4. The past

Yan Xu does not have his own mansion in Yicheng, and lives in the palace like Yan Min. Although the palace is big, she also intends to avoid him, but Yan Min seems to find it interesting, and always goes to Jiyue Palace to find her every once in a while. At the beginning, she also patiently dealt with him, but when he met, he always liked to find fault with her, and deliberately found fault. Although she was distressed, she was helpless to hinder his identity.

She felt aggrieved, "He bullied me like this, can't I still be angry?" โ€

"Don't move." Feeling that she was about to raise her head, his hand held her head, scooped another scoop of water, and said slowly: "A person will not be good to a person for no reason, and in the same way, he will not be bad to a person for no reason, instead of being angry here, it is better to think about why he always likes to provoke you and oppose you." โ€

"Isn't he just relying on his identity, a villain who will be avenged, I offended him, and he will always remember ......" She pursed her lips and complained in a low voice: "It's as disgusting as a fly and insect, and you can't wave it away." โ€

Yan Xu kept moving in his hands, and still said slowly: "Yes, he is relying on his identity, so no matter how tired you are of him and regenerate his anger, you can't help him." People always have their own reasons for doing things. Although he is usually a little pampered, he is not a stingy person, but he is only obsessed with you, don't you think it's strange? Don't you want to know why he's always against you? Maybe if you find the reason, you will find a way to resolve it. โ€

The mist was steaming, the faint fragrance of plum was permeating in the dense water vapor, the warm water was ticking down her hair, and his slowly inducing voice echoed in this small space, with an irresistible magic, making her lose her mind for a moment. She tilted her head slightly and met his lips.

Yan Xu looked down at the face that was close at hand, her eyes were full of misty desire/hope, her wet face was covered with water droplets, fresh and attractive, her body that had just faded and gradually matured was half-hidden in the water, and her crisp chest almost jumped out of the water because of the action of raising her head. A heat surged in his body, he hesitated slightly, and finally slowly lowered his head, but only lightly imprinted on her forehead, patted her little face, and then got up and dragged away with his half-wet robe.

Again...... The sound of clogs gradually faded away, and Xiyue was stunned for a while. She has been by his side for three years, and he is very fond of her, and in the eyes of outsiders, she is the only woman by his side, and the scenery is infinite. But only she knew that although he was close to her, she had never become his real woman in the past three years. She could feel his forbearance and restraint, but she couldn't see through the purpose behind his forbearance and restraint.

After the disappointment, his words came to her mind, and she leaned back on the tub and closed her eyes again, lost in deep thought in the steam.

The first conflict between her and Yan Min came from three years ago, when she had many doubts about her identity and was depressed all day long. That day, she sat by the lotus pond, looking at her own reflection in the water, and was stunned, when a stone suddenly fell into the water and swept her reflection away.

At that time, Yan Min was only thirteen or fourteen years old, his face was full of potholes, he was not yet tall, and he looked thin and weak, but he deliberately pretended to be old, and looked at her condescendingly with his arms, "You are the dancing girl that Yan Xu newly found?" โ€

She had never been out of Jiyue Palace, and she didn't know who this half-grown child was at that time, but she keenly caught the word "newly found" in his words, and immediately asked: "You mean...... I only came to Jinyun recently? Did he come for me? โ€

Yan Min looked at her from head to toe exaggeratedly, grinning disdainfully, "I heard that Yan Xu's new favorite dancing girl has a sick brain, and she doesn't even remember who she is, but it turns out to be true." He looks good, but he's a dumb melon, it's a pity......"

The word "dumb melon" made her heart fire in an instant, and she picked up the water in the pool and splashed him in the face. Yan Min was stunned all of a sudden, he had grown so big, no one had ever dared to be rude to him. He was furious, raised his hand and threw it in her face, but he didn't even touch her skin, but was kicked away by her, if it wasn't for the palace people who stepped forward in time to block it, and the guards were desperately present to relieve the siege, he was afraid that he would be abolished by her.

Only then did she know that she was actually good at kung fu, and her kung fu was not weak. When Yan Xu came with a calm face, she knew how much trouble she had caused, if it weren't for Yan Xu's extreme affection, Yan Min was afraid that she would cut off her head. Since then, she had planned to avoid him, but strangely, he remembered her every now and then, as long as there was any entertainment in the palace, he always invited her to participate, but every time they met, he always deliberately provoked, especially liked to talk about her illness and ridicule her as a fool.

She always thought that he hated her because of that incident, but because Yan Xu's affection was not good to deal with her, she was in trouble everywhere. But now that I think about it, although Yan Min is pampered and arrogant, he is a reckless person in his bones, and he often acts on a whim, and then forgets about it, and rarely gets entangled in one thing.

Maybe Yan Xu's words are not unreasonable...... She opened her eyes, instructed the palace people to wait for the bath, and called Yunzhu in, "I want to know a bit about the prince, you go and inquire, the more detailed, the better." โ€

On the second day, the sky was clear.

Xiaoshan Palace performed martial arts, a huge iron cage was placed on the stage, but at this time the entire cage was tightly covered by a piece of red silk, so that people could not see what mysterious things were contained in the iron cage, only a faint and terrifying roar came out, which became more and more curious.

In addition to this iron cage, there were also thirty men standing on the stage, all of whom were disciples of the Ming Yan Division. The weather was cold, but these men were only wearing very thin clothes, and all of them had exquisite bones, and at first glance they looked like martial arts practitioners.

The Ming Yan Division is a special institution in the Jin Kingdom, created by the Jin โ–กโ–ก, above the government and the opposition, and has always only obeyed the orders of the Jin Emperor. Every five years, the Ming Yan Division will hold a beast fighting ring to select elite Ming Yan envoys for the Jin royal family or the noble family. For all Bright Flame Envoys, this is a test they must go through before they can officially become a member of the Bright Flame Division.

The competition system is quite cruel, and thirty bright flame envoys will accept two rounds of competition. The first round is the fighting of beasts, and they have to fight the caged beasts without stopping. Those who successfully kill the beast and save their lives can continue to usher in the second round of the competition, and compete with the same team that also won from the cage, and select the top three, these three bright flame envoys are the final winners.

There are only three Ming Yan envoys who won, but there are many princes and nobles, and it is not only the strength of the Ming Yan envoys who are competing today, but also the vision and luck of these princes and nobles. Like the Flame Envoys, they only had one chance to bet on one of the Flame Envoys. If they win the Flame Campaign, they will have a chance to receive five years of allegiance from that Flame Ambassador. If the final winner of the Bright Flame causes more than one noble to bet on them to win, then it is up to the Bright Flame to serve his own will.

Whoever emerges from the Beast Ring will serve these nobles for five years. Five years later, they were officially counted as the people of the Ming Flame Division, and they were qualified to serve the emperor.

This is the emperor's grace, and at the same time, it is also a kind of high-profile surveillance, the emperor uses the eyes of the bright flame envoys to let those royal relatives and nobles live under his nose. Although they knew this, the nobles were still happy to have a Ming Yan envoy, which had almost become a status symbol in the upper class society of the Jin Kingdom.

Therefore, the five-year beast fighting ring is a grand event for the nobles of the Jin Kingdom. At this time, a high platform had been erected around the stage, which was full of noble children and their families. Emperor Jin did not participate due to the recurrence of an old injury, and only let the crown prince Yanmin preside.

This is the first time that Yan Min has presided over the overall situation for Emperor Jin, wearing an apricot yellow four-clawed dragon pattern crown dress that symbolizes the identity of the prince, sitting under the canopy of the high platform, his thin and thin body is straight, without the arrogant appearance of weekdays, his expression is solemn, and his face is still slightly childish.

Yan Min sat down at the head of a group of princes and nobles, all of whom were dressed luxuriously and extraordinary. But the most eye-catching one is Yan Xu, the prince of Rui Wangfu. He sat there quietly, not greeting others, wearing a fox fur and a high feather crown, such a dress was not ostentatious, but his cold temperament and beautiful appearance could hold everyone's attention tightly even in the noisy crowd.

Especially those aristocratic women who have not yet left the cabinet, they frequently look this way, although they know that there is little hope, they still secretly hope that they can attract his attention for a moment.

In fact, strictly speaking, Yan Xu is not the first choice of Liangxu. He married a wife when he was eighteen years old, the princess was not from a high background, and her father was only a book of Taichang Temple, but this princess was a famous talented girl in Yicheng back then, Yan Xu fell in love with her at first sight, and the two were a match made in heaven. It is a pity that on the second day of the wedding, the princess fell ill and died.

Yan Xu's noble background and outstanding talent made the world ignore the flaws of his wife, and there were countless boudoir women he liked. However, Xu is deeply in love with his deceased wife, and since then, Yan Xu has never remarried, and it has never been rumored that he has ever had a heart for any woman again, until the sudden dancing girl appeared three years ago.

And at this moment, the dancing girl named Xiyue was sitting beside Yan Xu obediently, making tea for him without distraction, and when the tea was ready, he carefully skimmed off the floating powder, tested the temperature, and then handed the tea to Yan Xu. Yan Xu took a sip and whispered something, cherishing the moon and smiling.