Listening to King Jing's choking like swallowing a knife, Su Ke laughed, smiling like a plum blooming in the cold, from the stamen to the petals, there was a chill everywhere.

"What did the prince say? You killed Love? Su Ke's voice trembled slightly along with his thin shoulders. A premonition rose in her heart, and the utter chill made her tremble, fearing that the truth would be cold water coming down her head, and the cold wind blew her into ice lumps, and then the hammer was struck, and she was shattered to pieces.

She looked at him excitedly, wanting to believe it, but not wanting to believe it.

King Jing's eyes were red, he hung his head and didn't dare to look into Su Ke's eyes, and affirmed with difficulty, "Yes, I killed Love." In order to save me, she went out for me to take the bar. After the investigation, she could not escape death. She pleaded with me, but I was afraid of getting into trouble, so I didn't care. I never thought that she was really dead. ”

Su Ke hooked a sloppy smile, thinking back to Love's worries in the past few days, she suddenly felt distressed.

Something happened, and she didn't help her carry it. The culprit pulled his hand and walked away, whether she lived or died. She spent the last days of her life in fear and fear. I didn't have any relatives anymore, and I was lonely when I was dying, and I soaked in the well for two days before I was found.

Su Ke's eyes widened and pursed his lips to keep himself from crying. But the tears that were stored kept accumulating, and the eyes could not hold them, and they rolled down like a pile of glass slag smashed into the chest.

"You are the prince, the fifth prince of the emperor, and Luo Fu is just a palace maid, you saved her as soon as you opened your mouth, why bother with it. You said that she saved you, because she is a palace maid and you are the prince, so you think she deserves it. When you save her, you will lose your identity and cause trouble, and let the other princes know about it, and they will ignore you even more...... Lord Wang, it turns out that you are such a person. ”

Su Ke's words were very serious, and she knew King Jing's embarrassing identity very well, but she deliberately said such hurtful words.

In the face of guilt, if you don't criticize others, you can only criticize yourself. Su Ke knew that she had become vicious, but she couldn't control it.

King Jing listened to her words, and his red eyes made him look like a trapped beast that was almost collapsing. If he was really an indifferent and ruthless person, how could he not stand Su Ke's few words of ridicule. In the end, it is a willingness to fight and a willingness to suffer.

He pursed his lips and said after a while, "It's me who is sorry for her." ”

In the late autumn of five years ago, King Jing had just moved to the Ten Princes' Mansion. At that time, Concubine Xian's mother was ill, and after the death of his biological mother, he stayed by Concubine Xian's side for a few years, received the grace of nurturing, and also received a lot of favors. Concubine Xian was seriously ill, and he entered the palace to serve the decoction. I forgot the hour for a while, and saw that it was already dark.

He himself is old, and it is not good to stay in the palace anymore, so he hurriedly leaves the palace at the time of the key in the palace. Halfway through, I remembered that I had changed my clothes after being wet with the decoction, and the waist card seemed to have been lost at that time.

The accompanying palace eunuch told him to wait where he was, and he hurriedly turned back to fetch it. He only walked a few steps when he heard someone talking on the other side of the rockery. He is young and old, and he knows what he shouldn't hear, and if he listens, it's a disaster. But just as he was about to walk away, the conversation mentioned him and Concubine Xian, so he couldn't sit idly by anymore, and listened to the conversation clearly behind the rockery.

He was angry, ashamed, and clutched the rockery with his hands, feeling that his nails were going to sink into the cracks in the stones.

But he didn't know the severity of it, and the rockery really let him pick off a piece, and with a few small gravels, he fell to the ground with a bang. This sound is not loud, but it is dark, the palace gate is about to fall, and there is no one around, so the sound is extremely harsh.

The two people who were talking hurriedly stopped talking, and after a short breath, the voice outside the rockery was serious, "Whoever is there, come out for me." I have seen you, you come out on your own, and I can spare you. Don't let me get you out. ”

As the voice of the voice gradually approached, King Jing's heart rose to his throat. He hid in the stone cave out of the rockery, if it was like the rockery cave opposite, very deep, and there was a narrow passage behind it, he would not panic like this. But his stone cave is a dead end, a shallow arc, and if the other party really comes, he has nowhere to hide.

The footsteps were still tentatively approaching, and King Jing held his breath, feeling that he might have to confess here in this life.

What about the prince and the prince, he is not loved by the emperor, and he does not have the support of his mother. Although the mother concubine and the queen mother are in the same vein, the Tong family has been secretly overpowered by the emperor for many years. In order to keep him safe, the Queen Mother rarely saw him. He was alone, and if he didn't have a virtuous concubine, he wouldn't even find a reason to enter the palace. To be honest, he is still young, and he really fell into the rockery and fell into the lake because of "playfulness", and there are many ways to die.

When the time comes, the father and the emperor mourn for a few days, and the concubine cries a few times, and it will pass. No one will care about him, no one will care if he is really playful or if he is killed.

What's more, the comer is high, he can't afford to provoke, and pinching him to death is like pinching an ant to death.

He was terrified to the extreme, his legs trembled, countless tragic pictures flashed in his mind, his eyes were dizzy, and in a blur, he saw a person hiding in the stone cave of the opposite rockery.

He didn't know when the man was hiding there, what he heard, what he saw. only knew that the situation was urgent at this time, and he couldn't escape, but the person on the other side could turn around and withdraw from the gap in the stone cave.

Seeing that the person who had just spoken to him had walked to the middle of the two rockeries, only one step, one step, the comer stepped over, his head turned to the right, and he could see that he had no way to retreat.

But at this time, the person on the opposite side came out of the stone cave of the rockery.

"The slave and maid are going to the dining room to return the food box, passing by here, listening to someone talking, trying to avoid it, but you have caught it. Slaves and maids should not be greedy for fun, so go back early, please bypass the slaves and maids, and don't complain to the slaves' housekeepers. ”

Gu left and right, he really didn't hear anything, and the other party wouldn't believe it.

"Which palace are you from? What is your name? The man on top asked.

"The slave maid is the one who serves the virtuous grandmother in Shou'an Palace, and her name is ...... Love. ”

Another whispered, "I can't stay." ”

Love knelt on the ground and kowtowed, begging for mercy. The other party would not let her go, but at this time, the palace eunuch who went back to get the waist card came back with a lantern. The people outside didn't dare to stay any longer, so they left in a hurry with a cruel word. Like a limp of mud, Love slumped to the side, staring at the cave in distraction.

He did not dare to go out until the palace eunuch found him, saw Love, and gave him a few strokes of the shoulder, asking him if he had ever seen King Jing.

Love's eyes were hollow, and she opened her mouth, but she didn't make a sound. She shook her head, and the palace eunuch was discouraged, and took the lantern and looked for it again.

After the palace eunuch left, Love seemed to come to her senses, crawled to him on her knees, and tugged at the corner of his robe and begged him for help.

He was terrified, and for a moment, he kicked her hand away and ran out of the cave in despair.

He was disgusted with himself. It was as if there were 10,000 insects crawling in his body, gnawing at the bones, tearing at the flesh, and eating away at him little by little. But he had no choice, he couldn't save her, he would only put himself in it. He thought of her goodness, if something really happened, he would go to her to incense, burn paper for her, ask Taoist monks to give her a superordinate, and let her have a good birth in the next life.

He was thirteen years old at the time, and in the middle of the night he was huddled under the covers and shivered like chaff.

He deliberately hid, saying that he was sick and did not enter the palace. The emperor wanted to ask him about his homework, but he couldn't avoid it, so he entered the palace and was trained. When he left the palace, on the road between the Donghua Gate, Love, as if premeditated, knelt in front of him, and begged him to save her.

What did she say at the time, that person would not let her go, she was lucky enough to escape from the ghost gate once, and if someone harmed her, she would definitely not be able to escape the second time.

But again, he was resolute and indifferent, kicked her away, took out a princely posture, and walked out of Donghua Gate without a single eye.

He also hated himself, hated himself for being useless, hated himself for being despicable, and when others saved him, he took revenge.

Later, she really died.

……

Su Ke listened to this past, covering his lips with his hands folded, too hard, and his fingers left deep fingerprints on his pale cheeks.

"It was a mistake I made and I will remember it for the rest of my life. I used to be timid, cowardly and incapable, I will not deny my meanness, but Su Ke, I was powerless at that time. Even if I tried to intercede, I would only put myself in it, and her life would not be saved. ”

Su Ke just cried silently, tears flowing down his eyes, winding into lines along his fingers.

Who was she to blame him? Tracing back to the roots, she and he are on the road without saving Love. It's just that she's a bystander, he's an insider. Each has its own position, but after all, it is the same way. Her resentment towards him is also resentment towards herself. It's just that Love's death is still a hurdle that she can't overcome.

"Who are the two people talking outside the rockery?" Su Ke's voice was already hoarse, and it was already unpleasant, but now it was even more obscure.

But King Jing still understood. He looked her straight in the eye, and his face was no longer the immature he had been five years ago. His maturity, his poise, forged day after year, leaves deep marks on the face. Even if he disguises himself well on weekdays, in the face of his best friends and the people he identifies as his own, his youth and old age will eventually show their clues.

He examined her, looking at her red and swollen eyelids and thin cheeks, hoping to get a glimpse of the truth.

met her for the first time five years ago, and even at a young age, he could tell people's hearts. He knew that Love was tight-lipped, and although Su Ke was close to her, she didn't say a word to the outside. At that time, Su Ke really didn't know.

But five years have passed, and things are not people. said that put aside the "people and things in the palace", but the people entered the Hou Mansion.

He has scruples, worries, and things that need to be preserved.

"Su Ke, do you think I'll sue you? Putting you in danger and embarrassing you? King Jing looked at her quite emotionally, "Su Ke, I will avenge Love's revenge, I will always remember it in my heart, and I will never forget it in this life." What I can't do, you can't do. But if I can turn it around one day...... I'm capable enough, and I'm not going to let her die in vain. Su Ke, you believe me, you give me this chance to atone for my sins. ”

Su Ke cried so hard that he couldn't hold his breath, and his misty eyes reflected King Jing's resolute face.

In just a few years, he has grown from a teenager to a man who stands tall in the sky. He carried the mistakes of the past all the way, he did not forget Jì, and his heart was set on avenging Love. He came to see her, afraid that she would be stuck in the past because of Love's death.

He knew what the crux of her problem was, so he brought the elixir to save her.

She could no longer use vicious words to attack him, and her eyes looked into his pupils, as if she saw the essence. She pulled out the intertwined emotions in her heart. With the dripping blood, it was cherished and handed over to him.

"You're going to avenge her, right? It doesn't matter if it's three years, five years, ten years......"

"All my life, I live, and I will avenge her."

A prince made a promise to a palace maid who saved his life. No matter how slim the hope is, whether he can really take revenge, his firmness is enough to comfort people.

There are two important men in Love's life, one doesn't remember her, and the other kills her. Does she hate? Does she resent? Moments before she died, who was in her mind? For Liang Jincheng, she said that she has no regrets. What about the king? Su Ke touched her conscience, thinking that there was such a man in this world, who had nothing to do with love, regardless of status, and kept Love in her heart, she always felt that even if Love once resented him, she must forgive him now.

"I heard that you entered the Hou Mansion, and I also sent someone to inquire about you. I can trust Ling Hang's person, and I am very relieved that you follow him. He thought you had run away on your own, and several groups of people were looking for your whereabouts at the inn restaurant in the inner city. Later, I found you in the house, so excited, I was worried about your future days. I still don't have much ability, but I have a little affection, and the false title of the prince can still bluff him. If you get into any trouble, send someone to me and I'll help you. ”

Su Ke couldn't say the sourness, and smiled at him with a choked throat, "With the backstage of the prince, he doesn't dare to do anything to me." ”

King Jing had heard a little about them, and he also saw Shao Linghang's every move. His relationship problems are still a mess, and he is not in the mood to care what kind of trouble their relationship will make. Su Ke is right, with his relationship here, the people in the house will be somewhat jealous of her.

However, there are advantages and disadvantages to his coming.

But there is a heart-to-heart friendship with Su Ketui, and a debt to Love that he can't repay for the time being, so it makes sense that he has to come and see her. Sue her for some things, take away some resentment from her.

"Let's cry and let things go. There's still a long way to go, you have to live well, and Love is watching, you have to reassure her. ”

It's really poking at her weakness every word. Su Ke nodded, very grateful, very aggrieved.

Tears rolled down her cheeks like broken threads, and when she buried her head in the quilt and cried, King Jing quietly exited the inner room.

It's snowing outside, the first snow of the winter.

King Jing walked to the corridor, took a breath of cold air, stood beside Shao Linghang, and watched the snowflakes drift down thinly, ironing people's hearts.

"Ling Hang, when I was a child, I envied you for having brothers and sisters. I have it too, but they don't spoil me, they don't hurt me, they even hurt me. Now I take Su Ke as my sister, and I don't have any status or status, and I don't have any lifelong friendships. It's just that many opportunities, in my selfish heart, I am grateful that she owes her. Now that she's with you, I want you to treat her well. ”

Shao Linghang's gaze looked far away through the snowy sky, he bent the corners of his mouth, and said softly and calmly, "I will." ”

"Let's go in and see her, although crying can distract you, it will hurt your body in the end."

King Jing left after speaking, the snow accumulated a layer of nothing, leaving a series of footprints on the bluestone road, walking straight and without distractions.

Shao Linghang entered the inner room, stopped in front of the floor cover, and heard the hoarse whimpering cry buried in the quilt. He took a deep breath and lifted the curtain and walked to the bed. Su Ke heard footsteps and raised his head from the quilt. Skinny and bony, bent over, his mid-coat penetrating the bones on his spine, a truncation is particularly obvious.

He sat down on the edge of the bed to meet her gaze, said nothing, and reached out to take her into his arms. The warm palm gently patted the back, like coaxing a sleeping child.

"Hurry up and get better."

Su Ke's head was against Shao Linghang's chest, he had resisted everything, but now he was as calm as water. She was so tired, and after Love left, she was desperately trying to live alone in this world, really tired.

This chest is warm, let her lean on, she will not be able to hold it alone after all.