"Satisfied?" She took over the movement of my hand, pressing the wound on my neck hard, and while pulling out the usual wound medicine from her bosom, and quickly stopping the bleeding and bandaging it, she was so familiar that she almost softened her heart - but it was only for a moment, "I was never the one who made the choice." ”

Throwing the blood-stained ring on the table, Jiang Zhuo glanced at it lightly,

――As for the token of love I gave her, did she really abandon it like a piece of paper?

So why should I be obsessed with that same trivial feeling?

"Choice? That's right," she snatched me into her arms when the bandaging was over, not very hard, but taught me to break free lightly, "You never chose me - it's ridiculous that I only understood today that in your heart, there is only your imperial sister!" ”

Before I could come back to my senses, I heard her continue: "And I, from beginning to end, was just a stand-in!" ”

She leaned close to my ear and gritted her teeth, her voice was full of gloom and anger, but the movements of holding me were so gentle, as if she was afraid of crushing me, I even felt a piece of warmth dripping from my neck, so startled that I couldn't help but look up, but she was pressed in her arms.

After a while, I finally broke free from her shackles, and when I looked up, I only met her delicate and cold side face, the corners of which were slightly red, but more like the afterburners of anger.

-- Maybe it's my delusion.

Jiang Zhuo her...... How can you cry?

shook her head self-deprecatingly, but heard her say unrelentingly: "Heh, I should have known that you didn't even want the throne for her...... What am I worth? ”

- No, it's not.

I've never used you as a stand-in.

Because you're the first person I've ever seen in this world.

"I really hate my face, if I hadn't been born similar to Kuang Xiqing, I wouldn't have this Li Dai Tao's stiff plan, and I wouldn't have been noticed by you, let alone used by you as her stand-in, playing with applause."

- No, it's not!

I never meant to provoke you, let alone deceive you.

I...... I love you.

He shouted frantically in his heart, defending himself, but when the words came to his mouth, he couldn't say a word, just thought to himself: Since she misunderstood, then let her go.

What's the point of explaining?

It's just a matter of sadness.

Seeing that I didn't answer, she lowered her eyes by default, and she glared at me angrily, and her whole body trembled with anger, as if she was about to explode at any moment.

"It's all my fault, are you going to kill me?" Closing my eyes and sighing, I asked softly.

"How could I possibly kill you!" She blurted out angrily, and when she saw me, she immediately turned her face away and explained in a cold voice, "You are the daughter of the first emperor, the prince of the palace, if I kill you, won't I teach the world to punish me and accuse me of being a cruel faint king?" ”

"This won't be, according to the reputation of King Ling, people in the world only have Li'er who celebrates with the crown, and I'm afraid that even the imperial doctor will not give a word of advice." I smiled, but it was rare to have the leisure to laugh at myself, and I couldn't help but provoke her.

"Shut up! Put away all your thoughts of seeking death and life! If you die, won't the 50,000 soldiers be lost? She shouted at me, her fists creaking, as if hovering on the verge of rage, "If you dare to commit suicide, I will immediately send someone to kill Kuang Xiqing, and the entire Ling Wangfu will come to your funeral!" ”

- She wouldn't not know that even if I was gone, as long as the half of the tiger talisman was in her hand, the command of 50,000 soldiers and horses would not be able to escape.

If I die, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages for her.

"Okay, I'm not looking for death, you let me go." The foreshadowing was over, and I told me what I really wanted.

saw her slam her palm on the iron cage, bending the three-finger-thick iron railing by half an inch, and making a tooth-inverting sound: "Go?" Where to go? ”

"It's okay anywhere, as long as you can get out of here." Leave you.

"Oh, don't you think about it." She sneered, pinched my chin without pity, and tried to exert herself, but the next moment she was burned, and suddenly retracted her hand, only emphasizing hatefully, "Don't think! ”

Leaving such a dry cruel remark, he then fled and seemed to leave the stone room.

I stroked the wound on my neck that was slightly cool after applying the ointment, and finally held back my tears, just sighing softly.

After that day of unhappiness, I returned to the days of captivity, and I just stayed in the side hall of the Chaolu Hall all day, guarded by guards all the time and not allowed to enter or leave, the only difference was probably that the person who imprisoned me changed from Kuang Xiqing to Jiang Zhuo.

Knowing that Yan Ke had left Guanlan with Kuang Xiqing, I was relieved and had no intention of resisting, so I simply let it go.

She would come to see me every day, sometimes just to look at me quietly through the screen, sometimes just to sit down with a cup of tea, and leave by herself before I could say anything.

In addition to this, she also sent some strange knick-kacks and priceless treasures and antiques from time to time, and she did not give them to me in person, but quietly placed them in a place where I could see them.

Maybe it's a bottle of fragrant lilies that you can see when you wake up in the morning, or maybe it's a table of my favorite dishes at lunch, or maybe it's a fan with a beautiful inscription on the desk...... I would water the flowers on time, eat the next table properly, and take care of every gift she gave, but I didn't feel happy at all.

Why didn't she understand that these painstaking gifts and flatteries were far less than a sincere apology.

Maybe in her heart, she didn't feel that she had done anything wrong, and she didn't have the intention of repenting.

It's five days in a flash.

In the evening of that day, not long after dinner, the palace attendant was cleaning up the table, she walked in with Shi Shiran in her hand, waved her hand to avoid their greetings, and sat down on the Taishi chair opposite me, supporting her chin with one hand, silent.

The palace attendant gave two cups of tea each, and then walked out of the door with a sense of humor, leaving only the two of us alone.

She picked up the tea lid and slowly skimmed off the floating leaves on it, and the wisps of white mist obscured her expression, making it difficult to distinguish.

Pick up the tea as she did, and be quiet for a moment, as it had been for the previous five days, perhaps as she had been relatively silent until she left...... Is it that if I don't take the initiative to speak, she will never talk to me?

In that case, why not let me break the deadlock.

"You...... Have you had dinner? After thinking about it, I still couldn't find a topic to cut into, so I had to start with the dinner in front of me—I asked in a low voice as I took a break from tea.

"Ahem, ahem...... Well, used, used. She didn't seem to expect me to speak suddenly, but she choked on a sip of tea, coughed a few times, and blushed her face before stammering in reply.

After staring at her embarrassed face for a while, after she tried hard to breathe and breathe out, and recovered her previous serious and indifferent complexion, I suppressed the smile and asked coldly, "If I don't speak, are you going to stalemate with me like this?" ”

"Of course not," she put down the teacup and looked at me with a frown, her expression indifferent, but there was a look of confusion in her eyes, "I just, I just don't know...... How to speak. ”

"Then I ask you," I said, taking a deep breath and speaking my mind as calmly as I could, "are you going to lock me up here for the rest of my life?" Like the bird in the cage, the carp in the pond? ”

A lifetime in this square inch of land, a lifetime without freedom.

Then, depression ended.

"No, I didn't ......," she shook her head, and paused for a moment before explaining to me, "Kuang Xiqing's forces have not been cleared yet, and there are not only my subordinates in this palace, but also the spies planted by others, and if you leave rashly, you will be in danger." ”

"Oh, that's right, there are a lot of people who want my life." Laughing self-deprecatingly-there is another biggest reason I didn't say, but I know each other: I'm afraid that in the eyes of Kuang Xiqing and her henchmen, I am Jiang Zhuo's biggest accomplice □□ the upper position.

If she didn't have my token, how could she mobilize Yan Ke's dead soldiers? If it weren't for the support of those dead soldiers and 50,000 soldiers and horses, why would she have entered the palace and made this trick of exchanging a tanuki for a prince?

This qiē will be counted on my head.

"Don't worry, I won't let anyone hurt you." She stood up, looked at me with burning eyes, and said firmly.

"Anyone, including yourself?" I smiled at her, but my heart couldn't help but throb - this person who kept saying that he wanted to protect me was also the one who hurt me the most.

Can I still trust her?

How to trust her.

"I ......" she froze in place, her hands clenched, but she could no longer take a step towards me.

"Heh, Jiang Zhuo, what am I to you?" Suddenly, I realized that I had said countless times of love and admiration to her, but I never seemed to have heard a similar response from her mouth - sure enough, was it just that I was sentimental?

"Jian Xin," she looked at me deeply, and suddenly took a step forward, and then another step, and in an instant, she walked in front of me, looking down at me condescendingly, and every step seemed to step on my heart, teaching me to subconsciously hold my breath, expecting her answer—in the dark, as if I had a premonition that this answer was what I had been waiting for for a long time, "I ......"

"Your Majesty, Urgent-" At that moment, an anxious female voice sounded through the door, interrupting our eyes and destroying the affection that was about to come out.

"I ......" she ignored the knocker, but still stared at me steadily, and stopped talking.

"Majesty, majesty......" The man shouted in a low voice outside the door, and the knock on the door was even more urgent.

“…… There you go. Raising my hand to straighten her entire meticulous dress, I smiled and turned back to the inner room.

The door opened and closed, and the faint sigh passed away, and the room fell into a dead silence.

She was gone, and I felt as if a door was closed in my heart.