I don't know what kind of place the main altar of the Flame Sect is, I only smell a damp mold that can't be driven away by a candle flame, there should be an altar with a flame in front of me, Sun Ming put a bowl of thick potion in front of me, the soup emitted a disgusting fishy smell, I just took a sip and couldn't help but want to vomit, but I still held back, pinched my nose and drank the medicine.

I remember that I had been put on the altar, surrounded by flames, and I seemed to have melted away, and I could only hear the humming of prayers. At the moment when I was about to lose consciousness, a sharp pain exploded from my brain, like fireworks blooming in the night sky, I opened my mouth to scream, but found that all the sounds were not held in my chest, the pain spread all over my body from top to bottom, I couldn't help but spasm, but my hands and feet were bound and chained and couldn't break free.

The pain lasted for a long time, and at the moment when I finally couldn't bear it anymore, someone slashed my eyebrows with a knife, and blood splattered out, and the pain seemed to pass with it......

I slowly calmed down and fell into a deep sleep.

I don't know how long I slept, I was woken up by the bumps of the carriage, my eyes were covered by a black cloth, my eyebrows tingled, and I touched the clothes on my body, which were still intact, and my heart relaxed. Just as he was about to reach out to take off the black cloth, he suddenly heard a voice ring in his ears:

"Are you awake? This cloth can't be taken off yet. It's snowing outside. It's a light snowfall, and it's winter......"

It was then that I realized that I had been lying in someone else's arms, but this arms were not unfamiliar. He pulled the thin quilt that had fallen to my waist over my shoulders, and I broke free from his embrace, took a deep breath, and asked:

"Mu Cheng, what's going on? The guard who carried me out of the dungeon is you!"

The cold wind rushed into my back, and I shrank in my thin clothes, and he silently draped me in a cotton gown, which was his clothes, and I smelled a faint mint smell mixed with grass, fresh and elegant.

"I'll hide in the main altar of the Flame Sect, arrange everything, and secretly take you out in the middle of the night when they are on the lowest alert, and it will be Bai Xuan and Xuanwu driving in front. ”

"When did you guess?"

"When you stole the bamboo flute in my sleeve. ”

I'm a little frustrated, so the scene where he didn't hesitate to break his hand to save me at the Waqiao Pass was also what he expected?

"Didn't they take you to Licheng?Why didn't the Flame Cult catch up?!"

"When Baekhyun came to rob the prison, he was ready to change his identity with me as a stand-in, and even Xuanwu didn't know about this...... Their main altar was so gloomy that it was burned by me, and they were busy putting out the fire at this time, and the pursuers would probably arrive after dawn. I came to Xijon this time, and I brought with me thirty black-clothed guards and ten heavenly crossbowmen, which was enough for us to retreat with our whole body. His voice was a little tired, but firm and gentle, and he took my hand and said:

"I'll take you home, okay?"

At this moment, my heart seemed to be rubbed by an invisible hand, sore and painful, and my intestines were full of knots, and the word "good" almost blurted out.

"Who am I, who am I to you? I have already made it clear in the Pure Heart Temple. I bit my lip and said, "Why did you take me away, how do you know that I don't want to exchange Helian Yue in Licheng?"

"Mei Ziyan or Xiyang, whoever you want, that's who you are. As long as you want to, you want to, you can be anyone from Mu Cheng, I don't force you. But you don't want to meet your parents and brothers, listen to their voices? You're not alone, you have them, and me...... I naturally remember what you said to me at Qingxin Temple that day, and I thought about it all night, and then I figured it out. ”

"What do you understand?"

He reached out from behind and hugged me gently, his chin resting on my shoulder, and I dodged slightly, but I couldn't avoid it, I didn't feel much resistance, but it seemed that I naturally got used to his hugs and closeness.

"You're wandering. ”

My eyes were so hot that I almost burst into tears. How can this man be so hateful, how can he see through my disguise so easily? I stubbornly shook my head, and pressed the sadness in my throat, and said:

"You brought me out without my consent, and disturbed my original plans, I ask you, what if my eyes still can't see? If I'm really the one you're looking for, shouldn't you hate me? I take her body but don't want her memory......"

"The Flame Sect originally planned to take you to Licheng at dawn, your eyebrows are hurt, you have applied medicine, and the black cloth cannot be removed for a while, if you still can't regain your sight, it won't help to leave you in the Flame Sect, and I want to take you with me...... As for the lost memory, it's good that you're here, and I don't care about the rest...... Do you hate you? No, I think, I hate myself a little more......"

His voice was very gentle, and there was some sadness in the condensed air, and his arms tightened tightly around me, and those emotions that had not had time to vent were silently transmitted in such an embrace. I was actually very timid, I was afraid to give my feelings to anyone, but his shallow breathing made me feel stable and dependent.

If I'm just Xiyang from now on, and I'm no longer the woman with a seven-trick heart, can I love him too?

I don't know, but it's useless to think too deeply, and there's nothing left.

I took off the black cloth that I was blindfolded on the night two days later.

Mu Cheng stopped the carriage, wrapped me in a cloak, and led me to the top of a nearby mountain.

When he removed the black cloth from my eyes, the tiredness of the mountain and the slander against him vanished in an instant. The sky in the early winter was dark blue, and the stars that were unwilling to be lonely shimmered with the light stolen from nowhere, so far away and so shining, and the sky was very low, as if it could be reached.

I see it.

saw the starry sky, and clearly perceived the intentions of the man next to him.

I excitedly stretched out my hand to touch the stars that seemed to be close but out of reach, and bit my lip to prevent the excited laughter from coming out of the box, but the corners of my mouth could not help but rise, and said with a smile:

"Mu Cheng, I saw it, there are many, many stars......"

I didn't notice the smile on his lips froze at the corner of his mouth, and he stared at my side for a moment until I turned my head to look at him.

The mountain breeze is clear, blowing the hair hanging down his sideburns, his facial features are as clear and handsome as I imagined, his eyes are dark and far-reaching like the stars falling into the inky sea, the bridge of his nose is straight, and his thin lips have a warm glaze luster, but what is different from what I thought...... For a long time, in Min Sikong's story, I thought that Mu Cheng would not be like the person in front of him with a knot and vicissitudes between his eyebrows, I thought that he could just purse his lips and smile lightly to make the green mountains and flowing water lose his chic and complacent, but where did the silver filament on his sideburns with snow marks on Cangshan Mountain come from?

He looked at me intently, the joy in his eyes fluttering slightly. I was speechless for a moment, and the excitement in Shicai's heart had now disappeared without a trace, leaving only an indescribable emotion surging, and a momentary pain.

I want to ask him, who is the early Huafa for?

Besides her, who else would he be sad for?

He finally sensed the surprise and mixed emotions in my eyes, and laughed at himself:

"Did I disappoint you?"

In fact, what I'm thinking about is whether the man in the green shirt in my dream has such a face. Hearing him ask, I shook my head and said:

"No, you're good...... It's just that I'm not impressed. ”

His lips moved, and soon lost their blood, and he looked up at the sky and said:

"Have you figured it out, do you want me to call you good, Xiyang, or Ziyan?"

I was heartbroken, and then smiled wryly. Mu Cheng, Mu Cheng, you can't even deceive me with your voice, and your shouting Xiyang is as blunt as shouting a stranger's name.

I was silent for a moment, and I was about to say to him, if you want to call me Ziyan, I will answer too. But he spoke lightly first:

"If you're used to the name Xiyang, then I'll call you Xiyang. Xiyang, you originally planned to go to Licheng, right?"

I couldn't help but be disappointed, and I replied sullenly.

"In that case, let's go to Licheng. He stood up and held out his hand to me, "The mountain road is slippery, I'll take you down." ”

I reached out and took his hand, his hand was slender and white, and his phalanges were slightly jagged, and the thought that crossed my mind was that he had become thinner. Walking on the gravel and weedy mountain road, I looked at his clean and somewhat old green shirt as I walked, and asked:

"Don't you ask me why I want to go to Licheng?"

He paused and turned to look at me, and said, "You said that you want to exchange yourself for Helian Yue. ”

Did I say that? Thinking about it, it seemed to mean this, and I was speechless for a moment, and he picked me up and continued down the mountain.

When I got into the carriage, I found a very cute and cute little girl waiting for me in the carriage, which turned out to be Xuanwu. She looked like she was only thirteen or fourteen years old, but she was already eighteen, and she smiled and saluted me, and said:

"Xuanwu has seen Madame, Madame's eyes are better, and my prince is finally relieved. ”

Mu Cheng didn't come in, and sat on the rut in front of him talking to Baek Hyun. I felt a little uncomfortable in my heart, I always felt that he was angry, but I didn't know what kind of anger he had.

"Shall I call you Xuanwu in the future? The name Xuanwu is not suitable for girls...... By the way, don't call me Madame, I left the Xijon Palace, and I will no longer be the same Mrs. Xi. ”

Xuan Wu smiled, "Then Xuan Wu still calls you princess, our prince has been looking for you so hard in the past two years......"

I hurriedly waved my hand to interrupt her words, "I'm not a princess, I'm just Xiyang, I forgot all about ......it" When he said that, his voice couldn't help but soften, not that he didn't have a chance to remember, but that I gave up and would rather have a pair of eyes back. Was this a betrayal to him?

Is it because of this that he was angry? But he said that he didn't care.

I was in turmoil for a while.

"It's okay for you to call me Xiyang. I said, "I'm used to it." ”

When the carriage arrived in a small town, Mu Cheng took me to change my appearance and parted ways with Baekyun Xuanwu, who still drove away in the carriage, while we disguised ourselves as merchants buying leather goods. My eyebrows were thickly drawn, and my face was smeared with a faint layer of yellow powder, and because it was winter, I wore a high-necked jacket, a dilapidated snow cap, and gloves on my gloves, and at first glance I looked like a teenage follower.

Mu Cheng had a layer of gray beard on his face, how funny it looked. After two more looks, I couldn't help but burst out laughing. His fingers suddenly touched my lips, and my heart skipped two beats, and I forgot to laugh. He looked at me and said:

"No man would laugh like that. ”

So I smiled obediently and followed him all the way to Licheng. Along the way, I saw many exiled people, dragging their families and mouths to the direction of Ancheng, the early winter daylight was still very strong, but all I saw were chaos and sorrow, and from time to time there were Xijon soldiers everywhere to arrest Ding.

My feet were really tired of walking, and I saw that there was a stone nearby that was still able to sit on it, so I walked over and sat down, but before I touched the stone, I was picked up by Mu Cheng with one hand.

"Do you know what this is?" he said, "this is the grave of the people of Xijon, and anyone who dies on the road thousands of miles away from home will be dug a pit by the side of the road and buried with stones. Do you dare to sit?"

I was startled, and when I looked around, there were more piles of stones like this on the Ulan steppe. So I could only endure the pain in my feet and obediently follow him, until I found an inn in the evening.

There is only one room left in this inn.

As soon as I entered the room, I heard someone shouting outside, it turned out that the Xirong soldiers were checking the inn, and they were opening a scroll to ask the shopkeeper, and the rest of the soldiers had already gone to tap the door of the side room, I was startled, Mu Cheng patted my hand and signaled me to calm down. When the door of the wing room was kicked open, Mu Chengzheng took off his shoes and put his feet in the hot water basin, asking me to wash his feet. We looked up at the fierce soldiers, Mu Cheng looked panicked, hurriedly put on his shoes and walked over and stuffed the ingot of silver to the person who took the lead, and asked who he was arrested, the man laughed dryly, glanced at us, and said:

"Don't worry, we're going to catch a woman, a beautiful woman...... Your heart has been received, stay in the hotel, let's go!"

After they walked away, my feet were a little weak, and I couldn't stand up when I squatted on the ground, Mu Cheng closed the door, and then carried me to the bed, and said:

"Rest well, we'll be on our way tomorrow. ”

I answered, turned my head and fell into a deep sleep. I didn't think about the only one bed in the room, where I slept with him, I woke up in the middle of the night when I was thirsty and wanted to drink water, and saw the hazy and pale black figure he cast on the ground next to the broken wooden table under the dim dim lamp, and suddenly realized that he had only slept in the chair with his hands on his cheeks and closed his eyes all night.

Unconsciously, a trace of pain as thin as a vine slowly crept and extended in my heart, lurking and growing.

I walked over and looked at his face, which was as warm as a carved jade, and I couldn't help but lose my mind slightly.

Well, I admit that the first time I heard his voice in the palace, I felt kind, the first time I was held by him, the palm of my hand would beat wildly, and the first time I was held by him, I would feel warm and stable...... Mu Cheng, I admit that even if I forget everything, I still like you, it has nothing to do with your appearance, and it has nothing to do with your family background......