The deep and empty dormitory is filled with the fragrance of bitter medicine. The white mud floor of Ugin damp with the dampness of the night, and there was no sound when you stepped on it. In the darkness, a glass lamp emitted a faint glow, and a faint cough sounded from the deepest part of the dormitory.

I lifted the heavy curtain with one hand, and the ambergris was blowing on my face, mixed with the strong smell of medicine, which made people dizzy.

Allure was leaning on the edge of the couch, stirring the decoction in his hand and feeding it to the emperor on the couch. When she saw me coming, her hands froze, and her eyes wandered between me and the emperor in a complicated way.

"Yue'er, come here. "The emperor didn't look at me, and opened his mouth.

I walked over and took the medicine cup from Allure's hand, the temperature of my hand was slightly hot. The white hair in his sideburns fell into my sight, and his hands holding the medicine cup trembled a little.

After Allure retreated, the silence lasted for a long time. The emperor's face was thin, but his eyes were as sharp as usual, and I subconsciously dodged, but I heard him chuckle.

"Finally, I stopped pretending to be sick. You're alright, I'm sick!" he said reproachfully, but there was pampering in his eyes.

If I had been, I would have been a scoundrel and would have done whatever he pleased. Now I can't do it anymore. Because I began to wonder whether his favor came from an elderly father or from an emperor.

"Father, tonight's birthday banquet is all right, eldest brother of the crown prince...... He was well hosted. ”

On the birthday of the Son of Heaven, Yizhou Xinggong held a feast. Officials from various counties and counties in Yizhou came to congratulate one after another, and the night banquet was full of friends, so it was not lively. There is a lack of a birthday star to sit and enjoy congratulations on the main seat. The rumors of the Holy Driver's Bad Cause spread far and wide.

The prince had a greater prejudice against me because of the daytime sacrifice, and he didn't give me a good face at the night banquet of Qiong wine and jade syrup. I was in a safe corner, watching him busy being fooled by the Shaw family, and there was only mockery in my heart.

I can't escape the emperor's gaze, he seems to grow old overnight, and he has become alienated from me overnight.

The emperor saw that I was silent for a long time, and the gaze on my face became more and more unfathomable.

"Yue'er, you've finally grown up. ”

"It's my former nature. Father, I feel like I'm lost. ”

The emperor took the decoction in my hand and took two sips, the bitter taste made him frown: "Yue'er, I think it's time to tell you something." ”

In the dim darkness of the dormitory, his silent gaze unnerved me. Those eyes that have been through the vicissitudes of life contain too many emotions that I can't read, and the increasingly old face is deeply under the traces of time. Each one is a secret engraved by the wind and frost.

"Father, what you want to say, I already know. ”

"What you know is not necessarily the truth. His gaze was like a torch, "Yue'er, you have been lost since you were born. ”

On the night of the change of the White Dew Palace, I was born into the sin of fratricide, and the filthy blood of royal chaos flowed in my body. No matter the auspicious omen of a lifetime, or the honored status of the makeover, I can't break free from the shackles of fate.

"In the year of King Jiaodong's rebellion, Empress Xiaowen was pregnant with a dead baby in her womb. Soon after you were born, you were raised in the Hanyuan Palace, and it took you a few years to find out that you were born with a weak disease. Are you still using that sachet?"

I was startled and asked, "How did my father know that I had a sachet?"

His sharp gaze swept over the Pixiu wrench in my hand, "Yuwen Qiye changed it, do you feel that your brain is much clearer than before?"

I nodded, still in doubt.

"That's what she left for you before she left. The imperial doctor said that your weakness can't survive unless you take Danshi. Danshi is too powerful and easy to damage people's minds. She searched for a long time to find such a method, the sachet contained a mandala, but she didn't expect it to make you seriously ill. ”

Datura stramonium. The flower of despair in the desert haunts my world like a nightmare, and it turns out that I am also the one who is deeply trapped in it.

When I met the emperor's gaze, even my heart began to tremble. His words made my eyes inexplicably sour, and when I opened my mouth, I found that even my voice was trembling: "Father, what you said about her, but she is the eldest princess of Chengyang?"

The candle flame in the temple burned to the end, and it shook violently, and the night rain was dripping, and even the room was soaked in wet cold.

I closed the door and retreated, with a look of disillusionment on my face. The palace lamps hung high in the empty corridor, swaying in the wind and rain, gave me the illusion of being in the high walls of the palace.

"Princess. A crimson dress fell into my sight, and when I looked up, Allure blocked in front of me, and the boundless smile was still there.

I looked at her face and finally understood what was going on. The last queen daughter of the fallen country, living under the manipulation of the Turks, with a face similar to that of the Turkic queen mother, successfully won the indifferent and fragile dragon heart of the Central Plains Emperor.

"Jieyu has something to do? The night is heavy, Jieyu is a person who has had a miscarriage, but she has to be careful about her body. Seeing that her face was as usual, I gave a slight salute, unwilling to entangle with her more, and asked directly: "Is the decoction that my father ate from the physician of the Jiedu Embassy?"

Allure nodded calmly: "What does the princess want to know?"

Me: "Can you add Dan stone in the medicine?"

Allure smiled as usual, only paused, and asked: "Danshi can solve evil diseases, why not?"

In the former dynasty, the north and south disputes, the gate valve cut off the art of overhaul and immortality, and obtained the alchemy stone. Danshi has the effect of curing evil diseases, treating the symptoms but not the root cause, and it has become a taboo medicine because of its strong medicinal power. The first miraculous effect of taking the food is that the body feels fluttering and immortal, and then it can't be stopped, and it is easy to cause hidden diseases for a long time.

With what I know about Allure, she wouldn't be unaware of the power of Danshi, but what she said was not sophistry. With his father's menacing illness and no cause of the disease, he can only rely on Danshi to sustain it.

"If the princess is not at ease, she can come and serve the sick herself. I believe that with your company, the emperor's dragon body will be healed soon. Allure walked past me, turned his head to look at me, and for a while, he lowered his head slightly and fell on my ear, and sighed: "Princess, I have something to ask you." ”

Allure's eyes suddenly became a little sad, and the exquisite and gorgeous clothes and makeup couldn't hide it. I've only seen this look once, when she mocked me at the ruthlessness of the Heavenly Family.

For the second time, I read something else from her sad eyes. That was the tenderness she had never shown in front of the emperor.

"Do you know why I kept her around, keeping her is like poison, but if I don't have it, I will only feel tormented. She wants to thank her for that face, which has given me a scruple in everything I do......"

……

I met her gaze and asked slowly, "What's the matter?"

"Helan is ...... lonely," she said a name with a pretending hesitation, which immediately made me stand up with cold hairs. She chuckled when she saw that I was stiff, but her expression was like crying in the dim light.

"He and Yuwen Qiye, are they really dead?"