It is still the season when the breeze is warm and the birds are singing, and the rhododendrons, like blood, are once again blooming in the courtyard, and the nose is full of romantic flowers.

"In Xia Shangguan Yu, meet Princess Wu Ling."

I haven't seen him for a long time, Shangguan Yu is still refreshed, holding the folding fan in his hand, bending down and smiling and saluting Wu Ling, just like the first time we met four years ago.

He was still dressed in a dark green thin cloth shirt, and his black hair was combed into a bun and tied to his head with a pale cyan ribbon, and an oval emerald jade stone was inlaid on the ribbon, like a gentle Confucian man condensed by mountains and rivers.

The fresh aroma of pears that I had once smelled continued to penetrate Wu Ling's nostrils.

Originally...... In Shangguan Yu's home, there are so many pear blossom trees, full of small pears.

If you always stand under the tree and read, the flowers fall on your shoulders and the wind has a fruity fragrance, so it is natural to be contaminated, right?

"Huh? Why does the princess ignore people? Shangguan Yu was stunned when he saw Wu Lingyun, hooked the corners of his delicate lips, smiled with a smile, and repeated what he said four years ago.

Wu Ling was silent, he was Shangguan Yu......

That, Shangguan Yu, who once emptied the ink in his belly just to make her smile......

Shangguan Yu looked at Wu Ling with the corners of his mouth hooked, waiting for her to speak, and his bright eyes looked like he knew everything.

Long.

"I ...... It's here to kill you. Wu Ling bit her lip silently and told the truth.

She won't lie, and this time, too, she prefers to tell Shangguan Yu everything.

She admits that she can't take a knife and end a life like she does with someone she doesn't know, and then burn everything down and bury it in loess and ashes.

Wu Ling didn't dare to ask him for forgiveness, but only hoped that he would remember that it was Wu Ling who killed him, and in the next life, he would pay it back.

"I know." Shangguan Yu burst out with a smile again, smiling brightly.

Wu Ling's hand trembled, and he said, he knows, so, does Shuo, also know?

"Don't worry, Shuo doesn't know." Shangguan Yu shook off the folding fan in his hand and motioned for Wu Ling to sit down and talk.

In front of them was a stone table, very similar to the stone table in Shuo's mansion back then, the stone table on which he sat with Shuo and listened to him talk about the stringless harp.

Those memories turned gray at this time, and in her mind, they turned into fragments, as if they could no longer be put together......

The heart that once came to mind these things gradually became meaningless after these memories became more and more shattered.

Shangguan Yu saw Wu Ling looking at the stone table with an indifferent face, even more lonely than when he first saw her four years ago, and the shadow of her fiery red eyelashes hit her face, looking gloomy.

At that time, she stood in front of the clusters of red rhododendrons like blood, almost merging with those flowers, if it weren't for his eye thief, she would have thought that the cuckoo fairy had come down to earth.

At that time, she was thin and thin, wearing a red dress and dragging on the ground behind her, smelling the intoxicating fragrance of flowers, but in her eyes, there was endless confusion and indifference.

At that time, she treated herself as a stranger, full of defense, even reaching out to touch, but also running away, if it wasn't for herself, I'm afraid there would be no one side of that day, and there would be no future.

At that time, even if she was silent and her face was full of coldness, she could still see a kind and pure state of mind in her eyes, which made him want to care.

At that time, she was so special, lingering in his eyes, so that he unconsciously planted rhododendrons as red as him in his yard.

The bright red cuckoo was irrigated with blood Shangguan Yu didn't know, he only knew that he liked the witch Ling who would believe it after listening to the story, and then quietly sniff whether it had a taste or not.

Her smile is clean and real, and every smile is a smile from the heart, which makes Guan Yu dazzled.

He has never pleased a woman, and even took out all the stories and told them with a dry mouth, just to make her laugh......

But now she is not like a human being, even if she occasionally shows her expression, she is fragile, sad, and lonely.

Because she knows that she is a princess and a scholar, even if her father is an official in the court, it is impossible to climb her.

So, in the past three years, Shangguan Yu has worked hard to enrich himself, and finally achieved the position of a scholar of Confucianism step by step.

But the higher you climb, the more you can see some unseen appearances, Wu Ling doesn't know, he always looks at her silently, watching her become less like a person little by little, and becomes lonely as if she is the only one in this world.

And Shangguan Yu found that all those who supported Shuo's accession to the throne would die inexplicably, and it was rumored that he died from Tianhuo, but was it really that coincidental?

He gradually saw some mysteries, and also understood that the only way to lure that person out was to support Shuo desperately.

Between Wu Ling and Shuo, it doesn't seem to be as simple as just ordinary brothers and sisters.

The relationship between Wu Ling and the emperor is not an ordinary relationship between a righteous daughter and a queen mother.

When this red dress appeared in front of him, Shangguan Yu already understood everything......

"Wu Ling......" Shangguan Yu opened his mouth for the first time, calling Wu Ling's name, not the princess.

It means that in his heart, he no longer regards her as a princess, but as a friend, or, the person he likes.

Wu Ling listened silently, smelling the faint fragrance of pear blossoms in the air, as if she had returned to three years ago.

So clear, clean self, although indifferent and quiet, but without any blood.

It's a pity that the rhododendron, irrigated with blood, no matter how beautiful it blooms, is disgusting with the smell of blood, and only insects that are also foul dare to approach.

"If, not happy, if, too painful, just let it go." Shangguan Yu's words floated past Wu Ling's ears like a flowing river.

Wu Ling raised her eyes, looked at Shangguan Yu's clear eyes, and smiled twilightly.

"Let go? How can I let go? And how do you let go? If it weren't for the queen mother, I would still be just a monster in the mountains who lives by eating wild beasts. If there is no queen mother, how can I enjoy the current brocade clothes and jade food? ”

"Brocade clothes?" Shangguan Yu chuckled, looking at Wu Ling, who was thin as if she could be blown down by a gust of wind, and there was nothing on her body, Zhu Hai Yuyao.

She is still the handsome Wu Ling of three years ago, the Wu Ling who doesn't look like a princess at all.

Shangguan Yu knew that in order to celebrate her birthday, Shuo bought many rare treasures for her, and ordinary daughters may not be able to buy one in their lifetime, and Shuo gave all those treasures to Wu Ling.

For every birthday in the past three years, Shuo silently prepared countless treasures for her to celebrate her birthday with the girl's favorite embroidered silk Luo Zhu Hai Yuyao.

And no matter what the occasion, as long as she appears, it will always be this simple red gauze dress, with long red hair simply pulled up, looking indifferently at everything around her, that's it.

If Shangguan Yu guessed correctly, those things, even if they were rotten and moldy, Wu Ling would not wear one on his head.

"People are not afraid of mistakes, mistakes are only short-term regrets, which can be made up for in a lifetime, but misses are a lifetime of regrets, mistakes that can no longer be made up."

"I'm not wrong, my fault, I just shouldn't have been born in this world." Wu Ling's voice was like a wisp of ice, without the slightest emotion.

She hadn't cried since that sad laugh three years ago, never again.

In the past, it was only difficult for tears to flow out of her eyes, but now, there are no tears at all, she has really become a dead person, a dead person who is unconscious, a dead person who only knows how to do things for the queen mother and accept orders.

"The emperor's ambition is very big, she wants to rely on you, rely on your differences, and push Rui to the throne, but Rui is bloodthirsty and cruel, indifferent and uninhibited, even if even the emperor and the queen can't get his temperament, how can he be the future emperor of Yunguo?"

Wu Ling lowered her eyes and did not comment.

She doesn't care who this country belongs to in the future, only the queen mother cares.

If everything she does can make the queen mother feel a little happy, and can make the queen mother achieve her desired wishes.

Then she will still agree to everything the queen mother said as she did at the beginning.

"Wu Ling......" Shangguan Yu couldn't help but feel a little anxious when he saw that Wu Ling was still speechless.

Why is she so stubborn, her stubbornness is heart-wrenching!

"Hugh will mention it again...... Now if you want to live, you have to do something for my mother, otherwise you will really die without a place to bury. Wu Ling said that the only way to save him was to save him.

If he agreed, then Wu Ling could give up, even if she was punished by the queen mother, she was not willing to hurt Shangguan Yu, who had taught her.

As long as he goes to find his mother, he will support Rui from then on and escape death without any problems.

Shangguan Yu smiled after hearing this, uncovered the handle of the fan, and pulled out a short blade as thin as a butterfly wing from the fan bone.

"Please princess take this blade, if it can pierce Shangguan Yu's heart, then Shangguan Yu will not say a word in this life! Don't participate in government politics again! ”

The implication is that unless I die, it's impossible to give up.

Looking at Shangguan Yu's clear and dark eyes, Wu Ling slowly took the short blade, without even thinking too much. The knife in his hand fell, and before Shangguan Yu's chest was in his chest, blood had already been scattered, and the blue Confucian shirt on his chest turned dark red, gradually spreading.

The blade is as thin as a cicada's wings, and he won't hurt very much.

Shangguan Yu smiled in amazement, looked down at the slender short blades that had been pierced into his body in his chest, his body was weak, and he fell on the stone bench.

"Shangguan Yu, I have no regrets in this life."

The blade came out, the blood fell, and Shangguan Yu smiled as countless blood splattered out and flowed down from his chest.

"Now...... Love of life and death...... Does the princess know? He smiled weakly.

In the air, the fresh fragrance of pear blossoms is all contaminated by the smell of blood......

- The love of life and death, it is not clear.

- When the princess gets married, he will know the meaning.

I'm sorry, Shangguan Yu may not be able to wait for the princess to get married......

May you be well, Wu Ling......