(9)
Ignoring my reaction, Jing Rong kept telling me all the facts I had been eagerly hoping to know. I should have been glad that my years of doubts had finally been answered, but these facts sounded so desperate that I would rather never know the truth for the rest of my life.
I had completely lost the ability to think, and even the most basic language skills seemed to have disappeared completely. I looked at Jingrong with tears streaming down my face, trying to completely forget every word he had just said.
But I can't.
The only sound in the huge room was the sound of my tears falling down on my clothes, and my tears were like a flood that had burst the embankment, completely uncontrollable. In the end, Jing Rong couldn't look past it, so he walked over, lifted the corner of his clothes, and squatted in front of me.
"Little goblin, you say something, look into my eyes, you say a word to me. ”
"What do you say...... Will you tell me that what you just said is false?"
I bowed my head, choked up, and tried my best to get the sentence as complete as I could, but as soon as I spoke, my already fragile heart collapsed. I grabbed Jingrong's collar and yelled at him:
"You tell me, who is Sinan, you tell me, who is the person I love, you say, you say......"
"About this...... I apologize to you......"
"Apologize? Is it useful for me to apologize? Can you return my little master to me by apologizing? It's impossible, it's impossible, my little master will never come back, he was killed by you, he was killed by you......"
I almost cried at Jingrong, but then, my voice became quieter and quieter, and all that was left was muttering. Because I found my accusations so weak, so so weak that they were completely negligible, I had no way to tell them.
"I put him by your side at the time, and I really just wanted him to protect you, and at the same time keep him away from the heavenly realm, so that his identity would not leak out. I swear I really didn't expect you two to get this far, I really mean it, I thought he could control his own ......"
Jing Rong didn't use the word "I" anymore, he took my hand from his collar and held it in his hand, then lowered his head and explained to me earnestly. I really wanted to pull out my hand and slap him in the face, but I struggled for a long time, and finally I didn't move.
What can I do, from Jing Rong's point of view, he can't find any mistakes in everything he does. He saved the stone's life and saved a link between the gods and demons, which was a choice he had to make as the Emperor of Heaven, and this was also the responsibility he had to bear. I know he just wants everything to be better, to do more for the stone, and he does it all with good intentions, but how am I going to accept it?
How can I accept the contradictions between me and Sinan and Chenbei because of the accumulation of stones for thousands of years, how can I accept that I have been hurting Sinan's heart again and again with stones, and how can I accept the pain of losing someone no matter what?
I am also a creature in the Three Realms, those demons and gods who think that injustice are still fighting again and again for fairness, so what about me? What am I going to use in exchange for my fairness?
Who can give me justice?
I suddenly felt as if I was sinking into a bottomless abyss, surrounded by sticky darkness that stopped my heart and breathing. I tried desperately to get out of here, but I got deeper and deeper, and I ended up with nothing but to be caught.
I gently withdrew my hands from Jing Rong's hands, then raised my head, still in tears, and asked him:
"If you wake up the stone, Sinan, will it disappear completely?"
Jing Rong didn't expect me to ask him this question out of the blue, but as smart as he was, when he heard my words, he understood what I was trying to say. He stood up, regained his seriousness, and replied to me:
"Sinan is my son, and it took me a long time to accept the fact that he has been replaced, but every time I think about it, I still feel a cramp in my heart. I know that this will also be a pain that you will not be able to get rid of for the rest of your life, but Su Qingfu, we all have our own responsibilities to bear. ”
"You are the Emperor of Heaven, you have your responsibility, you are responsible for everything in this world, but I don't need to, I'm just a very ordinary monster, I don't need to be responsible for this world, and the responsibility of maintaining peace in the Three Realms is not mine, I don't accept everything you say. ”
"Yes, you only need to be responsible for yourself, but don't forget, they all love you, whether it is Shi Shi or Sinan, they are willing to love you with their lives. A woman who is worthy of their love should have a reason why she is worthy of love. ”
Jing Rong's voice became more and more cold, more like the Heavenly Emperor sitting on the dragon chair in the center of the Lingxiao Treasure Palace, talking to me. And I finally wiped away my tears, raised my eyes, looked at him, and asked him indifferently and dryly:
"Jingrong, has no one really said you were cruel?"
"And why do you think I can sit in this position?"
"So you can't even take care of your own son, can you? You can't even protect your own son, how can you protect these tens of thousands of creatures within the Three Realms?"
"Yes, you are right, I did not protect my son, but there is no eternal peace in this world, there is no eternal war, all I can do is to try to keep the peace, and to put an end to the war with the least sacrifice. If I could be willing to bear all the suffering by myself, I would be willing, but this is not realistic, so I have the right. Do you think that power is exchanged for status? No, you are wrong, power is exchanged for nightmares, pain, self-blame, and the blood of countless people, how can it not be cruel to use these rights in exchange! Su Qing is confused, I can tell you so clearly, if you want to defend Sinan and protect the stone, that is impossible, this is not that I do not allow it, but the people of the world do not allow it. If you want to kill more people, you can, you can go out now, I guarantee that no one will track down your whereabouts, if you don't want to, then call back the stone, don't let Sinan become a killing machine. In this world, only you can wake up the stone, and only you can avoid the stone from going the same way as Sinan. I'll leave the choice to you, agree, you stay, if you don't, then walk out of this door and never appear in front of me. ”