When I arrived at the East Palace, the eunuch who had read the decree had just arrived.

I stood not far from the palace gate, quietly watching the chief eunuch order someone to open the door of the East Palace with the emperor's will.

Little by little, the door was opened, and a small gap gradually widened.

I finally saw him.

Fu Yuying in the palace gate was sitting under the magnolia tree, quietly reading with his head down, the sun was scattered on his body through the dense branches and leaves, everything was so quiet and comfortable, so beautiful.

I suddenly thought of a poem that Yi Xuan once told me: Mo Shangren is like jade, and the son is unparalleled in the world. This is the most appropriate way to describe him at this moment.

The chief eunuch walked up to him and read the decree, he flicked his sleeves, and slowly knelt down to receive the decree, looking as usual, not surprised or pleased, as if everything had been expected by him.

When he looked up, he met my gaze.

The corners of my mouth involuntarily hooked up a smile, a smile that spontaneously appeared, and I felt happy from the bottom of my heart.

I walked towards him step by step, I had long forgotten the dirty clothes and loose long hair on my body, who would have thought that I used to pay so much attention to the image, but at this moment I almost forgot everything, I just wanted to walk towards him, step by step... Walk towards him.

I finally came to his side, and when I looked at his face, which I had been thinking about for a long time, my heart suddenly accelerated.

"I said, I will definitely help you get revenge."

I stared at him steadily, a shallow smile on my lips.

He chuckled and said to me, "You did a good job this time, and sure enough, I didn't see the wrong person." ”

A smile spread across my lips, and I was about to say something, but I was interrupted again.

"Tsk, Fu Yuying, you don't remember me at all."

Yi Xuan's voice suddenly came from behind, and I turned my head to look, and he looked at the two of us with a smile.

Fu Yuying glanced at him lightly, as if he was a little helpless, and retorted: "My jade pendant is all for you, why, are you still not satisfied with this?" ”

Jade Pendant...? Only then did I suddenly realize that the jade pendant was really not stolen by Yi Xuan.

Thinking of the scene where I once questioned Yi Xuan, I couldn't help but feel empty.

I looked at Yi Xuan quietly, and saw that he just smiled helplessly, without saying much, and never looked at me, I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, thinking that he had forgotten.

"Now that everything is settled and your revenge is avenged, it's time to complete your main task."

I came back to my senses and looked at him again.

Can I finally know what he was looking for me for?

My heart suddenly felt extremely heavy, and the doubts I had been in for so long finally had an answer.

I held my breath and waited quietly for his words.

He looked at me with a look that suddenly became serious, which made me even more nervous. He spoke slightly, his voice steady and steady, and he slowly spat out a sentence under my solemn gaze.

"I want you to marry Yasukuni and get one thing back for me."

I froze in place, and my heart, which had been hanging on my own, suddenly sank to the bottom of the sea like a boulder.

I couldn't see the expression on my face, but I knew that I must be very stiff and unnatural. I pursed my lips, forced the depression in my heart, and took a short breath quietly, I lowered my head and didn't look at him, trying to make my voice very steady: "Who do you want me to marry?" ”

He no longer looked at me, but turned his head to look at the magnolia tree, and his voice was as calm as ever: "The monarch of Yasukuni, because he has the Chaofuqin I want in his hand, I want you to get it back for me." ”

My eyes kept wandering around, drifting, rubbing my dirty sleeves with my hands, and I said very uncomfortably: "But I am low, and I am ......."

"You don't have to worry about that." He interrupted me and spoke slowly: "Emperor Jing has always been unruly, and he likes to act willfully, your appearance is very much like his late wife, and he now understands everything in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, these alone are enough to attract him." ”

He looked like his deceased wife......

It turns out that my face is actually used for such purposes.

I never thought that the answers I had been thinking about for so many days and nights would be so difficult for me to accept.

I suddenly felt the emptiness in my heart cold, as if I had fallen into an icy cellar, and I tried to steady and gradually tremble in my voice, and asked him cautiously, "Can I... Don't you go? ”

He rejected me without hesitation, and his voice could not be refuted: "No, this Chao Fuqin is very important to me." ”

I smiled bitterly, very frustrated, but there was nothing I could do.

"Don't worry, I have other things for you to do, so after you get the qin, I will send someone to pick you up, and when the time comes, I will hand over the entire Ning Xiao to you."

I frowned and looked at him steadily.

I want to say no to all this, I want to tell him I don't want to do it, I really don't want to, I resist it from the bottom of my heart...

But I can't say it, I can't even say a word "no", these words are just stuck in my throat forever, and it is difficult to appeal.

I finally closed my eyes slowly, nodded at him, and turned to leave the East Palace.

On the way back to Ningxiao, I sat in the carriage with Yi Xuan, but I didn't want to say a word.

I leaned against the sidewall and stared at the curtain in silence.

After getting out of the carriage, Yi Xuan took me to the mountain, but after a few steps, I suddenly felt uncontrollable heartache, trembling uncontrollably, and finally couldn't support my body, and knelt on the ground with a "plop".

Yi Xuan was startled and hurriedly reached out to help me up, but I dodged his hand.

I propped my hands on the ground and said in a trembling voice: "I hurt so much here, why... Why does it hurt so much. ”

Yi Xuan squatted down, looked at me nervously, and asked softly, "Where?" ”

I frowned and closed my eyes, raised my hand and grabbed my heart hard, my voice trembling: "My heart hurts... It was as if someone had pinched me so hard that I couldn't breathe. ”

Tears poured out of my eyes, down my cheeks, and eventually into the dust. I clutched my heart harder and harder, and my voice was slightly crying: "Why? Why do I feel so sad. ”

My heart hurt so much that I almost felt like I was going to be crushed.

Yi Xuan was silent for a long time before he said to me slowly: "Because you love him." ”

"Love?" I opened my eyes full of red silk and looked at him with a frown, my voice trembling: "What is love?" ”

"That's what you are at the moment." Yi Xuan frowned lightly, sighed slowly, and said, "Love will make you happy, but it will also make you sad." From the first time I saw you, I knew that if you stayed by Fu Yuying's side, you would definitely fall in love with him. ”

The sharp pain in my heart forced me to close my eyes again, and I asked him slowly in a trembling voice, "Why?" ”

"Because you follow Fu Yuying, he will definitely become the first person to give you warmth and light after you have endured the boundless darkness of the Guogong Mansion."

Warm... with light.

I suddenly remembered a lot of things.

There is a scene where he says he likes to listen to me play the piano.

He told me about the past under the moon.

And the scene where he handed me the golden hairpin.

......

I felt so much pain that I couldn't breathe, my heart ached more and more, and the memories flashed through my mind quickly, making my heart hurt even more.

I gulped in the air, but I still couldn't find a trace of peace in my heart.

Yi Xuan raised his hand to wipe away the tears on my face, sighed, and said to me slowly: "If you really don't want to marry Emperor Jing, I can help you leave Ning Xiao." ”

I shook my head, endured the pain in my heart, and whispered to him, "Since that piano is so important to him, I must get it back for him." ”

"The Lost Pearl..."Yi Xuan frowned lightly and looked at me steadily, "Is it really worth it for you to do all this?" ”

"There's nothing worth it." My voice was full of tears, "I said I would help him achieve what he wanted." ”

Suddenly the sky was dripping with drops of rain that fell coldly on me, as if striking at my already fragile heart.

I grabbed Yi Xuan's hand, stood up with difficulty, and walked towards Ning Xiao step by step.

After it was night, the rain outside the window did not stop, but became heavier and heavier.

I lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep at night.

It turns out that I love him.

I raised my hand to wipe the tears from the corners of my eyes, closed my eyes and wanted to go to bed early, but as soon as I closed my eyes, my mind kept coming to mind the scene of Fu Yuying saying those words to me today.

I seemed to suddenly understand why my sister was so heartbroken when she looked at him that day, and I suddenly understood that Yan Hua looked so sad and sad when she talked to me about the past.

It turns out that this is love, which makes people's hearts depressed and painful.

I fell asleep when I was tired of crying.

In my dream, I saw all the past of him and me again, as if I could still stay by his side, as if I would never leave him, and everything today seemed to be a dream.

Suddenly there was a roar of thunder outside the window, and I woke up from my dream.

I sat up and listened to the sound of the rain outside the window, and suddenly I couldn't help crying, I buried my head between my knees, and I couldn't stop crying.

It turns out that those pictures that never left him were just a dream... It's just a dream, it's all fake, I'm going to leave him, and I'm going to marry someone else.

Fu Yuying, why didn't you tell me the reason why you wanted me to stay with you earlier, if you were willing to tell me earlier, I wouldn't have fallen in love with you, and I wouldn't have been so heartbroken.

Once again, I fell asleep crying.

When the sound of weapons clattering outside came to my ears again, I slowly opened my eyes.

I stared at the top of the bed for a long, long time, and I didn't feel the urge to cry, but my heart still ached.

Am I going to leave him?