Embers

It had just rained, and the air was still damp, and pear blossoms were all over the ground.

Under the pear tree, Ember stood with her hands behind her back, her eyes half closed, and she raised her head slightly, wondering what she was thinking.

A sound of footsteps came from behind.

"Yu Jin."

The voice came into the ears clearly, Ember didn't move, didn't speak, only her eyelashes trembled slightly.

Behind him, a young man in a fine attire clenched his fists, took a deep breath, and spoke after a while: "I... have something to tell you."

Embers still didn't move.

Even though they have been together for three years, Shao Yunqi still feels that he doesn't know this person well.When he laughs, when he is expressionless, when he looks at you quietly, when he is silent, you don't know what he is thinking.

Just like now, he just stood with his back to him, as usual, Shao Yunqi felt an inexplicable sense of uneasiness, or maybe he was guilty.

"If... If one day I have to leave here, you, will you come with me?"

Now Ember finally reacted.

He lowered his head and turned slightly sideways, his deep eyes fell on his face.

Shao Yunqi froze, feeling his heart sank instantly, and his limbs began to become stiff and weak.

"You, you know everything?"

Ember stared at him steadfastly for a while, then a deep "hmm" came from his chest.

Shao Yunqi's face immediately changed.

He had never seen such embers.Even though he remained as expressionless as before, even though he didn't say much, it seemed that there was a thick layer of fog on the surface of the lake under his eyes, and all the scenery became blurred and unreal, forcing people to get lost in it or be eroded by it.

"you……"

"When is the departure?"

"……today."

Ember's expression remained unchanged, she just stared at him and said slowly, "Then why don't you pack your luggage?"

With the last sliver of hope, Shao Yunqi raised his head and stared straight into his eyes: "Are you coming with me?"

Ember didn't speak.

But he didn't speak, which often meant many kinds of meanings. Shao Yunqi's eyes lit up, and his tone became urgent: "You can bring Li Mei with you! In the palace, I will not restrict your freedom. If you want Go wherever you want, and do whatever you want! The position of queen is yours, the position of concubine is yours, everything about me is yours, I am yours, the world is yours, the palace is yours As long as you are willing to accompany me! Thousands of miles of land, if you can’t enjoy it with you, what’s the point for me?”

Ember looked at him with complicated eyes, Shao Yunqi was immersed in his own imagination for a while, but he didn't notice the tiredness quietly floating in his eyes.

"The palace is much bigger than here. You have as many yards as you want, as many yards as you want, and as beautiful cats as you want. We can plant many, many pear trees. In spring, the whole palace will be full of blooms." Pear blossom, your favorite pear blossom, it must be very beautiful! There are many more..."

As he spoke, he slowly became speechless.

The man looked down at him slightly, the thick fog in his eyes had dissipated at some point, and looked at him lightly, as usual: "There are thousands of pear blossoms in the world, but I only love this courtyard."

The meaning has been expressed very clearly.

Shao Yunqi couldn't help but his eyes were red: "Are you willing to bear me?"

Ember didn't say anything, turned around and was about to leave.

But suddenly, the sleeve was pulled by someone.

"Yu Jin! I just want to hear you tell the truth, do you really give up on me?"

Ember lowered her eyes, pulled back her sleeves, strode into the room, and closed the door.

Shao Yunqi stared blankly at the direction he left, the bewilderment on his face hadn't faded away, he was at a loss, and his sadness just surged.

Li Mei appeared behind him at some point, and sighed softly: "He's just stubborn. In fact, he is the one who misses you the most. He stayed up all night last night."

This person, with a firm tone, talked about the person he was most attached to, and everything about him, which he wanted to seek but never found.

Shao Yunqi suddenly felt a little ridiculous.It seemed that for such a long time, everything between him and them was just a dream, maybe he hadn't really integrated into them from the beginning to the end, but he deluded himself into thinking that everything was his own imagination.

"I've packed all your things here for you. Do you want to leave early? I think the sky is very cloudy. When it rains later, the road will be difficult to walk."

Li Mei handed him the package in his hand, and then handed him an umbrella: "It might rain on the way back to the house, so take it with you, and when you enter the palace, if it's convenient, remember to write more letters back. Definitely miss you."

"He has been very happy these days when you came here, but he has been in trouble for half his life, and it is rare for him to be stable, so he doesn't want to participate in any chaos anymore. Don't blame him."

Shao Yunqi turned his face away.

"Take care, Yun Qi. No, Fifth Prince, no, it should be the emperor now."

Finally, Li Mei said.

Not long after, the rain fell, Shao Yunqi opened the paper umbrella, turned around, only a blue figure at the gate of the familiar small courtyard was watching him silently, but that familiar figure could not be seen no matter what.

Suspecting that something was wrong with his eyes, he raised his hand to rub his eyes, and searched carefully, but he still couldn't see even a corner of his clothes.

Three years of getting along, three years of companionship, in the end, they are so unwilling to even part with each other.

A young man in his early twenties stubbornly turned around and strode away, crying like a child in the rain.

Li Mei lowered her head, and found that her clothes had been drenched by the rain from the eaves, sticking to her skin, oozing the unique coolness of early spring.

After a moment of silence, he pushed open the door, and Ember was sitting by the desk reading a book. Looking at it from the corner of his eye, the corner of the book was still reading "A Thousand Miles of Welcome", and he hadn't turned a single page for such a long time.

But Li Mei didn't intend to poke him, just opened the cabinet door silently, took off the wet clothes, and changed into dry ones.

Looking at Ember again, he was still staring at the pages of the book indifferently, not knowing what he was thinking.

"What do you want for dinner?"

After a long time, Ember finally came back to his senses, and said calmly, "Anything is fine."

Li Mei sighed, found a stool beside him and sat down: "I also feel very sudden."

An obituary, the world was in an uproar.The current emperor Shao Huanyu passed away due to illness three days ago. Thinking that he had no heirs, it was said that his fifth younger brother Shao Yunqi would succeed him ten days later.

When Li Mei heard the news from the teahouse, although Li Mei was surprised, she was not shocked.

The fact that Shao Yunqi is the prince has been known to both of them since they picked up the token back then, but no one mentioned it in front of Shao Yunqi.

However, he thought of another person almost immediately.

What about that person?

how is he

Shao Huanyu is dead, is he still alive?

There has been no news about him for so many years, and I don't know if he is well now.

Of course Li Mei himself was not very worried about Fu Yan, but he knew that someone must be thinking about it.

Ember put down the book, closed her eyes, and let out a soft "hmm".

The author has something to say:

Maybe many people already know what's wrong with me from my description... Yes, it's what you think...

Now, it’s okay, it’s a lot more stable, and I was very busy a while ago, and I’m only able to write seriously today.

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