Chapter 15: Broken Souls
After Meng Hongyu slapped Su Zirong, Su Zirong covered his hot cheeks and froze in place. Meng Hongyu glanced at her coldly, then turned around and left.
Lin Yueyao followed behind him and secretly rejoiced, and when she passed by Su Zirong's side, she didn't forget to show a gloating smile to Su Zirong triumphantly. Bai Rushuang hurriedly lowered her head and left, but she never dared to raise her head and look at Su Zirong again.
The jade on the ground was shattered, as if Su Zirong's heart was full of holes, broken little by little, and could no longer be restored or healed. She closed her eyes, couldn't bear to look at this shattered conspiracy, and softly instructed Aunt Qiu Ji: "Auntie, sweep away this broken jade." ”
Aunt Qiu Ji looked at Su Zirong with a worried face, Su Zirong smiled at her weakly, and comforted her: "It's not that you don't know me, I ...... Out of the way. When she said the words "out of the way", she still felt a little sad in her heart, and tears almost fell.
Turning back to the room, the heart that she thought had been numb for a long time gradually hurt - it turned out that her heart was not dead and would still hurt. It must have been Meng Hongyu's slap that hurt her, and the pain gradually spread, from her cheeks to her heart...... After all, he still hit her, and it hurt her...... It hurts......
Su Zirong sat quietly on the edge of the bed in a daze, letting his heart ache for a while, his eyes were like a dry well, and he never shed a single tear. It's just a splitting headache, and she just wants to get a good night's sleep, preferably without waking up......
In her sleep, she returned to the scorching peach tree, the Nine Heavens Ring under her fingers emitted a crisp piano sound, a song "Mountains and Flowing Water" played not the deep confidant love between Boya and Ziji, but their heart-to-heart love.
Back then, he was still the handsome young man who kept saying that he wanted to spoil her and love her for the rest of his life, and he was peerless; She is also an ignorant girl who has not been hurt by love, her weak heart has not been stained with a trace of earthly rain and dew, and she has not experienced the wind and frost of conspiracies. At that time, their love was so flawless and so simple.
However, the good times did not last long, the mountain alliance and the sea oath finally couldn't defeat the gossip, the love was better than Jin Jian finally couldn't win the conspiracy and tricks, and the white head finally couldn't fight for the position of power...... The love of Qiong Lou Yuyu collapsed in front of reality, she stood in the ruins and looked around blankly, calling out, even if her eyes were tearful and her heart was crying, she couldn't call the young man who could hold her hand and accompany her through the sea of conspiracy, nor could she call back the man who was carried away by jealousy and defense......
"Leave with one heart and live with one heart, and die with sorrow" - this is their final ending, and it is also the most merciless mockery of that brittle love like cicada wings.
In the dream, her life unfolded little by little, and before the picture scroll was pulled to the end, before she could see the ending, she was rudely pulled up from the bed by a pair of hands. Enduring a headache, Yu Yu opened his eyes, only to see a strange and hideous face.
It was the face of an old eunuch, smiling coldly at Su Zirong, Su Zirong was startled, and was about to shout loudly, but the old eunuch grabbed her throat, picked up the medicine in his right hand and was about to pour it into Su Zirong's mouth, he said to her coldly in a voice from hell: "Rong promises, the emperor ordered the old slave to give you a death, you can drink this medicine obediently." ”
"No...... "Don't ......" she wanted to say that the emperor would not let her die, although he beat her, but she believed that he would not get to the point of wanting him to die! There have been so many quarrels, cold wars, and entangled love and hatred between them for so many years, and he has never said that he wants her to die!
She tried to scream, but when she opened her mouth, the bitter juice gurgled down her throat......
She wanted to struggle, but her hands and feet were held down by another little eunuch, and she couldn't move in front of death. She tried to turn her head sideways, but her mouth was pinched by the rough hands......
Gradually, she ran out of strength and lost consciousness......
In her confusion, she knew she was moving away from him step by step. After so many years, she finally left the cage that imprisoned her youth and love, and yet, she left in such an unclear way - she had not said goodbye to him in a dashing manner, she had not told him to believe in love, to believe in the women who truly loved him!
The next day, bad news came from Xihuatang - Rong promised to take poison and commit suicide, and Aunt Qiuji, who had been with her all the year round, also hanged herself......
When he heard the news of Su Zirong's death, the teacup in Meng Hongyu's hand fell to the ground crisply, and he sat down weakly, tears rolling in his eyes, and he was speechless for a long time - it must have been because his palm was too heavy and hurt her heart, otherwise, for so many years, she had never thought of seeking death because she had beaten her hard yesterday......
Thinking that for so many years, he had never treated her well, and let her fend for herself like a weed in the Cold Moon Palace, he regretted it and was heartbroken. If it weren't for the fact that Tian Ziling inadvertently mentioned her, he would have almost forgotten her existence...... He thought about making it up to her, but he only "thought about it...... He owes her so much...... She died, and his best youth followed her, and from now on, he was a man with no past, no story......
In Sitong Courtyard, after hearing the news of Su Zirong's death, Bai Rushuang was silent for a long time - she thought that Lin Yueyao just wanted to frame Su Zirong, she didn't expect the emperor to beat Su Zirong, nor did she expect Su Zirong to "commit suicide", after all, Su Zirong's death was still related to her, she blamed herself, and she was sad in her heart. It can be seen that although Bai Rushuang at this time is not as kind as an angel, she is not a big traitor, she is a little clever, but not to the point of killing people and setting fires.
After Su Zirong's death, Meng Hongyu kindly posthumously named her a "virtuous concubine" and buried her with the specifications of a concubine.
Before entering the funeral, he went to see Su Zirong for the last time.
Su Zirong, who was lying quietly in the coffin, still had the same face, but there was a trace of time on his smooth forehead, and there was a wrinkle carved with the blade of acacia on the side of his smiling beautiful eyes. There was a smile on the corner of her mouth, seemingly serene and full of sadness, as if she had something to say to him, an unfinished love to let him know—and yet he could never know!
He remembered that when he first saw her, her beautiful face made him fall in love at first sight, and now, this face has slept quietly, no longer old, no more sad, no more tears, and no more smiling at him!
He closed his eyes and turned silently away from the beautiful face. Enduring the great grief in his heart, he ordered in a plain tone - cover the coffin!
Covering the coffin, the long-torturing love between Meng Hongyu and Su Zirong finally ended in death.