Chapter 307
Wang Jiazhi woke up and drowsily went to the mirror. She picked up the brush and was about to brush her hair when she noticed flowers again. She knew it. Turning to look in the mirror, her long, curly hair was densely dotted with numerous yellow-white rose buds with rose-red edges. He simply loved playing with her hair.
It’s no wonder that Wang Jiazhi feels that other men’s personalities are too monotonous and boring.
There were a few recent movies that seemed to be of her type, one of which was called "Purple City." It tells the story of an unfavored but ambitious prince who falls in love with a princess of a fallen kingdom. When the affair is exposed, the emperor remains silent, waiting for his response. He orders his beloved to be murdered and the body brought to the emperor for identification. The emperor is delighted. Although he has many sons and their relationship with the prince is weak, he considers the prince more suitable to be emperor than his unruly brothers for the greater good.
The hero never knew what his father did with the heroine's body. Perhaps he buried it, burned it and scattered the ashes with the ashes of other sinners, or dumped it in the countryside to feed wild animals. In any case, it couldn't have ended well. After he ascended the throne, he asked everyone in the palace, but no one said they knew.
Later he was very frightened because it was likely to be a very tragic situation, so the people who were dealing with him did not dare to tell anyone because if they did, they would die.
The heroine's sister is in love with the deposed prince. They both want to be together forever, but they can't let go of the throne of the Eastern Palace. There are many twists and turns in the process, and the heroine is worried about her sister.
Once, my sister-in-law said again: Why did my sister save me at the beginning? She didn’t know that she was not saving me, but harming me, making me live a life worse than death.
He was furious when he heard this and said, "Your sister has worried about you all her life, and you say she harmed you. You wanted to die, so why didn't you die earlier? You didn't live and let her suffer for you."
At that moment, he thought of her life. Her aunt wanted to restore the country, but she knew it was impossible. In order for her aunt to live on in self-deception, she worked tirelessly and suffered the beatings of the old man. Her sister was willful and got into trouble, and she had to worry about her all her life. Her grandfather and uncle were incompetent, and her brother was young, so she had to take the trouble to run a family. She worked hard for the family all her life, and her aunt thought she was incompetent and couldn't restore the country; her sister was angry with her for controlling her and wishing she would die, but she couldn't bear to die. Even he had never made her worry less. In the first year after her death, he found that the bamboo rice sent by his mother had become so inferior. In order to make him a concubine, his mother gave him to other concubines to raise, so she favored her two younger brothers and didn't love him. Every year, the good bamboo rice from the attack was given to the two families, and the worst was given to him.
He'd told her how, as a child, he'd cried for his mother to hold him, but she'd been so heartless that she wouldn't. So, she'd gone to such great lengths to find the best bamboo rice worth tribute, replacing it with inferior rice every year to spare her the heartache. They'd been together for twelve years, and she'd been looking for bamboo rice for twelve years. In truth, he'd long since given up on his mother, figuring she didn't need to worry about it.
She had burned her candle, burning with tears, her entire life for her loved ones, yet no one had ever appreciated her efforts, only complaints and taking it for granted. Even he didn't appreciate her efforts. What had she gained in this life?
He said to her portrait, "How could you be so foolish? You've wasted your whole life's work, and no one would ever remember your kindness."
One time, my daughter just casually said, "I heard my mother and aunt say that you only have a desire to conquer her and are not sincere at all."
His daughter had only said it as a joke, but his heart sank. He had said this to a close friend when they first started dating, but he had never expected her to hear it.
She once told someone, "It's a great blessing to find someone I truly love in this life. This little comfort is enough. What else can I expect?"
In the third year of his reign, he moved the capital and passed by a collapsed city wall on the way. That was the place where they had met, and he hadn't been there for thirteen years. Now, the wall was overgrown with wisteria trees, covered in wisteria flowers, a purple wall.
Wang Jiazhi cried while watching the movie in the cinema and came back to share this story with him.
He said, "Later he found the largest tree, dug until his hands bled, and dug out his wife's coffin."
"That's right, that's right. Back then, the old emperor ordered the heroine to be thrown into a mass grave to feed wild beasts. A family came to collect the body of their own family member, but when it got dark, they mistakenly thought her body was one of their own and put it in a coffin. The family took several coffins back to their hometown for burial. When they reached the city wall, they found an extra one. When they opened it, they realized she wasn't one of their family members, so they buried her under the city wall. When they saw the bones in the coffin, they said that even the bones were so beautiful."
When they first met, they loved chatting under the wisteria trees at home. When she left, thinking they would never see each other again, she picked some wisteria seeds, intending to plant them herself. But the seeds refused to sprout. She gave up and put the remaining two seeds in her purse, carrying them with her. Even though they were together later, it was a very important souvenir for her, so she continued to wear it. She eventually returned to the place where they had met, and the seeds, twelve years later, had sprouted and grown into a wisteria tree. The tree then spread across the entire city wall, becoming a purple city. She waited for him for thirteen years under the purple city before they met again. They were wisteria flowers blooming on the ruins of their relationship.
After that, Wang Jiazhi and he both realized what was going on. She asked him, "How did you know this plot? Have you seen a movie recently? This is a new movie."
He also wondered why he knew this plot when he had never seen this movie.
He had actually seen it, but he just didn't remember it, a long, long time ago, a year after her death.
She and Old Wu often met at the used bookstore, and he had all the books there moved back, a total of 1,314. When he had nothing to do, he would flip through them and found that 26 of them contained her notes.
Later, he learned that, aside from teaching her how to use a gun and how to commit suicide by poisoning, Old Wu and his team hadn't taught her anything else. They hadn't even given her a handout on the most basic skills she needed to master. It turned out they hadn't wanted her to live from the start.
She had no choice but to learn how to be an agent from the 26 books she could find.
It seemed that each book had been read many times, and every page was filled with annotations.
In fact, she also made two notebooks, and every page was filled with words, but she burned them.
She had no idea that all the things she had learned on her own day and night were of no use at all.
He wondered if anyone had ever helped her in her life, given her a way out? She had to fight her way forward on her own, through thick and thin. Even if she was deceived, abused, or sent to her death, no one would help her. She had to figure out how to be abused and how to die on her own.
She didn't even know the most basic codewords, and hadn't even read the most basic handouts. She didn't understand anything at all.
In Hong Kong, she painfully sacrificed her chastity and planted the seeds of a lifetime of unbearable pain. What she pursued and the responsibilities she fulfilled were just a casual summer vacation activity for others; Huang Lei's two months' rent, five or six sets of clothes, and the wins and losses of bets on one or two prostitution dinners; Kuang Yumin could dream of being a hero countless times after waking up once.
In Shanghai, she worked hard to find information, studied by herself, and threw away her life and death to throw herself into his arms. In their eyes, what she did was so stupid and gullible, so despicable and shameless.
Her conscience and sense of responsibility became the original sin that pushed her into hell.
This world is ridiculous, it's crazy. Those who work hard to fulfill their responsibilities and promises have become a joke, living a life worse than death, while those who are irresponsible and have no conscience live so happily.
"How could you be so stupid!"
She gave so much, endured so much pain and suffering, but no one appreciated or was touched by her efforts. They only thought she was despicable. In the end, she became a traitor, and those beasts became heroes.
That night he remembered that she liked watching movies, but she always watched movies alone.
In the empty cinema, he saw that scene and remembered that he was one of that group of people.
He always mocked her for not knowing anything, not understanding the simplest code words, not being able to get the most basic intelligence, not even realizing she was being followed. He thought she was unmotivated, unwilling to learn, neglecting her career, and only caring about having a romantic relationship with him.
It turned out that she worked very hard, but she didn't realize that her efforts were all in vain. In the eyes of others, the dozens of books she read over and over again, and the many notebooks she wrote until her hands were calloused, were all jokes.
She has worked hard all her life, but this is the result she got.
Why did he laugh at her efforts and dedication? Even if they were all like this, he shouldn't have done that.
He turned around with tears in his eyes and saw her sitting beside him, still in the same state as before. He said with tears in his eyes: "Did you start out for wealth and glory, high official position and generous salary? At least our beginnings are good, but none of us can control our own endings."
He left before the movie was over. He didn't see the protagonist's daughter say to him at the end: "You are her only comfort in this hopeless world. She knows how someone who doesn't love her can hate himself for owing her."
Wang Jiazhi suddenly remembered and took out the new story book from the study. She said, "Oh right, that's the one. The content of this movie is very similar to the story in it. You must have seen it before."
He read it and said, "But the content is completely different."
You are the person he loves most in the world he hates the most.
But the one I hated didn't die.
The one I love is impossible. From the lyrics of "Lover".
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