The northwest sun is scorching hot in August, and the rolling heat waves in the air make it hard to breathe.
The wind howled continuously, blowing up countless fallen leaves and sand. The air in the northwest seemed gray.
The wind and sand accidentally blinded Li Yun'er, and he felt a sharp pain like a knife cutting his fingertips.
She lowered her eyes and saw that the tip of her left middle finger had been cut by a paper cutter, leaving a half-inch long wound. The glaring blood was flowing out of the wound, dripping "tick, tick" onto the ground.
"Madam." The head maid Xia Lian exclaimed nervously, and quickly pressed the wound on Li Yun'er's finger with a handkerchief.
After the bleeding stopped, Xia Lian asked with a complicated expression: "Madam, have you been worried recently?"
Li Yun'er has been quite unlucky these days. The day before yesterday, the flower stand in the garden collapsed and hit her shoulder; yesterday, she sprained her foot; and today, she cut her finger again.
Xia Lian had served Li Yunyan for many years and knew that Li Yunyan had always had good luck and could always escape danger. The only exception was probably nine years ago, when she was as unlucky as she has been recently for half a month. She would fall down, scare the horse, and get injured by mistake...
Xia Lian still remembered that Li Yunyan was still living in Dingyuan Marquis Mansion at that time, and she had a big quarrel with the eldest and second daughters.
When Xia Lian thinks about the things in the capital now, it feels like a dream, as if it happened in her previous life.
Li Yunyi looked at the blood on the ground without noticing anything, and his thoughts went back to the blood-stained imperial mausoleum eight years ago...
At this time, the voice of the maid came from outside the door curtain: "Madam, the master is back and is waiting for you in the front yard. He said he has something to tell you."
Li Yunmeng came back to his senses from his memories and quickly stood up.
Xia Lian smiled happily and reminded, "Madam, Mr. Fang's birthday is in two days."
Whenever Xia Lian thought of Fang Mingfeng, she felt a pang of sadness in her heart: Fang Mingfeng was so good to his wife.
In the past, Prince Kang Chu You forced the emperor to abdicate and rebelled, but was captured in the imperial mausoleum by the retired emperor and his son, the current emperor. Prince Kang was finally sentenced to death by the retired emperor. As for Xiao Fengyuan, Wang Kangyin, Yuan Zhe and other masterminds who rebelled with Prince Kang, they were all sentenced to beheading. The retired emperor was merciful and only sentenced the families of those criminals to exile three thousand miles away.
Li Yun'er was stripped of her title and imperial decree as Princess Kang, but she managed to save her life. On her way to exile in Liaodong, Fang Mingfeng rescued her from the hands of the yamen runners.
For Li Yunyan, Fang Mingfeng gave up his identity as the prince of England and came to the northwest with her incognito.
The two pretended to be a couple in this small town, and in the blink of an eye, eight years had passed.
Fang Mingfeng waited for Li Yunman for eight years and always observed etiquette. Xia Lian tactfully advised Li Yunman many times, hoping that she could forget King Kang and start over... Time is the best medicine to heal wounds. Until recently, Li Yunman finally showed signs of loosening up. This time, she even embroidered a purse for Fang Mingfeng as a birthday gift.
Everything will be fine. Xia Lian thought happily in her heart that when the wife gave birth to a child for Mr. Fang in the future, the past in the capital would be completely over.
Li Yunyan uttered "hmm" softly.
He waited for her for eight years, and it was a long time since he had been with her. Of course, she was touched...
Li Yun'er walked slowly out of the house, with the corners of his lips slightly curved and his eyes bright.
This is a two-story courtyard.
Of course, it cannot be compared with the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion and the Kangwang Mansion in the past, but after living here for eight years, she gradually got used to it.
She has never been a spoiled person.
There are several golden osmanthus trees planted in the courtyard.
At this time, osmanthus flowers are in full bloom, and the air is filled with a rich osmanthus fragrance. The fragrance is so strong that when you walk too close, it makes people feel suffocated.
After passing through the hanging flower gate, Li Yun'an saw Fang Mingfeng standing quietly under a golden osmanthus tree.
He was wearing a half-new sky-blue robe, with deep facial features, slightly rough wheat-colored skin, and fatigue that could not be concealed. He was completely different from the noble and proud Prince of England.
The shadows cast by the treetops above covered his face, making his expression seem somewhat deep.
"Ming Feng."
Li Yunmeng called softly, looking at Fang Mingfeng who was two or three feet away, frowned slightly, and endured the pain in her ankle.
Last night, she accidentally twisted her ankle, and her right ankle is still a little red and swollen.
Fang Mingfeng stared intently at Li Yunmeng who was walking in from the Chuihua Gate, pursed his thin lips, and did not speak for a long time.
His eyes moved from her curved eyebrows, to her long feathery eyelashes, to her shallow dimples, and then to her plump cherry lips. He looked at her without blinking, his pupils as dark as the night.
She is very beautiful.
He has always known this, but now, he feels that the woman in front of him gives him a feeling that is both familiar and unfamiliar.
Fang Mingfeng covered his chest with his hands, his dark eyes darkened.
"Mingfeng, is there anything you want to talk to me about?" Li Yunyan walked towards Fang Mingfeng slowly with a faint smile on her lips.
Fang Mingfeng clenched his hands tightly in his sleeves and said in a hoarse voice: "I received a letter from the capital this morning. My father has changed the crown prince."
As early as eight years ago, from the moment he took Li Yunmeng away, Fang Mingfeng knew that this moment would come sooner or later.
After the Yu family case, his father, Duke of England Fang Huairui, divorced his wife and remarried seven years ago. Now his second son Fang Mingxing is six years old.
Since Fang Huairui changed Fang Mingxing to be the crown prince, it means that he has completely given up on Fang Mingfeng, his eldest son, and there is no room for maneuver.
"Mingfeng," Li Yunyan took two steps closer to Fang Mingfeng, her beautiful face showing a look of guilt, "It's all my fault that you got hurt..."
"I came to see you today," Fang Mingfeng interrupted Li Yun'er's words and said indifferently, "I came to say goodbye to you."
Li Yunmeng: “…”
Li Yunyan was stunned for a moment, and immediately thought of the Duke of Yingguo's decision to change the crown prince, so he said, "Mingfeng, you want to go to the capital..."
However, Fang Mingfeng shook his head, a bitter smile appeared in his heart, and he said bitterly: "How can I have the face to go back to the capital? I plan to go to Jiangnan to start over."
At first, he didn't want Li Yunyan to suffer in the frontier, so he kidnapped her during exile. The mistake had been made, and he couldn't turn back.
Fang Mingfeng walked slowly under the tree with his hands behind his back, then stopped in front of Li Yunyan and said, "Take care of yourself from now on."
The implication of the last five words is obvious.
He has come to say goodbye to Li Yunmeng. Once he leaves this time, he will never come back.
Li Yun'er looked at Fang Mingfeng in disbelief, his pupils dilated, as if something had stabbed his heart hard, and the blood in his body stopped flowing.
She suddenly panicked.
Fang Mingfeng and she had been childhood sweethearts. Over the years, no matter what happened, he had always been by her side. But now he was actually leaving her...
Xia Lian, who was standing next to her, also heard the conversation and asked anxiously, "Master Fang, are you going to leave our girl here alone?"
Li Yun'er opened and closed her mouth several times, but her throat was tight and she couldn't utter a single word. The strong osmanthus fragrance lingering around her nose was suffocating.
At this moment, Li Yun'er's mind was in a mess and her emotions were even more complicated. She herself didn't know whether she was reluctant, shocked, or uneasy.
"Mingfeng." She tried to call his name calmly and wanted to pull his sleeve, but Fang Mingfeng dodged swiftly. He saw all the panic in Li Yun'er's eyes.
Fang Mingfeng looked at the girl in front of him who had grown up with him, and his heart was surprisingly calm.
Once upon a time, whenever he looked at her like this, his heart would beat faster and he would want to hold her in his arms and protect her for the rest of his life. The thought of losing her would make his heart ache.
He loves her, cherishes her like a treasure, and loves her as his life.
But in recent days, he seemed to be waking up little by little from a long dream, and suddenly he had an epiphany.
At this moment, he looked at her and no longer felt any excitement.
He was not willing to admit that he was stupid, but the things he had done over the years were indeed extremely stupid.
Clearly, Li Yunyan had already chosen Prince Kang and married him, but he was still obsessed with her. For her, he even abandoned his family, gave up his position as crown prince, and became alone.
He felt as if he was bewildered by something, and as if he was being manipulated by some force.
His father had advised him many times, using both soft and hard tactics to let him give up Li Yunmeng, saying that Li Yunmeng was restless and selfish, but he was stubborn and kept defending Li Yunmeng, telling his father that he was willing to do everything for Li Yunmeng...
How could he have the face to go back and see his father?
What has he been doing in the past few years?
Fang Mingfeng smiled self-deprecatingly.
He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, there was no emotion in his eyes, like a cold pond, no likes, no dislikes, he just said calmly: "This house is left to you."
"..." Li Yun'er's face turned pale and her whole body felt cold. She wanted to say that she didn't need this house, but she couldn't say it. She knew that she needed a place to live.
After King Kang died, she had nothing. The Li family was not her relatives at all. She only had Fang Mingfeng.
And now, even Fang Mingfeng is going to leave her.
Li Yun'er bit her lower lip so hard that it almost drew blood. Her fingertips began to bleed again, staining the bandage red.
Her life used to be like a blooming peony, the most beautiful among all flowers. But from a certain day on, her life suddenly took a sharp turn for the worse, as if the flowering period had ended prematurely, and now, all that was left was the loneliness after withering.
She lost everything bit by bit...
Xia Lian was so anxious that she was sweating profusely. She knelt down, took two steps on her knees, and said hurriedly: "Master Fang, Madam..."
Xia Lian wanted to tell Fang Mingfeng that Li Yunyan had prepared a birthday gift for him, but was interrupted by Li Yunyan: "Xia Lian!"
Li Yun'er stared at Xia Lian with red eyes, his body tense, signaling her not to say anything more.
There are many women in this world who kneel down and beg in order to keep a man, thinking that their tears can win the man's sympathy, but she can't do that and she doesn't bother to do that.
She is a time traveler just like Emperor Taizu, and she has her pride.
"Take care." After saying these two words, Fang Mingfeng quickly walked past Li Yun'er, pushed open the door of the house, and walked out without looking back.
There was a dazzling sun hanging in the sky, and the sunlight stretched his resolute shadow long.
There was a suffocating silence inside and outside the house.
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This is the last extra chapter.
Li Yunyan is the daughter of destiny. Even if King Kang dies, she will be able to turn danger into safety. Until Chu Yi becomes the new son of destiny, Li Yunyan will no longer have the koi halo, so Fang Mingfeng wakes up~ (End of this chapter)