A young girl in an emerald green palace skirt was hiding behind a rockery in the imperial garden, smiling, secretly looking at a group of young scholars.

The scholars knelt respectfully in the corridor and listened to the lecture of a majestic middle-aged man sitting in the pavilion: "You and others are all the sons and daughters of the heroes of the country, and I and your fathers sacrificed their lives to drive out the Tartars, not for the sake of glory and wealth, but to restore the great rivers and mountains of our Han people. I ...... with Queen Ma back then"

Before the middle-aged man finished speaking, he was softly interrupted by the eunuch who was waiting on the side, "Your Majesty, you can't say me, you have to call yourself me!"

The middle-aged man replied angrily: "I know!"

Fake cough twice to hide the embarrassment, he continued to say to the group of scholars: "Where did you say? Oh! By the way, after you are all heroes, I have no objection to you enjoying wealth and prosperity, but you can't do nothing, I ...... with your fathers."

Seeing this, the eunuch once again reminded the man to pay attention to the wording, and the man was interrupted many times, and angrily scolded, "The surname is Ma, you dead eunuch!

The girl hiding behind the rockery saw the middle-aged man's embarrassment, and she couldn't hold back for a while, and laughed out loud.

When the man heard the familiar laughter behind the rockery, he deliberately reprimanded with a straight face: "You little girl, what are you doing hiding behind the rockery?

After the girl was discovered by the man, she walked out slowly from behind the rockery, and said a blessing to the man with a small mouth, "Father~"

The man was amused by her aggrieved appearance, and said to her with a smile: "Well, get up." ”

Unexpectedly, after the girl got up, she immediately put on a strange face on him, "Hmph! I want to tell the queen mother, you murder me!"

The man was stunned for a moment: "Hey, you girl, when did I murder you?"

The girl walked to the gazebo in a daze and stuck out her tongue at the man, "Father is the worst, I don't like you anymore!"

The man smiled and pulled the girl to his knees, pinched her little nose and said, "This day is crazy! You are 14 years old, and you still haven't studied well! If you were a child of an ordinary people's family, you would have married a wife long ago at this age!"

The girl pulled his beard and said angrily, "I won't marry!"

The man was plucked several beards in a row by her, and he couldn't bear the pain, and slapped her ass angrily, "Don't pull it out!

The girl touched her ass and jumped up from the man's lap, her eyes flashed with tears, and she shouted aggrievedly: "Stinky daddy! I don't want to lose face, spank me in front of so many people!"

After dropping these words, the girl ran out of the pavilion as if she were running away, and as she passed through the corridor, she accidentally knocked down a young man dressed in white.

Seeing this, the girl said in a curt, "That, I didn't mean to!" and then ran out of the imperial garden without looking back.

The young man who was knocked down by her, looking at the girl who was gradually moving away, inexplicably recalled the previous glimpse, and muttered to himself: "There is no beauty in a thousand autumns, and it is a beautiful woman to the eye;

Three years later

The white-clothed scholar was standing alone on the side of the palace road, looking coldly at the panicked palace people, fleeing for their lives in a chaotic manner.

A guard who was passing by in a hurry recognized him and kindly reminded, "Lord Liu, why are you still here!

The white-clothed scholar shook his head expressionlessly, "Where can you escape, how can there be eggs under ......the nest?"

Seeing that he had no intention of leaving, the guards decided to persuade him one last time, "We can go to Jiangnan! I heard that a rebel army is being organized over there, and it will be safe to get there......

"I can go, but where can she go?"

The white-clothed scholar sighed, stopped taking care of the guards, turned around and walked slowly towards the palace, "Xi'er, I'm looking for you......"

At this time, in the palace, Zhu Yunwen was holding a sword in his hand, and shouted to Zhu Mingxi, who was kneeling in front of him, with a hideous face: "Imperial sister, your sister-in-law and nephew have already left before you! Do you want them to wait for you?"

Zhu Mingxi, who was kneeling on the ground, had his chest rising and falling violently, staring at the "imperial brother" who pointed at him with a sword resentfully, and said unwillingly:

"Hehe, do you still regard me as your sister? Not long after my father left, you began to kill each other! Are there still few imperial uncles and brothers who have died in your hands in the past few years? Now you even killed the imperial sister-in-law and nephew with your own hands!"

Zhu Yunwen smiled angrily, regardless of the feelings of his brother and sister, raised his hand and slapped Zhu Mingxi's face.

"Bold! The reason why I want to kill those rebellious ministers and thieves is because they want to take my throne! I never thought of killing them! I was forced!"

Zhu Mingxi looked at the strange man in front of him miserably, stood up with difficulty, and said with joy or sadness:

"You still haven't realized you're wrong, and I'm sorry for you. Don't bother you to do it, I'll do it myself. ”

Taking advantage of the moment when Zhu Yunwen was stunned, she flew over and snatched the sword.

Looking at the blood stains left by the emperor's sister-in-law and nephew on the blade, Zhu Mingxi slowly closed his eyes, put the sword on his tender neck, pulled it violently, and then slowly fell to the ground.

Zhu Yunwen wiped a handful of blood sprayed on his face, picked up the sword from the ground, and tried to slash it to his neck like Zhu Mingxi, but he never had the courage to take the last step.

After a few attempts, he smiled self-deprecatingly and gave up the idea of dying for his country.

Putting the sword into the scabbard, Zhu Yunwen glanced at the corpse of his loved ones, and couldn't help frowning. After pondering for a moment, he said to the official eunuch standing aside with a stern expression: "Set the fire, burn it all!" Hurry up, after the matter is over, I will leave the palace through the secret passage!"

"Wow!" the eunuch instinctively agreed, and then beckoned a few little eunuchs in the palace and began to scramble for things that started the fire.

Finally, he glanced at Zhu Mingxi's gradually cold corpse, and said with a gloomy face, "Hmph! Don't blame me, remember not to reincarnate in the emperor's family in the next life." Then he flicked his sleeves and strode towards the palace gate......

When Zhu Yunwen was about to walk out of the palace gate, he happened to meet the white-clothed scholar who was walking into the palace, the two glanced at each other, did not speak, and hurriedly passed by.

The white-clothed scholar walked into the palace and was surprised to see Zhu Mingxi lying motionless on the ground, and several eunuchs on the side were busy piling up fire-starting things on her body.

Then he rushed towards Zhu Mingxi in a rage, pushed away the eunuchs like crazy, and hugged her tightly in his arms.

Seeing this, the chief eunuch hurriedly persuaded: "Lord Liu, let it go, we still have to ......."

Before he could finish speaking, the white-clothed scholar asked him in a cold voice, "How did she die!"

The chief eunuch looked at his cold eyes, swallowed his saliva, and replied cowardly: "Liu, Lord Liu, the little princess, she is, she died by self-determination." ”

The white-clothed scholar picked up Zhu Mingxi, pressed her pale face to his chest, and then coldly squeezed out a sentence from his mouth: "Was it forced to death by that person?"

"It's... Slave, I... The king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die. Lady Liu, you understand, alas......"

Getting the answer he wanted, the scholar in white lowered his head and kissed her lightly on the lips.

After a long time, he gently put Zhu Mingxi on the ground.

After getting up and reluctantly glancing at the person who was haunted by his dreams, he walked out of the palace gate with heavy steps without saying a word......