Chapter I

"The water of the Lethe River lies in forgetfulness..."

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"A fox it sits on a dune, sits on a dune and looks at the moon. Wow, original

It's not to look at the moon, it's to wait for the girl who comes back from herding the sheep..."

"It's so ugly! Change a song! ”

"I'll only sing this song..."

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"I will forget you forever!"

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There was a light that flickered in my memory, flickering, as if the depths of the fog were gradually spreading and revealed

An illusory mirage. I suddenly opened my blurry eyes, and everything became clear.

I saw Adu, she was standing next to me, and I also saw Yongniang, her eyes were also red and slightly swollen.

I saw delicate flowers embroidered on the tent, and I slowly recognized that this was the East Palace.

It's my own dormitory.

I let out a breath slowly, feeling like I was having a nightmare, in a dream

Something terrible happened: I was taken captive by the Assassins, and then the Assassin turned out to be

Gu Jian, I was standing under the Chengtian Gate, and I watched Li Chengyin upstairs

What I'm afraid of is that I dreamed that I had known Li Chengyin for a long time, and he assumed the pseudonym Gu Xiaowu and slaughtered Tu

I killed Ah Weng and forced my Ah Niang to death... My father went crazy, and I was forced

Jumping off the Lethe... This nightmare is so terrible that I don't even dare to go

I want to...

Fortunately, it was all just a nightmare, I slowly grabbed Yongniang's hand and smiled at her,

I want to say, "I'm so hungry..."

I couldn't make any sound, and my throat ached sharply, and the air flowed through my mouth

but I couldn't speak. I was so anxious that I stuck my neck with my hand, Yongnianghan

Holding my hand with tears: "Don't worry, the princess, the imperial doctor said that you are just in a hurry,

That's why I burned my throat. It's good to take it slowly..."

I looked at Adu, and then at Yongniang, Gong'e held a glass of dew, Yongniang

Self-fed to me, the dewy and sweet smell and the slightly cool taste make me feel so comfortable,

The pain in his throat was immediately relieved. I swallowed heavily, and Yongniang said, "Slow, slow."

Don't choke... sigh these days, I haven't gotten a drop of water, but I'm almost in a hurry

Slave girl..."

Few days?

How many days have I been asleep?

I asked for paper and pen than painting, Yongniang was busy with someone to bring it to me, Gong'e held the inkstone, and I dipped it

I was full of ink, but when I put pen to paper, I suddenly hesitated.

What to write?

What do I ask? Ask if the Turks are really all gone, and ask my father, he

Have you already gone mad? When I came to the Central Plains, he never sent anyone to see me, and Xiliang, which I thought about day and night, never sent anyone to see me. I didn't even have the slightest of them

Don't think it's weird, I used to only complain about Daddy's ruthlessness, and now I know that it turns out that my west

Liang has already become a dream. I didn't dare to ask Adu at all, how dare I,

Dare to ask Yongniang?

I couldn't put pen to paper for a long time.

The ink at the end of the pen condensed for too long, and finally fell with a "click" and dripped onto the paper.

A cloud of ink splashed out.

I suddenly remembered the "Splash Ink Gate", and remembered what Li Chengyin drew with swallow fat and snail dai

The magnificent picture of mountains and rivers, thinking of Mingyufang, remembering the song that night, remembering that night

I remembered him breaking the arrow, and swore aloud...

Such a real sword light and blood shadow, I think of me singing on the sand dunes, and I think of Gu Xiaowu for me

After catching a hundred fireflies, I remembered the cold wind on the Lethe River...

The look of pain on his face as the knife severed his belt...

I threw down my pen and hurriedly buried myself back in the quilt, afraid I would remember

Come.

Yongniang thought I was still uncomfortable, so she gently patted me on the back like a child

As if he was sleeping, he patted me slowly.

Adu walked away lightly, and although her voice was soft, I could hear it.

I suddenly felt sad. I didn't even dare to ask Adu, ask Tu

Why, ask me about the things in the past, are the things I remember in my dreams real?

Adu must be more sad than me, she is obviously a Turkic, but she has always been with me and with me

When I arrived in the Central Plains, I spent so much time with the enemy...

Cowardly, I don't want to know anything anymore.

I slept for most of the day in a daze, and at night Yongniang woke me up,

Let me drink the most bitter potion.

Then Yongniang asked me what I wanted to eat.

I shook my head, I didn't want to eat anything.

What else can I eat now? Yongniang still ordered someone to make soup cakes, she said: "The soup cakes are soft, and there is soup, sick."

It is very good for those who eat this. ”

I didn't want to eat soup cakes, so I picked up my chopsticks and put them down.

The soup cake reminds me of Li Chengyin.

In fact, everything in the East Palace reminds me of Li Chengyin.

I just don't want to think about him anymore. Whether it's true or not, I instinctively don't

I want to see him again.

But you can't avoid it, when Li Chengyin came to see me, Yongniang just now

Bringing the soup cake away, he walked in with a smile on his face, just like before, only I knew

Dao, everything is different from before. We have such an unbearable past, Lethe

The divine water made me forget everything, and made him forget everything, we were confused, unexpectedly

That's how they became pro. And I was in a daze, and I spent three years with him here...

Before I could finish thinking about it, Li Chengyin had already walked quickly to my bedside, and then stretched out his hand to think

Touch my forehead.

I turned my face to the side.

His hand touched the air, but he didn't get angry, but said, "You're finally."

I woke up and I was so worried. ”

I looked at him silently, like a stranger. He finally felt that something was wrong,

Ask me, "What's wrong with you?" ”

When he saw that I was ignoring him, he said, "You were taken captive by the Assassins that day, and it happened to be the same day

Shangyuan, the Nine Gate Cave opens..."

I just feel unspeakably impatient. I have long since I looked when he was standing on the tower

I don't remember, but the way I stood on the Lethe River that day, I was only afraid of me

I will remember it for the rest of my life. What's the use of talking about that now? He also wanted to use sweet words

Lie to me again? He forgot all about the past, but I remembered, I

I've already remembered!

He said, "I haven't seen you in the city for days, I thought..."

Here he lowered his voice slowly, and said, "I thought I wouldn't see you again..."

Thinking of Ah Niang lying in a pool of blood, I think of Ah Weng's last cry, and I think of He's useless

Bloody hands pushed me onto the horse's back, and I suddenly pulled out the golden hairpin with my curling hair, and slammed it hard

Lunge at him in the chest.

I used all my strength at once, and he didn't even expect me to stab suddenly

He, so stunned, until the last moment instinctively reached out to cover his chest. gold

The tip of the hairpin was extremely sharp, piercing his entire palm, and the blood slowly gushed out, he

He looked at me in a daze, and the look in his eyes was so complicated that I couldn't understand it, as if he didn't believe me

Something like this was done.

Actually, I didn't believe it myself, I pressed my chest and felt like I was shaking.

After a long time, he grabbed the golden hairpin and pulled it out. He pulled

Extremely fast, and didn't snort, just frowned slightly, like that wasn't at all

It's like your own flesh and blood. The blood gushed out, and I watched as the blood flowed like a stream

His wrists flowed up to the sleeves of his robe, and the red blood was like a sinuous hideous tin

Snakes, slowly crawling onto the fabric. He pinched the golden hairpin that dripping blood freely and looked at me, me

Suddenly, I felt a panic in my heart, as if I couldn't breathe.

He threw the golden hairpin on the ground, and with a soft sound of "bell", the amethyst jade fell from the golden hairpin

Luo scattered, and Ding Ding jumped to the ground. His voice was soft and faint, as if frightened

What to do in general, asking, "Why?" ”

How do I talk about it, about such an unbearable past? All the kindness between me and him

Resentment, hatred like a sea of blood. It turns out that forgetting is not a misfortune, but a real blessing

Fortune. How nice it would be for him to forget everything that was before.

I turned my face away from myself, but he said, "I see." ”

I don't know what he knows, but there seems to be a faint chill in his voice:

"I didn't want to ask you because you're sick like this. But in that case, I can't

Without asking, how did you escape from the Assassins? It's Adu who came back with you,

No matter how I asked her, she wouldn't tell her where the assassin was, let alone where she saved you.

She is your Xiliang person, and it is inconvenient for me to torture her. But you have to tell me who instructed the Assassins..."

I looked at this man, the man who had fallen with me into Lethe, he had been

I forgot everything, but I will never forget, I will not forget that he killed him

Ah Weng, I will not forget that he ruined my family, I will not forget, I will never go back

Go to Xiliang. I opened my mouth, but I didn't make a sound, I just almost mocked

Look at him. He came to me and asked me who the Assassin was? Could it be that he didn't know who the assassin was? still

Was it that after he fell from Lethe, who and Gu Jian had forgotten?

I looked at him, and he looked at me, and after a long, long time, he suddenly put a pair of jade pendants

Throw it in front of me. I stared at the pair of mandarin duck pendants of mutton fat jade, and I recognized this pair of jade pendants,

I once held it and waited on the dunes for three days and three nights. At that time, he was still called Gu Xiaowu; that

When I was happy, I was waiting for the person I thought I was beloved; He had it in his hand at that time

To the jade pendant, smile at me narrowly; At that time, outside the desert of Xiliang Wangcheng, there was

In the purest night sky, I rode back to the royal city with him.

At that time, neither of us was as hideous as we are now. I'm still in the west

The worryless ninth princess, and he is Gu Xiaowu who came from the Central Plains to sell tea.

Li Chengyin's hands were still bleeding, and he grabbed my arm and pinched my bones

Aches. He forced me to look up and look me straight in the eye, and he asked, "Why?"

Is it? ”

He asked again why.

I also wonder why, why fate plays so tricks on us, once

Again, the two of us were forced into such a decisive past. I looked him in the eye,

There was unspeakable pain in his eyes, as if he was looking forward to the last glimmer of hope

I said something.

I opened my mouth, but I didn't say anything.

The blood on his hands was on my face, and it was warm and not warm, he said

"Why did you come back from the assassin unharmed, and why didn't Adu?"

Ken told me the whereabouts of the Assassins, why you have such a pair of mandarin ducks in your hands...

I broke up your pair of mandarin ducks, didn't I? ”

The strength of his hand made my shoulder hurt sharply, and I suddenly became disheartened, and I was in Lethe

What kind of mentality did he have to jump with me? Is it only

Is it to say that to me? That Zhongyuan dialect that I don't understand at all? I've long forgotten

What that sentence says. I only remember Pei Zhao's last exclamation, and he must have been horrified

Extremely. After all, Li Chengyin is not Gu Xiaowu, but my Gu Xiaowu has already died

in the midst of the chaos. I finally raised my eyes to look at him, his eyes were pitch black and reflected in them

My shadow. Who is he? Is it Gu Xiaowu who catches fireflies for me? still

Is it the lover who left me at the wedding? Or, above Lethe, look at me and make a decision

Cutting the belt, the remorse on his face, can it be true?

I've been cheated on by this man again and again, and until now, who knows what he is doing

Are you lying to me? He swore at the Assassin with his arrows, and said so eloquently, but

In the blink of an eye, he was standing on the Chengtian Gate with Zhao Liangdi... My Gu Xiaowu was already dead

I thought about this, but my heart was like a knife. My voice was shattered and terrifying

It's not like my own voice. I said, "You broke us apart, you broke me apartβ€”

and Gu Xiaowu. ”

He was stunned, and after a while, he smiled contemptuously: "Gu Xiaowu? ”

I looked at him, and his hands were still bleeding all the way to the bottom of his robe

Go. When I was above Lethe, I felt like ashes, but at this moment, I connected

The strength to struggle is gone. I feel very tired, and I am very tired, I have one word

Said word by word: "You killed Gu Xiaowu." ”

My Gu Xiaowu, the only person I have ever loved, was killed by him just like that. by

He was killed in the Turks, slain by him above our unfinished wedding, slain by him in the West

Cool.

I was so confused that I forgot everything before, and then I came here and became with Li Chengyin

Kiss. And he- I forgot everything, I didn't even know that Gu Xiaowu was dead

Finish.

He laughed angrily: "Good! Good! Very good! ”

He didn't look at me again, turned and left. Yongniang was very surprised when she came back and said, "Why did Your Highness leave?" "Immediately her

Exclaimed, "Oh, there's so much blood on the ground..."

She called Gong E in to wipe the blood, and then asked me what had happened

What's the matter, I don't want her to know, numbly let her toss me around, toss and turn.

What should I do? Can I still go back to Xiliang? Even if he returns to Xiliang, Gu Xiaowu is already there

It's dead.

Yongniang thought I was tired and about to sleep, so she didn't ask again. She asked Adu to come in and accompany her

I slept, and Adu still slept on the thick felt in front of my bed.

But I couldn't sleep, I got up, and Adu got up right away, and poured it down for me

With a cup of tea, she thought I was going to drink water.

Instead of taking the tea from her hand, I took her hand and wrote in her palm.

I asked her, shall we go back to Xiliang?

Adu nodded.

I feel at ease that she will follow me wherever I go. I don't know

She had suffered so much before, and I don't know how she was willing to follow me

Here's it. I took her hand and suddenly burst into tears. Adu saw me crying

I panicked, she wiped my tears with her sleeve, and I wrote in her palm,

Don't worry. Adu was very sad, she took me in her arms and stroked me slowly

I was stroking my hair like a child. She comforted me like this, and I was slow

Close your eyes slowly.

In fact, I knew in my heart that I was finished. I used to like Gu Xiaowu, but I forgot

After everything, I like Lee Seung-yin again. Even if he lied to me again and again, I did

I still love him.

The water of Lethe River lies in forgetfulness. Whoever has been immersed in the divine water will pass through himself

The troubles that have been experienced are completely forgotten. I forgot him, and he forgot me, the two of us,

No more entanglements. But why did I fall in love with him again after forgetting everything?

This? He was never nice to me, but I liked him. For the past three years, we

Pushing each other away again and again, but why did they still come to this day? The gods have listened to my prayers and made me forget all the pain and troubles he has inflicted on me. can

Is God punishing me today? Let me remember everything again and fall in love with him all over again

Afterwards.

Li Chengyin never came to see me again.

I was sick for a long time, and when I could speak again, the magnolia flowers outside the eaves

It's already grateful, and the cherry blossoms in the atrium are already blooming like pink.

Cherries bloom earlier than peach and plum trees, so as soon as the cherry blossoms bloom, it feels spring

It's already here. A few cherry blossom trees in the courtyard are like a canopy, blooming like a streamer

Flowers, clusters and clusters, like flowing light yarns, clustered under the eaves, there are a few branches

Or even peek out the window.