye and that she would be terribly disappointed.

For a few minutes, the two of them in the room watched him closely for any signs that he was waking up.

Meanwhile, the empress felt that Ren Baqian’s heart was beating fast. The blood was coursing through the blood vessels in his body, and she could even hear the blood rushing through his blood vessels like a flowing river.

After a few minutes, Ren Baqian groaned, his eyelids slowly moved two times, and then his eyes opened.

Ren Baqian’s first sight upon opening his eyes was the heroic face of the empress. Her mesmerizing face was full of complex expressions ranging from joy to anger to tenderness, making Ren Baqian almost fall into a dreamy state just after waking up.

Wave after wave of headaches hit him.

“Your Majesty, give me some water!” Ren Baqian felt that his throat was dry and cracking.

“You are finally awake.” Her expression changed a few times and finally turned joyful. “Hong Luan, bring some water!”

“Okay! I’m going now.” Hong Luan was overjoyed and rushed out of the house without caring about the heavy rain.

From the room, Ren Baqian and the empress heard Hong Luan excitedly shouting, “Sir Ren has awakened.”

Everyone around was startled by this announcement.

Last time, when Ren Baqian was hit by a poisoned arrow, the empress rushed to take him to Great Xia. This time, with Ren Baqian in a coma, her behavior made them even more worried.

Everyone was worried that the empress would be extremely sad if anything happened to Ren Baqian.

Now that he had awakened, everyone was relieved.

Ren Baqian enjoyed the benefit of being served water by the empress, but the empress obviously didn’t know how to serve others and almost choked him to death. He was already weak, so the coughing that ensued almost drained half of his life away.

However, this gave him the opportunity to see the turmoil on her face.

Ren Baqian had a hard time recovering and rested in bed for a while to regain some energy.

While the bone broth was being prepared, the empress finally asked him, “Is it resolved?”

“It’s resolved!” Ren Baqian laughed bitterly. Initially, he thought he could control his sea of knowledge and crush his opponent with one finger, but he didn’t realize that he was too inexperienced.

Although he had mastered the sea of knowledge, the other party’s spiritual soul was of a much higher quality.

The spiritual soul of the other party could reside in a piece of glass after death. How would this be easy to deal with?

Ren Baqian was broken after just a short while.

The other party followed up by crushing him.

If not for his sea of knowledge, he wouldn’t have been able to repeatedly reunite his scattered spiritual soul. If the other party didn’t try as much as possible to preserve Ren Baqian’s memory, he wouldn’t have woken up.

Even the combined power of two Heaven-grade weapons, the metal chain and the golden spear, were no match for the other party.

After all, they were merely weapons.

Fortunately, they were the condensed Heaven-grade weapons of two powerful Spirit Wheel experts. One was good at attacking, whereas the other was good at capturing and could somewhat hinder the other party. This gave him the opportunity to use the method that he had been considering earlier, but hadn’t dared to use.

He created a singularity and detonated it.

At that time, he had no other choice but to use this method or face death. The other party was taking over his body, so Ren Baqian had to take a risk.

Fortunately, his bet was successful in defying death.

The other party died in the singularity.

The other party died without knowing that someone could make such a thing in their mind. In other words, the other party had no idea what it was.

In his sea of knowledge, Ren Baqian created a black hole that sucked in everything, including his consciousness. Finally, even that black hole collapsed to a point that couldn’t be found and exploded.

This confirmed that Ren Baqian’s original idea was correct.

His sea of knowledge formed a universe.

Although this universe was currently barren, innumerable materials were gathering in some directions. If no accident happened, would lead to the formation of planets.

Ren Baqian felt that he had the ability to fire up a universe in the future

After Ren Baqian roughly explained to the empress, she let out a long breath and said, “You are lucky that this thing was successfully executed.”

The empress didn’t mention anything about him taking too much of a risk or anything like that.

This was because Ren Baqian wouldn’t have survived if he didn’t do so.

Although she didn’t say it, the thought of the risk involved made her tremble.

She didn’t dare to think about what would have happened if something went wrong.

“Luckily, it was successful.” In hindsight, Ren Baqian was frightened. “I will not do such a dangerous thing again.”

Even though he said this, he still believed that when forced to the point of no return, he would take a risk to hang on to a feeble thread of life.

However, he would stay away from danger in the future.

He felt that he still had a large part of his life to enjoy.

With a lady like the empress by his side, his life wouldn’t be boring.