When I closed the door and turned around again, I saw Han Zitong standing in the middle of the room, staring at me with heavy eyes.

A slight smile twitched at the corner of my mouth: "What's wrong?"

“……”

"What are you looking at me for?"

“……”

"Am you looking, am I hurt?"

Her eyes flashed, and then she said, "You know it's me?"

I smiled and said: "There are many people who want to kill me, but you can do it in Jinling, and you are the only one who was offended by me two days ago and threatened to kill me, Miss Zitong." ”

"So, you're still letting me in?"

"You're the master, I can't shut the door out. ”

After saying that, I walked to the table and raised my hand to the stool opposite: "Sit down." ”

This time, she didn't seem to have the anger that she carried with her in the past, I spoke so calmly, smiled so calmly, did not provoke her to the slightest fluctuation, but I felt that her own heart was very excited, but also very depressed, when she walked to me and sat down slowly, I could see her hand holding the table in secret, and the green tendons on the back of her hand were rising one by one.

The two sat down, calmly opposite each other.

She said, "Then you're letting me in now, is there anything you want to say?"

I smiled and said, "You came to me, don't you have something to say?"

"......" She was silent again, and then raised her eyes to look at me, such a silent night, two women sitting in front of the flickering candle flame opposite each other, obviously two people, but there was an indescribable sense of loneliness, but more, it emanated from her, not only loneliness, but even a feeling of almost despair.

She finally spoke, "Actually, I don't hate you. ”

“…… Oh?"

"We come from similar backgrounds and grew up in the same environment. Maybe you don't know, in fact, my sister and I are also teenagers, although the family business is big, but there are more people who covet it, and she is so sick and weak, if I don't get strong and don't put thorns all over my body, she and I won't be able to survive today, and we won't be able to meet Yuan Xiu. ”

I opened my eyes slightly.

I didn't expect that she would suddenly tell me about her youth, although her tone was so flat when she said it, but I could clearly hear from that deliberately flat, even indifferent words, the hardships that she had soaked into her bone marrow for decades.

But when she said that, I seemed to understand.

The descendants of King Jiangxia sound like a good name, but such a huge family business and intertwined forces finally fell on the shoulders of two weak and slender girls, and if you think about it carefully, there will definitely not be only wealth and pleasure.

I looked at her, and my eyes showed a little empathy for mearel, and I said softly, "Really?"

"Now, there is finally a chance, my sister has met her lifelong dependence, our family business will no longer be coveted by others, and can even be carried forward, our Han family can be famous for eternity, how can I give up lightly?"

“……”

"How can I let go of the people who are blocking our way?"

"You think I'm standing in your way?"

She looked at me, sighed lightly, and said, "Actually, it doesn't matter what you say now. I know, whether I like you or hate you, it is impossible for the two of us to get along peacefully, you can't do it, and I can't do it, so I want to kill you, you are not strange at all, and you want Yuan Xiu to marry me to the son of the Ao family, I am not surprised at all. ”

My heart moved slightly: "I-?"

"Isn't it you?" Although she said very calmly, at this moment, I still saw her slightly red eyes, and when she stared at me, there was a slight trembling feeling: "Isn't it your idea? Because you know that I am going to do something to you, and you know that I have always been hostile to you, so you have thought of such a way to make me disappear from your eyes once and for all." ”

“……”

"When I'm gone, my sister - will she be at your mercy?"

I frowned slightly, almost subconsciously wanting to argue, but as soon as I opened my mouth, my voice was a little hoarse, probably knowing in my heart that it was useless to say anything at this time, Han Zitong was a stubborn person, stubborn enough to only believe what she wanted to believe, stubborn to the point that even if she was covered in bruises, she must protect the person she swore to protect.

Regardless of that person, whether they need her protection or not.

At this time, I saw her shoulders twitch slightly, one hand groped around her waist, and then took something and put it on the table, and made a soft click.

When I looked down, it was a heavy, gray-black short knife.

It's not yet unsheathed, but I can already feel the sharpness of the blade.

I frowned, then looked up at her again, "You, you want to kill me with your own hands?"

She drooped her eyelids and didn't speak.

"Do you think you can make it?"

"I have to succeed!"

This sentence made my heart sink slightly, and I also felt that she had come today with the determination to die, and she would kill me no matter what the price was.

I sighed softly.

I actually see Han Zitong more thoroughly than others, but people's hearts are like this, even the simplest heart often has the most thorough part, which can refract the most beautiful light. I knew how stubborn she was in those words, but I was still shocked in my heart.

I saw that she was about to reach out and was about to pull out the short knife, and just as her fingertips touched the hilt, I suddenly said, "Have you ever thought about what would happen if you killed me?"

Her eyes flashed, and her fingers froze within a fraction of the sword.

I looked at her, "Have you thought about these things?"

Her eyelids were lowered, and the long shadows cast by her eyelashes on her face clearly depicted every trembling and trembling of her. After a moment of silence, she said softly, "If both of us die tonight, there will be nothing to care about. When I'm dead, even if the war rages?"

I was stunned by what she said, and then smiled wryly.

Most people, this is the mentality.

But she, the determination she held this time, is also extremely great.

I said softly, "Have you ever thought about it, if you kill me, you are still alive?"

Her face twitched violently.

I could see the blood on her face receding, and it was as if she had been struck by lightning suddenly—in fact, she couldn't have been unaware of this outcome, and when anyone wanted to punish or kill another person, the most hopeful outcome was, of course, to survive herself, and the other person would be killed, but she seemed to have never thought about it.

Probably because, she didn't dare to think about it.

I don't dare to think about it, if I am dead and she is still alive, then what kind of Pei Yuanxiu will she face as the murderer who killed me.

I said softly, "Have you ever thought about it, are you going to face Pei Yuanxiu?"

This time, her reaction was much greater than before, as if she had been suddenly pricked by a needle, and she slammed up from the stool, grabbed the short knife tightly with one hand, and held it in her arms.

It's like protecting yourself.

I know how much it touched her when she mentioned Pei Yuanxiu.

This is also something she probably didn't dare to think about before, let alone survive to face.

So, I immediately said, "You actually thought about it, but you didn't dare to face it." If you kill me, if you are still alive, you will have to face Pei Yuanxiu, no matter what kind of punishment he is, even anger, it is not something you can bear. ”

“……”

"Because, you love him. ”

“……”

"You love him more than anyone else in the world!"

Her face was pale, as if she had finally been pierced by the needle in my words, and she yelled at me loudly, "Don't say it, don't say it again! Shut it up!"

She was obviously holding a short knife in her hand that could kill me in an instant, but at this time she didn't mean to pull it out at all, but held the knife tightly with both hands, as if grasping a life-saving straw.

I was firmer and bolder than her, who had a murderous weapon in my hand, and I stood on the table, and slowly approached her, and said, "Isn't it? You think you can hide it from everyone? In fact, you have not been able to hide it from anyone, and everyone knows it, from the way you look at him, from the way you talk to him, from the way you have been by their side all these years—do you think you are guarding your sister? No. ”

“……”

"I know you're here to stay with him. ”

“……”

"In order to give yourself an excuse, you stayed by his side to watch him and help him, so you kept telling yourself that you have to protect your sister, but in fact, your sister is already married, she has her own husband, and some of her subordinates protect her, so why do you need to be alone?"

My words completely stung her, and I saw that Han Zitong's eyes were red, like a trapped beast that had been cornered, and she yelled at me suddenly: "Shut up for me!"

“……”

"I didn't! I didn't want to rob my sister about him!"

“……”

"Even if, even if I'm in my heart—"

When he said this, he seemed to be stung again, struggled to stop, and looked at me with hazy teary eyes, and I looked at her indifferently, obviously hurting someone else, but I don't know if it was because she was too close to me, all her desperate and painful expressions were reflected in my eyes, and that desperate and painful mood seemed to be infected in my heart.

I looked at her and said slowly, "It's already this time, don't you even dare to say this?"

My words are like the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

I heard a "bang", I looked up, Han Zitong's hand involuntarily let go, and the short knife that she held in her arms like a life-saving straw fell to the ground.

A tear fell from her eye.

"I ......"

What she muttered was no longer like she was talking to me, nor like she was talking to herself, but completely unconscious, and she didn't dare to face it in the bottom of her heart, maybe locked in a cage in a corner of her heart, desperately afraid to let it see the secrets of the day, in broad daylight.

"I ......" her lips trembled violently, and finally said softly, "I have always loved him in my heart." ”

My breath sank.

She finally spoke up!

At this moment, I don't know if it was because of her mood or for some other reason, I felt that the wind outside was a little colder, and the bamboo forest outside the window kept shaking, making a rustling sound, stirring the whole night into restlessness.

And at this time, Han Zitong has no consciousness to care about any of the qiē around her, even me, she seems to have forgotten, and only at this moment she is talking to her naked heart-

"I've always loved him. ”

“……”

"The first time I saw him, when he was crossing the river in white, I saw him at the ferry, it was like seeing an immortal walking down from the heavenly river, and from that moment on, I couldn't forget him. ”

“……”

"But as soon as I turned my head, I saw my sister's eyes looking at him......"

“……”

"I know that my sister has him in her heart, and later I know that he has you in his heart. ”

“……”

"It's just me, nothing, and nothing can be. ”

“……”

"I can't do anything, let alone say, my sister's health is not good, she finally found her own wishful husband, I must protect her and not destroy her happiness. ”

“……”

"Therefore, I have to stay in this house all the time and help him with all his troubles, and only then can I have a reason to stay with him, even if it is just to look at him from a distance every day, and I will be satisfied. ”

“……”

I suddenly felt a dryness in my throat, as if it had been burned by fire, and when I wanted to speak, I first felt a tearing pain, and I looked at her panicked and overwhelmed appearance, and I also felt an inexplicable heartache.

Facing their beloved day and night, but not showing the slightest, not even daring to let him know, how many people in the world can understand this kind of pain?

I looked at her and said in a deep voice, "Do you think your sister doesn't know this?"

“……！”

She shuddered suddenly, and looked up at me, her eyes full of tears, still flowing down.

I said, "She knows, she just doesn't say it, but even if she doesn't say it, do you think there is a woman who can keep her sister by her side for a long time and let her covet her husband?"

The more I spoke, the more she trembled, as if my words were an invisible knife that pierced deep into her heart. When I finished the last sentence, Han Zitong suddenly raised her head to look at me, and I realized that she had burst into tears.

The traces of wolf bèi on her face exposed all her weakness and fragility to my eyes.

I don't know why, I know this qiē, but looking at her like this, it also makes my heart hurt slightly.

In a relationship, no one is a complete winner.

She looked at me helplessly, even a little dazed: "You say, she knows?"

“……”

"My sister, she knows that I-"

"Not only does she know," I said in a deep voice, looking at her teary eyes, and said, "Even Pei Yuanxiu knows." ”

Her eyes widened suddenly, "What?"

This time, I didn't explain anything, I didn't say anything more, but walked straight to the door and opened it.

I heard a "squeak", a long, hoarse voice sounded in the night, and there was a particularly penetrating feeling.

And a tall, familiar figure, standing silently in the doorway.

At this time, he slowly raised his head.