In the depths of Ye Mansion, there is a secluded courtyard, the door is locked all the year round, but there is always some eerie sound of blades rubbing, which makes people shudder.

Who would have thought that the largest house in Wuyi Lane is lived by Prime Minister Ye Cheng, who is above 10,000 people under one person, and the small courtyard hidden in Ye Xiang's mansion is supported by some outlaws with bloody hands.

Most of these killers are homeless street children, who thought they would be able to eat a full meal when they entered the Prime Minister's Mansion, but it was just another hell on earth.

The well-qualified outlaws have become outlaws who lick blood from the knife edge, but most of them have already become a handful of loess on the mass grave, and what kind of sticky blood flows under this golden and brilliant prime minister's mansion, I am afraid that even Ye Xiang himself can't count it.

Qi Zhen was only eight years old when he entered the Prime Minister's Mansion, and the name Zhen was given by his master before entering the Prime Minister's Mansion, and the surname Qi also followed his master.

When he was three years old, his mother suddenly disappeared and his whereabouts have been unknown ever since. The originally young Qi Zhen was not spared, but an old man kept him.

The old man raised him and taught him as if he were his own son, but when he was eight years old, he sent him to the prime minister's house.

Those five years were perhaps the happiest years of his life.

After the age of eight, he entered the Prime Minister's Mansion. No one cares who he is, no one cares what his name is, and no one cares how he is doing.

There are only two kinds of people here, the living and the dead.

If he can't turn the living into a dead man, then the next moment he may become a dead man himself.

It wasn't until seven years later that he became the sharpest knife in Xiangye's hands that Xiangye gave him a name. Blade, Killing Blade.

There was no more expression on his face, but his heart was still beating, and his blood was still warm.

At least he remembered that there was an old man who treated him as his own, and finally pushed him into the abyss with his own hands.

He didn't hate him, he even appreciated him.

After all, in those seven dark days of despair and dying, those five years were the only warmth that supported him to live.

It's just that the more I understand the truth and preciousness of those warmths, the more I want to ask, why?

What is the reason for you to abandon me so cruelly? Am I just a puppet to you that you can discard at will?

And the obsession with his mother was also secretly fermenting in his heart, and black flowers bloomed with the thicker and thicker blood in his hands.

This year, Qi Zhen turned eighteen years old, no more, no less than ten years.

The mystery is finally revealed, but it is only the beginning of another tragedy.

The five years when Qi Zhen first entered the Prime Minister's Mansion were just ordinary martial arts. Although it was very hard, it was not impossible to endure. But since he was thirteen years old, Qi Zhen has never slept peacefully.

Especially in the first two years, colleagues who used to practice martial arts together and even shared the same bed became enemies of life and death overnight.

Those colleagues who can't bear to do it because of their friendship will be killed, sometimes by instructors, sometimes by people they do not want to kill.

Qi Zhen always remembered the first person he killed, the timid and cowardly child, who had no intersection with Qi Zhen, maybe this was the reason why he chose Qi Zhen.

Qi Zhen still remembered that when the child stabbed him with a knife, the child's hand was shaking all the time.

"Ha, such a weak person, even if I don't kill him, he won't survive to the end, it's better to let him be freed sooner."

Qi Zhen looked at the child's trembling hand and couldn't help but think. However, when the child's still warm blood splashed Qi Zhen's face, Qi Zhen's hands trembled involuntarily.

The second person who died at Qi Zhen's hands was a child who used to live in the same room with Qi Zhen. When he died at the hands of Qi Zhen, he was already crazy.

Perhaps, he didn't intend to kill Qi Zhen from the beginning, he just needed a way out and escaped from this hell, even if it was at the cost of death.

When he died, his expression was very peaceful, and even a little grateful.

As soon as Qi Zhen closed his eyes, the expressions of those children who were dying appeared in front of his eyes, as if it was just what happened yesterday.

Ten years have passed, but he has never forgotten in the slightest.

On the contrary, it was those who came later, who were killed with a knife, cleanly. Qi Zhen can no longer remember their appearance, it seems that he once had a vague impression, but in the end, they will converge into the appearance of those two children.

Later, those faces finally couldn't shake Qi Zhen in the slightest, but lurking in Qi Zhen's dreams, replaying the moment when he killed them again and again.

He watched as his other self killed them, his technique getting better and better, his hands no longer trembling, his eyes only left a numb hollowness.

This seemed to be good news for him, but he felt that he was about to suffocate in this sea of blood.

Tonight, Qi Zhen fell into a dream again, but instead of those souls who crawled out of hell to ask for their lives, he actually dreamed of those times before he was eight years old.

In that dream, there was a woman with a vague face singing a sweet and soft ballad softly, and a kind old man called him Zhen'er affectionately.

He felt happy and preferred not to wake up again.

Until he suddenly found that the woman's face and the child's face gradually overlapped, and the happiness came to an abrupt end.

All the unwillingness, longing, and resentment pulled at each other, almost tearing him apart.

He struggled, sweat soaking through the bedding, but he was trapped in a nightmare from which he could not escape.

Until a knock on the door pulled him out of hell, he snapped his eyes open. He quickly picked up the sword beside him, and put it back a moment later.

He smiled self-deprecatingly, trapped in a nightmare, unaware that someone had come to his door.

He is a killer, a killer who has lost his alertness, is he not far from death?

This time the person who came had no intention of killing him, so what about the next time, will he finally die in his dreams?

The knock on the door rang again, and Qi Zhen opened the door.

When he saw the people outside the door, he was stunned for a moment, as if he had returned to the time when he was three years old, and he seemed to be at a loss in the face of his mother's sudden disappearance.

Ten years have passed, and it seems to be back to square one. So where will the hand of fate push him in the next decade?

"Master?!"

The old man flashed into the room, vaguely still the same as Qi Zhen remembered, kind and kind, but ten years of time still left a mark on his body after all. But his face still coincides with the face in Qi Zhen's memory.

After all, this is the only face that can make Qi Zhen feel a moment of warmth in the past ten years.

"Zhen'er, I haven't seen you for many years, are you okay?"

“。。。 I always thought you were ... ”

"Why? Thought I was already dead? ”

Qi Zhen smiled self-deprecatingly, but a trace of unbearability flashed on the old man's face.

"I did think you were dead somewhere in the unknown. But after all, I was too naïve, how could Qi Ping die so easily. ”

“。。。 It's been a long time since anyone called this name. ”

"Yes, I used to think that you were really just Qi Ping, until I searched the entire Yudu with this name, but found nothing.

It wasn't until later that someone finally told me that not many people remembered the name Qi Ping for a long time, or that almost all the people who knew it were dead.

Today's you are called Tianji. ”

"I really shouldn't hide it from you, I just hope that I am just Qi Ping standing in front of you."

"What's even more ridiculous is that when I found out that you were one of the four heads of the Qi Clan, I still wanted to believe that you had a hard time abandoning me.

Maybe it's because of the civil strife in the Qi clan, maybe you were hunted down, maybe you can't protect me anymore, so you have to send me to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

However, it was not until today that I finally understood that there was never any hardship, it was just a game. ”

The old man was silent for a long time after listening to Qi Zhen's words, neither denying nor admitting it, as for whether he had the slightest guilt or regret in his heart, no one knew except himself.

“。。。 It was a game at first, but then ... No matter what the reason is, after all, I sent you to the Prime Minister's Mansion, and you should hate me. ”

"Why? Why don't you even lie to me? I'd rather believe that you are tired of it, that you can no longer take care of me, that you have to ... ”

"I used to think about making you an ordinary person incognito. But in the end, I pushed you into hell with my own hands. You should hate me, I shouldn't even be in front of you anymore, but now, I don't want you to make the wrong choice. ”

"Heh, it's for the Qi clan again? You are doing so much just for the Qi family. Whether it's wrong or right, I don't hate you, but if you can use Ye Xiang's hand to destroy the Qi family, it can be regarded as fulfilling one of my wishes. ”

"You can't do that. You can hate me, but if you insist on doing it, you will regret it. ”

"Hate you? If it weren't for you, I would have died fifteen years ago. Why should I hate you? ”

"You had the opportunity to choose your destiny again, but I made the worst choice for you."

"I did wonder if I would have become an ordinary person if I hadn't entered the Prime Minister's Mansion, having children, resting at sunrise and sunset, and living an ordinary life.

However, in the end, I realized that it was not possible after all.

It is true that you sent me to the Prime Minister's Mansion, but the direction of fate was decided by me, if I just wanted to be a hard-working ordinary person, then I should not have gone with you fifteen years ago. ”

“。。。 You? ”

"Although I was still young at the time, I could feel that you were different from the ordinary and loving old people in the neighborhood. Behind you is a world that is completely alien to me. But I still chose to go with you, and this is the fate I chose. It's like the person who gave you the name Qi Ping, and also hopes that you can live an ordinary and peaceful life, but in the end you chose to become Tianji. ”

“。。。 Is she okay? ”

"She left very peacefully, and her only regret is that she never saw you for the last time."

Tianji was silent, and there seemed to be countless remorse and pain in his expression, but after all, he could only bury it deep in his heart.

"You came to me suddenly, presumably for that, right? Your Qi family, you sent me to the Prime Minister's Mansion for the Qi family, and now you came back to see me for the Qi family. I'd like to give it a try, and I'll regret it. ”

Qi Zhen's voice landed, originally thinking that Tianji would definitely continue to stop him, but this was not the case.

"I did come for this, but when I saw you now, I realized that maybe you don't need me anymore."

“。。。 In any case, you are my only master, and seeing that you are still alive and well, I have also fulfilled my wish. ”

"Whether it's the Qi family or Ye Xiang, it's impossible for me to influence your decision anymore, it's all up to you."

"I have been working for the Qi clan all these years just to find out your whereabouts. As for Ye Xiang, I have to thank him. I remember when I was a child, my mother said that she brought me to Yu to find my biological father.

But later, she braved the heavy snow and knelt down for a long time in front of a mansion with me in her arms, but instead of seeing the so-called biological father, she was arrested, and they wanted to kill us, but you saved us.

I couldn't remember which mansion my mother took me to at that time, until my cheap dad came out, and I finally remembered, isn't that Ye Xiangfu. ”

A strange smile suddenly appeared on Qi Zhen's face, especially when he talked about Ye Xiang, there was mockery in his tone, but his eyes were very cold.

"Zhen'er, I have no children under my knees, I have been killing for half my life, you are saved by my own hands, and I have watched you grow up little by little, how can I be willing to send you to the Prime Minister at the age of eight.

But after all, my surname is Qi, if I take you with me, sooner or later someone will find out your identity. The young master and Ye Xiang will definitely not let you go, and even I won't be able to protect you at that time.

In desperation, the Prime Minister's Mansion became the safest place. ”

"So I don't hate you, but whether it's the Qi family or Ye Xiang, it doesn't mean anything to me, it's just using each other."

"What exactly is the purpose for which you pretended to accept Ye Xiang?"

"Master, I have always had only two wishes, one is to find your whereabouts, and the other is to find my mother's whereabouts. To live is to see people, and to die is to see corpses. ”

"I see... Maybe I can help you. ”

"Do you know my mother's whereabouts?"