Age of Evolution#

Chapter 736: Chapter 739: The Curtain Falls

Liang Zhihuan’s broadcast time was very short, less than ten seconds.

From Ning Qingxuan’s obstruction, to being embraced by Lin Zhen, to the kiss, and then Liang Zhihuan turned off the broadcast.

But this process caused a huge sensation in the Dimensional Universe.

If it weren’t for Liang Zhihuan’s broadcast, this drama in Nan Liang would have had no ending, and no one would know what happened in the queen’s chamber.

According to the normal script, it might have been Lin Zhen, the villain, killing all the way, only to see the Emperor and queen’s love, and then despair, and then be killed or something like that as the normal result.

But Liang Zhihuan revealed the answer, Lin Zhen did not end tragically, but he did.

Lin Zhen and Ning Qingxuan embraced and kissed, okay, this is not particularly unusual, and it confirmed the speculation that there was indeed something between Lin Zhen and the queen.

But why did Liang Zhihuan broadcast this?

Was watching his queen being embraced and kissed by Lin Zhen enjoyable? Was this emperor a masochist?

In the Original World’s hot news, the term “cuckold emperor” successfully ranked first.

Compared to Lin Zhen’s fighting situation with a kitchen knife and cutting wires, sparking lightning all the way, people from those distant countries seemed more interested in gossip.

Countless people in the Dimensional Universe even @-tagged Liang Zhihuan, hoping that the Emperor of Nan Liang could continue to broadcast what happened next.

Did the queen and Lin Zhen go to bed? Did they have sex? Some even asked about Liang Zhihuan’s mentality while broadcasting during that time.

But they were disappointed, as after realizing his stupid mistake, Liang Zhihuan resolutely turned off the Dimensional Universe.

His heart was like ashes, and he sat down, with both hands jammed into his hair.

Lost! Completely lost!

There was probably no hope left between him and Ning Qingxuan, and he had no face to be an emperor anymore.

The news that he had ordered hundreds of billions of people to besiege Lin Zhen had been exposed. In the beginning, he thought, by being successful, everything would be covered up, but now that he had failed, nothing could be hidden.

The people would not forgive him, and neither would his political enemies miss this opportunity.

Moreover, what he found even more unacceptable was that he had personally broadcast Lin Zhen and Ning Qingxuan’s kissing scene to the Dimensional Universe, becoming the laughingstock of the entire Original World. If there was a crack on the ground at this moment, he would definitely not hesitate to squeeze into it.

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A strong male scent assaulted her senses, and Ning Qingxuan’s head felt dizzy. The other party’s tongue was suckling the sweetness forcefully in her mouth, as if to suck her soul away as well.

She could have easily hit Lin Zhen away with a lift of her hand, but she didn’t do it.

Because she found that she did not reject this feeling at all, and even unconsciously hugged Lin Zhen’s back, which was her body’s instinctive response.

To arrive at this conclusion, the only proof was that she must have done the same thing with him before.

Fortunately, her sanity quickly returned and tried hard to push Lin Zhen’s chest away.

Lin Zhen didn’t let go of her hand: “Xuan’er, come with me, I can help you regain your memory.”

With cheeks red like burning fire, and heart pounding as if it were about to jump out of her chest, Ning Qingxuan took a few heavy breaths. She looked at Lin Zhen with complex emotions in her eyes.

“Don’t worry, I’ve already found a way to break the Soul Chasing Bell of your Qingye Sect. If you come with me, within less than ten years, you will definitely be able to recover your memory completely,” Lin Zhen told her, seeing that she still hadn’t made up her mind.

Ning Qingxuan thought for a moment, and finally accepted Lin Zhen’s words.

After what happened with Lin Zhen, she could no longer continue to be a queen, nor could she stay in the Imperial Palace, or else it would become a laughingstock of the entire royal family of Nan Liang.

Moreover, at this moment, her heart was incomparably relaxed. Without the restraint of the Soul Chasing Bell, it was like a bird breaking free from its cage, and she even felt like seeing the outside world.

Bowing her head, Ning Qingxuan took off her queen’s dress. She would no longer wear such clothing.

“I’ll go with you.” Ning Qingxuan’s tone was firm.

Lin Zhen smiled, glanced at Liang Zhihuan on the ground, and suddenly lost the intention to kill him.

This emperor still needed to live for now. Otherwise, with Nan Liang in chaos, Ning Qingxuan might not be able to leave peacefully.

As Lin Zhen led Ning Qingxuan to head out, Liang Zhihuan’s hoarse voice sounded behind them: “Your Majesty, are you just going to leave me like this?”

Ning Qingxuan paused for a moment: “Do you think I can still stay here?”

Liang Zhihuan pointed at Lin Zhen: “You won’t have a good life with him. He is now wanted by dozens of countries like Da Liang and has become the number one criminal in the Original World. As far as I know, many countries have even sent people to Nan Liang to arrest him. It won’t be easy for him to leave.”

Ning Qingxuan looked at Lin Zhen, then said, “It’s okay, I’ll help him.”

“Is it worth it?” Liang Zhihuan roared.

“I don’t want to be deceived like a fool and be kept in the dark. Your Majesty, I have my own judgment too. Even though I’ve lost my memory, do you think I couldn’t see that you’ve been arranging people around me every day to instill negative thoughts about him? Too much of anything is bad, and you’ve said too much, which has inspired my desire to find out the truth. I’ll be by his side to find the memories I’ve lost. If everything is as you’ve said, I’ll leave him, but I’ll never return to you.”

Liang Zhihuan regretfully lowered his head, knowing that he had made a mistake again. Ning Qingxuan was such a clever woman, and all his actions had been outsmarted by his own cleverness, like lifting a rock and smashing his own foot.

But he really couldn’t bear to see Ning Qingxuan go. Seeing that she was about to leave, he suddenly shouted, “No! You can’t go! The Qingye Sect and Nan Liang have nurtured you and brought you to your current Realm. How much has been spent on you during this time? How can you just leave like this?”

“Oh! Then how much was spent, I’ll compensate you.”

“Two hundred billion!” Liang Zhihuan blurted out.

Ning Qingxuan rummaged through her bank cards. Her wealth over the years was not insignificant, although not quite two hundred billion, it was almost there.

She transferred all her money to Liang Zhihuan without keeping a cent for herself.

But she was still a few billion short. Liang Zhihuan looked at her, not daring to say he didn’t want the money. Otherwise, Ning Qingxuan would really leave.

At this moment, Lin Zhen came over and transferred his remaining billions to Liang Zhihuan as well.

It was quite a coincidence that after the transfer, Ning Qingxuan was penniless, and Lin Zhen had only a few hundred dollars left in his account.

“I’ve given you the two hundred billion, Liang Zhihuan. Now we owe each other nothing.”

With that, Ning Qingxuan left without any hesitation, following Lin Zhen out of the Imperial Palace.

There was a teleportation array in the palace. They held hands and came to the teleportation array. The guard here had long run away in fear, and the two could go anywhere they wanted.

“Lin Zhen, where shall we go?”

Lin Zhen thought for a moment: “We can’t go to Da Liang’s allied countries now. Let’s go to Freedom City first, and then find a chance to go to Da Qin. Xuan’er, following me, a wanted criminal, might not make for an easy life.”

Ning Qingxuan couldn’t help but roll her eyes at him: “I don’t care, I have no money now, you have to support me.”

Lin Zhen hugged Ning Qingxuan tightly in his arms: “Money can always be earned, as long as you’re with me, it’s enough.”

Ning Qingxuan blushed and pushed Lin Zhen away: “No, you can’t treat me like this before I regain my memory. What if you’re deceiving me?”

Lin Zhen smiled, hugged her once again, and said: “This is also a way to help you recover your memory.”

White light flashed, and the teleportation array was activated.

Lin Zhen and Ning Qingxuan disappeared from the teleportation array. Their first stop was the border, followed by Freedom City.

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At last, the grand drama in Nan Liang has come to an end.

Liang Zhihuan had used the entire nation’s power, including military forces, officials, and civilians. Even the three Iron Sisters of the Qingye Sect had taken action, but he lost in the end.

He lost the battle, lost the woman, and even lost his kingdom.

The truth was being exposed bit by bit. Although other matters might not amount to much, Liang Zhihuan’s order for a hundred million people to besiege Lin Zhen became the fuse for his downfall.

Just like the demonstration during Lin Zhen’s arrest, people once again took to the streets to denounce their emperor.

However, this time Liang Zhihuan didn’t give others much chance to oppose him. With all these events, he couldn’t stay on the throne any longer.

The day after Lin Zhen and Ning Qingxuan left, Liang Zhihuan ordered the throne to be passed on to his son, Liang Chen, the crown prince.

Having handed everything over to his son, Liang Zhihuan left Nan Liang without saying a word to anyone.

From today on, he would no longer be an emperor. He would be a free martial artist, pursuing a higher martial way.

If one day, he could obtain even greater power, he would meet Lin Zhen again!

Liang Chen ascended the throne in a daze, having assumed he would not be in this position for thousands or even tens of thousands of years.

It wasn’t until he was officially crowned emperor and the civil and military officials bowed before him that he accepted the reality of his new position.

But after acquiring the throne, he found it didn’t bring happiness.

What he truly yearned for was a life like Lin Zhen’s, roaming the world with the one he loved while pursuing the peak of the martial way.

“No! I need to get married and have children as soon as possible. Not for anything else, but to wait for him to grow up and take over my throne. The throne is not suitable for a martial artist with ambitions.”

As Liang Chen stood in front of the Imperial Palace, he wished his mother happiness and hoped that Ning Qingxuan and Lin Zhen could truly find happiness together.

However, the arrest warrant for Lin Zhen was still not revoked, and more than a dozen countries, including Da Liang, were still wanted Lin Zhen with a staggering reward.

This made Lin Zhen undoubtedly become the number one most-wanted criminal in the Original World, reigning at the top of the Villain List.

Despite this, Lin Zhen’s various classic battles were still widely spread and kept as teaching materials in martial academies.

Even villains have many admirers, and just as Lin Zhen thought, as a hero among heroes who slaughtered nine million, his actions turned the world of Nan Liang upside-down for love, earning him countless fans!

Young girls in Nan Liang in love often said to their boyfriends, “If you could treat me like Lin Zhen treats the Crown Princess, I would be content even if I died!”