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Everyone said that it was I who took the favor of my own sister and robbed the honor of the queen of this country.

But they did not know that my sister was poisoned to death by her favorite litchi, which was offered by my hands, in the Mid-Autumn Festival when the whole family was reunited.

What I want, I always have to earn.

[1]

I had been in the cold palace for three years when the withered and yellow willow leaves fell into the courtyard in the heavy snow.

Silk picked up the dead branches and leaves to boil hot water, and the food was always cold, and every time it had to be heated before it could be eaten. I didn’t expect Silk to be so loyal, so in the country of watching the moon, and so in the country of snow desert with me.

I didn’t expect Zuo Cong, the new emperor of Xuemo, to be so infatuated. Seeing that I was not the one he asked to marry on the wedding day, he immediately put me into the cold palace. On the

wedding day, it was a similar snowy day at the end of autumn. He only slightly raised the corner of the veil. I saw the consternation and disgust in the eyes of the emperor along the handle of the jade Ruyi. All

he said to me was, “Is Princess Yunluo?”? Isn’t the real Qi Yujin dead? Need her sister to be the lonely queen instead of her? You don’t even see what kind of person you are!

Zuo Cong has an unhealed scar in the corner of his eye, and he is very ferocious and ugly when cursing. So I really want to find a mirror to come forward and let him see what he is first.

Of course I didn’t dare. I could only kneel down and confess my guilt in silence, and then move to the cold palace. The new queen wore a wedding dress into the cold palace, probably the first time in the five countries. I can’t

tell which is more emotional, fear, sadness or helplessness. At that time, on the bluestone road on a snowy night, I felt a little pity in my heart.

It’s just a few threads. The imperial capital of Guanyue Kingdom was thousands of miles away from this cold mountain city, and it took some time to deliver the letter, so he did not know that what he had just said was actually the truth. With the title of “Princess Yujin,”

I came to marry because the real Qi Yujin was really dead.

It was estimated that it would be about a month and a half after my departure. When she died, she should have been bleeding from seven orifices, and she would die in her grave in her prime.

I shouldn’t have known about it like Zuo Cong. Just because I poisoned Qi Yujin.

My sister was poisoned to death by her favorite litchi, which I offered with both hands, in the Mid-Autumn Festival when the whole family was reunited.

[2]

When I left the palace, everyone said that it was I who had won the favor of my own sister and the honor of the queen of this country.

Speaking of Qi Yujin, as Zuo Cong said, “one brocade and one Luo” is the portrayal of my two sisters’ life.

She is always the one held by her father and mother in the palm of her hand, and she is the most dazzling little princess in the whole palace. Even if he had to marry, it was also the favorite of Zuo Cong, who was sitting in the north.

I’m not the same. Born not as good-looking as Qi Yujin, since I can remember, I can only watch my mother and concubine hold her, and gradually even the nurse doesn’t like to touch me more.

The father emperor most dotes on the mother imperial concubine, then also favors Qi Yujin, even took the mother imperial concubine to me that coldness also to add some points.

Not to mention the princes, princesses and slaves who are used to serving dishes. When I was

very young, I would hold the silk and say, “You see, you are the silk, and I am Luo Yi. She is the only one who is very beautiful. That’s why we should be sisters.”

She waved her hand hurriedly and said that I was the body of a thousand gold and should not be compared with her slave. Then a

few years later, some slaves even dared to break their mouths in front of my bedroom, saying that I was too lonely and unlikable. My heart said that I was so lonely, but it was not

because of the people in the womb. What kind of people are different when they are born.

If I grow up like Qi Yujin, who is loved by millions of people, I can have a better temper than her. I was almost eleven years old when I thought this way. Behind closed doors, I said angrily to Silk, “If I were the only one at my mother’s knee, the situation would be different.”

Silk had always been honest and heartless. She just nodded stupidly. “Without Princess Yujin, Princess Yunluo would be in a much better position.” After

a casual echo, she realized that she had made a mistake and hurriedly said that she did not mean to say that Qi Yujin was not or that I was not good now. She added a lot of words, but she didn’t get to the point.

Not who is good and who is not good, but the father and the mother of the imperial concubine always favor it. Between people, the most unreasonable thing to say is partiality.

Originally, with the favor of Qi Yujin, in any case, she would die happily beside the imperial concubine in this imperial city. If she married a son-in-law she could choose, the descendants she gave birth to would be either rich or noble.

Unfortunately, three years ago, Zuo Cong, who was still the prince of the Snow Desert Kingdom, came with the mission to discuss the armistice. In the back garden, he bumped into Qi Yujin, who insisted on learning from folk women to make swings.

I was not present at that time, and later heard the gossip maid say that Qi Yujin also invited Zuo Cong to play together and pushed him on the swing in person. Later, the swing was too high to be pushed out, planted in the flowers and even cut his face by the branches.

But Zuo Cong was not only not annoyed, but also smiled at the pale appearance of Qi Yujin. After that, he made a special inquiry and learned that she was the Jade Brocade Princess of the Empress Xu.

At that time, the Snow Desert Kingdom had a strong army and had the heart of swallowing the whole northern territory, which made our Guanyue Kingdom lose ground. Seeing that they were almost on the edge of Mingyue City, the capital of the emperor, the father emperor hurriedly sent a letter of surrender to negotiate peace.

Not only to send to send gold and silver, but also to send a princess to tie the Qin and Jin. So Zuo Cong asked Qi Yujin to marry him by name. How did the

father, the emperor, the mother and the imperial concubine give up and put off the summer of the next year on the grounds of choosing an auspicious day. Zuo Cong ascended the throne and became the new emperor of the Snow Desert Kingdom. He wrote that if he didn’t marry the princess, he would go to war. Only then did he have to settle the marriage.

At that time, the lychees on the south bank of the Jiejiang River were just right, but there were not many treasures sent to the palace every year, and only seven or eight of them were distributed to me at most. Even when Qi Yujin said that she liked litchi best, I whispered that I could never get her big white porcelain basin.

Sometimes she gave her a few more than one she gave me, and last year it was the most serious, five more than me.

But Shuang Long threw his weight around and gave Silk five. “Your master might not be able to give you so much,” said Yin and Yang in a strange voice.

Silk knew I loved to eat, and foolishly brought it all back to me. I was so angry that I swept it to the ground. But after a while, I went to pick them up one by one. He

picked it up without washing or wiping it, peeled it and sent it to his mouth with the dust on his fingertips. When I asked her what she was crying for, she hesitated for a long time and asked me, “What is the princess laughing at?” Only then did

I realize that Silk was scared to cry by my appearance.

But this year, all the lychees sent to my mother’s palace appeared in my bedroom. I eat them one by one, and I can’t finish them as a meal.

Father emperor also personally came to see me, in addition to the prince only took me a princess to get the snow pavilion summer. The moonlight

outside the window was soft, and his benevolent expression had never been given to me before.

After a while, I heard him laugh slowly and say, “When did little Yunluo become so graceful?”? In my father’s mind, you were still standing quietly at the table reading a book, but now you are more than half a person’s height above the desk. As soon as the tip of

my nose was sour, I turned my back, still looking out of the window at the moon on the treetops.

When. I am growing up in front of you day by day, if you ask me when, I really do not know how to answer. There is a high jade screen in the bedroom of

Qi Yujin. Every year on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, her father and mother would measure her height and engrave it on the screen. I think my father would never wonder when Yujin grew up.

Yunluo always likes to be quiet and seldom talks, for fear of adding to the worries of his father, mother, and concubine. It would be a blessing for Yunluo if he could save himself some worry. Turning around again, with my usual timid smile, I made a clever salute to my father.

It was the first time he praised me. From childhood to adulthood, even though I did better than Qi Yujin in reading, etiquette and female work, I never got a word of praise.

At that time, I was so angry that one day I deliberately embroidered the phoenix into a green sparrow and handed it in, but it was just put aside by my mother and concubine. I ran back to the bedroom crying, only to know that I was more afraid of being scolded than that they would behave irrelevantly no matter what they did.

But I am their own flesh and blood, and I really have nothing to do with it.

So that night in Nongxue Pavilion, I raised my eyes and asked my father a question that would never have dared to be asked by Princess Yunluo: “Father, if I take the place of my sister and marry her, would it be good?”

[3]

After hearing that I was willing to take the initiative to marry Qi Yujin, I caught a flash of joy in my father’s eyes. Just a moment is enough, and then those high-sounding words that can’t bear to part with me can’t bring tears to my eyes any more.

In fact, I do not have to ask, they treat me so well these days, there must be a purpose. Looking at the present, it is just a troublesome matter of Qi Yujin’s marriage.

So the day before I married, I saw only one person, my sister Qi Yujin.

She is the kind of woman who can see through at a glance. It is a person like the full moon in the bright moon city, who has grown up with thousands of love and nourishment, and there is no shadow in his eyes.

I invited her to come to my bedroom. When she was a child, she often came when she was short of playmates. Later, when she saw that my reaction was always light, she did not often come. She sat down along the round table, biting her lip and not daring to look at me, her eyes locked on the lychee fruit bowl.

I peeled one for her with my own hands. She took it slowly and hesitated to ask me again and again, “I heard that you volunteered?”

“Yes,” I replied softly, watching her slowly feed it into her mouth and then peel one off for her. “Sister doesn’t have to blame herself. It’s what Yunluo should do to share the worries of her father, mother and sister.”

She ate the second one a little faster, and on the jade hibiscus face was a pair of watery eyes filled with tears. I felt pity for her. “You’ve always been the cleverest little sister in the palace, and I really can’t bear to part with you.”

Probably only the phrase “reluctant to part with” in the mouth of Chi Yu-chin is sincere. I had mixed feelings for a moment, and the hand that peeled the lychee gave me a meal, but eventually I handed it over and stuffed it into her mouth.

I think I heard my own habitual smirk at the time. I don’t want to part with my sister either, but she’s always afraid of the cold. If I really went to the northernmost snowy desert country, I would be even more reluctant to part with it. Don’t worry, sister.

When she saw that I had peeled another lychee for her, she quickly invited me to eat it. I looked at her, and her face, which was like congealed fat, had a pure look that the cold palace should not have at all. “I don’t like it,”

I whispered. “I don’t know why my mother gave me so much. It just so happens that my sister likes it best, so when she comes, she eats more.

“Is it?” Chi Yu-chin ate the lychees and opened her eyes wide. I was sitting in the dark with the backlight reflected inside, like a fleshless shadow. How could anyone not like to eat lychees? That’s all right, lest you have nothing to eat even if you want to when you get to Snow Desert. With a deep sigh,

she was seriously thinking of me.

Yeah, how can anyone not like lychees. How could anyone not hear someone standing right next to her.

I missed so many flaws, but she didn’t notice any of them. Reciting silently, “Qi Yujin, you should be stupid to death,” I put the last lychee into her palm.

A total of five. How did your slave give my slave in those days? How can I return you now.

It was a medicine for poisonous snakes, insects, rats and ants, which was melted and soaked in lychees. Also can only be I go to want, that group of Imperial Pharmacy’s slave can believe unexpectedly has the princess bedroom palace to make these. I specifically asked what to do if someone eats it by mistake.

A slave picked up a small bag and said that it didn’t matter if it was not enough. If it was enough, the Great Luo Immortal couldn’t save it. In the end, he bled to death from seven orifices.

Qi Yujin began to have unstoppable abdominal pain that night. When I was taken for questioning at dawn, I saw her face white and bloodless through the beaded curtain. Is indeed Qi Yujin, this pair of appearance is also the beautiful woman face.

The Imperial Physician said that there was no way to save the day, and it would be delayed for one and a half months at most.

It was Shuanglong who reported that he had only eaten a few more lychees in my temple the day before.

I immediately knelt down and kowtowed and said in a deep voice, “If my father and mother are suspicious, I will put Yunluo in custody for trial.”. It’s just that if you miss the big event of marriage and cause Xuemo to rise up again, Yunluo will be guilty of ten thousand deaths.

I didn’t expect my mother to go crazy and grab me by the shoulder. I looked up at her crying red eyes. “That’s your own sister!”! No matter how much you hate me and your father’s favor, you shouldn’t have killed him! Unexpectedly, I wanted to laugh at

the undisguised dislike and hatred in her eyes. I

didn’t want to hide any more, so I turned to the king of that country and said, “Father, how

will you decide?” There was a country before a

family, and I saw his clenched fist raised and dropped, and finally let

go, saying that I should hurry up and take the sedan out of the palace, so as not to miss the auspicious time.

My mother and concubine pulled out a sparrow hairpin from the head of the maid beside her and put it on my head. According to the old

system, it should be a phoenix hairpin that she had prepared early. I know what she means.

“I hope you will die a terrible death!”

Thousands of miles away, this is the last word I heard my mother and concubine say to me.

The north wind sweeps the ground, and the white grass is broken. I can’t cry. I have cried too many nights because of their

partiality and wet the pillow.

I’m just thinking about one thing. It turns out that they also know that they are partial. I knew I

would hold a grudge.

But because I am just a powerless princess who is treated coldly, I am too lazy to take care of my

grievances. Even the rare perfunctory is for Qi Yujin’s beautiful life.

Sitting in the sedan chair, I gently adjusted my bright red wedding dress. I think if the silk

who accompanied me outside the car saw my appearance, she would be scared to cry again.

Because I couldn’t help laughing when I thought that they would suffer for the rest of their lives because I killed Qi Yujin.

Will you die a terrible death? If you hurt the good and innocent people, you will not die well, then I am not the only one who will not die well.

Even though I didn’t understand at that time, there were people who should have died well who would jump into hell in ten directions by themselves. Even if you can’t die well, you won’t retreat and regret.

[4]

Along the way, I felt uneasy. I analyzed with Silk and said that even though I knew I was not Qi Yujin, I would marry him as Princess Yujin to be the queen of Xuemo Kingdom, representing the two countries to make peace. Zuo Cong should not take my life easily. Father emperor at that time also should be such consideration, just let me go for Qi Yujin to marry.

Silk comforted me, saying that this was true, and perhaps Zuo Cong would treat me well. Emperors have always been fickle, how can there be so much love and hate.

Snowflakes are falling like goose feathers, and the late autumn in Mobei is as cold as the winter in Mingyue City. I tightened my cloak, lifted a corner of the curtain, and glanced at Silk. “Are you bold or timid?” I asked? You know it was I who killed Qi Yu-chin. How can you not be afraid of me? Out of

the car window, Silk turned her head to look at me. I was shocked by the pity in her eyes. Only Silk knows how pitiful the princess is. Even if you kill someone, the princess is still very pitiful, isn’t she?

If she hadn’t added that it was a pity to come to the desolate north and marry now, I would have been surprised that she could see through my heart. Yes, it’s pitiful. Only by killing the right person can I wipe out my past shame, but I

can’t kill my father and mother.

I suddenly thought about it seriously. Perhaps it’s not that he doesn’t want to kill his biological parents, but that he feels that the king of a country and the imperial concubine of the harem are too difficult to attack compared with Qi Yujin, a fool who guards loosely.

And then I was frozen out. Then came

the news. Considering my special status at this time, Guanyue sent a message saying that “Princess Yunluo” had died of illness.

Perhaps it was true for his father and mother, the quiet and timid Yunluo, who had died in the night when he poisoned his sister.

It was also the second time I saw Zuo Cong. In the heavy snow, he only stood at the door and asked me if the dead Princess Yunluo was Qi Yujin. Dressed in a fiery red cloak,

he stood in the snow like a clump of fireworks.

I couldn’t see his expression clearly. I just nodded and said, “She was sick in bed when I left the palace. I was afraid of delaying the marriage, so I came at the last minute.”

“Qi Yunluo, do you know that I would rather receive a corpse of Qi Yujin than see you come?”

It turned out that such words from a stranger’s mouth were also very harsh.

I bent down and saluted. The floor tiles of the cold palace were cold to the bone. I tried to put the word “roll” nicely: “The cold palace is cold. If the emperor has nothing else to do, he will leave quickly. If the cold hurts the body of the dragon, I will die and be blamed for it.

Perhaps there was no imperial concubine in the cold palace who would drive the emperor away in reverse. He looked at me several times before he brushed his sleeve and turned away. I haven’t seen him for

three years.

When I thought I would die of old age, Li Xin, the chief eunuch, issued a decree saying that Zuo Cong would let me go back to the Chaohui Palace where the empress lived. From then on, he was in charge of everything in the harem and was his queen.

I gave Li Xin the most valuable pair of gold and jade bracelets on my body and asked him what had happened.

He accepted it quietly and revealed to me in a low voice that my father had sent another princess to Zuo Cong as a concubine. It was sent to Zuo Cong’s pillow last night, and this morning there was a decree to let me go back to the palace. It was Qi Jingshu who

came, and her mother’s concubine was still my mother’s sister. When I left the palace, she was only 12 or 13 years old, and in my thin impression, she was a beautiful woman who looked very smart at the end of her eyebrows.

I gave the other one to Li Xin. He understood what I meant and added, “The Empress Shu also came from the Kingdom of Watching the Moon. When she arrived, she said she was concerned about the Empress.”. The emperor also thought that the two empresses were originally sisters, so they could be companions together. It’s not me that I should be

concerned about, but my position as queen. Zuo Cong is not to let us accompany, his harem concubines are not many, the special birth of only two people, I and Qi Jingshu, he wants us to check and balance each other. When I

stepped into Chaohui Palace in the evening, I stood on the highest step and looked back just to see the last touch of Qixia falling from the wall of the vermilion palace. Wu Pangyang, a strange palace maid, knelt down in the courtyard and said in unison, “Welcome the empress back to the palace.”.

Back to the palace? I used to think that the small courtyard where I lived in the Bright Moon Palace was my home, and now the cold palace where I lived in Hanshan City for three years seems to be somewhat like home. Only this Chaohui Palace was left, but I had not stayed overnight, and there was no familiar face here.

In fact, there is no difference.

It seems that I have someone close to me in the country of watching the moon.

Just as he was thinking about it, he saw a face he had seen appear outside the palace gate. Chi Ching-shu saluted me. I hadn’t seen her for three years, and she was even more beautiful. “My concubine paid her respects to the queen’s sister.”

[5]

Silk poured me a cup of hot tea, and seeing that I was still standing outside the hall, she came out with a tea tray. Holding her wrist, I pushed the tea tray toward Chi Ching-shu and said, “Sister, drink tea quickly.” The last time

I met her in Mingyue City, she came with her mother and concubine. At that time, I clumsily tried to please everyone and grabbed the work of the palace maid to give her tea.

Her expression at that time was exactly the same as it was at this time. There was a deep sense of surprise and contempt. “My sister is now the queen, how can she pass tea to my sister?”

Qi Jingshu came forward to help me step into the hall, and the little maid was preparing to light the lamp. In the gloom, she leaned close to me and said bluntly, “Sister, Jingshu is still looking at you the same way

.”. But how did such a well-behaved and quiet little princess kill her own sister? My

breath stagnated and I looked up in shock. I don’t like to look at people, because too many people look at me with contempt or indifference. But what is rare is that Qi Jingshu’s eyes are mostly proud of catching my handle.

My hands clenched unconsciously under my wide sleeves. “Did you tell the emperor?” I asked. Most of the pride in

her eyes disappeared, and she leaned back in her chair to adjust her tone while drinking tea. “Yes, but the emperor is busy with his government, so how can he mind his own business in the harem?”

Zuo Cong knew that Qi Yujin was killed by me, but instead of killing me, he released me from the cold palace. I let go of my fist and reached out to peel the orange on the table.

“Did my mother tell you this?” When the cold pulp entered my mouth, I inexplicably thought of that big plate of lychees. So I gave her a few pieces.

Chi Ching-shu’s eyes flashed and she asked me, “If it hadn’t been for what an insider said, who would have believed it?”

I stopped looking at her, and my eyes drifted to an octagonal palace lantern by the door. The warm yellow candle in the gauze cover crackled. “Do you know how I killed Qi Yujin?”

Qi Jingshu obviously did not know, staring round eyes pretending to be indifferent and arrogant, in fact, the bottom is full of doubt and fear. Like Qi Yujin at that time, she ate the orange I gave her without thinking.

“Just like you are now.” I turned my head and stared at her again. This time I sat facing the light and finally saw me reflected in her eyes. I had a gentle face

with a timid smile, like an old tree that anyone could cut down. “I’m not afraid at all that I hide poison in my food.” At that time,

she threw herself on the ground and vomited wildly, regardless of the dignity and face of the imperial concubine. It took her a while to realize something, and she helped the maid stand up. She wanted to scold me for playing with her: “Sister, what is

this place?” I cut her off and took a sip of tea.

She blushed and did not speak, but Silk answered for her: “Snow Desert Country, Cold Mountain City, Queen’s Palace.”

I looked up slightly and glanced at Qi Jingshu. “In the city of the bright moon, I’m your sister.”. But here, this palace is the queen. It’s getting late, and the palace is going to rest. Concubine Shu should go back to the palace. As soon as

I waved my sleeve, the supervisor, who was used to looking at people’s eyes, hurried forward to guide Qi Jingshu.

There was no need to look, and I knew that there would be no more contempt in her eyes when she looked at me. Perhaps with alarm, even with disgust, she could only bow low to me and say, “Yes, Empress.”

The north wind whistled, and the night engulfed the figures of Qi Jingshu and her party. It was the first time that I looked at the back of a person with great interest, and imagined that a wild animal jumped out of the dark and bit off the head of a person.

A large amount of blood gushed out from the fracture on the neck and dyed the whole courtyard of Chaohui Palace scarlet. After

Qi Jingshu left, Silk happily poured tea for me, saying that she was thousands of miles away from home like a broken kite, and that no one should step on anyone. She arranged the dishes for me and sighed that she finally didn’t have to heat the leftovers any more.

Silk was so happy that I seldom saw such a vivid expression on her face. But I did not want to laugh, as if there was a bottomless pit in my heart, throwing more things into it, I did not feel what to fill. As she tidied

my bed, she even hummed a tune about watching the moon. Then I asked her curiously, “Silk, you’ve been with me in the palace since you were eight years old. Where are you from?”

“Princess Hui, I’ve come from the Moon City in the south of the Yangtze River, where wintersweet flowers bloom in winter. It’s all right.”

I stared at her back as she took care of the mattress for a long time before I turned around. Facing the Nanmu frame full of beautiful jade, I saw the shadow of myself wearing a phoenix crown.

“Silk, where is this palace from?”

“The princess is the princess of Mingyue City, the capital of the emperor.”

I don’t know when the sky was overcast, and snow was falling at night. It was the first time I had said to Silk with a vain smirk, “Wrong, this palace is the queen of the Snow Desert Kingdom in the north.”

She was stared at by me, and the innocent smile on her face faded. Her expression was like watching me laugh and pick up the lychees on the ground to eat, and she was red and about to cry.

Finally, like Chi Ching-shu, she bent to her lowest position and bowed to me in a trembling voice: “Empress, please go to bed.”

“Going to bed so early?”

A deep man’s voice suddenly came from a distance. I turned around and saw a fireworks-like figure outside the hall, striding toward me on the ground.

It’s Zuo Cong.

It was Zuo Cong who had not seen him for three years and was blind in one eye.

[6]

It is rare to see his face clearly, with long and narrow eyebrows and thin facial bones, and a mouth with thick lips under the upright bridge of the nose. It can be regarded as good-looking with cold eyebrows and cold eyes, but it is a pity that it is useless to wear a blindfold.

Silk poured tea for Zuo Cong. As he drank, he asked me, “How did you kill Qi Yujin?”

I waited for him to swallow a mouthful of tea and replied calmly, “Your Majesty, I am the sister who was poisoned to death in the food.” He paused as he

held the teacup in his hand and sneered. “You’re not very good at killing people.”

“Fortunately, the person who was killed was stupid enough.” I suddenly felt a little angry. I couldn’t understand why the king of a country always spoke so harshly. “Your Majesty is worrying too much.”

Zuo Cong suddenly approached me, and the candle on the table reflected a light spot as big as a sesame seed in his solitary eyes. “I heard Shu Fei say that Qi Yujin was bleeding from her seven orifices when she died. She was so thin that only a layer of skin was left to cover her bones. She even said your name.”

He clamped my chin with one hand and forced me to look directly at him. “Yunluo,” he called to me in a deliberately hoarse voice, pretending to be dying.

“I have to say, the emperor’s dead voice is really like that.” I looked back at him and couldn’t help laughing out loud. “She never likes to call my name. No one remembers my name. Her father and mother were really cruel. They knew she couldn’t live, but they wanted her to die for half a month. When she was buried, she didn’t look like a beautiful woman.

The wind and snow beat against the window lattice. The wind in the north of the desert was so loud that even the sound of dozens of palace bells moving together in the corner of the eaves could be covered through the hill against which Chaohui Palace was backed.

It was in such a mighty wind and snow that Zuo Cong suddenly leaned forward and kissed my lips. The stubble stung me, and the strange breath wrapped me up.

The whole palace slave evaded me. Zuo Cong picked me up and walked to the brocade couch. Silk hurriedly untied the bead curtain.

His strength was far greater than mine, and my subconscious resistance was easily overcome by him. When the pain was all over his body, he stopped for a moment and leaned over my ear to tease me: “Yunluo, your eyebrows are going to be tied into a knot.”

I closed my eyes, and the pain was so painful that I would rather die. “Then I really want to tie this knot in my throat, so I won’t spit it out!”

Unexpectedly, he didn’t beat or scold him, but breathed heavily and laughed. “I’d like to see if you’ll spit it out tonight.”

A night like a dream is absurd.

It was after Zuo Cong went to court that Silk came to tell me that I was blue and purple in several places, and even the bite on my lips was still bloodshot.

I licked the wound, somewhat in a trance. Somehow, although silk son in the side with a crying voice said that he was afraid that Zuo Cong was torturing me because of Qi Yujin, but I did not feel afraid.

Because compared to the Bright Moon Palace, only Zuo Cong here dares to torture me, doesn’t he? And not painless, I let him hate to want to tear me up and swallow.

That’s interesting. I smiled strangely again, but this time Silk did not cry, but hurriedly avoided it, not daring to look at it more by passing on the meal. He sleeps with me every night

except on busy days.

I didn’t like to talk to him, and I only retorted when he was so sarcastic that I couldn’t help it, so he pinched my wrist with more force, and the next day it was bound to be purple and blue.

As a last resort, I ordered the slave to make a pair of wide-brimmed gold bracelets for me to cover up. That night, Zuo Cong threw them on the ground. Ding Ding Ding, hit the edge of the table before stopping.

“You see,” he pulled my wrist in front of my eyes, grinning like a grinning kid in one of the miscellaneous books I read, “your sister was so blue when she died. Did you not dream that she would ask for your life?

I’m really speechless.

I feel very shallow at night, and I always wake up as soon as I dream something. I had never had a dream, especially at night when the wind was blowing in Mobei, so I said helplessly, “Your Majesty, if you want to see my wife cry, you can issue a decree that my wife will cry for you.”

His laughter stopped, but the corners of his mouth rose a little. It’s more like the picture of the kid in the book.

Suddenly, Zuo Cong tore off his blindfold. There was no light all the year round, and the area under the blindfold was much whiter and more tender than other places. There was an ugly scar in the place where the eyes were originally. He deliberately reached out to pick up the upper eyelid. We were very close, and I saw the empty eye sockets under the eyelids at a glance. Under the

thin skin, the blood vessels are vertical and horizontal, like a dark and damp mud with blood. I watched, somewhat entranced.

He asked me what I was thinking and not to lie.

I rarely felt a little cruel. I held out my index finger and almost poked it into his empty eye socket.

He did not shy away, listening to me say slowly: “I am thinking, if I find a sharpened branch to poke through here, will it be like stringing ice-sugar gourds, stringing the emperor’s head?”

He sat up and laughed his head off. So I noticed the marks on his face and ears by the tie of the blindfold, which reminded me of several princes in the history books of the Five Kingdoms who were rejected because of their appearance and body.

I don’t know when his eyes were gouged out. Three years ago, he had not yet been made crown prince, and at that time the old emperor of the Snow Desert Kingdom was seriously ill and his life was hanging by a thread. Although the old empress who ruled from behind the curtain was his birth mother, she should have preferred his youngest son Zuo Kun.

Zuo Cong was later able to sit on the throne, which should be the result of several years of military exploits in the expansion of the north.

“What are you thinking?” He bent down again and stared at me as usual, trying to see through me. “The emperor ought to frighten Concubine Shu in the same way,”

I replied, wiggling my aching wrists. “She is much more pleasing to the eye when she cries than I am.”

He lowered his head, pressed his slightly hot lips against my ear, and rolled his throat. “You’re scolding me again..” When the

wind and snow suddenly hit the window lattice, there seemed to be a violent sound somewhere in my heart. This man understands me very well.

Somehow, I suddenly remembered the fireworks that exploded on the hilltop of Mingyue City on New Year’s Eve. The small courtyard was reflected as if it were day, and even the moon on the Lantern Festival was taken away.

I once said to Silk, if only human life could be like this fireworks. A moment of brilliance, and then cut the bones and ashes.

Silk was so frightened that she covered my mouth and said that I would be punished if I was intentionally told to my father and mother. I laughed and pulled her hand away. I said they wouldn’t punish me.

So it was a bit abrupt. For the first time, I took the initiative to embrace Zuo Cong’s broad shoulders and back. “Your Majesty, can you order people to put some lamps on the back hill?”? Hang high, as high as the moon.

He replied with a brief “yes,” with a tenderness he had never felt before.

I suddenly had some nausea. Why do I have to please to get all the kindness.

That’s why.

[7]

When Qi Jingshu couldn’t help looking for me, Zuo Cong ordered people to hang hundreds of lamps for me, big and small. If you want to light all the lights, you need a dozen or so palace people to go up the mountain two hours before dark every day, and you have to watch all night, so as not to blow off the lampshade after the wind is too strong and burn the mountain.

Even in the first month of the lunar year, my Chaohui Palace is still the most lively and eye-catching place.

When Qi Jingshu talked about the talent show in early April this year, I knew that the purpose of her trip was to win me in advance because she couldn’t win the favor. I looked at her for a moment, but in a few months, the sharpness between her eyebrows and eyes had diminished.

You didn’t really listen to the screwdriver in the Mingyue Palace and think you could easily pick up a queen here, did you? Won’t you? I was already holding back a strong sarcastic question, thanks to my earlier fear of her.

“How can I choose? If I don’t come to Mobei, I’ll marry General Laoshizi Zhenxi, whose wife died once. I heard that his wife was killed by him. If it were you, what would you do?” Qi Jingshu cried in front of me, never had the arrogance of the last time she came.

By marrying his daughter to be safe inside and outside, he deserved to be beaten by the enemy to the gate of the imperial capital.

“If it were my own palace, I would come to Mobei to try my luck.” I picked up the hot tea and drank it slowly. The water was steaming, and the lights on the back hill had already begun to come on one after another. “If I can’t seduce the

emperor, I can only deal well with the empress who is still a blood relative. But the harem is a place that eats people and doesn’t spit out bones. If you want to show your loyalty, at least you have to promise that if you have a prince, you will give it to the empress to bring up, so that if you make a crown prince in the future, you can treat the empress like a biological mother.

Qi Jingshu stared at me, not knowing what to say. There was a palpable sense of disbelief and hopelessness in her eyes.

I thought it was very funny, so I couldn’t help laughing. “You’ve never really taken care of this palace as your own sister, so why do you want this palace to take care of you as its own sister?”

I turned to look at her, wondering if, like Qi Yu-chin, people would become stupid as long as they were used to being pampered. “Wake up, you’re in Hanshan City now.”. Inside, there is no love from your mother, your concubine, or your father. Outside, there are no courtiers or consorts to protect you. Here, you only know this palace.

“Of course!” I ordered someone to take away the screen in front of the window facing the mountain. The whole Chaohui Palace was illuminated by the lights of the mountain as if it were a summer day. I looked at the scattered lights and imagined that after the mountain fire spread, everything would be burned to ashes. “You can also go and see the people around you.” A long

silence.

“Why should I see anyone again? I don’t know if my concubines can afford it.” Qi Jingshu stood up, the last trace of arrogance in her eyes extinguished. She knelt down in front of me and made a big gift. “From then on, I have relied on the protection of the empress.” With a

“thump,” I couldn’t help but sigh in my heart that the sound of my forehead touching the ground was really crisp.

After all, I was the first to get pregnant. Li Xin, the big eunuch, personally picked the Mammy and the maid who were the best at serving pregnant women. He congratulated them and said that he had served three emperors before and after, but he had

never seen such a special favor. It

is true that there is no imperial concubine in Zuo Cong’s harem. Qi Jingshu has only three people in the imperial concubine position, and he can be counted on the next hand. He has been on the throne for four years, and I am pregnant with his first child. “Is it because the emperor hates women?”

I teased.

Li Xin took one look at me, and although she said, “The empress is joking,” there was a sense of seriousness on her face.

This aroused my curiosity, and I went on to say, “Could it be that the emperor once showed his eyes to a concubine and scared her to cry, so he didn’t like to come to the harem?”

“Did the emperor show that eye to the empress?” Li Xin looked at me with some shock and immediately smiled again. “That never happened.”. The new emperor’s accession to the throne was so busy that he had only been delayed for a few years.

He knew I wouldn’t believe it, and I knew he wouldn’t tell the truth no matter how I asked him, so I said no more. But an aunt Ruoying, who had served the late Empress Dowager Xiao, was willing to tell me something about the past.

When she talked about the days when the late emperor wanted to establish a reserve, Zuo Cong’s eyes were already very bad. Originally headed by Xiao Guogong, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty preferred Zuo Kun.

As a result, it happened to be spring hunting at that time. Zuo Cong took Zuo Kun into the mountains. When he came out again, Zuo Kun was bitten bloody by wild animals. Finally, he amputated two legs and one arm to survive. His lips and teeth were so badly hurt that he couldn’t even speak clearly.

At that time, the empress Xiao Shi hung down the curtain, the consorts of the Xiao family were in power, and it was impossible to support the princes of other concubines, so they finally had to choose Zuo Cong to succeed to the throne.

“The civil and military officials of the Manchu court were all dissatisfied with the new emperor’s one-eyed eyes. It was all because of the power of the Xiao clan and the prestige of the new emperor in the army,” said Aunt Ruoying, turning to help me adjust the clothes on my lower abdomen. “Fortunately, now that the empress is pregnant, she can place her hopes on future generations.”

I blinked my eyes and put on the wooden smile I used to have in the Bright Moon Palace. I told her that I had no relatives in this cold mountain city, and the emperor’s likes and dislikes were unpredictable, so I could only rely on them to take care of me.

I also said that it happened that the draft was coming, and I was pregnant again. When Yingying and Yanyan entered the palace, I was afraid that I would not be able to keep the emperor in the Chaohui Palace.

Aunt Ruoying smiled, the kind of eyes that had long been used to seeing imperial concubines worrying about gains and losses. “Empress, in this harem, the mother always depends on the son.”. You are the empress. If you have a prince, you will be able to be crown prince in the future. Virtue and justice are enough not to annoy the emperor.

I nodded cleverly and made a good and obedient appearance. It was the night silk that accompanied me to look out of the window at the Moonlight Lantern Mountain. She, who had not mentioned the Bright Moon Palace for a long time, told me an old story.

Aunt Ruoying is absolutely right. The most important thing for the concubines is that the mother depends on the son. Had it not been for the fact that everyone was saying that Xu Fei’s second child must be a little prince, why would she have been wronged for so many years?

I looked at her in shock. Silk only looked at the lights on the mountain and did not notice my abnormality. She was free to recall some things in the past.

It was something that totally negated my efforts in the Mingyue Palace for more than ten years, which made me understand that it was not because I poisoned Qi Yujin’s mother that I wanted to die. I should have died in the morning, the moment I broke her dream of being the queen mother.

[8]

The queen of the main palace of Guanyue Kingdom has nothing to do. The present prince is actually born of an imperial concubine. I only know that when my mother gave birth to me, she was hurt and could not bear any more children, and I don’t know that there was such a thing.

She was Long En’s favorite concubine, and her family was also a senior official in the court. She found many famous doctors who said that they were princes. The more possible everything was, the more she expected. That’s why the disappointment was so deep when I found out that I was just an ordinary daughter.

Harem has always been the mother by the son. I let her power and glory come to an end in an instant, so she can’t hate me, and she won’t give me the love I deserve.

If she could, she would throw me to anyone.

“Tell me, Silka, were they like this from the beginning, or did they change because of the depth of the palace walls?” Why

on earth is it that each of them has a flawless appearance of a beautiful country and a beautiful city, but inside they are all snakes and scorpions that bite people’s bones and hearts.

Silk was about to answer me when Zuo Cong came.

Zuo Cong asked me, the bedroom hall is bright all night, may sleep well? I said I was not afraid of the light, and if he was afraid of the light, he would block the landscape painting screen on one side.

Because I was pregnant, he slept quietly beside me and hugged me gently. When I looked up, I could only see his Adam’s apple.

In fact, I have a lot of curious things to ask him, but I don’t believe him from the bottom of my heart. I didn’t want to be speechless if I got the truth. I went to sleep with a lot on my

mind, and that night I had the first nightmare of my life. My dream should be Zuo Kun, because I have never seen him, so the dream is a blurred face like Zuo Cong.

I dreamed that he fell off his horse into a deep mire. It was covered with dark purple rattan, and when he stepped in it, black and red muddy water would come out. From a distance, it looks like Zuo Cong’s blind eye socket.

He was stuck in it, and one moment I was like a bystander watching him struggle, and the next moment I was like myself standing in the mire struggling. After a while, the grass on one side suddenly moved, and a wild animal pounced on it.

The beast was only interested in biting Zuo Kun. I looked on, somewhat wanting to run, and somewhat wanting to save people. Just as I was sitting, the beast suddenly turned to look at me, and it turned out to be a human face.

It was the face of my mother when she tore her heart and lungs at me on the day of her departure.

Yunluo.. Yunluo! When

I was woken up by Zuo Cong, there was a layer of cold sweat on my forehead.

The mountain lantern shone, reflecting the smile of ridicule on that face.

He asked me, “Don’t you have nothing to fear?”? What did you dream that you were so scared? But your sister has come to ask for your life?

“I dreamt of my mother’s concubine. She must have come to me to ask for my life.” I answered truthfully, and my hand under the bedding held the corner of Zuo Cong’s underwear very lightly.

Many years later, I will occasionally think of this scene, if I hold his hand, or the action of holding his clothes is more obvious, will there be any difference.

But at that time, Zuo Cong just smiled contemptuously as usual. He said to me, “Sometimes I really want to know what Qi Yujin’s life would be like if you could experience it.”. At least if Qi Yujin had killed Qi Yunluo, her father and mother would not have wanted her to pay for her life.

Whether it’s a joke or not, it makes me want to bite off his neck. I let go of my hand completely and put it back on my lower abdomen.

Since then, I have never taken the initiative to touch Zuo Cong again. Even if silk told me that a concubine Ning, who was selected to enter the palace, was the most outstanding young lady in the Xiao clan, she would have a good fight with me in the future, and I would try my best to keep the emperor’s heart.

After so many years, I sighed and wondered why Silk could always keep her naive foolishness. It’s not hard to keep people’s hearts and feelings, but how can there be “people” in such a deep palace wall.

It’s all the beast with a human face in the dream.

So the first time I saw Ning Pin, I knew that there was only one more ferocious animal in the cage of the trapped animal.

[9]

When I first met Ning Pin, it was the grand ceremony for the new couple to enter the palace, and Zuo Cong was also there.

“When I was a child, I only used to call the emperor’cousin. ‘In the past few years, when we talked about the empress in the house, we would also say’cousin and sister-in-law’ in private. Now it turns out that we have to be sisters.”

Xiao Ning’s eyebrows and eyes are somewhat similar to Zuo Cong’s. They are long and narrow, like an unruly little fox. The rough part of his temperament is the same as the snow desert man I had imagined.

Zuo Cong begged me for mercy on her behalf: “This girl has been spoiled in the Guogong Mansion. She speaks freely. Don’t take it amiss with the queen.”

I gazed at the smile in Zuo Cong’s eyes, shook my head, and just smiled.

I thought Zuo Cong, like me, had no one close to him in the depths of the palace wall. It turned out that there were still some elder sisters and younger sisters, who got along very well because they were not related to the throne.

After Zuo Cong left, Xiao Ning kept pulling me to talk about their childhood. Such as climbing a palace tower together, breaking the treasure of the late emperor, planting a willow plant, and teasing a brother and sister in partnership.

What about Lord Kun? Are you also on good terms? I suddenly asked, and I caught the fear and hatred that she had no time to hide in her eyes. “I used to live in the cold palace, but this year I came back, but I didn’t see him at the New Year’s Eve banquet. Do you know how he is?”.

“It’s just as it used to be. When I was a kid, we used to play together. When I was older, my father forbade me to hang out with my brothers any more. I’ve been staying in the mansion for the past few years, and occasionally I go to the palace to see the emperor’s cousin

.” She answered in a watertight way and turned to talk about my pregnancy, never mentioning Zuo Kun again.

According to Aunt Ruoying’s words, Zuo Kun is five years younger than Zuo Cong, and his brothers have been harmonious and friendly since childhood. Even if they are disabled now, it should not be a name that the whole family is very secretive about.

Unless, Zuo Cong, like me, personally harmed his own brother. The prince, who

had the right to govern the country, was robbed of the crown prince’s position by his brother, who had no talent and fame, just because he had hurt his appearance. Any blood and uprightness could not be tolerated.

Thinking that he would be like me, the drum in my heart beat again.

It’s excitement and joy, it’s wonder that there are people in the world who are as pitiful and despicable as I am. And a little bit of a very fresh heart. When the

crowd dispersed, I stood quietly in front of the sprouting old willow and asked Silk if she had ever been really nice to anyone.

“Before you enter the palace, you wait on your parents; after you enter the palace, you wait on your master.” Such as others, I will feel hypocritical, but silk is such a person, wooden, honest, follow who will be single-minded for who is good.

I asked her again, “What about yourself?”? Just treat others well and don’t want others to treat you well? Are you afraid that others will bite the hand that feeds them?

Silk thought about it very seriously, and then replied to me, “I’ll think about it, and I’ll be afraid.”. But I can’t force myself to be who I am. The wind of

early summer is quiet, I can sleep peacefully a few minutes at night finally, began painful morning sickness because of be pregnant again. Unexpectedly, even if the newlyweds entered the palace, Zuo Cong would only occasionally go to the palace, but most of the time he would stay in my palace.

There were even more rows of bookshelves in the bookcase, and when the courtiers had finished their official duties, they came to the Chaohui Palace to read the memorials. According to Li Xin’s joke, “when the empress gives birth to a little prince or a little princess, and the emperor returns to Imperial Study, the table will be covered with palm-thick ashes.”

Sometimes I would be in a trance when I looked at his earnest annotation at his desk. The warm yellow light softened his original sharp edges and corners, and his sideways face just showed his good eye. I guess he should have been this quiet when he was a teenager. Were

they like this from the beginning, or did they change because of the deep walls of the palace?

It suddenly occurred to me that I had once asked Silk this question, but before I could think about it carefully, Zuo Cong suddenly asked, “Yunluo, what do you think of the expansion of the northern territory?”

Seeing that my face was at a loss, he added, “I heard that the princess of the Moon Kingdom has been reading history books since she was a child. I want to hear what you think of it.”. Don’t panic, just say what you think.

Although it is the name of marriage, I always turn up my nose at the matter of marriage. There is no beauty disaster, this is the world that men fight for, or win or lose will pull women to blame, it is shameless.

So I wasn’t afraid to say something that reminded Zuo Cong of attacking the Kingdom of Guanyue, so I said bluntly, “Although the Kingdom of Snow Desert has a vast territory, it is located in the north of the desert, and it is not suitable for farming.”. Farming has always been a weakness of the Snow Desert Kingdom, and it would indeed be of great benefit if we could occupy the 16 cities on the border of the Moon Watching Kingdom,

where the land is more fertile. There’s no need to go further south. For one thing, going deep into the hinterland for a long time is prone to change, and for another, the distance is too great and the loss of troops is too great. When I

said this, I still lowered my head and embroidered a small bellyband for the little doll. When I noticed that the hall was too quiet, I looked up at Zuo Cong.

As soon as I looked back, I saw the unprecedented brilliance in his eyes.

“Yunluo.” He called out my name.

After a while, he smiled. I thought he would say something, but he opened his mouth and said, “Yunluo..”

Zuo Cong looked at me and smiled for a while before he lowered his head and focused on the memorial in his hand. I just called my name twice, but somehow, I seemed to hear thousands of words. All hidden in his shadow stretched by candlelight.

The evening breeze was silent, and for the first time I felt the eaves bells outside the house ringing and the sea of lights on the back hill so bright.

And his smile, so clear and handsome.

[10]

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, my body became heavier and heavier, and my belly was round and bulging. All the doctors I saw said that I was pregnant with twins. I frowned painfully in Zuo Cong’s arms. I had seen the concubines of Mingyue Palace give birth. One was enough to go to the gate of hell. How should two suffer.

So I said to Zuo Cong, if the birth is difficult, it will kill me, and then cut open the belly to take out the child, he raised the child, I also feel more comfortable.

One side of the silk son was frightened to exclaim, Zuo Cong made a gesture to cover my mouth, “After you are born and raised, I will cure you for your slip of the tongue today.”

The child was born at full term, and

it was snowing heavily that day, and the thick pines and cypresses were broken and hung on the mountainside by the wind and snow. The pain spread all over my body, and I struggled to see several vague and familiar faces through the screen.

Xiao Ning has been promoted to Ning Fei, she did not squint to eat tea, only Qi Jingshu a strong probe to look at me here. The other concubines sat separately, some looking at the emperor, some embarrassed.

It was late into the night, and sure enough, they were twins. The first one was a little princess, and the second one was held in front of me by Aunt Ruoying. I only heard her say, “Congratulations to the empress, you gave birth to a dragon and a phoenix,” and then she completely fainted.

That’s the second dream I remember. In my dream, when I was very young, my father and mother took me by the hand and helped me onto the pomegranate flower terrace. I danced in a colorful skirt that was brighter than pomegranate flower. They praised me as the most beautiful and best little princess in the Bright Moon Palace. Then

I dreamt that I was wearing a wedding dress and stepping into the Chaohui Palace. Zuo Cong and I performed the highest ceremony of emperors and empresses in the Snow Desert Kingdom. He was very respectful to me. The first thing he said to me was, “The empress is polite.”

When I woke up, the world was turned upside down.

Zuo Cong stood by my couch and asked me how I was. I just feel pain and fatigue, and I think dismemberment is just like that. I said I wanted to see the child, left Cong a meal, I saw him against the light slightly lowered his head.

Aunt Ruoying came first to show me the little princess in her arms. It was Li Xin who sent the message: “Hurry up and order the nurse to bring the little prince from the Huiruo Palace to show the empress.” After

a meal, my hand, which was stroking my little daughter’s cheek, stopped in the air. I turned to look at Zuo Cong. His head was lower.

The queen worked hard to give birth to her eldest son and daughter. Gu named the little prince Yan.

Zuo Cong’s voice was very soft, and that was the first time I saw him lose all his arrogance. He pulled my hand over and wrapped it in his, and I realized that the palms of both his hands were covered with cold sweat. “The little princess was named’Ching He. ‘”

“He Qing Hai Yan,” I struggled half to sit up. He knew I wanted to see his eyes, so he deliberately turned his head sideways and left me half a cold face covered by an eye mask. “So I gave my newborn son, whose face I didn’t even see clearly, to Concubine Ning?”. It was Xiao Ning who was in charge of

the Huiruo Palace.

“The Queen..” He finally turned to look at me, frowning into a knot. I was waiting for an explanation, but he just went on to say, “Don’t be rude.”.

My hair stood up in an instant, and I thought I was so angry that I leaned down and bit him hard on the back of his hand. I wanted to bite off a piece of meat, but I had no strength after all.

He did not push me away, but let me go mad, with blood in my mouth and tears on my face. The tolerance and compassion written on his face almost crushed my last dignity. When

Ah Yan was brought, the hall was dead silent. Seeing the child’s sleeping face, I suddenly thought of Zuo Kun, who was bitten into blood by wild animals in my dream. He had a face similar to Zuo Cong’s, and his bright eyes reflected the sky and clouds.

I cried loudly and woke up Ah Yan, who cried with me in swaddling clothes. Zuo Cong ordered people to carry Ah Yan back to Huiruo Palace. I endured the idea of snatching the child and stared at Zuo Cong.

“He has just been born, and the emperor is too cruel.”

Even though he was born in this deep palace wall, he could not avoid a bloody storm for power and power in the future, but it was cruel to urinate like a chess piece under someone else’s knee. Mingming’s birth mother is in a palace separated by a wall.

What’s more, if I wake up to discuss, there is no guarantee that I will not compromise out of understanding. But he was so superior that he didn’t care about my feelings at all.

Zuo Cong looked back at me, and the tolerance in his eyes had faded a little. “The harem is a lonely harem. Even if you let the other concubines keep you by your side, can you still not save him?”.

“You can’t even save your own eyes, let alone a baby in swaddling clothes who can’t protect himself!” I shouted at the top of my voice, and I saw that the shock and hurt in his eyes would all be extinguished.

“Princess Yunluo,” his eyes were red, and he wanted to kill my heart word by word. “What qualifications do you have to say this to me? You are like an ant in Mingyue City, not to mention Hanshan City now

! Without the protection of loneliness, you are worse than ant. Do you understand?

Time seems to go back to the days when he released me from the cold palace. He held my wrist from a commanding position, reminding me all the time that ants are playthings, and that no one has ever treated me as a “person” from prejudice to contempt.

It’s ridiculous. I even had some expectations. I hope

that Zuo Cong will give me a little sincerity, which can fill the wound in my heart, and in the days to come, it will sprout and blossom. It was a pity that the seed rotted in the ground.

[11]

“If this is the reason why the emperor quietly sent Ah Yan to Concubine Ning, then I will understand.” I wiped away my tears with many emotions and struggled to get up and kneel down to salute.

I told Zuo Cong that he had worked too hard for my birth these days and asked him to go back to deal with government affairs so as not to delay national affairs. Before he could defend himself,

I said, “I would like to see the emperor off.”

Come to think of it, this is the third time I’ve told him to go.

He helped me up, and my eyes were always locked on the corner of his bright yellow clothes. At last there was a heavy sigh, and then the footsteps faded away and disappeared outside the palace gate.

It was the coldest year I had ever spent, even if Zuo Cong stayed in my palace as usual, even if he specially ordered the wet nurse to bring Ah Yan away after the third day of junior high school.

But the fireworks lifted off, the mountain lights were bright, and the brilliance could not be the same as before.

I didn’t expect Xiao Ning to take the initiative to visit me. In the

early spring, the wintersweet blossoms were just right, and she brought only a servant girl and a white jade porcelain vase. She asked the silk to break off a few branches and keep them in the bottle by the window, which would open for a long time.

She didn’t beat around the Bush, but leaned in and said bluntly, “Empress, you don’t have to hate your concubines so much, and you don’t have to be afraid that your concubines will not treat the big prince well.”

I looked at her, and at this moment I was jealous of her, for her full confidence that I had never had before.

I also said bluntly, “I have never held a grudge against you. The palace walls are deep. There is no one who can be his own master.”. I’m not afraid of anything now. If I’m afraid, it must be after you have brought up a prince.

Xiao Ning blinked, that pair of fox eyes smiled with natural charm, take Qi Yujin to compare, also want to lose luster. She did not hide her admiration, saying that I looked dull and timid, but in fact my mind was very transparent.

She told me never to be afraid. I didn’t understand. I watched the beauty play with her fingernails. “The emperor didn’t dare to let a woman from the Xiao family conceive a child, so I used to add spices to the incense in my bedroom to make people sterile. I didn’t know that.”

Somehow, I remembered Zuo Cong’s face at that moment, and he said he would save Ah Yan anyway. I dare not speculate that there is any part of his selfishness towards me.

I asked her why she didn’t make trouble since she knew. At that time, I didn’t understand the strange smile on Xiao Ning’s face. She did not explain, but said again, “As long as the empress doesn’t worry about

the concubines.”. My concubines will take good care of the eldest prince, and I will do my best to help him enter the East Palace and become emperor in the future.

I subconsciously went to cover her mouth. There were ears in the walls everywhere in the palace. Zuo Cong was only in his thirties when he discussed the new emperor. It was really alarming. Unexpectedly, the little fox smiled and held my hand instead, full of clarity.

She is sure that I have believed her, and now she has begun to protect her unconsciously. After all, I have to protect her. As soon as

Xiao Ning left, he said to me worriedly that he didn’t know what Ning Fei was up to. He robbed her son and asked me to be obedient. I looked at the bottle of wintersweet flowers, which were covered with snow, but the plum blossoms on the branches were bright red and dazzling.

Just like Xiao Ning, it is always the most eye-catching one in this cold mountain city.

I replied, “She came to talk about it specifically because she was thinking of me.”. If you accept this love, you will have to repay it in the future.

Although I don’t know what Xiao Ning is planning at the moment, I can infer that I am still useful to her. Otherwise, with the power of the Xiao family, Xiao Ning doesn’t have to take me seriously in any case.

Perhaps Xiao Ning gave me a reassuring pill, and I treated Zuo Cong much more gently than before. When he tried to hold me from behind at night, I never dodged again.

So he hugged me even more tightly, encircling me with his strong arms and snorting in my ear. He asked me, “Don’t you hate being alone?”

I was silent for a long time before I said, “I’ve never hated you. I’ve seen as much dirt in the palace walls as you have.”. It’s just a bit of fear. Your Majesty should understand.

“Gu understands,” he chuckled. “No one has ever pulled Gu’s scar and scolded him like that. You can see that you’re not even afraid of death. That’s why I’ve never seen you afraid of anything, and I think it’s very strange. After all, you’re a close relative, and you’re not immune to vulgarity.

“One yard at a time. I was mad that day and tore the emperor’s old wound, but I wasn’t.” I turned around and faced him, heart to heart. I didn’t know whether it was the moonlight or the candlelight on the mountain. “It wasn’t rude, but I broke your heart.”

I stared into his eyes. He hadn’t taken off the blindfold since that day. At this moment, he reached behind his head with one hand and took off the blindfold.

So I saw the deep marsh again. He suddenly said to me, “If they can be the same as you, if they can apologize to Gu for hurting her heart, they won’t end up like that.”

I knew he was talking about his brother Zuo Kun and his mother, the late Empress Dowager Xiao. It was Aunt Ruoying who told me that the queen mother was weak at that time, and one night she had a sudden emergency, but there was no news of the small inner prison of the imperial physician. It was already noon on the second day when the Imperial Physician arrived. The illness was delayed and could not be cured for a while. He died of illness in a short time.

I asked him if his eyes were also hurt by them. He looked down at me with a dumbfounding expression on his face. He said to me, “If you talk about this eye, it’s really about you, Yunluo.”

[12]

I originally thought that everything about Qi Yujin had stopped with her death, but I didn’t expect to be entangled with me for four or five years. The reason

why Zuo Cong was blind in one eye was that he was injured when he went to Mingyue Palace to play with Qi Yujin. The fall broke the corner of his eye, which could not be cured, and eventually he went blind.

Everyone said that Zuo Cong admired Qi Yujin, so he wanted to marry her anyway. But looking at the anger and hatred in Zuo Cong’s eyes, I knew that he wanted to marry Qi Yujin to torture her in order to avenge the blindness.

It’s like torturing me at first.

“So when the emperor first saw that it was me and not Qi Yu-chin, he was so furious that he drove me to the cold palace?” I asked.

He smiled, with a lingering anger on his face, and looked very grumpy. “So when Gu heard that you had killed Qi Yujin, he immediately released you.”. I heard that you poisoned her so badly that she bled to death through her seven orifices.

“Yunluo, you are really a treasure.”

Zuo Cong took me into his arms, and I could hear his heart beating violently because of his fierce words.

I wanted to laugh for a moment. I killed Qi Yujin, who was condemned by thousands of people. He Chengxiang thought that someone would clap his hands. He caressed my back one after another like a pet cat.

Zuo Cong is really like me. But fundamentally, it is not the same at all. I reached out my hand and stroked his back. “So,” I said with a smile, “the rumor in the street is that you don’t like women. Once you’re bitten by a snake, you’re afraid of the rope.”

“No,” he said, resting his chin on my head. I couldn’t tell whose chest the pounding was coming from. “I was just waiting. I’m waiting for the one I love to show up, Yunlo.

“I am waiting for you to appear, Yunluo.” Somehow

, I felt like crying. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. He should have fallen in love with a man like Xiao Ning. He met his opponent and was evenly matched. In the end, no matter he fell in love or killed each other, no one was wronged or regretted.

But Zuo Cong is a madman after all, he is attracted to his plaything unexpectedly. This feeling is wrong from the beginning, because the love between men and women must not exist in a relationship that is too unbalanced.

For example, between me and Zuo Cong. There are always some strange emperors in the

history books, and Zuo Cong should be one of them. Because I have been in the palace for nearly six years, a Yan and Qinghe have been able to talk and walk, and he still only favors me.

This is probably the reason why Xiao Ning is willing to use me. Tenderness has always been the weakness of an emperor.

She also joked in private that Zuo Cong was defending himself like jade for me. Rao was the mother of two children, and I was still a little shy, scolding Xiao Ning for his mouthful at a young age.

“Concubine Ning is right,” said Chi Ching-shu. Because of my care, her life is much better than that of the other concubines. Now she has accepted her fate and lives very freely. “The emperor only stayed in the concubines’ palace for one night, but all night he only asked about the

Mingyue Palace and the empress. Heaven and earth testify that the concubines were just like the courtiers reporting to the government that night. How could they be favored?

Everyone laughed, Qi Jingshu said more vigorously, said that as we all know, the emperor only spent the night in three palaces, the three people are now gathered here to see the hibiscus blossom.

Speaking of hibiscus flowers, I heard that there was a lotus pond in the courtyard of the Mingyue Palace where the empress once lived. The empress liked it very much, so the emperor specially ordered someone to build it. Look at the octagonal pavilion in the middle of the lake–isn’t it made in the style of the Moon-Watching Kingdom? As soon as Qi Jingshu pointed, I was interested for a moment, so I taught the slaves to put the tea trays and melons and fruits in the pavilion, and we enjoyed the flowers nearby.

It has to be said that few emperors in the world have ever spoiled their empresses so much. I have a guilty conscience. I have nothing to do for him except to help him stabilize the situation in the harem.

In other words, what I can do for him is dispensable to him.

It seems that the pursuit of being needed has become an obsession of mine since childhood. Such as silk son attached to me, such as Qi Jingshu submit to me, even if it is the same as Xiao Ning, I can be used, I am needed by them.

But in Zuo Cong’s place, I am not so needed by him. When I

was thinking about it, it rained outside the Xiyu Pavilion. The rain hit the lotus leaves, and in an instant there was fog everywhere, which was like the scene in the Bright Moon Palace.

Then I heard Qi Jingshu murmuring softly, “I’m so homesick.” It’s been more than a month since I sent home a letter, and I don’t know if my father and mother are still well.

I couldn’t understand that feeling until Zuo Cong appeared on the shore of the lake with his children. Zuo Cong, who

had always worn a bright yellow dragon robe, wore a spring blue civilian gown. He held Qinghe in one hand and Ah Yan in the other.

Through the rain, I saw what Zuo Cong was saying, and then I heard the two children shout “Mother Queen” in unison.

Zuo Cong smiled at me.

I was a little absent-minded, and unprecedented emotions exploded in my chest. It is sweet and warm, filled with bitterness and helplessness.

“Empress, do you want to give your two children the best life?” Xiao Ning suddenly opened his mouth in my ear, and his voice drifted, like an unreal dream.

“Never say die.” When I replied to her, the sudden heavy rain made the figure on the shore more blurred.

[13]

I was helpless in Hanshan City, and most of the movements in the court were given to me by Xiao Ning or Aunt Ruoying. In fact, they are all members of the Xiao family. Aunt Ruoying was the dowry maid of the late Empress Dowager Xiao, and she was the one who was placed beside me by the Xiao family early in the morning.

They said that since I had given birth to a prince, the rumor that the king of a country was one-eyed had risen again. I think it was mostly the Xiao family who got in the way. After all, it was Xiao who recommended Zuo Kun at the beginning.

It is said that Xiao Empress Dowager is now Xiao Guogong’s favorite sister, when the delay in treatment caused the death of the Empress Dowager at a young age, presumably also counted on the left Cong head.

Zuo Cong hasn’t been to the harem for a long time, and the lights Imperial Study often burn until dawn, so that when I saw him again in the late autumn of this year, the whole person was obviously much thinner. The madman, who

had always been very energetic, looked at the tired one. He leaned on the edge of the couch as usual and gently took off his blindfold. He suddenly asked me, “Yunluo, do you know why Gu doesn’t have more children?”

I made tea for him and said softly, “I’m afraid they’ll fight with each other in the future.”

“But now there is a struggle between father and son.”

My heart stagnated and I turned to look at him. Had it not been for the warm light outside the window, Zuo Cong would have leaned there like a cold skeleton.

I pretended to be calm and said, “Born in an imperial family, there is no one who can live in peace.”

I turned back a moment before he turned to look at me, making tea as usual. He gazed at me for a long time and then asked me a question that made my heart tremble: “What should you do if you are lonely with Ah Yan and come to you and your sister?”

“That depends on whether the emperor killed Ah Yan or Ah Yan killed the emperor.” I picked up the teacup, bent down in front of him, held the hot tea in front of him, and locked my eyes on the silver tassels beside the couch.

“Yunluo!” He didn’t bring the tea. Instead, he grabbed my wrist and nearly spilled the tea. “I should have continued to ask, but I didn’t dare.”

He called Li Xin to come in, so holding my wrist to announce the decree, made the big prince Zuo Yan for the crown prince, into the East Palace.

I looked up in surprise and saw Zuo Cong’s cold eyes as before. He looked down at me, always in an irresistible tone. No more talking about the government tonight. I just want to have a good sleep.

Queen, isn’t there any poison in your tea?

I couldn’t help laughing and wanted to drink it myself, but he grabbed it, and then he picked me up and threw me inside the bed. He came to hug me and held my hand all the time.

That night when I was sleeping in a daze, I heard Zuo Cong murmuring, “Why don’t you poison me?”

Poisoning Qi Yujin makes my heart dead and have no way to go. But the emperor, now the cold mountain city, want to control you, can be far more than me. So it’s not worth it for you to put all your eggs in one basket and gamble your life.

It was the first time I looked down on Zuo Cong in reverse, like drinking poison to quench thirst, wonderful. After the decree to

establish the crown prince spread all over the palace, Xiao Ning was very surprised and asked me what I had said and done to Zuo Cong. I told her the exact words, but stopped where Zuo Cong said he wanted to have a good sleep.

Xiao Ning gazed at me and repeated, “That depends on whether the emperor killed Ah Yan or Ah Yan killed the emperor.” She leaned close to me, almost sticking to my face. “The empress, the concubines seem to understand what the emperor is obsessed with. Even the concubines are somewhat infatuated with the empress.

I spat at her. “Are you crazy about men and you’re crazy about women?”

Xiao Ning was amused by me, apparently because I pushed, a Yan had to do the work of the crown prince is to make her happy, or to make the Xiao family satisfied. I suddenly remembered that Emperor Taizong of Xuemo was only seven years old when he ascended the throne. I was somewhat shocked, but I couldn’t say it.

They love to see my stupid and obedient appearance, even if I say straight to the heart of Zuo Cong, they will only think that I am not in the mood to speak out.

“Look, all I have to do is be myself, and everyone will be unwary of me and treat me like a manipulative fool.”

Nowhere, I said to Silk.

She retorted that I was not a fool, and I said that it was better to be a fool in the palace. As soon as I said

this, I couldn’t help but glance at Silk. I don’t know when she had become the subservient “Silk Aunt” of the slaves of the Chaohui Palace. Looking at her as dull as ever, my hair suddenly stood up.

Silk is not the only person I have always thought of as a fool for so many years.

But there is no fool who can live in the palace of both countries. There is no fool who can hit my heart again and again, and change the subject to make me think that she just happened to hit it.

Here is really a place to eat people, the towering red wall is surrounded by a side of the ghost land, the eyes are full of charm.

I thought that after Yan was made crown prince, he would be able to stop for a period of time. Unexpectedly, only after three years, there was a rumor of a new king. Yan had just turned six

that year, and Zuo Cong really took him as a crown prince to cultivate. When a half-man-tall child could recite dozens of history books of the Five Kingdoms, I was really stunned.

“The empress shouldn’t just give credit to the emperor. The concubines have also spent a lot of effort.” Xiao Ning acted like a spoiled child to me. How dare I forget that the prince’s three teachers were all members of the Xiao family. Even the martial artists who taught him to ride horses and shoot arrows were all aides of Xiao Ning’s mother’s family. As

expected, the Xiao family gradually elevated Zuo Cong’s court, and they were going to support Ayan to proclaim himself emperor.

And Zuo Cong, who has always been ruthless and crazy, will not wait for death. Sure enough, just after the New Year, he decreed that since Ah Yan could ride a horse and shoot, he would take the prince with him for this year’s spring hunting.

And just when I was burning with anxiety to face the saint, Zuo Cong came to Chaohui Palace first.

He drank a cup of hot tea slowly and quickly, and the last ray of sunshine hit the side of his face with one good eye, reflecting his smile very brightly. “Queen, I’ve never taken you to spring hunting before. Would you like to see it this time?”.

Zuo Cong stretched out his hand to me. His hand was empty, but I always saw a hilt in a trance. I think of the old dream of wild animals attacking people again, but this time I’m stuck in the mud and I’m going to change someone else.

[14]

Xiao Ning kept pleading to take her with him, but Zuo Cong was grounded in the palace. At this point, she also no longer scruples, directly sent Ruoying aunt and I sent a message, said Wanwang out of the palace before the spring hunting can see me.

I saw her, as I had expected, she mentioned the matter of Zuo Kun, saying that Zuo Cong deliberately killed his own brother for the throne. The smooth woman hung her head, and the butterfly hairpin on her bun danced quietly in the light and shadow.

I suddenly understood why she knew that Zuo Cong didn’t want her to have children and didn’t cry or make trouble, why she reassured me that she would bring up Ah Yan, and why the Xiao family strongly supported Zuo Kun.

And why Zuo Kun is a name she never dares to mention.

Because the most domineering daughter in Guogongfu was her little cousin from the very beginning. That should be a good childhood love affair, and the most beautiful girl in the whole country should be matched with the king of a country.

Everything should be happy and happy, but it was broken by Zuo Cong. Her young man has lost his appearance, and she even wants to marry an enemy. So she wants to hand over the imperial power of Zuo Cong, she wants to make him pay the price, let his dream come to nothing.

So I have no choice, she told me to stop Zuo Cong anyway, the Xiao family is imperative, I can only stand behind a Yan.

Before I left, I gently stroked the back of Xiao Ning’s head, just like I used to coax Qinghe to sleep. She looked up at me and suddenly shed two lines of tears.

She sat at the table and I stood beside her. She reached around my waist and buried her face in my arms. She cried and asked me, “Empress, why is this happening?”? Why on earth..

Why were they all so good at the beginning, and then they all changed one by one. Why can’t innocent people die well? Why can’t people who harm people be happy.

Why is it that you and I are already at the pinnacle of a nation’s power, but we all wear the mask of happiness and live through fear and hatred. I don’t want to live, but I dare not die. A few days of

spring hunting, Zuo Cong arranged me and a Yan in his tent. He told me that when he visited incognito in the early years, he had lived in the homes of ordinary people on the border. Those ordinary people were like this. Several people lived in a small house. The husband went out to work every day to earn money, and the wife did housework at home.

Because of poverty, most of the people on the border are monogamous, with a son and a daughter.

“Just like us. It’s a pity that we don’t have the practice of bringing the princess to spring hunting. Otherwise, if the Qinghe River were there, the whole family would be complete.” When Zuo Cong said this, he poured me a glass of sake and picked up some side dishes for me.

Had it not been for his yellow robe, I would have had the feeling of ordinary people living their own lives. Although

a Yan is less than seven years old, he already has the dignity of a crown prince. He sat down below, curious but only looking longingly at me. I couldn’t help laughing and said, “Does Ah Yan want to taste this wine?”

He was too young to drink as a rule, so Ah Yan looked longingly at Zuo Cong again. Zuo Cong has always been partial to me, just deliberately turned his head, obviously in the promise I let a Yan taste, he just as did not see.

Although the sake, in the end how strong, a Yan was choked to tears. As I stroked his back, I giggled and teased him, “Where is the old dignity of the prince of the East Palace?”? Why are you so tearful in front of everyone? Ashamed and angry,

Yan saluted and went out to clean his face and change clothes. I turned my head slowly and found that Zuo Cong was looking at everything silently, and his intact eyes had turned into a crescent moon.

I suddenly thought that he smiled so well at this moment, but he was still thinking about killing his own son. Just like me in those days, I smiled and offered the lychee with poison in both hands, which killed my own sister.

At that time, even Silk felt sorry for me. At this time, Zuo Cong was no different from me at that time, but I did not pity him, because he wanted to kill my good Yan. Yan is less than seven years old.

Then who else will pity Zuo Cong? Will Li Xin beside him? Probably not. The big eunuch, who has already lived like a man, is used to seeing how many times the country has changed hands. At most, he sighed, “The winner is the king and the loser is the enemy.”.

“Your Majesty, when are you going to go hunting in the mountains?” He understood what I was asking.

“We’ll set out at noon tomorrow,” said Zuo Cong, still smiling. “The prince will stay in the tent and Li Xin will take good care of him.”

I stood there in a daze and saw Zuo Cong holding out his hand to me. He asked me, “I just don’t know if the queen would like to accompany me all the way.”

No one expected that he would not take Ah Yan into the mountain, but take me with him.

[15]

Although it is spring, it is still very cold in Mobei. I can’t ride a horse. Zuo Cong shared a ride with me. I sat behind him and fell on his back so that I wouldn’t be hurt by the north wind.

That place is very similar to the scene in my dream, but there is no deep mud on the freeze-dried earth. The weeds grew fiercely, and the withered and yellow trees were more than one person high.

I didn’t see anything, but Zuo Cong suddenly shot an arrow quickly with a bow and arrow. The soldiers who followed came forward to search and found a hare.

As the soldiers trampled, a narrow path appeared on the ground. Zuo Cong said that when they were young, they walked along this path and passed through a cave where there was a spring, where they saw a rare white deer.

“Queen, would you like to take a chance with me?” He jumped off his horse, put his bow and arrow on his back, looked up at me, and his face was full of expectation.

I devilishly helped him dismount and let him take my hand and push aside the long grass to the depths of the mountains. Zuo Cong ordered, the soldiers followed far, not allowed to come near.

As he said, I went through a cave, and my feet slipped several times, thanks to his firm protection of me in his arms. The other end of the cave was also a long grass blocking people’s sight. I suddenly felt a little frightened and pulled back Zuo Cong’s hand.

He turned his head to look at me and suddenly asked me a question he had wanted to ask but had not asked: “How about killing Ah Yan alone?”? So what if Ah Yan kills Gu?

I raised my eyes in shock and opened my mouth slightly. My lips and teeth moved again and again, but I couldn’t speak for a long time.

Zuo Cong suddenly smiled, that smile gently, with a bit of juvenile gas. He patted me on the back of my hand, as if he had not asked the previous question, and then said, “The queen waits here, and I will come and take you when I have gone to open the way.”

He took off his long bow and split the weeds and walked slowly forward. “That year,” he said as he walked along, “my son and I chased a deer here. Like you, I was afraid that the grass would grow long and the mountain would be deep. But he didn’t listen and plunged in.”

“When he called for help, I thought he was just playing tricks on me like when I was a child. It wasn’t until I saw a tiger’s tail with a thick arm sweeping past that I realized he was really in danger, and I rushed over with my escort.”

It wasn’t a deliberate murder.

When he was a child, he was very good. He was the eldest son of his wife. He was trained as a crown prince at an early age. Zuo Kun was his favorite brother. Even though he hurt his eyes later, when people wanted to support Zuo Kun, he didn’t have much resentment.

But clearly just an accident, after returning to the palace, he was condemned by thousands of people, saying that he was deliberately for the throne. The people in the palace who are covered with filth naturally look at everyone with malice.

Zuo Cong’s eye was originally blind, but it did not need to be removed, and others could at least see the whole picture. It was his mother who heard that her youngest son had broken his leg and was disabled from then on. In a rage, she ordered someone to gouge out the eye.

“My mother told me that even if I had ten eyes, I wouldn’t be able to lose a cent.” When I heard the man crying all the way forward, tears came to my eyes and blurred my vision.

His back was so thin, as if it could be pierced by a few long grasses. In fact, I wasn’t so sad when she gouged out my eyes. What really hurts me is that she hates me so much, but for the sake of her position as the queen mother of the palace, she still wants to keep me and pretend to be a loving mother and a filial son. When I was a child, I

thought that I was favored because my mother had a son when she was old. I thought that because I was raised by my father as a crown prince, I had to be treated more severely everywhere. But when something big happened, I realized that I was the one who was not biased. None of them believe me, none of them. As a result, my father was so angry that he turned in his grave, and my mother treated me like an enemy.

Even when I went to see him later, he thought I had done it on purpose, and when I fell to the ground, he wanted to crawl and drive me away. There was also the matter of my mother’s serious illness. She was sick all the year round. That time I was just angry with her. I never thought it would be so serious. I never thought I would kill her.

Zuo Cong suddenly looked back and looked at me from a distance, and I realized that he was in tears.

He frowned and asked me in a hoarse voice, “Yunluo, why?”

The wind is howling and the clouds are gloomy. No one answered me at the beginning, and I can’t answer Xiao Ning now, and I can’t answer him.

Zuo Cong walked backwards, straightening his crown as he walked, and again displaying the frantic dignity of the first encounter. “You set aside the imperial power of Gu, and want Zuo Yan to proclaim himself emperor, so that Gu can be the overlord of Laoshizi?” Laughing coldly and weeping,

he said, “When I ascended the throne alone, I opened up the desert territory, built roads and diverted water, supported farming and mulberry, and planned for the country and the people for all ages. No matter how the history books are written, I should be a famous emperor through the ages!”! Want to be alone in the end at the mercy of this life? The rebellious officials and the thieves are really delusional!

The wind suddenly rose, and a path that Zuo Cong had struggled to split was buried by long grass. In a twinkling of an eye, I couldn’t see his back clearly. My

scalp tingled and I rushed forward in a panic. The long grass scratched my hands and face with blood. I called his name like crazy: “Your Majesty, Your Majesty..” Zuo Cong. Zuo Cong! When

the blizzard fell, I joined forces with the guards to open the long grass and saw Zuo Cong fall from the cliff to the spring, wrapped in mud and poked by a dead tree halfway up the mountain.

I rolled and crawled down and scooped up the thin figure in my arms. Turning Zuo Cong over, I saw a slender piece of dead wood, which just plunged into the socket of his missing eye.

It was the same as the first time he took off his blindfold in front of me and I said, “If you poke a sharpened branch through here, will it be like stringing a ice-sugar gourds through the emperor’s head?”.

It’s all fate.

My eyes darkened intermittently, and I heard him swallow his blood and say to me, “Yunluo, you are so partial..”

My breath stagnated, and in a trance, it seemed that a wild animal had dug the hole in my heart deeper. At that moment, I finally understood why I didn’t pity Zuo Cong.

Because I am to him what my father and mother were to me in those years. One day, I became the person I wanted to kill with my own hands, and I lashed an innocent person to a dead end. The last thing he said to me before he

died was, “You’re just like them..” I don’t believe in treating each other sincerely. I want to be good to you.

I believe.. I even had a brief heart attack. He actually died after listening to the first half of what I said.

His strong hand let go, and my tears fell on his blood-stained cheeks. Still,

I gritted my teeth and said the second half of the sentence, as if I was afraid that he would turn in his grave. “But Your Majesty, your condescending love will only make me hate you.”

Spinning, I held Zuo Cong’s gradually cold body and completely fainted. In the

eleventh year, the young emperor, who was not yet forty years old, died in the arms of his favorite queen.

[16] At the end

, I had a good life afterwards. Less than thirty years old then sat on the snow desert country queen mother’s position, usually nothing will invite Qi Jingshu and Xiao Ning they enjoy flowers and tea chat together.

I never told anyone about the details of Zuo Cong’s death. I only said that when we were chasing a deer, we were caught in a snowstorm. The cliff was covered by long grass and was not easy to detect. Zuo Cong ran ahead of me and slipped off the cliff without noticing for a while. He had an accident.

I don’t know how to misrepresent it, but it was I who took Zuo Cong to hunt in the deep mountains at that time. So Xiao Ning mistakenly thought that I added fuel to the flames to help her get rid of Zuo Cong, so she always kept my position as the queen mother and protected me openly and secretly.

But after all, it is not orthodox for a powerful minister to be in power. A Yan has been a scheming child since he was a child. Later, he became more and more powerful. He fostered a group of courtiers to compete with each other, and gradually destroyed the general trend of the Xiao family. When Zuo Cong was on the throne, I never thought that Xiao Guogong would eventually retire and return home.

That was a rare moment when Ah Yan and I took the initiative to talk about Zuo Cong: “My father wanted to do this at that time. If my father hadn’t died early, he would have planned for more than 20 years like my son, and he would have been able to plan for today’s situation.”

It turns out that Zuo Cong is also a very good person not only in my place, but also in Ah Yan’s place.

Yes, with a snap of my fingers, my Ah Yan has grown to the age when Zuo Cong and I first met. Qinghe also married a son-in-law whom she admired, and had two sons and a daughter, the youngest of whom would already surround me and call me “Grandmother Huang.”.

It’s good to be, for a man like me. A life

like mine. I sat in front of the mirror in the

middle of the winter evening, and I was awakened by a harsh reflection. I unconsciously turned my head and stopped the silk that was putting down the curtain. “Let’s put it down when we go to bed.”

It’s the lights all over the mountain. It was a word I said that year that made Zuo Cong build the Lantern Mountain.

The moonlight is gray, but Chaohui Palace is always as bright as day. How ridiculous! He even favored me in the testamentary edict he had written in advance, saying that from then on, the Chaohui Palace would grant me to live alone until the end of my life, and the Lantern Mountain would not be abolished, just as before.

I went to the window and looked up at the octagonal palace lanterns all over the mountains and plains. When I hung my head again, I was already in tears.

But the person who accompanied me to see the Moonlight Mountain is no longer there.

The one who stood in the snow like a cluster of high fireworks, insisted on scaring me to cry, saw through me and the only one who loved me would never appear again.

Unfortunately, in the end, he didn’t get anyone’s love. After all, here, the crazy man is so naive that he will never have what he wants from beginning to end.

The end is a dream, buried in the palace.

Wen & # x2F; Hongmeng