The heavenly wind suddenly whistled past, and the cold spring breeze cave passed through the rusty iron bar.

At the same time, after a pungent smell of blood, the rusty, dark door of the cell was opened.

The vision ahead seems to be ghostly and ghostly, and it is like falling into purgatory in an instant, and what is rendered by this ominous aura of slaughter is a narrow and hazy, dark and dim rugged road. On the side of the edge of this road, the blue ghost fire burning in the bronze bowl of the thousand-petal lotus is the culprit. "Crack", a candle flame jumped high in the air, and the strange slanderous tongue turned into a cunning scorpion at this moment, bringing a terrifying momentum that was extremely close to greed, as if it intended to use its own savings to devour everything in the impetuous world!

The figure of Junchen gradually appeared in the dark light, he wore a dark green gold-trimmed court robe, and his beautiful appearance became more and more dazzling like a night pearl in this dark surrounding, and the bloody aura around this prison not only did not take away half of his own lonely temperament, but also showed a strange charm like icing on the cake, which was actually ominous but matched with the little evil in his bones!

"Your Excellency." When the jailer saw Lai Junchen coming, Lao Yuan'er made a groveling and almost flattering etiquette to him.

Junchen motioned for him to be excused, and immediately subconsciously shook the jade belt around his waist, as if he was afraid that such a neat shimmering shirt would be stained with something unclean. The jailer had already opened the door in front of him, and Junchen walked in with his hands down.

It is actually out of place for such a rude and elegant temperament to appear in this dirty and bloody place. But when I think about it, Junchen's identity as a "cool official" after martial arts, it seems that everything is so appropriate!

Today, he was ordered by the Empress Wu to handle a case to deal with a person...... Princess Taiping's concubine, Xue Shao.

Facing the dim candlelight around him, he continued to walk inward with light boots, and the jade-colored clothes and belts were heavy and could not dance in the breeze. But such a complex and heavy state of mind was not shown by Junchen at all, his figure was still vigorous, skillfully and capably, turning one haze corner after another, like a fish swimming in water.

But the jailer who followed him was a little strange, because for a few moments, I vaguely glimpsed something unusual mixed between the delicate eyebrows of this adult, and it was...... solemn, solemn, and even vaguely glimpsed some entanglements, pain, and unbearability.

This is really abnormal! Such a ghostly character who has long been stained with blood and burdened with human life, but is handsome and elegant, will he also have this kind of fireworks in the floating world?

However, the fire is faint and swaying, and it is vaguely impossible to see what kind of mood it really is. Then he made the jailer think that he must have seen it wrong.

"Where are the colts kept?" After walking for a while, Junchen asked on the side.

"Oh." The jailer came back to his senses and nodded busily, "The innermost one, it's very clean and spacious. ”

Jun Chen understood, so he didn't say anything more. It's just that there is always a feeling of astringency in the heart, this feeling has not disappeared along the way, and the more you go inside, the more you can't ignore the truth, like insects and ants gnawing, and if you put the heart, liver, spleen and lungs on the fire to burn and roast!

Why, is your heart soft?

The thought came to mind, and Junchen raised his thin lips and smiled.

Will you be soft-hearted?

Perhaps the conscience is really a hard object with many edges and corners, which will continue to toss and turn in your heart, constantly polish, and will sting and scratch your heart every time you move. When there are many things, the road is far, and the knowledge is broader, its edges and corners will be gradually worn off and smoothed out little by little, and the edges and corners are completely gone, just inadvertently; At this time, no matter how it turns, you will not feel pain, let alone be hurt by it; In the future, you will even forget that there is such a thing as "conscience"!

The most dusty place is the stage of life, where the most vivid songs and dances are full of all kinds of human feelings and accidents, full of the so-called beauty and ugliness, nobility and humility. The most ruthless, the coolest, the most lively, the most deserted, and the most straightforward!

The thought gradually burned, and Junchen's eyebrows locked. He thought that his definition of conscience had long been blurred, and that the edges and corners of the tossing and turning silhouette had long been smoothed. But why, at this moment, there are still so many entanglements and faint compassion for the colt?

Is it because what he wants to move this time is a Taiping colt?

Oh, going around and around, thousands of clues, inextricable threads, in the final analysis, horizontal and vertical is just that everything in all of this is not worth one her!

As soon as his mind sank, Junchen suddenly laughed subconsciously. It's, it's really, really my own magic barrier...... I thought I was already a demon or a demon, but it turned out that there would be people who would demonize themselves!

But no matter how unbearable Lai Junchen is, he is always powerless.

Empress Wu is eager to expand her power, of course, she will not let go of those who are a threat to her, and no one will let go! What's more, the marriage of the princess has never been a simple matter, and the special identity and current situation are destined to have a peaceful marriage that will be related to many ties of political power.

Empress Wu wants to change Li Tang's world, and Princess Taiping, who is the first princess of the Tang Dynasty, will naturally be caged. Taiping's marriage to Xue Shao, the son of the eldest princess of Chengyang, obviously helped to consolidate Li Tang's rule; Now that Empress Wu wants to be in power, the first thing is to disillusion Li Tang's forces, so how can this marriage continue to last?

The snake that was drawn in the name of the "Heavenly Treasure Map" has already shown its head, how can the snake be retracted again? With the order in his body, Lai Junchen complied with the will of the Empress Wu to continue to expand the scale of the purge, but it happened that Xue Yi was suspected of igniting a fire and fanning the wind between the clans and plotting against him.

It seems natural that this Xue family's son, Xue Yi, and his half-brother Princess Taiping's concubine Xue Shao, were shrouded in a net!

Empress Wu ordered the arrest of the two brothers of the Xue family, and gave a definition of "rebellion".

Fortunately, it was not involved in the peace...... However, if Xue Yi instigated anti-martial arts among the Li Tang clan, Princess Taiping should not be with him. Because Empress Wu is her mother, even though her surname is Li, once her mother falls, what good will it do to her, the princess of the dynasty? If it is said that the power gets a piece of the pie, in terms of peace, it must be the most beneficial when the mother is in power!

But should this be tried by the son of the Xue family? How should it be judged? Lai Junchen already had a score in his heart.

Whether to rebel or not has never been a matter of Junchen's sincere concern, if you want to pay attention to those, isn't it enough to have a Bao Gong in the world? All he had to do when he came to Junchen was to serve the Empress Wu, and he was loyal and nothing else! So much for.

It's not that I don't know that Princess Taiping hurried into the palace to meet Empress Wu as soon as she heard the news, it's not that she doesn't feel sorry for her uncontrollable plea when she kneels on the ground, and the little gray hair that grew overnight, it's not that she doesn't regret that Taiping, who is still young and young, is going to lose her Langjun...... Lai Junchen doesn't hate Xue Shao, he has nothing to do with Xue Shaosu in Japan, so why hate him? Even if the woman he loved was Xue Shao's wife, when Xue Shao fell into his hands, he didn't expect a trace of revenge. Feel; On the contrary, he felt sorry for that person, and he also hated, hating that the impermanence of fate was about to take away the piece of heaven above the head of the woman he loved in his heart!

But at the same time, Lai Junchen is more aware of the mission of his body, and the whole meaning of his existence as a cool official! Since fate has allowed him to step into this complex whirlpool of power when his eyes are smeared, he must keep going and follow this path to the end.

Xue Shao's matter, he did not receive a hint of forgiveness or forgiveness from Empress Wu directly or indirectly, so he already understood what kind of ending Xue Shao should have.

In fact, in all fairness, he didn't want Xue Shao to die...... As long as the peace is still there, I never want it!

Lai Junchen is really not a so-called "good person" in the standard sense, and he can't afford the word "loyalty", he just changes.

……

Xue Shao couldn't escape the catastrophe of his death.

It was tried by Lai Junchen personally, and Xue Shao and Xue Yi were convicted of rebellion.

However, in the end, because of Taiping, taking into account the inextricable feelings between him and Taiping, as well as Xue Shao's dignified identity as Princess Taiping's concubine, Lai Junchen did not behead Xue Shao, but only ordered a staff to punish a hundred sticks, and then threw him into death row, starving to death. Although it is tragic, he has never been convicted of capital crimes, and he died of illness in the world, and he can be regarded as a whole corpse and a sad dignity in the end!

That's all Junchen can do......

When the news of Xue Shao's death came, Taiping felt that his whole body was limp and paralyzed into a wisp of air! But the heart is extremely quiet, and there are no sporadic waves.

She didn't have mixed feelings, maybe she had too many thoughts and too heavy loads, so things would be reversed, but the Lingtai would be clear?

At that time, Taiping was only 19 years old, and it was a very flirtatious year. However, it was cruel as this, and the lover she entrusted to her for life left her unexpectedly, like a curtain of cold spring rain overnight, the sound of the rain in the middle of the night was still wanton and trickling, but there was no trace of rain stars when the day came; And with the transpiration and illumination of the sun, gradually even the water vapor will dissipate!

Is fate too harsh on her?

She didn't know, because she couldn't tell, let alone care...... Bad luck swallowed her like a tide, and the person who created this tragedy with his own hands was none other than Su Rili's mother who kept saying that she loved her!

How ridiculous is that? Oh, what is even more ridiculous and ridiculous is that it is actually ...... She didn't even dare to hate her mother!

As soon as the thought came, Taiping's mind buzzed, and the stiff dull pain tore at her scalp, as if it was going to tear her whole body in half!

The cardamom-dyed fingers slowly raised, and subconsciously stroked a new willow in the vase on the side, the red and bright color was a little thorny under the influence of a meter of sunlight, burning like blood.

When the leaf petals touched the fingertips, there was a thin ripple, and the goose-yellow young leaves interspersed between the willow branches were full of hope for new life, but no matter how unyielding and thriving, they did not know that the willow branches had left the main body, and no matter how much effort was made, it was in vain, and the end waiting for them was a sad fate to dry up to death!

His throat choked, and his heart fell into a heavy rock. The corners of Taiping's lips moved stiffly, only to find that his throat was hoarse, and he couldn't make any sound.