He looked at the lantern for a moment, and then threw it back into the water as if he didn't care.

The lantern and other lamps fluttered across the water, through the mist, and as it faded away, the bright and yellow candles in the lamps jumped a few times, and finally went out in the darkness.

Cui Shen's face was hidden in the shadow of the moonlight, and the hand holding the handle of the fan was quietly forced, and his finger bones were even a little white.

I don't know how long it took for him to turn away.

Sima Hualing quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to sit down on her knees with weak legs, when Cui Shen suddenly went and returned.

He picked up the girl's jaw with a folding fan, and his eyes were full of viciousness, as if he had been quenched with frost: "If you dare to say what happened tonight, I will kill you!" ”

Sima Hualing shuddered, tears welled up instantly, and she trembled: "I, I will never dare to say half a word......"

Cui Shen raised his lips and smiled.

He put away the folding fan and wiped away the girl's tears with satisfaction: "Your Majesty shed so many tears, I don't know, I think the minister bullied you." The poor minister is brave and loyal, if he is misunderstood, the minister will be unable to sleep all night. ”

Sima Hualing cautiously took a step back.

She knew how cruel and hypocritical the boy in front of her was, and she didn't believe in his pity and loyalty.

It was her tears that pleased Cui Shen, and Cui Shen suddenly became interested and sat down on a white stone by the water.

He admired the bright moon and the sparkling water: "You are right, Bai Leyi, it is indeed my mother." ”

"Bai Leyi ......" Sima Hualing whispered the name, secretly saying that the very complicated word on the lantern was pronounced "Yi".

"I am the sister-in-law of the Cui family, but in fact I am not a son-in-law, I and Cui Lingren are half-brothers and sisters." Cui Shen's voice was extremely cold, "My real mother is a singer hidden in my father's back garden. I heard my father say that he picked up his mother in the corner of Wuyi Lane on a rainy night. At that time, she was seriously injured, and she also forgot the past, and her memory was as clean as a newborn baby. My father had never seen such a stunning appearance in his life, so he quietly took her back to the house and hid her in the back garden as a concubine. ”

Sima Hualing was stunned when she heard this.

Cui Shen continued: "Soon after my mother gave birth to me, she passed away. My father raised me under my mother's knees, and only said to the outside world that Cui Lingren and I were brothers and sisters. ”

Sima Hualing nodded: "That's ...... so"

Cui Shen glanced at her.

The little princess's face was full of suddenness, simple and innocent like a fool.

The corners of his eyebrows and eyes flashed a little angry, and he didn't say anything further.

The days of being raised under the knees of my grandmother are not easy.

His mother-in-law didn't like him and always treated him harshly behind his father's back.

In winter, Cui Lingren wore warm and expensive goose down jackets, but his clothes were stuffed with reed catkins that could not keep warm at all.

Cui Lingren did something wrong, all he got was a word or two of laughter and scolding, and if he did something wrong, his grandmother would punish him to kneel in the ancestral hall, often kneeling for most of the day, and then he couldn't eat well for several days, copying Buddhist scriptures until his hands trembled.

is obviously so cold and mean, but he claims to the outside world that he is sincerely cultivating him to become a talent, but it is ridiculous that his good father actually believes this kind of nonsense, and he is extremely relieved to let him be controlled by his mother-in-law, and never asks about him.

He gradually developed hatred.

I hate my mother-in-law, and I hate my father who did nothing.

Later, my grandmother died.

Everyone thought she was sick and died, but only he knew that it was he who had poisoned her to death over the years.

Seeing her lying in the coffin, and seeing Cui Lingren crying breathlessly, he didn't know how happy he was!

Cui Shen recalled the past and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Finally laughing enough, he dragged Sima Hualing who was trembling next to him: "In my life, I have never received real love." Xiaohualing, you are also from a lowly palace maid, and you have never been loved in this palace, right? It's pathetic, you're even more pitiful than I am! ”

The boy's hands were very strong.

Sima Hualing was dragged by his collar, her little face was flushed, and she was almost out of breath.

Cui Shen was interested: "Tell me how your brothers and sisters bullied you when they were alive?" Do you think you are a palace maid, or do you deliberately make you a stumbling block so that you will not be happy? It is a sin that you were born in the royal family, you used to be a plaything bullied by your brothers and sisters, and now you are a puppet in my hands, you have never been loved in your life! ”

Sima Hualing gasped with difficulty, being so humiliated and ridiculed by him, the tip of her nose was sore, and tears rolled down in large pieces.

Teardrops fell on the back of Cui Shen's hand one after another.

He lowered his eyes.

The teardrops were still warm.

Strange touch......

He raised an eyebrow in confusion.

He slowly loosened Sima Hualing's collar and stared at the tears hanging on her cheeks: "Cry...... What's the use? ”

After saying that, he pursed the corners of his lips coldly and left the imperial garden by himself.

Sima Hualing sat paralyzed on the ground.

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Good night