Shimmer Forest

"Enough!" Sweeping the utensils on the table to the ground, the king who had endured for a long time finally became angry. I don't know if it was because of the chaotic scene or because he saw the intimate interaction between the two.

Anger and murderous intent were about to burst out of his eyes. He looked down at the two of them, and his tone of command could not be resisted: "Xiao Qinghan, follow me. Immediately, immediately."

"But, my lord, the banquet hasn't started yet." Undeterred by the murderous aura, Xiao Qinghan still handled it freely.

"Then, do you want that little ghost to sacrifice to the sky?" I don't know if the anger made the emperor lose his mind, he openly uttered threatening words without hesitation.

After a long silence, Xiao Qinghan stood up and saluted respectfully: "I understand, but this child is my guest after all. Please also ask the Lord to let me do my best in hospitality and send him back safely."

"Okay. I'll give you some face." Seeing him protecting Su Jin so much, Xuan Lingxiao was even more agitated.He left this mess without hesitation, and walked away.

Xiao Qinghan took Su Jin's hand, with a gentle expression as usual: "Let's go."

"it is good."

The two walked forward in silence. Su Jin looked at the other's calm side face and shook his hand lightly: "Qing Han."

"Ok?"

"Xuan Lingxiao seems very angry."

"Yes." The other party answered casually, as if thinking of something, and comforted: "But don't worry, he won't do anything to you."

"...It's great to be able to end the banquet safely."

"Yeah. Just the way it ended was kind of... poof... out of the ordinary..."

I don't understand why, even though he suppressed so much pain in his heart, he can still talk and laugh like this.He was silent for a long time before opening his mouth in a low voice: "Qing Han... did you do it on purpose?"

"what?"

"You know that, right? That person likes you." Su Jin stopped, looked into his eyes, and said the question word by word: "Why must you anger him even though you know you will be punished?"

"Don't be fooled by him, he is just enjoying the pleasure of torturing me." Slightly responding with a smile, he held Su Jin's hand and continued to walk forward as if nothing had happened: "He kept me only for-"

The words stopped abruptly, as if he suddenly thought of something, he subconsciously covered his mouth with his palm.

"Qinghan?"

"It's nothing." Xiao Qinghan knelt down, wrapped him in the robe that wrapped him up, and smiled gently, "I'll take you home when I come back this time."

Even though he pretended to be nonchalant, Su Jin felt it easily. The sadness that hit his face was suffocating.

He didn't continue to ask.

The two held each other's hands and returned to the small courtyard silently.

"Okay, it should be safe to send him here." After sending him to the door of the room, Xiao Qinghan rubbed his hair: "I set up an enchantment here, and no one can enter except me. You must Don't leave here."

Seeing Su Jin nodded, he turned and left in peace.

"Wait!" Before he had gone far, Su Jin called him, holding his wrist in a little panic: "You... why don't you go?"

Xiao Qinghan was startled, then smiled, and patted him on the shoulder: "Don't worry, it's fine, wait for me to come back."

It was the first time Su Jin saw the pure and gentle look on his face.It seemed as if all doubts and defenses had been removed, and he laughed from the bottom of his heart.

As if cast some kind of spell, Su Jin slowly let go of his hand, watching the man's back gradually drifting away.

Anxiety gradually spread.

Three days later, Xiao Qinghan did not return.

He was uneasy and did not dare to act rashly.But in any case, it is not wise to wait any longer.

He reviewed the self-defense skills he had learned before, and then stepped out of the yard in full gear.

Occasionally, he would come across servants serving tea and water, or dignified patrolling guards on the road. The strange thing was that no one stopped him, and no one stepped forward to make trouble, and even everyone treated him respectfully.

As if he were really the noblest guest here, no one would bother him, he was completely free here.

Could it be some kind of trap?

When he was thinking, he vaguely heard small whispers, as if someone was chanting Xiao Qinghan's name repeatedly.

He cautiously followed the source of the sound, and found Xuan Lingyun sitting on the stone bench under the peach tree, very drunk.

He took a few sips of wine, then thumped the table and shouted: "Why is it Brother Huang!"

Su Jin shivered in fright, and soon realized that the man was just drunk.He thought that he might be able to hear something from this guy's self-talk, so he hid behind the stone statue and eavesdropped.

"I, Xuan Lingyun, am not as good as him!" The drunk second prince completely ignored his image, and angrily picked up the wine jar and took a sip: "He has secured the throne, and even the people I like have been snatched away by him!" gone!"

"God prefers not to play like this! It's a benefit for me!"

"That dead scholar! Why does he look like shit when he sees me, but he smiles so happily when he sees that brat?"

Talking nonsense without a clue, he hugged the wine jar and cried: "You are smiling at me too! Do you want me to be hard on you like Brother Huang? Huh?"

Throwing the wine jar to the ground, Xuan Lingyun looked up to the sky without any image and screamed: "Xiao Qinghan——I love you, I——every time I see you, it's like [beep——], and then you [beep] ——][beep——][beep——] Ah!"

After a series of foul language, he finally calmed down and lay motionless on the table.

Su Jin, who hid behind the stone statue and eavesdropped, expressed a lot of pressure.

Although he knew that Xuan Lingyun had feelings for Xiao Qinghan, he never thought that he really liked that person.

No wonder he tolerated Xiao Qinghan's animals messing around in his precious garden so much, even if he said harsh words, he didn't actually do anything.

Of course, what I didn't expect was that he always said some foul language to that person, so it turned out that he really wanted to say something...

Should it be said that his EQ is too low and he deserves to be dumped?Su Jin sighed, feeling sympathetic towards him.

However, when he uttered the truth after drinking, he suddenly thought that maybe he could get something about Xiao Qinghan out of this person's mouth.

Taking a deep breath, he slowly enchanted the table.The person who was sleeping to death suddenly got up, picked up a glass shard from the wine jar, and placed it across his throat.

That look of murderous intent did not look like a drunk at all.Just when Su Jin was about to fight to get away, the other party suddenly hiccupped his face.

"Smelly brat, hiccup—come to see my joke——"

The soaring smell of alcohol hit his face, making Su Jin almost vomit.He covered his nose and quickly took a step back, not even wanting to speak.

"I didn't lose. I was, I just didn't want to snatch it—you're so capable, what the hell, you can't snatch my brother—"

Su Jin retreated a few more times before he was able to catch his breath, but the other party's words were too much, and he didn't know how to spit them out.

"Well, I can also let him [beep——] [beep——] and [beep——]..." Before he finished speaking, he suddenly stood up unsteadily, looked around for a while, and hugged a The tree spat violently.

At this time, Su Jin was no longer in the mood to watch a movie. He sighed a long time, looked at the back of the other party who was vomiting, and asked softly: "You...why didn't you tell him directly? You like him... ..."

"How to say it, he belongs to the emperor." Xuan Lingyun supported the tree trunk and lowered his head, rubbed his lips with his wrist, smiling helplessly: "I am a person who will only make him unhappy. If you hate it..."

I don't know if it was because of the alcohol that made people emotionally unstable, he suddenly thumped the ground and cried bitterly: "Wow, what's wrong with the emperor, just because he is the emperor, he abused his power, and it's obviously me who... "

The unfinished words were constantly interrupted by the sound of vomiting, even Su Jin couldn't see it, and felt a little sympathetic to him.

"Whether it's the emperor's brother, or you, the stinky brat...don't think I don't know, you all want him." Wiping the stains on the corners of his mouth with his hands, his consciousness has been completely deprived by alcohol, he supported the tree slowly Falling down slowly, the sound became smaller and smaller.

"After all... he can bring happiness to people... Blue Bird..."

In the middle of the night that day, Xiao Qinghan finally returned to the courtyard.

Su Jin sat on the stone steps and waited for him, but the other party didn't even say hello, just walked into the room and closed the door.

Even so, Su Jin still saw the purple hickey on his neck.

Su Jin sat down close to the door of his house, looked at the moon in the sky, was silent for a long time, and then said leisurely: "...has he always done these things to you?"

There was no answer from the room, and the silence was like stagnant water.

And Su Jin didn't seem to need an answer, just lowered his head, stared at the ground, and asked calmly: "Qinghan... the ladder I saw isn't for welcoming guests, is it? That's what you want to use." A spell of escape."

"But you are sick, and you no longer have the strength to break the enchantment that imprisoned you. But at this time, you discovered me by accident."

"If you want to build a ladder again, it will take a long time to recover your mana. You think I have the ability to help you escape, at least when Xuan Lingxiao comes to you again, he can use me as a shield, so he stayed Me, right?"

"I once heard from my father that blue birds are creatures that can bring happiness. So people will catch them and imprison them in their own homes, so as to obtain a lifetime of happiness."

"But..." After a pause, he leaned his head against the door, as if he was asking others, but also he seemed to be asking himself: "Is the blue bird that represents happiness itself happy?"

It was silent for a long time, it was so silent that even time had frozen.He heard Xiao Qinghan's bitter voice echoing behind him: "You really...are not as smart as a child."

"Qinghan." Su Jin put his head on the crack of the door and said word by word, "I'll take you out of here."