Chapter 274 Mission Accomplished
"At this point, it's hard to tell who's right and who's wrong."
Jiang Linyuan helped her up. "You feel wronged, that he owes you a name and can't tolerate them. He, on the other hand, wants to protect you, but he can't get away with the family rules. In the end, neither side gets any better. You and he should have stood together."
Wei Ciying slowly closed her eyes, and two lines of tears silently slid down.
Jiang Linyuan wiped away her tears. "Maybe it was wrong from the beginning. He shouldn't have taken you away, and you shouldn't have left with him on impulse. In the end, neither of you was willing to back down, and you just watched helplessly as the days turned into a knife."
Wei Ciying hugged Jiang Linyuan and burst into tears.
She recalled the last words Jiang Linyuan said to her before he died in her previous life: "We could have lived a life that was not like this."
"Now, you have no choice but to come with me." Jiang Linyuan patted her shoulder gently, "Our debt has not been settled yet, so let's continue to torture each other."
Jiang Linyuan helped Wei Ciying onto the horse and sat behind her.
With a lift of the reins, the black horse trotted forward. When it reached the bend in the mountain road, Jiang Linyuan suddenly turned back.
On a small hill in the distance, Jiang Fei was waving at them.
Even though they were so far away that he couldn't even see her face clearly, Jiang Linyuan felt that she was smiling.
It was a smile of relief, as if watching the end of a play that had nothing to do with him.
Jiang Linyuan's gaze remained fixed on the figure for a moment, then he turned his head and tapped the horse's back lightly with his palm.
The horse seemed to understand what the man meant. It snorted and quickened the pace of its hooves.
The wind blew past her ears, bringing with it the summer heat, blowing the loose hair on Wei Ciying's temples into the air.
She leaned in Jiang Linyuan's arms, listening to his steady heartbeat, and suddenly felt tired.
"Is she your friend?" Wei Ciying asked.
Jiang Linyuan looked ahead, his tone calm, "To her, perhaps I am just a passerby."
Yes, people come and go in this world, and most of them are passers-by who meet by chance.
It’s just that some people and some things, even if they only intersect briefly, are enough to pry open a crack in the deadlock and create a turning point for the stagnant deadlock.
The hatred is still there, the resentment has not disappeared, but the ice that separates them has finally cracked.
No one can predict what the future holds. Perhaps there will still be endless entanglements and collisions, but at least at this moment, the reins are in his hands. The person next to him has made an enemy and owed him a debt, and it is an endless entanglement of two lives.
There was no warm light in the pried-open gap, only a gust of sharp wind.
Pushing them towards an unknown future.
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Jiang Fei looked at the three words that slowly floated up in the void and then slowly faded away.
Then the system's voice rang in my head: "The current world's plot is closed, the mission has been completed, host, do you want to log out of the world line now?"
Jiang Fei: "No."
"What are you looking at?" Pei Jing put his arms around her waist from behind and rested his chin on her shoulder.
"The end of one story." Jiang Fei leaned in his arms, looking at the black dot moving further and further away in the distance, "It's also the beginning of another story."
Pei Jing followed her gaze and said thoughtfully, "Do you care about them a lot?"
Jiang Fei was speechless after hearing this. She had experienced this man's jealous nature before.
"I just feel that love in this world is never black and white. It's often a mixture of love and hate."
Pei Jing thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.
Sometimes this girl made him so angry that his teeth itched, but at other times, he loved her so much that he wanted to hold her in his arms all the time.
In the distance, Jiang Linyuan's horse had turned around the valley and disappeared among the lush greenery. The mountain breeze blew by, bringing waves of pine trees.
Pei Jing hugged Jiang Fei tighter: "What about us?"
Jiang Fei turned around and looked into his eyes, which were filled with the sunshine of an entire summer.
"We..." She stood on tiptoe and kissed him lightly on the lips, "Our story has just begun."
Pei Jing suddenly picked her up by the waist and walked quickly towards the carriage.
"What are you doing?"
"You'll know when you get back."
…
The door creaked open, Jiang Fei looked up and her breathing suddenly stopped.
On the clothes rack opposite the door, there was a phoenix robe hanging prominently.
The ceremonial robes of the emperor and empress are made of black and purple, with a black base and purple edging, which are calm and solemn. On the table beside them are matching accessories, phoenix crowns, rings and pendants... It is filled to the brim.
Jiang Fei's breathing trembled slightly as she slowly walked forward, her fingertips gently stroking the fabric.
The fabric was thick and crisp, with the slightly rough texture unique to plant dyes. The patterns of the Vermilion Bird embroidered with gold thread were distinct and relief. The heavy texture pressed on her fingertips and also on her heart, making her almost cry.
"This is……"
Her voice was a little hoarse, and before she could finish her question, a pair of warm arms were wrapped around her waist.
Pei Jing pressed against her from behind, his chin resting on her shoulder. "The Zhou Li says, 'The dark purple is the color of heaven and earth.' When I ascend the throne, I want you to wear it and offer sacrifices to heaven and earth with me."
Jiang Fei's fingertips trembled slightly as she stroked the delicate Vermillion Bird pattern on the phoenix robe.
The golden thread emitted tiny rays of light under the candlelight, as if all the stars in the sky were embroidered into the fabric.
"I want to wear it now." She suddenly turned around and looked up at Pei Jing.
Pei Jing was stunned for a moment, then chuckled, "Okay."
He changed her clothes himself, his movements so meticulous that they were almost pious.
First, he untied the belt around her waist, took off her outer shirt, and then put on the complicated dress for her layer by layer.
The black base material makes her skin look as white as snow, and the purple edging adds a touch of brightness to her.
"Raise your hands." He said softly, fastening her waist belt.
Jiang Fei obeyed, feeling the warmth of his fingertips through the fabric. When Pei Jing put the phoenix crown on her, she couldn't help but reach out and touch the beads on her forehead. The cold touch made her shudder.
"Very beautiful." Pei Jing took a half step back and looked at her with burning eyes.
Jiang Fei turned her head and faced the scene in the makeup mirror.
The bronze mirror reflected two figures, both dressed in dark. The candlelight cast a hazy halo on the mirror, overlapping the two figures together, making it look like a natural painting.
Jiang Fei looked at herself in the mirror and suddenly felt unfamiliar. The clothes were too heavy, so heavy that they seemed to crush her.
"What's wrong?"
Jiang Fei smiled and said, "This dress is really heavy."
Pei Jing placed his hand on her neck and said, "You're hot. Take it off. You might get suffocated."
When unbuckling the belt, the movements were still gentle.
The golden cord buckle slipped open, causing a corner of the phoenix robe to droop slightly.
I don't know when it started to change, the strength of his fingertips became stronger, and the action of taking off the robe became a little urgent.
Pei Jing's hands were resting on the edge of the dressing mirror. The light and shadow in the bronze mirror were shaking violently. He lowered his head to kiss her, his breath was hot. He didn't know what he touched, and the jade comb and dressing box on the table fell to the ground one after another.
Jiang Fei was picked up sideways by him, and the lacquer trays lined up in a row were swept to the ground by him.
She was placed on the cold table, with the hem of her phoenix robe spread out, like a flower that suddenly bloomed and then withered in an instant.
Pei Jing's kiss fell again, from her forehead to the corner of her lips. He pressed her wrist on the edge of the table, and her bracelet hit the hard wooden surface again and again, as if responding to something.
When she looked up, she saw the waves surging in his eyes. There was tenderness, possession, and something so hot that it almost burned her.
The clashing sounds of the bracelets became more and more frequent, mixed with the slight shaking of the table, weaving into an impenetrable web in the mess on the ground.
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