Chapter 64 Extra 1, Ye Xun
Ye Xun understood from a young age that as a son of a military family, the only way for him to live up to his father's expectations was to fight on the battlefield and conquer all directions.
He never let his father down. He joined the army at the age of sixteen and cut off the head of an enemy general at the age of twenty. He had made great military achievements at the age of twenty.
Everyone praised him as a well-deserved son of a general, a natural-born commander, and a brave general who defended his country.
Even he himself thinks so.
He loved the tension and excitement of two armies facing each other, the warmth of blood gushing out when a sword plunged into a neck, and the biting chill of the cold wind from the desert...
He was recalled to the capital because of the new emperor's ascension to the throne, but his six years of fighting experience on the battlefield made him completely tired of the splendid and wealthy life in the city of Bianjing.
Unable to return to the frontier, he could only stay in the military camp day and night, longing to return to the battlefield again.
He was unfamiliar with his fiancée whom he had never met, and he didn't care about her.
His lifelong pursuit was to achieve great things and establish a career. Even if he got married, the years of fighting on the battlefield would inevitably leave his wife alone at home, just like his mother.
With her husband not by her side, she witnessed all the suffering her mother endured daily.
In that case, it doesn't matter whether I have a wife or not.
He thought he didn't care, he thought the only goal in his mind was to achieve great things.
But he still regretted it.
Maybe it was a fleeting glimpse at the palace banquet...
Maybe it was the graceful bow during the Lantern Festival...
Perhaps it was the excited cry of General in the cottage...
Regrets accumulated more and more, like a spider web, gradually spreading and piling up in his heart, tightly wrapping around his heart that had previously only been filled with the desire to achieve success, causing him to feel deep pain.
This kind of pain went deep into his bones and stayed with him for many years.
Not long after the emperor and empress's wedding, he returned to the frontier on imperial orders.
It's still the familiar Gobi desert sand, the familiar lonely smoke in the desert, the familiar cheap liquor...
Everything in Biansha seemed to have never changed, only he had changed.
His weathered heart fell in the city of Bianjing, the imperial city that he had always guarded.
It was late at night and everything was quiet. Ye Xun sat on the city wall, looking at the bright full moon in the sky, and drank the wine in the bowl in one gulp.
She should be able to see such beautiful moonlight in the palace.
General Ye, who has always been aloof and reserved, now had a fuzzy look in his eyes and looked again at the lanterns placed on the edge of the city wall.
The carp-shaped lantern was quite old, its bright colors had faded a lot, and the paper leaves had turned yellow.
The delicate blessings written in small calligraphy on the bottom of the lantern are still clearly visible.
"May our country be safe and everything go well."
This was the river lantern she released by the river. He fished it out when it was about to sink.
Ye Xun carefully stroked the words on it, and couldn't help imagining the girl's expression when she put the river lantern into the water.
...must be serious and pious.
The grim general rarely smiled, but there was a barely perceptible bitterness at the corner of his lips.
The sound of a horn on the battlefield suddenly sounded, signaling an enemy attack.
His eyes were dark and deep as he looked towards the direction of Bianjing City, then he slowly drew out his sword.
May your family and country be safe and everything go well.
The man who stays by your side is not me, and I am not qualified to ensure that everything goes well for you.
But I can still achieve the peace and prosperity you desire for your country and family.
The author has something to say:
This world is about to end. I saw a reader in a quick-travel novel say that a quick-travel novel without a side story is like having no ending. So I wrote side stories about three characters. I don't know if you need them, but if you do, I'll write side stories about the world after that. If not, forget it.
Please prepay!!!
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