Cui Xingyao's life changed on that day when he was seventeen years old.
She still remembered the first time she entered the three-story palace walls in a sedan chair.
She was wearing the most luxurious clothes she had ever worn since she was born, with her hair tied up high and the things she pinned on it were the wealth of several generations of her mother's family.
She was wrapped in layers of silk and satin, without any deviation or misalignment. However, before she crossed the threshold, the aunt who was changing her clothes pulled the clothes down an inch at the back of her neck, saying that she had a beautiful neck. His Majesty had taken a second look at a court lady with a beautiful neck a few years ago.
Her body didn't move, and she felt disgusted.
The king is dead, and the Yu family has long been impoverished and decadent. The pearl that was once kept in the palace of King Kang, with her stockings tied up to her calves, is now being selected and admired like a prostitute in a brothel.
Beside Yueqi Lake, he sat behind nine layers of gauze, only a thin shadow.
His voice was a little hoarse, and the tone was hard for her to understand.
He kept her, and she probably knew the reason. She was the daughter of King Kang, a pawn to appease the vassal state, the last chip in the family's hope.
It was a quick glance at him the first time, and it was half a year later that she saw him again. He finally walked out from behind those layers of veil and walked towards her step by step.
He was much younger than she had imagined. Not only was he young, he was also very handsome. He never spoke harshly, and the expression and eyes between his eyebrows were so calm that he didn't seem like an emperor in a high position.
He was elegant and graceful, always gentle as a spring breeze when with her. He kept his word, and during the previous dynasty's campaign against Bijiang, he was decisive and merciless. He never exploited her status for personal gain, and aside from the occasional invitation to gaze at the stars and moon from behind the screen by Yueqi Lake, they rarely saw each other.
But as she watched the rippling water by Yueqi Lake, she wavered.
This kind of life that she once hated and despised has gradually become her support and the meaning of her existence in this world.
He never called her by her name, but only addressed her by her title politely.
But so what? After all, she was the only woman who could sit beside him openly.
She had never seen another woman around him.
Perhaps, she is the person closest to him.
She and he shared the same fate, so she understood his difficulties, the difficulties of being trapped on the throne and within the palace walls. She would be the only one who understood him.
Perhaps she was destined to be by his side, and they were destined to accompany each other and grow old together in this deep palace.
Late at night, she often woke up from the sweet dream of growing old together, looked at the bleak moonlight, and gradually remembered her cold reality.
Her mother's family had done everything they could to send her here, and the instructions they gave her were so dry and there was no room for maneuver: kill the emperor and take back the secret seal.
She always thought that the difficulty of this mission lay in committing murder or stealing treasure, and never imagined that the ultimate difficulty would be in being unable to control one's emotions.
She couldn't bear to kill him, but if he didn't die, what would happen to the Yu family?
But how innocent was she? Those who sent her into this palace in the name of their family, did they ever consider where she would go?
The day of fate's decision finally arrived. On the night she went to find him, she prepared a soup bowl and a sachet.
The soup contains intestinal poison, and the fragrance contains the drug that makes people confused.
The family put their fate in her hands, and she put her fate in God's hands.
If he chose the soup, then she would succumb to her fate and put an end to it all.
But what if he didn't touch the bowl of soup?
The long-cherished wish was stirring in her heart, ready to burst forth. Perhaps she could rewrite it all and have her own ending.
Those things that appear in her dreams every night and are as distant as the stars may one day truly belong to her.
She had anticipated two possible outcomes, repeatedly sketching the cruelest scenes in her mind, but she had never thought of this one.
He already knew everything and told her: Her kindness was worthless.
"What you're looking for isn't here." His expression remained calm and elegant, just like every time he spoke to her in the past. "I gave it to the person I trust most."
Who do you trust the most? Do you fly alone? Or...
Her thoughts were in a mess. The man before her seemed both familiar and unfamiliar, and she couldn't read his emotions.
"I don't know what your majesty is referring to, and I am very frightened..."
"Cui Shuyuan, you and I are both sober people. Why pretend to be asleep at this point?" He said as he opened the sachet in his hand. The ashes of the burnt incense fell out, and a thin puff of smoke rose. "Or is it this incense that has made you confused and forget your true self?"
The situation has been broken and it is difficult to restore it.
Cui Xingyao's heart began to beat wildly. She wasn't good at handling situations like this. She should always be calm, beautiful, measured, graceful, and well-mannered. She shouldn't be so embarrassed and desperate.
"I've been keeping you by my side all this time, and I've given you plenty of opportunities. You've been patient enough to wait until now to take action."
What went wrong? Cui Xingyao was puzzled.
"When did Your Majesty start to doubt me?"
"From the moment you entered Que City."
It turned out that he had never trusted her from the beginning.
"It's because of my uncle..."
"Yu Youwei?" He looked at her with a hint of surprise, as if he was puzzled by her question. "He is he, and you are you. But if you were not Yu Youwei's niece, I really wouldn't see you."
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