sky is empty

The day after Liuge and I said goodbye, Ye Chenglong removed me.From then on, I was no longer the prime minister of the empire, and I disappeared from the court.

Kikuchi Fuma once again became acting prime minister.I think he must be aggrieved, haha.

Due to my achievements in the court and family reasons, I still live in the prime minister's mansion and have not been driven away.

In the past few days, I have aged nearly ten years.

Now I can't sleep all day and all night. If I want to sleep, I have to rely on the power of sleeping pills.

It's not that I don't want to sleep, but I don't dare to sleep - every time I close my eyes, I seem to be able to see Liu Ge standing among the rose bushes in the prime minister's mansion, smiling coquettishly.Her smile is still beautiful, which makes me fear for no reason.

Those ministers who were friends with me in the past stopped dealing with me because I lost power.

Accompanying me are only the blooming roses in the prime minister's mansion.

I really want to say goodbye to this, to get away from this sad and lonely world, and to die alone and quietly.

However, Kikuchi Fumo came suddenly and asked me to meet His Majesty, that is, Ye Chenglong, who I didn't want to face.

In the council hall, I learned what I should face.

The enemy country sent troops to invade.I have to go back to Litian Fortress.

No wonder I felt a sense of foreboding.With a complicated smile on my face, I accepted it.

Time was running short, I didn't have time to go back and pack my things, so I set off quickly.

"Welcome Prime Minister to return to the fortress." Yaotome Hikaru stepped forward and said to me.

"I am no longer the prime minister, please call me by my name, Nakajima Taketo." I replied.

Yatome Hikaru seemed to want to say something, but when he saw my face, which was nearly ten years older than my actual age, he didn't say anything.

Soon, Ye Chenglong directly issued an order, asking me to lead troops deep into the enemy's garrison, and then launch an attack.

Driving straight in is the stupidest thing to do, because it can lead to irreversible death.

I laughed again when I got the order.Ye Chenglong, my former friend, he doesn't want to forgive me at all.

"This kind of behavior of sending someone to death is absolutely unacceptable!" Yaotome lightly protested, "As the saying goes, when the general is outside, the king's order is not acceptable. Even if you don't implement it, you won't be blamed too much."

"It doesn't matter." I smiled like a rose flower, the rose flower that Liuge likes, "To tell you the truth, I have long wanted to follow my beloved. This is really a great opportunity."

Yatome Hikaru froze in place like a sculpture.

Regardless of the efforts of Hikari Yatome and others to stop me, I put on my military uniform, mounted my horse, and led the army to attack.

The fighting on the battlefield continued, and I knew that I would not be able to go back alive today.

In order not to be captured alive, I deliberately bumped into the knife edge.

it hurts.I saw my blood spurting out.

Behind him, Yaotome Hikaru seemed to have arrived with reinforcements.

I lay powerless on the battlefield, my eyes staring blankly at the sky, feeling my life rapidly disappearing.

No, my life will not pass away.Because I clearly see that Liuge, my lover, is waving to me with a smile on his face in the heavenly kingdom built by the sky god and full of roses.

Soon I can reach the kingdom of heaven and fall in love with her again.

I am getting closer and closer to her.Liuge, I knew you would be waiting for me.

It was very empty.However, my heart will never be empty because of the love given to me by Liuge.

It was very empty.I finally became very happy.

☆, One of the extra episodes

I felt refreshed after receiving the news of the defeat of the enemy country.

Although this good news came with the bad news that Taketo Nakajima died for the empire.

bad news?No, in my opinion, it should be good news.

"Please forgive me, Your Majesty. The guilty minister failed to protect the prime minister, which caused the prime minister to...he..." Yaotome Guang knelt in front of me, with a panicked tone.

His trepidation looked amusing.Because he has no need to panic, in my opinion.

"You are loyal to the empire, how can I blame you. Get up." I said to Yaotomeguang.

At this time, a child ran in madly from outside.His name is Ye Meiyan, he has a face very similar to mine, and he is obviously my own child.

"Miyan, you're naughty!" I pretended to be angry, but there was no threat to him.

I saw Ye Meiyan smirking and ran to Yaotomeguang, and asked Yaotomeguang in a somewhat ambiguous tone: "Did you hide your mother? Where did you hide it?"

Before Yaotome could figure out the situation, Satoshi Ono, the teacher who specialized in educating the prince, appeared in a hurry: "Your Highness, Your Majesty is dealing with official business and has no time to play with you. Come back with me!"

After watching Ye Meiyan being taken away by Ohno Satoshi with my own eyes, I asked Yaotomeguang to step back and stay alone in the palace.

It was so quiet in the huge palace, I could even hear my own breathing.

"Your Majesty, I'm sorry to speak bluntly...His Royal Highness Prince Ye Meiyan...his IQ is lower than normal, and he cannot become the heir to the throne..."

"I see... tell me, what caused it?"

"It's a marriage between close relatives, Your Majesty. According to the research results of the Imperial Medical Department, marriage between close relatives will lead to congenital defects in children, and it is... a defect that is difficult to make up for the day after tomorrow."

I beat my head in pain, and then I remembered something else.

"For Liuge, please refer to His Royal Highness the Prince."

"You can just call me Ye Chenglong from now on. I've said it so many times, but you still haven't remembered!"

"His Royal Highness, please don't come looking for Liuge again... Rumors have spread in the Military Academy that Liu Ge looks similar to His Royal Highness, there must be some ulterior motive..."

"It's so presumptuous! If they dare to talk about the imperial family again, I will let my father cut them off! You, you...do you like Taketo Nakajima? Your name is Ryuka Nakajima, and you and Taketo Nakajima are Brother and sister, do brothers and sisters understand?"

"Liu Ge understands...Liu Ge can't be with my younger brother..."

Fragments of memories danced in my head non-stop.

"Who did you give your first time to?"

"Xiaoye, Liuge hereby swears on the righteousness of the sky, if Liuge sleeps with other men before marriage, he will die a terrible death!"

"Since that's the case, I believe you're all right—I hope that the previous assassin training was too intense and damaged your body. Don't worry, I won't divorce you. Just looking at your face, I'm so special." Have a desire..."

It's getting more and more chaotic, and I can't find an exit. I'm about to suffocate.

"Now, in my capacity as the royal family of the empire and the prince, I order you to take out all the bad tickets. When the emperor comes tomorrow, all the lucky tickets must appear!"

"Your Highness, the Imperial Family and the Sky Temple, each side of the road faces the sky, you have no right to order us."

"Don't look at you as priests, but now you are still human, not gods, so you have to obediently obey the orders of the imperial family! Otherwise, don't blame me for being rude!"

The feeling of suffocation became more and more intense, and finally I forced myself to stop thinking and shouted loudly: "Come on! Come on!"

"What's the matter, Your Majesty?" Yanqiao Xuanshu rushed in in a panic.

"Arrest Sakurai Sho, the principal of the noble school!" My tone was so blunt that I couldn't refute.

After Sakurai Sho was brought, he looked at me calmly without saying a word.

"Principal Sakurai must be the one who knows the true identity of Empress Nakajima Ruka." I said to him, "Your older sister, Sakurai Sisi, you know why she died that year. ,Right?"

Sakurai Sho's mouth curled up into a bright smile: "Your Majesty is right, I know everything about it."

"Liuge, who is called Nakajima Liuge, should actually be called Sakurai Liuge, or Ye Liuge." A smile also appeared on my face, "She is not a child of the sky god , but a mistake made by the royal family.”

"So wait for His Majesty's judgment." Sakurai Sho didn't have any fear on his face, but was extremely relieved.

Since then, Sakurai Sho, he has never appeared in the noble school, and no one knows where he went.

Hehe, Taketo Nakajima, I thought you were dead, and I was the winner.

Unexpectedly, not only was I not a winner, but I was also a complete loser.

Who can come and tell me what is winning and what is losing?

Perhaps, there is no winning or losing in anything in this world, it's just that everyone cares too much and worries about gains and losses.

This season, the roses must be in bloom.The sky outside the window is empty.

☆, extra episode [-]

These days, my younger sister Yuna began to write and send letters frequently. I guess, she must have fallen in love with some noble son.At her current age, she should also start thinking about marriage.

Yuna is my twin sister, perhaps because of this, no one understands her mind better than me.

However, I never expected that the person Yuna likes is actually his father's enemy, the son of the prime minister, Taketo Nakajima.

"Do you know that father and the prime minister are at odds with each other in court?" I said to Yuna, "Father...he will definitely not agree to you being with Taketo Nakajima!"

"What you did in the court is your business, and I like him is my business!" Yuna retorted, "I just like him!"

As I expected, my father called Yuna over, and the two began to argue.

"I have trained you for so many years because I want you to find opportunities to get closer to the prince, not Taketo Nakajima!" Father shouted loudly, "If you become the princess, the Kikuchi family will become the biggest noble in the empire! You have disappointed me so much !"

Yuna didn't answer in a hurry, but sneered a few times: "What else do you have in your eyes besides power? I just won't let you get what you want."

That's right, my father wanted Yuna to become a prince concubine. In that case, the Kikuchi family would really be under one person and above ten thousand people in the empire.

After an unknown number of quarrels, the father suddenly compromised and agreed to marry Yuna and Taketo Nakajima.

To be honest, I was extremely surprised by my father's compromise.

The unstoppable surprise in my heart finally revealed the truth later—the reason why my father agreed to their marriage was because my father wanted Yuna to enter the prime minister's mansion to steal information!

I screamed in my heart that it was not good.Because I have dealt with Taketo Nakajima before, and Taketo Nakajima is not an incompetent person who is blinded by sex, and his father's tricks will definitely be discovered.

Sure enough, not long after marrying, Yuna suddenly fell out of favor.

Although Nakajima Kento did not divorce Yuna, their lives are no different from divorce.

"Why don't you help Yuna? She is in great pain!" I said to my father.

"It's not a pity to throw away a useless chess piece." Father's answer was firm.

It turns out that my sister Yuna is just a pawn in his eyes.

When the news of Yuna's death reached my family, although I was mentally prepared, I still couldn't suppress the sadness in my heart, and I couldn't help but shed tears.

When my tears run out, I swear that I will become the prime minister of the empire, no matter how much it costs.

With the retirement of all the veterans and the death of Taketo Nakajima in battle, I finally became the prime minister of the empire.

I should be happy, but I don't know why, I can't be happy.

I saw my father's joy was beyond words, and then he said to me: "You try to get close to Prince Ye Meiyan, I need a bigger move."

☆, extra three

I never thought that I would like rose flowers.When I met Liu Ge, I knew that I would be fascinated by her and couldn't extricate myself.

I found a new dessert in the capital, the taste of rose flowers, called rose cake.

Since then, I have eaten rose cake almost every day.Whenever I eat rose cake, I imagine Liuge kissing me, even though I never even held Liuge's hand.

"You are going to perform a mission on the border of the empire." I said to Liu Ge, "No matter what, you must come back alive."

"Don't worry." Liu Ge said to me, "Remember, I am a child sent by the sky god."

Is she really a child sent by the sky god?All of this seems too logical.

When I went back to the noble school for the last time, I saw that the noble school had a new headmaster.The name of the new principal is Sho Sakurai. He is only in his early thirties, but he is very knowledgeable.

When I met Sakurai Sho's eyes, I vaguely felt that he looked somewhat similar to someone.

flow songs.This familiar name came to my mind.

"Sho Sakurai was born in an imperial noble family. He has an older sister and a younger brother—his younger brother is still young, and his older sister died 17 years ago."

"His sister has been dead for 17 years...how did she die?"

"No one knows. The cause of Sakurai Sho's death was deliberately covered up, so there must be something ulterior."

It sounds weird, but I'm just the son of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, so I can't find out.

When the news of Liuge's engagement to Ye Chenglong came out, I wasn't surprised at all.Ye Chenglong is His Royal Highness, in the empire, whatever he wants, he will definitely get.

"I can't leave Jianren, but Xiaoye..." Liuge hesitated to speak, "It's already like this, accept your fate."

Resignation, what a weak and ridiculous word.

Suddenly, I said to Liuge: "If you and Xiaoye are related by blood, can you still be together? You and Xiaoye look very similar, what if you are...?"

Liu Ge's expression became terrified, and she immediately covered my mouth: "Don't talk nonsense! You will be beheaded if you slander the royal family!"

"If my words are absolutely true?" I gently took her hand away and laughed, "I don't want to accept my fate."

I had expected that Taketo Nakajima liked Liuge like a lunatic, even though Liuge had been connected to the imperial city, he still risked his life to find Liuge.

I saw Taketo Nakajima going crazy.Luckily he didn't catch me peeping.

Sure enough, my mantis is like a cart, and I can't stop Liu Ge from marrying Ye Chenglong.Maybe I should really accept my fate like Liu Ge, ha ha.

With a lot of depression in my heart and nowhere to vent, I had no choice but to choose to enter the Sky Temple and become a priest on my own initiative.Taketo Nakajima found me, and I tried to persuade him, but he said to me very firmly: "I don't accept my fate."

With the death of Liuge and Taketo Nakajima, my life has become extremely lonely.Life in the Sky Temple was very monotonous, but compared to the pain of losing Liuge, it was nothing worth mentioning.

The Juchi family is about to make a big move again, this is the result I got from divination.I think I should deal with it.

☆, the fourth episode

As a child of civilians, I was so lucky to pass the selection of the Imperial Military School and become a student of the Assassin Training Camp.

According to common sense, military schools do not admit girls, but when I went to report, I saw a girl.She looks very beautiful and has a temperament. She should be a lady from a noble family.

"Her name is Liu Ge, and she is the daughter of the prime minister of the empire. She was sent here because something offended the prime minister."

"Daughter? Hahahaha, let me tell you, she was not born to the prime minister. She was a child picked up by the emperor from the Sky Temple on the day of the celebration, and no one knew her true identity."

Everyone in the class was talking about her except me.

It turns out that her name is Liu Ge, which sounds really nice.

"Hi, my name is Matsushima Satoshi." I walked over and said to Liu Ge, "Don't care what they say."

Liuge raised his head and met my eyes.After a long time, she suddenly smiled: "How could I care about them. Here, I have to rely on my grades to speak."

She looked determined to win, and her determined demeanor didn't look like a girl at all.Now that she's said the rhetoric, I figured I'd wait and see.

Sure enough, Liuge worked very hard, and her grades were even better than those of us boys.

After studying and living for a long time, I confirmed that I like Liuge—not because of her noble status, nor because of her charming appearance, but because of her soul.

So without hesitation, I rejected those girls who pursued me, just to be able to be with Liu Ge.

Unexpectedly, what prevented me from being with Liuge was not Liuge's younger brother Taketo Nakajima, but the royal family's will.

Liuge was designated as the prince concubine by the royal family, and with Ye Chenglong's succession to the throne, she became the queen of the empire.

I clearly know that Liuge also has feelings for me, Liuge is not a heartless person.So in order to meet Liuge again, I went through all kinds of hardships to come to the imperial city and became the captain of the guard team.

During my days as an errand in the imperial city, I heard many so-called "secrets", including the question of who Ye Heyan's real father was.

I don't want to say anything about Taketo Nakajima, I just think he is a lunatic, a complete lunatic who wants to compete with established facts.

Until the end, I was calculated and forced to face an irresistible death.I don't hate anyone from the beginning to the end, I only hate that fate is too ruthless.

Leaving this crazy world full of intrigues and deceptions early is the best thing for Liu Ge and me.

Tonight, Liu Ge, whose arms are you lying in?

I'm going to sleep for a long, long sleep, and when I wake up again, I hope you can still recognize me.Good night, Liuge.

☆, final chapter

The annual birthday of the sky god, exclusive to the empire, is approaching.On this day, the entire empire will stop all work and have a grand carnival.In the capital, the carnival was especially intense.

The emperor will give a speech in the large square in front of the Sky Temple, and when the speech ends, the carnival begins.

"Why did you come here?" Ye Chenglong saw that Sato Shengli appeared in front of him, from far to near.

"According to my divination results, something bad may happen on the birthday of the Sky God." Sato Shengli replied, "I hope Your Majesty will be on guard."

Ye Chenglong didn't respond in a hurry, but looked at Sato Shengli from head to toe, and then said: "Since you entered the Sky Temple, I found that you are getting more and more nervous. You should step back."

Sato Victory left in silence.He knew that Ye Chenglong was no longer the former Ye Chenglong since he became the emperor.

"Generalissimo, you... what are you going to do?" Zhongshan Yuma noticed that the troops in the capital of the empire were gradually increasing, so he came to Kikuchi Changli in a panic.

"A chess game where you can't turn back when you take one step, and you can only win but not lose." Kikuchi Changli couldn't see any waves on his face.

Zhongshan Yuma seemed to understand something, and his face turned ashen immediately: "General Marshal, I advise you to think twice! Doing this..."

Before Yuma Zhongshan finished speaking, several soldiers suddenly appeared and firmly controlled Yuma Zhongshan.

"I didn't kill you now, kid, which means you are still valuable." Kikuchi Changli said, "Quickly detain him and keep him under strict supervision!"

So Zhongshan Yuma was taken away by the soldiers.Juchi Changli's face was gloomy, and he called a few subordinates to issue orders: "Kill all the people who may hear the news, and leave no one behind. Tomorrow morning, do it after Ye Chenglong's speech."

The celebration that everyone was looking forward to was about to be held, and the entire capital of the empire was soon enveloped in a joyous atmosphere.

Ye Chenglong was about to go to the Sky Temple when he saw Chinen Yuli running over: "Your Majesty, don't go to the Sky Temple!"

Regardless of Ye Chenglong's anger, Chinen Yuli continued to say to him: "According to reliable information, the Imperial Generalissimo Kikuchi Changli wants to rebel, and there are ambushes all around the Sky Temple! His Royal Highness Ye Meiyan...has also been captured by him." Take control!"

"What?!" Ye Chenglong turned pale with shock, "Since this is the case, hurry up and dispatch troops to take him down!"

"It's useless, the entire capital's army has long been replaced by my confidantes. You must understand the truth that long-distance water cannot quench near-thirst, Your Majesty?" Juchi Changli suddenly appeared.

Although there are not many people behind Juchi Changli, there are even fewer people around Ye Chenglong.

"Don't hurt Your Majesty!" Yanqiao Xuanshu stood in front of Ye Chenglong and glared at Changli Kikuchi.

"You can protect him, but what about Ye Meiyan?" Juchi Changli said while pulling Ye Meiyan to his side.

Ye Meiyan didn't know at all that she was already in deep crisis.Ye Meiyan looked at Ye Chenglong and said with a smirk, "Father, are they here to help find mother?"

"Be obedient, Meiyan, as long as you are obedient, mother will come back." Ye Chenglong had no choice but to coax Ye Meiyan, hoping that he would not be caught by accident because of his disturbance.

Suddenly it became noisy outside, mixed with the sound of weapons clashing.

As soon as Kikuchi Changli heard that the voice was wrong, he knew that the situation had changed, and he couldn't help being stunned for an instant.

Ye Meiyan quickly broke away from Kikuchi Changli's hand, and then ran to Ye Chenglong's side: "Father, is Mom really coming back?"

"Your Majesty, I beg your Majesty to forgive me for coming late!" It was the voice of Fumo Kikuchi.

Kikuchi Changli suddenly felt like a thunderbolt, he stared straight at Kikuchi Fumo, and said word by word, gritting his teeth: "You—a—reverse—child!"

"Since the day you killed Yuna and forced me to be prime minister, we are no longer father and son." Kikuchi Fuma replied.

Sooner or later, Kikuchi Changli's soldiers were killed to the point where there were not many soldiers left. Hikari Yaotome, who came to reinforce him, appeared in front of Ye Chenglong with Ye Heyan.

"If Priest Sato hadn't sent me a letter in advance, I'm afraid I would have become a ghost!" Ye Heyan said, "I really didn't expect that the empire would raise such a white-eyed wolf!"

Of course, Kikuchi Changli was not reconciled to failure. Taking advantage of everyone's unpreparedness, he drew out the sword he carried with him and stabbed at Ye Heyan!

However, Kikuchi Changli did not stab Ye Heyan - Sato successfully stood in front of Ye Heyan.

"Principal Sato!" Ye Heyan called out uncontrollably.Everyone present was shocked.

Kikuchi Changli was quickly taken down, and what awaited him was a cold guillotine.

Sato Seiyuki, who felt his life was fading away, didn't show any pain on his face.Because he knew that he would soon be able to reunite with Liu Ge.

It was very empty.Standing alone among the rose bushes, Ye Chenglong couldn't help feeling mixed feelings.