Not counted
Perhaps when she saw Xiao Yingzhu in the rice field in the afternoon, she had a vague idea of this matter.
Making this decision now will only make me cut off those unnecessary escape routes.
The reason why he was afraid to meet Emperor Changde was that he only dreamed of cooperating with Xiao Yingzhu. He didn't want to have any contact with anyone else and didn't want any unnecessary complications. He was avoiding the things that were bound to happen.
Jiang Nian had recovered by now. He shifted his gaze from the green ravine that seemed to tempt people to jump off the cliff, and walked to Xiao Yingzhu.
"His messenger should have arrived in Pingzhou, right?"
Or it has been guarded for a long time.
Although the emperor's thoughts were difficult to guess, at this juncture, it was inevitable that he would ask about the insect repellent and then about her.
There is no chance to shirk this time.
When the meeting was about to begin, Jiang Nian didn't feel nervous at all.
She simply lowered her eyelashes and looked at Xiao Yingzhu calmly: "When will you talk to him back?"
Xiao Yingzhu raised her eyelids, her cold pupils reflecting her serious face. She thought for a moment, but did not specify a time. "When you have completed what you think is necessary, I will take you to the capital."
“…”
Jiang Nian turned her eyes to the side, tucking the hair from her ears, and looked at the distant green mountains shrouded in clouds. Her eyes were sore from the wind. She blinked and asked softly, "Am I the bait?"
Xiao Yingzhu did not answer.
This is an unsolvable problem. The development of the relationship has already exceeded his expectations.
The answer to this question is not written in the plan.
And he couldn't open his mouth to answer with a negative answer.
Jiang Nian understood his silent answer and felt relieved.
She turned her head, and the fingertips hanging by her side moved slightly. She slowly raised her hand, and the next second, she touched Xiao Yingzhu's cheek.
The strands of black hair that fell on her shoulders were lifted by Jiang Nian's hands. The white and black contrasted with each other, and the touch in her palms was extremely soft. It turned out that the skin on the face of such a cold person was also warm. It was even more pleasant to touch than I had imagined.
Meeting Xiao Yingzhu's eyes, Jiang Nian pursed his lips, moved closer to him, and whispered, "...Since we are accomplices, then I must live up to my status and naturally have the ability to escape."
"You don't need to worry."
Knowing what she was thinking, Xiao Yingzhu looked at her calmly, his pupils dilated slightly for a moment, then he turned his eyes away slightly, but did not break free from the hands holding his cheeks.
"...If you can take care of yourself, I won't worry."
But he still didn't want Emperor Changde to see Jiang Nian. Once Emperor Changde recognized her as a time traveler, or valued her abilities, he would be too powerful to stop Emperor Changde's actions.
Xiao Yingzhu knew very well what the purpose of Emperor Changde's actions was.
There were thousands of words that could not be expressed directly, but Jiang Nian knew what Xiao Yingzhu was most reluctant to violate.
"I made up my mind from the beginning. I knew the dangers of colluding with you... I was mentally prepared."
In front of Xiao Yingzhu, Jiang Nian finally understood why he always let down his guard.
Perhaps before Xiao Yingzhu realized that she was special, he would not have tried to guess her with all those schemes and temptations.
Intuition is the easiest way to sense whether the outside world is hostile.
But she could no longer tell whether it was Xiao Yingzhu who made her let down her guard when he was pretending, or whether she spontaneously wanted to trust Xiao Yingzhu in her heart.
The only thing she was sure of was that there was no need for words. Apart from her emotions, she could talk to Xiao Yingzhu about everything she would face in the future without any baggage and be honest with her.
And now, the most necessary point has been achieved, and everything is almost ready, and the rest is left to time.
No matter whether their ending is good or bad, they can accept it.
After all, their choices have already been made, and the ending is just the fruit of those choices.
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After finishing talking to Xiao Yingzhu, Jiang Nian realized that his hand was still touching Xiao Yingzhu's cheek, and he withdrew it a little embarrassedly.
I don't know when they became accustomed to this kind of physical contact.
I obviously cared about it at first.
Unwilling to think about these thoughts that might make his expression betray his true feelings, Jiang Nian retracted those thoughts in time, looked around subconsciously, and searched his mind for some suitable topics that could be brought up again.
Xiao Yingzhu in front of her was amused by her somewhat awkward reaction. She chuckled softly, raised her hand casually to comb her black hair that had just been messed up for a moment, and let it fall on Jiang Nian's slightly flushed cheek for a moment.
"Do you have an answer to the previous question?"
"What?"
The pavilion is located in a remote area, and the wind gradually grew stronger in the afternoon. Although it no longer makes people feel hot, it will still be a bit uncomfortable if it blows for a long time.
Jiang Nian didn't like windy places very much. He was afraid that after staying in Cang County for a month, he would develop the sequelae of "there must be trouble when there is wind". After the awkwardness in his heart dissipated, he raised his hand and grabbed Xiao Yingzhu's wrist.
"Let's go down and talk while we're down."
She didn't use much force to pull, but she pulled Xiao Yingzhu up in an instant.
After a moment of shock, she realized that it was Xiao Yingzhu who obeyed her wishes. After a moment of silence, she suddenly felt her earlobe feel warm.
Bie Kai had some romantic thoughts in his mind. Jiang Nian turned serious and looked up at Xiao Yingzhu for a moment: "...Is it the question you asked when we returned to the sect?"
Xiao Yingzhu lowered his eyes and looked at her, the meaning was self-evident.
Jiang Nian couldn't help but turned her head away and pursed her lips. After a long while, she raised her head and looked at him directly: "Are you so sure that I will go with you in the future?"
Obviously, no relationship has been confirmed.
Xiao Yingzhu looked at her for a moment, his gaze darkening, his emotions unclear. "You should know that the time I gave you to consider this wasn't for this issue."
"It's a question of where you're going to choose."
Jiang Nian was suddenly stunned.
The other person's gaze fell lightly on her face, but the emotion deep in his pupils made Jiang Nian feel scared and shuddered. It was like being stared at by prey.
The last time he felt this kind of fear was at the lotus pond in the Cang County State Guesthouse. Back then, it was because he knew he was just a pawn in Xiao Yingzhu's chess game, not an equal ally.
This time, the fear that Jiang Nian felt came from deep within his heart.
The actively beating heart was like being pierced by a sharp arrow through the bamboo. There was no pain when the arrow pierced the soft tissue, and there was no pain when being fixed in place. Only when trying to break free and struggling, would one feel the fear of being torn apart throughout the body.
The words Xiao Yingzhu said when she looked at her with a happy smile came to her mind again.
everything.
Everything to her, or everything to him.
It seemed as if everything came together because of that sentence.
What she had envisioned at the beginning was related to the management of power, but wasn't that the only meaning in Xiao Yingzhu's words at that time?
Anything else included?
Something else? Emotions? Or something else he wanted?
Jiang Nian's slightly dull pupils moved, slowly moving upwards from Xiao Yingzhu's Adam's apple until they fell on his charming and beautiful eyebrows again.
The poppy flower hidden between Xiao Yingzhu's eyebrows bloomed again.
Jiang Nian stared at Xiao Yingzhu's face in a daze, as if he was looking through his face at the poppy flowers that didn't exist.
The rotten flower in her heart was corroded by the fertile soil, and the only remaining leaf withered away. She could already hear the sound of petals in her heart being eaten away by animals, one bite after another, biting off the soft petals and her remaining intact sanity.
......
She always wanted to not rely on others, not deny herself, and live like a normal person.
But Xiao Yingzhu was like a deep pool of reason that belonged to her alone, pulling her off the edge of the shore time and time again, swallowing up her ankles, her legs, her waist, and even her neck.
Let her open her eyes and watch clearly how she gave up her original obsession and sank into his warm yet cold embrace.
She could no longer tell what this feeling was.
Is it love? Or dependence? Or hopeless greed?
Jiang Nian thought that she might not be as clear-headed as she should have thought, and she might have already fallen into that hopeless love.
It grew out of the fertile soil, and its roots were brewing in their meetings and conversations. When she was not paying attention, it firmly occupied her heart and controlled her every beat.
Shamefully, she tried to escape again.
She wanted to avoid the obscure gaze of the man in front of her.
She doesn't want to understand, and she doesn't want to think.
Could she escape? She wanted to.
But the person in front of her clearly didn't make any movement, but he was able to stop her legs from running, making her unable to control her actions. She could only stand stiffly in place, eyes open, watching Xiao Yingzhu's face slowly approaching in front of her. The matching black and red colors blocked her sight, and she could only see the beam of light in the sky shining through the fan and reflected in her confused eyes.
My chin was lifted up by my knuckles without me noticing, and I felt a soft touch on my lips.
Her mind was blank, and the only scent at her nose was that familiar, refreshing scent that seemed to never change. Every time it approached, she would feel addicted, consciously immersing herself in that boundless emotion.
"You should understand."
The fan that was covering her eyelashes moved slightly away. Xiao Yingzhu lowered his eyes and looked at her nonchalantly, the emotions in his eyes hidden again.
"I never gave you a chance to escape from this matter."
Jiang Nian slowly blinked his sore eyes, and his gaze focused again, falling into the deep pupils of the person in front of him.
Her heart was pounding, making her a little scared. Her instinct made her want to avoid this question. The person in front of her also gave her the opportunity to escape, but Jiang Nian suppressed the idea.
She knew it very well.
If you avoid it this time, there will be another time, and the next time. How long will this avoidance last? Only when you miss it will you feel regret and keep thinking about how to promote the recovery of this relationship.
Jiang Nian only felt his body trembling slightly, and he didn't even have time to react to the touch on his lips just now.
It took her a long time to calm down. She raised her hand to press against the warmth on her lips, but she did not feel any resistance or disgust in her heart.
The dizziness in her head gradually subsided, allowing her to raise her head and look at the person in front of her.
Xiao Yingzhu still stood there in the same posture, looking at her intently.
"...I understand. Let me think about it."
He opened his mouth and suddenly realized that his throat had started to become a little hoarse. Jiang Nian coughed muffledly, then lowered his eyelashes slightly and continued, "Later, after all this is over, I can give you an answer."
There is no way out.
When she came to her senses, all the roads ahead, behind, and to her left and right were blocked. The only road that led to her was the one where Xiao Yingzhu must be.
They have long been inseparable.
Jiang Nian realized this problem belatedly.
What Xiao Yingzhu said before was very obscure, and she didn't notice it. Now that he put it clearly in front of her, she seemed to be frightened and wanted to escape.
...For no reason, Jiang Nian suddenly thought of the deer pattern that Xiao Yingzhu handed to her in Jiangzhou last night, and it appeared in her mind.
So that's what it means.
Jiang Nian closed his eyes, pretending that nothing had happened. He reached out and pulled Xiao Yingzhu's sleeve for a moment, then walked downstairs with a serious look on his face.
"Let's go down first... This is not the place for conversation."
The place where they had just stood was on a flat stone platform.
Behind him was a stone wall covered with vines, and beyond that were endless mountains.
There are no measures to prevent people from falling here. When Jiang Nian sees the green ravine hanging high below, he feels weightless and can only walk along the stone wall.
Xiao Yingzhu's tied-up black hair had fallen down at some point, and a refreshing fragrance drifted past her shoulder. When she turned her eyes, all she could see was the clear blue sky and his distant features, as if in a painting.
He walked to the edge of a cliff with his eyes downcast, as if unconsciously, until he stood on the steps of the flat ground below. Then he raised his brows, relaxed his expression, and stretched out his hand to her with a smile.
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