Next round?

These four words made Lin Luoling's heart tremble suddenly. She had been very attentive just now and could sense that Emperor Deshun intentionally gave her two steps. Even so, she still lost three pieces.

Not daring to go against Emperor Deshun's mood, Lin Luoling had to bite the bullet and think hard before playing another game of chess with Emperor Deshun.

"You lose! You lose three more times this time!"

Emperor Deshun picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea seemingly casually, but he was actually secretly observing Lin Luoling's expression.

When Lin Luoling thought about Prince An being whipped because of her loss in chess, it was like a whip hitting her heart.

Lin Luoling suddenly stood up, took a step to the right, bit her lip, knelt down and kowtowed to Emperor Deshun, saying, "I am not good at chess, so I am no match for Your Majesty. However, I am good at playing the zither, and I am willing to sing a song for Your Majesty. If Your Majesty likes it, I wonder if you can spare His Royal Highness Prince An?"

Emperor Deshun put down his teacup and asked calmly, "What kind of music can you play?"

Lin Luoling has loved playing the qin since she was young, and she plays more than one kind of qin. She thought for a moment and replied, "Phoenix-head qin, I wonder if Your Majesty would agree to play it?"

Upon hearing this, Emperor Deshun's eyes lit up for a moment, and he immediately asked Yun Xi to go to the storehouse and get an extremely exquisite and priceless phoenix-head guzheng.

The entire phoenix-head konghou was a brilliant golden color, and from a distance it looked as if it was made of pure gold. However, when Lin Luoling took a closer look, he suddenly realized that it was not made of pure gold, but of ancient wood that emitted a brilliant golden glow.

As soon as my fingers touched the strings, I felt that the strings were very different.

After a brief sound test, Lin Luoling took a deep breath, lowered his eyes slightly, and jumped onto the strings with his slender white fingers.

After playing with the instrument three or five times and listening to the music with his eyes closed, Emperor Deshun suddenly opened his eyes, and a look of shock that had not appeared for a long time flashed in his eyes.

He was very familiar with this piece of music. It was the piece of music that Concubine Li composed for him to dance to on the third day after he ascended the throne.

His eyes traced the outline of Lin Luoling's profile. He had to say that from this perspective, Lin Luoling was not just 30% or 40% similar to Concubine Li, but 70% or 80%.

Yun Xi, who was standing by with his head bent, was also shocked by the song played by Lin Luoling.

When Concubine Li composed the music and performed the dance, Emperor Deshun exclaimed that there had never been such a beautiful music in the world, and he had never seen a dance comparable to that of a goddess descending to earth. Therefore, Emperor Deshun kept the music composed by Concubine Li as a private collection and did not allow it to be passed on to others.

Concubine Li was good at music and dance. Even if everyone listened to the music she composed once, they might not be able to reproduce it exactly the same.

However, this was the first time that Emperor Deshun heard this piece of music since the death of Concubine Li.

In order to please Emperor Deshun, every concubine in the harem wanted to learn this song and win his favor.

As a result, the concubines in the harem and the noble ladies in the capital city studied hard for many years, but no one could play the whole song. The best could imitate one or two sections, and some of them might make some mistakes.

However, the song played by Lin Luoling was exactly the same as the song composed by Concubine Li at that time.

What Lin Luoling didn't know was that the phoenix-head guzheng in front of her was the one that Concubine Li had used in the past.

After the song was over, Emperor Deshun stood up suddenly, walked to Lin Luoling, narrowed his eyes slightly, and asked solemnly: "How do you know how to play this song?"

Seeing that Emperor Deshun had an unusually cold expression, Lin Luoling knelt down and told the truth, "I was unconscious for a long time after I blocked the poison arrow for His Royal Highness Prince An. In my dream, a beautiful fairy taught me this song.

I vaguely remember studying it for a long time in my dream, and when I woke up, the tune seemed to be engraved in my mind. This was the first time I played it.

"A beautiful fairy?" Emperor Deshun raised his head slightly and asked, "Did she say anything to you?"

Lin Luoling replied, "The fairy told me in my dream that if I was lucky enough to see His Majesty, I would play a song for him and then disappear into the clouds."

She was telling the truth, but she didn't know how much Emperor Deshun believed it.

Emperor Deshun was silent for a long time before he sighed, "Why can you dream of her? I have never dreamed of her in all these years. I think she must like you very much, otherwise why would she teach you this song and ask you to play it for me?"

Lin Luoling suddenly realized that the person who taught her to play this song in her dream was probably Prince An’s biological mother, Concubine Li.

"Forget it! Since she likes you, if I don't agree, she will get angry and annoy me again."

Emperor Deshun turned to look at Yunxi and ordered, "Go and bring Yan'er here in person, and tell the Shangshensi to set up the meal in the side hall."

"Yes!" Yun Xi responded and looked at Lin Luoling thoughtfully.

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