The years that followed were uneventful.

Yin Xiujin was originally Yu Yu's companion, and had a very good relationship with him; Yu Yu had an elder brother, the eighth prince of the emperor, who was four years older than them. Although they did not grow up together, this eighth brother He took great care of Yu Yu, and was easy to get along with. Yin Xiujin and the eighth prince were also very familiar with each other.

The eighth prince has reached the age where he can participate in politics, and the time when he goes to court is often similar to the time when they go to school in the morning. He cares about Yuji's homework and often asks about it himself.

On this day, after the eighth prince came down from court, he went to the school of the princes.

Yin Xiujin saw him from a long distance away, waved to him excitedly, and said to Yujue, "The Eighth Highness is here!"

He dragged Yu Yu all the way and ran out of breath, and when he stood in front of the eighth prince, he was laughed and said "little short legs".

"..." Yin Xiujin got angry, left the two of them behind, and strode ahead alone.

Unlike the princes who have not left the palace yet, Yin Xiujin is not allowed to stay in the palace without special circumstances.When he walked to the fork in the road where he usually turned left to leave the palace and Yuyu went straight, he turned his head angrily and made a face at the eighth prince, said goodbye to Yuyu, and went out of the palace to go home as usual.

After walking a few steps, he remembered that he had forgotten someone.So he turned his head again, and waved vigorously at the Twelve Princes who were at the back.

"Let's go!"

A few years later, several princes have grown up and left the palace one after another to establish their own mansions.

For some reason, the eighth prince was fine when he was a child, but now his body is weak.The emperor felt sorry for him, and told him not to disturb him if there was nothing important to do; Yujue went to Yunnan, he was too rigid, and he didn't want to use his personal letters to occupy the resources of the post station, and the letters he sent back every year were only a pitiful few Feng, for a long, long time, Yin Xiujin could only hear about him in memorials.

A few years passed, but it was the Twelfth Prince who had the most contacts with Yin Xiujin.

Just after the Spring Festival of this year, the emperor made a decree and pointed out a side concubine to the twelve princes.

After the eighth prince was lingering in bed for many years, the emperor finally remembered that he still had a prince of the right age who could reuse him.

Seeing that his career of being neglected for many years finally came to an end, the twelve princes were not half happy.Yin Xiujin asked puzzledly: "Isn't it good to marry a side concubine? I heard that she is a great beauty!"

The Twelve Princes said: "Beautiful or not, it's nothing more than that."

Yin Xiujin disagreed, "You haven't met her before, maybe, after you meet her, you will like her!"

The twelve princes sighed silently, staring at him with extremely complicated eyes.

In the next few days, the Twelfth Prince was busy preparing for the wedding and did not show up for several days.

Just the night before he was about to get married, he suddenly went to Yinhou's mansion.

"Your Highness Twelve, why are you here?!" Yin Xiujin said in surprise, and hurriedly welcomed him into the room.

It was still cold in early spring, and there were even snowflakes at night.Yin Xiujin helped him pat the snow off his hair, and put a stove for him to warm his hands.

"Why are you free to find me today?" Yin Xiujin asked.

The Twelfth Prince smiled faintly and said, "I miss you, let's come and see you."

These words sounded strange, but Yin Xiujin didn't know how to answer them.He scratched his face, and said heartlessly: "Your Highness Twelfth, you are getting married tomorrow! Are you excited now?"

"...Ajin, why don't you understand." The Twelfth Prince said softly.

He put down the stove in his hand, clasped Yin Xiujin's hands with his hot hands, and scratched the dimples of his tiger's mouth with his dry and warm thumbs.

"I don't want to get married. I don't care whether the side concubine is beautiful or ugly, so naturally I don't feel excited. All I care about is..."

Every time the twelve princes said a word, they moved closer. Now, Yin Xiujin was almost wrapped in his arms, and the distance between their noses was not even an inch apart.

Yin Xiujin unconsciously held his breath.

"What I care about is that I haven't had time to express my heart to the person I like. But after tonight, I can no longer completely belong to him alone..."

The end of the words was drowned between the lips and teeth.

Yin Xiujin looked at the person who was kissing her in panic, and wanted to open his mouth to speak, but was driven in by the mouth opening.

After the kiss was over, Yin Xiujin was still in extreme shock, and saw the Twelfth Prince reach out to caress his face, and said slowly: "Since I was young, I have never owned too many things, and I have never had a choice. I don’t dare to say what I want, and I can’t refuse what I get. Everything else is fine, but there is one thing that I want very much.”

His hand slid along Yin Xiujin's cheek to his jaw, to his shoulder, and finally rested on his chest.

"I want you to have me here." The Twelfth Prince looked at the person in front of him, his eyes were red, "A Jin, can I?"

The candles in the room were blown out one by one.The room was pitch black, and nothing could be seen, only the rustling of clothes falling to the ground and the soft but gentle love of the Twelve Princes.

That night, when the Twelfth Prince left, he said: "A Jin, I know that you will never want to have an shady relationship with me. In the final analysis, this is my own wishful thinking, but no matter what, there was such a time. , I am also willing. If you are willing to treat me as before, I promise not to go beyond; if you don't want to, then I will not bother you again in the future. "

Yin Xiujin was in a mess, "I, I don't know!"

"Alright." The Twelfth Prince knew this and refused, "Then I'm leaving. A Jin, before I leave, I still have a small wish, can you satisfy me?"

"what?"

"I want to hear you call me by my name, just like you call Sixteenth Brother."

It was very strange, Yin Xiujin obviously felt that he should refuse, but he really couldn't say the words to refuse, so he could only tremble his lips and said inaudibly: "...Yuchen."

Yuchen really looked like a child who had lost his beloved treasure, smiling happily and brightly.

In the next few years, Yu Chen did as he said, and never took the initiative to provoke Yin Xiujin again.

At that time, Yin Xiujin only thought that night was like a complicated, tangled and lingering dream, and when he recalled it occasionally, he would immediately force himself to forget it again.

Not to mention that Yuchen has already married a side concubine, even if he is alone, there is absolutely no possibility of the prince and the eldest son.

At the same time, the situation in the former dynasty is also quietly changing.

The eighth prince's health is getting worse and worse, and he has not been in court for a long time. Currently, only the twelfth prince and the sixteenth prince are left with the highest prestige in the court.

Such a situation was acquiesced by the emperor, and he even hoped to see the princes restraining each other, so as to avoid any one person having too much power.

But the balance will always be broken one day.

That year, the son of the Minister of the Ministry of Officials committed a crime, implicating Lao Tzu, and the support of the Ministry of Officials for the Twelve Princes is well known.The twelve princes lost their most powerful helper, and their power plummeted.

Just at this time, his side concubine proposed to reconcile with him.

It is not uncommon for husband and wife to get divorced in this era, but it is really the first time it happened to the prince.

The emperor was furious: "You can't manage the ministers under you, and you can't manage the private affairs of the family. Yu Chen, are you a prince competent?"

The Twelfth Prince received all the accusations, and he knelt on the ground without saying a word to defend himself.

"Why did you do this?! Why don't you comfort the side concubine more?" Yin Xiujin felt that Yuchen was crazy, and for the first time in many years, he took the initiative to approach him and asked, "Why did you ruin your career like this? Your Majesty was not very satisfied with you before ?"

As the person involved, Yuchen's reaction was not as strong as Yin Xiujin's, "The side concubine is still young, and it's a relief to her and me to get married as soon as possible. She follows me, just wasting her youth in vain."

He looked at Yin Xiujin with a shy expression, but his eyes were full of love and joy, "Ajin, I finally have the courage to choose what I really want. Can I have this chance?"

Yin Xiujin's heart was numb from his fiery affection, he turned his back and stammered, "You, you, don't you want to be the prince?"

"Isn't it good for the sixteenth brother to be the prince?" Yu Chen didn't answer the question directly, "You have been with him for many years, and he will be the emperor in the future, aren't you happy?"

"Yuji doesn't want to be emperor." Yin Xiujin said seriously, "He told me that. He has been staying in Yunnan these years just to stay away from the imperial court."

Yuchen smiled, with a deep meaning, "If he says he doesn't want to, do you believe it?"

Yin Xiujin was not in court, so he couldn't understand Yuchen's deep meaning at all, he just felt sorry for him from the bottom of his heart.

But Yuchen hugged him from behind, his words could not conceal his love and affection, "Now, I have nothing to think about, nothing to ask for except Ah Jin."

Not long after, the eighth prince passed away; in the same year, the Yunnan war was victorious, and the sixteenth prince returned to Beijing with glory.

Those courtiers didn't know whether they really believed that the sixteenth prince was the most suitable candidate for the crown prince, or they just wanted to stand in line to protect themselves, and wrote letters to suggest the emperor to consider establishing a crown prince.

Naturally, the recommended candidates for consideration would only be the Sixteenth Prince.

All of a sudden, the sixteenth prince almost had power in his hands.

Since the last two incidents, the Twelve Princes have been quiet for many years, neither fighting nor grabbing, no fault, no credit.Everyone thought that he really didn't have the heart to fight for the crown prince, and they also thought that the position of the sixteenth prince's crown prince was sure to win.

But no one knows that the current Holy Majesty is very dissatisfied with this situation.

In the past so many years, he condoned the two sons to expand their respective powers, in order to disperse their rights.Now that the sixteenth prince is alone, it will only make him jealous.

Not to mention, this sixteenth prince always talks about "having no desire for the crown prince".

He deliberately wanted to frustrate this son's spirit.

On the emperor's [-]th birthday, there was a big banquet in the palace.During the period, someone once again pointed out that the sixteenth prince is so outstanding, he is an example for the prince.

Speaking of such a topic on such a day, even someone like Yin Xiujin, who was completely ignorant of government affairs, could see that the emperor looked displeased.

Sure enough, the emperor didn't respond to this topic, but just invited the eunuch to give him food.

But on the second day after the banquet, an accident happened.

Many ministers failed to come to the morning court.The emperor felt that something was wrong, so he sent the imperial physician to check one by one, but the result surprised everyone.

They are not sick, but poisoned.

This kind of poison is not common in the capital. It is made by grinding a certain poisonous flower that only grows in Yunnan.

The poison was so directional that it was almost obvious that the sixteenth prince had injected the poison.

If it is left in normal times, the emperor should be able to see that this must be deliberately framed.However, he was extremely tired of those ministers who kept suggesting that he should appoint the sixteenth prince as the crown prince. At this moment, he had no intention of considering the conspiracy involved, and ordered the sixteenth prince to be placed under house arrest on the spot, waiting for the case to come to light.

The sixteen princes led troops all year round, and the arrogance of soldiers who would rather bend than bend was deeply rooted in their bones.He insisted that he was innocent, and said that he voluntarily went to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for investigation, waiting for the day when he could prove his innocence.

Yin Xiujin was very worried. He believed that Yu Yu would never be a villain who secretly poisoned him, but he was still worried about the methods of the Ministry of Punishment.He didn't know who to consult with, so in a hurry, he could only go to Yuchen.

Unexpectedly, he was outside Yu Chen's room and overheard his conspiracy with others.

"Is the matter of Xuantian Dao Temple arranged?" Yu Chen asked.

"It's been arranged, but...is it really useful? Will His Majesty really believe such words?"

"If it were someone else, Father might not believe it; but if it were my sixteenth brother..." Yu Chen chuckled lightly, "You don't know, my sixteenth brother had an ominous sign when he was born. What's more, father was quite dissatisfied with the ministers surrounding the sixteenth brother as the candidate for the crown prince, so tell him at this time that Yu Jie has the image of a general, father will believe it."

"His Twelve Highness is wise."

Yu Chen took a sip of tea, and promised slowly: "After the matter is done, the benefits will be indispensable to you."

"Thank you, Your Highness Twelve, that minister will leave first."

Yin Xiujin felt cold all over when he heard it outside the door.He didn't care about thinking about whether such behavior was appropriate, he pushed open Yuchen's door, and asked loudly: "What are you talking about?!"

These years, Yin Xiujin had never been in Yuchen's mansion without a message. Originally, he wanted to express his heart to him, and wanted to tell him that the Twelve Prince's mansion was just like his own home, but unexpectedly, something bad happened tonight.

Yu Chen frowned, although he knew that such a day would come, but he really didn't expect to be exposed so early.

He winked at the person in the room, signaling that person to leave quickly.

Yin Xiujin refused to let go, and took a step forward to stop the man.

"Nie Kaize?" Yin Xiujin knew him. He was the son of the commander-in-chief of the imperial army. "The commanders of the imperial army in the Yu Dynasty were not allowed to be involved in the party and government. Did the commander-in-chief Nie tell you about this kind of thing?!"

Yin Xiujin has always been easy-going, and has almost never spoken to anyone in such a questioning tone-not to mention, his words just stepped on Nie Kaize's most worried point.

Yuchen had no choice but to wrap his arms around Yin Xiujin, and shouted, "Hurry up!"

Nie Kaize was terrified and ran away in a hurry.

When there were only the two of them in the room, Yin Xiujin closed his eyes tightly, broke away from Yuchen's embrace, turned around and stood face to face with him, and asked word by word: "You did the poisoning." ?”

"I did it." Yu Chen admitted straightforwardly.

Yin Xiujin couldn't believe it.

He staggered back a few steps, but he didn't have the courage to rush out the door.He burst into tears, with too many questions, puzzles and accusations in his heart, but he could only ask: "...Why...? Why did you do it..."

Yuchen didn't answer him, but he didn't want to hide it anymore, "It's not just about poisoning. I was the one who uncovered the corruption case of the son of the Minister of the Ministry of Officials earlier—in other words, the arm of the Ministry of Officials is I killed it myself. The reconciliation with the side concubine Yuanyue at that time was also my intention. The emperor's birthday banquet, those ministers who kept persuading him to consider establishing a crown prince, were all my advisors in private."

Yu Chen said: "Father likes to see us fight to the death, but the premise is that the situation must be balanced. Once someone dominates the family, then this person will become a thorn in Father's side."

Yin Xiujin was forced to accept too much explosive news, he was almost oppressed and couldn't breathe.

Why did things turn out this way?

He even had the idea of ​​escaping: If only he hadn't come to see Yuchen today...

What should he do?

On the one hand, there are lovers who love each other, and on the other hand, they are best friends who grew up together since childhood.

"...But," Yin Xiujin asked the last question, "Yuchen, don't you want to be the prince?"

"...Ajin, why are you so stupid? I never said that I don't want to be a prince." Yu Chen held his face in his hands, carefully wiped away his tears, "Even if I said it, do you really believe it? "

They held a stalemate for a long time that night, and neither of them would budge.

Yuchen kept hugging him, kissing his eyebrows and lips, but said something chilling: "A Jin, you won't report on me, will you?"

Yin Xiujin shrank aside with her eyes closed, only avoiding Yuchen every time she wanted to kiss him.

His eyes were dry and swollen, and he repeatedly imagined in his heart how Yu Yu chose to go to the Ministry of Punishment to prove his innocence.

After an unknown amount of time, Yin Xiujin finally made up his mind.He broke away from Yu Chen's embrace, with a cold look on his face that he had never seen before.

He said: "Yu Chen, I won't pursue other matters, and I won't tell others. But for the poisoning, you have to clear Yu Yu's guilt, otherwise, I won't let you go."

After talking for so long, he still didn't listen, Yu Chen thought a little annoyed.

"Ajin—"

Yin Xiujin interrupted him, "Listen to me."

"In these years, we, we..." Yin Xiujin's nasal voice was heavy, but his tone was very firm, "Maybe we will never get married one day, but to me, you have long been my closest lover. A man of writers. As for Yuyu, we grew up together since we were young, and he is my friend. But from now on, from tonight onwards, since I have chosen to protect you, I will never have the face to continue to be friends with him .”

He took a deep breath, his nasal cavity was full of soreness, "But, no matter how much you two fight in the future, I will not intervene, I will not ask anything you do, I will not help each other. Yuchen , from now on, from now on..."

He wiped away the tears that filled his face again at some point, and tried his best to suppress the pain and sourness in his throat, "Your Highness, from now on, we will sever our friendship."

"Ajin! Is it useful for you to do this?!" Yuchen really panicked, "Our relationship for so many years can't compare to you being his companion for a few years?"

"Stop talking." Yin Xiujin made up his mind, "Do you have a knife?"

Yu Chen became nervous, "What do you want a knife for?"

"The martial arts of the Twelve Princes were taught by the master in the palace. Are you still afraid of me, a person who has no strength to restrain a chicken? Even if you give me a knife, I can't hurt you."

Yuchen was beaten back by his scolding, but he couldn't beat him, and he couldn't even reply, so he had to find a dagger for him.

Yin Xiujin said: "Your Highness is so scheming, even if I promise again and again and swear to God that I won't reveal to anyone what I heard tonight, I'm afraid it will be difficult for Twelfth Highness to believe it. If this is the case..."

It is true that Yin Xiujin doesn't know half of kung fu, but this does not prevent him from raising the knife in his hand, leaving blood on the ground.

... It wasn't until the dagger fell and made a few crisp sounds, and when Yin Xiujin fell to the ground in convulsions, did Yuchen recover from the shock.

He hurriedly hugged the trembling man in pain, and kept wiping away the blood gushing out of his mouth, trying to stop the bleeding but unable to do so.

What fell to the ground at the same time as the dagger was half of a bright red tongue.

"...A Jin! A Jin!!"

Yin Xiujin was hurt too badly.

No one knew what happened to him, the entire Yinhou Mansion only knew that Xiao Shizi left the house intact and his tongue was cut off when he came back.

When Yin Xiujin finally woke up from the coma, the sky outside had changed.

There is a group of soldiers under Yujue who are full of passion but not resourceful. I don't know if they are instigated by others, or they are really so clueless. After learning that His Royal Highness was imprisoned wrongly, they don't want to think about how to get rid of him Wronged, actually chose the worst move.

They went to jailbreak.

Yuyu was furious, but these government soldiers were really soldiers who had fought bloody battles with him, and he couldn't bear to kill them cruelly.When the two sides were in a dilemma, Nie Kaize came in with a group of forbidden soldiers.

Yuju couldn't argue with his mouth.

Those few government soldiers still didn't realize that they had done a huge mistake that would kill their prince, but at this moment they were dissatisfied because of Yu Yu's scolding, their morale was greatly reduced, and they were quickly wiped out by the imperial army.

At this time, the emperor came in a hurry.Xuantian Dao Temple's "His Sixteenth Prince has the appearance of an emperor" still lingers in his mind. Seeing such a scene again, he even skipped the steps of finding out the truth, and actually wanted to execute Yujie for the crime of treason.

"...Father, my son has stayed away from the court these years, not because I really love marching and fighting, but because, with my son's strategy, I definitely can't protect myself safely in the competition for the crown prince." Yu Jie laughed at himself. Laughing, "I should stay in Yunnan, I shouldn't come back."

He said in a low voice: "Everyone in the world wants to be an emperor, but if there is an afterlife, I really hope that I will be born in the family of ordinary people and have nothing to do with the blood of the royal family."

After finishing speaking, he leaped forward and drew out the long sword in the hands of the guard farthest from the emperor.

"Escort, escort!" Nie Kaize yelled in shock, "The traitor wants to kill the king!"

Yu Jie retreated, easily dodged them, and finally left her father with a look of regret, puzzlement, and hatred.

Then he swung his sword and killed himself.

No one dared to touch the emperor's mold in this matter.Yu Yu is no longer a noble prince, he is just a traitor and traitor who failed in rebellion, and even his body was not buried properly, but was just thrown away casually.

... Only Yin Xiujin dared to look for him and see him for the last time.

Yin Xiujin staggered and fell to his knees.

In front of him was the person he had seen countless times, his childhood playmate, and his bosom friend who talked about everything.

...It was because of his weakness and his protection that he was innocently killed by the Twelve Princes.

Yu Yu, Yu Yu are the generals who should fight the enemy bravely on the battlefield, not lying here with a pale face like this...

If... If I had the courage to expose what the Twelve Princes did...

Yin Xiujin's heart felt like a knife was being twisted, but when he opened his mouth, he could only make an unclear sound.

He hugged Yuji's body, weeping until he almost fainted.

In the end, it was the twelve princes who found them.He found someone to bury Yu Yu, and sent Yin Xiujin back to the Yin Hou Mansion.

The emperor became seriously ill because of this incident, and he abdicated not long after.

... Having lost two sons successively, he has no other choice.

Yin Xiujin has also been ill, and the imperial physician is helpless to deal with his illness.The wound has healed, and he has no other symptoms. He just has a high fever and often falls asleep.

On rare days when she was awake, Yin Xiujin took her mother's hand and slowly wrote: "Mom, I want to leave the capital, let's leave the capital."

How could mother not follow him?

They don't want anything anymore. Why is the family business of Lord Hou's son more important than his son?

When the family packed up their things and was about to leave, they were stopped by the twelve princes who had heard the news—now they should be called the emperor.

He couldn't help but take Yin Xiujin away.

"I'll take care of him myself."

The emperor took him into the palace and served him with good food and drink, but Yin Xiujin became more and more ill. In the end, he had to be fed three meals a day to manage to eat a little.

The emperor was very anxious, and both of them knew the crux of the disease, and both knew that there was no cure.

Later, the emperor didn't even go to the morning court, and hugged Yin Xiujin all day long.They are lying or sitting on the dragon couch.

"Ajin, what do you want, what exactly do you want," the emperor was helpless, "you tell me, I will satisfy you, okay?"

Yin Xiujin slowly wrote on the back of his hand, "I want to leave the capital."

The emperor's face suddenly darkened, "No, this one won't work! You can change it."

Yin Xiujin: "I want to die."

"..." The emperor suddenly laughed, "If I disagree, what do you want next, is letting me die?"

Yin Xiujin turned her back to him, refusing to respond to him.

I don't know if it's because after becoming the emperor, people's temperament will really change drastically, or maybe he already has this temperament, but he just hid it very well from Yin Xiujin before.In short, the emperor became irritable and behaved wildly.

He often disregarded Yin Xiujin's wishes and forcibly had sex with him, and he always liked to ask the same question at this time.

"Ajin, you don't want to live anymore, do you want to die with Yuji?"

Yin Xiujin trembled all over, trying to push him away with the last bit of strength.

The emperor chuckled lightly and held his hands easily, "Look at your excitement. I used to think that you don't have me in your heart, only him. Now it seems that's the case, right?"

Yin Xiujin turned her head away, refusing to look at him.

"You have him in your heart, but does he have you in his heart?" The emperor heaved maliciously a few times, then bent down and said in Yin Xiujin's ear, "You want to treat him like this, don't you?"

Yin Xiujin tried desperately to escape, but was turned around with his jaw broken.

"But you have no chance, Ah Jin." The emperor hugged him tightly and said with utmost tenderness, "You can only be with me in this life."

The last scene in Yin Xiujin's memory was that after finishing his morning reading one day, he took a sachet from Yujie, which contained a small dish of ointment for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.He bounced and ran to the side of the twelve princes, and handed him the sachet.

"Your Highness, this is given to you by our Sixteenth Highness, try it, it will work!"

"vomit--"

During the previous few memory transfers, Shen Haiyao only had a slight retching sensation. After this time, he really couldn't hold back and vomited.

Chu He quickly poured water for him to rinse his mouth, and then patted his back, "Haiyao, Haiyao! Don't think about that, rinse your mouth first!"

He rubbed the back of Shen Haiyao's neck and comforted him: "It's over, it's over. It's all right!"

Shen Haiyao's face was pale, and when he closed his eyes, all he could think of was the half of Yin Xiujin's tongue that had been cut off by himself.

He took the water glass that Chu He handed over, and took a big gulp, barely suppressing the sour water that kept coming up from his stomach.

Chu He let him lean on his shoulder, turned his head to kiss the tip of his nose and the corners of his mouth, and said, "Hai Yao, cheer up, A Jin and the Sixteenth Prince are still waiting for you to avenge them."

After a long delay, Shen Haiyao finally regained his composure.He was still leaning on Chu He's shoulder, but there was irrepressible anger in his tone.

"It's been so long, I thought I was used to it." Shen Haiyao said, "Yuchen, Yuchen... Ah Jin has been through, you can't run away!"

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Ah Jin is attacking, if it is attacking it is attacking it is attacking, don't worry about the attacking and receiving in this world anymore.

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Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!

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