Chu Yue looked at the man with sparkling eyes, and quietly took his big hand, shaking it coquettishly.
Ying Zheng met his wife's expectant eyes and was silent for a moment.
He recalled the place that carried the warmth and pain of his childhood, and his mood was inexplicably complicated, perhaps with some nostalgia, confusion, and resentment.
In the end, in order to resolve a matter deep in his heart, he brought his wife back to his hometown.
Hostage.
Perhaps thanks to the maintenance of the local government, this exquisite and grand mansion still looks brand new, and the furnishings inside have not been moved at all.
As soon as I entered the courtyard, memories of the past instantly flooded my mind.
Ying Zheng gazed at the familiar layout, and in a trance he seemed to have returned to the days when he was a hostage in Zhao State.
The two countries were wary of each other and exchanged hostages to restrain each other.
At first, with the resources sent by the Qin royal family and the care of the big businessman Lu Buwei, their life was pretty good.
The family also had a period of ordinary and happy days.
But after the Battle of Changping, the Qin army besieged Handan the following year, and the Qin and Zhao countries completely broke off relations. My father abandoned his wife and children and fled back to Qin with Lu Buwei.
The mother and son lost their last layer of protection.
After that, everything changed.
Cold eyes, bullying, hunting, hatred, unwillingness, forbearance, dormancy...
Those painful memories of the past came to mind one by one, and Ying Zheng's originally calm mood inevitably fluctuated too much.
Chu Yuening sensed something strange coming from the red rope, and quickly put away her curious gaze, instead looking worriedly at the man next to her.
Seeing that his expression remained unchanged but his thin lips were pursed into a straight line, she couldn't help but ask with concern.
"A Zheng, what's wrong with you?"
"Yuening, do you think I'm vindictive and mean?"
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