"Why do you think that?" Chu Qingchen was silent for a moment and asked indifferently.

"The fact that she can freely come and go in your bamboo forest is an incredible thing in itself."

Chu Qingchen nodded, which was regarded as an acknowledgement.

His conjecture was confirmed, and Noya laughed at herself: "Xin'er and I thought that you and Jinniang had something unspeakable to hide, and I should have guessed for a long time because I had been worried about you for a long time." ”

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have hidden it from you."

"Human nature, there is nothing to apologize for. I just want to know, why did you let Jin Niang do that? If you want to know anything, you ask me, and I will know everything, and I will say everything. ”

Chu Qingchen was silent for a moment, and then said leisurely: "What I want to know, you won't tell me, perhaps, you don't know the answer yourself." ”

"Why? Is it the memory I lost? Could hypnosis make me remember? ”

Chu Qingchen shook his head categorically: "No, it's your heart." ”

"My heart?"

"That's right," Chu Qingchen approached Noya step by step, and his warm body also exuded a fierce domineering aura, isolating the warm sun: "Noah, do you know your own heart?" Can you tell without thinking who the person you love is? ”

Noya took a few steps back in a row, until she leaned against a clump of green bamboos, and there was no way back: "I ......"

She hesitated, although she clearly knew who she was pretending to be in her heart now, but could she say it? Isn't that a contradiction?

"You don't know," Chu Qingchen lowered his head, propped his arms on top of the green bamboo, surrounded Nuoya's whole person in his breath, and stared at her eyes burningly: "Lin Nuoya, what do you always avoid?" Everyone in the world knows that I, Chu Qingchen, am only good to you, and I Chu Qingchen likes you, but why don't you face it? What are you trying to do in your own mind? ”

Noya tried to shrink back again, hating to shrink into a piece of paper, Chu Qingchen's domineering reprimand made her feel at a loss, and her breathing became disordered.

"I ...... I didn't run away, I always thought you ...... You're so good, you can't ......."

"Why? What can't be? I thought what I liked was Jin Niang, right? A Qinglou woman like Jin Niang, oh no, yin and yang people, you believe that I will like her, why don't you admit in your heart that I love you? Chu Qingchen said aggressively.

She instantly began to panic, her eyes wandered, and she didn't dare to look directly: "Second prince, listen to me, the two of us are simply impossible, I am Bailijiu's concubine, and I am a woman who belongs to him, you may just be fighting with Bailijiu for me." I'm irritable and vulgar, and I'm a troublemaker, and even my life is struggling, who doesn't avoid it? Second prince, what you need is Yan Ruyu, who is gentle and graceful, talented and captivating, not a woman like me. ”

"I know what kind of woman I need!" Chu Qingchen changed his usual warmth and indifference, and his voice barely suppressed his anger: "You can say that you don't like me, but you shouldn't refuse me to any kind of woman." Lin Nuoya, you heard clearly, I tell you very solemnly, what I like is you, Lin Nuoya, the vivid and vivid Lin Nuoya! From the day you broke into my bamboo garden without saying anything, I knew more clearly than ever what kind of woman I had been waiting for for more than 20 years.

The noble women of Da Chu are all restrained by books and dogmas into Yan Ruyu's appearance, abiding by the rules and being gentle and elegant, which makes me taste like chewing wax. Only you, and Xin'er, are very different from them to me, and it is the vividness that my brush cannot describe, and the vividness that my poems cannot describe, which makes me worry and dream.

I'm not kidding, Noah, since I met you, I was reluctant to leave here, and I only understood what it means to fall in love with a city because of a person. This place, originally my least favorite place, I was almost away from it for 365 days a year, unwilling to come back to face its coldness, but now, it has become the deepest bond in my heart, the place I want to stop the most.

Noya, I can promise you that the vicissitudes of life, the stars will change, and I, there will only be you by my side, and there will be no two! You prayed to the Buddha '3,000 weak water, only take a scoop to drink' I can do it for you. ”

These eight words were written on the lotus lantern when he put the river lantern on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, how could he read it?

"Second prince, calm down." She took a deep breath and made up her mind: "That wish is not what I wrote to the Buddha, but Baili Jiu, which is the extravagant hope I had for him when I was in love." ”

Chu Qingchen smiled bitterly: "Three thousand weak water, only take a scoop to drink, Nuoya, your wish is very humble, but it's a pity that Xiao Jiu can't give it to you." How regretful and helpless I felt at that time, I only made two wishes in my life, one is for my mother, and the other is for you, and I have been firm for nearly 20 years in order to fulfill my promise to my mother. And now, when my heart for you was about to come to naught, I didn't expect that the Buddha would really pity me and send you to me, which made me ecstatic. ”

Noya's mind was pounding, and from beginning to end, she only saw Chu Qingchen's scorching gaze as if she was about to melt herself, and his red lips twitched, telling what was coming from, she didn't listen to a single word, and there were only a few words in her mind: It's broken, it's on fire! He seems to be playing for real.

"The Second Prince..."

"Call me Qingchen."

"I... I've never ......."

Before Noah's words could be spoken, he was interrupted by Chu Qingchen domineeringly: "Noah, don't be in a hurry to refuse me. I know you've been in a bad mood for the past two days, and I'm not supposed to say anything you like to you at this time, so you don't know what to do. Don't reject me so cruelly, it might just be your words. ”

"No, Qingchen, I admit that when I first met you, I, like most women, had a very amazing feeling about you, and I had an inexplicable affection for you. But ......"

As soon as Noya opened her mouth, Chu Qingchen pulled her into his arms with a force: "That's enough." ”

Noah frantically pushed him with his hand, but was hugged tighter, almost suffocating: "Let me hold you, Noah." An inch of lovesickness and an inch of ashes, my heart is finally resurrected, don't extinguish it. ”

Nuoya never knew that Chu Qingchen, who could walk like a leisurely walk in the face of Baili Jiu's step-by-step pressing, Chu Qingchen, who could calmly arrange chess and talk and laugh in the face of being beheaded by the emperor's order, and Chu Qingchen, who could deal with it indifferently in the face of the sneers and sneers of his ministers and brothers, at this moment, he was actually out of order. His arm was unprecedentedly strong, and he held her in his arms, and hastily interrupted her words, fearing that a single word would plunge him into the abyss.

The good smell of his body lingered around Noya, and the fresh bamboo fragrance was mixed with a little ambergris. Noah has smelled that smell many times, including the first time she went to Zuimenglou to trouble Jinniang, and there was a little bit of this smell left in her room.

At that time, she felt familiar, but she was slow to remember. That time, after being hypnotized by Jin Niang, he was rescued by Bailijiu and returned to the General's Mansion.

Until now, she still doesn't know what happened after being hypnotized. Just like this time.

Noah hesitated, she stopped struggling and slowly lowered her hand.

Chu Qingchen stopped talking, the two of them were silent like this, the bamboo leaves above their heads made a "rustling" sound under the blowing of the breeze, the emerald green bamboo poles swayed gently from side to side, and from time to time there were yellow bamboo leaves swirling and falling from the top of their heads.

Her hand slowly rose and touched a dagger at her waist. It was a dagger that Baili Jiu gave to himself for self-defense, and it was quenched by the pavilion master with the poison that sealed his throat with blood, which was definitely no less than the prince's desperate muscles and bones.

It only needs to be, at this time, pull it out and stab it into the back of Chu Qingchen's heart, without too much strength, he won't even make a painful sound, and he will immediately fall to the ground and die.

And in the bamboo forest, it is a place that can't be seen by the wind gallop, she can wipe the blood stains on the dagger, and then walk out calmly, out of the yard, and ride the horse outside, so that she can get out of the city and escape before others find out that Chu Qingchen was killed.

And Baili Jiu, now everyone in the capital knows that he and him have fallen apart, so his sin of assassinating Chu Qingchen will not implicate him.

You only need to be ruthless, and since then, the sky is high and the clouds are light, and the wind and sun are beautiful.

The dagger was slowly pulled out, and Noya's arm climbed up Chu Qingchen's waist, groping upward, as if in response to his deep affection.

Chu Qingchen hugged her tighter, and even her arms trembled slightly.

The incense in Noya's hair penetrated into the tip of his nose, and Chu Qingchen, who was unaware, smiled slightly, hooked the corners of his lips, and whispered: "Chao Sidui thought about it for a long time, and God finally gave me a grace, let me wait for the person I had been waiting for, so that I finally have someone in this world who can be involved, even if I die in the twilight of life, I have no regrets." ”

Noah hesitated, slowly lowering the dagger in his hand.

"Noah, I respect your choice, but I hope you don't give me an answer too quickly. If my attachment to you becomes a trouble and a burden for you, then you can rest assured that even if it is difficult to recover, I would rather bear it alone and turn it into my calamity, which will also free you. ”

Noah's dagger was slowly tucked into his sleeve, and he smiled forcefully: "Thank you." ”

Chu Qingchen reluctantly let go of her, and there was a rare little shame on his face: "I'm sorry, I can't help myself, maybe it's a little abrupt and too reckless." I just want you to stay and give me a little more time. ”

Noah hesitated a little and couldn't answer, still struggling in her heart.

She can't just leave, as long as she goes, two lives, one is her and the other is Chu Qingchen, and no one can live.