The Canary
in the
Palace: Fireworks are easy to be cold.
I am the emperor’s secret guard and the only woman in the secret guard, so I have to wear a mask from time to time to hide my identity.
More importantly, my face was disfigured in a mission. The emperor said it was too ugly and ordered me to wear a mask so as not to stain his eyes.
My life was saved by the emperor when I was a boy, and I will always be loyal to him.
The emperor always sat alone by the pool in the corner of the Imperial Garden, humming and drinking slowly.
We watched him, step by step, take the throne, to the present position, in a trance to remember that he was also a young man.
This day Imperial Garden came a very strange girl, she wore show girl clothes, but secretly ran into the inner palace, I wanted to go out directly, but the emperor did not open his mouth, I was silent.
She saw the emperor with a look of surprise on her face. “Who are you?”
The emperor raised his eyebrows and asked, “Then who are you?”
I.. I’m a maid of the Imperial Garden. What are you doing here?
“Sprinkle and sweep the palace maids?” The emperor hooked his lips coldly. “Then why are you wearing the beautiful clothes of the outer palace?”? Or are you a show girl sneaking in?
“How do you know?” The little girl felt that her voice was a little loud and hurriedly covered her mouth. “Don’t tell on me, I..” I’m leaving right now!
“Stop.”
The emperor stood up and walked up to her step by step. He pinched her chin with a dark look. “You look like my former sweetheart. What’s your name?”
“My name is Jinzhao Night. Can you let me go?”
The emperor let her go and touched her long hair on her temples? It’s a little sparrow.
The little sparrow ran so fast that he didn’t even look back.
In fact, I have followed the emperor for so many years, knowing that he has no sweetheart at all, I do not understand why he lied to this little girl.
Then he called my name, “Lonely Shadow.”
I walked out. “My subordinates are here.”
“I’m really bored.”
I didn’t know how to respond, so I was Silent. He laughed twice and looked at the entrance of the Imperial Garden. “I really want to have some fun.”
“Does Your Majesty like her?”
“Like it?” The emperor twisted his eyebrows and curled his lips thinly. “How could such a thing come out of your mouth? Solitary Shadow, tell me, what are you thinking?”
No.. What.
“The little sparrow’s eyes are really beautiful, just like yours.” The emperor said so to me.
I knelt down to him. “Your Majesty, my men are terrified.”
“Sniff.”
“Look, you’re afraid of me, too. All the people in my harem are afraid of me, too.” The emperor looked at the sky with a long sigh. “They cling to me to gain power. They are afraid that I will not be good to them. It is so boring.”
I didn’t speak. During the
talent show, the girl named Jin Zhaoye was selected. She was taken to the emperor’s bedroom in a muddled way and saw the man she had met before.
I stood outside and listened to what was going on inside. The little girl named Jinzhao Night was not able to go to bed. The emperor came out neatly dressed, with the joy of finding a new pleasure on his face.
“Lonely Shadow.”
“Subordinates are here.”
“I’ll make a bet with you.”
I looked at him, and he sealed his lips with his forefinger. “I’ll bet if she falls in love with me.”
“Your Majesty, this is your harem. No one will not love you.” That’s what I said.
“But I’m really bored. When I see them, I’m not in the mood.”
I have been with the emperor for the longest time, and I know that he has a bad character. Once I find something interesting, I must try my best to get it.
Suddenly, I began to sympathize with the little girl named Jin Zhaoye.
She could not go to bed, but the emperor sent her a lot of gold, silver and jewels, and he ordered me to spread the rumor that he had a sweetheart. He
said that he was very affectionate with his sweetheart, but that person died of illness, and emphasized the appearance and character of his sweetheart.
I know. The emperor is casting a net again.
“Gu Ying, do you think she will come to me?”
“Subordinates don’t know.”
“You’re boring, too.”
Before long, I saw Jin Zhaoye again.
She pinched her hand nervously, her cheeks flushed, and she looked like the emperor’s sweetheart in the rumor, so that the emperor was slightly stunned when he first saw her.
“Your Majesty, what is the matter?”
The emperor came to his senses and took her hand with a big smile. “You are so beautiful.”
Your Majesty.. As long as you like it.
The emperor picked a little white flower and pinned it in her hair. His eyes were full of admiration. “My beloved concubine is a unique beauty.”
After Jinzhao had left, the emperor’s smile gradually faded, and his face became indifferent. “So my idea of a sweetheart turned out to be so mediocre.”
But his actions are not like what he said.
He stayed in Jinzhao Night every day, and as a close guard, I had to hide not far away to watch them, to see how the emperor made Jinzhao Night fall, and Jinzhao Night sat on the emperor’s lap, blushing.
“Little sparrow, are you afraid of me?” The emperor touched her face and looked at her lovingly.
“Your Majesty, I am not afraid.”
“Oh?” The emperor raised his eyebrows close to her face and sniffed her ears. “Little sparrow, I hope you can always be like this. It’s beautiful.”
He spoils the brocade according to the night to the sky, rewards as if free to send, the whole night sleeps in the brocade according to the night’s bedroom, lets her be in the limelight for a while. The women in the harem were very jealous. I once watched a concubine for the emperor and heard her say how to destroy the face of Jinzhao Night. All
this makes me feel that the emperor is just setting up a target, so that Jinzhao night becomes the target of public criticism, so that she can only firmly adhere to him.
This technique, inexplicably familiar, reminds me of the emperor or the prince, the best relationship with the prince, when the emperor is not so crazy now, the people in the palace know that the prince and his brotherhood.
The prince let him do not need to hide his clumsiness, can show his ability, so everyone’s eyes are focused on him, and he wholeheartedly trusted his brother, but was finally stabbed in the back by his brother.
At that time, there was a severe drought in Wenzhou. The prince took him to relieve the disaster together. On that day, the prince said that he was not feeling well, so the two sides dispersed and left. I met a robber on the way. I took him out of the tight encirclement. His right hand was disabled and his face was destroyed. After he fled to Wenzhou, he saw his worried brother, who was full of spring. He was glad that he had got rid of a big trouble in his heart.
The emperor stood outside, did not push the door and entered, and took me back to Beijing.
He said to me, “Solitary Shadow, I want to be emperor.”
“Subordinates will help you.”
“Cover your face, and when I ascend the throne one day, I will cure you.”
“My subordinates are dark guards. Appearance is of no use to me.”
The emperor was silent for a long time, and from that day on, he became a different person. The madman who
killed his brother and the emperor and became the emperor by stepping on his bones.
“Your Majesty!”
Jinzhao night ran to the Imperial Study, rushed into the emperor’s arms, crying pear flowers with rain.
“Little sparrow, why are you crying like this?”
She looked up, her face covered with sores and mottled marks, and the emperor moved subtly away from her.
Your Majesty, my concubine.. My concubine’s face was ruined. It was Ling Fei! Ling Fei gave me a bowl of red bean soup, and after drinking it, I changed my face into what it is now.
Jin Zhaoye covered his face in pain. “Your Majesty..” You must make decisions for me!
The emperor stroked her face with pity. “Little sparrow, I will uphold justice for you.”
Jinzhao cried and hugged him. “Your Majesty, I believe you.” After sending
her away, the emperor shook off his hands in disgust and leaned lazily on the throne. “The little sparrow has been pecked and can’t fly, and I can’t keep it alive. What should I do?”? Solitary Shadow.
“Subordinates don’t know.”
“I wanted to uphold justice for her, but she went beyond the rules. If everyone in the harem were like this, and if I favored them and slandered the concubines at will, wouldn’t my harem be in chaos?”
I was a little puzzled. “My subordinates feel that Lady Brocade is not lying.”
He pushed open the window, pointed to the chirping birds in the tree and asked me with a smile, “Look, how many sparrows are there in this tree outside?”
“One.”
“But in my harem, there are countless sparrows. If one of them is loved and flies to the top of a branch, there will be successive sparrows behind him. Since you are a sparrow, you should stand on the branch honestly, instead of expecting to become a phoenix.”
I suddenly understood what he meant.
He began to favor another imperial concubine, who was gorgeous and her eyes were like silk. I remember her. She was the Ling imperial concubine who said she was going to disfigure the brocade at night.
Love comes and goes quickly. I happened to hear that the situation of Jinzhao Night was not very good. Even the medicine that could remove scars without leaving marks was not given to her by the hospital.
The emperor was reviewing the memorial to the throne, and there was some noise outside. I went out to have a look and found Jin Zhaoye kneeling at the door of the Imperial Study, begging to see the emperor.
But no one dared to let her in.
“I want to see Your Majesty. Please, let me in, will you?”
Your Majesty! Look at me! Come out and see me!
Her face was a little ferocious, and she had been disfigured, which made her look particularly uncomfortable.
I stood watching her in the dark, and when I heard the emperor calling me, I went in.
“Lone Shadow, throw back the people outside.”
“Yes.”
I carried her away. She was light, as light as a bird.
“Are you one of His Majesty’s men?” Jinzhao stopped making noise at night. She asked me softly, and I nodded.
“Why won’t Your Majesty see me?” Her voice choked with sobs. “Why did he favor the woman who did this to me?”
“This is Your Majesty’s business, and I have no right to ask about it.”
She tugged at the corner of my coat and asked me persistently, “Do you know what Your Majesty likes?”
“I don’t know.”
Jin Zhaoye stared at me and grabbed my sleeve. “You’re one of his men. How could you not know?”
I sighed. “Lady Brocade, I really don’t know.”
It’s like I never knew what the emperor was up to. After I sent
her back to the palace, I said for no reason, “Empress Jin, if you want to live here safely, don’t bet your hopes on Your Majesty.”
Jinzhao night still did not give up, she also found out where to squat the emperor, the growth rate is amazing.
It’s a pity that her face could have been cured, but the emperor said he didn’t want her to be cured.
So her face never got better. Dressed in a goose-yellow skirt,
she stood in front of the corner where the emperor used to sit. Her movements were like those of the man in the emperor’s rumor. With tears in her eyes, she asked the emperor, “Your Majesty, do you really love me?”
“Love?” The emperor raised his eyebrows, as if to think, “I do love you, but my love is worth a thousand pieces of gold. I can give it to you or to others.”
“If you love me, why did you give me up so easily?” Jin Zhaoye’s eyes were red. “I’m obviously..” Mingming is the most like the person in your mind.
The emperor listened to what she said with some impatience and turned away. “There are no rules and regulations. Go back to grounding.” After
he left, Jin Zhaoye was in a trance and fainted to the ground. For the first time, I appeared without the emperor’s permission and sent her back. He kept sighing
in his heart.
Why do they always like to do things like moths to the flame?
For the sake of the emperor, I would like to become a fictional person. On the day of
autumn hunting, someone wanted to assassinate the emperor. I tried my best to lead the emperor to break through the tight encirclement and was seriously injured. The emperor granted me leave for a period of time and let another man be his personal guard.
I am happy and comfortable, but I don’t know how to spend this dull day.
She simply dressed up as a maid who took care of Jinzhao Night to see what she was like when there was no emperor.
When Jinzhao night saw me coming, she didn’t say anything, but asked me to prune the flowers she planted. How did
you get here? And what about your face? She asked me that.
I thought about it and told her, “The maidservant is new. They said there was a shortage of people here, so they sent the maidservant over. The maidservant’s face was caused by a fall when she was young, and the family had no money for medical treatment, so she became like this.”
“Thanks to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for remembering me.” Jin Zhaoye laughed at himself and picked up a few pieces of paper and began to move.
“Empress, what are you doing?”
“Me, I’m imitating.”
“Imitate who?”
Imitate a.. People who have been dead for a long time.
I was silent and wanted to tell her the truth, but finally I stopped my impulse.
She made a swing in her palace. I split the board, I found the rope, I hung the swing, and she was responsible for swinging.
When I stood behind her and pushed her, she would call out to me, “Ying, push up a little more!”
Yinger was given to me by her. She said she hoped that I would be like a firefly, even if I was small, I could emit my own light.
Unfortunately, I am a dark guard, and I can only live in darkness all my life.
Jinzhao night yearned for freedom and often looked at the birds hanging on the branches with envy on his face.
I asked her why she wanted to go to the palace.
“I used to live with my mother-in-law in the village, but my father came to me and said that my sister had run away. In order to prevent the family from being destroyed, he asked me to take the place of my sister who had run away.” The more Jinzhao said, the angrier she became. I didn’t know until later that they were lying to me! My so-called sister disappeared many years ago, and they sent me here just to cling to imperial power.
I listened quietly and asked her, “Do you like Your Majesty?”
Jin Zhaoye was stupefied, then blushed, “I didn’t like it originally.” But he understood me very well, and he promised to take me out of the palace, and when he handed over the imperial power to the crown prince, we would go sightseeing together and see all the scenery in the world. As
I listened, I wrinkled my face unconsciously. Did she forget how the emperor had treated her before?
And this set of words, is the emperor’s own way to deceive people.
He can kill powerful rivals for the throne, and he can kill his father and mother without changing his face.
Such a man, expecting him to give up the throne and leave with you?
Next life.
But she still firmly believed that as long as she could become the person in the emperor’s heart, the emperor would fall in love with her completely.
At the same time, there was a new rumor in the palace that the emperor’s sweetheart was so thin and weak that his eyes were like a clear spring, which shocked me.
If there is such a woman in the world, I’m afraid she will fall down as soon as the wind blows?
I knew that the emperor was still a little interested in Jinzhao Night, so I was bored and put a hook down for her to hold.
And want to become that out of nothing sweetheart, she must let oneself thin to the incomparable degree, only then has the weak willow to support the wind the condition.
Looking at the increasingly crazy and haggard appearance of Jinzhao Night, I couldn’t help persuading her after all.
“Why do you bother, Empress?”
“Ying, you don’t understand.” Jin Zhaoye coughed lightly, and his face was a little pale. “He’s the emperor, and he’s the emperor of the ninety-five. What he says is as long as..” I can become the person in his heart. He will set me free and take me away. I believe in him. There is no sweetheart
at all. He is lying to you!
I put up with it again and again, but I still didn’t say it.
I asked her, “Do you want to leave the palace?”? I can help you. Stunned,
she touched my head and laughed softly. “Ying, don’t do anything dangerous for me. If I want to be free, I have to fight for it myself.”
“Where would you like to go if you succeed?”
“Well..” Probably the small village where I lived. Jin Zhao-ye lowers his head with a sense of loss. “There’s still a person I once liked, but unfortunately he’s gone.”
“Are you dead?”
“I don’t know.”
I did not ask again, thinking about whether I could send Jinzhao night out of the palace.
A warbler sang, which was the secret signal between the dark guards. I had no time to say goodbye to Jinzhao at night and left in a hurry. When
the emperor saw me, he smiled. “Is it fun?”
My pupils shrank slightly and I knelt down. “Your Majesty, please forgive me.”
At that moment, I felt suffocated, and when I came to my senses, my back was in a cold sweat.
The emperor smiled softly. “I didn’t say I was going to punish you. Don’t try to figure out what I think. Get up.”
I breathed a sigh of relief. “Thank you, Your Majesty.”
Soon, the emperor forgot his own hook, and he had a new pleasure, deliberately luring the ministers with evil intentions to collude with each other, and then clean up one by one. They
even made some signs with their names written on them in bad taste and turned them over every day.
He flipped through the pages and glanced at them carelessly. Ah, it’s Lord Wang. After
turning over, let us go to wash the Wangs in blood, leaving no one behind, and then burn the fire clean, turning back and forth every day, almost forgetting that he had a plan to send Jinzhao out of the palace at night. Everyone in the
court felt insecure and knew that their emperors were moody, and that a displeasure might kill them.
He was almost cleaned up, the court came up with a big change of blood, the old party had been pulled out clean, can no longer revive, life returned to calm.
The emperor took his seat again.
Jin Zhaoye is squatting there waiting for him.
She was so thin that she looked like a ghost, which made people feel cold all over her body, and the emperor was frightened for a moment.
Then he squinted to recognize the man. Little sparrow?
She managed to pull out a smile, her voice deep, with a hoarse feeling, “Your Majesty, I have tried to become the person you want most, what you said before.” Does it still count? It was
rare for me to feel a loss on his face. Maybe he had forgotten what he said casually.
Then I heard him laugh. “But I don’t love her now. I’m in love with someone else. But she won’t be my concubine and go back to the palace with me.”
He sighed faintly, “Then please become her.”
I saw the face of Jinzhao night, slowly becoming empty.
Like an abyss falling down desperately.
As the emperor’s secret guard for so many years, I know he is a madman. What he says today can be overturned tomorrow. It all depends on his personal mood. Jinzhao night still believes his words, and I don’t know whether to say she is stupid or stupid.
But soon I put her out of my mind because I had more important things to do.
He asked me to kill a man, who was a proton sent by the enemy, and the emperor asked me to kill him on the way.
His name is Kui Xu. Pretending to be a village girl,
I fell in front of his carriage with a dusty face and faintly heard the sound of someone getting off.
“Girl, are you all right?” The moment
he made a sound, my heart beat wildly and I almost couldn’t help opening my eyes.
Because this man’s voice is exactly the same as the emperor’s! If
I didn’t know he was still happily flipping signs in the palace, I almost thought it was this boring emperor who came to *** me.
He shook me twice, but did not wake me up. He picked me up and carried me into the carriage. He also ordered the driver to find a hospital first.
I pretended to wake up faintly and put it on the wall of the carriage with a frightened face. The proton smiled with a good temper. “Girl, don’t be afraid. I’m not a bad person. Where is your home?”? I’ll take you back.
I.. I have no home. I lowered my head and hid a dagger in my sleeve, ready to cut his throat at any time.
“Are you hungry?”
I hesitated for a moment and nodded. I was really hungry.
“I still have a bag of cakes here. If you don’t mind, you can eat them.”
He took the cake to me and touched his nose with some embarrassment. “I’m really sorry, because when I was sent out, they didn’t give me much. It was a bit shabby. I hope you don’t mind.”
I carelessly opened the oil-paper package and ate one piece after another, allowing him to live a little longer for the sake of what he had given me to eat.
While I was enjoying my meal, he asked me, “What’s your name, girl?”
I said the name that Jin Zhaoye had given me, “Ying’er.”
Ying’er? That’s very nice. With a smile on her face and a wistful look in her eyes, she says, “I’ve even heard of a funny name called Zhaoye.”
My hand gave a slight pause and looked at him.
“Don’t you think it’s strange that a good little girl has the same name as a sparrow?”
“Well, where is she now?”
“I don’t know. When I went to look for her, I was told by her mother-in-law that she had been taken home by her father.” It
turned out that he was not a prince. He grew up in that village. Later, he was found to be the blood left by the royal family.
If my guess is right, this proton is the person that Jin Zhaoye told me that she once liked.
He told me a lot of things about Zhao Ye, and the more I heard, the more strange it became. You don’t like her, do you?
He was stupefied and a little embarrassed. “You saw it, girl.” I really liked her, and I heard that her father’s house was here, and I wasn’t much use to an unloved prince, so I volunteered to come over when they chose who would be the proton.
“Why are you telling me so much?”
“I’m going to die anyway. At least someone can listen to my story. It’s not a loss.”
I was silent. “You know I’m going to kill you?”
He did not know whether to laugh or cry. “Girl, your dagger is showing, and it reflects light.”
「……」
“In fact, the main reason I’m telling you this is because you look a little like Zhao Ye, which is an indirect expression of my heart.”
Like that? I don’t think one is living in the sun and the other is struggling in the dark. There
is no comparison at all.
He died so peacefully that I was silent for a moment and looked at him. “Do you have anything to say to the night?” “It
should be gone. I just hope she doesn’t remember me, or she’ll be sad.” It was very quiet in the
carriage, and I slowly raised the dagger.
After a while, I stuck the dagger in the wall of the carriage and said in a cold voice, “Now turn around and leave. Jinzhao Night has entered the palace and become the emperor’s concubine. I won’t kill you, and you won’t go back to your country. Find a place to live quietly.”
He was a little stunned. He seemed to want to pull me. I jumped out of the carriage neatly and kicked the horse selfishly. The
horse was startled and ran in the same direction until I could no longer see the carriage, and then I left.
As a shadow guard, I was a failure and failed to complete the task.
But. He is the person that Jin Zhao night likes, even if cannot save her, also can let her won’t be so sad.
I hope this proton will not be found by the emperor, or I will be punished.
Run, run as far as you can.
Back at the palace, the emperor was practicing calligraphy. When he saw me, he put down his pen and calmly asked me, “How is it going?”? Is the mission accomplished?
“The man died, and his men threw his body into the river.”
The emperor asked me with a half-smile, “Really?”
He often tests me like this, and I won’t let go.
He didn’t say anything after all. When I
went to bed, a figure suddenly rushed out of the inner hall, holding a jade hairpin and stabbing the emperor in the heart. I appeared directly and grabbed her wrist immediately. After breaking it, I pulled the jade hairpin from her hand.
She let out a cry of pain, and I saw by the dim light who was coming.
It’s Jinzhao Night.
I should have put her to death on the spot, but somehow I couldn’t do it. I just clasped her hands and took off her shoulders.
The emperor was still in shock, and when he saw the brocade clearly, he raised his eyebrows in surprise and wondered, “Little sparrow?”? You. Why do you seem to hate me so much?
Jinzhao night face if crazy, teeth clenched lower lip, “of course I hate you.” Liar! You are a liar!
Liar? What did I lie to you? That’s funny. How long has it been since I last saw you? There’s no more love in your eyes when you look at me. The emperor touched her eyes obsessively. “What a beautiful pair of eyes! I forgive you for your behavior today, little sparrow. You have succeeded in letting me find the meaning of your existence.”
Jin Zhaoye turned his head and his eyes turned red. “You lied to me. You played me like a fool from the beginning to the end!”! You don’t have any sweetheart at all, do you?
“Who told you all this, little sparrow?”
Jin Zhaoye didn’t say a word. The emperor picked up Jin Zhaoye from my hand. His voice was soft and his expression was aggrieved. “I’ve never lied to you, but I’ve been too busy to come to see you recently. I hope you won’t blame me for hurting my heart.”
“You..” Jin Zhao-ye loosened her brows, but still couldn’t help but relent. “Then what Your Majesty promised me, do you still count?”
The emperor slowly carried her to bed, rubbed her eyebrows soothingly, and pinched the tip of her nose. “I won’t lie to you,” he said fondly. “You have to believe me.”
My concubine.. Believe in you.
Then she closed her eyes, and the emperor indifferently shook off the powder from his fingernails and came over and said, “Send her back.”
I asked the emperor, “Aren’t you going to kill her?”
“Didn’t someone leave her alone in front of me?” The emperor half squinted and smiled dangerously. “If the little sparrow wants to become a phoenix, how can it grow up without going through hardships?”.
“Your Majesty, you..” Can you let her go?
Lonely Shadow, what do you want to say? You think I’m too heartless, don’t you?
“My subordinates dare not.”
“Gu Ying, Gu Ying, you have stayed with me for so many years. Don’t you know that what I hate most is cheating?”
“My subordinates dare not lie to you.”
The emperor stopped smiling and turned to his bed. “The best.”
I was a little distracted, and when I saw that the emperor was going to bed, I picked up the sleeping Jinzhao night and slowly retreated out.
The moon is bright and the stars are rare. I look up at the waning moon. My sight is confined in this square wall. The sparrow should not be locked in a cage. It should fly to a wider world.
Jinzhao was favored again at night, and the people who usually added insult to injury respected her again. The emperor ordered people to collect good ointment for her to restore her original appearance.
At first, Jinzhao night was very alert, thinking that it was the emperor’s new trick, but gradually, she sank down and prepared to drown in the gentle village that the emperor had prepared for her.
“Your Majesty, will you always be good to me?”
The emperor smiled brightly. “Of course, I will always be nice to you.”
I listened creepily in the corner.
Anyone who falls in love with such a madman has been in trouble for eight lifetimes.
What’s more, this madman is very good at hiding himself and turning himself into another kind of person.
I shivered and suddenly felt that the wind was so cool this year.
The emperor touched her eyes lovingly. “Your eyes are so beautiful. I want to see them all the time.”
“My eyes will always be on you.”
“Not enough.”
He gave a bowl of red bean soup, Jin Zhaoye was very resistant at first, she had a shadow on this thing, the result was coaxed by the emperor’s gentle words to drink in.
The next day Jinzhao fell into the emperor’s arms with his eyes wide open. “Your Majesty..” Your Majesty, I can’t see!
“Don’t be afraid. I’ll call the Imperial Physician to treat you.” The emperor comforted her, but asked me to inform the doctor not to cure her.
The doctors knelt down and said that there was no medicine to cure the eyes. Jinzhao collapsed at night and beat everything he could touch like crazy.
I watched all this with an expressionless face. The emperor looked at the place where I was and said softly, “You see, she doesn’t have to close her eyes anymore. I can see her charming eyes all the time. Isn’t it great?”
Jinzhao shed tears with his eyes open at night, and his eyes, which used to be bright and bright, were pale and empty. Holding the emperor’s hand
tightly, her expression was aggrieved like a dirty stray dog, and she was afraid of being abandoned. I can’t see, I can’t see anymore, what should I do..
“I have ordered people to investigate this matter. From now on, I will be your eyes.”
Thank you.. Your Majesty. It makes
me want to vomit. Didn’t
Jin Zhaoye suspect that there was something wrong with that bowl of red bean soup? The imperial concubine Ling, who
had previously poisoned Jin Zhaoye, became the emperor’s scapegoat. The emperor put her into the cold palace and cleaned up her family by the way.
I even suspect that this is the real purpose of the emperor’s love for Jinzhao night.
He also promised Jin Zhaoye’s long-held wish to send her out of the palace and place her in a house.
I still don’t understand what the emperor is thinking.
Until I saw Kui Xu.
I was covered with blood and suddenly looked at the emperor.
“Lonely Shadow, what I don’t like most is people who lie to me.”
The emperor gently stroked my face through the mask and then pulled off my mask.
I looked at him and he smiled again.
“You have beautiful eyes. I forgive you.”
He told me to spy on them here, but in fact, he was torturing me.
Jin Zhaoye regarded this man as the emperor from beginning to end.
From the surprise at the beginning to the calm acceptance of the fact that she had mistaken me for someone else, I felt very uncomfortable.
They live like an ordinary couple, Jinzhao cooks at night, and he goes out to look for work.
Sometimes I couldn’t help showing up. He saw me and said thank you with a smile. I asked him why he didn’t run away?
He said, “Miss Ying, after you left, I was tied up. They didn’t kill me, and they let me live like this with the little sparrow. I’m very satisfied.”
“Run with her as far as you can.” I quickly put the medicine bag into his hand and whispered, “This is the medicine for the eyes of Jinzhao Night. Take her away at night, and I will cover you.”
“Miss Ying, you..”
Jinzhao night groped out, “Your Majesty..” Are you there?
Kui’s expression stiffened, and she naturally stepped forward to support her. “I’m here. What’s the matter?”
“I’ve learned a new dish. Come and try it.”
“Your eyes are not good. You don’t have to do these little things. I’m here.” She apologized to me with her eyes, then helped her in and said in a garrulous way.
Jin Zhao-ye waved her hand indifferently. “When I’m idle, I’m idle. Besides, I just can’t see. It’s not like I can’t move.”
“It’s all right. When I make some money, I’ll take you to get your eyes fixed.”
Your Majesty.. The Imperial Physician has said there is no cure. Don’t make fun of me.
Kui Xu laughed and touched her forehead lightly. “The little sparrow won’t be invisible forever.”
They walked in hand in hand, and I stood outside the gate, very determined to let them go.
“Lonely Shadow.” The emperor suddenly appeared in front of me, and I felt a little jumpy. “Your Majesty, why are you here?”
“I want to see what freedom the little sparrow wants.” The emperor looked calmly at the two men in the gate. His expression was dark and unclear. He laughed in a low voice, which made my hair stand on end. “I’m so jealous. Seeing them live so happily makes me want to see what it’s like.”
Your Majesty.. You are the king of a country.
“Of course I know, and the little sparrow thinks he is me. If he dies, will the little sparrow never know? He has lived with him for so long that he has never even met him?” The emperor slowly raised his eyes, which were unusually hot. “Isn’t it interesting?”? Solitary Shadow.
“Lonely Shadow, I gave you a chance.” The emperor whispered to me, “How about killing him and I will forgive you for everything you have done?”
I knelt down to him, looked up at him, and said earnestly, “Your Majesty, leave them alone.”
The emperor looked at me with disappointment on his face. “Lonely Shadow, you have changed.”
“Your Majesty, your subordinates have not changed.” I calmly retorted, “You have changed.”
“I will not change. You will always change.” If
you intercede for them, then tell me what interesting things have happened between you? Let you let him go even if you want to deceive me. The emperor said carelessly, “Gu Ying, I’ll give you a choice. Do you want the little sparrow to live or the prince?”
I know. He meant what he said. If I don’t pick them, they’re both dead.
“Your Majesty..” I closed my eyes, suppressed the trembling in my heart, and said to him, “I choose the Brocade Lady.”
The well-trained guards climbed into the house and disturbed the two men who were packing up their things. Kui Xu protected the confused Jinzhao Night behind him. One of them stabbed him in the abdomen with a knife. The sound of the sword piercing the skin was particularly harsh. Jinzhao Night shouted, “Your Majesty!”
She turned around with difficulty, covered her ears, and laughed weakly. “Don’t be afraid, little sparrow.” Another
cut, this time in the back.
I stood beside the emperor, desperately pinching the palm of my hand, and gradually pinching blood.
The emperor noticed the blood on the ground, lifted my hand, and breathed softly, “Why do you have to endure so much pain?”? It wasn’t you who died.
Then he smiled, “I thought you would choose that prince, if you really choose, I have to think about what magic he has, so that my dark guard, seems to be.” Fall in love with him?
“Your Majesty, your subordinates dare not.”
“How dare you? You did it anyway.”
Kui Xu is dead.
Jin Zhaoye fainted to the ground and was carried away.
The emperor did not allow me to collect his body, so I had to secretly ask the brother of the dark guard to build a straw mat for him.
Jin Zhaoye was brought back to the palace. She refused to be approached by anyone. The emperor had no choice but to knock her out and order someone to cure her eyes. At the moment when he saw the emperor coming in with a smile, Jin Zhaoye cried with joy and threw herself into his arms. “Your Majesty!”! I I thought you were dead, but I was just dreaming.
The emperor’s smile gradually converged and pushed her away, already stunned.
“No, you didn’t dream.”
When I saw his expression, I wanted to rush out and cover Jinzhao’s ears, but I couldn’t. I could only watch it happen.
He slowly told the whole story, and Jin Zhaoye was suddenly confused. There was a dead silence in the
bedroom.
After a while, Jin Zhaoye covered his ears, closed his eyes and screamed. He collapsed and fell to the ground, trembling all over.
I hate you! Aah! Aah! Aah! I hate you!
The emperor was very puzzled and bent down to look at her. “I didn’t kill you, but I gave you the love you wanted. Why do you hate me?” With tears on her face,
Jin Zhaoye pulled out the hairpin from her hair and went straight to her throat. When she was about to cut it, the emperor caught her and said with a cold face, “You are my property. If I don’t allow it, you can’t die.”
“Let me die!” Jin Zhaoye cried crazily, kneeling and kowtowing, again and again, until his head was broken and bleeding. “Please, let me die!”! Let me die!
No, you’re so funny. I really don’t have the heart to let go, and I don’t want to see you sad for others. The
whole bedroom echoed with shrill and painful cries, which were the eternal cycle of my nightmare.
From that day on, the emperor imprisoned her in his bedroom every day and ordered me to guard her. At first, she desperately begged me to give her a good time.
“Please, kill me, will you?” Jin Zhaoye asked me this day after day, but she did not get a response, and she gradually became numb.
I was leaning against the corner with a mask on, and my body was covered with whiplash wounds. The emperor always tortured people like this. If I moved a little, the wound would open.
But I still want to tell her something.
I took off my mask, and Jin Zhaoye opened her eyes wide and murmured, “Ying.”
Then she lowered her head again. Her tears had dried up and she laughed at herself. “Did you come to my palace at that time under orders to watch me?”
“No.”
She still raised her head.
I have never shed tears, because I am a dark guard, my lifelong goal is to protect the emperor, tears such a weak thing, will only affect my mood.
But at this moment, I still shed tears unconsciously.
I’m sorry.. It’s all my fault, sister.
My identity was told to me by the emperor. When I was abandoned by my father, he saw that I was pitiful and dying, so he picked me up and trained me to be a dark guard.
Jin Zhaoye, she is my sister, like me, because my father did not want a girl, both abandoned, but she is a little better than me, was secretly sent away by my mother, grew up safely in a small village.
The emperor looked at me with interest and was very happy to know these things. He raised my chin and looked at me carefully. “Gu Ying, I let you see your relatives. Are you grateful to me?”
I said calmly, “I thank you, uncle, dog and beast.”
Then I was flogged and thrown into the night of Guan Jinzhao.
He didn’t kill me, which is the most surprising thing for me.
Said to be custody, in fact, like her, I was under house arrest, in order not to let Jinzhao night to die, I still told her my identity, even though this is a painful and terrible reality.
She stopped asking for death and slowly became silent. No matter what I said, her face was expressionless and she did not reply to me. It seemed that in her eyes, there was nothing in the world that could move her.
After she didn’t want to die, the emperor finally ended our imprisonment. He made Jin Zhaoye an imperial concubine and made me her personal maid. At one point
I suspected it was another plot on his part.
But a few years later, our life became quiet, the emperor did not do anything evil, but did his best to Jinzhao night.
However, she would no longer be moved by any good intentions of the emperor, she became a pool of stagnant water, as if she would never come back to life. Everyone in the
palace knew that the emperor loved the imperial concubine.
The imperial concubine laughed at herself. “Ying, do you think he loves me?”
I shook my head and said sincerely, “No, he only loves himself.”
Who knows.. The emperor is merciless.
After many years, new people came to the palace, because the emperor did not make anyone queen, the imperial concubine had the right to assist the six palaces, so the new people all came to pay their respects to the imperial concubine. One of them was a little girl wearing a goose-yellow skirt, with clear eyes. In a trance, I thought I saw the brocade night of that year.
The imperial concubine should also think so, so she left the little girl alone. “Why do you want to enter the palace?”
She asked.
The little girl blushed and said, “Because I like Your Majesty very much, I want to be closer to Your Majesty!”
Closer.. “Oh.” The imperial concubine tugged at the corners of her mouth numbly. “I wish I could stay away from him.”
Why? They all say Your Majesty loves you so much. I really envy you. When I heard
this, I quickly got her out so as not to irritate her again.
Love? It’s so funny.
Every time the emperor came, the imperial concubine wanted to kill him, but she couldn’t beat the emperor and could only let him do evil.
The imperial concubine is pregnant. The emperor, who
had already reached middle age, was very excited. He had not had any children in his harem for a long time. When he got off the early court, he rushed over and hugged the imperial concubine like a child. His eyes were bright. “Little sparrow, you are really my darling. If you give birth to a prince, I will make him crown prince immediately!”.
The imperial concubine looked at him indifferently, without the slightest expression. Embarrassed, the emperor still did not let go. “Little sparrow, it was my fault that I hurt you at the beginning. Now I know I was wrong. Can you forgive me?”
She still did not speak, as she had been, like a delicate statue.
The emperor said to himself, “There are new people in the palace this year, and I saw a little girl inside who looked like you in particular, so I gave her a place.”
The imperial concubine finally had a movement, she slapped in the face of the emperor, the emperor was silent for a moment, smiled.
“Little sparrow, if it makes you feel better to hit me, then go ahead.”
The imperial concubine is not moving again.
The emperor sighed deeply and turned away.
I spat at his back. There was a warbler singing
outside the window, and I, who was no longer a dark guard, could not help but go out.
The emperor is waiting for me there.
“Gu Ying, are you still blaming me?”
“My subordinates dare not.”
He squinted and smiled, and the end of his eyes was already wrinkled. “The little sparrow has grown up, and I actually..” I really don’t want her to leave me.
I did not speak, but he told me, “Do you know what the little sparrow likes?”
“The imperial concubine likes a place where you never come to her.”
The emperor was choked by me and was unusually not angry. “If this is her idea, I will be satisfied.”
A few days later, the little girl in yellow who came to pay her respects to the imperial concubine was given the title of imperial concubine. The whole palace was discussing the matter, saying that she was more favored than imperial concubine. Only the imperial concubine sat with an expressionless face and looked at me.
“Ying’er.”
“I’m here.”
“My palace is tired.”
“Go and rest.”
She laughed out loud for the first time in years. “He says I’m a sparrow, but the sparrow doesn’t want to fly to the branches and become a phoenix. I want to fly out of the palace. What do you think?”.
I took her hand. “Okay.” With tears in her
eyes, she asked me softly, “Ying, do you think I will meet him in hell?”
“Yes.”
She slowly drank a bowl of red bean soup sprinkled with poison, lay on the bed, gradually lost her interest, took the baby in her belly, and went to hell.
If there is a God in this world, I hope that she can live as free as a sparrow in her next life. If possible, let them meet again.
I lit a fire, in this raging fire, I saw the emperor rushed in regardless, calling the name of the imperial concubine, I really do not want him to see the imperial concubine, broke the beam, we looked at each other in the fire, for the first time in his eyes, I saw the emotion called pain.
I suddenly laughed.
She should see what karma is.
He fell in love with her, but she died in the year when the emperor loved her most.
The emperor was pulled out, and I quietly left the palace with the body of the imperial concubine in my arms and went to the small village where she had always wanted to go back.
That year I secretly carried the body away and buried it here, and now there is another owner in the tomb.
I think they will meet again.
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Author: Yu Sheng Ge
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