established
A vast expanse.
I have a splitting headache.
I don’t know how long it took.
How long had she been lying here?
She only listened to the snow rushing down. The moment the snow covered her body, even the freezing cold suppressed all the emotions she could feel, and not even a trace of despair or fear rose.
It covered her entire body with its pure white and thick body.
I can no longer perceive any sounds from the outside world.
There was no sound of people moving around like before.
He did not smell the fragrance of medicine, nor did he hear the voices of the maid or Tao Yu. Everything around him was cold, as if he had been buried deep in the snow. Even when he opened his eyes, all he saw was darkness.
It's too dark.
It was so dark that when she reached out to feel around, she could only feel air passing through her fingertips, and what she held in her hand was a blank, shadowy bubble.
The surroundings were unnervingly quiet.
She couldn't tell whether she had lost her sight or had been moved to a new place.
But when she touched the cold ground beneath her, she felt a little uncertain.
Was it buried by the snow and then moved to another place?
There are still many things that are not done.
The emperor was counting on her to do something, or to reunite with Xiao Yingzhu, and then to return to Pingzhou to see the school she opened.
But just thinking about these things would make her heart heavy and she didn't want to contact them at all.
She just wanted to relax by herself for a while.
Before everything is over, she runs to a place where no one knows her, to pursue the thing that has always been missing in her heart.
In addition to opening a school to impart knowledge, she also wants to travel around in this era to see what changes have taken place a thousand years ago and a thousand years later.
Just as I expected, I walked aimlessly, stopping at one place after another.
How simple.
But she couldn't reach it no matter how hard she tried.
Jiang Nian really felt tired.
She didn't want to move or open her eyes, and even had the idea of lying here with her eyes closed forever.
But wouldn’t this just be repeating the same mistakes?
......
In the endless black dream, Jiang Nian tried to wake up, but frames of images suddenly emerged in his mind.
The half-closed temple she had seen in Jiangzhou appeared before her eyes again.
It's like a memory that really happened.
In this scene, she and Xiao Yingzhu returned to the cobblestone street in front of the temple. The narrow alley gradually widened, and the man she was traveling with had his face covered in the wind and snow, and his expression could not be seen clearly.
Jiang Nian's gaze shifted from Xiao Yingzhu's face to the temple next to them.
She broke free from Xiao Yingzhu, but the other party did not react at all. He just kept looking at her without making any movement.
The door to the temple ahead opened further, silently enticing her inside.
Jiang Nian took a few steps forward and looked back at Xiao Yingzhu.
Xiao Yingzhu still stayed where he was. There was vast snow on both sides and darkness at the end.
She tried waving at Xiao Yingzhu, but the other party still did not move.
It was just that he let go of the hand he had just held her, and the other hand was still holding the oil-paper umbrella.
The crane cloak rustled in the wind and snow, the ink color and the snow-white overlapped, and his eyebrows cast a fine shadow in the wind and snow.
Jiang Nian couldn't see clearly.
“…”
She turned around and pushed open the temple door that was inviting her in.
—
The interior of the door is very normal, with furnishings similar to those seen in modern times.
In the darkness, only a few burning cigarettes in the middle were slowly emitting smoke.
The scent of sandalwood filled her nostrils. Although it was strong, it was surprisingly not choking and made her uncomfortable.
Jiang Nian stood there, looked around, and then walked forward.
On the right side of the Buddha statue, there was a half-closed door. A hazy light slowly shone out from inside, as if silently inviting her.
Standing in this temple, the body covered in snow seemed to be warmer. Jiang Nian looked down at his fingers which had warmed up a little, and walked towards the door next to him.
It was clearly a winter night, but the light coming through the door made it seem like afternoon.
In the field of vision, her hand stretched out and pushed towards the door.
The dazzling light drowned out the slow chanting of Buddha's name around her. Jiang Nian didn't know what was happening. She only felt the scene in front of her change, and the afternoon sun in front of her shone directly into her sight.
?
Outside the modern glass windows is a lush green landscape.
The light reflected by the air conditioner's outdoor unit shone in front of Jiang Nian's eyes. She subconsciously raised her hand to block it, only to find that the clothes she passed on had also turned into hospital gowns.
The scorching summer heat filtered through the hospital's glass windows. Jiang Nian walked over slowly, and was startled when the skin of his palm touched the warm glass.
She returned to the present through that temple.
......
How is that possible?
Lian Lan couldn't do it.
Just need a temple and come back?
Or is it because this temple has some other connection with Shouzan that allowed her to travel to the modern era?
No, she should still be in a dream.
This dream should be a deduction of what she and Xiao Yingzhu might encounter when they return here after everything is done.
Jiang Nian breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and looked at the patients in the ward.
Her eyes followed the IV drip downwards and fell on a familiar face.
No surprise.
Jiang Nian stood silently at the hospital bed and looked at herself. Behind her, the door of the temple where she had traveled through a thousand years was still half open.
The scent of sandalwood inside seemed to be able to travel through countless years and reach her nostrils.
Drops of water fell from the infusion tube, and footsteps were heard outside the ward.
Unable to tell who it was, Jiang Nian stood beside the bed, silently raised his eyes and looked towards the ward.
The door unlocked and a strange face appeared in her sight.
The nurse from this hospital followed the man in from the door and started talking to him:
"She suffered a penetrating wound and, as you can see, she won't wake up again."
The words the other person said were hazy and unclear as if they were covered by mist. Jiang Nian felt a little unfamiliar with the medical terms used by the nurse, as if he was listening to what happened to another person.
After several exchanges, they left the ward.
Jiang Nian lowered his eyes and looked at himself lying on the hospital bed with a pale face.
After rushing to a lecture, because her award was stolen by another colleague, he set up an elaborate trap, secretly tampered with the car, and set her up for death.
The other party originally intended to kill her instantly, but they did not expect that after the broken metal rod pierced her chest, she lost a lot of blood and suffered brain hypoxia, but she was still breathing.
He just became a vegetable.
Before going to this lecture, she already had suicidal tendencies and was on the verge of collapse.
Multiple sources and original families, as well as some tedious things in academic communication.
The unexpected death of her beloved mother left her without spiritual support.
However, the experiments of the projects she took over failed one after another. The media, which was closely watching her, spread rumors and made malicious attacks, commenting that she was incompetent and then used illegal means to sit in a high position that she did not deserve, which made her fall into endless self-doubt.
She had wanted to end it all countless times, but she didn't expect that fate would play a trick on her and push her into the abyss in another way.
Jiang Nian lowered his eyelashes, raised his hand, and gently touched his pale face lying on the hospital bed.
But the reality of her lying on the hospital bed had already fallen into an endless sleep and would never wake up again.
Jiang Nian sighed softly, not knowing what words to use to describe all this. He could only sit quietly beside her bed.
The sound of cicadas chirping outside the window in the summer was still unconscious. What she had encountered in ancient times was like a dream. When she woke up, she was greeted by the reality of losing consciousness.
But once the dream ended, she was still in the cold snow, with no idea whether she was alive or dead.
She laughed and sighed that fate always played tricks on her. No matter how she struggled or how hard she tried to live, she was always easily defeated by unexpected events.
She no longer had the energy to question it.
We can only accept all this with the calmest and most open mind.
Hold on to what you can...hold on to.
The scene he was sitting in was like a flash of lightning. In Jiang Nian's vision, it was like a calm lake, with ripples appearing due to the splashing of water droplets.
She watched in amazement as the ward she was currently in faded away like morning mist, and all the real touches and truthful sounds were immersed in the water and became blurred.
The surrounding scenes began to blur, and the door next to her room, through which she came, was opened wider and wider.
In her sight, the darkness at the door gradually swallowed up the light in the ward, and someone seemed to be standing at the door calling her.
The white snow flying out from the darkness froze the ward in the hot summer. Jiang Nian's body was no longer under her control. She stood up and walked step by step into the darkness ahead.
In a hurry, Jiang Nian could only turn his head to look at himself lying on the hospital bed with an IV drip.
It seemed that no matter how many times I saw that familiar face, I would forget it after returning to ancient times.
Darkness gently covered her eyes, and her whole body was surrounded by warmth. Boundless coldness, accompanied by a crisp breath, enveloped her whole body.
Jiang Nian felt his body leaving the cold ground. His hand, which was originally on the ground, dropped down due to weightlessness, but was quickly grasped by someone.
......
Did she come back from the environment belonging to Jiangzhou?
She could hear the sound of her heart beating violently, and Jiang Nian seemed to feel something hot liquid falling on her cold cheek.
All the coldness around her seemed to be blocked by the dark ink-black crane cloak in her dream, and the warm feeling she had imagined countless times in the military camp came back.
Is this real reality or a sweet dream?
Jiang Nian didn't dare to define it easily anymore.
She was afraid that the next time she woke up, she would be facing nothing.
After a moment, Jiang Nian only felt her body being held horizontally in the other person's arms in a familiar manner, with her head resting steadily in his arms. Xiao Yingzhu's loose black hair lightly brushed her cheek, but was immediately lifted back.
The sound of horse hooves could be heard from afar.
The warm body temperature still wrapped her tightly even as the sound of horse hooves approached.
Jiang Nian's heartstrings, which had been held high, loosened and he finally fell into the endless dark dream.
However, this time the dream was no longer about frost and cold.
What awaits her ahead is the falling red plum blossoms on the branches and the coming of spring in the new year.
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