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"Tick-tock... tick-tock..." The sound of water droplets falling was crisp and pleasant.
Su Peijiu opened her eyes in confusion, and what greeted her was a vast blue sky, with soft bedding beneath her...
Where is this?
"Awake?" Qi Mo leaned against a nearby tree stump, his gentle gaze resting on the bewildered face of the woman on the bed.
Su Peijiu propped herself up, sitting up, and a wave of fiery pain coursed through her body. She instinctively frowned, "Where is this? How did you end up here? What time is it?"
Qi Mo raised an eyebrow and smiled lightly, answering in a good-natured tone, "This is Peach Grove. You have been unconscious for a day. As for why I am here..."
He reached out to catch a falling peach blossom, "What do you think?"
Although it was already June, the peach blossoms were still in full bloom, creating a sea of pink clouds as far as the eye could see.
"Take me back." She struggled to get off the bed, her face paling slightly due to the pain from her wounds.
Qi Mo slowly rose from the tree stump covered in blooming peach blossoms. His azure glass-like eyes flashed briefly, making it hard to discern his expression.
He walked step by step at an extremely slow pace, watching as blood stains seeped through the white clothing of the woman on the bed. He reached out...
Su Peijiu instinctively flinched; the man's hand paused momentarily in mid-air before continuing...
"Alright." He took the peach blossom petal she had sent him.
Su Peijiu froze, then awkwardly stepped back, lowering her head with a calm yet stubborn tone, "Take me back."
"...Pei Jiu." He called her.
"Take me back." She insisted.
The man's gentle face seemed to be shrouded in a layer of mist, deep and heavy, difficult to grasp.
"...You are injured..."
"Take me back!" She looked up at him fiercely, her eyes filled with determination. "This injury doesn't matter; the warriors ahead are still waiting for me..."
Qi Mo looked at her, just looking at her. Her words suddenly caught in her throat, unable to continue. After a moment, he sighed, "Just take me back..."
"Ding—!" A sharp dagger suddenly pierced through the bedding and embedded itself in the stone bed below. The man tore open his shirt to reveal his smooth chest, expressionless.
"If you truly hate me, then take this dagger and stab it in... Don't joke with your own body..."
Su Peijiu looked at him in shock, her gaze falling on the dagger that glimmered with blue light. Her hand trembled but ultimately did not reach out.
"Why go through this..." She shifted slightly inward, hugging her knees, her hair falling over her brows. It seemed like a whisper or perhaps self-mockery.
Why go through this...?
Why suffer...
Why have the two of us become like this?
Yu Chen... Why suffer?
Qi Mo withdrew the dagger from the stone bed into his sleeve, standing in front of her, a flash of pain crossed his Azure eyes, fleeting...
"From the first time you saw me... this is fate."
The man in black robes floated away, Su Peijiu gazed at the peach blossoms by the stone bed, lost in thought...
...
"Does it hurt?" She held the hand of the boy on the couch tightly, her doe-like eyes filled with panic. "Does it hurt? Yu Chen?"
The boy curled his pale lips: "Ge'er... don't touch me, I'm dirty..."
"Yu Chen... Wuwu... Yu Chen is the cleanest, cleaner than Ge'er, how could I be dirty..." She was at a loss, afraid to touch the sharp dagger, only able to let her tears fall.
"..." The boy smiled faintly, shedding all pretenses... "Ge'er is trying to comfort me..."
"No! No..." She looked at the wound that was continuously bleeding and then at Uncle Emperor, who stood aside with a gloomy expression staring at her, finally realizing what she should do.
"Uncle Emperor... find a doctor! Hurry and find a doctor!" She went over to tug at Uncle Emperor's sleeve, but he dodged away.
“Ge'er, this is not a place for you to be, get out quickly!”
“Ah—! Ah—! Ah—!!” The girl's sharp voice pierced through the entire palace. Qin Ge covered her head and crouched on the ground, screaming desperately, tears nearly blurring her vision.
“Ge'er—!” Qin Ming's face flashed with fear. This was the treasure of the Great Yan; if anything happened to her, who knows what his elder brother would do to him! “Ge'er, are you okay? Don't scare Uncle Emperor!”
“Imperial Physician—! I want the Imperial Physician…” Qin Ge could only think of this one phrase: “I want the Imperial Physician…”
Qin Ming hurriedly rushed toward the outer hall, shouting, “Quick, go find an Imperial Physician for this King!”
It was hard to finally have time to discipline this hostage sent by Yuan Cang, but unexpectedly, this hostage had a fierce temperament and managed to endure the Fiery Spring Wind. To stay awake, he even resorted to stabbing himself with a dagger! If he was so ruthless to himself, sending him back to Yuan Cang in the future might lead to a great disaster…
With a gloomy face, he pushed the Imperial Physician into the inner hall. The girl on the ground had already sat on the couch supporting the boy, crying inconsolably.
“Eldest Princess…” The Imperial Physician looked at Qin Ge with difficulty.
Qin Ming went over and dragged Qin Ge away, receiving a few kicks in return. Enduring the pain, he shouted, “Stop crying! A dignified princess shouldn't cry like this! What use are you to Great Yan like this!”
Qin Ge was startled by his shout. Already breathless from crying, she immediately started hiccuping.
She pointed her milky white finger at the boy on the couch: “…Yu Chen is dead… hic! Wuwu… I don’t want to live… live… hic! I don’t want to live anymore…”
The Imperial Physician pulled out the dagger from the boy's shoulder and was bandaging the wound when he heard Qin Ge hiccuping and shouting this sentence, causing his hands to tremble in fright.
“Eldest Princess, this boy is fine.” The Imperial Physician interjected. Qin Ge ran over to him without wiping her tears: “Hic—! Really fine?”
"Don't worry, Eldest Princess."
"Woo... hic—! Yu Chen is not dead... hic—! That's great!" She started crying again.
Qin Ming went over and picked her up: "He's not dead, so why are you crying!"
"Wow... hic—! But I can't stop hiccupping... it feels so uncomfortable... hic—!"
This farce, shrouded in conspiracy and filth, came to an end amidst the continuous hiccups of Princess Qin Ge.
Afterward, Qin Ming was punished by Qin Ge's father, the Sovereign of Great Yan, to stay at the Nunnery for a month. Being the Emperor's younger brother, who was only interested in boys throughout his life, sending him to the Nunnery was quite a severe punishment.
Meanwhile, Qin Ge held a white rabbit close to the boy who was dozing off in a soft chair, staring at his sleeping face with wide eyes, her breathing quieted...
"You’re here again? Won't the teacher punish you?" The boy opened his eyes, a hint of Azure flashing. Qin Ge looked surprised: "Hey! Your eyes have turned black! Where's Azure?! What happened to those beautiful Azure eyes?"
The boy stretched out his long hand and placed it over his eyelids, his pale lips curling slightly: "Maybe it's hiding."
"When will she appear?" She really liked Azure's eyes.
"She appears when I'm very excited." The boy lowered his hand and reached for the rabbit in her hands; the light in his eyes was incredibly obscure and difficult to understand, but unfortunately, at that moment, Qin Ge couldn't comprehend it...
"Ge'er... I want to go home." The boy gently stroked the rabbit's fur with one hand.
Qin Ge tilted her head in confusion: "Isn't Yu Chen's home in Great Yan?"
"I'm not there..." A hint of darkness flashed across the boy's gentle expression. "My home is in Yuan Cang..."
"Is Yu Chen not allowed to go home?" She was eight years older than the boy in front of her, and sometimes she found it hard to understand why a look of desolation would cross his face, even though he tried hard to hide it; she still saw it.
"...Ge'er, would you be willing to help me go home?" The hidden serpent finally slowly revealed its core, drawing closer to that place he once thought was his sunshine, inch by inch, firmly grasping its prey...
...
"Qin Ge, you really have become bold! How dare you send the hostage of Yuan Cang back! From now on, you will be confined to the dark room! You are not allowed to come out without my orders!"
She did not understand why the matter of letting Yu Chen go home made her father so furious.
That year, she was ten years old and had been exposed too early to things she completely did not understand... The consequence was being locked in the dark room for a month, developing a fear of darkness.
There are people in this world who are poison. Just looking at them can lead to death... Qi Mo, Qi Yuchen is such a person.
The night before Qin Ge died, she dreamed of being engulfed in flames, unable to be redeemed. The fire surrounded her like a vast wilderness, and the boy from her memories stood above her in white robes, looking down as she burned to ashes inch by inch...
This dream ultimately became reality; she died at his hands...
In the secret chamber, all alone and helpless, her closest relatives were slaughtered and humiliated around her. She held his sword and slowly... slowly pierced it into her own chest...
At that moment, she finally understood that the dark past from when she was ten years old was merely a play directed by the indifferent man before her. The purpose of the act was to confuse her eyes; he wanted to use her hand... to pave a way back home...
If one truly could not bear humiliation and wished to die, why stab the shoulder instead of the heart?
She was still too young and inexperienced, only knowing that she loved beautiful things, yet ignoring that beautiful things... often carried a deadly poison.
By the time she realized her mistake, the other party had already cut off all aspects of her life with a flash of blades.
...
"Your enduring affection for Su Peijiu... if you had given me just a little of it back then, why would I have to become this inhuman, ghostly figure I am now?"
The woman sitting on the stone bed buried her head in her knees and murmured softly.
In her past life, at the naive age of ten, she encountered a man whose thoughts were dark yet warm as jade... she stumbled blindly into it, thinking herself wise.
At seventeen, she saw through everything but suddenly discovered a bloody flower blooming in her chest.
Thus, this meaningless yet scheming encounter came to an end without resolution...
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