Chapter Sixty-Eight: His Deep Love Is Not Me
"You shouldn't have come to me."
I looked at the melancholy man in front of me and said indifferently.
His brow furrowed, his eyes cold, stared at me blankly.
"Hu'erβ" He whispered again.
"What do you want?" I couldn't help it, and he didn't say a word.
"Do you have me in your heart?" His eyes darkened, and his thin lips trembled slightly as he said this.
I froze and was silent.
His brow tightened.
How unsightly it was, my hand slowly reached out of my sleeve, reached into his face, touched his cold cheek, and then smoothed his brow.
"You can't always frown, you get old so fast." I'll say it lightly.
He grabbed my hand, held my hand tightly in his palm, and whispered, "I'm old, but you're still so young, you dislike me." β
I don't dislike him for being old, old, not like that.
I pursed my lips and smiled, "Who can compare your looks, how can you say that you are old?" β
He pursed his lips and smiled.
"But I'm a lot older than you." He was in a trance.
"You're not here to tell me how old you are, are you? I already know how old you are. After I smiled lightly, I continued, "Jingqi, why aren't you old? β
He grinned faintly and let go of my hand, his hand caressing the strands of hair around my ear.
"How can I grow old for you."
I was stunned, dumbfounded.
Has he been waiting for him all along? He thinks Ju'er will come back to life?
But I'm not a child, his love is a child's, and what he is facing now is still a child in his heart.
My eyes darkened.
Even if I have the soul of a child in my body, I am still me, and I know who I am.
"Xiao Jingqi, it's too late, you go back, don't come to my courtyard secretly in the future, if you let the people in the palace see it, it will affect the Gao family." I said it very seriously, word for word.
His body shook obviously, "Hu'er, why?" β
I stared at him blankly, "Please call me Rong'er, or Miss Sophomore." β
He put his hands on my shoulders and said eagerly, "Are you angry? β
I paused, lowered my eyes, and looked at him again, "I just want you to know in your heart that although I have the soul of Yihua in my body, I am Gao Zhaorong after all. β
He frowned again, with a complicated look in his eyes, and he said, "You can't enter the palace!" He said it coldly.
I was stunned by his cold tone, and my body took an unnatural step back.
I was scared of him.
His eyes did not have the tenderness of the past, but sharp, and his eyes were full of anger.
He's scary when he's serious.
He took a step closer to me, still saying coldly, "Hu'er, you can't enter the palace to become a woman in Tuoba Hong, you are mine." β
I shuddered and stepped back under his push.
"Jingqi-" I called his name lightly, I wanted to wake him up, I felt like he was under a demon, and safety was not the Bai Rui I knew.
I was pushed to the desk by him, and I hurriedly reached out to reach for his body.
He threw his head down and leaned in front of me, staring straight at me in front of my eyelashes.
My hands were already clasped in his hands, and I couldn't move.
My heart was beating and I was stunned to turn my eyes sideways, not daring to look at him directly.
I thought what was going to happen to him, but I didn't think about holding this position for a moment, and he let go of my hand and took a step back.
"Then you don't like my identity?"
He suddenly straightened his countenance and said thoughtlessly.
That's when I looked back at him. I laughed in my heart, when did I ever dislike his identity? Langzhong, who can govern all the people, how can it be bad.
"It's not." I said half-loudly.
He was silent, then, and suddenly laughed.
"You don't have any place for me in your heart, do you?"
My heart began to panic, what should I say.
He doesn't understand at all, he doesn't understand his own heart.
He loves Etoku, not me.
He didn't even know it by this point.
I looked to the side, silent.
Could it be that he wanted me to say it myself, this sad joke.
I turned my back to him, I didn't want him to see the sad look on my face.
No matter how deep his love is, it is still a love for Eto.
For a long time, there was no more word behind him. I couldn't hear his heavy breathing.
I know, he's gone.
I trembled and laughed lightly, I can't ask for Yihua's love, you love her too much.
Since then, Xiao Jingqi has not come back, and I still learn etiquette with Aunt Yueju every day. Whenever night fell, I would stand in the courtyard for a long time, alone, and no one would disturb me.
I didn't hear his flute again.
The night was silent, but I suddenly felt very unaccustomed.
I laughed at myself at the time when I was expecting to hear his flute at night.
Recently, Gao Li seems to have become friendly with me.
She has never set foot in my yard, so she asked someone from the house to bring a few pots of flowers this day, one of which is her favorite orchid.
I was puzzled.
Is she courting me?
Because I have become the emperor's "nobleman"?
Yes, the identities are different, and the hearts of people are different.
I don't have any hatred for her, and she can make friendly gestures, and I accept it.
After watching the next person arrange the flowers, I smiled and thanked her.
Gao Li smiled charmingly, "They are all sisters of their own family, there is no need to be so polite, you and I are both surnamed Gao, under the same roof, sharing honor and disgrace." β
I smiled indifferently, and of course I understood what she meant.
"My sister will remember my sister's good." I said calmly.
She pursed her lips and chuckled, "Rong'er is getting married, and she is a lot more sensible." β
She was standing too close to me, and a gust of wind blew, and a strong scent from her body wafted into my nose, and I felt very uncomfortable.
I sighed, "Yes, I'm going to get married, I should be sensible, Rong'er is no longer the Rong'er she was two years ago, my sister can rest assured." β
My expression darkened, and there was a sarcastic smile on my lips, and I didn't know if she could see it.
Of course, maybe she didn't understand what I meant.
"That sister is busy." She smiled and walked away.
I watched her back as she walked away, and I laughed at her ridiculous behavior.
I thought that by sending a few pots of flowers, I wanted to get closer to her.
I already remembered that two years ago, my father did not intend to send me to the old mansion, it was all hers, and she fanned the incident in his father's ear.
It was she who said that people like me would lose the face of their high family.
It was she who came up to me at that time and slapped me, saying that because of me, let Brother Xian fight with others, and called me a troublemaker.
He dislikes me so much, why do you need to show goodwill.
Did she think I really couldn't remember?
I just don't want to turn things up again.
It's gone, it's gone.
That night, I sat alone at the table in my inner room, and by candlelight, I looked at the dragon descending wood that I had brought back from the old man in Shilihe.
The wood is straight and not a little bent.
It is shaped like straight chopsticks, small at one end and large at the other, and the length is about the same as the chopsticks, only several times larger than the chopsticks.
From the straight wooden end of the dragon descending, it looks like a plum blossom.
I'm wondering, what is the use of this dragon descending wood?
Its surface is smooth and without blemishes.
No matter how I look at it, it's like the key to open the door.
Just where such a key is needed?
Generally, the door needs such a big lock, and I have not heard of anyone using wood as the key for the door.
After putting it away, I lay down on the bed and couldn't sleep for a while. As long as I closed my eyes lightly, Xiao Jingqi's appearance appeared in my mind again.
He was still calling for "Hu'er", and I was so upset that I covered my head with a quilt and hid under the covers to let myself sleep.
I entered the sea of dreams again.
In the dream, I was by the lake, and I was a child, and there was a boy next to me, who was a head taller than me.
He was looking underwater with his neck craned.
I was curious and followed his gaze into the water, and I realized that there were crabs crawling in the mud and rocks by the lake.
The boy was catching crabs by the lake, and I was clapping and laughing on the sidelines, and I was very happy and excited.
Seeing that the boy had caught a crab, I shouted happily: "Brother Jingqi, awesome!"
The boy and I took the basket back to the house and handed it to a girl.
I said to the girl, "Sister Die, thank you for your hard work."
The girl smiled, took the cage, and said, "I'll eat later, you can play for a while."
The boy and I were looking forward to it, waiting in the kitchen to watch my sister fry the crabs.
At this moment, a rumbling sound was heard, and then the whole room seemed to shake.
Sister Di Sheng hurriedly comforted me and the boy, "Just wait here, don't go anywhere, you eat crabs, sister go and see." β
My boy and I just ate crabs, and we waited a long time for my sister to come back. When she came back, her face was not very good, I asked her what was wrong, my sister didn't tell me the reason, just smiled, it's okay.
The boy thought of something and asked her, "What about my master?" β
My sister smiled lightly, "In his practice pharmacy, it's okay, it's fine." β
The scene in the dream changed to night, I was no longer a child, I was tall.
I was dressed in a night robe and covered with a face cover, and I was leaping on the roof, which was a familiar scene, but there was a lot more light over the imperial city at night.
Countless sky lanterns fluttered in the sky above the imperial city, and they were Kong Ming lanterns. Standing on the rooftop, looking at the zenith, I was angry and in a very bad mood.
I came to the palace again, and it felt like I was looking for something in the palace in my last dream.
I cleverly avoided the palace guards, and I wanted to find the emperor's eldest grandson and stab him to death with a sword, so that Feng could also taste the pain of losing his relatives.
In the dream, this day was the birth day of the emperor's eldest grandson.
I am resentful that the emperor's eldest grandson was born on the same day as me, and I want to make this day the death of the emperor's eldest grandson in the future.
When I found the emperor's eldest grandson, I watched him lie in the rocking chair and fall asleep with his eyes closed, which was very cute. For a moment, my hands trembled, and I couldn't get my hands down.
Just as I was stunned, the palace maid appeared and shouted, and then countless guards poured in.
I killed people when I saw them, and in the panic, when the tip of the sword was pointed at the maid of the first palace, I found that I knew her, and she was Di Sheng.
I was surprised that Di Sheng was in the palace, and he was still a palace maid.
After recognizing her, I frantically whispered her name, and she was visibly stunned when she heard it. I didn't have a chance to say anything more to her, and under her gaze, I swung my sword and stabbed countless palace guards who poured in front of me.
I can't reach many people alone, and I have many wounds on my body, but I'm still fighting hard.
I kept killing in my dreams, swinging my sword until I woke up from my dreams.
I was so tired from sleeping, and when I got out of bed, my head was so heavy that it was as if I hadn't slept all night.
I was stunned again, thinking about the woman in my dream.
I call her "Saucer".