I always love to look at her with fascination, she likes to be dressed in red and loves to be barefoot.

But after being with her for so long, I never remembered her appearance, I only felt extremely beautiful.

Since that day she had taken me from the battlefield to this watershed, I had left all my pride behind and followed her humbly and with all my heart.

I asked her name, and she said her name was Yu. When I asked her where she came from, she said it wasn't time. When she asked her what she wanted me to do, she smiled softly.

I couldn't see her smiling face, but the laughter was enough to make me swoon and fascinated.

Yu asked me many times if I wanted to be emperor, and I would think about it seriously every time, and then answer that she didn't want to.

I always remember that before my mother died, she repeatedly told me to be a free prince and stay away from the dragon chair.

Every time he heard my answer, Yu would always get angry.

She will leave the water pavilion and leave me here alone, so that I will not starve to death because I have a long dynasty.

In order to protect me from escaping, Changchao broke an arm and was blind. He has always been loyal to me and takes care of my daily life.

It's just that he probably doesn't like me to cower in this water pavilion, and he knocked on the side a few times to persuade me to leave, but I just want to stay by Yu's side, and I don't want to go anywhere.

That afternoon, as before, I waited under the tree at the entrance of the water pavilion, looking forward to it.

I want to see Feather's fiery figure, and I want her to come back after she is deflated.

However, I didn't wait for Yu, just for Changchao with an anxious face.

"Leave here, sir! The thieves are coming! The blood on his shoulder welled up and he yelled at me.

Anti-thief? How did the thieves come after here?

I froze in disbelief, unable to believe my ears, ignoring Changchao's urging.

Footsteps and shouts gradually came from outside the water pavilion, and not long after, a young general in armor rode on a tall horse and smiled condescendingly at me:

"I didn't expect that there were really remnants of the Zheng family hiding here."

I looked up blankly, and immediately the man was so energetic that I felt glaring.

"Ming Hao captured this person, which way will the righteous army not accept it in the future? Thousands of years of hegemony can be achieved. "I know the person who spoke, it is Yang Derong's father Yang Shili, he really reversed, and he seems to be willing to accept this young general as the master.

Is this my life? As a member of the Zheng family, since they have enjoyed the glory and wealth, they have to bear the corresponding consequences?

However, how did they find the water pavilion so hidden?

My heart ached, not because I was about to become a prisoner, but because there was a terrible answer that lingered in my heart for a long time.

Yu, if it was you, why did you save me in the first place? How good it would have been for me to die on the night of the rebellion.

Xu was the death of my heart that made them relax their vigilance, Yang Shili and another young man who looked like a scholar dismounted and walked slowly towards me with a smile.

Chang Chao, who was standing on the side, took advantage of no one's attention and threw the long sword in his hand towards the general named Ming Hao!

Yang Shili and the scholar were taken aback, and immediately abandoned me and turned to protect the general.

"Master, let's go!" Changchao quickly flashed to my side, picked me up with one arm, and desperately fled to the mountains and forests behind the water pavilion.

"Where do the thieves escape!" The long sword of the long dynasty sneak attack was shot down by Yang Shili, and Ming Hao, who was sitting on a high horse, pulled up his longbow and aimed at me from a distance-

"Whoosh-"

There was a sharp sound of breaking the air in my ears, but I didn't feel the pain, and when I turned my head, I saw that it was Changchao!

Changchao stood behind me, and the arrow shot into his vest, and the bright arrow pierced through his chest, stabbing my eyes painfully.

A trace of blood spilled from the corner of Changchao's mouth, staining his half-white beard red, and he looked at me anxiously with the only remaining eye, and said vaguely: "Run...... Stay in the ......"

Before he could finish speaking, he fell to the ground with a bang, and I fell with him.

I sat down on the ground, staring blankly into his dehydrated eyes, and the sound of approaching horses' hooves in my ears.

The sound of horses' hooves came nearer and closer, so close that it seemed to ring in my ears, and then ......

Drifting away?

Those three people actually rode directly in front of me, and they didn't seem to see me and Changchao on the ground at all!

W- Why is that?

…… The fragrance lingered on the tip of my nose, and I saw the blood-red lotus again, blooming one by one, and the perfect bare feet of feathers on the lotus petals.

"Is that you?" I heard my own dry voice, dry and bitter: "Did you deliberately lure people here?" ”

"It's not me, it's destiny." Yu's voice was still like a heavenly sound.

I threw my head up sharply and screamed in tears, "Destiny? Destiny wants me to be alone, and destiny wants all those close to me to die one by one? Tell me, how on earth did I offend Destiny? ”

"If you don't have a star position, you are destined to be only a stepping stone."

Astrology? What is a star sign?

Listening to Yu's unfazed voice, I lowered my head in despair, stepping stones? Is this my destiny?

"Do you want to fight?" Yu's voice was full of temptation and was irresistible.

I was in a trance for a while, and I wanted to nod immediately, but I suddenly stopped and laughed miserably:

"How to fight? I can't do anything, they are young and promising, but I am about to be old, what are I fighting for? ”

"I can give you a lot of time, and I will only give you a lot of time." Feather seemed to be talking about a trivial matter.

I'm stunned, can you give me time?

"Who are you—Who are you?" I asked in a trembling voice.

"Give you the people who want to hope, and the people who want to take advantage of the destiny of heaven." Yu muttered to himself.

……

I stood by the lake, looking down at the reflection in the water - this thin, sickly man, was it the new me?

The hand gently touched his chest, feeling the powerful beat of the young heart.

Yu said, I am her puppet, she took my life and gave me eternal life.

I don't know if I'm a human being or not, but it's okay, I'll live a long, long time, I won't grow old, and I'll have enough time to organize and create my own power to compete with those people.

Yu left, and before leaving, I asked her how we could meet again.

She said she would always be there, and when I sat on that dragon chair, she would come to congratulate me herself.

I stood quietly, with a lot of thoughts in my mind.

Minghao, if I am your stepping stone, then are you the one who is destined to return?

If yes, then let me take your destiny!

The mother died, the Great Xu perished, and was burned to death in the stable without a trace, and the only Chang Dynasty who followed me also died.

Now, I sacrifice my own life!

From now on, I will no longer have any weakness or burden, and defeating the Mandate of Heaven and seizing the throne will be the only reason for my existence.

I walked to Changchao's corpse, and it took a lot of effort to close his single eye, and he was with me all my life, until I died, and I was worried about my safety, and I had no peace.

I pulled out his bow and arrows and dug for three days by the lake, digging a hole.

I will bury the long dynasty in the place where I sacrificed to Yu, and only a wordless tablet will be erected in front of the grave.

Standing in front of Changchao's tomb, I muttered to myself: "Since Zheng Qing is dead, then, from today onwards, my name is ...... Zheng Changchao. ”

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