Xuanyuan looked at this painting and couldn't help but go back to eighteen years ago.

At that time, he was only twenty-two years old and had just ascended the throne.

However, after a long time, cumbersome government affairs, officials who rely on the old and sell the old, and prime ministers like old foxes...... The same gentle and graceful woman in the palace.

All the qiē made him feel irritable and he needed a stimulating and interesting life.

In the autumn hunting competition of that year, the girl rode a red and brown horse, her delicate body wrapped in silver-white soft armor, and her black hair stood high on end.

Her smile was so enthusiastic that it blinded him.

Her archery skills were so good that she shot him in the heart.

…………

That night, he couldn't sleep at night, and when he closed his eyes, it was her thick and gorgeous face.

After the autumn hunt ended, he sent the secret guards around him to secretly inquire about her.

He couldn't help but feel strange, this girl was only sixteen or seventeen years old, how to pick a draft girl, he had never seen her.

Then the news came back - she was engaged.

This answer was actually expected by him, but he still couldn't help but feel disappointed and even angry.

When the draft girls were picked in the spring of the following year, he insisted that all women of the appropriate age must participate in the show girl selection, which caused a lot of resentment at the time.

No one knew that his big move was just for one person.

Li Zongru, who was just in charge of the family at that time, came to beg him, but he resolutely refused. At that time, the old man of the Li family had just died, and the situation of the Li family was not optimistic, if there was a favored concubine, it would be much better for them.

And finally, for the sake of the Li family.

Li Zongru gave up his sister and pushed her into the palace.

He got the person he wanted, and he named her the imperial concubine, second only to the queen.

He spoiled her alone, and the entire harem became an empty shell.

He longed to keep her in front of his eyes all the time, in the palm of his hand.

It's hot, and he's afraid she's hot.

It was cold, and he was afraid that she would move.

She walked, and he was afraid that she would knock.

When she eats, he is afraid that she will be hot.

When she was asked for trouble, he sent her into the cold.

Even the queen was locked up by him for scolding her.

At that time, the Li family, because she made everyone avoid its edge.

However, she was not happy.

He felt it sensitively.

Her smile is always faint, she doesn't like to talk, she always looks into the distance, and it looks like a day.

Xuanyuan Ao began to find ways to amuse her, rare seasonal fruits, luxurious jewelry, and beautiful cloud clothes...... Boxes and boxes were carried into her palace.

But -- this qiē didn't work.

Later, he secretly asked Li Zongru, who was still young at the time, what did she like?

And then he began to take her on horseback hunting, climbing mountains and wading through waters.

She whipped the tiger with one hand, and the thief she beat knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. She only likes to eat meat, her posture is elegant, but the speed is very fast, as if someone wants to grab her if she is slower.

Her smile gradually increased, and she loved to talk to him when she had time.

Under his bottomless connivance, she became more and more bold, and sometimes even dared to call him by his name.

He smiled and responded.

At that time, it was really the happiest day of his life.

He felt as if his heart was filled with honey, and his whole body softened when it was sweet.

Until that day-

It happened to be the first day of the second month, and according to the rules, he had to sleep in the queen's bedroom on the fifteenth day of every new year.

On that day, as usual, he took care of government affairs until late and arrived at the queen's palace.

He and the queen were in a juvenile marriage, and they hadn't even met before they got married, and there was no emotional foundation between the two at all, and every time they met, it made him feel bored.

As usual, he hurriedly said a few words to the queen, and then planned to sleep.

It just so happened that the queen didn't know what stimulation she was getting that day, and kept rubbing against him. He hadn't touched anyone since he had been with her, and under her clear eyes, he always felt as if he had betrayed the other party.

This time it was the same, he pushed the queen away, and said irritably: "What about your etiquette? ”

The queen suddenly smashed this thing madly and shouted, "The etiquette of the concubine, what about your rules, the emperor?" You haven't set foot in the harem for a whole year...... That slut, she's a vixen......"

'Smack! He slapped her to the ground and said coldly: "If I become the emperor, it is up to you to decide what to do, then I will not be too much of a failure as the emperor." ”

"Don't say how pitiful you are......" He dressed under the service of the palace maid, "You are willing to marry me, and I will give you a family of glory and wealth, this is a default transaction between us." ”

At that time, how determined he was to leave the queen's palace, and how desperate he was when he finally pushed open the door of her palace.

The woman he loved the most, lying in his palace, slept with another man.

His mind was blank, but his body reacted faster than his mind, and he picked up the sword at the head of the bed and stabbed at the man, again and again, and again, he had forgotten how many knives he had stabbed, until finally, the man had become a mess of meat.

She ran over, clasping his hand in rags, as if begging for something.

It was a chaotic day, all he remembered, and in the end he threw her aside and fled back to his palace.

He thought, he should have killed her.

He should have killed this woman who betrayed him.

But—he couldn't bear it.

He has given his feelings, and now it is much more difficult to take it back than to pay.

He had put this person in his heart, and now to kill her is like digging out his own heart.

When the sky was dark, he returned to her palace, the little palace maids and eunuchs were silently guarding the door, the smell of blood inside was thick overflowing from the crack in the door, he stood outside the door for a while, and finally pushed the door open.

She was sitting by the window, tears streaming down her cheeks.

This was the first time he had seen her cry, and he suddenly felt a throbbing pain in his heart, and he was about to breathe.

With a numb expression, he told the dark guard to deal with everything, and all those in the know had to die, and this matter couldn't be spread, otherwise she would have to die.

He knows which eunuchs and palace maids are innocent, but how can there be any fairness in this world, he only knows that if he wants her to live, he must live.

After a period of time, he didn't dare to see her, and he desperately used political affairs to numb himself.

Between them, in just one night, they became strangers.