Connivance
No one could give her an answer.
In this era where Jiang Nian is the only "outsider", she can only follow in the footsteps of her predecessors to make decisions that are more conducive to her own choices.
Before she understood everything, every path and every option before her was a test for her.
For these things, you must make your own choices and take the initiative to give answers.
Jiang Nian stood in front of the bookshelf and thought about it. If he avoided the gap between them and didn't resolve it, then no matter how he responded, it would be "contrary" to his intentions.
After all, it was just a superficial answer to his question, which was not very honest.
She must clearly point out the gap between them and take the initiative to fill it before she can continue to move forward with him.
Is now the time to confess this gap?
The thoughts in his mind were still lingering in hesitation, and the core that had been hidden behind these questions surfaced again, opening directly to Jiang Nian.
——The reason why Xiao Yingzhu agreed to meet with her tonight has not been clearly told to her.
Before, she was the one guessing and making inferences on her own.
The person involved didn't say a word.
The tangled issue of "equality" was particularly prominent at this moment. Jiang Nian seemed to have seized the opportunity to take the initiative, dodging Xiao Yingzhu's implication and asking frankly:
"You said this afternoon that you would come to see me in the evening. What's the matter?"
Jiang Nian lowered his eyes and looked at the place where he was standing.
"Isn't this the place you originally wanted to bring me to?"
She thoughtfully recalled the scenes of Xiao Yingzhu she had just seen, and paused on one of them.
"You changed your mind and brought me here because of some reason, some... words I said."
Although it was a question, Jiang Nian said it with certainty.
She stared at Xiao Yingzhu without blinking, not intending to miss the slightest change in his expression.
"Why?"
"Did what I said make you lose your resolve?"
Xiao Yingzhu's pupils were clearly black and white, and the dark ink reflected Jiang Nian's shadow. Her every move and every word were reflected in his pupils.
This secluded library, where no one else often visited, fell silent because of Jiang Nian's question.
Jiang Nian saw his own shadow in his beautiful eyes and eyebrows.
Her image was clear in those eyes. Although she was dressed like a girl next door, because she had been following Xiao Yingzhu frequently recently, she had added some decorations of an aristocratic lady.
The clothes themselves were also designed by Jiang Nian himself. They were slightly different from the clothes of this era, but there was not much change overall.
Therefore, others will see it as novel and beautiful, but they will not feel that there is any difference.
At this moment, she was wearing the modified clothes that she was most satisfied with, holding a book in her hand, with her hair loosened behind her shoulders. The jade hairpin swayed lightly back and forth as she tilted her head slightly and smiled, making a pleasant sound like a silver bell.
Jiang Nian's smile must be provocative at this moment.
But because there was not much smile in her eyes, there was a hint of coldness.
Like a sharp sword, it slowly cut across Xiao Yingzhu's face.
Finally, the frame is fixed on his relaxed eyebrows and eyes.
Before this, Jiang Nian had never done anything so inappropriate.
Today's actions are also based on the previous behavior of the two people.
Jiang Nian is not a wooden person. She can roughly sense when the relationship between them has changed.
But she didn't express it on weekdays.
And now is the time.
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The scent of ink from the pages of the books on the wooden shelf still lingered around the room. The rain outside had stopped for a while, and the sparse chirping of cicadas hidden in the bushes began to rise again.
The shoe upper collapsed over the wooden board, and the dull sound struck that person's heart.
Jiang Nian stopped in front of Xiao Yingzhu and looked up at him.
Xiao Yingzhu has a very good appearance. Even when viewed from such a tricky angle as from below, he is still as beautiful as before.
As she got closer, a barely perceptible ripple appeared in those calm eyes.
The long and dense eyelashes hang down closely, making the tail of the eye more narrow and long.
As his master lowered his head slightly, the hair casually tucked behind his ear also fell in the same arc.
The snow-blue clothes were stained red in the swaying candlelight. The light shadow outlined his handsome profile, and the light-colored lips gradually deepened into a deep red.
They were so close that if Jiang Nian stood on tiptoe, she could touch his chin with her lips.
If Xiao Yingzhu lowered her head a little more, her loose hair would fall lightly on Jiang Nian's shoulders.
The candlelight flickered between each other, illuminating Xiao Yingzhu's obscure face while also lighting up the deeply hidden light in Jiang Nian's eyes.
The bright light seemed to be able to see through everything in the world without missing a single detail.
Feeling the other party's obvious exploration and temptation, his subtle but not negligible gaze fell on the outsider who broke into the security line.
The emotionless gaze followed Jiang Nian's movements, from her eyebrows to her rosy lips.
Jiang Nian's smile was faint, just like her own quiet personality, and did not reveal its owner's true thoughts at the moment.
But since I have experienced this past, I can understand what she means even without words.
Xiao Yingzhu saw through her provocation and her sarcasm, and clearly understood what Jiang Nian wanted in exchange for him.
The other party has already stepped beyond the edge of daily social interaction. If you don't speak up to stop it, then everything may be changed. The future destiny will break the fixed plan and become fragmented and unpredictable.
The path he had carefully planned and mastered would be completely shattered into pieces and fall heavily from the sky.
Jiang Nian now seemed like the last support that held up his crumbling thoughts.
She just extended her finger and gave a gentle push.
Then the two of them will fall directly into an unknown place from which there is no return.
Is the place where you fall hell or heaven?
neither knows.
They are all people who have been swept up by fate and have come here through bumpy journeys.
They all have their own hard work along the way to forge and develop a temperament that suits them.
Who would be willing to have everything about them arbitrarily tampered with by others?
What’s more, it is the most core and critical position.
Even though Xiao Yingzhu knew this and understood it best, she still watched Jiang Nian walk step by step into the trap he had woven, and then took out the flames, intending to burn all the vines surrounding her.
“…”
Jiang Nian put his hands behind his back, tilted his head, raised his eyes and looked at the person in front of him silently.
Xiao Yingzhu's dark pupils seemed to have a strange magical power that could make anyone who looked at it lose their mind and willingly fall into that empty space.
He always uses his own advantages to choose the best solution and keep the items he likes firmly in his hands.
Whether it is a living thing or an inanimate thing.
He doesn't care about others begging for mercy, nor does he care about what his actions might think of others. He will only coldly cut off the part that belongs to him - other people's lives, or other people's talents, or other people's emotional entanglements.
Use these as chips and place them on the scale called transaction.
Come and consider how much benefit you can get from these.
Even though every step Xiao Yingzhu took was to protect the country's security and the well-being of the people, his cruel and brutal methods were still criticized.
He clearly knew the importance of reputation, yet he abandoned it without hesitation.
Is this to protect something?
It can make tens of millions of people separate him from the Duke's Mansion.
When talking about the late Duke, he was full of admiration, and then went on to boast that every inch of land here was blessed with peace because of them.
At the same time, he was afraid of the current owner of the Duke's Mansion and kept a distance from him.
Jiang Nian didn't know how she could have thought so far. She only knew that the moment she got close to Xiao Yingzhu, she saw the flash of confusion in Xiao Yingzhu's eyes very clearly.
He was not confused about what he was doing, but about what he was about to face that would change everything.
It turns out that the famous Duke would also feel lost because things were out of his control?
If she thought this way, would Xiao Yingzhu be closer to her?
Every time I talked to him in the past, his nonchalant, careless and casual manner were all his shields that isolated him from the outside world, blocking out everyone except himself, leaving him alone in the boundless snow.
Through the flickering candlelight, Jiang Nian discovered the unknown corner of Xiao Yingzhu, and saw clearly the hazy thing that had been bothering him for the past few days and that he could not get rid of no matter what, and the thoughts hidden in the deepest part of his heart.
She understood.
The bargaining chip he wanted to exchange with Xiao Yingzhu was not just "equality" between the two of them, but also to occupy a place in Xiao Yingzhu's life, every minute and every second.
She wanted to break the seemingly perfect world that Xiao Yingzhu had built for her, and then step into it with a fiery and unyielding attitude, and see his heart with her own eyes.
Since he had set up a massive trap from the very beginning and lured her into this perfect world where no outsider had ever stepped into, if she did something in this world that was beyond his expectations, he would be in trouble.
He would have expected it.
This person is just waiting for me to take action.
From the negotiations in the warehouse that day to now, Jiang Nian, from a modern perspective, has clearly seen the contradictions in Xiao Yingzhu's thoughts.
——This man who seemed to make others retreat three feet away, he had killed countless people and set up countless political schemes.
Its purpose is not for the supreme throne of the present time, but for the peace and tranquility of this territory belonging to Huandu.
From the perspective of future generations, this may not seem like a big deal.
For Jiang Nian, who lives in this era but does not belong to this era, being able to ignore the fear of those he protects and at the same time restrain himself from grasping the desire that could easily give him the throne requires extremely strong self-control.
In the few short months and nights she spent with him, she was able to see him thoroughly beyond the understanding of everyone involved with him.
Is this another form of indulgence by Xiao Yingzhu towards her?
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