Shangguan Xuan had nightmares again.

Tonight he dreamed of the scene when his beloved Ya'er had a desperate expression*.

With tears that had not dried up on that stunning face, there was a dead silence in the always bright phoenix eyes, she stood in the raging flames, smiling desperately, she opened her lips lightly, and said: "Heaven and earth, never again!" ”

The blood-colored tongue of fire ran along the hem of her skirt to her cheeks, and finally engulfed her whole person, and the heart-rending cry resounded in her ears, like a sharp blade, piercing straight to the heart, cutting through the indifferent strength of those disguises, and giving a fatal blow in the most vulnerable part of her heart.

Shangguan Xuan woke up sweating profusely, and saw the bright yellow bed tent, and the moonlight penetrated through the half-open window lattice, sprinkled in front of several cases, as clear as water.

Shangguan Xuan sat up with his chest clutched, breathing heavily, everything in the dream was too real, and the heart-wrenching feeling made him almost unable to get through.

"Your Majesty, it's only been the third watch, why are you up? Is it to drink water? Manager Lin heard the movement inside and hurriedly asked.

"I'm fine, I just had a nightmare," Shangguan Xuan said with an unsteady breath, "you...... Come in and talk to me. ”

"Yes."

Manager Lin respectfully lifted the curtain and walked to the dragon bed, and asked with concern: "The emperor has been having nightmares every night for half a month, and he hasn't had a good rest for a long time, why don't you ask the imperial doctor to take a look?" ”

Shangguan Xuan only felt tired, unable to lift any strength up and down his body, and wanted to sleep well, but every time he closed his eyes, it was an overwhelming nightmare, which really made him physically and mentally exhausted, and it was more painful than waking up.

Shangguan Xuan covered his forehead and asked in a suppressed voice, "Gonggong Lin, do you believe that people have souls?" ”

Mr. Lin said with a smile: "The slave doesn't know, but when I was a child, I often heard the old people talk about the reincarnation of the human world and the cycle of cause and effect, so the slave thinks that there should be one." ”

"Cause and effect cycle......" Shangguan Xuan said in a low voice, "then what kind of retribution will I suffer if I owe so many people in this life?" ”

"Your Majesty, don't think too much, you've just been unwell lately, ask the imperial doctor to prescribe a few medicines, and you'll be fine if you take it." Mr. Lin cares for the persuasion.

Shangguan Xuan raised his head and suddenly said, "Gonggong Lin, you have been serving by my side for many years, do you remember the former queen?" ”

"Is the emperor talking about Empress Li, who died four years ago, or Queen Hua twenty years ago?" Manager Lin asked with some doubts.

Shangguan Xuan sighed and said, "Hua Qinya...... How much courage do you say, my Yar, to make up his mind* to die in the agony of that kind of fire? ”

Manager Lin paused, and then said in a deep voice: "When people are desperate to the extreme, the mental pain is too clear, and the physical pain is not felt. ...... Maybe it's too desperate. ”

"Desperate...... Shangguan Xuan said with a wry smile, "she should be desperate." Forced to marry someone he doesn't love, forced to give birth to the heir of someone he doesn't love, forced to sit in a position that is eyed by everyone...... Ya'er's life was all buried in my hands......"

Mr. Lin lowered his head and did not speak.

"Gonggong Lin, you said, if people really have souls, Ya'er, is she still hating me?"

Mr. Lin hesitated and said, "This ...... The old slave didn't know. ”

"Heh......" Shangguan Xuan smiled a little bitterly, "She must hate it." I still remember what she said to me that day when she stood in the sea of fire, she said, 'Heaven and earth, never again,' and she hated it to the point that she couldn't even look at me again......"

Manager Lin didn't answer, just stood in the shadows, lowered his head, and couldn't see clearly.

Shangguan Xuan didn't intend to let him answer, but said to himself: "I really love Ya'er. When I first ascended the throne that year, I saw her when I went out on patrol, and I was immediately shocked, Ya'er's appearance, there is no one in the world who can compare to her. It's a pity that she has a marriage contract, and she will soon get married, and the object turned out to be my seventh emperor brother. ”

He sighed and said: "The Seventh Emperor Brother has been smart since he was a child, and he is much stronger than me, and my father's favorite is him, so I have always regarded him as the biggest opponent in my life, and he is a big trouble. When I learned that Ya'er was going to marry him, I was very unbalanced, why did everyone like him? So what am I? At that time, I was also young and vigorous, so I used my power to snatch Ya'er by any means. ”

"But what I didn't expect was that Ya'er was so resolute, she had never had even the slightest affection for me," Shangguan Xuan covered his face, and some painful voices overflowed from between his fingers, "She will leave me in that decisive way, she also wants to make me miserable, right?" ”

"No," Manager Lin, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke, "Maybe, Niangniang doesn't hate the emperor at all, she will die, maybe she wants to ask for relief, right?" The phoenix is reborn in Nirvana, and without the bondage of the body, the soul can be free. ”

Shangguan Xuan was stunned and muttered, "Don't you hate?" I don't even hate ...... So what does I mean to her......"

He suddenly laughed and said, "It turns out that I am nothing in her heart!" She doesn't love me, she doesn't hate me, I am no different from a passerby to her! Ha ha! Ya'er, you're so ruthless! Shangguan Fei, you won! It took me eight years to defeat you who were not in front of Ya'er, so I admit defeat! ”

Speaking of this, he suddenly burst into tears and muttered almost frantically: "Over the years, I always thought that even if Ya'er didn't love me, at least she hated me, she remembered me, but...... My Ya'er...... Never took me to heart......"

He staggered to the window and shouted, "Shangguan Fei, over the years, you have looked at me like a fool, you must be secretly laughing at me, right?" I've been fighting with you for so many years, but you've never taken me seriously, have you? ”

He sat down on the lattice of the window, crying and laughing, and almost broke down, and said, "But I have never won against you...... I won the country, but I lost my family, my freedom, and my conscience...... Ya'er ......"

Mr. Lin had been standing in the shadows from beginning to end, staring coldly at Shangguan Xuan's madness, until Shangguan Xuan fainted because he was too emotional, then he walked over, lifted the person from the ground and threw it on the huge dragon bed, and said with a sneer: "Yes, you have never won against me." And this time, I'm going to make you lose badly! ”

Turning around, the sneer on his face disappeared, replaced by a look of panic, he ran out with small steps, and shouted in a panic: "Someone, go and ask the imperial doctor, the emperor has fainted!" ”

As soon as the penetrating voice came out, there was a sudden chaos everywhere.

The secret guards, who had long been attracted by Shangguan Xuan's shouting, tacitly ran to ask for a doctor.

Everything was as Hua Lingyu expected, Shangguan Xuan really did not go to court the next day.

The ministers of the court and the central government looked at each other, blocked the imperial doctor in the imperial garden and asked about the condition, the imperial doctor's answer was that the mood fluctuated too much, and the excitement led to anger and heart, coupled with the physical and mental exhaustion for several days, and yesterday when the imperial garden held a banquet, he occasionally felt cold, so it led to the menacing illness, the body was weak, and the function of various organs declined.

Sounds pretty serious. The ministers were puzzled, the emperor has always been in good health, there is no reason to suddenly fall seriously ill?

After stuffing a lot of silver, I learned from Mr. Lin that the emperor has been having nightmares every day recently, and the dreams are full of old things from twenty years ago, so he is depressed, physically and mentally exhausted, plus typhoid fever, it makes sense to be sick.

While the ministers suddenly realized, they began to worry that if the emperor died like this, it would ...... Throne......

Although the crown prince has been decided early, the emperor has obviously preferred the seven princes in recent years. The Sacred Heart is unpredictable, and who knows what will turn out in the end? If it is like the Tianli Kingdom, it will be even more troublesome to force the palace.

When he was struggling, Mr. Lin came with the emperor's holy decree, saying that the emperor took advantage of a quarter of an hour's sobriety to ask the prince to supervise the country.

Mr. Lin is the most trusted old man around the emperor, and he has been with the emperor for more than 20 years, who will question his words?

As a result, the group was stable, and under the leadership of the prince, he continued to work for Jiangshan Sheji.