Gongsun Lian, dressed in a pink dress, stood under the hibiscus tree in the garden. The wind blew the broken hair on her forehead, and not long ago, her wife had caught her in a corridor covered with wisteria flowers.

"Who combed your hair?" The lady frowned and said displeasedly.

"It's me." Gongsun Lian explained to his stepmother,

"I want to comb it myself, it's not bad." Mrs. laughed, where is good? The hair on the forehead was messy, and there was a hairband missing from the left bun, and the hair on the back of the head...... The wife glanced at it, but she couldn't look at it directly, so she asked the grandmother to take the girl back to the room to reorganize it.

Mama nagged: "Girl, you're already done." Gongsun Lian hurriedly said: "It's only one day." Mama was dissatisfied: "The day is already over!" The old man is already looking for a husband's house for the girl, after this marriage, can't he ......" Gongsun Lian did not continue to listen to Mama's talk, and when he got married, he would have to live elsewhere in the future, and he couldn't see his father and wife every day, and he couldn't talk to him anymore...... Gongsun Lian saw Mama combing her hair in the mirror, standing up, lifting her skirt and jumping out, no matter what Mama was shouting behind her back.

As expected, she found Ah Chen in the garden. Ah Chen is the next person bought back by the housekeeper uncle last month, he can raise horses and flowers, and he is clever and stable, the lord is very happy, and he praises the housekeeper uncle for his vision and picking.

Ah Chen is really a very good person, in the whole house, only he will listen carefully to Gongsun Lian's thoughts, from what kind of embroidery he has newly learned, to when the flowers bloom, from what new ornaments his wife has added to his father and always sigh with a bitter face.

Occasionally, Gongsun Lian would bring him some delicate and delicious small pastries. Ah Chen would first carefully wipe his hands stained with dirt with a coarse cloth, and then respectfully take the plate with both hands and put it on the stone table, saying that he would take it back to his residence to eat seriously after finishing his work.

"Ah Chen, I'm getting married." Hearing this, Ah Chen stopped what he was doing and said seriously, "Congratulations girl." Gongsun Lian was silent for a while and said, I don't know what kind of person it will be.

Ah Chen lowered his eyes, because of his low status, he never looked directly at Gongsun Lian.

"The master will definitely choose a good person for the girl", Ah Chen's voice did not fluctuate as always.

Is it...... Gongsun Lian lowered his head and laughed. A thought flashed through her,

"Ah Chen, look at me, am I beautiful?"

"Beautiful", Ah Chen's eyes were blazing, and he said sincerely.

"Really? Lie not to me? Gongsun Lian's eyes were bright. Ah Chen looked away and said,

"How dare I lie to the girl, the girl is more beautiful than the hibiscus flower on the tree." That night, Gongsun Lian dreamed that he was wearing a wedding dress and standing in a courtyard full of hibiscus flowers, waiting for the groom to come and pick her up.

The person who came was dressed in coarse cloth clothes, with ape arms and bee waist, a plain appearance, and a mole under his right eye - Ah Chen?

When Gongsun Lian woke up, the memories left in the dream were happy. But she wondered, how could she dream that Ah Chen was my groom, it was obviously impossible, could it be because I really wanted to see him again in the future?

Gongsun Lian wanted to go to Ah Chen to tell him about this dream, and by the way, ask him if he would like to follow him, perhaps, when he got married, he could ask his father to agree to Ah Chen to follow him to his husband's house to be a subordinate, wouldn't it be great?

Ah Chen was not in the garden, nor was he in the stables. Gongsun Lian asked the next person to know that Ah Chen took leave last night and went home to take care of his father, who was suffering from a sudden illness.

Gongsun Lian went back to the garden alone and sat down. I hope Ah Chen's father can recover, she was thinking about it when she vaguely heard a commotion.

What happened? Gongsun Lian saw Mama running over in a panic.

"Girl, run, the officers and soldiers are coming to raid the house!" Raiding the house? Raid the house! Gongsun Lian's heart suddenly chilled, and he was so frightened that the six gods had no owner, and he let Mama grab her hand and run to the back door, but it was too late.

No one in the Gongsun family can get away. Later, Gongsun Lian learned that his father had committed a crime, which was originally covered up well, but somehow it was found out, and he also collected some other things and secretly played them to the emperor.

As a result, the house was raided, and the Gongsun family was exiled to Lingnan. Falling from the clouds into the mire. Gongsun Lian was glad that Ah Chen had taken leave and left, otherwise he would have been tied up and sold like other subordinates.

But she didn't have any more thoughts about Ah Chen, because the days in front of her were getting more and more difficult, beyond the limit of her imagination.

My wife couldn't hold it anymore and died of illness in prison. The road of exile is not easy to walk, not to mention that Gongsun Lian has always lived a life of staying at home and being pampered.

She felt her head groggy, chills on her body, and her limbs became more sore and heavy.

I really want to take a break and sleep in a thick quilt wrapped in a soft bed. Before Gongsun Lian could finish thinking about this ridiculous idea, several mountain bandits appeared in front of them.

How can any money be robbed of them? So the bandit leader carried Gongsun Lian, who was sitting on the ground, on his shoulders.

The father pounced, but was kicked to the ground by the bandit. Gongsun Lian cried and was taken away, and no one else dared to save her.

Gongsun Lian's voice became weak and hoarse, she didn't know how she was going to be treated, she was afraid, she was desperate.

"Stop, let go." A figure appeared behind the bandit leader like a ghost, a long knife resting on his neck, and a faint voice commanded irresistibly.

The leader of the bandits put Gongsun Lian on the ground, raised his hand and said with a smile on his face: "A good man spares his life, spares his life." A mountain bandit next to him suddenly sent out a hidden weapon, and the ghostly man slashed with a long knife, and the bandit leader couldn't dodge, and blood splattered, splattering on Gongsun Lian's body.

She watched the bandit leader being killed, and the body fell heavily to the ground, and she didn't know where to get up a momentum, get up from the ground and run away.

Behind him was the clear sound of swords colliding and the continuous screams. Suddenly, her feet were empty.

The hibiscus flowers that bloom in the treetops fall on the stones in the mud. Hot blood poured out on the back of Gongsun Lian's head.

Before his life passed, Gongsun Lian saw a familiar figure with ape arms and bee waist, but that face, with a white face without moles, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, was not what she knew.

Xichen knelt in front of Gongsun Lian's corpse, motionless. A man appeared beside him silently.

"Get up." The man said coldly. Xichen stood up.

"Have you forgotten who we are and what we are doing?" The man asked sternly. Xichen lowered his head,

"Nope." The next day, a local official died violently at home. Xi Chen returned to where he had settled, catching a glimpse of his own face reflected in the mirror on the table.

This is not a face that Gongsun Lian can recognize, she has seen

"Ah Chen" is his appearance after his disguise, and even his voice is fake. And Gongsun Lian gave it

Those pastries of "Ah Chen", Xichen took them back, and distributed them to other subordinates every time, and he never ate a bite himself.