Chapter 598 Things in life are rarely perfect.
At this moment, Shang Ruyi didn't have time to think about whether it was right for her to be led by her brother through the secluded path of the house to the back garden to admire the moon, now that she was already so old and married. But the feeling of being surrounded by gentleness and seeing her brother's reliable back when she looked up made her feel as if she had returned to her childhood.
Even though I harbored many secrets, I was well protected by my uncle, aunt, and brother. That was me back then.
How happy I am...
With that thought, she stopped thinking about anything else. She only heard Shen Wuzheng call two maids to follow at a distance, and she quietly let him lead her to the back garden. She and Madam Yu had just finished cleaning up the garden during the day, and it was a perfect spot to sit by the clean corridor.
If you look up, you can see the moon in the sky.
Upon seeing the moon in the sky, Shang Ruyi couldn't help but sigh softly.
Shen Wuzheng asked, "What's wrong?"
Shang Ruyi smiled and said, "I came back today to be with my uncle, aunt, and brother. The whole family was happy and reunited. It's a pity that the moon is not full."
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"It is clear that things in life are rarely perfect."
Upon hearing this, Shen Wuzheng also looked up and saw a crescent moon hanging in the sky. The moon was narrow like a hook, with no extra light shining down, and there was no scene of stars accompanying the moon.
Such a moon doesn't seem worth coming here late at night to admire.
Indeed, it is a minor shortcoming.
Shen Wuzheng simply smiled faintly and then said, "Then, take a look down."
"Um?"
Shang Ruyi was puzzled, but she lowered her head as instructed. Below the long corridor was the pond in her home. The pond water was clear and bright, reflecting the crescent moon. The surface of the water rippled slightly in the night breeze, and the moon's reflection swayed with it. The clear blue water and the moon's reflection shone with an even more hazy brilliance, which was more pleasing to the eye than when she looked up at the sky.
Shang Ruyi's eyes widened in surprise at the sight, and she exclaimed, "So beautiful!"
Looking at her bright eyes, which were sparkling brilliantly reflected in the shimmering water, Shen Wuzheng's smile deepened, and he said softly, "Yes, so beautiful."
Shang Ruyi looked at it for a while, then looked up at Shen Wuzheng and smiled, "Brother, you really know how to find beautiful scenery."
Shen Wuzheng: "You said that it is impossible to have everything in life. This is the natural order. Even my teacher once told me that excessive perfection and flawlessness may be a harbinger of destruction."
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"Therefore, as people live in this world, we must understand that imperfection and incompleteness are the norm."
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"All we need to do is accept and make amends."
Shang Ruyi nodded repeatedly, but after thinking for a moment, she looked up at him and deliberately smiled, "Brother, I understand this principle a little better than you do."
Her words referred to the discussion the two had had in the carriage during the day about whether to stay or leave.
She accepted the imperfections of the path she had chosen in life because she understood that if she hadn't chosen this path, the greater imperfection she would have had to accept would have been losing her closest relatives in the chaos of war, a loss that would have felt like a piece of her heart had been ripped out.
Nothing can soothe or make up for it.
Upon hearing this, Shen Wuzheng fell silent for a moment—he knew this principle all too well, but all the principles he had learned over the years seemed to be completely disregarded when it came to his younger sister. All he cared about was her joys and sorrows, and her peace and happiness.
Hearing her say that, he sighed softly.
Without rebuttal, he simply reached out and gently flicked Shang Ruyi's forehead: "You!"
Shang Ruyi covered her forehead and laughed.
But her long eyelashes obscured the dim moonlight, and in those deep eyes hidden in the shadows, there wasn't much genuine laughter—although everyone knows that life is imperfect, who can be so open-minded and magnanimous as to laugh at life's imperfections? For the poor, imperfection is the famine of a year of hardship, where they might watch helplessly as their loved ones starve to death; for a woman with a tragic fate, imperfection is being unable to marry a good man and living a life of sorrow; for the elderly, imperfection might be the white-haired burying the black-haired, heartbroken, in unbearable pain, yet powerless to stop it.
Or perhaps—as noble as Chu Yang, the chosen one of heaven, the supreme ruler.
His flaw is that even though he believed he had done nothing wrong in his life, he still died in front of her when his country was destroyed. That night, stained with blood, is still a nightmare she dares not face.
However, compared to that, her disability seems to be nothing at all.
only……
A night breeze blew by, causing ripples on the pond to sway and the moonlight to tremble. Shang Ruyi's eyes flickered, and Shen Wuzheng immediately asked, "What are you thinking about now?"
Shang Ruyi immediately replied, "It's nothing."
Shen Wuzheng looked at her for a while, then gently shook his head and said, "Ruyi, do you know what it really means for you that the Duke of Sheng has become emperor?"
"...?"
Shang Ruyi was taken aback, wondering why he suddenly changed the subject to business. After all, she had come back to the Shen family today to rest and chat with her uncle and aunt all day. Although she knew they were worried about her, they had all refrained from saying much. But at the very end of the day, Shen Wuzheng brought it up.
But Shang Ruyi did not avoid the topic, only staring intently at Shen Wuzheng.
Shen Wuzheng said, "You and Yuwen Ye will face more and more complicated things in the future."
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“For example, today—Yuwen Ye did indeed take the position of Crown Prince from his elder brother, but he offended not His Highness the Prince of Han, but His Majesty the Emperor. He tricked his father.”
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“Now that you are moving into the palace and spending all your time with the emperor, you should understand that in this situation, right and wrong will be more obvious than usual. In front of the emperor, doing the right thing may not be rewarded, but doing the wrong thing will definitely be punished.”
Although she already understood this in her heart, Shang Ruyi still frowned when she heard Shen Wuzheng say it.
She said softly, "I understand."
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"So there are many things I want to discuss with my brother and Young Master Pei, just like when we dealt with the plague before."
Shen Wuzheng nodded first, then shook his head and said, "But after you enter the palace, Xingyuan and I will not be able to come to the palace to see you as often as before."
Shang Ruyi frowned: "Then—"
Shen Wuzheng said, "The best way is to let Yuwen Ye establish his own government and military headquarters, just like the Prince of Han."
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"In this way, you won't have to be in the palace all the time, especially under the emperor's watchful eye, and you'll make far fewer mistakes; secondly, the difference between the King of Han and the King of Qin is immediately apparent, just from the point of establishing their own government."
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“If Yuwen Ye wants to go further, he needs to fill this gap.”
"...!"
Upon hearing this, Shang Ruyi was about to say something when Shen Wuzheng added, "But establishing a government office and a military headquarters requires great achievements. Even your great victory in Fufeng this time did not grant you such power. Therefore, if you want to have such privileges in the short term, you will need even greater achievements."
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"for example--"
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