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Chapter 6 The Nightmare of the Year 1 Morning Awakening

After Jing Feng left, there was a brief silence in the hall.

Ren Zexuan sat without moving, while Jing Chen stood still.

Jing Chen lowered his head slightly, not knowing what he was thinking.

The two were in a stalemate like this, neither of them spoke, and Jing Chen didn't show any impatience or eagerness on his face, he just waited quietly, but Ren Zexuan knew that something was changing.

The man in front of him...is different.

"Are you sure you want to go?" Ren Zexuan looked at Jing Chen, and he finally asked. In the past, it was Jing Chen who couldn't hold his breath, but now, it was him, and he couldn't stand the silence at times, which is really funny.

But he always felt that Jing Chen at this moment was so strange.

"I've been bothering you in the palace for so long, it's time to go back and honor your parents." Jing Chen said gently, with a slight smile in his eyes all the time, the excited look he used to get whenever he saw him, didn't appear, " Jing Chen is old too, so it's time to go back and get married and have children, so that the old man can hug his grandson."

Ren Zexuan grabbed his hand abruptly, and Jing Chen stood in front of the table. This action did not require Ren Zexuan to stand up, but his expression was ugly at the moment: "Go back and get married and have children? After you become my man, do you still Want to marry another woman?"

"The emperor was joking." Jing Chen didn't panic, even though Ren Zexuan's strength was getting stronger, he didn't frown at all, "Caomin is also a human being, so naturally he wants to grow old with a well-educated woman and take care of her alone for the rest of his life. I won’t let her down, I won’t take concubines, maybe a hundred years later, when people talk about Caomin, they will make up a good story about this marriage, and maybe it will be passed down for generations.”

"But before that, they will think that you have been a male favorite in the court for ten years." Ren Zexuan was aggressive.

"Didn't your majesty believe in the rumors from the outside world, thinking that the grassroots are the ones who take sex?" Jing Chen seemed terrified, but Ren Zexuan could see the sarcasm in his eyes, "If it's true that the people are the ones who take sex, at least they can get a title, Jing Chen I have been in the palace for ten years, but I have nothing, how can I say that I am a man's favorite."

"you've changed!"

"What did the emperor say?" Jing Chen looked at him puzzled, "Who outsiders don't know that the youngest of the Jing family is conceited and complacent, because he was smart and knowledgeable since he was a child, and his vision is higher than others?" He broke free from Ren Zexuan's shackles , "This is me, this is me who has been suppressed for ten years."

"Chen'er!"

"I used to love you very much." Jing Chen didn't show any shyness or dodge, "I used to think that I would do anything for you, even if I would pay my life for it," he laughed at himself, "but I really I paid my life for this, but the reason was because of another woman. That day, I walked back to the palace by myself, and before I passed out, I swore that if I could live, I would kowtow to my parents and tell them I was wrong, I I was wrong for a whole ten years, a whole ten years!"

"you……"

"Ren Zexuan, I really want to ask you if you have ever loved me," he said, "I didn't dare before, because I was afraid that you would think I was capricious, but now I don't want to. I don't love you anymore. The answer to this question is yes. It doesn't make any sense to me."

"You... don't love me anymore?"

"In order to love someone, I would give my life away, let myself live humblely like an ant, be jealous like a woman, and become not like me, this kind of nightmare, if it lasts for ten years, should be enough." Jing Chen sarcastically Said, "It's time for me to leave, this dream, it's time to wake up."

"What do you take me for?" Ren Zexuan stared at him intently, "This palace, you can come and go whenever you want?"

"So, what do you think of me?" Jing Chen tilted his head, neither questioning nor aggressive, as if he really wanted to know the answer to this question.

"You know, to me, you are different." Ren Zexuan said.

"What's different?" Jing Chen asked.

Ren Zexuan didn't know how to answer him for a moment.

"Is it because I am different from the concubines, they can help you stabilize the civil servants, but I can stabilize the entire Jing family?" Jing Chen tore open his scars to show him without hesitation, he smiled a little sadly, But it's also a relief, "Or, because I'm a man, you have a special sense of accomplishment for me staying in the palace with a shameless face?"

Ren Zexuan pursed his lips: "You wouldn't be so ignorant before."

"I'm ignorant?" Now that things are going on, Jing Chen only feels that everything before is a joke, "Ren Zexuan, did you stay quietly in the palace, waiting for you to recruit, come and go, and be ridiculed by concubines?" , I can only see you when you need to kill, is this sensible?"

Jing Chen suddenly put away all his expressions, and looked at him indifferently: "Ren Zexuan, I was not born with a broken sleeve. Before I met you, I also yearned to marry a virtuous wife and grow old with her forever. I also used to make a sensation in Huijing with my literary talents. I used to enjoy the brilliance that my peers did not have. I used to make my parents extremely proud. Except for the fact that you are the emperor sitting on the entire Moyuan country, I don’t have to do anything else. You are bad."

But, after meeting you, what have I gained?

"You said I've changed, what about you? You never called yourself 'Zhen' in front of me before. I couldn't see through you before, and you never saw through me."

"But now, let's forget about it, Ren Zexuan, I don't love you anymore, or I don't love the illusion you created when I was 15 years old anymore."

Ren Zexuan looked at Jing Chen with a complicated expression, but did not speak.

"Ren Zexuan, the thing I regret the most in my life is that I met you when I was 15 years old. If I hadn't gone to Wenxuan Building that day, it would have been great..."

He walked towards Jing Feng without looking back. The cage that imprisoned him for ten years was finally opened by his own hands. He imprisoned himself for ten years, and he was finally about to set himself free.

Ren Zexuan stayed where he was, watching the man leave him, he stood up, wanting to grab him and say something.

"You'll regret it, Chen'er," he said.

Jing Chen didn't look back.

"You will come back to me." He was sure.

Jing Chen closed the door of the hall.

The hall was once again silent...

Jing Chen followed Jing Feng out of the imperial study and walked outside the palace gate.

He walked leisurely and had time to look at the surrounding scenery.

It's funny to say, after living in the palace for ten years, he doesn't know much about this palace.

Jing Feng didn't speak. The two brothers haven't seen each other for ten years. Jing Feng's impression of Jing Chen is still that of the stubborn child who insisted on entering the palace ten years ago, but Jing Chen didn't know how to speak.

"Xiaochen..."

"Big brother..."

The two opened their mouths at the same time, and were a little surprised.

There was still some distance from the palace gate, Jing Chen was silent for a while, and then said: "I will never be willful again."

"No." Jing Feng shook his head, "Xiaochen, you have the capital and the right to be willful, but you have to know that the price of willfulness can only be tasted by yourself, and no one can replace you."

Just like ten years ago, when he insisted on entering the palace, he was the only one who understood the bitterness of human relationships during these ten years.

"You have to remember that you are my younger brother and the third son of the Jing family. Even if your father resigns in the future, you are also the honorable third son of Jing in our family. You have the right to be willful and proud, but don't let me Your pride and dignity have been reduced to your willful victims."

Jing Chen sniffed, and nodded solemnly: "Brother, don't worry, Qing Chi will only do this once for foolish things."

"My brother has always had confidence in you."

Outside the palace gate, someone was waiting beside the carriage, looking anxiously at the palace gate.

He waited here all morning, even though the weather was getting hotter, he didn't get into the carriage, but just looked at the gate of the palace.

Jing Chen saw him and ran towards him.

"Second brother!"

Jing Xue hugged his younger brother whom he hadn't seen for ten years. Compared to Jing Feng's calmness, his temperament was more active: "Third brother, let the second brother think about it." He hugged Jing Chen tightly, Almost made his bones protest.

"Come on, get in the car, let's go home immediately." He pulled Jing Chen into the car, Jing Feng followed, and Zhuqing Zhuyue drove the carriage away from the cage-like palace quickly.

Jing Chen leaned against Jing Xue, tears glistened in his eyes, but he was very excited.

Jing Xue held the third younger brother's hand tightly, and didn't ask him about his life in the palace these years, but kept talking about the life of his family members at the border in these years.

After Jingchen entered the palace that year, Jing Zhong sold Huijing's mansion and moved his family to the border town. In the past ten years, the emperor has not called, nor have they returned to Huijing. If the enrollment is expanded, only the guards will be left in the border town.

It's just that this guard is Jing Zhong's confidant, and he followed Jing Zhong from the time of the first emperor to fight on the battlefield. As long as Jing Zhong doesn't hand over the tiger talisman, the current emperor can't feel at ease. That's why Ren Zexuan tried his best to make Jing Zhong Chen enters the palace.

As long as the youngest son of the Jing family is in the palace, it is impossible for Jing Zhong to act rashly.

Jingfeng Jingxue is the talent of military generals. In recent years, the wars have been pacified, and the army has rarely expanded its recruitment. In addition, Ren Zexuan has gradually developed a suspicion of the Jing family, and Jing Zhong does not want his sons to follow his path, so he has no arrangements. The son joins the army.

After Jingfeng Jingxue grew up, he secretly started a business, not just an ordinary business, they even extended their hands into the rivers and lakes.

Jing Zhong has been a military commander all his life, and he only hopes that his sons can live a good life, instead of fighting on the battlefield like him. Every time he goes out, he has to be prepared to shroud himself in horse leather.

Over the years, the two already had their own connections, even if Jing Zhong resigned from office, their connections would be enough to make the whole family feel comfortable.

Jing Feng got married in the second year after Jing Chen entered the palace. The other party was a businesswoman who was well educated, respectful to her in-laws, and kind to her servants. The two elders were extremely satisfied with her.

She gave birth to two sons and a daughter in the past few years, which made Mrs. Jing, who was sad because of Jing Chen's entry into the palace, relieved a lot in recent years.

Listening to Jing Xue's description, Jing Chen kept smiling faintly.

"When you get home, father will return the tiger talisman. Our family will live a normal life from now on." Jing Xue said to Jing Chen.

I haven't seen him for ten years, but nothing seems to have changed. The two elder brothers are still so gentle and pampered. How could he be so stupid at the beginning, thinking that Ren Zexuan was more important than his relatives?

Jing Chen leaned next to Jing Xue, and slowly closed his eyes.

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