Before the age of twenty, his memories were already very vague. It was so vague that he almost thought that everything that had happened was a fantasy in the void. He vaguely remembered that he became the crown prince, and then ascended the throne and became the emperor, and he also had a marriage contract with a certain family woman.

Zhuang Zhou dreams of butterflies, butterflies dream of Zhuang Zhou.

When he was clear, he was already sitting on the dragon chair, looking at the courtiers at his feet and shouting long live.

Alienation and strangeness were everywhere, as if there was an invisible wall separating him from everyone. His heart was like a pool of stagnant water, and no matter what he saw or heard, he no longer made any waves.

The happiest time of the day is in dreams.

There is always a girl in the dream, with a happy and silly smile every day, swaying in front of his eyes, muttering: "Why do you boss have a face?" Laugh one, laugh one! Then she threw herself into his arms and disturbed his mind. Sometimes he would pretend to break her away coldly, and sometimes he would raise his hand in surrender and obediently let her rub her hair.

That girl is more real than the qiē in his life.

He gradually reversed the dream and reality, as if only her existence could prove that he was truly alive. The more he loved the man in his dreams, the more indifferent he became as the emperor. He no longer focuses on government affairs, no longer cares about people's livelihood, but forces himself to sleep for a long time.

But not enough! Far from enough! He was no longer satisfied with meeting her only in his dreams, he wanted to stay with her day and night, grinding his ears and temples, and accompanying him with a white head.

Finally, one day, he couldn't take it anymore and drew her portrait and asked the Dark Guard to find her whereabouts.

This search is three years.

He waited in the deep palace to the point of despair, and finally had to admit that she was just an illusory character conceived by himself, and it was impossible for him to exist at all. It was also at that time that the matter of the establishment of the queen, which had been delayed for many years, was brought up again by the group of ministers, and a woman whose name he didn't even know was carried into the harem.

On the day of the wedding, it was rainy and cloudy, which made him upset, "Whoever sets the auspicious time, drag it down and cut it." ”

The internal official beside him persuaded: "Your Majesty, on the day of great joy, it is unlucky to see blood!" ”

He raised his eyebrows coldly: "If you say one more word, I will be beheaded with you." ”

The internal official shrank his head timidly, not daring to persuade again. Everyone knows that this master has a capricious personality and is uncertain, and the old minister who admonishes him crashed to death in the main hall, and he didn't see him look back and take a second look.

As the rain became heavier, he paced anxiously around the palace, feeling a strange feeling in his heart. The palace man knelt in the hall with his gown in his hand and begged him to change his clothes. But he stared straight out the door, always feeling that something was about to happen.

At this moment, a thunderbolt pierced the sky. The secret guard he sent out to look for people, dressed in clothes and hats, hurried in, but was stopped outside the temple.

"The minister has something important to say!"

His heart shook violently, "Let him in!" ”

The man hurried in, and was about to kneel, when he picked him up. The secret guard, who had never seen him in such a gaffe, couldn't help but be slightly stunned, "Your Majesty ......"

He pinched the guard's arm with his ten fingers and asked urgently, "Yes...... Did you find someone? His voice trembled.

"Found it."

At the moment when the dark guard said three words, the young emperor in front of him, who had not breathed for a long time, pressed his chest with one hand, clutching the bright yellow fabric on his chest, as if he was going to suffocate to death in the next second. Dense sweat oozed from the tip of his nose, his lips closed one by one, and he asked in a dumb voice, "Where is she?" ”

The secret guard said: "The minister placed her in a peasant family outside the city. Before he could finish speaking, he was kicked to the ground.

"Idiot, how can you leave her alone?" The young emperor pushed away the palace man who was sending the umbrella and ran into the pouring rain alone. The sound of horses' hooves echoed in the palace walls, and the guards guarding the door saw a bright yellow in the rain from a distance, and they couldn't close their mouths in surprise.

The rain trickled down his brow bones and cheeks, and the rumbling thunder exploded above his head, and his ears were soaked in water, and he slowly lost any sound. Only the cry from the bottom of my heart rushed to my brain over and over again - "Hurry up! Faster! She's waiting for me. It was as if he was the only one left in the world, riding a horse and galloping in the rain.

whether the world is true or false; Whether the people around you are real or fake. He didn't want to think about it anymore. The heart was full of eyes, and only the man was left smiling like a flower, like a hate-

"The people have seen the emperor." She was dressed in coarse linen clothes and wore hairpins on her head, and saluted him timidly.

He originally thought that if he found her, what would the scene be like when the two met? Do you hug each other and cry, or look at each other and laugh? I didn't expect it to be "the dragon and the phoenix", the romantic encounter between "the emperor and a folk woman", the sound of the rain, and the shame of the beauty.

Seem...... It shouldn't be like this.

"Tang Tang." He tried to call her like in his dream.

The woman's shoulders trembled, and she raised her head, her eyebrows and eyes were all familiar to him. She bit her lip and said, "How does the emperor know the nickname of the people's daughter?" ”

He stuffed his throat and said hoarsely: "Have you ever had similar dreams since you were a child?" ”

"Yes." She lowered her head shyly, "In the dreams of the people's daughters, there is often a person who laughs hand in hand with me. Finally, he remembered something and added: "There is also a cat, earthy yellow, with spots all over it." ”

"The cat...... What is your name? His hands clenched under his sleeves, his palms drenched with sweat.

"Slim."

……

"Miao!" She huffed her waist and pointed to the cat footprints on the floor, "Look at the good things you've done!" ”

"Slim." She sighed and rolled down on the bed, struggling to hold the fat cat, "Why hasn't your master come back yet?" I miss him so much. ”

"Slim." She slept soundly, didn't know what kind of dreams she had, and grinned silly, "Don't lick me, don't lick me." ”

……

He pulled the woman into his arms, hugged her tightly like a suffocation, and murmured, "I've finally found you, Tang Tang." ”-

He made her a concubine. "Yuan" is the meaning of the first, under one person, above ten thousand. But he was still not satisfied - she was supposed to be his wife, how could she become a mere concubine!

But in any case, he already has a queen, and although he is not officially married to him, he still sits firmly in the middle palace.

He didn't even know her name, and at a glance he vaguely remembered that she was a dull, boring, cowardly and timid woman. He really didn't expect that the queen, who was only promising on the outside, would actually poison the concubine! When he heard the news that Concubine Yuan was poisoned and unconscious, he couldn't wait to kill that woman on the spot.

"Your Majesty, maybe the queen was just careless, and she didn't intend to poison her concubines." Concubine Yuan leaned on the head of the bed with a pale face, holding his hand, turning her back and coughing twice from time to time, but she still had to say good things for the woman, "It was the concubine who occupied the emperor's favor and attracted a lot of jealousy in the harem, so ...... will ......"

She couldn't go any further and began to sob.

He was furious, "How can such a vicious woman be qualified to be the mother of a country?" ”

The queen knelt on the ground, without saying a word, and when she heard this, she raised her head and gently refuted herself: "The concubine is innocent." "It's light, not a little bit of force.

He stared into the queen's eyes, from which there was no hypocrisy, no fear, no cringe, just calm.

Maybe the queen is really innocent, but what's the matter? Tang Tang didn't like her. That reason alone is enough. He slowly spoke: "Drag the queen down, confined in the palace, without my order, you are not allowed to release it, hindering the eyes of Concubine Yuan." ”

If one has to go to hell, let him go.

All she had to do was live happily and carefree under his wing, doing whatever she wanted.

Before the queen was dragged out, she glanced back at him from the door and said lightly: "The demon concubine is a disaster for the country, and the country does not exist." Three hundred years of national glory will be destroyed by you. ”

Concubine Yuan was stunned for a moment, and then cried even more sadly in his arms, crying so much that she almost lost her breath.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty...... A concubine, not a demon concubine. ”

"Tang Tang is not." He patted her on the back gently, "All the sins will be borne by me." You don't have to think about anything. ”

Concubine Yuan Lihua raised her face with rain, "I heard that the rebels have already hit Dachang, right?" ”

"Who is talking this nonsense in front of you?" He tapped her forehead, "Don't you believe I can keep you safe?" Even if I am no longer the emperor, we can live in seclusion and live more easily than now. ”

At that time, there was no queen, no concubine, she was his only wife.

I don't know if it's his illusion, the concubine in his arms seemed to stiffen for a while, and only after a while did he smile and say, "Okay." ”

How much he hoped that the strangeness and alienation at that moment were all his illusions-

The rebels finally arrived at the city and reached the palace. He arranged a qiē without hurry, just waiting for a fire to burn down the hall, and then he and Tang Tang hid in the rivers and lakes.

And yet—

The Queen's aberrations disrupted his plans. The scrawny woman stood in front of him, her eyes blazing like two falling stars. She was stubborn and arrogant, stood up in front of him, and said loudly: "You are gone, what will happen to the soldiers outside?" They are all fighting for you. ”

He looked at her curiously, as if he were seeing this man for the first time.

She has become very different from the past, and there is still a sense of familiarity inexplicably.

Even he didn't know why, so he took this woman and embarked on the road of escape together.

But whether it is a horse or a suite, it is the weight of two people, and there is no extra space. When it came to the end, I still had to leave her behind. For the first time in his life, he felt a little guilty. But this slight guilt was far from enough to make him soft-hearted.

After a moment's hesitation, he pushed her off the horse.

He met her clear eyes without guilt, but was stabbed in the heart by the bitter surprise and disappointment in them. The tingling sensation of familiarity and unfamiliarity overwhelmed him again, and at the same time, there was a vague and indescribable fear.

"Xu Jing, I was wrong." She looked up with difficulty and grinned at him, her snow-white teeth stained with blood, "I really seem to have made a mistake. Don't worry, I'll never pester you again. ”

As if a sledgehammer had slammed into the back of his head, he stiffened his movements and looked at her in a daze. However, she let go of the two fingers that were holding his wrists. A scattered and withered petal, stripped from his world.

The horse gradually ran away.

He telepathically turned his head, only to see her crawling toward the cliff. She crawled so slowly, like a ridiculous snail, leaving a snaking trail of blood on the gravel behind her.

And then...... Then, like a kite with a broken string, it fell from the valley.

At that moment, he almost wanted to forcibly jump off the horse and pull at her clothes, even if it was a piece.

And in fact, he actually did it!

He jumped off his horse and slammed it to the ground. It hurts, it hurts so much that tears come out of my eyes. It turns out that she was in such pain just now? He didn't seem to hear the cries of the concubine, nor could he hear the hooves of the rebels, and there was only the fluttering shadow of clothes in his eyes. The shadow fell into the rapids, and slowly it was no longer visible.

What to do?

The endless horror struck from the bottom of his heart, and his ten fingers slashed into the stone crevice on the edge of the cliff, dripping with blood, "What should I do?" What to do? "His mind went blank.

Like, I dropped something very important.

- For example, his heart.

So never to breathe again, not to jump, right? -

When he remembered Concubine Yuan and looked back, he found that she had fallen from her horse and was seriously injured.

The strange thing is that he is very distressed, but he feels sorry not for the tears in her eyes, but for the blood on her skin.

"I'll cure you, find the best doctor." He said.

So, he found Dr. Cui.

There was still a man lying in the room, and he didn't pay attention to it at first, until the man said, "My wounds are almost healed, so give the bed to this ...... Madame. When she said the word "madame", her tone was sarcastic.

Because she is the wife he is marrying.

He looked at her for a moment, and the big hole in his heart suddenly filled most of it. At the very least, he can breathe now.

Just looking at a person can be satisfying. How many years have I not felt like this? No, never.

So when she proposed the ridiculous face-swapping plan and attached the conditions for marriage, he didn't even think about objecting at all, and even had a faint joy in his heart.

"Worship heaven and earth."

"Two worship the high hall."

"Husband and wife worship each other."

The girl in the dream and the woman in front of her gradually coincided. Nowhere is it, nowhere is it! There was only a pair of eyes, embedded in each other, clear and bright, like stars in the sky, reflected in a pool of clear water.

"Boom-", his mind seemed to explode, and thousands of fragments were pieced together.

She's Tang Tang! His tangtang!

At this moment, he finally made up his mind.

But the woman in front of him, with a look that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, gradually disappeared in front of his eyes.

"Ah...... You finally remember. Unfortunately, it was too late. ”-

Concubine Yuan was still immersed in sleep, but she was suddenly strangled by a pair of hands.

She opened her eyes in horror, looked at the tearful man in front of her, struggled to hold back her blushing face, rolled her eyes and spit out two words, "Emperor, Emperor......"

"Who are you! Who are you? His muscles burst out, and his men gradually strengthened.

"I'm ...... Tang ...... "She was sweating profusely, constantly sticking out her tongue, like a hanged ghost."

"Don't say that name!" His face was blue and black, and he exuded a terrifying aura from the inside out, "Get out of her body!" ”

Xiao Hong shook violently and saw his soul slowly float out of that body.

She flipped the back of her hand in horror, covered her face, and shouted, "No! No! I'm Ji Tang, I'm Ji Tang! ”

"It turns out that this is what you are." He wiped his lips vigorously, almost disgusted, so disgusted that he wanted to kill himself, "You really make me sick. ”

Why could he see her? He should be an ordinary person now.

Xiao Hong kneeled at his feet in a panic, hugged his thighs, and begged, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty." The concubine also loves you, although the concubine is not Ji Tang, she loves you no less than her! ”

He looked down at her coldly, "You said you love me?" ”

"Yes! Be! I love you! ”

"Are you willing to die for me?" He leaned down, grabbed her long hair with his five fingers, and dragged it back vigorously, with a weird smile on Junxiu's face, "Don't want to, right?" ”

"I, I'm ......" Xiao Hong was stunned.

He grabbed her by the neck, twisted it with a "click", closed his eyes, and smiled: "But you still have to die." ”

Xiao Hong's soul body screamed, and it exploded like shards, dissipating into the air.

"If there is an afterlife...... If there is an afterlife, will I still meet you? He muttered and drew his dagger and plunged it into his heart.

The body hurts, but not the heartache.

He didn't wait until the last drop of blood drained his body that he hung his head and fell to his knees.