Chapter 273 Wei Yanwan 13
Wei Yanwan was about to leave, but Ling Yunche loudly questioned, "Are wealth and glory so important to you? Ten years of love can't even withstand two months? Do you have any heart?"
"I don't! I already have no heart!"
Wei Yanwan's calm expression was broken. She looked at him fiercely, "Of course wealth and glory are important to me. My father died young, my family has fallen on hard times, my mother is a persecutor, and my younger brother is a mischievous child. I've already been stuck in this quagmire and can't get out. What can you do?"
"But didn't we agree to save money together? I will definitely work hard to make a name for myself!" Ling Yunche walked forward, held Wei Yanwan's shoulders, and looked at her earnestly.
"I can't wait any longer!" Wei Yanwan pushed him away violently, staggered two steps, and held onto the palace wall: "Go away, we won't see each other again."
Ling Yunche opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but Wei Yanwan turned and walked away without even looking at him.
Chunlei, who was on the lookout, quickly ran over to support her, and the two of them gradually walked away. Ling Yunche watched them disappear in silence, his entire body shattered. He stood there for a moment like a ghost, and was about to leave.
She stepped on something and when she looked down, she found it was a plain silver hairpin shaped like a vase, which was convenient for the woman to put flowers in.
Just now, there were only three of them here. This hairpin must have fallen off when Yan Wan pushed him away. He thought about it and picked it up, but he was a little hesitant.
Logically, he would be better off giving the hairpin to Zhao Yitai and letting him pass it on, or simply selling it. After all, she was already the Empress, and she might want to have nothing to do with him even more than this hairpin.
But Ling Yunche was still hesitating. The voice in his heart urging him to find Wei Yanwan was growing louder and clearer, forcing him to not have time to think carefully. He just chased after her out of a strong sense of unwillingness.
After turning around and around until they reached the Imperial Garden, Ling Yunche saw Yanwan and her servant not far away at the corner of a rockery. Through the bushes, he heard the palace maid named Chunlei ask curiously:
"Master, why didn't you tell Guard Ling that you did this to treat a family member?"
Ling Yunche immediately stopped and listened attentively.
"What's there to say?" Wei Yanwan's face was unusually pale. She smiled sarcastically at the words, "Are you saying that I had to obey Concubine Chun's arrangement and become the Emperor's concubine in order to cure those two heartless relatives? Or that the night I became the concubine, they both died and everything was over?"
"Hahaha, that's ridiculous. I feel ridiculous even when I say it myself."
Wei Yanwan laughed so hard that tears blurred her eyes. "This is my retribution, hahahaha... cough... cough, puff——"
"Master! Master!" Chunlei was unable to react for a while due to the sudden change. Seeing Wei Yanwan was about to fall down, she hurried to help her, but she was still a step too slow.
At this moment, a person suddenly appeared from the left, picked up Wei Yanwan with one hand and held her horizontally.
"Ling, Guard Ling?"
"What are you still standing there for? Go call the doctor."
Ling Yunche was about to send Wei Yanwan to Zhongcui Palace, but Wei Yanwan held his hand tightly and said, "No, you can't call the imperial physician."
Wei Yanwan continued to cough up blood, but her eyes became more determined: "Let me go, I will go back by myself."
"You are already like this, why do you want to go back by yourself?"
"Whether I live or die has nothing to do with you anymore..." Wei Yanwan took a deep breath, "If you don't let me go, I'll go back and kill myself."
Ling Yunche didn't expect her to say it so decisively, but when he looked at Yan Wan's expression, he found that she was serious. After struggling for a long time, Ling Yunche finally let her go reluctantly.
"Thank you, Guard Ling. Let's go."
When Ling Yunche listened to her cold words, the pain in his heart was not as severe as before, but became a more lingering and sour pain.
He really wanted to tell Yan Wan to stop acting and said, "I heard everything you just said." But in the end, he didn't say it.
Ling Yunche's mind kept replaying the memory just now. Yan Wan's desperate and pale expression, and her mocking smile kept flashing before his eyes, and finally turned into deep resentment and discouragement.
If he hadn't been so incompetent, if he wasn't just a guard in the cold palace, if he could come up with the money to treat Yan Wan's mother and brother, the two of them wouldn't have come to this point, and Yan Wan wouldn't have been trapped in this cage forever.
But now that the matter was settled, what could he do even if he regretted it? Even if he worked hard from now on, it would be impossible for him to rekindle his relationship with Yan Wan.
He has completely lost her, so perhaps not disturbing her is indeed the best outcome for both of them.
Ling Yunche silently warned himself not to disturb her, but his right hand tightly grasped the Aquarius hairpin and he never asked to return it.
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"Ling Yunche, Ling Yunche?"
At night, Ruyi, wearing a cotton coat, looked through the crack of the door and saw that this cold palace guard, who had always been enthusiastic and chivalrous, was leaning against the wall like a stray dog.
"what?"
Ling Yunche staggered to the door and sat down suddenly, stirring up a layer of dust on the ground. The strong smell of alcohol made Ruyi feel choked even through the door.
As she passed the package under the door, she looked him over and asked, "How much have you drunk?"
"What's it to you? Why are you talking so much?" Ling Yunche muttered a few words, put the package aside, and took another big gulp.
"Drinking alone in a place like this... Are you emotionally frustrated?" Ruyi had nothing to do in the cold palace all day. Ling Yunche had helped them so much, so she asked out of kindness and curiosity.
Ling Yunche, feeling depressed and unable to vent his frustrations, leaned against the door, knowing that these concubines in the cold palace would never be able to leave. His pent-up emotions desperately needed to be vented, so he took another big gulp and coughed violently twice.
"Are you okay?"
"Cough cough... cough, cough cough... Hahaha, cough me, I'm fine..." Ling Yunche choked on the wine before shed two tears. The moon was exceptionally bright today, and the face he couldn't see clearly through the door also made him feel more at ease. The man was silent for a long time, and finally spoke:
"You said... people like us aren't worthy of those romantic relationships? It's true that a couple in poverty suffers from many things."
"Who said that? Haven't you heard the saying that love is enough to satisfy one's hunger? I think as long as two people love each other, their social status doesn't matter."
Ling Yunche sighed, "Two people in love naturally don't care, but what about their respective families? Like her family, they have always been against us. Because I was born in the lower five banners, I can only be a cold palace guard in the palace. I can never leave in this life, just like you, so she had no choice but to leave me."
"You can't choose your birth, but you can work hard, right? Besides, how do you know I can't leave this cold palace?"
Ruyi smiled meaningfully, but the drunk Ling Yunche laughed heartily: "You can get out, you can get out. I think you are even drunker than me."
He was about to get up and leave. Ruyi looked at his dejected figure and consoled him, "Ling Yunche, don't ruin your health by drinking for someone who gave up on you. That's really not worth it."
"What do you know!"
Bang--
The loud noise startled Ruyi who was inside the door. It turned out that Ling Yunche had smashed the wine jug in his hand heavily on the door.
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