Song of Complaint: The Emperor's Heart is Unpredictable

It was already dawn when Jingyang returned to the palace, he finally said goodbye to Anan, and returned to the Hall of Mental Cultivation exhausted.

He hasn't had a good sleep for a long time, as long as he closes his eyes, he will see Anan's face, every corner of the Hall of Mental Cultivation seems to have his shadow...

He simply went to the study room, wanting to see the painting that he painted that time. It was the first time he painted for Anan, but he didn't expect it to be the last time.

The study is still the same as that time, but that person is missing.Jingyang walked over and sat down, wanting to draw another picture for Chu Nan, but just after laying out the rice paper, he saw a line of words in the lower left corner of it.Looking at the words, his eyes suddenly became moist. He hugged the rice paper in his arms, and slowly slid down the screen behind him to the ground, finally weeping bitterly.

Anan, what should we do?Even in the next life, life after life, I still want to find you.

There are only twelve characters in sight.

I hope that in the next life, we will never meet again.

Chu Nan must write.

——End of text——

Extra episode [-]: The flowers on Moshang have bloomed, and the old man has returned

This is a quiet valley, because of the heavy snow in winter, the verdure has disappeared. At a glance, the mountains are covered with white, crystal clear.

The snow was still falling, there was a little smoke from the cabin in the valley, there were a few coughs from time to time, and a man gently reprimanded him.

The man in front of him seems to be only 21, with a handsome face and a smile like a flower. The only thing that makes people feel a little sad is that there seems to be something wrong with his legs, because he is sitting in a wheelchair now, and another man is squatting on his lap. Covered with a blanket, he muttered words of reproach, but his tone was so gentle.

"Okay, okay, I get it, I must definitely not open the window next time." The young man said coquettishly, with a deep smile between his brows.

"Chenghe, how many times have I told you that if you continue to behave like this in the future, don't call me when your hind leg hurts." That's what he said, but every time his leg hurts, he loves him more than anyone else. ...

The two men in the wooden house were Murong Chenghe and Ah Jiu who had already "dead", but this valley was the Valley of the Medicine King.

"If I don't call you, I won't call you. What's the big deal, hum!" Murong Chenghe snorted, and turned away from looking at him, but his eyes were full of tears.

Ah Jiu stood up and looked at him helplessly. Sure enough, he had spoiled him too much in the past two years. Every time he said something about him, he would use this trick, but he was defeated again and again.

He really couldn't bear to let Murong Chenghe shed a tear.

"Okay, I was wrong, how about I go make something delicious for you?" Ah Jiu looked helplessly at the person in front of him who changed his face faster than turning the pages of a book, helpless.

"I want to eat crystal wishful cake." Murong Chenghe laughed through his tears.

Ah Jiu really likes his smile, every time he smiles, he feels that nothing is important, and he just wants to guard this smile.He bent down and kissed Murong Chenghe's lips lightly, then strode towards the kitchen, leaving Murong Chenghe in place shyly.

Two years later, he still feels shy.

Ah Jiu laughed sullenly, this simple child.

Two years ago, this kind of life was beyond his imagination, but now it really exists. For him, this is almost a gift.He still remembered the dark and windy night two years ago, and the strong smell of blood in that room. He once thought that he would never be able to get out of that room or the sunlight in his life.

It was Murong Chenghe's kindness that saved them.

At that time, when the man was about to stab him with a knife, the door of the room was suddenly opened from the outside. He saw the owner of the inn and the waiter holding torches, leading the villagers from the town to rush in.Those people still held knives in their hands, and blood was still dripping from the blades, but the villagers seemed to stand in front of him and Murong Chenghe without fear.

"Engong, thank you for saving my mother." A man knelt down in front of Murong Chenghe. He remembered this man, Murong Chenghe once treated his mother's doctor. "Fortunately, it's not too late."

Following his movements, "plopping" sounds were heard in the room, and the villagers who had been treated by Murong Chenghe knelt down and kowtowed.Not to mention that Ah Jiu and Murong Chenghe were stunned, even the guard who took the lead in chasing them down was stunned.

"Benefactor has devoted himself to the villagers in our town. How can we be the ones who don't repay their kindness? We may not be able to do other things, but today we must put in the last effort to protect our kindness and safety." Not just anyone said After saying such a sentence, the villagers all echoed and looked at the group of people aggressively.

The leading guard's eyes flashed, as if he couldn't believe it.

"You all go away. It is my job to save the dying and heal the wounded. How can I ask for anything in return." Murong Chenghe sighed softly, and said to the guard: "My lord, they are all innocent people. Hurt them." He was not afraid, seeing Ah Jiu's wounded and dying appearance, his heart throbbed fiercely, but he couldn't let these innocent people die for him.

Ah Jiu still remembers the expression on Murong Chenghe's face when he said this. If such a person can get his favor, what is it but a gift?

Just when the two sides were at a stalemate, the leading guard actually spoke, which was the first time he spoke after entering the door.

"I didn't want to kill you, but it's my duty to eat the king's salary to share your worries." The man looked at Murong Chenghe directly, with complicated and contradictory eyes. "But now I have changed my mind again, you go."

"My lord..." The few remaining men in black all had expressions of astonishment and fear. "He killed so many of our brothers, what's more, has your lord forgotten the emperor's will? Or do you want to disobey the will?"

The villagers became a little scared when they heard that it was the emperor's intention, but none of them flinched.

"Zhouzi, have you forgotten the dream we had before entering the palace? We just wanted the people to stop suffering. Now there is a man who has achieved it. He wants them to escape regardless of his own safety. Do you think he deserves to die?" the leader snapped. scold.

"But...but... how does the emperor explain?" The guard named Zhou Zi was a little shaken.

"Your Majesty... I have my own solution." He turned his head to Murong Chenghe and said, "If you don't want to die in vain, then don't set foot in the capital again in this life." Then he quickly disappeared with others...

Thinking of all this now, it just feels like a dream.

"Ah Jiu? Ah Jiu, are you alright? I'm almost starved..." Murong Chenghe looked at the man standing in the kitchen, and couldn't help but feel a little bitter. Nothing has changed in the past two years, the only thing that has changed is Ah Jiu became more and more prone to daze, and he was often starved to death.

"Ah Jiu?" Murong Chenghe pushed the wheelchair and walked over to tug on his sleeve. "what's on your mind?"

"Ah? It's nothing... I was just thinking, how is Anan now, where will he be?" Since then, he left without saying goodbye, and he never saw Chu Nan again.

"Brother Chu..." A trace of embarrassment flashed across Murong Chenghe's face. He still remembered that he put all his heart on Chu Nan at that time... Fortunately, Ah Jiu didn't hold grudges. "He should be fine, I believe we will meet again by fate."

After saying this, he suddenly felt that the eyes of the people beside him became dangerous.

"Haha...haha...I mean, as long as you want to see each other, you will meet again one day." He laughed a few times and touched his nose in shame.

"You want to see me, right?" The gloomy voice only made Murong Chenghe's hairs stand on end.

"Uh... uh, is Ruyi Cake ready yet? Oh, I'm so hungry..."

"Hurry up, do you want to see each other? If you don't say anything, this Ruyi cake will become a snowball in the snow!" Ah Jiu raised the plate holding the Ruyi cake high, with an expression of about to throw it out of the window.

"I want...don't want to see you!!" For Ruyi Cake, he endured it.

"Do you want to or not?"

"..." Murong Chenghe didn't speak, but just looked at him with tears in his eyes, holding the hem of his robe with both hands and dangling it around, looking like a spoiled child.

"Alas... Actually, I miss him a little too." Ah Jiu sighed with emotion, put down the wishful cake, and stopped playing with him.

"...@#;$..." Murong Chenghe mumbled something vaguely with his mouth full of pastries.

"Huh? What did you say?"

"Let me tell you, Brother Chu actually hasn't left. Look at his house... Hey, why is there smoke coming from Brother Chu's house?" Murong Chenghe originally wanted to say that Chu Nan's house was still there, but ended up looking through the window. At first glance, there were a few footprints in the white snow, and green smoke rose from the house where Chu Nan used to live.

"Chenghe..." Ah Jiu looked nervously at the curling smoke, "Tell me, could Anan be back?"

"..." Murong Chenghe didn't answer him, just stared at the wooden house in a daze, and when he came to his senses Ah Jiu had already left the house and went straight to the wooden house.After waiting for a while, Ah Jiu came back a little dejected. Before he got close, Murong Chenghe hurriedly asked, "How is it? Is it Big Brother Chu?"

"Well... I stood at the door for a long time, but I didn't have the courage to go in. Let's go together." He knelt down in front of Murong Chenghe.

This man who didn't change his face in the face of death was actually sweating from his palms.Because he had heard the rumor that the emperor put a man under house arrest in the palace, and that man finally set fire to the palace, and he himself was burned to coke.

Anan, is that you?

Ah Jiu stood in the wind and snow with Murong Chenghe on his back, looking at the man standing facing the window in the room, he just felt like a lifetime away.

The man's face was as pale as death, his long snow-white hair was flying against the wind, and his white robe made him almost blend with the world.But if it wasn't Chu Nan, who would it be...

"A'nan..." "Brother Chu..." The two spoke at the same time, but they were equally moved and inexplicable.

"You..." Chu Nan turned his head to look at them, from surprise at the beginning to joy to sadness at the end. "It's great that you're still alive..."

The tone of voice is either happy or sad, and the expression is even more difficult to distinguish between joy and sorrow.

"Yeah, it's great that we're all still alive." Ah Jiu looked at Chu Nan, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, that's great.

After the passage of time, the old man is still there.

Only Murong Chenghe looked at the two men, one in the room and the other outside the window, with the same unfathomable expressions. He didn't know what happened, maybe there were many things, but it was a kind of happiness not to know.

Extra Story [-]: Even if we meet and don't know each other, our face is covered with dust, and our temples are like frost.

In the 29th year of Moonfall, many important events happened in this year. First, the eldest princess Anping got married, but the son-in-law was Liu Jinghong, the son-in-law who returned from the front line. It was said that the son-in-law loved the princess very much, and the princess didn't want to marry at first. But he was moved by his unwavering infatuation, and finally embraced the beauty.But the second thing is that the noble concubine Qing Hongluan, who has always been loved by the emperor, died of illness overnight, and the servant Xiaoxuanzi disappeared on the same day.The harem was already deserted, and the emperor was hit hard by this incident and was away from court for several days. Zuo Xiangzhong had no choice but to ask the empress for more persuasion. Who would have thought that the emperor was dissatisfied with the empress, and at this time he was grieving He was even more furious, implicating the secret affairs of the palace in his words, and hurriedly summoned the left and right prime ministers to enter the palace for discussion that night, and issued an imperial decree after the abolition on the second day to announce it to the world, causing an uproar throughout the whole month.

Moonset 30 years, New Year's Eve, night.

The capital city under the emperor's feet is extremely prosperous, and the ladies of the official family don't have many chances to go out every year, and those peddlers are even more refined, and they all sell enough to yell.

One of the mask stalls was the most lively, because each of those masks only cost one penny, and each one was exquisite, but the stall owner was very weird. He wore a cat face mask on his face, only showing a pair of eyes .Seeing so many people buying his mask, it is logical that he should take the opportunity to sell it, but he just sat there silently, as if he didn't care about his business.

"Master, please slow down, wait for slave...wait for me..." A slightly shrill voice sounded from the depths of the crowd, and was quickly covered, but the masked boss suddenly stood up and rushed towards that direction. I looked around anxiously, but unfortunately, all I saw were strange faces.

This mask boss is not Chu Nan who died in the fire a few years ago.

At that time, he asked Liu Yu for help and said he wanted to escape from the palace. Liu Yu was originally in charge of the city gate guard, so he asked him to change into the guard's clothes and get out when the shift was changed. The broken Xiao took it away, after all, it was his only thought, but in order to make Jingyang believe that he was the one who died, he had to keep it.

At that time, he really thought about dying, but he couldn't bear it after all.

I can't bear him.

Even if it is hatred, he still wants to live.Because when you die, there is nothing... love or hate, nothing.

What he didn't expect was that when he wandered for two years and returned to Yaowang Valley, he unexpectedly found that Murong Cheng and the two of them hadn't died at all... But, is it still possible to go back?he once asked himself.The answer is of course no. After so much, love has long since lost its original purity. Instead of being entangled to death, it is better to forget each other.

Having said that, but after living in Yaowang Valley for a while, he couldn't live anymore, and he missed him.

Just one look at him from a distance is enough.

Enough for him to get through the long years to come.

Just know he's okay.

Suddenly, a man in brocade clothes appeared in front of him. He looked very haggard, and he had no longer the charm of the past. There were many sons of court ministers in the crowd, and they all hurriedly saluted when they saw this man approaching.

"That's all, tonight I'm just an ordinary person who came out to play, you..." He glanced at the people who didn't know the so-called, and said in a low voice, "Don't cause trouble for me."

Those noble sons hurriedly nodded in agreement, and after saying that, he turned his head and smiled at Chu Nan. "The mask on the boss's face is not bad. I wonder if I can sell it to my subordinate?"

Chu Nan's mouth behind the mask curled up slightly, and he knew that this mask would attract his attention, because it was exactly the same as the mask he wore when they first met.

It was given to him later.

"This mask is a gift from my beloved, and it is hard to buy."

Jingyang frowned, this voice?

Then he smiled self-deprecatingly, the man has passed away, why does he always...

"Forgive me for taking the liberty." He turned around a little disappointed and was about to leave, but Yu Xiao who was hanging by his waist bumped into Chu Nan's eyes.

"That...here is another one that is exactly the same, but I have to exchange it with the Guan Xiao on your waist."

Jingyang looked down at Yu Xiao at his waist, and there was a flash of pain in his eyes. This is the Xiao he sent people to retrieve quickly. Once, he buried it on the edge of the cliff to accompany the sleeping person. "This Xiao... is also hard to buy. But..." He looked at the mask in Chu Nan's hand, and seemed to be ruthless. "I love this mask."

When Chu Nan took over Guan Xiao, his eyes were moist and he was about to shed tears.

From now on, in the long night, let the jade Xiao gifted by you personally stay with me for half my life.

Just as the two were expressing their emotions, the fireworks exploded with a loud noise in the sky, and the person looking up at the fireworks slowly overlapped with the boy from that year in Chu Nan's blurred eyes.

It was in this capital city back then, amidst the fireworks, that he realized that he was doomed in this life.

How wonderful it would be if life were just as it was at first sight.

Jingyang looked at the fireworks above his head obsessively, and felt a burst of sadness in his heart. He still remembered the year when he first met... and that New Year's Eve, when Anan was listening to Feng Xiaozhu warming the wine for him, talking happily about it.He stroked the mask in his hand, and gently put him on his face. If he remembered correctly, the mask was given to Anan later, so it could be considered that Anan's hands were warming him.

mask?By the way... the mask that person was wearing just now...

It's not wrong, he remembered that he had added an extra beard to the left face, and the mask that man was wearing happened to have that stroke...

He hurriedly turned his head to look for that person, but unfortunately, the mask stalls that were stacked on top of each other a moment ago are now empty.

That's fine, so be it.

Just knowing that you are still there is enough.

As long as I know that I am still under the same sky as you, even the air seems to have your breath.

When Xiao Lingzi found Jingyang, he was staring at the deserted street without blinking.

"Master? Let's go next..."

"Let's go back."

"what?"

"Go back, I am very happy tonight."

——End of extra episode——