Does it have to be this way?
This has to be the case.
"Your Highness." Xiao Jingsan said suddenly.
"Hmm?" Su Shaoqing said.
Xiao Jingsan pressed his chest to suppress his heartbeat:
"Run away."
"Escape to a place where no one can see you. Don't let me see you. Don't give me the chance to find you. For the rest of my life."
This is the final warning.
Su Shaoqing blinked.
He picked up a peach petal on his shoulder, folded it into the shape of a paper airplane, and with a whoosh, put it into Xiao Jingsan's hair.
"..." Xiao Jingsan quickly pulled off the childish thing. His mental age was much older than Su Shaoqing's, and he didn't like this kind of thing.
Su Shaoqing twisted the petals and smiled confidently:
"Xiao Jingsan, ah Xiao Jingsan, have you forgotten what you just said?"
Xiao Jingsan was stunned and asked, "What did I say?"
I told you to run away!
While I am still hot-headed and before I change my mind, please get out of my sight forever. Go and see the kites you want to see, and see the prosperous Datong you want to see!
"you say--"
Under the peach tree, the black-haired boy curved his eyebrows. Despite his young body, he was concerned about everything in the world that was far greater than him.
It seemed as if all the vastness of the world was condensed in his little heart, with no regrets and no forgetfulness.
"Outside this palace wall, it's still a palace wall."
The boy twisted the petals:
"This peach tree is still a peach tree. I can never escape."
"Besides, I don't want to escape. If I leave, I will be powerless to help those children selling candied haws, those old ladies making kites, and those girls sewing clothes when I really see their misfortunes with my own eyes. That is what makes me most desperate."
“If one does not have the shackles that bind one, and only chooses desire, one is no longer a human being.”
"so."
The boy smiled:
"That's it."
"I will strive to live to see the day when the great harmony is realized."
"You also try your best to protect me, until we see that day together. The people live and work in peace and contentment, and every household has money to buy candied haws and new clothes."
"Okay? Xiao Jingsan."
Su Shaoqing waited for his answer.
“…”
At this moment, looking back at these eyes that reflected all living beings in the world, Xiao Jingsan seemed to hear the cry in his own soul.
Like the roar of a whale in the deep sea, the cry sank into the vast ocean and fell into the dark seabed, where no one could hear it. He tried to call for help, but couldn't speak, and tried to howl, but the seawater poured into his throat.
—Run away, don’t run away, run away, don’t run away, run away, don’t run away.
Please, please, please.
These words echoed in his mouth like a branding iron, and in the end he was so clear-headed that he couldn't utter a single word.
He took the peach petals and held them in his mouth, as if he was drinking a bowl of peach wine. His mouth was full of bitterness, without any fragrance.
"good."
He didn't know how he said the word, but it didn't sound like a human voice, but like the roar of a devil.
Deception, lies, betrayal, it's so ugly.
Kindness, compassion, mercy, and beauty are extremely beautiful.
They, one light and one dark, could actually stand together, and in the end the dark usurped everything from the light.
He was thinking,
If their positions could be switched, that would be the righteous ending in the world.
pity,
Fate is not in our control and we cannot make a decision.
Finally, Xiao Jingsan silently pushed open the door and came over carrying a copper basin and an iron chain. At that moment, the grown-up Su Shaoqing didn't need to say anything. He looked at the waist badge of the eldest prince worn by Xiao Jingsan, and then looked at the height outside the window, and suddenly understood what the future would be like.
Xiao Jingsan watched as the light in Su Shaoqing's eyes dimmed little by little, yet a spark of fire remained. He walked silently to the bedside, fastened the iron chain like a zombie, and took out a knife.
"Say something." Xiao Jingsan said.
“…”
"Your Highness." Xiao Jingsan gradually put on a pleading look.
“…”
However, the eldest prince leaned against the wall and said nothing.
The candlelight from the copper lamp reflected on the wall, like a thread about to break. There was nothing in his eyes.
The starry sky outside the window was covered by dark clouds, thick, depressing, and endlessly dark.
There was only the sound of blood flowing.
The ideals and promises of youth seem like an absurd and distant dream, and the desire for prosperity and freedom is more like an absurd dream within a dream.
And now,
Anyone who believes in dreams is dead forever.
…
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