The General and His Enemy Your Highness

The moonlight was boundless, and faint but soft light shone in the endless darkness. The young man hid behind the wall, with a corner of his clothes exposed, looking like he was trying to hide it.

"...Why are you here?" Mei Geng raised his hand, stroked his forehead lightly, and glanced at the young man standing against the wall out of the corner of his eye.

Why did the fifth prince, who was supposed to be in the palace, appear outside the courtyard of the palace?Now that the palace gates are locked, is he going to stand outside the palace for the whole night?

Chu Ce lowered his eyes and said softly, "Of course I came to look for you."

He was as peaceful as ever, but he withdrew his youthful spirit, like a silent dry well, lifeless.

Mei Geng was in a daze. He knew that this was the real Chu Ce, a dark abyss where the sun couldn't shine.

He had wanted to step into that darkness countless times, but in the end he was bruised all over his body and reached a dead end.

The night breeze is light, and the moonlight shines through the branches and leaves of the locust tree and falls on the shoulders of the young man under the tree, mottled with soft light and shadow, like the sparkling water in the south of the Yangtze River.

"Mei Geng, are you going to give up on me?"

Chu Ce asked softly, as if he didn't care much, and his tone was ethereal.

Mei Geng was taken aback, he really wanted to distance himself from Chu Ce, but when he asked such a straightforward question, he didn't know how to answer it.

There was silence between the two again, and Chu Ce's expression was neither sad nor happy, even numb.

He shouldn't be so calm.

Mei Geng thought in vain to get irritable, and even wanted to question him why he was so calm, and wanted to laugh a little bit, people didn't care about him at all, even if he was alienated, he would not be surprised at all, but he seemed to be a funny actor with heavy makeup, taking care of himself Sing this ridiculous one-man show.

With an extremely cold expression on his face, Mei Geng stretched out his hand, grasped the boy's jaw with two fingers and raised it, forcing the boy to look at him, and asked each word: "Yes, so what?"

But Chu Ce's brows and eyes remained calm, and he met the astonishingly evil gaze without avoiding it, then opened his lips and said softly: "I never asked you to protect me."

—I never begged you to protect me.

One sentence slammed into his heart, Mei Geng's smile was almost ferocious, he said it well, he was the one who was mean, but it turned out to be a joke with all his affection.

Mei Geng asked hoarsely: "Then what answer do you want to get from me now?"

Chu Ce's lifeless eyes were even darker. He couldn't move, so he lowered his eyes and said in a weak voice, "You are the one who wants to protect me, and you are the one who gave up on me. Could it be that I don't even have the right to ask?"

He has changed again, which Mei Geng has never seen before. He is unwilling and strong, and there is even a trace of hope in his eyes, like a butterfly dancing in the abyss, with blood dripping from the butterfly wings, and every time Scarlet blood dripped down when he flapped his wings, and he still refused to give up, fragile and tenacious.

"..."

Mei Geng didn't expect that he would be wronged and asked back, he was stunned, unable to speak, and even the strength in his hand was much lighter.

"you……"

"I know." Chu Ce interrupted him, his always numb expression finally changed, showing a bit of repressed stubbornness, he said softly, "You blame the royal family for being ruthless, but I also...walk on thin ice."

However, Mei Geng thought that what he said was that the current emperor was ruthless to the seniors who died in battle, and Chu Ce, a prince who was not valued, naturally had an unstable position.

The little prince turned his face away and broke free from the shackles. There was already a red fingerprint on his chin. He leaned against the rough wall, pursing his lips lightly as if he was enduring something.

Originally didn't want to say these things, Chu Ce smiled wryly in his heart, rubbed his eyes with his fingers, lowered his head and said in a low voice, "Mei Geng, I just want to live well."

In a word, it almost defeated all of Mei Geng's coldness at the moment.

Memories intertwined and overlapped again, as did the youth in the previous life. At that time, he asked: "Why is your Highness fighting for the reserve?"

The response was just an ambiguous "I just want to live well", for this sentence, he is not afraid of swords and fires, guarding the four directions for him, fearless of life and death.

But in the end, he failed to give him the peace and prosperity of the country, and he also failed to save the wandering and turbulent Great Chu.

Who was wrong?

Mei Geng felt that he couldn't breathe, and what was pressing on his chest was the sea of ​​corpses floating and sinking, and the howling and crying of the dead souls of those innocent soldiers. No matter who lost whom, how innocent were the soldiers who died tragically?

After a long time, Mei Geng closed his eyes and said softly: "Your Highness, Rong Chen...Think about it."

Think about how to face you, how to... trust you.

If the Dachu Mountains and Rivers were pacified in the previous life, would he be able to avoid the tragic end of the previous life if he guarded the frontier like the Xiping kings of the past?

Mei Geng couldn't let go of all kinds of past life, it was a lingering nightmare, he almost desperately tried every means to make things deviate from the track of the previous life, so as to change the ending of the previous life.

But Chu Ce was standing right in front of him, he had never done anything wrong now, if he cut off his way to fight for the heirloom, it would surely cut off the life of this weak prince.

Mei Geng forced himself to calm down, so what if he had a high meritorious deed?He wants to be above the emperor.If you become a powerful minister with power over the government, then it may not matter who is sitting on the throne.

However, Chu Ce, who didn't know Mei Geng's thoughts at all, had his own considerations, he sighed silently, at least tonight's goal was achieved - Mei Geng no longer resisted him that much.

The blood-stained gap between them has to be mended little by little.

The two had their own thoughts, and while they were thinking about calculating each other, they gradually calmed down.

"That..." Chu Ce suddenly opened his mouth cautiously, blinking his beautiful and clear eyes.

Mei Geng, who was at war between heaven and man in his heart, had to return to his senses for a while, and condescendingly gave a questioning look, and saw the little prince's head tilted, and said softly: "The key to the palace gate has been released, I'm afraid I won't be able to go back today ..."

In other words, it depends on where I sleep.

boom--!

Another thunder rang in his ears, Mei Geng's eyes darkened, he hadn't thought about how to treat each other, this little guy was already going to enter the house?

No, Chu Ce is not some ignorant and ignorant young man. This little guy has been so powerful since he was a child. Even Yu Yi plotted against others and had to take advantage of him. However, Chu Ce ascended to the throne without bloodshed back then, and there are countless bones under his feet. .

He was afraid that he had already planned to spend the night at the mansion.

Mei Geng narrowed his eyes: "You have already thought about it?"

"Yeah." Chu Ce nodded lightly, feeling refreshed about what he deserved, but the tips of his ears were slightly hot, stained with a thin layer of red.

"..." Mei Geng was rather strange. In his previous life, Chu Ce really relied on him, but he never stayed in the house overnight. Could it be that in this life he deliberately distanced himself from him?

He took a deep breath and asked, "Are you not afraid that I will let you sleep on the street?"

Chu Ce replied seriously: "You won't."

The tone is very firm.

——How do you know I can't?

Mei Geng gritted his teeth and asked back in his heart, but under Chu Ce's trusting eyes, he didn't say anything.But he always had a weird illusion—as if he was being led by the nose by this brat?

But the truth is, he really doesn't.

So King Xiping kept a cold face, hugged the little prince, and turned over the wall of his own courtyard.

Without knowing it, Mei Geng slipped back to the room, placed the little prince in the sleeping room, and repeatedly ordered him not to step out of the room, so Mei Geng was going to visit Yu Yi and the other three.

However, Qin Gui, who was witnessing everything in the dark, didn't see Mei Geng leaving and turned around silently, with a complicated expression on his face.

...The fifth prince is still a child, the prince's actions are really... a beast.