The door that Meng Yunli closed not only closed the brilliance of the people who were anxious to squeeze into the room at dusk, but also closed the happiness of Shen Qianxun's life.

Is Shen Qianxun's happiness Duan Xuan?

What is happiness?

Maybe the happiness that Shen Qianxun pursued in the past was to stay with Duan Xuan, or maybe the happiness she pursued was just to stand behind him and give him a warm shoulder.

But at that time, she already had a lot of happiness, she had the love of her parents, the freedom of indulgence, her own beautiful youth and pure heart.

Now she has lost her original happiness in the pursuit of her so-called happiness.

If she needs to sacrifice her parents in exchange for her love, she is unfilial.

If she sacrifices her freedom in exchange for her love, she has no mercy.

Now she sacrificed her parents and her freedom, just in exchange for the opportunity to stand behind Duan Xuan.

But she didn't see clearly that Duan Xuan had never lacked a woman behind him, all he needed was a woman who decorated him like a golden silk dragon robe.

Her unfilial piety, her uncompassion, in exchange for his injustice.

So when she stood in front of Duan Xuan, this was already the beginning of what was destined to break her heart.

......

It was a sunny morning.

After Duan Xuan finished the early dynasty, according to his old habits, he went directly to the queen's bedroom.

But today, it seems to be different from the past, when he walked into the queen's palace, there was no one in the palace, not even a servant to serve.

Confused, he walked to the back court of the palace.

There is a lake in the back garden, and an octagonal pavilion was built in the center of the lake.

But the road to the Octagonal Pavilion is potentially underwater, with small stone pillars paved with them.

When a person steps on a stone pillar, the water is no more than his ankles, but even a stone pillar that is no more than a foot lower is invisible to the naked eye, and the position of the stone pillar is irregular.

In other words, once you step on that pillar, you may not be able to move forward and have no way back.

But in such a lake with a very different design, which seems to have some bias towards the mechanism, there is a man standing on it today.

That's Concubine Li, or maybe it's me.

When I walked to the stone pillar between the shore of the lake and the octagonal pavilion to advance the dilemma, I knew that there was nothing good for the queen to take me up the stone pillar.

When Duan Xuan walked in while still wearing his court clothes, I was standing in his field of vision in this posture.

The tail of the long blue light gauze has been floating on the water, a pair of delicate embroidered shoes are neatly placed on the shore, I stand barefoot on the water, there is a faint glimmer refracted from the tiles of the octagonal pavilion, there is some shadow and shadow.

His eyes flashed with surprise and then amazement.

And my heart felt incomparably suffocated, or the heart of Concubine Li was incomparably suffocated.

Perhaps Concubine Li never dreamed that she would still be able to meet Duan Xuan after experiencing the heart-eating pain of countless insects, the licking/licking and burning pain of the tongue of flames, or the pain of losing her father and leaving her mother.

In such a beautiful scene, a beautiful time, just looking at each other in pairs, without any words, it seems that they have already expressed their hearts.

But beautiful things are short-lived, they are all momentary.

Just like at this time, the queen appeared behind Duan Xuan, so gently surrounded her, her lips like March peach blossoms stayed next to Duan Xuan's ears, and she whispered softly.

"Ah Xuan, you're back."

You're back, this sentence deeply pierced Concubine Li's heart.

When the queen's arms became his home, a sentence came back like a tacit whisper between ordinary people's old husbands and wives.

You're back.

Are you back?

The queen's murmur did pull Duan Xuan's gaze, and the gaze that stayed on her just now seemed to be rubbed into lovesickness, and now it turned into a water of tenderness and gentleness towards others.

Concubine Li's heart was aching at the moment, so much so that without any preparation, my body had already fallen into the lake.

Is this how Concubine Lifei fell into it in the first place? And how did they fall into the water?

It's just that when the former red face can no longer save the eyes of the person he loves, he can only use the threat of life and death as the last bet.

What to bet on? But there is a reason to bet.

Bet on a reason to deceive yourself in order to live up to the affection of these years.

I slowly sank into the water like this, and I knew that Concubine Li would not drown, so in the process of slowly sinking, I had no fear of death, only expectations of whether he would jump into the water to save Concubine Li.

I was slowly sinking, the light around me was getting dimmer and dimmer, and when I sank to the bottom, I could only vaguely feel the waves above me swaying and shaking my heart.

Until now, until now sinking to the bottom, my posture has always kept my head high.

This is not my intention, this may be an obsession of Concubine Li at that time, she wants to see Duan Xuan go into the water to save her, she wants to see him recognize her.

Time passed for a moment, but my chest could not bear the pressure of the darkness that came from underwater.

Just as I was about to faint, I heard the ripples and sounds from the sharp impact between man and the water.

He came down anyway, and I smiled and fainted.

But I didn't hear it, and maybe Concubine Li didn't hear it at the time, there were two sounds from the ripples on the water surface.

And when she fainted, it was a pair of slender hands that grabbed her, and the other figure she really expected jumped into the water, worrying only about the woman with the slender hands, not her.

But Concubine Li's purpose has also been achieved, hasn't it?

From the moment Duan Xuan moved her gaze to the empress, she should have known that everything had changed, didn't she?

She gambled with her life as an excuse to convince herself that everything was okay.

Now she found that excuse.

Even if it's just wishful thinking on her part.