West Garden.

Lin Mengli and Su Xu sat and drank together after a long absence.

"How long has it been since you and I last saw each other?"

Lin Mengli looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar face of the person in front of her and felt as if she was in another world.

After she was placed under house arrest in the palace by Su Xu, the two of them never saw each other again. Later, when Su Xu failed, she was imprisoned in the Western Garden, but Su Xu still refused to see her.

By this calculation, even though the two of them lived very close to each other, they had not seen each other for half a year.

It was a rare occasion that Su Xu took the initiative to come and see her today. Could it be that he came to see her for the last time before he died?

Lin Mengli smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly.

Su Xu was looking at her haggard face with his eyes wandering, as if he saw another person through her, or as if he was only looking at her.

"I had a dream last night."

Su Xu murmured, his voice a little dry.

"dream?"

Lin Mengli was puzzled. What could he have dreamed of that could make him let go of his previous hatred and disgust and take the initiative to come and see her the next day?

Su Xu looked at her with a complicated expression and told her about his dream.

In his dream, he was still engaged to Ning Xihua. Ning Xihua still loved him like crazy, and he used the power of Ning Wangfu to slowly devour some of the Northern Frontier soldiers in three years.

Three years later, he succeeded in assassinating the crown prince, and Su Bi died of his injuries shortly after the Autumn Hunt. With the strong support of King Ning, he successfully ascended to the throne of crown prince.

Later, in order to marry Lin Mengli and get rid of the Ning Palace, which had long been useless but always suppressed him, he acquiesced to Lin Mengli's framing of Ning Xihua for having an affair with a guard and allowed her to be poisoned to death.

After Ning Xihua's death, King Ning rebelled. He killed King Ning on the charge of treason and achieved great success. After defeating Su Han, who had always opposed him, he finally ascended the throne smoothly and made Lin Mengli his queen.

After hearing this bizarre dream, Lin Mengli was stunned.

She knew that if Ning Xihua was still as infatuated with Su Xu as before, things might really develop as he dreamed.

"It's crazy, right? But this dream is so real. It makes me feel that this is how my life should be."

Su Xu's eyes were a little biased. He was immersed in this beautiful dream and was more willing to believe that this was what he would look like after he succeeded.

But when he woke up, he found that Lin Mengli had betrayed him and he became a prisoner with nothing.

"Why did it become like this? Why!?"

Su Xu's emotions suddenly became agitated. He roared in a low voice, questioning her and also questioning the trickery of fate.

Lin Mengli looked at his somewhat crazy appearance, and her heart was filled with an indescribable sense of absurdity and unreality.

How could Su Xu's dream not be her dream?

Become his legal wife, stand by his side with full legitimacy, and finally become the mother of the world and the most noble woman in the world.

No one dared to laugh at her background as a concubine anymore. All the noble ladies like Ning Xihua had to crawl at her feet.

From then on, she no longer had to envy her endless favor, nor did she have to be tortured by jealousy and lose sleep day and night.

Everything she wanted, everything she deserved.

As she thought about it, Lin Mengli was fascinated by the scene. She couldn't stop smiling, but when she touched her eyes, they were already wet.

Lin Mengli was about to open her mouth to comfort Su Xu, but she saw Su Xu suddenly raised his head and stared at her fiercely.

"Is that you?"

He looked at her with indifference, even a little resentment.

"I know why! If you hadn't interfered and seduced me, Ning Xihua would still marry me, and everything in my dream would be true!"

He suddenly stretched out his hands and grabbed her neck, and kept saying,

"It's all you, it's all you..."

Lin Mengli was strangled to the point of being out of breath. Her fingernails dug into his arms and she struggled non-stop.

After a while, Su Xu finally seemed to come to his senses and suddenly let go of his hand.

Lin Mengli sat paralyzed on the ground, holding her neck and coughing with tears streaming down her face. While crying, she suddenly burst into laughter.

Hahahaha, this is the person she loves. This is the person she still wants to be with after giving everything and being let down!

From the time she was a child to the time she first fell in love, he was all she thought about. She ran towards him like a moth to a flame, and even though her body was covered with wounds, she still wanted to be with him.

She even thought that no matter how rich or powerful she was, as long as they were both alive, it would be nice to spend their lives together in Xiyuan.

But what about him? Was he angry with her and even wanted to kill her because of a dream that never came true?

Ridiculous, so ridiculous!

Su Xu looked at Lin Mengli crying and laughing, and his expression was even more complicated.

It seems like resentment, like guilt.

What he didn't tell her was that even in his dream, they couldn't make it to the end and he eventually died.

"I am sorry."

He could no longer distinguish reality from dreams, and he didn't know whether he was apologizing to the Lin Mengli in his dream or the Lin Mengli in front of him.

But no matter which one, they all seemed to be looking at him and questioning him with the same eyes.

Lin Mengli touched her aching stomach. Her eyes were dead silent, but there was still a little fire left. She asked him persistently,

"Did you really love me?"

Su Xu's expression was blank for a moment. He tried hard to recall the moments when she made his heart beat, but his memory was already blurry.

"Maybe I did."

He spoke with hesitation, even he was not sure.

Lin Mengli smiled with relief when she heard this.

Until now, she finally understood that Su Xu seemed to have never loved her.

What he loved was simply the reflection of himself in her. He turned all his resentment towards his own background into love and affection for her.

It seemed that the better her life was, the more envied she became, and he would still be able to dominate others.

Maybe he was moved, but in the final analysis, he only loved himself.

Lin Mengli looked at her lover's face, her eyes starting to become a little blurry.

She suddenly remembered how she looked when she first met him.

The boy descended from the sky, drove away the bad guys who bullied her, and became a hero in her eyes.

Later, he gave her honor, gave her love, and built a dream full of flowers for her with his own hands.

Later, he tore the dream apart with his own hands, but she was still obsessed with it.

Not only Su Xu couldn't wake up from the dream, but also her.

A trickle of blood suddenly flowed from the corner of Lin Mengli's mouth. She turned her head and saw that Su Xu also started to vomit blood.

Her consciousness was already a little fuzzy. She saw Su Xu pointing at her and saying something in disbelief, but she could no longer hear clearly.

Oh, the guard was afraid of causing trouble, so he didn't tell him that he was going to be beheaded. Maybe he still thought he could turn the tables and scolded her for being the most vicious woman...

Ning Xihua really didn't lie to her. This poison didn't hurt at all. It was just a pity for the child...

This ending doesn't seem bad. Although I can't live as I wish, I can finally be with him in death...

At the last moment before she closed her eyes, she was thinking, if only she had not met him.

If she hadn't met him, her life would have been a little harder, but she would have been able to grow up peacefully. If she was lucky, she might even have been able to marry a scholar or illegitimate son of an ordinary family and live a plain life.

That year, the spring was hazy and her eyes were as clear as water, not yet stained by the dust of this world. How wonderful it would be if she had not met him...

After a while, the guard who had been missing in the yard appeared.

They carefully examined the two men before reporting to their superiors, "Boss, he's dead."

The chief of the guards nodded and said, "I will go to the palace to report. You can bury them first. By the way, the Queen has instructed that if anyone is dead, the woman should be buried with honor. You should be careful when you clean up."

"yes!"

In the first year of Chongxi, the deposed prince Su Xu and his concubine Lin committed suicide by taking poison in the West Garden the day before Yu Wen's execution. The emperor was merciful and ordered a grand funeral for them.