In the darkness, He Tianlin heard some movement.

He opened his eyes, and what met him was the familiar black. The boundless darkness had already consumed him.

He doesn't remember how many days and nights he spent here.

He even started to miss the hard-working days of his previous life.

Hallucinations, it has to be hallucinations.

Apart from Tang Xiu occasionally coming over, he hardly saw anyone else.

The person who delivered the food to him was a mute. Every time he roared, the other person remained expressionless, as if they hadn't heard a thing.

That voice got closer, He Tianlin smiled, feeling that even hallucinations now had a sense of reality.

However, the next moment, he saw a large hole in the wall. Before he could even gasp, he fell into unconsciousness.

When I opened my eyes again, it was the long-awaited sunlight.

He waved his hands almost maniacally, and the iron chains he wore were gone.

He... is he free now?

He Tianlin couldn't imagine that this day would actually come.

No, Tang Xiu's place is like a copper wall and an iron wall. How could he possibly get out?

So, this is a dream?

Tai squeezed her arm really hard, it hurt.

How can it hurt in a dream?

Suddenly, a man and a woman stood before him. He stared blankly, feeling both familiarity and strangeness.

"Master, Miss, this...this is where?"

He remembered that when he first crossed over, it was winter. Now it was also icy and snowy. He thought he had returned to the modern world.

Seeing a man and woman dressed in ancient garb, he knew that things were not as he had expected.

Fu Jiujiu laughed, "It's been ten years. He probably wouldn't recognize me anymore."

"He Tianlin, you don't recognize me?" Fu Jiu asked.

“I…should I know you?” He Tianlin countered, the woman before him was stunningly beautiful, so captivating that it was breathtaking. Yet, she didn't seem very old.

Fu Jiujiu laughed, He Tianlin thought to himself that whoever could ask him like this was definitely not one of the women he had been kept with by Tang Xiu before.

Those women, they don't have any feelings.

It's not Yan Yu, Yan Yu has long since disappeared, and Yan Yu didn't look like this.

"Are you... Fu JiuJiu? This...this is impossible! How did you grow so big?"

Fu Jiujiu let out a giggle, "Ten years have passed, of course I've grown up. Could I possibly still be a child?"

He Tianlin knew that Fu Jiujiu had woken up, but he couldn't believe that the stunning girl standing before him was actually Fu Jiujiu.

"You... saved me?"

Fu Jiujiu nodded. "I guess so."

"What do you want me to do for you?" he asked eagerly.

Now he knows the person standing beside Fu Jiujiu must be Tang Xian, there's no other possibility.

He was eager to prove his worth, he didn't want to die yet, "I... I came from the far future, I... I can bring things from the future here, guns, you know guns? The ones that hurt you, the ones you've seen."

He was afraid that Fu Jiujiu and Tang Xian wouldn't believe him, or might not remember, and he kept gesturing with his hands.

Tang Xian's eyes turned cold, but she didn't interrupt his raving.

"I... I can help you deal with Tang Xiu, it's Tang Xiu, he wants to kill you, this has nothing to do with me, go kill him."

"Of course I know how to get you out."

He Tian nodded, "You're really smart."

Fu Jiu chirped her lips, she looked at Tang Xian, "Seventh Brother Tang, are we really going to kill this person?"

"Is this a test?" Tang Xian smirked.

He could have given this man to the Emperor Chengde and revealed Tang Xiu's crimes, but he chose to bring him here instead.

Why?

Because he doesn't trust any ambitious man.

Tang Xiu could imprison He Tianlin for ten years, he was worried that his father emperor would also be swayed by the magical ability on He Tianlin's body.

Become the next Tang Xiu.

Sometimes, human nature cannot resist being tested.

“Kill…kill me? You want to kill me?” He Tianlin was dumbfounded, “You saved me out, just to kill me?”

"Or what? Do you think I'd let you go and continue to plague this world?" Tang Xian said coldly.

"No!" Hetianlin shook his head, he was sure the man in front of him was Tang Xian. Tang Xian was also a prince. "Seventh Prince, you can't kill me! I can help you gain the throne, I can help you unify the world. Don't kill me, I... I can provide you with the most powerful weapons in the world, not just weapons, but also other things. You know, there are many things in the future world that you wouldn't dare to imagine..."

"Enough!" Tang Xian remained unmoved. "I don't care what you say. I'm not Tang Xiu, nor am I Tang Yang."

When the sky darkens, how is this possible?

"Don't you want the throne? It should be yours, it was supposed to be Tang Xiu...Tang Xiu calculated this well. As long as Fu Jiujiu has an accident, you will inevitably become depressed. He did this to you, won't you take revenge?"

Tang Xian hooked her lips. "He Tianlin, you are very good at seducing people. But I'm still very curious, was it you who took the initiative to find my fourth brother back then, or did he find you?"

Fu Jiu knew Tang Xian wanted to figure out whether Tang Xiu was truly this way, or if he had just given in to temptation.

But think about it, Tang Xiu's inner heart is dark, his schemes are deep, how could such a brilliant person be willing to be someone else's puppet and be manipulated by a few words?

“It’s him, it’s him, the Seventh Prince. You can rest assured, I can help you identify him. I’m going to see the Emperor with you now. I will expose Tang Xiu’s crimes…” He Tianlin was trying to find a glimmer of hope.

"He Tianlin, give up. We won't let you see the Emperor."

"For...? Why?" He Tianlin looked at Fu Jiujiu in confusion.

"You could have lived a life of wealth and prosperity with your talents, but you chose ambition and greed, plunging into the whirlpool of power and hurting countless people. I cannot allow you to continue living."

"I...please...don't kill me. I can really help you, my mind, my abilities, are irreplaceable by anyone else."

"Is that so?" Fu Jiujiu curled her lips, a sneer in her voice. "Just because you've read the Thirty-Six Stratagems and Sun Tzu's Art of War, do you think you're a military genius? How laughable."

"You... you are..." He Tianlin knew that these two books didn't exist in this world, and Fu Jiujiu was actually able to say their names.

"So you are... You really are!" He Tianlin doubted it again and again, but dismissed the thought time after time.

"Fu Jiujiu, you really are just like me?" He Tianlin looked at Fu Jiujiu and laughed maniacally. "You hid so well."

"The seventh prince, she...she's also like me, a traveler from the future. She's an alien too, and those two books...people here have never seen them. I swear..."

"So what?" Tang Xian turned his head to look at Fu Jiujiu.

This novel is first released on a Chinese online literature platform.