The autumn wind is rustling, the red leaves are falling, and the clouds in the distance have been dyed with a layer of gold. Wearing a red wedding dress, she stood by the city wall with a lonely expression, her beautiful eyebrows slightly wrinkled, as if she was trying her best to hide something. The maid Yue'er quietly walked forward and whispered, "Princess, it's getting late, it's time to set off." Xiao Huaiyu slowly raised his eyes, looking at the capital city where she had lived for sixteen years and the city with the last trace of nostalgia. The man she had liked for ten years stepped onto the sedan chair firmly.
? "Lin Luxi, you still didn't come after all." Xiao Huaiyu opened his empty eyes, and his pale lips pursed a trace of blood. He held his hands tightly, and his nails dug deeply into his flesh. By tears. She couldn't tell whether it was more painful physically or mentally.
? This journey is very long, and in the bleak weather, only this group of people sending off their relatives continues to move forward. Perhaps because he was tired from crying, Xiao Huaiyu was in a trance, as if he felt like he was drowning.
"Help, help..." The little girl in the lotus pond screamed for help in panic, but the little princes and princesses on the shore stood aside, laughing at her embarrassment. Even several eunuchs and maids were ordered by their masters to stand aside and watch the joke. Everyone knew that she was the daughter of the unpopular Concubine Li. Even the title Princess Huaiyu was given by the emperor after Concubine Li died. It shows how insignificant she is.
? The maid Yue'er ran beside the pool in bewilderment, begging the little princes and princesses in vain to save her master. "Am I going to die like this?" The little girl choked several times, her consciousness a little blurry, but she splashed in the water unwillingly.
At this moment, she suddenly felt something grabbing her arm and pulling it up. The little girl was holding on to it as if she was holding a life-saving straw, as if she heard someone grunting. After landing, the little girl spit out some water and looked at the person opposite calmly. The people watching the excitement had left. Only a young man in a royal robe shook off the water stains on his sleeves and asked with concern, "Are you okay? Are you injured?" "I'm fine. Thank you for saving me." ." The little girl said indifferently, her tone cold and without any warmth.
Lin Luxi was surprised by her excessive calmness. Her expression revealed an indifference that was inconsistent with her age. Lin Luxi suddenly became interested in her, "Why don't you cry? Most children will cry when they encounter what happened just now." "My mother-in-law said that only cowards cry, and I am six years old this year, isn't it?" It's a child." Lin Luxi said seriously as she looked at the beautiful girl. She couldn't help but feel a little funny, but more importantly, she felt a little distressed. What kind of things had she gone through to say these words.
"What's your name? I don't want to owe anyone a favor, and I will repay you in the future." The voice was crisp, but the tone was very distant. "The deer in the forest drink from the stream." Even though she lived deep in the palace, the little girl heard the eunuch maid talk about him. As a young man, he became famous for his poetic talent at the age of eight and was greatly favored by the emperor. He was allowed to enter and leave the palace freely. The little girl blinked her big round eyes and looked carefully at the prime minister's son, who was only two years older than her: sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, handsome face, and elegant demeanor, without the pampering and dandy air of a wealthy aristocrat.
"Is there something on my face? Why are you staring at me?" Lin Luxi stretched out his hand and waved it in front of the little girl, "By the way, I haven't asked your name yet? Why did you fall in In the lotus pond? "Xiao Huaiyu". After saying that, the girl hurried away, ignoring the reminder of the person behind her, "Your jade pendant..."
It seemed that she had slept for a long time, Xiao Huaiyu rubbed her red and swollen eyes, " Lin Luxi, if the meeting between you and me was just a dream, then I wouldn't be in such pain. Why would you appear in my dream if you don't want to see me?" Xiao Huaiyu thought silently in his heart. , lifted a corner of the sedan curtain, and the bright and soft moonlight poured down, reflecting on her beautiful face. The bright moon hung high in the sky and was full of brilliance, but it couldn't match the girl's bright face. What is he doing at this moment? Maybe after this separation, his affairs have nothing to do with me anymore.
What an ironic and ridiculous fate! Sixteen years ago, did the mother-in-law leave her homeland like this and come to Daliang with the shame of a defeated country? I heard from the old palace people in the palace that the mother-in-law was originally a beautiful princess of the Chen Kingdom. Due to the defeat of the Chen Kingdom, the land was ceded to pay compensation, and the princess made a marriage in order to stop the war and find peace in a corner.
Unexpectedly, the emperor was not interested in this beautiful princess. He only visited her bedroom on the night she entered the palace. After she was named Concubine Li the next day, he never favored her again. Li Fei, haha, pear means "li". Is it a satire that she is far away from her homeland and has become a gift for peace? Most of the women in the harem were scheming and looked down upon the "captives" from the Chen Kingdom. In addition, the emperor ignored her, making them even more arrogant and domineering. She was so homesick and ostracized by everyone that she died three years after giving birth to the princess.
After Concubine Li died, Xiao Huaiyu grew up beside Concubine Li. Little Huaiyu inherited her mother's beauty, with a slender figure, light body, fair skin, and big clear and smart eyes. As she looked, the brilliance flowed, shining brighter than the cold stars in the sky. Concubine Li was not a kind mistress, and she already had a daughter, Princess Heng'an, so she naturally had no good impressions of Xiao Huaiyu. There was always a lot of gossip in the palace, and Xiao Huaiyu also knew that he was not born of Concubine Li, so he became more cautious and respectful in his behavior, not daring to make any mistakes. But behind the faint smile, there was an aura of coldness and alienation.
It is late at night, and the evening breeze is a bit cool, bringing with it the faint fragrance of flowers. Everything was silent, and his intuition told Xiao Huaiyu that something was about to happen. Suddenly, a dark figure flashed in the room where he was staying, with an agile figure. Just when Xiao Huaiyu was about to call someone, he saw the person covering his mouth and tearing off the veil, "It's me!"
"Lin Luxi!" Xiao Huaiyu's pupils suddenly dilated, with burning eyes flashing. The light tugged on his sleeve tightly, with a face that couldn't hide the joy, "You finally came to see me, take me away! Leave here and go to a place where there are only two of us."
Lin Luxi did not dare to look at the burning look in her eyes, but said slowly and clearly, "Huaiyu, I can't take you away. At least, not now." There was a sudden silence in the room. Although Lin Luxi did not raise his head, he still You could feel her eyes dimming, and she slowly put down the hand holding her sleeve, turned around silently, and after a long time, she said, "Then let's go."
Xiao Huaiyu returned to his usual self. of indifference. She is such a person. When she likes someone, she can be as gentle and bright as peach blossoms in March; when she doesn't like someone, she can be cold and inaccessible. She would never deliberately please anyone, nor would she cry and beg to keep anyone. In the eyes of ordinary people, she is aloof and cold, always appearing like an ice statue.
"Huaiyu, I came here according to your father's will this time." Seeing that she had no intention of speaking, Lin Luxi continued, "This is the frost dew your father gave me. , the royal family secretly prepares a poison so that you can kill Nangong Jin, the crown prince of Heng Kingdom, on the day of your marriage. Then Daliang will take advantage of the chaos to attack Heng Kingdom, avenge the past, and even unify the south. This is your mission as Princess of Daliang." /p>
Xiao Huaiyu turned his head and looked into Lin Luxi's eyes with burning eyes, as if he wanted to read the tender affection of his youth in his eyes. But no, the clear and translucent eyes in the memory were as deep as a cold pool, making it impossible to see through the thoughts of its owner. Lu Xi, have you forgotten the promise you made on my birthday a year ago to protect me from my worries, pains, and wanderings all my life? A year later, you are conveying your father's will calmly, as if I were a stranger who has nothing to do with you.
"That's all, I understand what father means. You can go." Huaiyu said coldly. "Huaiyu, you..." Before Lin Luxi could finish speaking, Huaiyu opened the window, "I'm tired." Lin Luxi sighed and flew down the window, leaving only a dim and distant figure behind, and thoughts of the future swirling in his mind. The words that came out of his mouth were, "Huaiyu, the world is uncertain, how can I only care about the personal affairs of my children. This time I ask you to go and poison Prince Hengguo, and I will protect you. It's just that the current situation is chaotic, and I can't make promises to you easily." Can you understand..."
It was late at night, Xiao Huaiyu was sitting on the bed, his thin body like a leaf blowing in the wind, unable to find his direction. The torrent of the times is sweeping forward. Can't everyone be the master of their own life and can only wait for the person sitting on the throne to give orders? No, I want to leave, leave this suffocating place, get rid of the golden shackles of the "princess", what a lofty mission, Daliang has not treated me well, so why ask me to risk my life for it.
I was thinking wildly when there was a sudden noise under the window and a black shadow appeared...
On October 8, the tenth year of Daliang, Princess Daliang disappeared in the inn. There was an uproar with Hengguo, and war between the two countries was about to break out.