Xu Shu had already walked quickly up to her and looked her up and down.
She was still wearing the same coarse cloth clothes as usual, and her long hair was tied up without even a decent hairpin. The brightest thing about her was her eyes.
He thought he would see some shadow of death in those eyes, but he didn't.
"You are still alive."
Xiao Nan glanced back at Xu Shu.
It was really just a glance; she didn't even bother to look at him.
"I'm sorry to disappoint you."
Xu Shu was silent for a moment, and when he spoke again his voice was still low.
"The Guangyao Camp said you'd taken leave, but no matter how hard we tried, there was no news. Rumors in the palace were that you might have died during the spring hunt, a mere target set by the Emperor. But I suspect you must have been hidden. And to be able to hide someone so well in broad daylight..."
She sighed and interrupted the other person.
"There's really no time for us to reminisce about the past. If you have anything to say, please say it quickly."
Xu Shu clenched his teeth, and the veins on his forehead popped out. After a long while, he seemed to have made up his mind, and suddenly knelt down on one knee.
"Xiao Nanhui, everything that happened before is my fault. I admit defeat and accept the punishment. I know that you have a special status now, and no one else can do this except you. Just consider it as a favor to me, okay? This will also be good for you. She is an unfavored Shuyuan, and even if she is imprisoned in the palace, she will be an eyesore to you in the future. Just go and talk to the emperor and ask him to release Xingyao, okay? What can she, a girl from a family, know about what her uncle did? Just consider it a good thing and don't ruin her life. I won't dislike her, I will always treat her well, as long as you can..."
Xiao Nan looked back at the head that was once so arrogant but now hung down reluctantly, with an indescribable complex emotion in his heart.
She felt like a person who had been swimming for a long time and was hanging his wet clothes on the shore when he turned around and saw another person still struggling in the whirlpool in the middle of the river.
"Xu Shu." Xiao Nanhui looked at the man in front of him who was immersed in his own obsession, and said slowly, "So you have never understood the reason for our feud. It's not a question of winning or losing between us, but that you have never respected me from the beginning to the end. Similarly, you don't respect Cui Xingyao now. You asked the emperor to release her, but have you considered her situation? From the moment she was pushed out, she was just a discarded pawn to her family, but that was her choice. Even if she could walk out of the palace alive, she would have already lost her dignity. How would her mother's family view her? How would your family view her? How would she deal with herself? I don't think she needs your tolerance, and I don't need your surrender."
She had never spoken so many words to Xu Shu in one breath. As soon as she said these words, she felt that her fate with the man in front of her was finally coming to an end.
Xu Shu's figure froze there, and it took a long time before he slowly stood up.
"That's all my business. Just tell me, are you willing to help me?"
Xu Shu must have been desperate for help if he could ask her for help. She understood that kind of desperation, but she didn't feel she needed to always be the one saving people from danger.
"I'm willing to help you, but the one who makes the choice is not me, it's him. And I don't want to influence his choice."
After she said this, she walked around the person in front of her and headed towards the tree.
"Xiao Nanhui, do you really think you and him will be together forever?"
Xu Shu's voice was filled with resentment that was difficult to suppress.
She felt that perhaps the next words were what he really wanted to say to her.
"Your statuses are vastly different, one as vast as heaven and the other as hell. Even without such a worldly barrier, how many people in history have been able to truly love each other and stay together until old age? And how much less in a royal family? Even if you're deceiving yourself with this dream, you'll eventually wake up."
Xiao Nanhui stopped and turned to look at Xu Shu, who was across a narrow street from her.
If a person has really been to hell and meets those who speak nonsense using the words of evil ghosts and Yama, he would probably want to laugh.
Experience the separation of life and death in one day.
Will she think about being together for many, many years? No, she won’t.
If there was a jar of good wine, she would drink it all and never leave any for tomorrow.
If she is in love with someone, she will hold his hand tightly and remember this moment forever.
She spoke again, her tone calmer than ever.
"I woke up from my dream a long time ago. I am wide awake now."
And the calmer she was, the more ferocious the expression on Xu Shu's face became.
"What about Xiao Zhun? Did you really let him go? I heard that he escaped with the Bai family..."
The sound of horse hooves interrupted Xu Shu's words.
Then, an ordinary carriage drove out from the back street of the Prime Minister's Mansion and stopped right between them. The person sitting in the front of the carriage stood upright, right between her and Xu Shu's line of sight.
Ding Weixiang looked straight ahead, neither at her nor at Xu Shu.
The person in the carriage behind him did not show up either, only a voice came through the thin curtain.
"Guardian Xu, how about I answer your question?"
Xu Shu's face turned pale. Although he was still standing there, he looked even more depressed than when he was kneeling on the ground just now.
The voice in the carriage paused, and finally sounded again.
"They, one young and one white, one Jun and one Yun, can barely be considered a match, but she and I have never been a match, and it is heaven's will that I, the king, should be paired with my daughter. Do you understand?"
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