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"You can't accomplish anything by yourself, you have to make Mei Qing willing to help you."

"I can't do it," Pei Youping shook her head, with a troubled expression on her face, "He doesn't even listen to you, Auntie."

Standing under the plum tree with an umbrella, Mei Hanxiang's face was a little paler than the plum blossoms on the branches: "No matter how cold he is, he is still a child. He hopes to be cared for and loved. I have never cared for and loved him. Of course he will not." Listen to me. But you are different, and that's why I asked you to take care of him."

Pei Youping clenched her palms tightly, gritted her teeth and said, "He...he only treats me as a plaything."

"So you have to change him before he gets tired of playing, otherwise let alone revenge, it is unknown whether you can leave Wangchuan alive."

Pei Youping looked at her suspiciously: "Auntie, what should I do?"

Coughing several times, a trace of blood slid down the corner of his mouth, Mei Hanxiang wiped it with his hand, paused, and said with a faint smile: "Once a person has love, he will become fragile, and a monster like Mei Qing is no exception."

Within three days, Mei Hanxiang vomited blood and died, swallowing his last breath.Before she died, she was still standing under the plum tree, waiting for someone who would never return.

Mei Hanxiang was buried by him and Mei Qing himself.

"Do you know why there is a plum blossom in the corner of her eye?" Mei Qing said, pointing to the already cold body of the woman in the pit, "She was poisoned by a person before she was alive, and plum blossoms appeared on her face after death. God, if you die, you will have it on your face."

Pei Youping didn't want to be bound by the brand of "Mei" until her death.

If you want to escape from Mei Qing, you must first escape from Wangchuan!

He tried to convince the other party with his father's revenge and his aunt's last wish, but Mei Qing was completely indifferent.Pei Youping was helpless, tossed and turned, and woke up from a nightmare again one night, with sweat soaking through his clothes.He blinked his eyelashes slowly, listening to the cold wind blowing the windows "chucking".

Putting on her clothes, Pei Youping opened the door and walked out.

It turned out to be snowing.

The fine snow fell one after another, Mei Qing leaned against the plum tree, and turned his head when he heard the movement, the snow flakes on his face were melted into little drops of water, for a moment, Pei Youping thought he was crying.

"Do you miss your aunt?" Pei Youping looked at him and said.

Mei Qing bent her lips, smiling as usual.

The next day, Mei Qing developed a fever, which made her delirious.

In the dining hall, porridge was cooking on the stove, and Pei Youping was standing in front of the stove chopping vegetables. At some point, a red stream snaked out under the sharp blade.Startled, he raised the kitchen knife to his eyes, hesitated for a moment, and chopped it into the chopping board.Can't...can't...I still need Mei Qing's help...

With the food in hand, Pei Youping returned to the house, helped Mei Qing into his arms and fed him some porridge.

In the evening, Mei Qing woke up and saw that she was wearing clean clothes and a wet handkerchief on her forehead, she was stunned, and fixedly looked at the dozing person at her feet.

Pei Youping seemed to have a feeling in her heart, and she also woke up with a start, took off the veil, and reached for his forehead with a cold hand.

Mei Qing said hoarsely, "I'm thirsty."

Pei Youping turned to pour tea, but was grabbed by the cuff again.

"Don't go..."

—— Once people have feelings, they become fragile, even monsters like Mei Qing are no exception.

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The numb legs brought back her thoughts, and Pei Youping realized that Mei Qing had fallen asleep on her lap at some point, and her hand was stroking her cheek.

As if being scalded, Pei Youping immediately withdrew her hands and clenched them into fists.

Where Mei Qing can see, he can be hypocritical, and where Mei Qing can't see, he shouldn't forget the humiliation imposed on him by the other party!

He shouldn't... shouldn't...

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Pretending to be a Nanzhao witch doctor, blowing up the underground secret room, and sending two letters to Su Wuwei in succession...Mei Qing forced herself to take the road of killing masters and betraying her family step by step...Mei Qing's increasingly aggressive behavior also faded away He treated the little bit of kindness he had left.

It was freezing outside.

Sitting high in the hall where the head is in charge of affairs, Pei Youping's natural downturned eyes make him look gentle. At this moment, he is looking at the Tu Mo sticker in his hand. Dozens of such posts have been sent to all parts of the martial arts world. Mei Qing is about to become the target of public criticism.

With a cold snort, Pei Youping leaned back in the chair, looked down at the empty hall, and began to imagine a bright future where people would kneel down and admire her.

He doesn't need these people to love him, he just needs to obey him.

When he was most eager to care, his mother only saw his father; when he was lonely and helpless, it was Mei Hanxiang's mother and son who met him.They only let him understand one truth - "love" is so selfish, if you can't get it, you would rather destroy yourself and others.

Pei Youping doesn't understand love, but she understands what "hate" is.He hated Yu Jingyao who killed his father, hated the father who betrayed his mother, hated his mother who abandoned him, and hated Mei Hanxiang who took away his freedom.

he hates...

I hate Mei Qing for never treating him as a human being...

Indulging in endless hatred, he watched himself become distorted.Su Wuwei's kindness as a teacher and a father for more than ten years, and Su Wantang's love cannot move him. The only thing that makes him feel at ease is his power and status. He does not want to be controlled by others anymore and live in fear.

Looking at the Tu Mo sticker in her hand again, Pei Youping slowly curled her lips, thinking that this day has finally come.

Mei Qing is a lunatic.

He couldn't dodge himself, so how could he go back to Wangchuan with him?

Mei Qing is a fool.

Only he still believed in his original "promise".

Thirteen years ago, on such a cold day, they went to the small town under the mountain in the snow.

Mei Qing led him into the clothing store, picked out some clothes, and endlessly tried them on him.

They were still twelve or thirteen years old boys, they were quite cute in the shopkeeper's eyes, but Mei Qing was annoyed by the casual sentence "Brothers and brothers are respectful".

Pei Youping saw him put his hand into his purse, and hurriedly pulled him away.To appease him, Pei Youping bought a bamboo hat at a roadside stall, lightly brushed the snow from his hair, and put the hat on his head: "You are just sick, be careful not to catch a cold again."

Mei Qing touched the bamboo hat, raised her eyes to look at him, then lowered her eyes, a faint blush appeared on her beautiful face.

On the way back to Wangchuan, Mei Qing ate cinnamon sugar cake in mouthfuls. Before leaving, he gave Pei Youping three coins, of which Pei Youping used two coins to buy bamboo hats, and the remaining one coin to buy cinnamon sugar cake.

Pei Youping saw that he was frowning, trying to swallow the cinnamon cake in his mouth, and couldn't help feeling a little soft... If Meiqing and her mother were born together... Although they were originally brothers, one should be called Zhuo Youping and the other should be called Zhuo Qing .

Mei Qing probably really didn't like that snack, and was about to throw it away, but Pei Youping grabbed her wrist and swallowed it in one gulp.

"Don't waste it." Pei Youping turned around and walked forward.

Mei Qing was stunned, caught up with him in two steps, and took his hand.

Pei Youping's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and he suddenly had an absurd thought, if Mei Qing were Zhuo Qing, she might be obedient and obedient.

That night, Pei Youping took the initiative to be under Mei Qing's body for the first time. He kissed him, opened his body to welcome his entry, and then, in the joy mixed with pain, he hugged Mei Qing tightly, and begged in a crying voice: "Help me!" Help me...brother...you help me...I will definitely come back to accompany you when I avenge myself."

——You have to change him before he gets tired of playing, otherwise let alone revenge, it is unknown whether you can leave Wangchuan alive.

Pei Youping thought, so this is what Mei Hanxiang really meant, she didn't let herself turn Mei Qing into a "person", but a monster with "weakness".

A few days later, he got his wish and left Wangchuan.He knew that Mei Qing was standing under the plum tree where Mei Hanxiang always stood, wearing the bamboo hat he gave him.

He never looked back. He walked away for 13 years and never came back.

The surrounding fields are desolate, and the cold wind is like a knife.

Holding Su Wantang who was poisoned, Pei Youping came to Bofenggang.

On the hillside, the man in black put away the purple sand tripod, turned around slowly, and looked at himself from a distance through the black gauze hanging from the edge of the bamboo hat.

Pei Youping approached step by step, her gaze was as calm as water, as if she hadn't been so calm for a long time... At a distance of three feet away from the other party, he gently put Su Wantang down, and the woman immediately held his hand anxiously: "Senior brother... you Why did you bring me here... then... who is that person?"

Pei Youping comforted softly: "Don't be afraid, trust me."

"Brother..." Su Wantang's expression twisted suddenly, and he hugged his stomach tightly, "It hurts...it hurts..."

Meifeng twisted, turned around, and Pei Youping walked up to the man in a few steps: "Mei Qing, I want the antidote."

"This poison doesn't kill people, it hurts the body at most," Mei Qing said with a slight smile as she lifted the black veil, "Don't you know the taste of it?"

"Wantang is pregnant, I can't bear this crime!" After saying that, Pei Youping knelt down in front of Mei Qing, "As long as you detoxify her, I will go back to Wangchuan with you immediately."

The smile faded away, Mei Qing looked at him, then shifted her gaze to Su Wantang not far away... Pregnant?Pei Youping's child?

He thought it was impossible for him to like women.

"Mei Qing..." Pei Youping's voice implored, paused and then changed the call, "Brother, please!"

"Ha...hahaha..." The suppressed laughter echoed on the hillside, Mei Qing shrugged her shoulders, as if she couldn't stop laughing.

Seeing the scene in front of him in surprise, Pei Youping couldn't help but be more vigilant, for fear that he would go crazy in the next moment, but at this moment the laughter stopped abruptly, and Mei Qing threw a pill on the ground.

Pei Youping picked it up in a hurry, and walked towards Su Wantang to feed it to her.

Su Wantang gritted her teeth tightly, fixed her eyes on Pei Youping, and slapped him across the face with the last of her strength.

Tilting her head, Pei Youping looked at the woman again, and said softly, "Junior Sister, take the antidote."

"Pei...Youping...you don't have to be hypocritical...don't kill me now, I'll definitely tell the truth about what I've seen and heard!" Su Wantang's eyes were red, and she gritted her teeth and said, "It's you and the Rakshasa teacher. Collusion... you killed my father!"

Pei Youping looked at her silently, touched a few of her acupuncture points with her fingertips, and forced the antidote into her throat.

Su Wantang couldn't move her body, couldn't speak, looking at her former lover and today's enemy, she couldn't help feeling sad from her heart, her eyes were full of tears but she didn't know who she wanted to shed for.

"Let's go." Mei Qing walked down the hillside.

After placing the woman carefully, Pei Youping held on to the hilt of his sword and followed.

One step, two steps, three steps... ten steps, twenty steps, thirty steps...

He is getting closer and closer to him.

As if she had a premonition, Mei Qing turned around in an instant.

The long sword was unsheathed!

——If the end of a game can be foreseen from the beginning, there is no need to continue playing it.

——He wanted to take a gamble, see if Yu Yanzhi died first or he died first.

"Mother-child Gu" when the mother dies, the child will "die", but the child Gu will not have any impact on the mother Gu.So if Yu Yanzhi dies first, it means the end of revenge; if he dies first, Yu Yanzhi will die next, which also means the end of revenge.The only difference is that it is two people returning to Wangchuan together, or one person.

He always remembered what Pei Youping said over and over again in his ear: When you have revenge, you will return to Wangchuan.

After Yu Jingyao died, when Pei Youping asked him to find Yu Yanzhi, he believed him.After finding Yu Yanzhi, when Pei Youping told him to wait another year, he believed it.Year after year, Pei Youping asked him to wait, and even when he spread the Tu Mo stickers to the world, he never wavered.

He didn't mind dying at the hands of Pei Youping, he knew that Pei Youping had long wanted to kill him, but no matter what, he believed that he would keep his promise.

But what he finally waited for was the "brother" who knelt down in front of him because of a woman and the baby in her womb.

He seemed to have been waiting all his life, waiting for Mei Hanxiang and Pei Youping, but in the end, Mei Hanxiang still only had Zhuo Zhenyi in his eyes, while Pei Youping had many eyes, except himself.

It turns out that no one keeps the promise, and no one can go back.

The icy sword pierced through his chest, but Mei Qing didn't show any shock on his face. He pulled out the dagger from his sleeve with his backhand and stabbed it into Pei Youping's heart.

And Pei Youping was just like him, without the slightest hint of shock.

It seems that the actions of the other party are in each other's expectation.

Letting go of the dagger, Mei Qing pushed Pei Youping away, the long sword picked up a series of blood droplets and splashed in the air, he stepped back half a step, and pulled off the bamboo hat, with bloodshot eyes on the corner of his lips, and the imprint of a plum blossom quickly appeared under his left eye.

Pei Youping staggered and knelt down on the ground, looking down at the dagger pierced into his heart, the blade glowed with a faint blue light, obviously poisoned.He took a deep breath, and when he exhaled, there was a large stream of black blood, choked by the blood, he coughed violently and fell to the ground.

Looking at him quietly, Mei Qing stepped forward and knelt beside him, and pulled him into her arms.

Pei Youping's eyes were slightly closed, black blood soaked the skirt of his clothes, and he coughed again. He slowly opened his eyes, raised his hand to stroke the mark under the corner of Mei Qing's eyes, and then touched the same spot on himself.

"You don't have plum blossoms on your face..." Mei Qing said softly.

"Cheat... son..." Pei Youping's body gradually turned cold, and he lay in Mei Qing's arms, staring at her steadily.

Suddenly, a tear fell into his eyes without warning, and he suddenly opened his eyes wide.

——I have never seen you smile sincerely, and I have never seen you cry.

Pei Youping really wanted to taste the tears, but she couldn't lift her arms anymore.

The past is like a passing cloud, and scenes flashed in his mind. He suffered in hatred and struggled in bondage all his life... and the boy who smiled innocently under the night light remained in his heart in the end.

There was a sudden stabbing pain in his chest, maybe because of injury, maybe because of regret... regret that he couldn't escape until death, regret that he met him in the love-hate entanglement of the previous generation.

Closing his eyes, he exhaled very lightly, two tears merged into one, and slowly slid down from the corner of his eyes.

Embracing her icy body, Mei Qing pressed her cheek to Pei Youping's forehead, and murmured: "No...I didn't lie to...you..."

The cold wind whips up dust and sand, blowing up the sky and the open space. The bamboo hat that has been thrown off lies alone in the dust and sand.

The plum blossoms are in full bloom in the flying snow.

A young boy stood under the plum tree, who was waiting for him.Suddenly, surprises appeared in his eyes, and he hurried forward...

"Youping!" the young man shouted happily.

There is no one in the front, only the sky is cold and the sun is setting, and the plum blossoms are falling.

—End of "Return to the Ruins"—