The next day.

Changan.

Tai Chi Palace, in the secluded court.

Inside the cold palace.

Xiao Yuyin put her hand on the door, hesitated for a long time, and finally pushed it open.

As soon as the door opened, I saw the woman who was dressed in palace clothes and phoenix crowns, sitting on several sides, bright red as fire but unable to hide her pale face.

The woman she had been calling her sister duplicitously.

With a faint smile, she stepped forward slowly, walked in front of her, and without waiting for her to greet her, the purple pomegranate skirt waved its wide sleeves and sat down.

She looked at the lapis lamp in front of her, and said with a faint smile:

"How long has it been? Let's just sit and talk like this. ”

"I can't remember...... But there has to be a promise. ”

Wang Shanrou said leisurely, coughing a few mouthfuls and pressing the corner of her lips with a handkerchief.

A little blood stained the silk handkerchief, which was particularly eye-catching.

She glanced down, and didn't change color, but just put it away.

Xiao Yuyin saw it and raised her eyebrows:

"It seems that this poison is not going to get better."

Wang Shanrou lowered her eyes and said after a while:

"Sister, I'm worried about this palace."

"Worried? Why should Hongu be worried? ”

Xiao Yuyin smiled and shook her head:

"It's all come to this, are you still going to act like this?"

“…… Sister, you say...... Life is short, what are we looking for? ”

Wang Shanrou suddenly looked up at the other bluestone lamp in front of him and asked leisurely.

Xiao Yuyin was silent for a while before saying:

"I don't know, but there is one thing that this palace knows.

In a few days, it will be time for His Majesty to return to Chang'an to sacrifice, or when the time comes, you will know if you ask Your Majesty.

Yes......

But this palace has forgotten, and now I am afraid that the last thing Your Majesty wants to see is you and me...... Right? ”

Xiao Yuyin smiled faintly.

Wang Shanrou also smiled faintly, shook her head and said:

"What is the use of saying these things if they are forced to do so?"

"It's useless."

Xiao Yuyin shook his head and smiled:

"But if I can see that you have been injured because of this incident, it will not be in vain that this palace has suffered over the years."

Wang Shanrou turned her head to look at her:

"You know, in fact, Hongu really didn't hate you......

At least not from the beginning.

Because you are a very honest and straight person, not like her......"

Wang Shanrou closed her mouth and said lightly after a long time:

"Her thoughts, this palace can never guess."

"You wouldn't be able to guess, would you?

And this palace is just the opposite of you, because when you enter the palace, you have to shadow her, so that you can try to guess her mind in order to use it later......

Really? ”

Xiao Yuyin smiled coldly.

Wang Shanrou was silent, and said for a long time:

"Are you here today to settle old accounts with this palace?"

"Isn't it?

If it wasn't for my sister's kindness, how could my sister enter the palace?

How can there be all these ups and downs, ups and downs in life?

If you talk about it, I really have to thank you, sister. ”

Wang Shanrou shook her head:

"Until now, you still think that this palace is intentional......

I thought it was just a matter of ......

It's just that this palace wants to ask you, if you hadn't entered the palace back then, would your life have been different?

You'll never regret it, too? ”

"Of course it's different, why regret it?"

Xiao Yuyin sneered:

"If he stays outside the palace, if he falls in love with an ordinary man, he is a high-ranking official, three wives and four concubines, at least the palace can also win a place in his heart.

How can it be like this, it seems that the heavenly family is infinitely rich, but after all, it is just a stand-in for others?

All this, if it weren't for your sister's blessing......

How did Hongu come to this point? ”

Wang Shanrou turned her head and looked at her:

"Really? Do you really believe that it was the palace that designed you to be recruited into the inner court as a stand-in?

That palace can tell you a word, this palace knows about the existence of that woman, and it was only after a few of you gave birth to children that you didn't know......

Whether you believe it or not, at the beginning, this palace was not willing to watch you enter the East Palace. ”

Xiao Yuyin heard this, but just laughed out loud:

"Do you think this palace will still believe it when you say this now?"

Wang Shanrou looked at her face that laughed wildly to the point of almost deformation, suddenly understood something, and nodded:

"yes......

You don't believe it.

Because you already knew the truth......

You know that this matter has nothing to do with this palace, and you also know that you don't have to suspect this palace in the first place......

It's just that you can't hate Your Majesty, and you can't resent Your Majesty......

So you can only choose to doubt this palace and hate this palace......

It turns out that you are also a poor person. ”

After Wang Shanrou said this, she laughed bitterly, and Xiao Yuyin on the side also laughed, but her smile was already mixed with a little tears.

The two women, each smiling, but their expressions were strikingly similar.

After a while, Xiao Yuyin stopped laughing and said softly:

"You know what?

When I first saw Your Majesty, I knew that in this life, I could only and only want to follow Your Majesty.

Even after first knowing her existence, when he dreamed back at midnight, Hongu told himself:

Hongu is really lucky to have such a face, and he actually recognized this man because of this face......

How lucky Hongu is, how lucky......

At that time, Hongu was really happy, really happy.

Although my heart has been sour, although my heart has also been uncomfortable......

But that joy and joy are real, and there is nothing fake. ”

Wang Shanrou looked at her with some understanding, with a sympathetic look in her eyes:

"But after all, a stand-in can't let you stay by Your Majesty's side forever......

You understand this, so sooner or later you will feel the pain. Really? ”

Xiao Yuyin closed her mouth. After a while, he said softly:

"yes......

At the beginning, in such a situation, no one can be greedy?

Think of such a man, think of such luck that happened to him......

As long as you can stay by his side, why not be a stand-in?

But people are greedy, and women are especially true. ”

Xiao Yuyin said quietly:

"At first, I just wanted him to look at me more, even if it was just more, and to keep his deepest gaze on me when it was on us women who looked like her......

But he didn't.

So I'm sad.

And at this time, you brought Liu's father down.

Then he looked at me more......

It dawned on me that it turned out that there was only one stand-in.

What's more, I'm still the one who is most like her among the stand-ins. ”

She pursed her lips and smiled:

"So I decided to make myself a unique stand-in."

She let out a long breath, leaned back, and reached for the ring on the little finger of her right hand:

Then, I slowly succeeded, and sure enough......

His gaze gradually fell on me alone, although it still seemed to be looking at another person from me......

But anyway, he's just looking at me.

I couldn't be happier.

Every day and every night, I feel that I am so happy that I don't have to fight for anything anymore.

But all of a sudden......

All of a sudden, you've got her back.

The woman who really existed in his heart was found.

I understand, because you are afraid, do you think that I have been so favored by him, and sooner or later, will I also want to steal your position?

This is the only thing you have left?

In fact, I wanted to tell you at that time:

Originally, I was not uncommon in this posteriority. ”

Xiao Yuyin smiled faintly:

"Because I knew from the beginning what was most important to me.

But from the moment you used the power of the rear position to get her back, I suddenly understood......

It turns out that the latter is very important to me.

At least guaranteed...... I promise that I will always be the unique stand-in in his eyes, and that there will never be a woman more like her than me.

Even if it'......"

Xiao Yuyin turned her head and looked at Wang Shanrou:

"Even if she is the main body, she will never appear by his side again."

Wang Shanrou was silent, and said lightly for a while:

"You can't tolerate me, how can I tolerate you at that time?

You have children in your hands, but I have nothing but this posterity. ”

"We could have joined forces."

Xiao Yuyin looked at her:

"We were all together, didn't we?

The days after she left the palace, aren't they the most comfortable days in your life? ”

She looked at Wang Shanrou's face that opened her mouth to speak, but was silent after all, and suddenly laughed:

"Of course, as far as you're concerned, how can you get rid of a Wu Meiniang?

For you, what is more important is not only the posteriority, but also his love.

Wang Shanrou, you are really a very hypocritical woman.

From the very beginning, you tell everyone and even yourself:

You don't care about His Majesty's love, you don't care about His love.

What you care about is only the glory of your Taiyuan Wang family, and this posterity......

Not really.

If there is one person in this house who cares about his love as much as I do, it is you.

Even she wouldn't care as much as the two of us......

Because for her, this thing is a pearl in her palm, a flower between her fingers, and she will not lose it at all.

But for you and me, this thing is the stars in the sky, the clouds and the moon, invisible and invisible.

So we're all the same.

No one is much taller than the other. Even your mind is a little crazier than mine. I can still tolerate it, he has other women in his heart.

But you can't.

Because of your pride, but also because of your inferiority.

That's right, you have low self-esteem, because you know that you are not as good as Wu Meiniang, everything and everything, everywhere, you are inferior to her.

The only thing you can beat her is your lintel, your so-called family background.

So you must ruin her. Really? ”

Xiao Yuyin looked at Wang Shanrou's increasingly pale face:

"Only by destroying her can you prove the meaning and value of your existence......

Because you married into the East Palace, it is to prove that you are valuable and meaningful to your Taiyuan Wang family......

And you are so eager to receive Your Majesty's love, because you understood His Majesty's love for her earlier than I did, what a precious and rare thing it is.

You want, you are jealous of her, you resent her, you don't understand why it's not you but her......

So you're going to destroy her, and you feel that after ruining her, this love is yours.

You think that Your Majesty can be changed, just like those men in the world.

Wang Shanrou, Wang Shanrou......

You're so naïve, naïve than I am.

Haven't you thought about one thing, why does His Majesty love her?

Haven't you ever thought about it?

You don't.

Because what you love is not Your Majesty himself.

Because you, like me, love the man you want......

The Majesty you see is the gentle, introverted, talented poet and calligrapher, handsome and handsome young man, and the Majesty you love is also this young man......

You can't imagine that he is dying old and goosebumps, and you can't believe that he would have such a brutal method, and he can kill the palace people so resolutely in front of you. ”

Wang Shanrou's lips were tightly pursed, but after all, they slowly opened:

"It was never Your Majesty who did these things, but the.

If it wasn't for her idea, if it wasn't for her, how could it be? ”

"What about your father? Was his debasement also her idea?

What about you today?

Do you have no heirs in your life? ”

Xiao Yuyin looked at her with pity, and suddenly lost the desire to continue stroking the ring:

"Well, you really can't see through it. In this life, you can't see through it......

Just like me before me......

Always just look at what you want to see......

That's it......

That's it. ”

She shook her head, got up, didn't bother to say anything more to her, and slowly left.

Only Wang Shanrou was left to sit stubbornly in front of him, stubbornly looking at the ground, and refusing to let it flow even though the tears were full.

……

At the same time.

Tai Chi Palace.

East Palace.

Li Zhong looked at the waiter standing quietly in front of him, and asked lightly for a while:

"How many days are left?"

The waiter turned his head sideways, calculated it, and finally said lightly:

"It's been seven or eight days since I counted it......

No more than three or five days, no less than one or two days, that ...... And there it is. ”

Li Zhong lowered his eyes, nodded, and looked up at the sky where the moon was gradually full for a while.

After a while, he said lightly:

"Be careful, and prepare plain clothes, lest you not be left to use them at that time."

"Yes!"

Watching the little attendant leave in a hurry, Li Zhong lowered his head, looked at his hand, and said softly:

"Mother...... Zhong'er is almost there......

That's it......

Don't be in a hurry......

Don't you rush ......."