"One, two, three, four......" Yan Wei lay on the soft grass on the slope and looked at the sky in the southeast, pointing her finger at the white clouds.

"What are you counting?" Dongfang Ziyan waded in the creek with his trouser legs in his hands, holding a long sword in his hand and preparing to catch fish.

"Count the clouds." Yan Wei is still counting.

Dongfang Ziyan's eyes were quick, and he plunged into the stream with a sword, and sure enough, he inserted a fat and big fish, "What are you doing counting clouds?" ”

"I heard grandma say that behind the six hundred and ninety clouds in the east, there is a place called 'Top of the Rainbow', which is the most beautiful place in the world," Yan Wei squinted her eyes, put her right hand on her forehead, and the breeze blew the tips of her fine hair, "Brother Ziyan, will you take me there?" ”

Dongfang Ziyan shook his head helplessly, and while disemboweling the fish with the folding knife in his hand, he smiled and said, "Okay, if I have a chance in the future, I will definitely take you there." ”

"If it weren't for you, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to find the top of the rainbow in my life." Yan Wei said suddenly.

"How come, I said I wanted to take you there, and I will definitely take you there," Dongfang Ziyan suddenly felt that Yan Wei was a little strange.

"With you, I'm not afraid of anything." Yan Wei said to him with a smile, and her smile was like sunshine.

Dongfang Ziyan also smiled at him, but as soon as he blinked his eyes, he saw Yan Wei lying on the ground covered with tattered clothes.

His heart was like falling into an endless abyss, pitch black, and it was desperate to the bone.

The alarm clock at the head of the bed was ticking, the room was suffocatingly quiet, Dongfang Ziyan opened his sleepy eyes, looked at the miserable white ceiling, and kept looking at it for nearly two hours.

Forty-nine days have passed since Detias was rescued, and he has been in a coma for forty-nine days, but he still can't accept the reality that Yan Wei has died. Three hours earlier, he had jumped out of bed in a frenzy, struck the bulletproof glass of the floor-to-ceiling window with his hands, hit his head with his head, and kicked with his feet, but to no avail.

He knew that in this battle he had not only lost Yan Wei, but also all his strength, ten years ago he was a good-for-nothing person, and now, he had become good-for-nothing again. The transformation of genius seemed to be in a thought, and he seemed to be reduced to the despised child of the year, and he felt that he had lost everything.

He hated himself, hated his incompetence, hated his whole life. It was a sense of failure that he had never felt before, and how painful it was to feel his powerlessness, and he had experienced it all.

It was a long time later, until the sun was about to set, that he opened the door and went out barefoot, with his body weakly stepping on the floor, and wearing a loose nightgown. Walking on the mirror-like floor of the Star-Picking Building, he lowered his eyes and met a guard in an alliance uniform at the elevator entrance.

"Childe, where are you going?" The guard asked.

"I'll go out for a walk." Dongfang Ziyan lowered his head and whispered, and at the same time I pressed the floor button of the elevator with my bandaged hand.

"The Great Priest ordered us, Childe, you have not recovered from your serious injuries, please allow us to follow you out and protect Childe's safety." Said the guard.

"No, I'm just going out for a walk." After Dongfang Ziyan finished speaking, the elevator door slowly opened.

"Let's let me follow......" The guard insisted on following him.

"Get out of here!" Dongfang Ziyan looked back at him viciously, gritted his teeth, and walked into the elevator without looking back.

The night market in Chihong City has been lit up, the old city has been newly built, the night market has returned to its previous prosperity, and people have long since moved back to Chihong City, the various signboards on the night market are illuminated by lights, the light of lanterns and electric lights is intertwined, and all kinds of snacks or supper stalls emit attractive fragrances.

There are also many people in the headquarters of the alliance who have just gotten off work and are eating at the night market. More people come for supper at midnight. Dongfang Ziyan walked aimlessly on the lively night market, limping aim. Because the city has just been rebuilt, many of the houses along the street have not yet been repaired, so there are still a few shops banging.

"Yo, isn't this Young Master Ziyan?" Wang Fushun, who was knocking nails at the door of Fushun's elbow shop, inadvertently saw Dongfang Ziyan walking on the road, and hurriedly jumped down from the ladder.

"Old Wang......" Dongfang Ziyan smiled on his pale face, but the smile quickly disappeared.

"What's wrong with you, what kind of mission are you going to perform, look at the bandages on your body, they're about to become mummies." Lao Wang pinned the hammer to his waist, "By the way, what about the girl you brought last time?" ”

"Did you say Yan Wei?" Dongfang Ziyan suddenly raised his head, slowly moved his body to the stool at the side of the store, and slowly sat down.

"It's not called Yu ...... Okay, I haven't seen Yan Wei's girl for a long time, where did that girl go? Wang Fushun hid on the threshold at the door of the store, took out a cigarette from his arms, lit one, and threw another one to Dongfang Ziyan.

The cigarette turned in a circle in the air, Ziyan almost didn't catch it with both hands, but fortunately he still caught it, he originally wanted to use the fire control technique to light the cigarette, but he never thought that he no longer had that ability, at this moment, Lao Wang stretched out the lighter in front of him and lit a cigarette for him.

Dongfang Ziyan took a deep puff of cigarette, lowered his head, people came and went on the street, the electric light tube on the roof was unstable because it had just been installed, so it always made a stinging electric sound, and a few mosquitoes flew around the lamp on a summer night.

She ...... She's going home," Dongfang Ziyan looked at her injured right leg and the flip-flops she was wearing, "she's already able to take care of herself...... Can't always follow me. ”

Regarding the Deteas incident, the Hongjun Empire has not yet announced it to the public, and the mission of the headquarters will never be announced to anyone, because these are all confidential, and the same is true about Yan Wei's death, but more, it may be that Dongfang Ziyan does not dare to admit that Yan Wei is dead.

"It's okay to go, it's okay to go, the old doesn't go, the new doesn't come." Wang Fushun sighed, and then he said, "You kid is really a good fortune, Yan Wei's girl hasn't been gone for long, and I found one to take home last time, you are really ......"

Dongfang Ziyan held a burning cigarette in his right hand, and he drooped his eyebrows, "Uncle Wang, don't talk about this." ”

"Okay," Wang Fushun nodded, as if he could see that Dongfang Ziyan was a little unhappy.

Suddenly, a black figure walked in front of the store and stopped in front of Dongfang Ziyan.

"When you're young, why do you sigh every day?" The person who came looked at Dongfang Ziyan in a steady tone, and he was carrying two bottles of wine in his hand.

Dongfang Ziyan raised his head and looked at the person, "It's you......"

Chihong Castle and the slopes of the back mountain

Dongfang Ziyan looked at the starry sky, took a sip of wine, held the wine bottle in his arms, and glanced at Hong Jun Troy next to him.

As the Xuan Emperor of the Hongjun Empire, Troy actually changed into civilian clothes and came out, the purpose was to find Dongfang Ziyan to drink and chat, and specially found a quiet place in the back mountain.

"You're the emperor, you shouldn't come out alone, it's dangerous." Dongfang Ziyan said.

Troy gouged out his ears and said casually, "Actually, I'm used to being free, and I can't stand it if I really stay in the imperial city forever." ”

"It's the old man Aurora who persecuted you again, the emperor died, and he was just like your father." Dongfang Ziyan took another sip of wine, and his eyes looked at the brightly lit Chihong City under the mountain.

Troy stood up, the night wind ruffled his hair, and the corners of his eyes showed scars, "The teacher is my benefactor, without him, I would have died a long time ago." ”

"yes." Dongfang Ziyan said lonely.

"Ziyan, I know you're uncomfortable, but ...... You have to pick yourself up. Troy patted him on the shoulder, "Yufi's girl...... I care about you very much, but I haven't seen anyone since you came back. ”

"I want to be quiet, I know that there must be a lot of people coming to me, but I didn't expect that you would come to me." Dongfang Ziyan said earnestly.

"Well, I think you have a similar personality to me." Troy said, looking at the night sky.

Ziyan was stunned for a moment.

"You know, I was born in Chihong since I was a child, my mother died of illness when I was four years old, I lost the person closest to me, and I also lost someone who was really good to me, I was silent and indisputable since I was a child, but I was too simple at the time," Troy said with a trembling voice, "I was born in an imperial family, and the first thing I faced was the contempt brought by the loss of my mother, the son is valued by the mother, my mother was born in an ordinary clan, and my mother died, and I became the most humble among the princes." ”

Dongfang Ziyan listened quietly, without meaning to interrupt him.

"After my mother died, my father seemed to be aware of this, so I especially asked Da Si Ming to be my teacher, in fact, I also knew at that time that my father cared about me very much, so I followed Teacher Aurora when I was six years old, but it was not announced to the outside world, and even your parents didn't know, I hid in the imperial capital for a long time, until I was thirteen years old, Teacher Aurora suddenly came to me and took me away from Chihong, and after that, I came to his home in Baicao Valley, and then I knew, In fact, my father told my teacher to keep me away from the imperial capital, as if I had expected something to happen, and not long after I left, my father was in Chihong and was assassinated by the demons. ”

"You...... Do you have a good relationship with your father? Ziyan asked quietly.

As if he had just woken up from a dream, Troy heard Ziyan ask such a question, and hesitated at first before replying, "Yes, there is no father who does not care about his son, including your father. ”

"yes." Dongfang Ziyan took a sip of wine, "But I disappointed my father, in Deteas, not only did I not save Yan Wei's life, but I also lost all my strength...... Maybe Hades is right, I've been a mistake since I was born. ”

"You know, I looked at the man in front of me who was six years younger than myself and had just become an adult, and I suddenly felt like myself six years ago, six years ago, I was in the barren land in the southwest of the mainland, only myself, I felt that I had lost everything, but I still persevered, and then later, when I went to work in a tavern by the West Sea, I had to do the dirtiest and most tiring work for the boss every day, and at night I slept in the horse and drank the rest of the wine in the tavern, but now I think about it, I was still the most comfortable at that time......

Before Troy could finish speaking, he saw Dongfang Ziyan throw the wine bottle in his hand, immediately stood up, and walked towards the downhill road, limping as he walked, and said as he walked, "Troy! I'll go back first! ”

"Stinky boy! I'm not done yet! Troy yelled.

I saw that under the cover of night, Dongfang Ziyan shouted loudly without looking back, "I know how I should go, I have to leave here tomorrow!" ”

Troy was a little drunk, he glanced at Dongfang Ziyan's back, smiled, and didn't speak again.

The next day, when the first rays of sunlight shone into the bed in the room through the floor-to-ceiling window, Dongfang Ziyan was no longer in bed.

The door of the room sounded the sound of turning the key, and after the door opened, Shangguan Yuanji walked in wearing a loose robe, his face was much better than before, at least he could walk on his own, he came to Ziyan's room, but he didn't see anyone, and when he walked to the bedroom, he saw a few words written on the wall with red spray paint:

[Yuan Ji, I'll go outside, maybe a few months, maybe a few years, you take care of your injuries, our brothers will always have a day when they meet, remember to help me say goodbye to my uncle and friends in the alliance, by the way, help me say sorry to Yu Fei, okay, that's all. 】

Very simple parting motto, there is no third person in this room except Shangguan Yuanji who has a room key, who else will there be besides Dongfang Ziyan, Shangguan Yuanji looked at the beautiful spray paint font on the wall, touched it with his fingers, and found that the spray paint had dried, and his body was weak and he sat on the bed.

Shangguan Yuanji rushed all the way from Ziyan's room to the downstairs of the Star Picking Tower, and learned through the guards along the way that Dongfang Ziyan had gone out from the west gate of the imperial city, carrying a burden and a sword. But when Yuan Ji ran to the west gate out of breath, he found that only Rhein Gruss was standing at the gate alone.

"Uncle! What about Ziyan? Shangguan Yuan asked with a big gasp.

"Gone." Rhine clasped his hands to his chest and looked at the blue sky to the west.

"Why don't you stop him! He lost his ability to fight! He's going to die outside!! Shangguan Yuan was furious and grabbed Rhine's collar.

Rhine's iron-gray eyes looked at Yuan Ji, and said coldly, "This is the path he chooses by himself, even if he dies, it is his fate, let him go." ”

Shangguan Yuanji let go of his hand and looked at the sky to the west, his eyes full of regret and loss.

In the mountains behind Chihong City, a small tomb is located outside the royal garden mausoleum, the tombstone is engraved with Juanxiu's font, the tomb is newly made, it is full of cute yellow pear tree petals, Dongfang Ziyan is wearing coarse cloth clothes, carrying an iron sword, carrying a blue burden, sitting in front of the tombstone for a long time. Finally, he stood up, touched the words on the tombstone, and walked away without looking back.

Not long after he left, a person walked out of the woods, came to the grave, and said silently, "Yan Wei, after all, he still loves you the most......"