In the middle of summer, the gorgeous oleander is in full bloom, and the rose-red flowers are clustered on the dark green branches, blown by the wind, and the blooming flowers flutter down leisurely, like butterflies, falling on the chessboard under the flowers.

This chessboard is carved on the bluestone tabletop, and the carved marks are of different depths, and the broken stone chips on the edge have been worn away by the years.

Yuan Rin stood under the shadow of the leaf, holding a sunspot in his hand, and looked at the halfway end of the game in shock.

All the scenes in front of me are both familiar and strange.

The hand was propped up on the bluestone, and the coolness with the wetness of the spring rain rushed from the fingertips to the arms, and seemed to permeate the heart.

There is no end to this game...... So where did the people who played chess go? Why is my mind completely blank and I can't remember anything in a trance?

A moss-green figure came through the flowers, so low-key that it seemed to be drowned in the pale green oleander.

The girl hung her head, and the hairband on her head was also emerald, hanging down to her shoulders, and a small knot was coiled.

"Childe, Miss Yan is awake." The girl's voice is also crisp, a little delicate.

"Ah Yan......" Yuan Rin closed his eyes and thought, "What's wrong with Ah Yan?" ”

The familiar name made his mind clearer, and the thoughts in his heart gradually became clearer, he was going to find Zhu Yan.

"Miss Yan has suffered from heart disease since she was a child, and she fainted while playing against her son, and was sent back to the house to rest...... Have you forgotten? The girl raised her head, her eyes flickered, and her voice was low, "Actually, Yan Nu is just a daughter abandoned by the Zhu family, in anyone's hands, she is just a chess piece, and the son doesn't have to treat her so much." ”

Yuan Rin didn't stop, nor did he refute, just relied on his memory, walked through the endless flower path, and turned into the elegant courtyard on one side.

The courtyard was covered with withered petals, and no one swept them around, and even the stone steps were covered by flowers.

The veil was lifted, and the inner room was filled with a faint cold fragrance, and a person was sitting on the bed, with his head down, not knowing what he was looking at.

Her long hair fell from the side of her ears, obscuring her countenance, revealing only a few curved long eyelashes, which trembled from time to time.

Hearing the sound, Zhu Yan raised his head and reached out to support his hair behind his ears, revealing a pale complexion and a pair of reddish eyes.

"Xuanqing, why are you here?" She was a little flustered, flipped her wide sleeves, hid what she had pinched in her hands into her sleeves, brushed off the futon, and wanted to get out of bed.

"Ah Yan." Yuan Rin stepped forward quickly, stopping her slightly difficult movements, "You ......"

However, he didn't know what to ask, he just stood beside the couch and looked at her with low eyes, and sighed for a long time, "Will Ah Yan forgive me?" ”

"What?" Zhu Yan raised his eyes, and the color of surprise overflowed from his eyes, converging into a trace of tears.

She then lowered her head and smiled faintly, "If Xuanqing thinks that Ah Yan was abandoned by the clan for you, there is no need to say such a thing......"

She raised her head and flickered, a pair of gray eyes were dark and dull, "You see, I got these gray eyes from my mother, and I am destined to be only a chess piece, in whose hands does it fall, what does it make difference?" As for the clan, it was only because of my father's death and I didn't want to be used by them that I abandoned me, and it has nothing to do with Xuanqing. ”

"No, you're not a chess piece...... Yuan Rin saw her look like this, only to feel that her heart hurt so much that it was almost difficult to breathe, and she couldn't help but lean over and take her into her arms, and whispered in her ear, "Ah Yan is not a chess piece...... Never. ”

"Really......?" Zhu Yan didn't move, obediently let him hold him, and closed his eyes.

In fact, even though it was quiet, the pain in her heart continued unabated, and the pain was so painful that the strength of her whole body seemed to be drained, and it seemed that this body was not her own, and she had no way to control it.

"Does Xuanqing know?" Zhu Yan sighed deeply, "Everyone says that my heart disease is born...... But they didn't know that I was born with no disease, and that this person who had a heart disease and could not live long was my titular sister Yanzi. ”

"Sister Yan is the illegitimate daughter of Madame, and she was born with a heart disease, so I am afraid it will be difficult to support, but she always hangs her breath and cannot die. Although my mother was a princess at the time, she was only a concubine after all, and she was afraid that I would be a dwarf in the future, so she designed Sister Yan to fall into the water with me. Sister Yan was already frail, and this reason was to take her life, so that I could be raised by my wife, but I ...... He also suffered from heart disease due to that accident and never got better. ”

Yuan Rin turned her eyes to look at her, her face was indifferent, as if the story she was telling had nothing to do with her.

"I'm afraid I've lived to such an age, I'm afraid it's the limit......" Zhu Yan's pale lips opened and closed slightly, tears rolling down her cheeks, "You know...... Born as a pawn, he was asserted that he would not live long since he was a child...... Oh, I live in fear every day, I don't know when I fall, I can never wake up, and in the end, I am not afraid of death...... But I'm so scared now, I'm afraid that like today, I haven't finished playing chess with Xuanqing, but I'm already ......."

"Ah Yan......" Yuan Rin listened to them one by one, what she said seemed to be the truth, and she seemed to be talking nonsense, he couldn't tell which of the two of them was more sober.

"You're not going to die, don't be afraid." Yuan Rin hugged her tightly, and the endgame on the bluestone table resurfaced in front of her.

He is holding on to the sunspot, so the white son is naturally obsessed by Zhu Yan, thinking of the desperate chess move of the white son, it makes him feel scared, and the person in his arms no longer cares about his life.

Zhu Yan didn't cry too much, just leaned quietly in his arms, seemed to be extremely attached, and the words he said were soft and pitiful, "Mrs. came to visit me yesterday...... She didn't blame me at all for Sister Yan's affairs, how could there be someone like her in the world? ”

Kindness, affection, Yuan Rin nodded, Xu Zhen is really an excellent mother.

"But......" Zhu Yan smiled bitterly, "maybe Madame also knows that I don't live long...... I lost my parents, and I was evaluated like that by the clan, and I fell into such a situation, how could my wife care about me? ”

"She said that it is not easy for me to live to this age with this disease, and now that I am pregnant, I am afraid it will be even more difficult......"

"But...... At the beginning, Xuanqing told me that the world is the chess and the world is the game, and this chess game has not been finished, so what should I do? ”

She seemed to have said a lot of things, but Yuan Rin had no intention of listening.

He remembered something that shouldn't have been like this...... How could this be the case?

It was obviously early winter weather, he might have died, how could he see Zhu Yan here?

Is it true that you owe her so much that you can't even be at peace after death? (To be continued.) )