Shen Ruyu choked so badly that Wen Ming looked at her helplessly for a moment before he mustered up the courage to stand up and gently pat her back to ease her.

"You...... Ahem, ahem! What did you say!? ”

Wen Ming held Shen Ruyu's shoulder, and she held his wrist tightly, not knowing whether she was too excited or wanted him to let go quickly.

"You, you're a boy—"

Shen Ruyu sometimes finds it difficult to perceive the strictness of some things in the world of women, so she often reverses it in her mind - an ancient girl lied that she was infertile in order to withdraw from her marriage......

"What's going on in your head!?" Shen Ruyu's face turned red from choking, and her eyes were also shining, she blinked, and a tear slid down her cheek.

She frowned, and was about to raise her hand to wipe it off, but Wen Ming's movements were faster than hers, and he held her face, and his gentle thumb brushed away the water stains.

"I," Seeing Shen Ruyu's somewhat uncomfortable appearance of wanting to dodge, Wen Ming seemed to have finally made up his mind, plucked up the courage to pull her face back, and looked straight into her eyes, "I'm thinking about you." ”

Shen Ruyu couldn't help but glance at the open door.

Ah, if I knew that things would still develop like this, I might as well close the door just now......

She sighed a little helplessly, and reached out to hold his hand holding her cheek, as if because her movements were very gentle, Wen Ming did not resist and let her take her hand down.

"Stop making a fuss."

Shen Ruyu said, "After we separated, you didn't contact me again, isn't it because you know that I am Shen Ruyu, a friend of your fiancée?" ”

"Yes." Wen Ming pursed his lips, "After I knew that you were Shen Ruyu at that time, I told myself, break my thoughts, I have a marriage contract, and I am also your best friend, our encounter, maybe it was wrong from the beginning." But after so many years, I can't forget you, the three months I was on the mountain at that time, every scene, every expression of you, every word you said, repeated in my mind every day, every day, I can't forget it at all! ”

Seeing that he was almost about to collapse, Shen Ruyu didn't dare to stimulate him anymore, she was silent for a while, and after he calmed down a little, she continued, "...... You're only like this because you've only been in contact with one woman...... Believe me, Wen Jun is a very good woman, she will also be very good to you, as long as you find out how cute she is, you will definitely like her. ”

But when Wen Ming heard her say this, he suddenly sneered, "Okay? You think of her as your best friend, but she doesn't have to, right? ”

His words made Shen Ruyu slightly stunned, seeing her appearance, Wen Ming immediately lowered his voice with pity, as if he was afraid that his next words would hurt her, "Cui Wenjun is an internal guard. You treat her as a friend, but she is just on the orders of His Majesty to spy on you. ”！？

Shen Ruyu's eyes widened for a moment: "How are you-Zijun she also knows?" ”

Wen Ming pursed his lips and nodded.

"No wonder......" Shen Ruyu pressed the corner of her forehead with a headache, "I'll just say how Zijun looks so happy to see Wen Jun's corner being pryed......"

No, no, no, I should still say that Wen Jun, you, the internal guard, are also ...... It's so unsuccessful!!

"Wen Jun is...... Internal guards? Shen Ruyu looked at Wen Ming hesitantly. You...... How do you know? ”

Wen Ming paused, as if he was considering whether telling the source would cause any harm to the person who leaked the secret, but in the end, he chose to believe Shen Ruyu. “…… Yes, it's the son who tells me directly. ”

Shen Ruyu confirmed word by word: "...... Prince straight? ”

Wen Ming nodded a little uneasily.

Shen Ruyu didn't quite understand, "...... You, why did you get to know Zizhi again? ”

"Because...... The wedding date is approaching. I've always heard in the Taoist temple that the king of Changchun Temple is your friend...... I don't know how, so I came. Then, I met Zi and came straight to see Wang Daochang. We chatted. Wen Ming took a deep breath, "Zizhi is a very thoughtful person. He told me a lot of truths that I had never heard of before, but I think he was right! ”

"He said that human life is only once, so we should cherish it and let ourselves live without regrets, because we can't come to this world for a second time."

"I think it's incredible that there is such a wonderful and shocking statement in this world, which I have never heard of before. I told him that my parents had made a marriage contract for me, but I had fallen in love with someone else and didn't know what to do. ”

"He asked me, can't you forget that person no matter what?"

"I said, no matter what."

Then he asked me, "What if you keep your marriage contract and get married?"

"I said, I know I'm very headstrong, but the thought of this possibility makes me feel very painful."

"He asked me again, the person you like, has a lover, or is she married?"

I said...... No. ”

Shen Ruyu: "......"

"Zizhi encouraged me. He didn't say I was shameless, as others did, and he didn't reproach me for not keeping my husband's ways. He said that there is no way to fall in love with someone, and it is not something we can control. In this world, no one is born to be with another person, and the marriage contract or something is a covenant made by parents according to their own standards, but it may have to sacrifice the happiness of their children's lives, and if they feel miserable, then it is not appropriate. Although our parents do not harm us, they are not saints and can make mistakes. ”

"If you really meet someone you like, and that person is not with someone else, he said, then you must convey your heart to her well and work hard, because the world is so big, so many people pass by every day...... And I finally met you. ”

In this ancient era that paid attention to the three outlines and five constants, suddenly hearing such a progressive theory full of modern human emancipation, Shen Ruyu felt as if he had returned to the modern era in an instant.

The prince straightened this ...... Is this a traverser's aura wide open, hey!

But she opened her mouth, knowing that as long as she poured cold water on him with words such as "the words of the matchmaker of his parents' orders", "disobeying the marriage contract is simply unfilial and unjust", "an unmarried boy who says such things as he doesn't know self-love and shame", he will be ashamed and embarrassed, but she can't say it.

Because she also disgusted from the bottom of her heart, those are feudal dross that imprisons human nature.

Sometimes she often feels fortunate that she has crossed into the world of women, and in this era of extreme tolerance for women, she often has a feeling of depression, if it is a man, it is unimaginable.

Because of this, the male in the female superiority and inferiority actually said such words, and when he thought of the great courage he needed to muster and the consciousness he had to have, Shen Ruyu couldn't help but soften his tone, "These words...... I can't say that it's fallacy and nonsense against my will, because I think so too. ”

But this is not the time when you can say these things......

She looked at the teenager in front of her and couldn't help but recall when she was fifteen.

It was the age of high school, under the high-pressure policy of the teaching director, I couldn't help but secretly perm my hair, dye it maroon, and after class, with my friends, pretended to stand in the corridor inadvertently, waiting for the boy I liked to walk by, and then excitedly heard my friend say, "He just saw you!" I stayed at least three seconds at the time!! ”

As if recalling the good past, Shen Ruyu's expression suddenly became much softer, and her tone was no longer so sharp, she patiently persuaded: "Then have you ever thought about it...... The person you like maybe, or maybe won't like you at all? Or maybe that person doesn't deserve your kind of effort at all? ”

"After a man withdraws from marriage, it is difficult to marry a good man again, if the person you like insists on not accepting you, after you do this, there is no way back, your reputation is ruined, how will you live in the future?"

"What's more...... Aren't you afraid that if you do this, you will disgrace your parents? ”

Shen Ruyu, at this moment, hated herself for saying the last sentence.

Before she crossed over, she had a cousin, who was very beautiful and had a very good job, but she never found a man who wanted to step into the marriage hall with her, until she was twenty-five or twenty-six years old, she was still single, and she didn't dare to go home during the Spring Festival because she was forced to marry by her parents too tightly, and her cousin felt that there was nothing wrong with her alone, but her cousin's mother called and cried that because she was not married now, they couldn't raise their heads when they went out in their hometown.

Shen Ruyu didn't think that her cousin had done anything wrong, and disgraced her parents sounded like some heinous crime, but it was just a condescending moral kidnapping from the moral high ground.

Wen Ming was silent for a long time before he replied in a low voice, "My own path is always for me to walk on my own." ”

"Anyway," he smiled bitterly, "since my father died, my mother's health has become worse and worse, and I am already an ominous person, a marriage contract or something...... It's also a scourge to others. Actually, I don't want Ruyu to accept me or what...... Anyway, I have already decided to escape into the Dao Gate and become a Taoist priest like the king of the Dao. And, I'm sure you...... It must not be the kind of person who is entrusted to be inhuman. ”

“…… You don't have to be like this......" Shen Ruyu didn't know what to say, she lowered her eyes and muttered for a long time, "Your mother...... It doesn't matter? ”

"My mother...... After my father died, she didn't want to see me again. I told her that I wanted to get out of the marriage, and she said, it's okay, don't go to other people's homes again...... As long as the Cui family agrees, she has no opinion. ”

"Then, I said to Cui Wenjun's elders, I, I have a bad life, and I am infertile...... And they agreed. ”

Even Shen Ruyu didn't know what to say at this time.

After a moment of silence, Wen Ming tried to make his tone appear lighter and spoke: "I, I originally planned to come to your appointment tonight...... I've told you this, and after that, I have nothing to regret. ”

The two were silent for a while, Shen Ruyu lowered her head and took another sip of tea before she started talking again, "...... In fact, there is no need to make a special appointment for these words? ”

Wen Ming suddenly became visibly nervous, "Because, because of ......"

His face turned red, "Zi, Zizhi told me, it's good to not get your heart, it's good to get your body, anyway, you have to become a monk anyway, no, it's better to be crazy once before becoming a monk, and in the future, you will also have a good memory." ”

Shen Ruyu's hand was about to pick up the teacup again when she paused, her eyes widened, "Wait, what do you mean——? What do you mean- is that what I mean?! ”

Wen Ming's face was so red that he was about to drip blood, "What are you thinking ......?" ”

The two were relatively silent for a while, and then Shen Ruyu clutched his chest and said, "...... The prince straightens him, I don't know who you like, right? ”

Wen Ming shook his head, "I told him that it was someone I met when I was at the Taoist Temple before. He pursed his lips, "You are Cui Wenjun's friend, I said that what I like is you, to your reputation...... Not so good. ”

Shen Ruyu let out a long sigh, she! Only! Know! Road!

If Wang Zizhi knew that Wen Ming liked her, he didn't know if he would encourage others so much.

And now that the words have been said to this point, Shen Ruyu always feels that instead of blindly rejecting the other party with words, it is better to use actions to make him understand that this world is so vast and life is so vast.

"Since you were a child, you either stayed in the Taoist temple or didn't go out at home, and now you ...... It's free," she said to him, speaking to him as gently as she had then, "if you will...... I may be leaving Beijing for a trip back to Luohe recently, do you want to come with me to see the scenery along the way? ”