Three days later, Mu Yue took Yingzheng into the palace, and Lu Qianjin followed as Yingzheng's apprentice.

After taking a few steps forward, I looked up and saw Qingran. She is already the emperor's imperial concubine, but she is dressed no different from before. So much so that when she was surrounded by palace maids and walked over, Mu Yue was in a trance for a moment. He would have thought that it was still the same as before. She doesn't belong to anyone, she's his own as long as he wants to.

"Qing Guifei." In the end, Mu Yue just bowed down to her, in the posture of a junior meeting her elders.

"No......" Qingran took a step forward and wanted to help him, but suddenly remembered that their identities were different now. I could only stand still, and then said softly: "Tai/Zi doesn't need to be polite. ”

Mu Yue straightened up and stood aside, respectfully getting out of the way, and letting her go over first. Qingran took a few steps forward, but stopped again, turning to look at him. "Tai/Zi seems to be a little haggard in the past two days."

"Thank you for your care, I'm fine."

She nodded, her expression a little dazed: "Okay, it's good." You...... Is this going to the emperor? Looking at Yingzheng and Lu Qianjin behind him, "Who are these two?" ”

Mu Yue said: "This is Mr. Zhao and Miss Lu, my father wants Mr. Zhao to calculate the fortune of the country, so he asked me to take them into the palace." ”

"Count the national fortune?" Qingran seemed to be interested, and there was an inexplicable look in his eyes. "Then after the calculation for the emperor, can Mr. Zhao calculate it for me?"

Yingzheng, who was called Mr. Zhao, glanced at her with a smile, and spoke in a calm tone: "Niangniang is already the honor of the noble concubine, the emperor's favorite, what else do you want to count?" ”

Qingran tilted his head, and there was a shadow of the delicate speech in the past: "I naturally have what I want, you can't guess." Since the emperor is waiting for you, you should go first, I'm tired, go back to the palace first. ”

After speaking, Qingran walked forward quietly. Actually, she wasn't tired. She is a fox of cultivation, and she usually doesn't get tired. In fact, when she saw Mu Yue, she panicked in pain. So, she didn't want to watch it anymore.

But if you don't want to, it's not like you can't really see it.

When night fell, the stars in the sky were enveloped in the clouds, and the shadows were too real to see. Today, the emperor did not summon Qingran to bed, she accompanied him to dinner and returned to the palace. Walking on the quiet palace alley, she felt a little lonely. She suddenly missed Qingqiu a little, and missed Mingshan, who had always tolerated her. There is no intrigue there, and there is no need to be careful in speaking, and a sentence is repeated several times in my heart.

She moved her fingers, and suddenly thought that Mu Yue sent herself into the palace to let her compete with Concubine Ying, who was favored in the past. Now that she is a concubine, Concubine Ying and her son have long since lost the ability to compete for the throne. If she kills the emperor now, will she be considered to have completed the task and can go back to her own mountains and forests?

"No, you can't!" When the emperor doesn't summon Xing Qingran, Mu Yue will quietly come to the dormitory to find her. Qingran told him this idea, but he disagreed, and he was very angry. "Qingran, this kind of thing can't be rushed. The emperor died suddenly, and you, as the emperor's favorite concubine now, do you think the ministers will not suspect you? We have put slow poison in his diet, and over time, he will die sooner or later, what are you anxious about? ”

"But I'm afraid I won't be able to wait for this time!" Qingran whispered to him, his eyes flashing like tears and stars in the sky. "This palace is too oppressive, it's not the place to be! I don't know why you chose me with so many women in the world, and I don't know why you are so sure that the emperor likes me so much. But Mu Yue, your reliance on this qiē is that I like you. Like you so tired I don't want it anymore. ”

"How can you not want to?" Mu Yue clasped her arm hard, "Qingran I said it, you wait for me." It's not like I don't have you in my heart! As long as the emperor dies, I will ascend the throne and immediately accept you as a concubine. I do what I say! As long as he dies, as long as he dies, our good days will come. ”

Qing Ran didn't speak again. She felt that in her memory, the man who smiled gently when she first met seemed to be dead, and she didn't recognize who was in front of her.

He keeps saying that he has a good life, but in fact, he doesn't want it anymore.

She wanted to go back to the mountains and forests where she was born, and that was where she belonged. She can go if she wants, and no one can help her. But before she goes, she has one thing to do.

Even if she doesn't want to, she still likes Mu Yue in her heart. So before leaving, she was going to kill the emperor for him. She wants Mu Yue to be a new emperor without worry.

Mu Yue left in the night, plucked the golden hairpin from his hair, and grinded it on the ground repeatedly. The tip of the golden hairpin was sharp, and in the dark night, it shone with a condensed white light.

"She wants to kill the emperor?" Ying Zheng looked at the picture in the mirror and gasped: "She didn't just kill that emperor to attract the thunder, right?" ”

"It looks like it." Lu Qianjin tucked the mirror into her sleeve, "She's looking for death by doing this." In the past, Daji confused the king or Nuwa, and in the end, Qingqiu fell to that fate. Now she is doing this kind of thing for her own selfish desires, harming the monarch, and she can't say anything if the sky doesn't split her. ”

"In these days, is it so easy to even assassinate the emperor? Look at what they say, as if they will succeed if they do it. ”

Lu Qianjin glanced at him, "I didn't see Mu Yue so old, that emperor must be very old." No matter what, the old man is powerless. It's easy to kill him, but it's hard to get close to him quietly and kill him when he's not alert. ”

Qingran is still a little clever, so she chose Jin Hai. This thing is also a sharp weapon when it is sharpened quickly, as long as it is stabbed in the right place, it is easy to want to die alone.

The next day it was drizzling, and there seemed to be a grand and light smoke between the sky and the earth.

Qingran sat on the chair and stared at the golden hairpin in his hand that was polished by himself. It wasn't until the palace maid sent a message that the emperor had sent her over for lunch that she made up her mind and inserted the golden hairpin into her hair.

In fact, the emperor treated her very well. Mu Yue always felt that the emperor was lustful/lustful, but this was not the case. He had never touched Qingran, but he always looked at her infatuatedly, as if he was looking at someone else's shadow through her.

Like now, she came here to dine with him. As soon as he saw her, he stretched out his hand to her, smiled and called her, "Sunny and rainy." ”

He likes to call her Qingyu, that's someone else's name, but it doesn't matter.

"Sunny and rainy, this dish is your favorite." The emperor gave her a dish with chopsticks, "Eat more." ”

Qingran picked up the dish and put it in his mouth, and the expression on his face was unclear. Sometimes she feels that the emperor seems to be living in a dream woven by herself, but sometimes, she feels that he is actually more awake than anyone else.

The emperor is old, and he has to take a nap after lunch. Qingran served him to sleep/went down, and after a while, seeing that he was sleeping smoothly, he slowly walked to his bedside. She stood still for a long time before reaching out and taking out the golden hairpin in her hair. Hold it high and aim it at his heart. She tried to stab it, but her hands were shaking. The shiver spread, and finally her whole body shrank.

She had never killed a person, but now she wanted to kill.

Qing Ran took a deep breath, resolutely aimed in the direction, and stabbed down-

The golden hairpin fell an inch in front of the emperor, but he couldn't stab it anymore. Her wrist was grabbed by someone, she looked at the person with horror in her eyes, opened her mouth and just wanted to speak, but he covered her mouth hard.

He took Qingran to the outside, set up an enchantment, and then raised a palm to hit it, but the palm stopped in mid-air, and finally fell helplessly. "Clearly, you're crazy! You actually did this for a man, don't forget that you/mother are a lesson from the past! ”

If it weren't for a man, Qingran's mother would have soared thousands of years ago, and would not have waited until some time ago to be able to leave. And what she couldn't give up thinking about before she left was still the man's name.

What exactly is love?

"Mingshan, I know I'm crazy, but I can't help it." Qingran looked at the heartbroken Mingshan in front of him, and when he said a word, tears were already raining down. "I know I can't, but I can't control myself."

If she could control zhì, she would have left as early as the very beginning. No, as early as the beginning, she didn't want to meet Mu Yue.

Is it fate, or is it a debt?

Seeing Qingran crying Mingshan was distressed, she only said this sentence, and Mingshan already understood everything. He took her into his arms, and his good-looking eyebrows and eyes were all full of distress. "Qingran, don't cry, it's my mistake."

Yes, it was he who was wrong. Qingran's mother entrusted Qingran to him before leaving, he shouldn't have been optimistic about Qingran because he was too busy with Qingqiu's affairs. shouldn't let her step into the red dust with one foot, she can only cut off her liver and intestines, and turn back to the sea of bitterness.

"Qingran ......" Mingshan stroked her face and gently wiped the tears on her face, "Qingran I know you don't want to, otherwise you wouldn't cry." I also know that you are tired, I will take you back, and we will no longer pay attention to this red world, okay? ”

The struggle for royal power, the seizure of status. It wasn't supposed to be what their foxes were supposed to understand.

"You know that if the emperor doesn't die, I can't go back." Qingran's eyes were dark, the emperor was immortal, she couldn't be reconciled. is crazy about Mu Yue, and there is no way to get an ending of redemption.

Mingshan knows. He let out a long sigh, hugged her, and said nothing. Since she wants to stay here, it is better for him to accompany her.

In the end, no one went back, and Mingshan also stayed. His cultivation is much more advanced than Qingran, and if he wants to pretend to be anyone, he only needs to move his fingers. He remained with the emperor and replaced his chamberlain. Just wait for him to die, and then take Qingran out of here.

And Qingran, as before, poisoned the emperor's meals every day.

She couldn't see the sadness in Mingshan's eyes, she could only see that it was Mu Yue who was gently raising her head towards herself in the smoke and rain in the south of the Yangtze River.

That glance is heaven, and in the end it becomes hell.