Haoyue took one step forward and never looked back.
Or she was afraid that she would not have the courage to leave once she looked back, or she had made up her mind to leave the city where she had lived for seven years.
She walked slowly, but her footprints spread like long snakes on the snow path.
She didn't speed up deliberately, but her normal speed was comparable to the best galloping horses in the world.
Except, of course, Shadow Chaser.
But Haoyue didn't look back, but suddenly stopped.
She didn't want to stop, but she had to.
"Ren Qiuke." Her words were plain, distant and quiet, as if the girl who had whispered in the dream crystal had nothing to do with her.
So when she spoke, she called the other person by his first name.
"Since Haoyue has chosen to leave, she never hopes to be retained."
Ren Qiuke stood in front of her, his body covered with snowflakes, and his white cloak looked like falling snow eagle wings.
He didn't leave until she left for a long time, but he waited in front of her for a long time.
It's not because she's too slow.
But he was too fast.
Ren Qiuke looked at the woman with gray clothes and gray hair in front of him. All her appearance was hidden under the cover. She looked like an ordinary woman. This was how she looked when they first met seven years ago.
They stood side by side and got along day and night for seven years. When they left, the woman still looked like this.
Ren Qiuke's serious and serious face revealed a faint smile. He stretched out his right hand towards the woman, and the snowflakes fell on the broad palm but did not melt.
"I'm the director of Tianlan City, Qiuke. May I ask the girl's name?"
Haoyue was stunned for a moment.
She couldn't forget this sentence, because it was what Ren Qiuke said when he met her for the first time.
She was seriously injured when she escaped from the Dragon Bone Lich's Palace of Bones. When she was discovered and rescued by Ren Qiuke, who had not yet broken through to heaven and chose to meditate in the snowy mountains, she was in urgent need of treatment and had no time to be sent to Tianlan City for rest. So at that time, Ren Qiuke took her to a nearby cave, where there was a bonfire, a hanging medicine pot, a lonely moon hanging high in the sky, and a dim snowy night.
She woke up groggily in the middle of the night and saw this man who was as resolute and calm as a snow-capped mountain, turning his head and reaching out to her.
"I'm the director of Tianlan City, Qiuke. May I ask the girl's name?"
So she looked at the moonlight outside the cave, blinked her eyes, and answered weakly.
"The bright moon."
Haoyue couldn't help but bite her lip, took a step forward, and was about to walk past him.
Why should she be reminded of this?
Haoyue's movements are very slow, but at this small distance, she is like a galloping horse. She only needs one-third of the blink of an eye to cross Ren Qiuke's position, and then she will reach it in another third of the blink of an eye. Ten feet away.
But in fact, Haoyue didn't even take a step forward.
Because Ren Qiuke stretched out his right arm in the snow and spread it straight, like a white eagle with bright wings, blocking her path.
Haoyue raised her eyes and looked at the man who still had an indifferent expression. The northern wind and snow seemed to have frozen all his expressions.
But when Ren Qiuke spoke the next moment, he was extremely plain and simple.
"I didn't keep you."
Haoyue couldn't help but suffocate.
Ren Qiuke continued.
"I just want you to marry me."
Haoyue's expression instantly froze.
The city lord in white knelt down on one knee in the wind and snow, facing the isolated gray woman, with the feathers of the snow eagle hanging low.
"I propose to you, and this snowfield is my bride price."
"From now on, you are the mistress of the land as far as the eye can see here, and all the hunters with thatched roofs on the snowy fields are your subjects."
"I want you to be impartial, not arrogant, to be kind to others, to be peaceful and just."
"You will sit at my right hand and be in charge of my family and subjects. I trust you as I trust my hands. Only death can break our alliance."
"This is the most solemn oath and prayer, I ask you."
Ren Qiuke's eyes were as clear as the stars at night.
"Do you want to?"
The city lord's voice was low and solemn, and every snowflake on the snowfield trembled to listen to his words.
Haoyue bit her lip and lowered her head, her whole body trembling as if shaking from the cold.
But when she raised her head, her pupils were already as bright red as blood.
"How could I?" Haoyue raised her hand and took off her gray cloak. Her long white hair was flying in the wind and snow, and the sound was like a burning white flame.
"I don't want to!"
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The fourth year of the Apocalypse, January 8th.
The city lord's wedding.
Even the weddings of ordinary people have to be prepared more than half a month in advance. If they are nobles of the empire, they often have to have an equally grand engagement ceremony first.
However, for Ren Qiuke, even though he is the top family patriarch in the Lanye Empire, he only needs one day for the wedding.
Therefore, there were no gifts from the entire northern snowfield to his lord from all directions, and there were no convoys of many nobles coming to congratulate him. Naturally, the emperor of Lan Ye had no time to issue the edict of the Golden Book and Jade Palace.
There is nothing, but Ren Qiuke is already married.
Tianlan's Ren family did not believe in any gods, so their wedding did not need to be witnessed by the gods. At the old residence of Wangyue Villa, under the witness of their ancestors of all generations, Haoyue and Ren Qiuke held hands and knelt down to each other, declaring the ceremony successful.
Since it was not widely advertised, only a handful of people came to congratulate them. In the end, the wedding banquet only had ten tables. Apart from the elders of the Ren family, Ye Qing and his party occupied one table alone.
The presence of the two princesses may be the most famous guests here.
"I bet that your wedding in the spring of the fourth year of Qingli will be tens of thousands of times more grand than it is now." Ye Qing bit his spoon and used a very inappropriate comparison unhappily. "
Ye Luan was surprisingly not angry, and just replied calmly: "Emperor Tianqi is so happy. If the wedding is really held, I won't be surprised no matter how grand it is."
"Then sister, aren't you angry if I disrupt your wedding?" Ye Qing asked with a smile.
"The city lord's wedding is so simple, but the two parties are happy and satisfied. My wedding will be the most grand and solemn celebration since the establishment of the three empires, but I will not be happy." Ye Luan replied: "This is Such a simple truth, Xiaojiu, do you understand?"
"I understand." Ye Qing nodded and smiled.
"I'll leave tomorrow, where is my sister?"
I will leave tomorrow, and the place I am going to is naturally the imperial city.
Ye Luan shook his head: "I will be here, waiting for the results."
If successful, then Ye Luan can naturally return to the Lanlan Imperial Capital and continue to be her virtuous princess.
If it fails, Ye Luan will follow the plan and go to Ste to be his queen without any regrets.
Ye Qing nodded, then pointed at Ge Sheng: "Brother, are you coming with me?"
Ge Sheng nodded.
"What about you? Shi Feng?" Ye Qing asked.
Shi Feng shook his head indifferently: "I have done everything I can do, and I will wait for your return in Tianlan."
"Where's Wuyougu?" Ye Qing looked at the slender and clean blond girl. After spending the past few days with her, Ye Qing had completely treated her as one of his own.
"I still want to kill people." Wuyougu said calmly.
Since the day she entered the city, she had said that she "came here to kill people on the order of an adult."
But Ye Qing has been staying here for six days, and Wuyougu has not killed anyone until today.
Apart from wandering around the city, she stayed at Ye Qing's place, silently listening to Ye Qing teasing Shi Feng and Ge Sheng, and flatly making various simple yet sinister suggestions of his own.
Of course, what must be mentioned is her extremely active and amazing performance in the Divine Inspiration Project.
But at this moment, when Ye Qing heard her saying flatly, "I want to kill someone," he couldn't help but feel a sudden shock in his heart.
Ye Qing looked into her icy blue eyes, lowered his head, and asked softly: "What is it that requires you to kill someone to solve it?"
Wuyougu opened his plain white lips and trembled slightly: "This is something that can only be solved by killing, my dear Princess."
