"Your Majesty, you should rest." Daniel looked at the king, who was seriously ill but still refused to rest in bed, and he was a little helpless to advise.

"I'll rest when I'm done with the things at hand." Twenty-five years have passed, and the years have brought wealth and unparalleled prosperity and wealth to Babylon, but they have also taken away the king's youth and health, although the person concerned does not care at all.

"How can you be so willful!" Daniel's jaws would have shattered in astonishment if the subjects of Babylon had seen such a vivid expression on the face of their majestic and dignified priest.

"Daniel, you are still young, you should be a little more expressive, like an old man with a straight face all day long!" Seeing the young man's face change, Nebuchadnezzar couldn't help laughing.

"Please allow the minister to remind you that the minister is already thirty years old this year!" Daniel pouted, if it weren't for the other party being the lord he served, he would have wanted a bowl of medicine to be directly put on the other party's head.

"Yes, you are thirty years old, and the teacher has been gone for more than 9,000 days and nights." Nebuchadnezzar was in a trance for a moment, and he suddenly realized that the original man had been gone for so long, so long that he could hardly remember his appearance, only remembering that the other party was wearing a plain white robe all the year round, and his body was always filled with the fragrance of Yasim tea, and now, when the whole of Babylon reached the end of the flowering city, he could pretend that the person was still by his side and never left.

"Is it worth it?" After a moment of silence, the young man with a cold expression asked the emperor beside him a little confused, he was sick for the other party's life, he hired a large number of craftsmen to build a hanging garden for the sake of the other party, and passed the throne to his nephew for the sake of the other party's lonely life-the other party didn't even know his feelings, "Is it worth it?" ”

"What's worth it?" Speaking of the lover who was solemnly stored in his heart, Nebuchadnezzar smiled very gently, "It should be said that without him, I would not be where I am now, and it is he who has made me who I am." ”

“…… I don't remember. Daniel unceremoniously poured cold water on the other party, who let him grow up with the king in front of him after the age of six, and the other party was both a father and a brother to him.

"When I first met him, I was about the same age as you were when you came to me." Eight years after the man's death, Elishia died after handing over the position of chief priest to Daniel, and ten years after that Ashur also died of illness, while Subia and Ammar guarded the frontier for many years, and he had not told anyone about the man for a long time, "He was only fifteen or sixteen years old at that time, but he was not innocent at all, but he was a cunning merchant, and he wanted to abduct me when he first saw me." ”

"I remembered him then, but he quickly became friends with me, and he invited me to his house, and after that I went to see him again, when my father was on another expedition, and I was alone in the palace and did not want to listen to the old man in the temple." He thought he couldn't remember the memories of his childhood, but he didn't expect that he would remember it vividly, "The third time I met, he became my companion, but it wasn't long about half a month, and the old man in the temple walked a lot, and my teacher was replaced by him." ”

"Lord Jin's knowledge is very good." Thinking of the parchment scrolls and clay tablets that the other party left behind in the temple that had been preserved to this day, Daniel echoed the facts.

"I separated from him when I was twelve, and that's when I began to realize that I had hazy feelings for him, but I didn't expect that I thought I was hiding it well, but unfortunately it was seen by almost everyone." Nebuchadnezzar smiled bitterly, "My affection for him was in the eyes of the former king and Elishya, and the former king forced this teacher to swear on his deathbed that he would not be able to respond to my feelings for the rest of his life, otherwise I would not die well." ”

After many years, he still remembers that when he learned the truth from Elishya, he had complicated feelings - he once hated his father for many things, and even thought that if it was not for his barrier, would the teacher have responded to him? However, at that time, he had taken Daniel with him for eight years, watching the other party grow from an ignorant and precocious group to a slightly stricter young man, he suddenly understood what his father had done, he only loved his child in his own way, although such love may not bring happiness to the child; He also hated Elishya, hated the other party's cruelty to the teacher, especially knowing that the teacher had also resisted, but in the end he chose to understand, after all, he was a disciple of that person, that person had always taught himself to be a responsible king, and Elishia just valued Babylon very much, even more than himself, and his feelings for the teacher when he was still young were hot but did not reflect the long-lasting, if he really turned against the teacher, then what brought Babylon was a new round of turmoil; But he also rejoiced in his heart, because he knew that that person had fought for his feelings for him for a moment, even if it was not love.

"As far as I know, Lord Jin doesn't believe in gods." Daniel did not interject rashly when he saw the memory on the other party's face, but waited for the other party to come back from the memories before talking.

"Yes, the teacher does not believe in gods." Nebuchadnezzar smiled, "But when something happens to someone you worry about, more often you will choose to believe it than not, like when we first met, he named me Oia." ”

"Then why did he die suddenly?" Daniel didn't feel like he had touched the minefield of the other side, "I checked the papyrus, clay tablets, and parchments that followed, but they didn't say why, except that you killed a musician after that and conquered Jerusalem the following year. ”

"Actually, I am the one who should be most responsible for his departure." Nebuchadnezzar had a deep sorrow on his face, "Because of the reforms that the teacher and the previous king began a long time ago, you should also know that the power of Babylon far exceeded that of many surrounding countries, and we were almost invincible in the battles after that, and we were invincible and invincible...... I was carried away by the victory, and began to get carried away, and even felt pity for my enemies, which is ridiculous, and my teacher taught me from a young age to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots, but at that time I triumphantly agreed to send envoys to Babylon to congratulate me, ignoring that crises can sometimes come from within. ”

"But, no one can deny that you are the greatest king of Babylon!" Daniel's dry comfort.

"Have you ever liked anyone?" Nebuchadnezzar bluntly changed the topic, after many years, as long as he thought of the other party falling in his arms, blood stained his clothes, and his body gradually became cold, Nebuchadnezzar felt a chill all over his body, it was the most desperate moment in his life, even if his father died of illness and his mother had a second heart, but because there was always that person around him, he could go along with the past, but that person was gone, just like the music played by the musician he had cut a thousand times at the dinner, The man invaded his life in an unexpected way, only to come to an abrupt end at the most intense moment, withdrawn from his own life.

"You know that I give all my feelings to the gods." Daniel shook his head.

"If so, if you have someone you like in the future, you must express it boldly, even if you may not be able to get a response from the other party." Nebuchadnezzar took the other party's hand and gave him a chattering instruction.

"I heard that the king of the Medes liked you many years ago." As a young man with a very high IQ but feelings that seem to be naturally lacking, he really can't understand these things of affection and love, especially when he sees a king as powerful as he serves, and he is also sad and fragile for a person who has passed away for many years, and he can't let go of it all his life, so he stays away from love.

"So what? Medes was now a small subject nation. Nebuchadnezzar suddenly sneered, when that person left suddenly, he lost his reaction to the outside world, and when he wanted to pursue the murderer later, many traces had been erased, but it seemed that all the warmth had disappeared with the death of that person, even though he had the belief that he would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let go of one, but when his mother knelt in front of him and begged to spare Mede, he finally chose to allow the existence of that kingdom, just because that person had told him about the pain of his mother's childbirth.

“…… You know what? I really want to grow him in my dreams, even if it's just for a glance. ”

The cold-looking young man suddenly stopped, he blew out the candle for the king, who had suddenly closed his eyes on the bed, and turned to walk out, but as he went out, he heard a sigh behind him.