It's better to fall in love than seize the heir

In the picturesque autumn city, the mountains are dawning and the sky is clear.

In the early morning of the next day, Shen Jinghe still came to Taixue early as usual.Passing by everyone all the way, he was not surprised to receive a lot of thoughtful and considerate looks, and the attitude of others towards him was slightly different.

"I haven't congratulated the Sixth Highness on his success in one day, and his success in the sky."

As soon as he sat down, Wang Qi behind him squeezed out a sarcasm from his teeth.

Shen Jinghe's face was expressionless, as if he didn't hear, he took out the paper, pen, inkstone and inkstone from the book case and opened them by the door.When he moved to Changle Palace yesterday, the empress had clearly told him during the long conversation that in the future, due to his changing status, he might encounter various conspiracies and schemes—even if the empress did not mention it, he would be in the muddy water of scheming. Having lived a full life, he naturally knows how difficult the situation will be from now on.

He looked sideways at the rarely empty seat beside him, and frowned slightly uneasy.

Normally at this time, Liang Yanying would have already sat on the seat early.But until now, he has not even seen his figure.

...was he delayed by something else?

The upright figure that was always looking at him quietly was missing in his eyes, and Shen Jinghe felt an inexplicable sense of emptiness in his heart.He lightly stroked Liang Yan's half of the table with his fingertips, lowering his eyes to suppress his slightly anxious emotions.

The two hours of morning recitation seemed a bit long today for no reason. Shen Jinghe turned his head to look towards the gate of the main courtyard from time to time, but he never saw the expected figure.There was still no superfluous expression on his face, but his heart was unexpectedly filled with heavy worries.

For someone as powerful as Liang Yan, nothing will happen to him...

Shen Jinghe's fingertips curled up and bent subconsciously, but he didn't hear the bell that ended the morning recitation.It wasn't until a slender and handsome figure slowly approached beside him that he came back to his senses and raised his head hastily.

"Fifth brother?"

Shen Jinghe called out in surprise.However, Shen Zhuoxuan didn't respond with a gentle smile as usual, he looked over with some hesitation, as if hesitating, not knowing how to treat him.

"Fifth brother, what's wrong with you?" Shen Jinghe had a faint premonition in his heart, but he still asked with some hope.

A sarcastic voice came from afar.

"What else can I do? The fifth younger brother must have also heard the good news about you, and I don't know how to congratulate you!"

The eldest prince, Shen Zhuohao, kept squinting at what was happening on their side.After learning that Shen Jinghe was named under the name of the sick queen, he threw things on the floor in the palace that night, lost his temper, and punished several palace servants in a row.Since Shen Jinghe entered the palace, he has been deflated everywhere, but at this moment, half of his foot is on the head of the cloud, how can it not make him furious?

He thought gloatingly, now that the fifth prince, who has always played well with Shen Jinghe, knew about this, he still didn't know what kind of jealousy he felt in his heart.

Shen Jinghe paid no attention to him, and didn't even give him a look.He looked at Shen Zhuoxuan, frowned uncomfortably, and cautiously spoke tentatively, "Fifth brother, you should say something."

Shen Zhuoxuan wanted to touch his head as usual, but before he raised his hand, he thought of the change in the identity of the person in front of him, and couldn't help stretching his fingers back silently.

"...You can go with me." He still sighed, avoiding Shen Jinghe's questioning eyes, "Just go to the next class of Song Xuelu together."

The road to Jingyuan twists and turns, the two walked one after the other, except for the very light footsteps, the air seemed a little quiet for a while.

Shen Jinghe pursed his lips, feeling uncomfortable.Of course he knew Shen Zhuoxuan's worries and doubts, and he also knew that it was not his fault - he never let anyone else know about his contact with the empress, and now in the eyes of others, the fact that he was suddenly adopted by the empress was simply inexplicable And it was unprepared.If it were him, I'm afraid he would be suspicious.

However, having said that, seeing Shen Zhuoxuan, who had been chatting and laughing with him a few days ago, walking ahead without saying a word, he was still unavoidably depressed.

In this palace, there were not many people he cherished.The warmth and care that Shen Zhuoxuan brought to him as an elder brother can be said to be an irreplaceable and important part of it.

"Fifth Brother, if you have anything to say, just ask me directly." Shen Jinghe stopped, not wanting to wait in this difficult atmosphere anymore, watching Shen Zhuoxuan ask straightforward questions.

Shen Zhuoxuan also stopped when he heard the words, and turned his head to stare at Shen Jinghe with a complicated expression, "Jinghe, it's not that Fifth Brother doesn't believe you. It's just..."

He organized his words extremely carefully, wanting to express his own meaning, but he didn't want to hurt Shen Jinghe's heart because of it, "...you have nothing to do with the empress, why did this happen so suddenly?"

Shen Zhuoxuan looked at the handsome young man in front of him, his heart was full of emotion.It is undeniable that when he heard the news that the empress had adopted Shen Jinghe, his immediate emotions were doubt and shock.

Everyone knows that the empress has recuperated behind closed doors in Changle Palace for more than half a year, and now Shen Jinghe has only returned to the palace for more than a month, and this news, which is like a stone stirring up a thousand layers of waves, stunned everyone.

He didn't want to look at Shen Jinghe with suspicion, but when he saw him today, a complex and unspeakable sense of loss inevitably arose in his heart.It was as if his little brother had changed and grown in places he couldn't see.

Shen Jinghe looked at him quietly, full of thoughts.

Of course, he has countless reasonable reasons that can be thrown out casually, or he can make up excuses that are enough to dispel the doubts of everyone in front of him.However, he suddenly felt a little tired, and he was unwilling to think out every word before opening his mouth, and hide half-truths and half-false intentions.

"Fifth brother." Shen Jinghe looked at him without avoiding, his eyes were calm.

"I just want to live a good life in the palace."

An answer that was not an answer, he said it short and forcefully, but Shen Zhuoxuan swayed back half a step as if shocked.

Shen Zhuoxuan was silent, feeling a little sour in his heart, and more of a kind of silent guilt.

Whenever he saw Shen Jinghe, he always had a calm and composed smile on his face, which always made him forget how he lived in the palace trembling like walking on thin ice.

He couldn't help him much, now that Shen Jinghe finally had a chance to live a better life, but his elder brother who always thought he was qualified was the first to stand up and doubt him.What kind of disappointment and sadness should his younger brother feel at this moment?

For the first time, Shen Zhuoxuan began to reflect on his past. He always avoided and hated all kinds of entanglements and struggles in the palace.At present, he still has the strength to stand coldly and watch everyone stand against each other, but what qualifications does he have to ask others who are still gritting their teeth to be as lofty as he is?

He looked at Shen Jinghe with embarrassment, and there was a hint of embarrassment on his usually elegant and polite face.

"Jinghe...it's Wuge's fault, Wuge apologizes to you." He raised his head, Shen Jinghe's face showed no trace of blame or complaint, those eyes that looked over were still the same as every day before clear.

Shen Jinghe's heart moved slightly, and he sighed lightly with a smile, but he changed the topic on his own.

"The last time I borrowed "A New Ode to the Jade Terrace" from Fifth Brother, I have finished reading the first volume. If Fifth Brother can't use it for the time being, can you lend me the second volume as well?"

Shen Zhuoxuan was slightly stunned, knowing that Shen Jinghe deliberately took the conversation away in consideration of his emotions, and the thoughts in his heart were even more complicated.He was silent for a moment, and finally patted Shen Jinghe's back with one hand.

"Okay, I'll send someone to your palace after I go back."

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Before Song Xuelu arrived, everyone gathered together to discuss and chat.Shen Jinghe sat alone in the academy next to the quiet garden, feeling a little restless.

He knocked on the table casually, watching the gradually rising sun, his brows were slightly frowned.

A familiar sound of footsteps gradually came from behind.

He turned his head suddenly, and with a flick of his left hand unconsciously, he brought all the scrolls on the desk to the ground.However, he couldn't spare the time to pay attention to the white paper scattered all over the floor, so he quickly got up from the table and took two steps forward in surprise.

"You are here...why did you come here so late today?"

He looked Liang Yan up and down carefully - he didn't look much different from usual, except that there were a few more folds in his clothes than usual, and there was also a faint sharpness around his body that he hadn't had time to suppress in the future Bi Lu's evil spirit.

Shen Jinghe looked at the solemnity and coldness in Liang Yan's eyes that had not yet dissipated, and raised his eyes worriedly to ask questions.

After Liang Yan saw him, the aura condensed from swords and swords lingering around him couldn't help but eased.He slightly relaxed his straight back, walked forward, put his hands on Shen Jinghe's shoulders, sat down with him, and smiled at him comfortingly.

"It's nothing." He pulled his sleeves to cover the scars on his right wrist calmly, and tried his best to slow down his tone, "I met some people who didn't wink on the way here, and I accidentally delayed it for a while."

Liang Yan thought of the dozens of black-clothed masked men who jumped out of the deep alley without saying a word, and a faint sternness flashed in the corner of his eyes.The group of people came up and slashed at his face with knives. He lacked the long sword Zhanliu he used to use, so he had to fight with empty fists first, and then waited for the opportunity to catch someone and snatched his sharp knife, so as to sharpen it from the north Fight against them with life and death kung fu.

Those people are all kung fu masters, fighting for a long time, even he can't help but get a few minor injuries.He thought that today would be a fierce battle without end, but it didn't take long before the group of people put their knives back into their sheaths neatly, threw a misty cloud of smoke, and took the opportunity to jump onto the eaves and escape in all directions.

The white smoke dissipated, and he stood at the entrance of the alley where the black walls on both sides were cut with scattered knife marks, looking at the dilapidated place with a dignified expression.

The group didn't want to take his life.

Then what is the purpose of such an action?warning?

He went to a small medical center to roughly treat the wound, and then returned to Taixue.On the way here in a hurry, he had been frowning and thinking deeply about the reason, until now standing in front of Shen Jinghe, he seemed to have a ray of light flashing at the key point, and suddenly had an epiphany.

Regarding the fact that he and Shen Jinghe got close, he didn't have the slightest intention to hide it.Today, Shen Jinghe's identity has changed dramatically, so as a person around him, has he also become the target of others?

"Don't wink?" Shen Jinghe's heart tightened when he heard this, and he grabbed his arm with his right hand, "Are you okay?"

"Do I look like I have something to do?" Liang Yan pretended to be proud and raised his brows, and smiled, "I don't even look at who I am, Liang Yan."

The expression in his eyes flashed extremely quickly for a moment, and he suppressed the swirl-like deep blackness that appeared in that instant.

He didn't want Shen Jinghe to know the reason for his injury.He was afraid that he would feel guilty because of this, and he was even more afraid that he would have any thoughts of alienating himself because of it.

Liang Yan lowered his eyes and looked at Shen Jinghe peacefully, the fluctuating emotions in his body quickly dissipated into nothingness, as if the cold eyes and brows at the first arrival were just the illusion of other people's dazzle.

He won't give him this chance.

Shen Jinghe looked at his usual smile, and frowned hesitantly.For a moment, he couldn't tell whether Liang Yan really hadn't happened, or if this was just an excuse not to worry him.

"Okay..." Liang Yan looked at him intently, and gently stroked his frowning eyebrows with his fingertips, feeling the warmth under his fingertips, "Don't frown anymore, huh? Or are you waiting for Song Xuelu to come, but you want to compare with him, who is more serious with a straight face?"

"...Don't bother me!" Shen Jinghe waved his hand away angrily, and Liang Yan's fingertips brushed past, like a soft and fluttering feather brushing between his brows, but it gave him a feeling of uncontrollable pain for no reason. The slight trembling interrupted his complicated thoughts.

He pursed his lips and looked away. He had never tasted this extremely strange touch, which made him subconsciously just want to escape.

Liang Yan looked at his reddish pinnae, and withdrew his hand indifferently.The fat jade-like warmth on the fingertips seemed to remain a little bit, he slightly bent his knuckles, and rubbed them lightly twice.

Shen Jinghe collected his mind, put aside unnecessary emotions, couldn't help but look away at Liang Yan quietly, and asked tentatively, "You...know that I'm moving to Changle Palace now, right?"

His fingers pinched the corner of his clothes a little nervously without knowing it.Liang Yan looked at him looking over cautiously, and a barely noticeable smile flashed across his eyes, "Yeah."

What does um mean?

Shen Jinghe choked for a while, thinking about it, but he could only let out a long sigh as if admitting defeat, and looked straight into his eyes.

"Don't you have anything else to say?"

For example, blame him for lying to him for so long, for example, think that he is just a mediocre person who seeks power and fame like others.

He lowered his eyes and clenched the corner of his coat tighter.

Liang Yan looked at him for a while, and finally stretched out his hand lightly, freed the crumpled corner of his clothes from his hands, and said casually, "What do you want to say? Hmm... I guess I'm happy."

"I'm really happy for you." Sensing Shen Jinghe's astonished gaze, Liang Yan said with a low smile, "Now that the empress is by your side, no one in the palace will be able to bully you anymore. .”

"No one could bully me..." Shen Jinghe's eyes shimmered with emotion, he lowered his head and muttered softly.

"Yes yes yes..." Liang Yan saw the way he lowered his head, and for some reason suddenly felt teasing, and deliberately said with a smile, "I thought you were a weak flower, but who would have thought that you were not only A grass rooted deep in the rocks, yet covered with thorns all over its body."

what?

Shen Jinghe suddenly raised his head with an expression of displeasure, narrowed his eyes threateningly, gritted his teeth and said word by word, "It's good to know that I'm a poisonous weed with thorns, you'd better not provoke me."

Liang Yan didn't answer, but just looked at him and smiled, smiling so much that even the handsome brows and eyes inexplicably added a three-point gentle look.

Shen Jinghe was extremely uncomfortable being looked at by him, but at this moment the shame and anger that had filled his heart was exhausted for no reason at this moment.The shredded sunlight made his face slightly hot, and he curled his lips in frustration, just about to say something to ease the atmosphere, but he saw Liang Yan's body move.

He suddenly leaned forward, and the familiar and unique cold breath hit his face instantly, as if to wrap him airtightly.

"What if I want to provoke you?"

They were so close that Shen Jinghe felt it was difficult to breathe.When he raised his eyelashes, he could see Liang Yan's sharp jaw, as well as his resolute and handsome outline.

At this moment, he was looking at it intently and profoundly with his eyes lowered, and there was a dark color in his eyes that he couldn't see through.

"...Is it true that you don't have a long memory if you don't get stabbed once?" Shen Jinghe has never found it so difficult to speak, but under Liang Yan's fixed gaze, his every move It seems to be nailed, and it becomes extremely slow and difficult.

Liang Yan pursed his lips and smiled, without saying anything else, he just slowly stood up and backed away, leaving a space in the middle.

The air that had been sucked out just now rushed back, Shen Jinghe finally relaxed, took a deep breath, and from the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Song Xuelu who was walking into the courtyard, his eyes flashed with eagerness to try.

——To teach Liang Yan that he, Shen Jinghe, could not be easily provoked.

Song Xuelu stood meticulously in front of the courtyard, opened the pages of the book, scanned the circle with serious eyes, and finally landed on Liang Yan.

"Little General Liang, you didn't show up for today's morning chant. But what's delayed at home?"

Liang Yan was about to explain, but Shen Jinghe stood up one step ahead of him, bowed Yingying, and said respectfully, "Returning to Master, Liang Yan came late today because he went to bed late. But he has realized his fault and decided to go to bed today." Tonight, I will copy the whole book of "Mencius" that I missed in the morning, and I will submit it to you for inspection tomorrow. I also hope that Master can forgive me and give him this chance to make amends."

Liang Yanpo looked at him speechlessly, but Shen Jinghe refused to look at him no matter what, but just stared at Song Xuelu with an upright and sincere face, as if he was really sorry for his friend's lost time. anxious.

Hearing that Liang Yan was late because he went to bed late, Song Xuelu was a little unhappy at first.But after hearing that he wanted to take the initiative to copy books to make up for it, his face that had been stern all the time revealed a somewhat happy smile.

Song Xuelu looked at Liang Yan approvingly, and nodded, "There is nothing better than knowing a mistake and correcting it. The whole book of "Mencius" has more than [-] words, and you really have a heart."

There seemed to be a faint gasp in his ear, Shen Jinghe still had a dignified face, but the slightly raised corners of his lips had already betrayed him.

Liang Yan had no choice but to stand up and salute, with the same guilty and respectful expression, "Thank you, Master, students will take this as a warning, and will never do it again next time."

Song Xuelu waved his hands in satisfaction to let the two sit down, turned the scroll to the next page, and started today's lecture.

Liang Yan was rarely depressed. He silently looked at the thick "Mencius" placed beside the table, but couldn't help turning his head to stare deeply at Shen Jinghe, and sighed helplessly: "...The Sixth Highness What is the year of this year?"

Shen Jinghe naturally knew that he was making fun of himself for his childish methods, but he didn't care at all, his mood was as bright as the warm autumn sun, and the smile on his lips couldn't be stopped no matter what.In detail, he did not know how many tricks he had used in his past and present lives.However, this can be regarded as the most childish one, but it gave him the unparalleled satisfaction of all successes.

His eyebrows and eyes became more and more crooked, neither angry nor annoyed, he just reached out and took the "Mencius" from his desk, carefully opened it to the first page, and put it in front of Liang Yan. clapped.

He quietly approached Liang Yan a few inches, with sincere concern on his face—if ignoring the joy in his tone that he tried to suppress but couldn't hide at all, "Little General Liang would rather care about my age when he has time." , you might as well take a look at this book first. After all, it will accompany you through the long night tonight!"

Liang Yan glanced at the densely packed ink on the page, his eyebrows twitched fiercely, and he couldn't help turning his eyes away again, grinding his teeth and looking at the young man who was gloating in front of him.

The corners of his eyes and brows were dancing with joy, his eyes were like crescent moons, and he smiled crookedly.When he caught his gaze, he just raised an eyebrow arrogantly.That Ruyu face has always been calm and indifferent, but now because of the complacent look, it is full of moving and lively aura.

Liang Yan looked down at him, clearly hating him so much that his teeth were itching, but when he saw his dazzling smile, he felt his heart soften a little for no reason, as if he had been gently scratched by a little paw. It was slightly itchy.

He let out a long sigh as if surrendering to himself, and closed his eyes helplessly, knowing in his heart that he was really screwed this time.

The right hand that was writing was still trembling slightly due to the scar on his wrist. He unconsciously glanced at the tiny characters on the scroll, but he couldn't spare a moment to think about how to finish copying the 3 characters tonight.

With his heart and eyes full, he just thought, how could that person be so cute.

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