On my forehead, he painted a plum blossom as red as blood.

He took me into the carriage, and I sat beside him, and he tied a scarf for me to cover half of my face.

"It's so fragrant, what kind of flower is so strong?" he said, "you have really changed, you used to have only a faint fragrance of plum blossoms." ”

My eyelids jumped for no reason, and I smiled unnaturally and said, "Only then will Helian Yue not believe that you stole me out!"

His eyes were deep, and he swept by with inquiry, turned his head and gently leaned against the railing of the car, closed his eyes, and stopped talking. His sudden silence made me very uncomfortable for a while, the wind didn't know where it came in, I tightened the cloak on my body, my eyes swept over Mu Cheng, only to see that he was still looking at himself, and his face looked lonely and detached.

I suddenly felt a panic of being spied on.

Not for fear that he would guess, but for fear that he would never look at me again with the familiar gaze when he opened his eyes.

After a long hour, he and I got out of the car, and I found that I was in a private house, with yellow-brown mud walls, a ruined roof, a huge well, and a stone mill that had been removed.

The secret passage is in the kitchen, and after walking down the long staircase, after passing through a dark passage, it suddenly opens up, and the torch is bright.

Mu Cheng asked me to wait for him around the corner of the cell.

He walked to the cell and said, "Helian Yue—"

There was a rustling of chains, and my once-familiar voice sounded:

"I don't want to see you, get out!" like a wounded beast, it roared with little strength.

"Between me and you, it's never you dead or I live, and I haven't thought about changing. But Helian Yue, it's a pity, you still feel inferior when you see me......"

"It's ridiculous! Although I am a prisoner, but the lord of a country is facing you, an idle prince, how can I be inferior?!" Helian Yue sneered, "If you don't kill me for a day, you will regret it in the end!"

"Your value is still there, how can I let you die as you wish?" Mu Cheng said lightly: "Bai Zhi has arrived in Licheng, with the degree of importance she attaches to you, it is not easy for me to want the annual tribute of Haiqing Division, one of the three tribes of Xirong?

"Mu Cheng, you are a despicable villain, if you have a kind of words, you will give me a knife!"

Mu Cheng laughed, his laughter was full of hatred, "Helian Yue, I used to think like this, but then I didn't want to kill you, do you know why?"

Helian Yue was silent, and Mu Cheng said word by word:

"If she is really no longer in the world, I know that she will never want to meet you by the Nai He Bridge. ”

The air seemed to freeze, so silent that even the sound of human breathing was so clear. Helian Yue suddenly laughed three times and said, "She has you in her eyes and heart, why don't you see you committing suicide and martyrdom like an amorous species?!" Keep saying that you love her, Mu Cheng, and surviving is the way you love her?"

Mu Cheng chuckled self-deprecatingly, "Yes, you're right, Gou survives because I love her." She traded her life, how could I let her die without a place to go?Fortunately, I survived, otherwise, I would not have known that you had forcibly robbed her of her light and memory for the sake of your own desires......"

"What did you say?!" Helian Yue shouted, with some anger.

I slowly walked out of the corner, and then I saw Helian Yue in the cell hanging on an iron frame, his clothes were stained with blood, and two iron chains passed through the pipa bone on his shoulder....... when he saw me, his eyes were wide open and full of shock, Mu Cheng said:

"Ziyan, the person you want to meet is here. ”

I looked at Helian Yue, my eyes fell on his face, and I didn't expect that the first time I saw him would be in such an embarrassed situation. His face was as sharp as I had imagined it to be a knife and axe, his eyes were narrow and deep, the bridge of his nose was straight and slightly hooked, and he had the rugged and wild nature of the Xijon people, his black hair was messily tied behind his head, and a few scars on his face were scabbed but did not damage the brightness of his eyes. He looked at me like that, looked into my eyes, and suddenly let out a mocking laugh, and said to Mu Cheng:

"Mu Cheng, you want Yan'er to go crazy......!

"She is Ziyan, like a fake. ”

"Mei Ziyan is dead. Helian Yue said coldly, gasping twice, "Because of you, Mu Cheng, she's dead." You'll never get her. ”

"She's dead, how did Xiyang in your palace come from?" Mu Cheng sneered, "Don't deceive people with the cliché story of being assassinated and falling off a cliff on the way! ”

Helian Yue laughed proudly, with a kind of revenge, and said: "Yes, Xiyang is Mei Ziyan! Mu Cheng, you are dead, she has forgotten you, and she has forgotten herself, she can only be mine, in this life! No matter how much she loves you, even if she can give you her life, she will never know that there is such a past." The woman you brought will be Yan'er? Yan'er will never wear heavy makeup and incense and powder, Mu Cheng, Xiyang's heart is here, and her person is also my ......"

A deep sadness rose in my heart, this answer wandered in my mind thousands of times, and now it was finally confirmed in Helian Yue's mouth, there were not many surprises, only a full sense of powerlessness.

In Helian Yue's mouth, I finally confirmed the facts and found myself, but for some reason I was still lost.

"He knows, you don't have to say it anymore. I interrupted Helian Yue's words, and as soon as he heard my voice, the expression on his face changed drastically, and the whole person was stunned. I approached him, reached out and pulled down the veil, and said to him:

"Do you like what I tell you to do? Helian Yue, or ...... Dumb slave?"

He shook and looked at me in disbelief. I turned back to Mu Cheng and said:

"I'd like to have a few words with him alone, is that okay?"

Mu Cheng looked at me deeply, his face was dark and inexplicable, and for a moment I suspected that there was a storm in his eyes. But for a moment, when he regained his silence, he came to me and pulled me two steps away, and said:

"I'm waiting for you up there, you have to be careful. ”

I listened to his footsteps disappear into the distance, sighed, looked at Helian Yue and said:

"Still don't believe me, don't you believe the scar on my neck either?"

At this time, Helian Yue's eyes could not contain a great sorrow, he looked at me deadly, as if he wanted to engrave my appearance into his heart, and said hoarsely:

"Your eyes, and your memories, what's going on?"

"Don't you know that Bai Zhi has pierced a golden needle in my brain?" I sneered at him, "For you, she is willing to do anything, even to let me change back to the original Mei Ziyan, just to exchange for your freedom." Dumb slave, you have kept me for two years, and today I will come to tell you that I am leaving. ”

"Go, where are you going, are you going to go back to him, aren't you?! Don't mention that name again! He died the night he was abandoned by you, Mei Ziyan, Xiyang, I am not good enough to you?I don't love you enough?" His eyes turned blood-red, and he shook his chains vigorously and struggled, "You were forced by Mu Cheng, weren't you? You tell me, you are still my Xiyang, not someone else! You are forced to say this when you see me in a desperate situation, right? You say! Do you have no heart? You know how much I love you! How can you abandon me again and again?!"

"But I don't love you. I lowered my eyes and said:

"I knew that Mu Cheng would come to me in Qingxin Temple, I deliberately let him be caught, I deliberately lobbied Bai Zhi to persuade you to escort Mu Cheng to make peace with Yiluo, I knew that Yiluo would not let Mu Cheng become a bargaining chip for you to negotiate peace, and he would definitely intercept him on the road, and sure enough, Mu Cheng was rescued and you fell into the Nine Dragons Abyss Array. Do you know who the main formation is? Sima Xingnan, the prince of Xuanyang, my younger brother. ”

Helian Yue's face turned pale, and I continued: "You are caught in the battle and captured, what I am waiting for is this moment, Bai Zhi will obediently exchange me for you, and I will take the opportunity to blackmail her to return my light and memory." I'm fed up, do you know what it's like to be a blind person, no matter day and night, she can only have darkness? But Mu Cheng turned back and took me away, and Bai Zhi still came to make peace. Guess what, without me, what would she exchange for your freedom?"

Helian Yue's lips were about to bite and bleed, and he looked at me with a little more anger and unwillingness, I smiled and said:

"That's naturally her as the queen of a country and the little prince in her womb. ”

"Why are you doing this?!" he struggled with all his might, and blood was dripping from his wrist, and I took a deep breath and said:

"Let me go, Helian Yue. Is this how your so-called love imprisoned me, made me lose my relatives and lovers, forgot everything, and then had nothing?"

"It turns out that you have been lying to me......" he muttered, laughing at himself uncontrollably, with resentment and sadness, "Is it fake?

I approached the iron bars of the cell and gently stroked the heavy copper locks, "That nature, it can't be true." That night of romance, I just thought I was bitten by a dog, you don't have to show off this. What about your people? The heart is not in your place, not to mention that I never use the dogma of three chastity and nine spirits to bind myself, if Mu Cheng wants to mind, he has already killed you just now. ”

Helian Yue gasped for breath with anger and sadness, and said sharply: "Mei Ziyan, you go, I don't want to see you again! Go! Go far, don't let me hear your news and see your figure again! I, Helian Yue, have never loved someone so humbly in my life, and I have worked hard for you, but in exchange for your mockery and determination...... Mei Ziyan, I hope I have never met you...... Even if I don't see you again in the next life......"

"Very well, then," I turned my back to him, "please remember what I said, you and I will have no entanglements in this life......

I slowly walked out of the dungeon.

Mu Cheng stood in the desolate courtyard with his back to me.

I walked towards him, and as I passed the haystack, the solidified and stiff clay in my sleeve fell silently on the grass, muffled by the sound of footsteps.