June 211 BC

"Raise your arms a little more. Wu Yi raised my arm slightly with a fan, pointed to the straw man opposite me and said, "You must aim at your heart, otherwise the poisonous needle you just now will be wasted." ”

I gritted my teeth and pressed the switch on the sleeve arrow hidden in the cuff of the straw man's heart.

"Your Highness. I stared at the poisonous needle that shot into the straw man's heart and asked him, "Why did you kill Zhao Gao? Could it be that he is the one who has been following you and wants to kill you?"

"He's not just me. Wu Yi pulled out the poisonous needle and stuffed it back into the sleeve arrow, and sneered: "Every son of my father is his prey. ”

I looked at his gloomy face and was silent.

It's June, and the lotus pond in the Star Picking Pavilion is splendid. The lotus flowers are in full bloom, pink and fresh, slim and elegant. The little maids in the yard always like to crowd around the pool in groups of three or five, not looking at the lotus, but only looking at this Wuyi Gongzi who is obviously concentrating on instructing me how to kill, but laughs brighter than the lotus.

"What are you thinking?" he tapped his fan on my head and smiled sly, "Are you thinking about me?"

"There is Fusu in the mountains, and there is Hehua in the Xi. I don't see the son, but I see madness. I said with a sigh.

The assassination plan is scheduled for five days later, which is Zhao Gao's birthday, and I will dress up as the most inconspicuous of the dancing girls under Wu Yi's arrangement, and then wait for the opportunity to kill Zhao Gao with the poisoned arrow hidden in my sleeve.

This plan Wu Yi had already decided a long time ago, but he had not found a suitable candidate for a long time, so it had been shelved. It wasn't until that day that he met me at the hairpin banquet that the assassination plan was carried out.

Zhao Gao is cunning and suspicious by nature, and there are not a few people in the court who want his life, so on his birthday, there must be a lot of masters and guards to protect him secretly, and if you want to start, you must take advantage of it. And I have never practiced martial arts, and although my body is flexible, I am far inferior to those who practice martial arts. For this reason, Wu Yi decided to personally instruct me, from hiding the murderous aura to the timing of the attack, no matter how big or small.

Unlike Changxi's mysterious depth, Wu Yi is an unfathomable person. The smile he always wore on his face was more of a sign of danger than a sign of his happiness. After spending nearly a month with him, I can appreciate the danger of this smile.

Every day before eating, he would always ask the maid who the cook was today, and he would always use special silver chopsticks to eat. If he felt that something was wrong, he would have ordered all the food and drink to be withdrawn, and then I would go to the kitchen to cook it for him, and he would not allow anyone in the room to sleep at night, not even the little maid who was waiting for the change of clothes, and he would not sleep on the pillow, because there was a sharp dagger under it.

He was such a suspicious and insecure man, which is why he was too old to marry a wife.

The night he took me back to the Star Garden, I rested in his room as a "favorite concubine", the bed was very large, and he ordered me to sleep on the inside, but I was lying on the outside with my clothes. I was so frightened that I couldn't sleep until the middle of the night, and I got up to pour a glass of water to suppress my shock, but I saw that he, who had been lying quietly outside, suddenly sat up, and in the blink of an eye, he put a sharp dagger against my throat. The blade sank into the skin slightly, and I couldn't help but gasp in pain.

"Where are you going?" his eyes were grim, and the murderous aura that permeated him made me shudder.

"I'll ...... Pour a glass of water to drink. I swallowed the pain and said, "If you had gone any further with this dagger, I would have died here today." ”

When I said this, he withdrew the dagger from my neck. Seeing the bright red blood on my neck, he raised his hand and gently wiped the blood along my skin with his sleeve.

"Next time you sleep outside. He stuffed the dagger back under his pillow and said coolly, "Otherwise, next time you will really die in my hands." ”

And in fact, he did have people dead on his hands.

The little maids in the Star Picking Garden originally longed for Wu Yi, and many of them hoped to become his concubines. Last year, a slightly more daring little maid secretly came to Wu Yi's room in the middle of the night, originally wanting to fly up the branches and become a phoenix, but unexpectedly Wu Yi used it as an assassin to seal his throat with a sword. As soon as this happened, those little maids who were expecting to cling to Wu Yi were frightened, and from then on, they just looked at him from a distance every day, but never took a step closer to him.

I was always chilling when I rested with him every day, but I had no choice but to share a room with him in order to hide my eyes. I didn't dare to disobey him, but I didn't want to die either, so I came up with a solution that seemed ridiculous. I asked the little maid in the garden to go to Xianyang City to find a leather master for me, and made a delicate set of scarf and armor from tough cowhide, which I wore every day when I went to bed. In this way, even if he is accidentally stabbed, because he is not in the critical situation, he can still get a small life back.

Wu Yi was very disdainful of my "armor", and he always asked me with a smile and a cry: "Do you think that with such a broken cowhide, you can block the sharp dagger quenched by the first swordsmith of Great Qin with dark iron? ”

"Compared to being defenseless, it's better to have this layer of cowhide than nothing. I said lightly: "In order to survive, people will always do things that look ridiculous." Your Highness can make fun of me, but don't let me take it off. ”

The original ridicule on Wu Yi's face disappeared immediately, he looked down at me, and said for a long time: "Arou, your life is mine, you can't forget it." ”

"Of course I won't forget it," I looked up at him, a hint of resentment in my eyes, "I will never forget it in my life!"

"Don't look at me like that!" he reached out to cover my eyes, and there was a hint of anger in his voice, for the first time in all my days with him, he was angry at my displeasure with him.

"Arou, don't look at me like that. His fingers brushed my lips lightly and landed on my chest.

"Even here...... You can't look at me that way here. ”

"Your Highness. I suddenly laughed, with a hint of sarcasm in my words: "You can imprison me, you can threaten me, you can even kill me, but here......" I pointed to my chest, "only here, what it is thinking, what it hates, what it loves, you can never know." ”

"You hate me?" he laughed angrily.

"Can't I hate you? I pulled his hand away from my eyes and looked him in the eye, "I'm not one to be afraid of death. Just like Xiao Xu said, there is no fear of death, the simplest thing in this world is death. But the reason why I am still living like this is not because I am greedy for life, but because I am afraid that the living will be sad and painful, and the dead will be difficult to look at. Your Highness, I am gambling with you, with this life of mine, gambling my life. ”

"Life?" Wu Yi grabbed my front and pulled my face in front of him, his eyes locked tightly on me, and the anger in his pupils seemed to engulf me.

"Your ethereal life is more important to you than I am, and it makes you so uncomfortable to be with me?"

"Are you letting me stay with you?" some tears welled up in my eyes, and I tried my best to hold back and sighed, "Are you ...... Let me die......"

As if awakened by my words, Wu Yi suddenly let go of me. He distanced himself from me and said to himself in disbelief, "yes...... I'm going to let you die...... I didn't let you stay with me......"

Wu Yi, you are such a contradictory person, you are eager and at the same time trying to destroy Miè, but in the end you can't catch anything. Many people have encountered it, lost it, misunderstood, and missed it. There are always countless mistakes in life, and once some people leave, they will never come back.

Just like Xiao Xu and Qin Yu at the beginning, and then like you and me later.