As soon as she finished speaking, despite her head being bowed, Qing'er keenly sensed that Jin Changge had hugged her tightly and felt his slight trembling.
As if they were of one mind, Qing'er didn't say anything more, but just quietly let her hug her, giving her this only comfort.
The tightness in his chest grew stronger, accompanied by sharp pains in his heart. The discomfort he had felt when he first woke up—the feeling of something hard pressing against his body—became clearer.
It was a long time before she reached out a hand to touch her abdomen, but her fingertips touched a hard object.
Jin Changge raised her head and took out the small, hard object from her bosom. When she saw it clearly, her face instantly became extremely stiff.
At this moment, Qing'er also raised her head, and upon seeing Jin Changge's pale face and what she was holding, Qing'er spoke:
"Miss, this is what I found when I was changing your clothes, along with some silver notes. I've put them on you."
The jade pendant held by Jin Changge was a jade pendant.
On the day Jin Changge was taken away by Jin Jiande, Jin Jiande stuffed the silver notes and jade pendant he was carrying into Jin Changge's arms, hoping that Jin Changge could live a wealthy life with these money after escaping.
However, Prince Qing later sent troops to intercept her and took her back. The interrogator was only Prince Qing. Although Jin Changge was a prisoner, the guards dared not search her thoroughly, so these items remained on her person.
During her detention, Jin Changge was in constant pain due to her injuries, so she never noticed that she had something extra on her body.
Until today, when she was rescued, Qing'er took off Jin Changge's dirty clothes before calling the doctor. She then took the dirty clothes out from under the clothes and put them into the new clothes.
At this moment, Jin Changge's hand holding the jade pendant began to tremble. How could she not recognize that this was the jade pendant that Jin Jiande had worn since childhood?
So she reached out her other hand and pulled out a stack of silver notes from her bosom.
Looking at these two items, Jin Changge opened his mouth slightly, breathing rapidly, while his mind seemed to be spinning.
On the night of the assassination, the last thing she remembered before losing consciousness was that she was lying on her brother's back, being carried by him down the ship. When she woke up again, she was already imprisoned. Since then, she has never seen her brother again.
She had no way of knowing what had happened during that time.
But upon seeing the jade pendant and the stack of silver notes, she seemed to vaguely sense something.
The silver note fell from her loosened hand, and Jin Changge clutched the jade pendant tightly in both hands, burying her face in the quilt and sobbing.
"Second Brother," she said, weeping.
——
"I'm here!"
With a broad smile, Jin Jiande shouted out.
But when he opened his eyes and saw the pitch-black night, his smile froze.
It was already dark, and the room was empty. The servants who served us were nowhere to be seen, and there wasn't even a lit candle.
Lying on the bed, Jin Jiande's face was stiff. He realized that what he had just seen was just a dream. In the dream, his mother, whom he had not seen for a long time, was smiling brightly with his younger sister, and they were calling out to him.
So he ran towards them with a big smile.
Just when he was about to reach his mother and sister, this beautiful dream was abruptly cut short, leaving only the cold reality.
My mother passed away many years ago, and my younger sister...
She was executed at noon today, and now it's dark. Clearly, she has followed her mother in death.
Jin Jiande stared blankly at the ceiling, seemingly oblivious to any discomfort he might be experiencing.
He felt no pain from his broken leg, no sensation from his fractured ribs, and the wounds on his face and the bruises on his back seemed to have vanished. He was unusually energetic, and even a flush appeared on his pale cheeks.
But right now, he doesn't want to be energetic enough.
He just wanted to continue that beautiful dream.
So Jin Jiande closed his eyes again, trying to fall asleep immediately, but the more he tried to sleep, the more energetic he became, and his heart even beat faster and faster.
"God, please let me have a good dream..."
Jin Jiande, who never believed in ghosts or gods, kept his eyes closed and kept muttering to himself. After all, everything he wanted to do had failed by now, and his only wish could only be fulfilled in his dreams.
Please.
Please.
Please...
"Let me have a good dream..."
He didn't know how many times he pleaded in his heart. As the flush on his cheeks gradually faded and his face turned pale again, Jin Jiande's taut eyelids gradually relaxed, and his clenched hands slowly opened.
Even breathing became barely perceptible.
But at this moment, a breathtakingly beautiful scene of radiant sunset appeared in his field of vision, and his dignified mother reappeared. Just as he remembered, his mother was still as serious as ever, but her gentle, watery eyes held a smile.
Jin Jiande was overjoyed and ran over with his strong legs. He reached his mother's side in just a few steps.
But then he realized that his sister was not there. So he looked at his mother, who seemed to sense his thoughts. She took Jin Jiande's hand and led him toward the clouds where the sunset glowed.
Jin Jiande had clearly seen the scene appearing in the clouds, so he shouted happily with a broad smile:
"Yongning! Yongning!"
——
Jin Changge suddenly sat up in bed, the candlelight flickering in his wake.
"Miss, what's wrong?" Qing'er, who was about to close the window, turned to look at Jin Changge.
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