sinful preference

On the corner of the street, there were servants from the palace who set up a long table and sat there to collect money. The two servants dressed in blue clothes of the lowest grade were beaming with joy to the people who came to sign, because they knew that there was a lot of oil and water in it, although I can only take a small amount of money, but that is also an income, and I can drink it for a year.

The people did not dare to make noise, facing the court officials representing power, even the smallest servants felt that others were superior, so couples lined up to wait, there were many crying voices in the queue, and some kept persuading their own daughters, Some are directly hands-on.

"Why are you crying! Dad is sending you to the palace to enjoy the blessings!" A well-known gambler on this street bound his daughter to jump in line, and said to one of the guards with a flushed face, "Hey, my lord, look at the appearance of my daughter." How? Can you?"

The guard knew the gambler and they often drank together, so he didn't let the other party go to the back to line up. He looked at the girl who was tied up by the gambler and said with a smile: "You also come to join in the fun."

"I'm not here to join in the fun. The fortune teller said that she has a great fortune. I dare not delay her." The gambler said it well, but his heart was full of hope that his daughter would fly on a branch and become a phoenix in the future. The dream of being a big official.

The guard said again: "She has a good relationship and is a beautiful girl. You don't need to pay any money. You can send her to the back, and Master Zhao, the painter, will show her portrait to His Majesty."

"Hey! Good!" After hearing this, the gambler dragged his daughter into the small yard next to it, which seemed to be temporarily used as the first level of the draft.

The scenery inside is beautiful and full of flowers, and the gambler hurriedly wanted to find an artist to make his daughter's painting more beautiful, but he didn't expect to get a reply that the artist was just tired and went out for a walk to rest.

"What? Gone? Then when will you be back?"

The court lady serving Mr. Zhao looked indifferent, she glanced over the crying girl with red eyes, and said, "This servant doesn't know either, please wait in the back hall first."

The gambler had no choice but to wait in the back hall, and found that there were more than a dozen waiting for his daughter to be painted like him, and suddenly grabbed the flagon at his waist and drank wine.

After a while, there was movement outside, and a servant and maidservant shouted respectfully, "My lord."

The gambler was the first to rush out with his daughter, only to see a flirtatious young man in white clothes with a dazed face walking back quickly, and was about to go back into the house, he hurriedly said: "Master Zhao, please stay! I……"

"Don't paint, don't paint, don't paint!" Mr. Zhao is not very old, his father is the prime minister of the court, he was called a genius since he was a child, he became a bachelor at the age of fourteen, and then went out for three years with the current sea ship that is testing other countries. Nian painted all the scenes of the outside world for the emperor who couldn't move around at will, so he was promoted again. After the death of the first emperor, the current emperor couldn't understand his family power, so he pressured him to let Zhao Nian do such low-level things.

That's right, it's low-level.

Mr. Zhao, who was a smooth boy, turned eighteen this year, but his arrogance did not decrease with his age, but instead increased dramatically. He hated Emperor Tianyuan for sending him to do this job, but today he suddenly felt that this was his destiny!

"What don't you draw! Aren't you Mr. Zhao? If my daughter becomes famous in the future, let's see how arrogant you are!" The gambler has become a drunk at this moment, and he can't control his mouth at all.

Zhao Nian turned his head to look, and said with a sneer, "Oh, that's it?" He turned and closed the door, "Vulgar fan." The last four words were accompanied by a 'bang' sound of closing the door.

Zhao Nian threw away all the scrolls on the table, spread a new piece of paper, and seemed to be crazy to draw what he saw just now. He muttered words, sometimes laughing wildly and sometimes depressed, but after a day and night, he finally stopped writing. Looking at the picture of the weak and beautiful young man lying on a pool of blood like a peerless work of art, my heart is empty...

He felt that his painting was not good, but he was reluctant to tear it up. He felt that he had not painted the charming misty eyes of the other party, so he hated his incompetence. He felt that he would never see that boy again. So he lost his soul and described it as haggard and muddled. When Eunuch Li came to pick up the portrait a month later, he also waved his hand and fell asleep on the cot, saying: "It's all there, take it yourself."

Although Eunuch Li is now the chief eunuch serving Emperor Tianyuan personally, he also knows that he can't place himself too high, so he doesn't care about Zhao Nian's unreasonable treatment of him, and ordered the little eunuchs behind him to roll up all the portraits and put them away After putting it on the carriage, he left.

Zhao Nian also shivered when he woke up completely and couldn't find the portraits that he had to look at several times a day. He didn't know whether it was because he lost his sweetheart or because of that bad premonition.

……

Shen Man was lying on the bed crookedly sick, being held by Rong Lie and fed with medicine. There was still a thin gauze wrapped around his neck, and the small gauze left at the knot was very long, long enough to be wrapped by Rong Lie. On his wrist, it seemed that he controlled Shen Man's life and death.

"Is it hot?" Rong Lie was still caring for Shen Man. After asking in a low voice, he got the answer of "not hot". Lie would be very angry, so he relied on the other party for everything, but now he knew that the other party was not angry with him at all, because Rong Lie was more worried about his body, which made Rong Lie temporarily put everything else behind.

Shen Man still remembered how he came back a month ago, the protagonist personally sent him to his house, and then Rong Lie came to snatch him in the middle of the night.

Rong Lie, who had agreed to leave for a few days, somehow knew that he was with the protagonist, and took him back to the Prince's Mansion to recuperate without even giving the third prince a good look.

In fact, heart palpitations and gastrointestinal problems are old problems, and the injury on the neck is not a big problem. The main reason is that the next day, Shen Man knew about the murder of the Lin family. He vomited out a mouthful of blood and passed out for three days. Awake.

Shen Man didn't know what was going on with him at all, but he couldn't stop crying from sadness, and until now he could see things blurry, as if he was about to be useless.

[I said you are useless, the death of a data is very natural. ] The system is instructing Shen Man, 【If you continue like this, I'm afraid you will die before completing the task. 】

Shen Man said: Master Lin is a good person, I'm just a little sad, I don't want to cry, my eyes are out of my control, what can I do?

【Hmmm...】The system said,【That may be the memory left in the body, the original owner and his father have a deep relationship. 】

Shen Man responded lightly, and asked again: Then last time I asked you to find out why the whole family was copied and beheaded, did you get any results?

The system was also very upset, he said [This kind of thing is difficult to handle, I knew it was the emperor's order, you didn't die because the prince pleaded for mercy. 】

Shen Man: But I always feel that there is something wrong with it, as if this ending is doomed since I entered the palace.

System [Maybe, are you still interested in doing things now? 】

Shen Man: Why not?This world is too complicated, the world of orcs is better, I want to go back, I miss them very much, and I don’t know if they have survived the cold winter, and whether there are little orcs who are hungry and cold again.

The system watched Shen Man fall into memories, and looked at the prince who had deep dark circles under his tired eyes because of Shen Man, watched Shen Man put his emotions on the group of little orcs, and looked at the target. The prince was still young and deeply in love, suddenly he didn't know what to say, so he remained silent.

Shen Man: Why didn't you speak?

System [I feel that you will definitely complete the task, so I'd better talk less in the future, lest you call me a crow's mouth again. 】

Shen Man smiled, and said: I found out that Rong Lie was really afraid of my death, but if I complete the task, the body will be considered dead, will he cry?

The system said [I don’t know, maybe, but if your mission is completed, it means the target’s data will collapse, and he will no longer affect the protagonist, you understand. 】

Shen Man: ...Fortunately, this is a game, he is data, otherwise I wouldn't be able to play it.

The man smiled in his heart, very relaxed, maybe very relaxed.

The system is very complicated. He doesn't know whether it is correct for him to tell the host his world view from the perspective of the system at first, because for him, all the world is indeed a piece of data, because he is not a human being. is management.But for the host, these should be real and alive.

"Brother, you are in a daze again, are you thinking about Lord Lin?" The prince Rong Lie said softly, he hugged Lin Yu tightly, as if he wanted to give Lin Yu all his strength, "If you are so sad, your eyes will hurt invisible……"

"You still have me, brother." The prince said, "I will never leave you."

"If your eyes are destroyed, you won't be able to see me." Rong Lie smiled very hard. He has many secrets, many dark sides, he has done many bad things, and he has done many cruel things that he thinks will affect him , but when the consequence was to make him lose Lin Yu, he was very scared, and he began to regret that he was not as cold and hard as he thought. When facing Lin Yu, he seemed to be facing his soft heart. , flustered in pain, wanting to destroy everything including myself, "I want my brother to watch me grow up..."

The prince smiled lonely: "Brother, you haven't given me a gift for my birthday. I want you to get well. Do you think this wish can come true?"

Shen Man hugged Rong Lie back, nodded in his arms and said, "Of course I can, I want to watch Rong Lie grow up..."