prisoner of time

The identities of the emperor and the national teacher became the best cover for the two.Yan Tuo and Shi Yan used various excuses to make out in temples, palaces and other places, but they still pretended to be dignified in front of people, as if the two were just the most ordinary relationship between the emperor and the state teacher.

Those thoughts of worrying about fear, fear and disrespect for the gods had completely disappeared from Yan Tuo's heart, and he didn't care about those things at all—maybe the human heart is like this. At first, it was hard to restrain itself because of the unknown punishment If the desire to violate the rules is too strong, you will carefully test the edge of the violation until you finally can't help but completely cross the line.And if the corresponding punishment does not come immediately after crossing the boundary, it will make progress and quickly degenerate.

Their relationship lasted for three full years.At first, it was just looking for opportunities to make love secretly; later, it evolved into wishing to stick together every day, and must go to see each other every other day; in the end, the two lived and ate together secretly, Closer than the average real couple.

The national teacher stayed in the emperor's bedroom day and night, and it was impossible for this matter to be kept secret.But Yan Tuo had already controlled the power of the kingdom, he did not allow others to know, even if they knew, they would not dare to know.

The mutation happened three years later.

At first, it was a drought that lasted extremely long and affected more than half of the country.During Yan Tuo's ten-year reign, he experienced several droughts, but such a severe and large-scale drought was rare in a century.

Drought, hunger and ensuing plagues have turned many small cities into dead cities. Even though the government has taken various measures to relieve the disaster, these measures can only slightly reduce the damage of the disaster in the face of severe natural disasters. .

Extreme drought followed by extreme flood.The 30 consecutive days of torrential rain and severe floods have deprived the hope of those who survived the drought, and the land of time, which was originally rich and peaceful, was filled with mourning.

The rain hasn't stopped yet.

The young emperor sat in the dark palace room, quietly looking at the continuous rain curtain outside the window.A month ago he was desperate for rain, and a month later he was sitting here praying for the rain to stop.

But it didn't work.The dark sky full of lightning and thunder, the dim world that seems to never see the light again, everything seems to be the scene of the end.

A slender figure came in from the door, he walked up to Yan Tuo and told him to pull him up, trying to hug the young emperor into his arms.

Yan Tuo seemed to have realized it suddenly, and quickly took a step away, lowered his head and said in a low voice: "Don't...don't touch me."

They are guilty of doing so.

Perhaps it was because of him that he offended the gods that led to today's situation.Never make one mistake again.

Not only that, but he also seeks God's forgiveness...

Thinking of this, he suddenly raised his head and eagerly looked at the man in front of him: "Shi Jin, hurry up, take me to the temple."

On the way to the temple, Yan Tuo tried his best to avoid touching the man, as if he was some kind of snake, scorpion and ghost.After arriving at the temple, he quickly ran to the main hall where the God of Time was enshrined.

He is very familiar with this temple, because no one would dare to come here easily, so he has been in love here more than once at the same time. Under the gaze of the stone statue, he and The teacher was entangled to death and did all the absurd and chaotic things.Now that he is here again, everything in the past has become a sin, engraved on his back stroke by stroke, penetrating into his bones and blood.

He lowered his eyes and knelt on the ground, repented to the god in front of him, and begged for forgiveness.The national teacher stood a few steps away from him, watching him quietly.

The young emperor prostrated himself on the ground reverently and piously, and pressed his forehead on the cold bluestone floor, whispering to himself:

"Sinner Yan Tuo, I beg your forgiveness here."

"I should not have seduced your emissary. I should not have been reckless again and again. I should not have been disrespectful and disregarded your majesty."

"Please save the kingdom of time. The people in the kingdom are innocent. They are devout believers who worship you day and night, and they shouldn't suffer from this disaster."

"If all the people are saved, I am willing to resign from the throne and promise that I will never have any entanglements with the national teacher for eternity, as a way of apologizing."

A bright white flash flashed across the black sky, illuminating the dim temple, followed by a thunderstorm.

Shi Yan strode forward, pulled Yan off his left arm and forced him to turn around, condescendingly looking down at his lover who was with him day and night, those moist black eyes looked from bottom to top. Looking at him, filled with unspeakable determination and pain.

"Is this your confession? Your decision?" He asked in a low voice, "You were the one who provoked me first. You made me break my precepts, realize my love, and I can't fill my desires for you, and I will fall into the world of mortals forever... It's just That’s all, you’re going to push me away? Eternal life, no more entanglements?”

Yan Tuo looked at him, trembling his lips, but didn't speak.Shi Yan's expression today is different from the past, a little strange, a little frightening, those indifferent gray eyes against the thick dark clouds covering the sky, showing a kind of bottomless blackness.

But yes, that's what he decided.

Forever and ever, there will be no more entanglements, and there is no need to meet each other.

This is the sin he committed in this life.

"...That's right." Yan Tuo responded in a low voice, and turned his head away, "This is my sin, and I want to atone for it."

Shi Yan looked at the person in front of him, smiled suddenly, pressed the person to the ground, and stretched out his hand to tear off the other's skirt.They have made out here many times.

"No." He said softly, so he didn't care if there was a flood outside.

Yan Tuo struggled desperately like never before.He resisted and begged hoarsely: "No, you can't Shiji. This is the temple, and God is watching..."

Shi Yan didn't care about it, and still acted in his own way.The moment he was possessed by the other party, Yan Tuo finally found a gap, his left hand reached the tung candlestick that fell to the ground while the two were struggling, and stabbed fiercely at himself.

He missed the stab a little, and bright red blood gushed out from his right shoulder instantly.

Yan Tuo snorted, raised his blood-stained hand and pushed the stunned Shi Yan away from him.

"Fulfill me this time," he said with a smile, "Let's just leave it at that."

"...But you were the one who provoked me first." Shi Jin looked at him, his body was splattered with Yan Tuo's blood, his eyes were full of bewilderment and confusion, like an abandoned child, "Yes You came to mess with me, I didn't think about it..."

"You said you love me." He remembered how many love words the people in front of him whispered in his ears day and night, smiling and sweetly, "You said you loved me forever, eternal life. Your love, your eternal life, is Is that so? No more entanglement?"

"Well," Yan Tuo responded, lowering his head, "I'm sorry for you."

"But I'm already like this..." Shi Jin murmured, as if talking to himself in front of the blurred statue, "I've been pulled down by you, I can't go back..."

I'm sorry for you.But this sorry, may never be clear.

I have promised, forever and ever, no more entanglements.

Yan Tuo tightly closed his eyes, resisting the piercing pain caused by this thought.Then he opened his eyes, quickly stopped the bleeding from the shoulder injury with the torn robe, turned around again, and knelt quietly on the blood-stained bluestone floor.

He hasn't watched his country get better, his sins haven't been paid, and he can't die.

The young emperor kneeling firmly and quietly on the ground, the bright red blood, the dim temple... The scene in front of him is subtly familiar, but there is also a little strangeness in the familiarity. On the stone statue whose shape and face are very blurred.

He seemed to be in that position at that time, looking at the young man's face from top to bottom day after day, as if he could keep looking at it like this forever, never getting tired.