It was still a moonlit night like water, the wind was swaying the trees, the light and shadow were blurring, the lights in the sky were bright, and the person beside me was still shining unparalleled.
However, the original intention is no longer there, things have changed.
Lin Wanwan quietly opened her palms, curled up her fingers when the moonlight fell, and tried to hold it in her hands, but the moonlight easily escaped from her palms and fell between her fingers, just like what he had promised back then. Promise cannot be grasped or held firmly.
The moonlight is meager and the gaps between my fingers are too wide. In the blink of an eye, time has passed.
On her first birthday after he left, she also stood in the wind under the moonlight, watching the sky lanterns filled with wishes rising quietly into the night sky.
At that time, she had only one wish, which was to wait for the flowers on the tree to bloom and hope that his leaves would fall and return.
I want to hear him tell me from his own mouth why he left her behind on that snowy mountain and left without saying goodbye. She always believed that he had his own reasons.
She begged Feihua Pavilion from her uncle and has been silently paying attention to his movements. From the death of the late Emperor Dongchen to his ascension to the throne, he pardoned the world, implemented new policies, and quelled civil strife, she watched step by step as he consolidated his power. Take it into your own hands.
Until the flowers bloomed season after season, and the leaves fell again and again, except for the visit of Emperor Dongchen once, I still couldn't look forward to the return of my old friend. Not even a letter. It was as if these four years were just an ordinary scene in his life. After it passed, there was no need to look back.
From that moment on, she knew she couldn't wait. That young man in white, who was like the scorching sun, would never come back.
In the past, an old friend went away with his sword, cutting off the spring breeze and never returning.
Today, she just wanted to hear him say that back then, he couldn't help himself. As long as he says it, she will believe it, and then they can still walk side by side and watch the flowers blossom along the way, as before, with the grand ambition to create a peaceful and prosperous world together.
But as soon as she opened her mouth, he interrupted her. He understands, so why doesn't she understand? The truth behind the unwillingness to mention is often bloody and cannot be excavated, looked directly at, or deeply investigated.
From the time she first arrived in Nanling to today, his protection, his tolerance, and everything he had done for her, weren't they because of guilt?
"Lin Wanwan, this is for you."
Su Jingqian's voice interrupted the endless thoughts in her mind. Lin Wanwan took a closer look and saw that there was a scroll box in his hand and he was handing it towards her.
She took the box, and when she touched the dark dragon pattern on it, her eyes paused slightly, and she nodded to him and said, "...Thank you very much."
Seeing that she just held it in her hand without opening it, Su Jingqian raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at her with a half-smile, "Why don't you open it and take a look?"
Lin Wanwan smiled slightly, with a light smile, "How can a majestic king of a country bother to do such small tricks. Since you are willing to give me this secret edict, you will naturally not fake it."
She was still confident about this. Since he had promised the conditions for the original alliance, he would definitely not cheat them when they were brought out now. If he was just trying to deal with her, as long as she didn't mention it, he could have just ignored it, so why bother giving her the secret edict that had been manipulated.
The corners of his lips slowly raised into a beautiful arc, and the light red color made him look like a demon. With a fatal temptation, he said with a smile: "Since you believe me so much, why not open it and see if you believe it?" Wrong person."
Lin Wanwan looked at him doubtfully. After touching his gaze that meant goodbye, the expression in her eyes became complicated, just like the struggle and entanglement in her heart at the moment. There is an inexplicable expectation, but also the fear of indulging in his eyes again, just like before, causing the last line of defense in my heart to collapse.
It's not that she didn't know, he was telling her that there was something else besides the secret edict.
Su Jingqian stared at her quietly. As he read the indescribable emotions in her eyes, his usually calm eyes gradually became rippled, with a faint hint of undetectable struggle.
He turned around quickly, suppressed all the emotions that should not have appeared deep in his eyes, turned his back to her and said, "I'm going down first, it's windy outside, don't stand for too long."
"Su Jin."
She suddenly stopped him.
He paused for a moment before hearing her speak softly behind him, "Do you still remember the story we used to sneak to the teahouse and hear the scholar tell?"
"Yes, I remember." He didn't look back at her. He stood under the lantern with the cornices and the candlelight flickering. His expression was dark and unreadable. "It's about a couple of gods and gods working together in the martial arts to eliminate evil. Deeds.”
Lin Wanwan slowly walked to the carved railing, looked at the shadows of the trees on the river bank, and said softly:
"The woman was born in a famous martial arts family, and the man was born in a demon sect. In the eyes of the noble family, he is a murderous demon who never blinks an eye. The two met at a grand event and fell into trouble. They agreed to work together to eliminate evil in the world. Together they rode horses to the north, crossed thousands of peaks, traveled to southern Xinjiang, and walked across rivers. They supported each other for ten years and never left each other."
"But then the woman personally killed the man who had been with her for ten years and committed suicide in front of his grave." Su Jingqian's tone was very light, which seemed a little cold in the night. "I remember that many people were sighing at that time. When I was young, I only used it as a pastime, which is really ironic now that I think about it.”
"The so-called unexpected encounter is just a conspiracy of these people who claim to be righteous. They pushed a little girl who was inexperienced to deliberately approach and assassinate a person who had never done evil just because he was born in a demon sect. After all, What is righteousness and what is evil? The so-called righteousness and evil are just excuses for these famous sects to say, "Those who follow me will prosper and those who go against me will perish." Those who adhere to them are righteous, and those who go against their ideas are evil."
Lin Wanwan paused, a slight smile appeared on her lips, looking a little sad and a little sarcastic.
"That woman has been dormant beside him for ten years. No one knows better than her whether he is evil or evil. If those so-called decent people hadn't threatened her family, how could she be willing to stab him with the sword in her hand."
Su Jingqian stood quietly under the candle shadow and moonlight, his long eyelashes casting a shadow under his eyes, making his deep pupils cast a layer of darkness, "Since she chose to protect her family, she should know the price she has to pay. Although In the end, I died to thank you for protecting me for the past ten years, but it couldn't make up for the heartache and despair that the man felt when he saw the person he loved most draw a sword and stab him."
Lin Wanwan slowly moved her gaze towards his tall and slender back. Thousands of words surged in her heart, but all of them were blocked in her throat. She was silent and then said: "In this life, there will always be things that people cannot control. time, but if you can't tell the truth, you can only die in pain and regret in the end."
Her tone was soft but meaningful, which made his heart tremble.
Su Jingqian's lips moved silently. He wanted to say something, but he never said it. His hands were clenched tightly, with an imperceptible sense of oppression and forbearance.
He was silent for a long time before slowly speaking, "Except for life and death, there is nothing in this world that we cannot help ourselves. The so-called inability to control ourselves is just that after weighing the pros and cons, we do not want to leave the relatively smooth road among the many rugged roads. That’s all.”
