I don't know why.

She didn't feel a little sleepy tonight.

Probably because he had just returned from the city of vain death, probably because of the evasive gaze of the fox he saw outside the mass grave.

I rolled over and opened my eyes, and the bedside was empty.

Only in the small bed by the bed fell asleep side by side two milk dolls who did not yet know sorrow and joy.

Foxes, belonging to the habitual disappearance.

Because I know that he is a fox clan, and I know that he is different from myself. Over the years, Xing Ruyi has never thought deeply about his disappearances from time to time. But tonight, she suddenly became a little curious, curious about where the foxes had gone.

Getting up, getting dressed, and by the faint natural light outside the window, she walked out into the courtyard.

A chill hit her, and she couldn't help but grab her clothes, smelling the smell of a fox wafting through the air.

Following that breath, she went to the backyard and saw the process of the fox taking blood to refine fox incense. She gritted her teeth and covered her mouth, not making the slightest sound.

Xing Ruyi knew that the real effect of fox incense was not to help her sleep peacefully, but to suppress the power from the underworld in her body.

Because she knew everything, she couldn't open her mouth, and she couldn't let the fox know that she had gotten a glimpse of everything.

She turned her back, tears streaming down the back of her hand, and she decided to go to the palace to meet the man.

When the jade pendant was handed to Li Longji through the hand of the deacon eunuch, he knew that he had waited.

After many years, the two of them saw each other again, and they were both a little strange.

"Should I call you the emperor or Brother Chang?" Xing Ruyi stood quietly.

"If I can, I hope I will always be your big brother Chang, the big brother who silently guards by your side."

"Unfortunately, you're not." Xing Ruyi shook his head: "It should be said that you have never been." In this world, there was no Chang Tai originally. ”

"Maybe." Li Longji smiled and looked at Xing Ruyi's eyebrows greedily: "But I always feel that I am a fake now." Once, I thought that being a small catcher was the most painful thing in this world, because I was born in the royal family, and I felt that my life should be in the inner courtyard of this deep palace, and my position should be on the throne inlaid with gold and jade. But when I became the emperor and stayed on the throne day and night, I realized that what I was most happy and nostalgic for was actually to be a small catcher in Luoyang City. I think Chang Tai is a living person, and I am just a puppet under the enslavement of imperial power. ”

So, will you change later?

Xing Ruyi said in his heart.

She comes from the afterlife and knows all the history. She knew that in the first half of his life, he was a wise and wise king, but in the second half of his life, he was obsessed with beauty, lost his mind with playthings, and was stunned to make a good world fall apart.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time, including that shop, and I've always sent someone to guard it. I always feel that you will come back, you will return to Luoyang, you will come back to my side, and watch the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty with me. Later, you really came back, with the fox. ”

"Yes, I'm back."

"I've thought about using the power in my hands to force you to come to me, or I'll go to you. But I, after all, am just waiting in the inner courtyard of this deep palace. I know your character too well, and if you don't want to see me, even if I try all my tricks, it won't work. This imperial power, which everyone fears, is nothing in your eyes. ”

"Nope! You're wrong. Xing Ruyi shook his head lightly: "I'm just a mortal, I'm afraid." ”

"But I don't see the slightest fear in your eyes." Li Longji walked up to her: "Before tonight, I thought I would never see you again. Ruyi, you know? When I saw that jade pendant, I was very happy, I was really happy. ”

"I believe what you say, and I believe that you are genuinely happy to meet me, just as I am also happy to be able to meet you." Xing Ruyi raised his head slightly: "Although your and my identities have changed, the old friendship is still there, and it will not change just because you have become an emperor and I have become a fox's wife." ”

"You're a mother?"

"Hmm." Xing Ruyi nodded slightly.

"That's great! I also have children, but none of them are my favorite life. Li Longji's face was a little lonely: "I've been inquiring about your news all these years. I know you and the fox went to Qingqiu, but I searched the map and couldn't find the location. Knowing that you are going back to Luoyang, I want to see you, but I am afraid that I will disturb you and let you leave again like many years ago. Luckily, you stayed. Fortunately, you came to see me with that jade pendant. ”

"I have come to see you because I have something to ask of you." Xing Ruyi no longer detoured: "I know that the matter is not completely over, and I also know that I don't have much time left." Originally, I thought that as long as I worked hard enough, I could spend more time with the fox and my children. But knowing that tonight, I realized that the little time I had left was all exchanged for my own cultivation by the fox.

Brother Chang, I don't want the fox to sacrifice for me anymore, and I don't want to watch him get hurt just because I want to stay. You're the emperor, and you're the grandson of Empress Wu, and you know the secret, so you must have a way to help me, right? ”

Li Longji looked at Xing Ruyi and didn't say anything for a long time. Just when Xing Ruyi couldn't help but want to speak again, he asked, "Have you seen what this palace looks like?" ”

"What?"

"You're right, that thing never ended."

"But Empress Wu is dead, she has given up, hasn't she?" Xing Ruyi suddenly thought of something: "The person who wants to resurrect Li Zhi has never been a martial queen, right?" I remembered, it was unwarranted, it was unwarranted. ”

Li Longji nodded.

"Qingqiu Fox Clan, what can the emperor of the world do, in the final analysis, it is just a chess piece in the hands of the Protoss." Li Longji pointed to the majestic palace behind him: "This palace is just a key, a key to open a god domain or a ghost." As for what they really want to resurrect, it's not my grandfather, but the thing that has been sleeping in the ground for thousands of years, thousands of years and I don't know what it is. ”

"You're talking about the thing that is trapped under the eighteenth layer of hell and eighteen layers of hell, guarded by the Jizo Bodhisattva?"

"Yes!" Li Longji nodded in frustration: "I know, these things can't be hidden from you." ”

"What about you? What is your role in this? ”

"Like a fox, all I want to do is protect you." Li Longji stretched out his hand and grabbed her shoulder: "Do you remember the river in the city of vain?" ”

"How do you know about that river?"

"That mezzanine is for you, and the human wall on one side of the mezzanine is also for you. The stumps and broken arms buried in the wall were carefully selected. Each of them is the most vicious, and has a deep resentment. As long as that wall is there, it can cover all your breath. The other wall, which doesn't actually exist, is the reason why you can see it is because it's blocking the river.

"The white, transparent river?"

"Did you see something when you fell into that river?"

"I seem to see my childhood."

"That river is also an eye." Li Longji thought for a moment and explained: "In your words, it is a time tunnel. We had intended to sink you into that river and send you back to your original world when the time came. It's a pity that we are still one step late, and you entered the city of vain death in advance because of Yu An's matter. We tried our best to stop it, but we failed. ”

"Wait, who do you mean by [we]?"

"The emperor of the human world and the emperor of the underworld are rare, and there are times when the two worlds of yin and yang cooperate with each other."

"So, that ghost hand was specially arranged by you, and the reason why it was able to jump out of that wall was because its original mission was to prevent me from entering the opposite wall in advance?"

"In the end, it's just a hand, and when it comes to it, I'm afraid, and I forget what my original mission was."

"What about Wu Sansi? He's your guy too? ”

"Sort of." Li Longji turned his back: "As a martial artist, he is more or less useful. He was placed in that place because he was ruthless enough to help us execute the plan we wanted him to execute. Those ghost brides, you should have seen it, they are just like the wall, they exist to hide your breath. It's a pity that there is one missing, and the most critical one is missing. ”

"Huh." Xing Ruyi smiled: "It seems that I myself ruined the plan you wanted to save me. ”

"It is up to man to plan, and it is up to heaven to accomplish things, and some things will never be in our plans. Over the years, we have been competing with him for time, but unfortunately, we still lost. ”

"Those things that happened to me ......"

"Some of it was arranged by us, some of it was arranged by him. Although our goal is to bring you back to Luoyang, the final result is different. He wants to use you and awaken the thing that sleeps underneath, and we, we want to make amends, we want to send you back to your original world so that you can live the life you should live. ”

"Fox, does he know? Does he know your plans? ”

"Should know something." Li Longji looked at Xing Ruyi: "He loves you very much, he wants to keep you, he always feels that he can compete with that thing with his own strength." It's a pity that he doesn't understand that what we have to face is not just Mo You, but the huge thing that exists behind Mo Xu You, and even we don't know the details. ”

"Is there a remedy?" Xing Ruyi asked with a smile: "This feeling of being treated as a pawn is really uncomfortable. ”

"Yes! There is the last and only way. ”

"Am I left with three years to use?"

"Yes!"

"Then will I have a chance to say goodbye to the fox? Will I ever get a chance to go back and see my children again? ”

Li Longji shook his head.

"Alright then, so be it." Xing Ruyi closed his eyes and smiled: "If you can't change the final outcome, then leave early, although there are regrets, but it's better than implicating those I love the most." ”