Quick Wear: Bai Yueguang perfectly interprets the success of saving the world

In the eyes of outsiders, Pei Shiyu must have grown up being pampered.

When my father was still the crown prince, he never took a concubine after marrying my mother. After he became emperor, he left the six palaces empty for my mother. The two of them were a loving couple that was praised by everyone in the world.

Moreover, he was the only child of his father, the emperor, and his mother, the queen. He was made the crown prince as soon as he was born, so naturally he was pampered and loved in every way.

But all this is what outsiders see. Only Pei Shiyu knows that it is not the case.

He could feel the subtle atmosphere between his mother and his father. Although the young Pei Shiyu did not understand what it was, he still knew that it was definitely not an expression of affection.

At the same time, he could also feel the indifference behind his father's love for him, which was a very well-hidden displeasure.

All these made Pei Shiyu panic.

He once went to find his mother and told her about this, but his mother was just slightly absent-minded after hearing his words.

"Even you noticed it?"

She raised the corner of her lips and comforted him with a somewhat bitter smile: "Shi Yu, you don't have to be afraid. No matter what happens, Da Zhao will only have you as the heir."

"As for me and your father, you don't have to worry too much. We were just making a deal. He doesn't love me, and I don't love him, but he won't hate you either."

Pei Shiyu seemed to understand, but he still kept his mother's words firmly in his heart.

After saying these words to him, the Queen Mother sent someone to find his father. No one knew what the two of them talked about. He only knew that his father's vague disgust for him had dissipated, but it seemed to have hidden deeper.

After Pei Shiyu grew up a few years later, he finally understood the meaning of what his mother had said. He wanted to ask her, but every time he saw her weak look, he couldn't bring himself to ask.

His mother had always been in poor health, and he couldn't let her worry any longer. He suppressed all these fears deep in his heart, just waiting for the day when they would explode.

The Queen Mother always stayed in Fengyi Palace and seldom went out, so Pei Shiyu seldom went out and spent most of his time in Fengyi Palace accompanying his mother.

By chance, he saw gorgeous crabapple flowers in full bloom in the imperial garden. Thinking that his mother seemed to have a special preference for crabapple flowers, Pei Shiyu thought of picking a bunch and giving it to his mother.

However, the crabapple tree was still a little tall for him as a child, and Pei Shiyu didn’t want to ask the palace maids and eunuchs to help him, so he climbed up the short crabapple tree by himself, ready to pick a bunch of crabapple flowers.

Just after picking the crabapple flowers, Pei Shiyu suddenly lost his balance and fell down.

Pei Shiyu closed his eyes and protected the crabapple flowers in his hand. He was not too scared, as he knew the palace maids and eunuchs below would always catch them for him.

But he didn't expect that he would fall into such a cold embrace.

Pei Shiyu opened his eyes and saw the person in front of him with cold and indifferent features. He let himself go only after making sure that she was fine. He recognized this person. She was the emperor's younger sister who was highly favored by his father and also his aunt.

The man first said to him: "Greetings to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. May His Royal Highness live a thousand years."

Pei Shiyu quickly came back to his senses and said politely: "Hello, auntie. You can just call me Gu Shiyu. Thank you very much for this time."

After he finished speaking, Pei Shiyu glanced around and found that the eunuchs and palace maids who came with him were all kneeling on the ground and trembling. He also understood why it was not these people who caught him.

I think his aunt saw him climbing the tree when she passed by, and came over because she was worried. When these palace maids and eunuchs saw him, they naturally bowed and kneeled, but they didn't expect that he would actually fall from the tree at this time.

After hearing Pei Shiyu's words, Yan Qing did not change her words: "Since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has nothing to do, I will take my leave first."

Pei Shiyu did not stop them and watched a eunuch taking Yan Qing away. However, that eunuch looked like the eunuch Hai Kanghai who was beside his father.

But Pei Shiyu did not think much about it. He was anxious to take the crabapple flowers in his hand back to Fengyi Palace to show his mother, and then led the group of palace maids and eunuchs back.

When we arrived at Fengyi Palace, my mother was sitting on a stone bench reading a book.

Pei Shiyu walked quickly to her and took out the crabapple flowers he had hidden in his sleeves before entering the palace, like offering a treasure: "Give it to mother."

Shu Weiyue's eyes lit up with smiles when she saw the crabapple blossoms in his hand. She took them and said, "My mother likes them very much."

Pei Shiyu's face instantly lit up with joy. After hesitating for a moment, he told Shu Weiyue about his encounter with Yan Qing in the Imperial Garden just now. However, he deliberately concealed the fact that he had fallen from the tree.

Shu Weiyue was startled when she heard Yan Qingshi, her eyes fell on the crabapple flowers, and the emotions in her eyes were extremely complicated.

Pei Shiyu has always been extremely sensitive to other people's emotional changes, so he stopped talking the moment he noticed that something was wrong with her mood.

"Queen mother?"

Shu Weiyue lowered her eyes and smiled, "Just thinking of some past events."

Pei Shiyu was relieved at this. He asked in a low voice: "Mother, Aunt looks so cold. Does she not like Shiyu?"

Hearing his question, Shu Weiyue shook her head and said, "No, she has always been like this. She looks cold on the surface, but she is actually a very gentle person."

Pei Shiyu looked at Shu Weiyue's expression at this moment. It seemed that she came alive after Yan Qing was mentioned.

Pei Shiyu was a little confused again, but Shu Weiyue's words still left a mark in his heart.

That's why after his mother passed away, he grabbed that person's sleeve and cried heart-wrenchingly in her arms.

Later on, what my mother had said before was proven true: my aunt was the gentlest person possible.

He was carefully taught how to behave as a crown prince, but as soon as his aunt approached him, he could feel that his father's precarious gentle appearance towards him was about to collapse.

Pei Shiyu became even more panicked, but he could only hold Yan Qing's sleeves tighter. He had a premonition that as long as his aunt was there, his father would not dare to do anything to him.

As expected, although my father would sometimes look at me with strange eyes, he was still kind and filial to Yan Qing in front of him.

A few years later, his father passed away again. Looking at his uncles who were plotting rebellion, Pei Shiyu felt helpless again.

He actually didn't value the throne that much, but he was born as a prince, so he had to sit on this position even if he didn't like it. Otherwise, whoever ascended the throne would tear him to pieces first.

Fortunately, his aunt was there. When he thought the road ahead was dark, she cleared a bloody path for him to ascend the throne.

After he ascended the throne, his aunt devoted herself to him.

Pei Shiyu looked at the person who made the plan for him and clutched the man's sleeve a little tighter. He only had his aunt left, and only his aunt.

However, when he grew up, he discovered that his aunt was occasionally in a trance when looking at him, and Pei Shiyu keenly captured the nostalgia from that trance.

Who do you miss? Your father?

Or is it someone's shadow that I'm looking at through him?

The feelings that you previously over-care about will eventually become distorted.

He couldn't help but test her again and again. Only through these tests could he get the result that his aunt also cared about him.

It’s not because of my father, I just care about him, that’s all.

***

In the palace, Pei Shiyu felt exhausted after learning from Jiang Huaixu that his aunt had passed away.

His heart was filled with emptiness, and then an intense pain slowly welled up. He couldn't help but curl up. He didn't even know when Jiang Huaixu left.

When the pain subsided, he unfolded the letter Jiang Huaixu had written to him, which was written by his aunt.

She said she didn't hate herself, she said she lived a good life...

Tears fell on the snow-white rice paper, leaving a series of blurry water stains, which were then wiped away by Pei Shiyu in a hurry.

This was the only thing his aunt left him.

You see, in the end, the aunt still left him a way out, which proves that the aunt still cares about him.

But aunt, I don't want this way out, I just want to find you...

***

Shu Weiyue Extra 1

The first time Shu Weiyue met Yan Qing was at the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet.

Family members are allowed to attend palace banquets. She is the legitimate daughter of the Minister of Rites, and she went to the banquet with her father and stepmother.

Her mother was injured when she gave birth to her and died within five years. She was also a premature baby and had a chronic illness since birth.

After her mother passed away, her stepmother became the only one in the family and was extremely harsh on her.

For a grand palace banquet like the Mid-Autumn Festival Banquet, officials would usually only bring their wives and legitimate children. His father had always been very proud, and since she was the only legitimate child, he naturally didn't want to bring his concubine's mother.

But her stepmother persuaded her father by saying that she was young and needed someone to take care of her, so she came into the palace with him. However, the look in her eyes when she looked at her in the dark was extremely vicious.

Sure enough, before the banquet started, her stepmother abandoned her in a pavilion far away, hoping that she would miss the banquet and make her father dislike her even more.

Shu Weiyue looked at the thick darkness in the palace, which opened its bloody mouth towards her like a wild beast ready to devour her.

She squatted in the corner and looked at the darkness, and vaguely remembered the night her mother died.

The stepmother pinched my mother's chin with a fierce look and poured a bowl of unknown medicine into her mouth. After a short while, my mother vomited blood and fainted.

The stepmother stretched out her finger and probed the tip of my mother's nose for a moment, then said with a sweet smile, "Shu Lang, this bitch is finally dead. When will you make me your equal wife?"

My father looked at my mother's body with an indifferent expression and said, "No hurry. How can we make you our second wife right after she died?"

Shu Weiyue, who saw this scene through the gap in the window, wanted to shout out, but a hand covered her mouth tightly. It was Yulan, her mother's personal maid.

She said with a trembling tone: "Miss, if we go out now, we will also be killed. By then, who will know the truth, and who will come to avenge Madam?"

These words echoed in Shu Weiyue's ears bit by bit, making her a little crazy.

Her already weak body could not bear it any longer. She covered her heart and gasped for breath. A strong sense of impending death enveloped her.

"How are you doing?"

A voice suddenly sounded in her ears. Shu Weiyue opened her eyes and saw a little girl about her age in front of her. She was looking at her with a frown, as if she had encountered some difficulties.

But after a moment, she reached out and pulled herself up from the ground.

Shu Weiyue only felt a warm current coming from the place where the two of them were together, and the discomfort just now disappeared instantly.

She pursed her lips and whispered, "Thank you."

Yan Qing let go of her hand. The question just now had already somewhat ruined her character, so she remained silent now, as if she had fallen into autism after asking that question. Shu Weiyue was a little at a loss for a moment.

Fortunately, Pei Zhuo came over in time, so the awkward atmosphere was prevented from continuing to ferment.

"Qingqing, the banquet is about to begin."

The young boy had a handsome face and spoke in a very gentle tone.

After he finished saying this, Pei Zhuo noticed Shu Weiyue next to Yan Qing. He paused and recognized Shu Weiyue's identity.

"Did Miss Shu get separated from her family?"

It was not until she heard Pei Zhuo's words that Shu Weiyue withdrew her gaze from Yan Qing. She lowered her eyes and whispered, "Yeah."

Hearing this, Pei Zhuo asked Haikang to send Shu Weiyue back, while he stayed where he was and whispered something to Yan Qing.

Shu Weiyue left and looked at Yan Qing deeply. She did not forget that when she was almost suffocated, it was this person who suddenly rushed over and pulled her out of that emotion. She kept this feeling of gratitude firmly in her heart.

After she was brought back to the banquet by Haikang, her father's face, which had been angry because of her stepmother's words that she had run around, turned kind again when he saw that it was Haikang who brought her back, and he did not blame her too much.

Shu Weiyue suddenly realized something and clenched her hands hidden in her sleeves. She wanted to climb up. Only in this way could she avenge her mother.

The second time I met Yan Qing was at the Queen's birthday party.

It has been ten years since the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet that year.

Shu Weiyue originally thought that the memory of meeting Yan Qing when she was young had long been blurred, and they had not seen each other again in these years, so she should be a stranger when facing Yan Qing again.

But the moment Shu Weiyue saw Yan Qing, she recognized that the person who was looking at her because of the dispute between her and her half sister was the little girl she met at the beginning.

The man's cold eyebrows and eyes were like a thin layer of falling snow, and when he looked up, he looked indifferent and distant.

Shu Weiyue suddenly felt palpitations.

She could have avoided the push from her younger sister, and the dispute with her younger sister was also her plan. But for some reason, she changed her plan and did not try to hide, so she was pushed into the lake.

She didn't know what she was waiting for.

Her expectation came true the moment she fell into the lake. She saw the man with a cold expression walking towards her quickly. He brought her up personally without caring about anything else and helped her to hold her half-sister accountable.

As a result of her secret planning over the years, her father had long developed impatience with her stepmother and step-sister, so he became extremely angry after learning about the trouble her step-sister had caused in the palace.

Shu Weiyue watched coldly from the side, carefully suppressing the hatred in her heart, just waiting for an opportunity to drag them all down to hell together.

That opportunity soon came, in a way that Shu Weiyue never expected.

It was Mid-Autumn Festival again, and the Queen announced that the Crown Prince wanted to choose a Crown Princess, so she followed her father into the palace. For the sake of his reputation, her father treated her well on the surface. If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes that night, she would have thought he was a kind father.

During the banquet, Shu Weiyue's eyes were on Yan Qing the whole time, so she noticed when she left in the middle of the banquet, and followed her out to thank Yan Qing. Perhaps she had some other selfish motives as well.

But I didn't expect that Yan Qing would disappear in just a cup of tea.

Shu Weiyue was about to go back feeling a little disappointed, but when she passed by a remote pavilion, she stopped and subconsciously hid in the dark.

Inside were Pei Zhuo and the slightly drunk Yan Qing.

Shu Weiyue clenched her hands suddenly when she heard what Pei Zhuo said to Yan Qing, her face full of disbelief.

He actually had such thoughts about Yan Qing.

Then came an uncontrollable rage, how dare he.

Shu Weiyue was also shocked when she realized her own fluctuating heart. She suddenly understood what she was thinking. It turned out that she had this kind of feeling since she didn't know when.

Maybe it was the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet that day, when that person went down to save her without hesitation, or maybe it was...

But before she could figure it out, Pei Zhuo's cold voice rang out: "Who's there?"