My name is Ayeong-ran, and Akechi Mitsu-so was originally my brother's name.

I was originally an ordinary martial arts woman, although my mother has been very strict with me since I was a child, although I was forced to follow my brother and mother because of the fall of the family's residence, although I was also hungry and full, but life in troubled times is like this, isn't it?

Although I didn't have the life of those women who had no worries about food and clothing, my mother loved me very much, my brother loved me very much, and the people who fled to Echizen together were happy, and that was enough. But all this came to an abrupt end in the second year of Yongroku (1559).

Speaking of which, it is thanks to your previous master's family, the Imagawa family.

My brother and sister-in-law, as well as my cousin Akechi Hidemitsu, went to Kyoto to visit friends after the autumn harvest that year. However, he was attacked by your Imagawa family on a mountain road east of Kyoto. My brother and cousin were both attacked and killed. Although the samurai of your Imagawa family apologized heavily, saying that they killed their brother and nephew by mistake because they were attacked by unknown ninjas, what is the point of people not being able to come back to life?

The wise family lost all their males. In this troubled era of the Warring States, there is only the qualification to be removed. We're not even as good as the Ii family you took in Momiji, they have at least one young son alive.

The mother couldn't bear to see the wise family cut off, but the sister-in-law was not pregnant, and she didn't even have any hope of leaving a child. The wise family has fallen into such a situation that they can't find someone to succeed. So, my mother asked me, who was only 15 years old at the time, to disguise myself as a man and continue to live in the name of my brother as a "wise light show".

I'm just a shy and reserved girl who blushes even when I talk to strangers, so how can I enter the house as a man? But there is no way, for the sake of the incense of the wise family, I can only do this.

However, since I am 14 years younger than my brother, I am afraid that acquaintances will find out in an instant. As a result, our family had to be displaced again, to Wakasa Province, and later to Kyoto. I have been afraid of being seen through countless times, afraid that my mother's hard work will come to naught, but I don't know if it was because I was making people or I was really too similar, and no one doubted it from beginning to end.

When I arrived in Kyoto, I had been working hard for many years and finally got the opportunity to get a background, and thanks to the recommendation of His Royal Highness Hosokawa, I finally became a close entourage of the Gongkata Palace.

You'll know that in the rest of the story.

After Akechi Mitsuhide finished speaking, he set his eyes on Yu Qiuping. The latter, on the other hand, is in deep thought at the moment.

·

Without him, it is because the story of Wise Mitsuhide seems to intersect with the butterfly effect after his crossing.

In the second year of Yongroku (1559)... People from the Imagawa family, Kyoto?

It seems that I came to Kyoto with His Royal Highness Sena that year. And at that time, what else did His Royal Highness Sena mention?

It seems like we've been missing our trip for another day?

What is it?

Come to think of it! His Royal Highness Sena's words at the time!

·

"On the other hand, our ninja was ambushed by unknown people in the mountains east of Kyoto. When they fought back, they accidentally killed two samurai who had come to Kyoto from the north with their families. Sena sighed with some regret, "I've arranged for a few of my men to compensate them, so we won't be able to set off until a day." ”

·

Yu Qiuping only felt that his eyes suddenly opened up, and the layers of fog dissipated in an instant.

In his previous life, Akechi Mitsuhide was not a woman, but a man who was already in his fifties at the time of the change in Honnoji.

And in this life, due to the crossing of the rain and autumn, the Imagawa family went to Kyoto to meet Ashikaga Yoshiteru one more time. On this trip to Kyoto, the Imagawa family's ninja accidentally killed Akechi Mitsuhide by mistake - although the latter was still an unknown junior at the time, he was very important in the history of the future. If Akechiran had not dressed as a man, the Akechiya would have been cut off, and the Honnoji Incident would have been impossible to talk about, and the history of Japan would have been completely changed.

It's called the butterfly effect.

·

"Why are you staring at people?" Akechi Mitsuhide saw that Yu Qiuping had been staring at her face in a daze, his face was slightly red, and he was a little embarrassed not to turn his head.

"Guangxiu, why are you..."Yu Qiuping came back to his senses, and just wanted to condemn Wise Guangxiu's tone was so strange, but suddenly reacted, she was originally a girl. Or is it... Should I call you Lan? ”

"Call me Mitsuhide, didn't Momiji promise me that you couldn't tell me about it?" Wise Guangxiu frowned when he heard this, and his tone and voice suddenly became like a man again, and this rapid transformation made Yu Qiuping a little unable to keep up.

"Then why did you show up in the teahouse in women's clothes?" Yu Qiuping suddenly remembered a question, "Do you remember?" I was in the teahouse, just a few days before I met you for the first time, and I saw you in the teahouse! ”

"I remember, you prodigal son of a prodigal son followed me with a whole bunch of men." When Akechi Mitsuhide said this, her fair cheeks turned red again, "It's shameless." ”

"No, no, no!" Seeing this, Yu Qiuping hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Things are not like that..."

"I'm not interested in hearing superfluous explanations." Wise Mitsuhide's voice changed from an aggrieved woman to a serious male voice in an instant, "I thought that when I arrived in a strange area, even women's clothes would be fine, but I didn't want to meet Momiji." So when I first met Momiji, I was quite surprised, but luckily Momiji didn't notice it. ”

"That's it..."Yu Qiuping scratched his head a little embarrassed, didn't know what to say, and popped out a sentence for no reason: "You look like this for so many years, won't it be very hard?" ”

However, the words he casually asked made Akechi Mitsuhide fall silent for a moment. She lowered her head without saying a word, and the dancing firelight made Yu Qiuping see the tears that suddenly welled up from the corners of Wise Guangxiu's eyes.

Yu Qiuping sighed, his unconscious words may have poked her sore spot.

Before Yu Qiuping could react, the woman beside him suddenly leaned on his shoulder and whimpered softly. The crying became more and more rapid, gradually turning into sobbing, and the tears could not stop flowing.

A young girl in the flower season, for the survival of the family, had to give up her beautiful skirt, put on a heavy body, and wrapped her flower-bony figure with a stiff chest wrap. Speech and demeanor can no longer have the liveliness of a girl, but instead the seriousness of a man.

It's been for many years, she doesn't know how much she has suffered, how much she has been wronged, and she has carefully disguised her woman's nature behind the mask of an elegant warrior. I only dared to change into women's clothes in the dead of night, and looked at my face in the bronze mirror with helpless eyes.

She did not dare to tell her sister-in-law and mother, for fear of adding another burden to their grief; I didn't dare to tell my maids and guards, for fear that they would leak the news; Don't dare to tell your friends, because they are destined to be incomprehensible and cause criticism. Depression and loneliness almost crushed this woman, but she had to resist all of them tenaciously alone. In front of others, he is still the gentle and wise Guangxiu.

Today, it is the first time she has cried in front of others, crying out all the bitterness and pain of more than ten years. In front of a person who inadvertently broke his identity, in front of a person he regarded as a close friend, in front of a good person who refused to give up his companion and almost gambled his life to save her.

In front of a man who used to be a little throbbing.

shows her fragile feelings as a woman.

·

"Don't live like a red leaf..."Yu Qiuping looked at Akechi Mitsuhide, who was crying on his shoulder, and suddenly opened his mouth to comfort: "If there is something, it will be much better to say it, don't hold it alone." ”

"What are you going to do next?" Seeing that Akechi Mitsuhide didn't respond, Yu Qiuping asked again.

"What to do?" Akechi Mitsuhide didn't seem to be crying anymore, so he removed his cheek from Yu Qiuping's shoulder, and replied with red eyes, "I can only keep pretending like this... What else could you do? ”

"I'm not asking you this, I'm asking you how you plan to get out of this isolated island." Yu Qiuping said angrily and funny, "Now that life and death are undecided, how can you think about anything else?" There is fresh water on this island, but we can't afford not to go back. ”

"Can you make a raft back?" Akechi Mitsuhide tentatively made a suggestion.

"It seems like it can, but I don't know how long it will take." Yu Qiuping sighed and handed the grilled fish on the fire to Akechi Mitsuhide, "Anyway, let's fill my stomach first." ”

Wise Mitsuhide smiled, reached out to pick up the grilled fish handed over by Yu Qiuping, and took it hard, but Yu Qiuping didn't let go, just looked at the southwest in a daze. Akechi Mitsuhide looked back in surprise and saw a little fire on the surface of the lake southwest of Lake Biwa.

·

"Is it the fleet?" Akechi Mitsuhide reacted at once, and immediately realized that it was their bonfire that attracted the fleet in this direction, "Is it friend or foe?" Do you want to extinguish the campfire? ”

"I think it's a friendly army! With such a large fleet, it is impossible to be fishermen, someone must have organized to find us who have fallen overboard. After thinking for a moment, Yu Qiuping replied with great certainty, "From the southwest direction, there is a high probability that we are from the Oda family!" And take a step back, even if it's someone from the Asai family, they won't embarrass us! Aren't you and the Asakura family also old, even if it's the Asakura family, they won't be killers! ”

After making up their minds, Yu Qiuhei and Akechi Mitsuhide did not extinguish the bonfire, but immediately lit several more bonfires on the island and reef, signaling to the rescue fleet that they had someone here. Seeing this, the rescue fleet slowly increased its speed and sailed desperately towards the island and reef. Yu Qiuhei and Akechi Mitsuhide stood anxiously on the edge of the reef, looking in the direction of the incoming ship. By the time the boat got closer and closer, Yu Qiuping could already faintly hear some sounds. It was an almost mute, weeping female voice that spread far across the tranquil lake.

It's the voice of the dragon!

Saved!