Chapter 430: Accompanying You to Watch Over This World

As Yu Shengping grew up, he inherited the homophonic meaning of Yu Shengping's name and later became as tall as Yu Shiyan.

Yu Shiyan had never deliberately hidden anything, and he answered Yu Shengping's questions truthfully. From this, he also learned that his birth mother was someone else, who had passed away earlier than his mother.

When talking to Yu Shiyan about the past, Yu Shengping said that he still remembers his mother's smile, which was so bright that it almost overflowed from the corners of her eyes and brows. Yu Shiyan was stunned when he heard this.

Even a three- or four-year-old child can remember someone's smile at a certain moment, even after ten or twenty years.

As for Nalan Yujie, she died not long after that. No one cared about her. It wasn't until the person delivering food opened the door the next day that they saw her face covered in blood.

She laughed all night, laughing so hard that tears streamed down her face, until finally her tears turned into blood, showing how incredibly happy she was.

For no other reason than that she had completed her last puppet show.

She had never had it before, so of course she couldn't just watch others have it.

To kill someone is to destroy their spirit; the former killed Yuan Siyin, and the latter killed Yu Shiyan.

In this game of chess, she used others as pawns, even herself, to meticulously create this deadly situation for the two of them.

As for risking her life, what does it matter since she's already destroyed what she most wanted to destroy?

Yu Shiyan did not send her back to the northern frontier. Instead, he had her wrapped in a straw mat and thrown into a mass grave. This was something he had agreed upon with Nalan Jue long ago. After that, everything seemed to calm down a lot, at least it didn't cause any waves.

That being said, it simply means there's no one or anything that Yu Shiyan can care about anymore.

...

In fact, Yuan Siyin did not die; to be precise, it seems that she still has some remnants of her soul.

She watched herself being buried in a phoenix robe, watched Yu Shiyan calling her name again and again in a secluded place, watched him sitting in the lakeside pavilion where she had sat, gazing at the lotus pond in a daze.

The decades of trials and tribulations she had endured were but a fleeting moment in her eyes, as if they had been played at several times the speed. Sometimes, she didn't even have time to see Yu Shiyan's expression before the scene was over. But there was one sentence she heard very clearly.

Why do you like sitting here?

Because you can find relief anytime you want.

Yuan Siyin looked down at her floating, transparent body, knowing that Yu Shiyan wouldn't hear her even if she spoke, but she still couldn't help but explain softly.

Yu Shiyan leaned against the pavilion, and as if he heard a sound, he slowly turned his head to look behind him. There was no one there. Of course, if you really wanted to find out who it was, there was only the palace servants who were waiting with their heads bowed, not daring to utter a sound.

lifeless.

He withdrew his expressionless gaze and turned back to look at the lotus leaves in the center of the lake. The dappled sunlight shone down, creating beautiful halos on his hair, but it could no longer illuminate the brilliance in his eyes.

Yuan Siyin stepped forward, wanting to hug him, but her fingertips still passed through his body.

She herself couldn't remember how many years had passed since her death.

Yu Shiyan seemed to have a real heart ailment, always in so much pain that he couldn't sleep at night. Even though he knew she was dead, he still gripped the pillow tightly with his fingertips again and again, stubbornly calling her name softly like a child.

Yuan Siyin wanted to cry, but she couldn't; the dead have no tears to shed.

They could have had children.

But Yu Shiyan refused, and even sulked with her, saying that she didn't cherish her body.

——

Why do you like sitting here?

"Because you can be free anytime you want."

But when I think of you, even if I'm just barely clinging to life, I want to stay with you and watch this world unfold.