Embers

Total darkness.

Ember frowned slightly, not knowing where it was.

Not long after, a lamp appeared in his hand, and he looked at the lamp that appeared suddenly with some surprise.

The lantern exudes a faint light, illuminating the road ahead.

This is a path paved with bluestone slabs, and the side of the road is full of pear trees.There is no wind here, but the snow-white pear blossoms are flying all over the sky, like heavy snow, beautiful and sad.

He raised his hand, and the pear petals fell into his hand, dissipating silently.

Walking forward with the lamp in hand, the path is secluded and winding. After walking for an unknown amount of time, a small pavilion came into view.

It was a very simple and exquisite pavilion.

What froze him completely was a white figure in the pavilion.

With plain white clothes and black hair, she seems to be making tea, and her movements are smooth and smooth, which is pleasing to the eye.

The embers were stiff as stone.

He didn't speak.

There is a vague aroma of early spring pear blossoms in the air.

After a while, the man finally turned around, with picturesque eyebrows, slightly raised mouth corners, and a warm yet sly smile in his eyes.

"Jin'er."

Ember had no expression on her face, her eyes were fixed on him.

Seeing his appearance, the man couldn't help but sighed lowly, and asked, "Why, aren't you happy to see Master?"

"No." Ember said, "This world is too illusory, and I can't tell the truth from the illusion."

Ye Bozhou smiled, walked up to him, and held out his hand to him. "Give me your hand."

Ember paused slightly, and stretched out her hand.

Ye Bozhou's hand was clearly held by him, but he couldn't feel any warmth.

"Look, this is an illusion."

Ye Bozhou went back to the pavilion and sat down, Yu Jin followed and sat down opposite him, with an expression of indescribable sadness.

"And the me who is talking to you now is the real me." Ye Bozhou stared at him, "To a certain extent, the me at this time is not anyone pretending to be, nor is I born like anyone, so this Another reality."

Embers are silent.

"You are too tired, Jin'er." Ye Bozhou looked at him distressedly, "You always want to pursue the only truth, but what is truth? Maybe it is real at this moment, but in the blink of an eye, it becomes an illusion again .”

"You know all about it." Ember lowered her eyes slightly and said in a low voice.

Ye Bozhou sighed softly: "Master, how could he not know. I have harmed you, and I insisted that you live alone. All these years, Master has been blaming himself, wondering if it would have been better to just come down with you at the beginning." , then you won’t become like this.”

He raised his hand to cover Ember's white hair.

Ember looked at him motionless, his eyes were like a lake, and following Ye Bozhou's movements, it was like a gust of wind blowing, causing countless ripples.

"So, now there's an opportunity."

Ye Bozhou straightened up, his eyes were as black as ink: "Master can take you away now, as long as you feel that you have nothing to love."

Ember suddenly raised her eyes.

Ye Bozhou smiled slightly and held out his hand to him.

"Go with Master, and you can leave everything behind."

Ember's eyes flickered, and she said calmly, "Are we going to be together forever?"

Ye Bozhou approached silently, with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Forever."

forever……

Ember looked at her slowly raised hand, raised the corners of her mouth, and closed her eyes.

Just when their hands were about to touch each other, a voice sounded in the air.

"Embers... Embers? Embers!"

"ember……"

"ember!"

This voice—

Ember suddenly opened his eyes.

Everything in front of me has not changed at all, it is still the eerie pavilion and the smiling Ye Bozhou.

He withdrew his hand forcefully.

Ye Bozhou looked at him in surprise.

"This is my dream." Ember's eyes darkened.

Ye Bozhou sighed: "Yes, this is your dream. But everything Master said is also true."

In his eyes was the tenderness and warmth of embers, as if he could possess this touch of tenderness forever as long as he stretched out his hand.

"... Embers, Embers! Embers!"

The voice began to become hurried.

Ember clenched her fists.

"Embers! Wake up! Embers! Embers..."

"ember--"

"But you are dead, Master."

Ember got up and looked at him steadily.

His gaze was as cold as a blade, a look Ye Bozhou had never seen before.

"It seems that you have finally figured it out."

Ye Bozhou smiled helplessly: "You finally understand that there are no so-called gods and ghosts in this world, and everything is just your demons."

Ember noticed that her hands were trembling slightly.

"You just don't want to admit it, including me at the moment, it's all fake."

Ye Bozhou came slowly, put his arms around him, and rubbed his head like before.

"As you said just now, Master is dead."

Ember let him hold it.

"If the truth you are after is the ultimate illusion, why don't you choose the relative truth among the false? Jin'er, forget about Master, I don't want to be your permanent demon, and I don't want to watch you endure such torture. "

Ye Bozhou's eyes were turbulent.

"You will become an unparalleled sword in the world, you shouldn't fall into such an illusion."

Ember asked hoarsely, "Aren't you cruel to me like this?"

"Are you willing to hate me?" Ye Bozhou asked with a smile.

Ember didn't speak.

"Someone is caring about you, and you have a bond, why bother to be entangled in demons?"

"I……"

Ye Bozhou finally kissed his forehead lightly, with a long-lost but familiar gentle tone.

"Don't wait until you lose it to regret it. This is the last truth that my teacher taught you."

The end of the story dissipated gently in the darkness, Ember suddenly raised his head, his arms were empty, the surrounding scenery was disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the extremely grand pear blossoms were flying around, beautiful and mesmerizing.

Slowly, the world fell silent.

"ember!"

The voice sounded again.

Ember opened her eyes again, and Yi Huaizhi's anxious face came into view.

"What's wrong with you, did you have a nightmare, you can't wake up no matter how you scream..."

His face turned slightly pale.

The appearance of Ember immersed in a nightmare just now was really terrifying, as if she was dying.

"you……"

Ember looked at him expressionlessly.

Yi Huaizhi hurts hard.

Ember's eyes were dead silent, but tears flowed down her face silently.

The sighed words just now seemed to still linger in his ears.

Ember closed her eyes and looked like a madman.

So what if I realize you're dead?

Ye Bozhou, as long as I am alive, I will lock you in my soul, even if it is just a demon!

Yi Huaizhi wiped the cold sweat off his forehead for him, without saying a word.

He knew that there was only that person who could make Ember become like this.

Ember took a few deep breaths before calming down.

Yi Huai was taken aback.He felt that Ember's eyes had changed.

How to describe that change?

It can be said that before this, when Ember looked at him, she was still looking at him intently.

But now, Ember looked at him with deep and persistent eyes, as if looking at another soul through his eyes.

"ember?"

"En." Ember said, pulling him into her arms, raising her hand to turn off the light.

"Before dawn."

What really broke Yi Huaizhi was a night two days later.

They were walking on the road when suddenly a person rushed out.

That person didn't know which sect's missing disciple, his eyes turned red when he saw Ember, and he swung his sword desperately towards him.

Ember doesn't need much effort to deal with enemies of this level.

However, what Yu Jin didn't expect was that the man turned his sword and rushed towards Yi Huaizhi who was not good at martial arts.

Yi Huaizhi's eyes widened.

The tip of the sword stopped in front of his eyes, Yi Huaizhi's pupils trembled, and the man was split open by Ember's sword in front of him, blood spattered three feet.

Ember held the long sword, this was the first time Yi Huaizhi saw him like this.

Cold and strange.

What Yi Huaizhi couldn't bear to look at was the pain in his eyes.

There was a long sword stabbing at him, this scene alone made Ember unable to accept it.

——In the end, does he care about him, or this face?

Yi Huaizhi suddenly smiled.

He suddenly leaned over, picked up the long sword in the hand of the man on the ground, and before Ember could react, he slashed at his face forcefully!

A long bloodstain appeared dazzlingly on that picturesque face.

He gently wiped the blood dripping down his chin, and even smiled.

Slightly raised his chin, word by word: "Look, do I still look like him now?"

Ember didn't move at all, staring at him steadfastly, the blood color faded from her lips.

Yi Huaizhi threw away the sword in his hand and laughed loudly, regardless of the tearing pain on his face.

The disbelief on Ember's face actually gave him a distorted pleasure.

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