In his dream, it was also a rainy night like this, with the same tree shadows. He glanced in surprise and saw Lu Yun and Luo Lingyu standing outside the house and talking.

As if embracing but not embracing, he lowered his head and raised it. As his eyes moved, Lu Yun's face was originally sullen, but he was laughed at by Luo Lingyu after just a few words.

In the dream, Lu Xian just took a quick glance without thinking much. He walked out and called Luo Lingyu. When Luo Lingyu turned around to look at him, her expression was back to normal. Lu Yun didn't say much either.

Such a scene only passed by for a moment in the long dream. At this moment, a similar scene happened before his eyes. Lu Xian trembled in his heart: Could it be, could it be... that his third brother and cousin Luo... in the world of his dream, were... in love?

If that were the case... She later married the Prince of Hengyang... My third brother left Jianye and went to the border...

It's a bolt from the blue!

That night, Lu Xian fell seriously ill and had another dream.

Chapter 44

Lu Xian once dreamed that the King of Hengyang became the emperor, his cousin Luo became the empress, Lu Sanlang died tragically, and the aristocratic family represented by the Lu family was suppressed by the imperial power. He was shocked and angry in his dream. The nobleman who was usually immersed in landscape poetry and painting felt heartbroken when he saw his brother die like that. He doubted his nightmare and kept asking himself. A weak scholar-like man began to look at the world around him with a new perspective, and then he realized that so many things happened in secret, where he didn't know...

For example, Lu Yun and his cousin stood in front of the house on a rainy night, the rain dripping like lotus on the mossy corners of the tree shade. The two stood quietly, and the man leaned over to help her put on her hat and raincoat. The rain was like a thread, and the worldly affairs were far away.

That night, Lu Erlang and Lu Xianyuan turned over and over and had another dream. The new dream was a sequel to the previous dream.

Jianye is no longer the Jianye of the past. The Jianye of the dream is no longer admired by celebrities and pursued by aristocratic families. Lu Sanlang died in battle at the border. The new emperor suppressed the top aristocratic families represented by the Lu family on the grounds that he "delayed the opportunity to fight" and "harmed the country and the people". The new emperor was tough and countless charges were made against Lu Sanlang. Overnight, the Lu family fell from the former top aristocratic family to a thorn in the eyes of the new emperor. However, the aristocratic families, officials and celebrities were all over the government and the country. How could the new emperor suppress them just because he wanted to?

The aristocratic families headed by the Lu family competed for power with the royal family represented by the new emperor. At the same time, after Lu Saburo's death, famous people all over the world criticized him and pointed the root of everything to the new emperor of South Korea:

The new emperor forced Lu Sanlang to the battlefield when Lu Sanlang had no idea about the war situation on the border between the north and south. He also drove Prince Chen, who pleaded for Lu Sanlang, out of Jianye. Lu Sanlang died tragically, and Prince Chen was driven out of Jianye, and the people's anger reached its peak. Because Lu Sanlang was not only the Lu family Sanlang of Jianye Danyang, he was also a famous scholar in the south.

In this era, celebrities were highly respected and had a great influence on the people. After Lu Saburo's death, almost all celebrities and people in the world felt sorry for him. Even the celebrities in the north mourned for him. The celebrities were arrogant and unmoved by the imperial power. They wrote poems to criticize the new emperor, and the new emperor wanted to kill them all. The new emperor realized at this time that the influence of the aristocratic family was so great that it was terrifying. The influence of the celebrities made him feel even more helpless.

The new emperor was in power, and the aristocratic families were flourishing. The two sides were playing games, and each killed one thousand enemies and lost eight hundred of their own. The aristocratic families had always been powerful, and the new emperor made them unhappy, so they wanted to depose the new emperor and replace him with a more suitable one. How could the new emperor tolerate this? He was already impatient, and was forced by the aristocratic families to go on a killing spree.

At this time, the Northern Kingdom was watching closely. After the death of Lu Saburo, when the Southern Kingdom's emperor was busy with internal strife, tens of thousands of Northern Kingdom troops marched south, crossed the Yangtze River, attacked Huanglong, and attacked Jianye. However, at this time, both the emperor and the noble families had lost a lot of manpower due to internal strife. The army was exhausted and could not cope with the war of the Northern Kingdom. The Southern Kingdom complained that the capital was in danger.

The emperor went to court, and everyone racked their brains to come up with ideas on how to deal with the thousands of troops from the north. However, when the troops arrived at the city, people were panicked. The discussion was in a mess. Looking at the young emperor sitting on the high throne with his forehead propped up and his eyes full of bloodshot, even the emperor's trusted courtiers couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty shouldn't have killed Lu Sanlang..."

His own people began to waver and began to doubt his own strategy. After being annoyed for months, the new emperor Liu Mu was furious. He drew his sword in the court and said angrily: "Shut up, all of you shut up! What's the point of you saying this now! I have a headache because of your quarrels... Now everyone blames me. When I wanted to suppress and check the aristocratic families, didn't you agree?"

The pressure of the past few months has exhausted him. He wept bitterly, "I am the king of a fallen country... I am speechless when facing my ancestors in the underworld. What are you?"

"The enemy is already at the gates of the city, and you don't want to do anything but keep blaming others. Are you all ready to escape?"

Liu Mu's heart turned cold, he threw away his sword and left, unwilling to say another word to his courtiers. He had only been the emperor for a few months, and so many things had happened. In his dream, Lu Erlang looked around hastily like looking at flowers in the mist, and saw that the former King of Hengyang was not so high-spirited after becoming the emperor. He was exhausted and surrounded by enemies. Even his throne was not legitimate, and was criticized.

Liu Mu was filled with sadness. After leaving Zhaoyang Palace, he went to the harem to talk to the queen. The palace was desolate and everyone was uneasy. Seeing that Jianye was in danger, even the palace people began to think of ways to escape. Liu Mu had seen many palace people fleeing along the way, and now he was too lazy to bother with them. The palace was in chaos, and there were Taoist priests and wizards performing rituals. They were dressed strangely, jumping around, and singing in tunes that people could not understand. The Taoist priests and wizards performed their own rituals, praying that Jianye in the south would survive the difficulties safely.

As Liu Mu was heading towards the Queen's palace amid the sorcerer's magic, a maid who was running away with a bag bumped into him. The maid was shocked, and her face turned pale when she saw him. With a loud bang, the bag in her arms fell to the ground, and the scrolls, gold and silver items fell out of the swaddling clothes.

Liu Mu noticed that the palace lady looked strange, so he bent down to take a look. He saw that the scroll had been spread out, revealing a painting. The painting was just an ordinary landscape painting, nothing unusual, but what made Liu Mu's face change drastically was the signature on the painting, which was "Xunmei Jushi".

Liu Mu's face turned pale and his mind went blank.