The long corridor is covered with wind chimes made of white shell sheets, which gently sway in the smoky night breeze, making a crisp and gentle sound.

Behind the wind corridor is a huge courtyard.

The bluestone-paved ground is covered with pale purple and dark purple petals.

In the center surrounded by flowers and trees, a small pavilion is set up from Nanmu. The top is completely surrounded by flowering vines, and the green leaves reveal dotted white flowers. In the breath of grass and trees, a wind lamp hung down on the top of the small pavilion, and the fire light jumped uncertainly, reflecting Gu Xi's cheeks with a soft shimmer.

Coincidentally, Gu Xi was also dressed in a wide white dress, and his half-wet jet-black hair slipped a little from his broad and delicate shoulders with his solo movements, covering half of his face, looking leisurely and casual.

Yun Yanzheng was slightly stunned, and walked into the small pavilion with a smile, and the wooden table in the center was already full of dishes.

Gu Xi raised her eyes, smiled lightly, and personally uncovered the plate covered by the dishes for her, revealing the delicious food she tasted and liked. If it is said that the person who knows her tastes and preferences best in this world is by no means the chef of the eldest princess's mansion, but must be omniscient and omnipotent.

Yun Yanzheng sighed lightly and sat down, facing such a sincere table of dishes, facing such a sincere person, for a moment, she couldn't easily declare what she was thinking in her heart.

Gu Xi still smiled and prepared vegetables for her, and then slowly poured a glass of wine for her and herself. He usually rarely drinks alcohol, and he prefers to taste tea in comparison, but at this moment, what he insists on accomplishing, and the people he wants to keep, have already revealed the meaning of parting.

As long as the sun rises and the sun becomes hot, they will eventually dissipate in front of their eyes, and there is no way to keep them.

He didn't speak, and she sipped the sake alone, feeling that it was full of poignant taste. Just like the eyes and expression of the young man in front of her who was silently smiling, she had never felt that Gu Xi would have such a helpless moment, even if she carefully identified it, she couldn't distinguish a single flaw, but it was so real and unprecedented.

"You used to think I had a hypocritical face on my face, but do you still think so?" Gu Xi sandwiched the dish twice, but he didn't eat much, just picked up the wine glass in front of him and took a small sip, and his voice sounded slowly, as elegant as ever.

Yun Yanzheng listened to him bring up the old things again, and couldn't help choking slightly. With wide eyes, he rolled his eyes, put the dish caught on the jade chopstick into his mouth, chewed it slowly, and then swallowed it, before he cleared his throat and said, "I used to think that this was the case, but I couldn't trust you; Now I think so, because I want to trust you. Gu Xi, can you tell me that I can trust you now? ”

Gu Yi smiled when he heard this, blinked his eyes and said, "Then I will also bring up the old words, Eldest Princess Fengwu, if what I say is true, will you really trust me?" ”

She showed a sincere look in her eyes and took the opportunity to say, "Are you trying to disturb the balance of these four countries?" ”

His eyes were dark, he groaned for a moment, and then responded, "Why do you say it's disturbance?" Not to mention the re-establishment of the equilibrium of the four countries? Now Chengguo Jun is high-spirited, heroic and wise, and has a tendency to look down on the world? The Empress of Yu is ruthless and full of tricks, how can she be content with a corner? Although the emperor of the Moguo Kingdom is old, but the princes of the country are all dragons and phoenixes, can you guarantee that after one of them ascends the throne, he will not have the idea of expanding his territory to the four directions? As for the kingdom of Ul, your imperial brother is narrow-minded and short-sighted, but he is only ambitious and ambitious, how can he be the pillar of the building? ”

She shook her head and said with a smile: "Gu Shezhi, don't try to confuse and disturb my ears and eyes. Even if the situation of the four countries had changed, if no one had prompted them, their demise would have been a much longer history, and there would have been no sudden danger in all countries as it is now. ”

He smiled, his eyes were peaceful, "Why did they have a sudden danger, it can only be said that their hidden dangers have always existed, and it is only a matter of time before they intensify." You can't predict when they will erupt, you can think that my participation is a time advance, but why can't it be seen as the opportunity for their outbreak to happen to be the time of my participation? Whether I participate or not, these accumulated over time, the hidden dangers left over from the change of dynasty cannot be resolved. How do you know that an earlier intensification is better than a later intensification? ”

She shook her head again and said disapprovingly: "In you, it may be better to break out sooner than later, but in me, it is the opposite. What you want is the land of Kyushu, the overall situation in the world; And all I want is the survival of the country, the safety and smoothness of the people of the country. ”

Gu Xi stretched out his fingers and knocked on the table, looked at her with a sad look in his eyes, and said softly: "Yun Shezhi, no matter how the situation in the world changes, the Wei Kingdom cannot be changed in this Kyushu after all, it is just a name. Why be so persistent? The situation in the world will be divided for a long time, and it will be divided for a long time, can you stop such a trend with the strength of one person? Isn't this tantamount to using a mantis arm as a car? ”

"And what do you want me to do? The enemy army has come to invade the country, and the conspirators have come to covet the country, so that I know that this is the case, but I stand by and let others invade my country, and I, as a dignified royal descendant of the country, want to watch from the sidelines? She knew that she couldn't convince Gu Xi, and Gu Xi couldn't try to convince her. When she said this, she was unhurried, unhurried, not impatient, and the noble elegance that she had never seen before was vented from the clear corners of her eyes and eyebrows, and her tone of action, which was the bearing of a true royal family.

At this moment, she seemed to have an inexplicable bright light, which made Gu Xi silently freeze the divine light in her eyes, and the firm belief in her heart from beginning to end has not changed since they met five years ago. This kind of firm will made her brilliant and dazzling, robbed him of the eyes that he had become focused on for this, and at the same time made his heart produce an irresistible, silky pain, and finally there was no choice but to change this kind of ending that they would eventually go their separate ways and not move forward hand in hand?

"Yun Shezhi, do family and country really trump everything in your heart?" Gu Xi's eyebrows frowned slightly, and he asked in an indistinct tone: "For them, can you sacrifice your life, happiness, love, and even love you deeply—me?" What you say about loving me with all your heart and only blooming for me from now on is just an exaggeration, but Erer? ”

Her heart hurt as if pricked by a needle, she sighed softly and whispered: "I don't want to sacrifice my life, happiness, and love, and the person I don't want to sacrifice is you." However, in front of my family and country, everything about me has become insignificant, guarding her and protecting her was my belief in this world, and it was also the reason why I wanted to become the commander of the Nine Heavens Ride. Since I was born with the responsibilities of a royal man, and since I have chosen the status of a soldier, then I must be worthy of the honor I bear. If I can save the lives, happiness, love, and relatives of millions of people with my sacrifice, then I think such a sacrifice is worth paying for. Even though I may be sad, painful, sad, and sorry for this, I will still persevere like this until my body and mind are dead and can no longer be moved. ”

"Do you not regret it until you die?" Gu Xi's eyes were half-constricted, and it wasn't until she finished saying that she faintly spit out such a sentence.

"Perhaps, I will regret it when I think about it in the future, but now I don't have a choice." She stared deeply at the side of his face, and said lightly.

He knew that she was not going to bet on their feelings to measure the weight of her in his heart, and she would not use it to threaten him to force him to change his mind, just as she had told him frankly that she had persisted and determined, and would not change her mind because of her deep love for him. If she were that kind of woman, she could have tried to do so four years ago, rather than choose to forget about him completely. If she was such an ordinary worldly woman, maybe he wouldn't have taken her to heart as much as he does now.

At this point, there seems to be nothing to say.

He wouldn't beg her, neither would she, they were both proud people, each with their own beliefs. It's like two avenues that are far from each other, meeting in a staggered place by chance, and after sparking brilliant sparks with each other, they each return to their original path.

A hint of gloom flashed in Gu Xiwu's eyes, but the corners of his lips choked a soft smile, "Eldest princess, you once said that I have a proud and strong temperament, and I am so frank at this moment, aren't you afraid that I will use some ruthless and decisive means to forcibly keep you by my side?" ”

After Yun Yanzheng was slightly stunned, he immediately laughed innocently again, and said clearly: "Gu Shezhi, I still know this about you. You know what you need, you know what you need to use to get it, you know the human heart, you know the world, and you don't spend effort to do something meaningless. ”

The smile on Gu Xi's face became more and more shallow and misty, "But the eldest princess's beliefs are contrary to mine, and his future hostility seems to have become inevitable." Why shouldn't I take precautions? What's more, at this moment, the advantage is in me, the time and place are favorable, and the eldest princess is not touched. ”

"Where the righteousness lies, sacrifice is inevitable." Yun Yanzheng stroked the hair that fell from his cheeks, then smiled generously, and said half-truthfully: "If you want to use some strong means to keep people at this moment, then I can only be captured, but I would rather die than give in."

He smiled slightly, there was really a slight fluctuation in his heart, and he almost wanted to use some means to force her to stay. Now that they are parting, it seems that it is impossible for them to meet so calmly in the future, and even if they meet again, they are afraid that they can only be sad in vain, and there is no gain in the distance between them. At this moment, she was obviously in front of him, and he was reluctant to let go.

But this thought only disappeared in an instant. What he wanted was her sincerity, the happiness of being connected with her, not a walking corpse. He will only be truly happy if she is genuinely happy, otherwise, they will only torture and suffer each other. A strong and lofty mind does not allow him to let each other fall into such an unbearable situation and spend time in mutual resentment.

The smile on his lips became deeper and more elegant, and his fingers filled each other with a glass of sake steadily and calmly, and he took the wine glass first, and said with a gentle smile: "In this case, I will first toast the eldest princess with three glasses of wine." In the future, it is difficult to predict whether it will be friend or foe, and let us put our old friendship into these three glasses of wine, if we can see each other again, so that we can have no worries about each other. ”