All the members are villains, and she just wants to show off when she is dressed as cannon fodder.

Qu Baiyu's expression of surprise flashed away, and the pain in his abdomen made him frown and break out in cold sweat.

With tears in his eyes, he raised his eyes aggrievedly, not caring about his bleeding wound at all. He just looked at Yuan Tong'er with red eyes, and chuckled: "You are uneasy... Ha, I let you You feel uneasy..."

As he spoke, he pulled out the short blade inserted in his abdomen, handed it to Yuan Tong'er's hand again, then pointed the tip of the short blade at his chest, held Yuan Tong'er's hand tightly, and stabbed there. .

"If you don't believe me, just stab me here. With just one stab, will your heart be at ease?!"

Yuan Tong'er was frightened and threw away the short blade in a hurry.

The knife fell to the ground with a crisp sound. Then a group of guards suddenly swarmed up from outside and surrounded Qu Baiyu.

Lu Xingzhou led people to escort Cui Xiaoyi in.

Cui Xiaoyi cried: "Master, they killed Jiang Yao! They killed many of our people!"

Before he finished speaking, Lu Xingzhou drew out the sword from the guard's waist and slashed at Cui Xiaoyi.

Blood spurted out instantly like a gushing spring water, splashing on Lu Xingzhou's body, on the floor... and on the hem of Qu Baiyu's clothes not far away.

"Lu Xingzhou! What are you doing?!"

Yuan Tong'er shouted in shock.

She never thought that Lu Xingzhou would kill a person like this in front of her.

Lu Xingzhou turned his head, blood gradually sliding down his cheek.

He looked at Yuan Tong'er indifferently and handed over the long sword in his hand.

"There is no way out for you and him."

The long sword flashed with a cold light, piercing Yuan Tong'er's eyes.

Qu Baiyu never moved, only looking at Yuan Tong'er with red eyes, like a rabbit waiting for the final execution, completely leaving his life and death in Yuan Tong'er's hands.

Yuan Tong'er trembled and took the long sword. When he looked at Qu Baiyu again, he saw that the bitter smile hanging on the corner of his mouth was finally drowned by a drop of tears overflowing from his eyes. When he saw Yuan Tong'er looking at him, he responded with a relieved smile.

"If I die, you will be able to sit back and relax, then kill me."

He accepted his fate and closed his eyes in resignation.

No emperor would tolerate a subordinate who had great achievements, and no emperor would fully trust a king who had ever had ambitions.

Even Yuan Tong'er won't!

The hand holding the long sword was trembling, and Yuan Tong'er slowly raised the sword.

Qu Baiyu's clothes were soaked with blood, and his desire to survive was gone. He stood tremblingly, as if a gust of wind could blow him down in an instant.

Yuan Tong'er's face was pale, as if the whole world was about to collapse into ruins.

She raised her hands higher and higher, and the thoughts in her mind were endlessly pulling at her. Her head was spinning with high tension, making her almost collapse. The long sword was instantly pressed against Lu Xingzhou's neck.

"Let him go!"

She never did it...

Qu Baiyu slowly opened his eyes, and as the breath in his throat gradually eased out, a drop of clear tear pricking at the corner of his eye also fell.

He is not afraid of death, he is just afraid that the remaining trust that has been left for a long time will eventually be shattered. The only touch of color in his memory was the light pink on the western mountain... In the end, it didn't sink him completely into the abyss.

The cold tip of the sword touched Lu Xingzhou's neck. He opened his eyes wide in surprise and looked at Yuan Tong'er, but there was an unexpected amount of relief hidden in his eyes.

It seemed that in his heart, it was natural for Yuan Tong'er to choose Qu Baiyu. But his heart really became shattered at that moment, like a broken glass vase that could never be restored, so he stubbornly asked softly -

"Let him go...what about me?"

His face was full of disappointment, and the look he looked at Yuan Tong'er was unbearable.

Yuan Tong'er hesitated slightly when he heard the words, thinking of what Lu Xingzhou said to him when he came to the palace that night.

His time is running out...

Yuan Tong'er gritted his teeth, turned his head, and said again: "...let him go."

Lu Xingzhou's face turned pale and his eyes were dull.

After a moment of silence, he finally raised his hand, and the guard made way for a narrow gap.

Qu Baiyu did not leave, but stretched out his hand to grab Yuan Tong'er's sleeve.

Yuan Tong'er's spirit completely collapsed at this moment, but she still had to endure and let her reason prevail. She shook off Qu Baiyu's hand, as if she had made up all her determination, and pushed him out of the hall.

"Qu Baiyu, we are here...

The reason why I won't kill you today is not because I don't have a grudge against you. Just thinking about the past...

If you dare to step into Shangjing one day, I will kill you! "

The cold wind blew through Qu Baiyu's blood-soaked clothes, and his slightly messy hair fluttered gently, reflected in the moonlight. The mist in the eyes is like stagnant water in a pond full of mud...

……

After that day, Yuan Tong'er never saw Qu Baiyu again.

But when she woke up from the dream in the middle of the night, those empty and desolate glazed phoenix eyes were always echoing in her mind.

After that day, the number of times she saw Lu Xingzhou also decreased a lot, except for the time when she went to court every day, it seemed that she didn't see him at all.

After some time passed, Lu Xingzhou stopped coming.

According to Jinhua, his body is not as good as before.

The heavy carriages and horses stopped at Prime Minister Lu's Mansion. This was the first time Yuan Tong'er came to Lu Xingzhou's mansion.

The structure of the houses was generally the same, and there was not much difference. However, when she walked into the inner house, her eyes lit up.

There is a crabapple tree in the empty and spacious inner house, which is very similar to the one in her previous princess mansion.

The begonia flowers are swaying in the breeze, and the soft petals shine with a warm luster in the sun, which is intoxicating.

Lu Xingzhou sat beside the desk under the tree as usual, like an idler with nothing to do.

Yuan Tong'er also sat down with him and chatted with him peacefully for a few words.

The wind blew the flowers, and they fell into colorful pieces all over the ground.

Lu Xingzhou suddenly asked, "Do you still blame me?"

Yuan Tong'er remained silent, as if she had never really complained about him.

Lu Xingzhou chuckled and shook his head, "You must blame me. Even I can't say for sure when I think about what happened at those times."

His eyes gradually softened, and he gently brushed away the petals that fell on the table.

"It's right for you to complain. You must think that I have wasted the lives of others for my own mission.

I used to regard the world here as virtual. The people here are only regarded as programmed brainless NPCs.

But later, I reopened more times and experienced many things. Unknowingly, my thoughts gradually changed but I didn't even know it.

It wasn’t until later that I discovered that I began to care about what the people here did, her mood, her thoughts... and her life and death.

I don’t know why this is happening. I know in my heart that everything is just a game, and the things I care about are just a string of codes, but I just care..."