He vividly remembers his loneliness and despair in the water that year.

When all the guards around him were cut down, he had to hide in the water for refuge, but unexpectedly, he was entangled in the aquatic weeds, and he couldn't break free no matter what.

He wanted to call for help, but he choked on the lake water in one mouth, so more lake water poured into his lungs, and he was in extreme pain, and slowly he couldn't even breathe, and his vision became more and more blurred.

He knew that he was going to die, so the panic and sorrow of being dominated by death filled his heart, his eyelids grew heavier and heavier, and he waited desperately for death to come......

In a daze, he seemed to hear something, he thought it was his hallucination, but in the haze he saw a figure coming towards him, white clothes and black hair floating in the water, like a fairy, he couldn't see her face clearly, but he felt as if he had seen the legendary dragon girl......

Her hand grasped his hand tightly, her hand was so cold, but so delicate, she pressed it to him, her lips were soft as silk, he had never kissed any woman, and he had never known that a woman's kiss could be so tender......

When he woke up, he saw a beautiful woman sitting quietly on the side, dressed in white and with black hair, as if she was the one who saved him.

Her face was as beautiful as the bright moon, her eyes were as bright as stars, and her cold temperament like Chang'e in the sky made him feel so humble in front of her.

He cautiously asked, "Who are you?" What's wrong with me? ”

She said lightly: "My name is Ruan Menghan, passing by here, I saw that you entered the water and didn't come out for a long time, so I went down to check, who knew that you were entangled in your legs and feet by aquatic weeds, and you couldn't break free, so I rescued you, you just choked on the water at the bottom of the lake, and now it's fine." ”

"Aquatic grass ......" he recalled the desperate state of mind when he was entangled in his legs and feet, and couldn't help but shiver.

Ruan Menghan asked, "Do you know how to get to the imperial city of the Tianyuan Dynasty?" ”

His heart moved, and he asked rhetorically, "What are you going to do there?" ”

"I'm looking for the crown princess of the Tianyuan Dynasty, the wind is light."

So he took her to the palace and saw Feng Qingxu, she didn't say anything, just asked to be a maid of Feng Qingxu, and Feng Qingxu, who had never been close to people, actually agreed.

Every time he entered and exited Jinghe Palace, he could see Ruan Menghan, she didn't like to speak, and there always seemed to be lingering sorrow between her eyebrows.

He began to be unable to restrain his heart, always wanting to be close to her and talk to her, but she always looked like he was thousands of miles away.

But the more she refused, the more he wanted to get it, and that crazy obsession burned in his heart, so he made her Liangdi, second only to the crown princess, regardless of anyone's opposition.

He tried everything to be nice to her, just to make her smile, but she was still unhappy.

And his irrational behavior also attracted the wrath of the emperor and the queen, they wanted to punish him, the incompetent prince, but he didn't care, he already knew the reason why Ruan Menghan was unhappy, she wanted to travel the world, and she didn't want to be tied up in the palace.

So he directly proposed to the emperor and the queen to resign as the crown prince, and he wanted to float the rivers and lakes with his beloved woman, idle clouds and wild cranes, and spend this life together.

His high father was silent, looking at him in disbelief, but he was fearless, and in his heart, the status of the beloved woman was far more than thousands of miles away.

In the end, his father didn't say anything, just looked at him in disappointment, and then dejectedly left.

At that moment, he suddenly felt that his omnipotent father had suddenly aged a lot.

He failed to resign as crown prince after all, but he had secretly begun to arrange how to escape from the palace with Ruan Liangdi.

At this time, a piece of news came to him, and he sent someone to secretly investigate the identity of Feng Qingxu to report that Feng Qingxu turned out to be the princess of Dongzhao Kingdom.

The news didn't shock him too much, now that he had chosen to leave, everything here would soon be irrelevant to him.

Just thinking of the pain of the Gu worm attack on the fifteenth day of the month because of him, he felt very guilty in his heart. But this guilt was not enough to stop him from leaving.

What he didn't expect was that this news was actually related to Ruan Menghan, and Ruan Menghan told him everything.

That night, Ruan Menghan was extremely gentle and obedient, no longer as cold as frost as usual, but spoke to him very gently, making him feel as if he was in a dream.

She told him that in fact, she was the princess of Dongzhao Kingdom, and Feng Qingxu was just the daughter of her nursing mother, and she was exiled because of the country's ruin, so she looked around for her aunt and sister who married her in another country, trying to find a shelter, and finally found the aunt of Nanxi Kingdom, who had been hiding in the palace.

Unexpectedly, many years later, she learned that someone was inquiring about the women who Tosho Guo married to various countries, and claimed that the princess of Tosho was in the Tianyuan Dynasty, she didn't understand what that person wanted to do, so she secretly brought her entourage to the Tianyuan Dynasty, and she was separated from the entourage on the way, so she met him.

She informed him of Feng Qingxu's plans, and Feng Qingxu knew that Xiao Yuning had been secretly checking her identity and origin, and sooner or later she would find out her identity as a native of Dongzhao, so she simply fabricated her identity as the princess of Dongzhaoguo, and with this noble background, she could sit more firmly in her position in the future.

She didn't want him to be kept in the dark, so she could only tell him about it and let him understand that she was the real princess.

Only then did he understand why there was always a sad look between her eyebrows, it turned out that she had such a big secret hidden in her heart.

He couldn't resist confronting Feng Qingxu, and she didn't stop him, but just stopped him when he was out the door.

When he turned around, she suddenly smiled at him, and her smile was as warm as a spring breeze.

"The crown princess must have rested, the road to Jinghe Palace is dark, Your Highness must be careful."

This was the first time he had seen her smile, and he only felt that his heart was brushed by feathers, and it was as sweet as honey.

But he didn't expect that it would be the last time he would see her, the last words he heard from her, and the only time he saw her smile in his life.

When he arrived at the Jinghe Palace, Feng Qingxu had indeed fallen asleep, and the Jinghe Hall was shrouded in darkness, and he wanted to go in and question her, but he remembered her pale face, and remembered the torture she suffered every fifteenth day, but he could not step into the temple even half a step.

Forget it.

He told himself. Anyway, he is leaving, why does he care about what she does, everything here has nothing to do with him in the future, and he always owes her, what qualifications does he have to question?

If she didn't be his crown princess, she wouldn't suffer from the Gu worms, and now she just wanted to sit more steadily, so why should he care?

So he never went in, and this matter was always buried in his heart, and he never mentioned it again.