Pei Yuanhao...

I have forgotten how long I stood blankly at the door. The cold wind blew on my back, drying all the cold sweat on my body. The chill penetrated my bones, spread to my limbs, objects, and even the blood all over my body.

They were all frozen.

How could it be him? How could it be him?

The young master - the young master Liu San'er mentioned - I originally thought he was from Xichuan, but how could he -

Thinking of this, I suddenly remembered what Liu San'er once said - in his twenties, he looks very wealthy, is a decent person, doesn't talk much, and is not a smiley person...

Maybe it was because of what the student from Xishan Academy told me, and Huang Tianba told me that people from Xichuan might have come to Yangzhou, so all I thought about was that place, but I also forgot about it.

When we were in Yangzhou, Wei Ningyuan once told me that the emperor had plans to go south, but the itinerary was undecided.

I didn't expect that he had actually gone south!

He's coming, he's coming!

And me, what should I do?

Just when I was so distraught and almost about to collapse, a gentle voice came to my ears——

"Light. Light?"

I seemed to wake up from a dream, and suddenly opened my eyes. Liu Saner gently held my hand. Maybe it was the cold fingertips that made him a little worried, and he frowned slightly: "What's wrong?

?"

"...No - it's okay."

When I said this, my voice was almost broken and would tremble to pieces the next moment. Liu Saner looked at me again and finally said: "This is the one I told you before. Save

Live my life."

As he said that, he turned to face the other party and smiled: "I'm sorry for bothering you tonight."

"Where."

A deep voice sounded in my ears.

This voice is so familiar, yet so strange. Familiar because this voice has filled my life a long time ago, and has even become my most feared dream. Strange because of this voice.

It had been a long, long time since I heard it, and when I heard it again, I even felt that I had just fallen into another frightening dream.

The familiar sound quality was magnetic, but a little strange. The hoarseness beyond my memory seemed to be suppressing something. It made me feel as if my heart was hit by a lightning point. My whole body trembled slightly.

I saw him stand up, walk slowly in front of us, look at Liu Saner and say: "Master Liu——" Then, he slowly turned his head and looked at me——

Those eyes, the eyes that have stared at me countless times, are as deep as ever, so dark that even the light cannot shine in, but at this moment, there is something strange flickering.

Maybe it's because the candlelight behind me keeps fluttering according to my mood. The flickering candlelight reflects in his eyes, as if his eyes are flashing.

At this moment, my heartbeat almost stopped.

……

"Mrs."

This voice seemed to come from the distant sky. I could hardly believe my ears. I was stunned for a long time, and finally slowly, little by little, I raised my head and looked at the other person.

The time we were separated, if you say it was long, was actually only half a year; but if you say it was short, it seemed like it had been a lifetime. I no longer think about that handsome face, nor the days when our skins were touching each other, and our ears and temples were rubbing together.

Forgot those days of beatings, jail, and heartbreak.

However, he slowly walked out of the ashes of time, and just like that, he appeared in front of me.

He is still the same as before, tall and handsome, wearing a gorgeous black robe, with a faint hint of auspicious clouds and flying tigers embroidered with gold and silver threads, shining brightly under the candlelight, but making his eyes darker and darker.

; Under the high bridge of the nose, the thin lips are always pursed, with a slight upward arc, as if they are smiling, but when you look closely, it doesn't look like it.

However, when he stared at me, his eyes seemed to be infected with the temperature of the candlelight, almost burning my skin.

Madam.

It was like seeing each other again in a lifetime. I never imagined that this moment would happen, let alone that the first words he said to me were this.

He called me "Mrs." and he wasn't surprised.

In other words, he already knew it, and——had no intention of revealing anything?

I looked at him, trembling with the fear that maybe the ice under my feet would suddenly crack at the next moment, and I would be swallowed up by the fire of hell, and nodded to him gently: "Young Master."

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After that, I couldn't hear anything else they said, and I forgot whether I walked over by myself or was pulled over by Liu San'er and sat down at the table. The two of them were still talking.

"Don't call me my benefactor anymore. My surname is Yuan, and my double name is Yi Chu."

Yuan——Yi Chu——

When I heard this name, my fingers trembled even more.

Liu San'er said with a smile: "It's hard to ask in detail these days. Mr. Yuan, this is Zhuojing - lightness."

"Light...light..."

I lowered my head, my whole body numb, listening to that familiar, low voice, as if it was lingering on the tip of my tongue, and slowly read out these two words. He lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a long while, he raised his head, with a faint, almost vague smile on his face: "My lady's name is really special."

"Really?"

"The name is very similar to one of my old friends."

When I heard these words, my heart skipped a beat, and I suddenly raised my head and looked at the person opposite.

He was sitting at the table. Perhaps because the candlelight behind him was too bright, a faint shadow fell on his face. The backlight made his face look more angular. When he lowered his head to pour the wine, his eyes were slightly lowered.

Going down, there is a faint light flowing through the thick eyelashes.

After taking a sip of wine, he looked at the slightly squirming baby in my arms: "This is——"

Liu San'er said happily: "Oh, by the way, Mr. Yuan, I forgot to tell you. When I went back to find Qing Qing this time, she had already given birth to a daughter. We will call her Li'er."

"Li'er?"

"Yes, it's the name you chose before. Qing Qing and I discussed it and we both like this name, so it will be my daughter's nickname."

"Really?" He paused and said, "It's rare that you all like this name."

Liu Saner smiled and said: "Qingqing and I only have one daughter. We will count on her to be filial to us when we get old. If we really marry far away, Qingqing will cry to death."

……

This was the day when we were talking about the name of our child. He was joking with me, thinking about how we would be old in the future, with all our teeth falling out, and sitting on the wall with our hair full of white hair, basking in the sun. Both of us were laughing, and our hearts were full.

But it is joy and happiness.

But now, I am so scared that I can't even breathe anymore, and I look at the person in front of me uneasily.

What would he say? What would he say?

He also looked at me, but his eyes seemed to be in a trance for a while. He didn't know whether he was looking at me or the baby in his arms. His eyes were blank as I had never seen before.

He raised his head and glanced at me, and I suddenly became nervous, not knowing what he would say.

But he waved his hand: "Let the banquet begin."

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My heart, which was originally high, fell hard.

It's like stepping out. I originally thought it was the fire of hell, or maybe the freezing cold pool, but instead I stepped on the most ordinary grass. Although there is no danger, it makes people feel more and more empty.

It’s not that he has forgotten me. If it were someone else, with this kind of behavior, I would definitely think that he had suffered some accident and had forgotten the past and me as a person. But he wouldn’t. From what he just heard

When he called my name, I understood, but why did he behave like this? Or is there a hurtful edge hidden under this surface calmness?

At this moment, it is no exaggeration to say that I was on pins and needles.

There was incense burning in the room, and there was a heater in the distance. It was warm, but my palms were covered in cold sweat.

I don't know what he is going to do.

Just like now, I don't understand why he is sitting in front of me, as if he doesn't know me at all, without any emotional fluctuations, and he is talking carefully about current affairs with Liu San'er, and the two of them are still very speculative.

After taking a sip of wine, he slowly put down the glass and said, "Looking at it this way, Yang Ji deserves to die."

"Of course!"

"It seems that you agree with those who assassinated Yang Ji?"

"...This, not really."

"Oh?"

The man's eyes flickered slightly: "Don't you think he deserved his death? Why——"

"Although he deserved to die, in the final analysis, Yang Ji violated the national law and did not have a personal grudge against others. Of course he deserves to die, but it would be great if he could be punished by national law and the punishment could be specified."<

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"Well..."
To be continued...