Chapter 17: Like Water Flowing Eastward

"Niangniang, Niangniang," in confusion, she faintly heard a voice: "Niangniang, the emperor is summoning you, and he is waiting for you to go and watch the fireworks with him." ”

She struggled to raise her head and saw a group of palace people surrounding her in the distance.

Watching fireworks?

She wanted to be freed from her bondage, but she didn't have the strength at all. It's just that he was pulled and supported by those palace people in a distracted manner, and walked in which direction he didn't know.

It wasn't until a high wall blocked her path that she stopped in a daze and looked up.

It was a tall castle tower, so high that she could barely see the end, so high that she almost thought she had touched the stars in the sky.

It's Shenwumen.

She thought hazyly.

Looking up, the tall tower of Shenwu Gate has been decorated with prosperity and magnificence by the dutiful officials and craftsmen of the Ministry of Rites, just like the nine-fold palace that is endless behind it, and you can't see the edge. The light composed of countless lamps makes it sacred and solemn in people's sight.

In such a brilliant red light, in this brilliant and eerie night, the snowflakes all over the ground seemed to become scorching.

Then she felt herself fall into an embrace as cold as ice and snow. She turned her head to look, and behind the snowflakes and lights, she saw his pale face.

"Mi'er, didn't you just agree to go with me to watch the fireworks?" It was Qi Long's handsome and still beautiful face, with an indifferent and weird smile.

Su Mi looked at her husband and took her hand blankly. Then walk towards the Shenwu Gate Tower.

When Su Mi tried to recall that night years later, she found that she didn't even know what mood she should use to recall it.

All she knew was that she had already experienced too much cruelty that night, but then she had to experience even more. Even more brutal.

As she walked forward in despair, the air filled the air with a strange fragrance that made her intoxicated like in a dream.

She reflexively lowered her head.

On this unusual night. She thought that no accident could have shocked her. But when she saw the blood on her dress again, she was shocked and screamed.

On her dress, the dazzling blood stains that had been bright red had turned an eerie blue, a pure blue like the early spring sky, a misty blue like a summer ocean.

At this time, it was attached to Su Mi's dress, but it was weird and terrifying, like the most far-reaching nightmare.

In this shocked the whole world. At night, which made the entire history of Great Qi unforgettable, Su Mi screamed in horror on the high stairs in the aisle of the Shenwu Gate City Tower.

The voice spread far and wide, making the palace people waiting under the city tower raise their heads in shock and look at the city tower where there were only two people.

Su Mi's whole body trembled, like a dead leaf floating in this winter.

The blood turned blue, and the fragrance was irrepressible, which was a sign of poisoning of the world's first strange poison Tai Tianshui, which had already become a myth in the rivers and lakes.

Qi Long gently stretched out his hand, and he stroked her face. It's as if the two of them used to be intimately together day and night, "It's all going to end, and tomorrow, the two of us will close our eyes, and when the time comes, you will be my queen." Buried with me in the Imperial Mausoleum. ”

Su Mi stepped back in horror, staggering against the back wall to avoid falling to the ground, she raised her head and looked weakly at Qi Long's unusually happy face.

"If you want to take this world away from me, no one can take it away. He chuckled softly, a strange look in his eyes, and then said word by word, "At least not while I'm alive." ”

It's that pot of wine!

Su Mi suddenly woke up, it was just at the banquet of the ministers in the front hall. The jug of wine she poured herself.

She couldn't think about when Qi Long got a strange poison like Tai Tianshui. And when did you carefully arrange that pot of poisoned wine?

All she knew was that it was her. He poured the pot of poisoned wine into the cup and served it to the four of them with his own hands.

Herself! Her husband! Her enemies! And him!

He also drank this pot of wine!!

The thought crossed her mind. Where is he now, and is he still in this palace? How is he? Did he know he was poisoned?

His martial arts are very powerful, and he may be able to force the poison out of his body, by the way, as long as he tells him the news of the poisonous wine in time, as long as he tells him now. Thinking like this, she turned around, desperately mustered up her last strength, and was about to run towards the front hall of the Qianqing Palace.

Qi Hao should still be there now.

However, his body, which was about to rush down the stairs, was violently pulled by a decisive force.

"Where are you going?" Qi Long grabbed her wrist stiffly, and his face still had a smile on his face.

"You're going to be my queen soon, shouldn't you go with me to the castle tower to participate in the sacrifice ceremony that the people are looking forward to? Waiting for us to climb the city tower together, looking at the infinite vast rivers and mountains of Daqi. Looking at the people who are loyally supported by Daqi, all these are my merits, and they are all the emperor's hegemony that I have never seen before or after me. An illusory smile appeared on Qi Long's face. It's like an immature child, describing his bright future with full anticipation.

He took Su Mi's hand and continued to walk towards the city tower.

Su Mi wanted to scream, but she didn't even have the strength to scream, she wanted to struggle, but she could only stagger and be pulled forward by him.

The high Shenwu Gate city wall, on the other side of the wall, are the people and troops of Daqi who are waiting for the person who appears on the city tower, no matter who it is, whether it is Ni Yuan or Qi Long, they will cheer towards him to celebrate this belated victory celebration.

And on this side of the wall, there is an endless nine-fold palace, a fog that people can't break free, and a muddy abyss that makes people sink into despair.

Su Mi sluggishly followed Qi Long's movements and pulled her up the tower. Right in front of me, the platform for holding the sacrifice has been built high, and the Hanhai tower is a hundred feet of ice.

A look of ecstasy appeared on Qi Long's face, and he lifted his foot, only to be followed by a violent cough.

Blood spilled through the gaps between his fingers that were clutched around his mouth.

He turned his head and looked at Su Mi, wanting to say something, but he only made the blood flow faster and more violently.

Bright red blood stains once again splattered on Su Mi's plain white dress, intertwined with the original blue-purple spots.

Su Mi couldn't tell the color in front of her, she only saw endless blue, endless snow, and endless gray.

In this bleak background, she watched him slowly fall in front of her, just one step away, and he finally did not walk up the high tower.

Time seems to have frozen in this scene.

Behind the two of them, endless fireworks began to bloom in the dark night.

On the other side of the tower, you can faintly hear the cheers of the people.

And the emperor they expected would never be able to climb the tower.

At the end of the night, Su Mi turned around, and she looked down the tower,

Then she felt herself slowly falling, all her strength drained by the cruel night.

In the distance, there were shouts of exclamation, and countless figures ran towards her in front of her.

She struggled to raise her head, everything between heaven and earth turned into an indifferent undertone, and in the haze, she only saw him standing within reach of hers,

Remember that he will always appear where he needs it most, and will always appear in his most embarrassing moments,

But

But this time,

He didn't approach her.

He just stood there, quietly, looking at him with a look that exhausted both her and him.

It turned out that it was all over. She chuckled softly.

Wouldn't that be the right ending?

She was afraid that there would really be such a day, how would she clean up the mess, how should she face such a broken heart.

It turned out that when everything was already doomed, she no longer had to worry about the entangled confusion, nor did she have to worry about the pain of love and hate.

In the dark, it seems that there is a providence that has already arranged the lifeblood of their progress.

The last ruins in her heart collapsed in this cold winter, turning into ruins and debris all over the ground, leaving only the desolation of a place.

It's all over, and there's no need to hide her tiredness.

The tiredness of this life is accumulated in this moment.

She slowly fell along the high wall behind her......

Before falling into the endless darkness, she only felt the despair that penetrated her heart and the cold that filled the sky.

When will such a long winter come to an end?

The day after tomorrow updates the last chapter and epilogue of volume 9, ending the main body of the book.

The second half of the month is just a few additions

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