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Later, to avoid marriage, Lu Cangyue stayed inside Yunsheng Hall all day, playing hide-and-seek with the Luqi Prince's army. Si Tan, a serious-minded man from childhood whose smile always curved the same way, was corrupted by Lu Cangyue. The same words the headmaster used to scold Hui and Wu were now directed at Si Tan.
Si Tan was unhappy and locked himself in his room, refusing to see Lu Cang Yue. Lu Cang Yue knocked on the door for five consecutive days. Hui Ji Wu was right beside him and said, "Come play with me. Let's go horseback riding in the back mountains together."
Hui and Wu still don't understand that Lu Cangyue likes Si Tan as a person, not riding a horse.
"I was the one who met you first, why don't you play with me anymore?"
Hui and Wu were jealous of their brother for one more thing.
"I'm leaving!" Lu Cangyue was fine with being rejected once or twice, but five or ten times was absolutely unacceptable. Besides, as the Si Tan, Hui Jiqing couldn't possibly be with her. So what if she liked him? Fortunately, she hadn't said that she liked him yet. "Tell your brother that I'm going back to marry Tao Shangshi. He calculated the marriage for me, and if I'm not happy, he'll come to settle the score. Don't hide then."
In reality, the person who calculated this hexagram was Si Tan. This hexagram wasn't a divine will. It was a tactic used by the Luqishan prince to silence Youyou, hoping to marry into the Tao family for his own benefit. Si Tan was merely an implementer, fueling the flames.
This time he decided to leave, and Hean transformed directly into a human form.
Lu Cangyue stayed in Yunsheng Hall for two whole months, from the time she kicked the mountain gate until the day she decided to leave. During this time, when she was alone, she would often sit beside the two house-guarding beasts, talking to herself or gazing at the stars, waiting for Hui Jiqing to be free from his lessons.
"I think I'll just call you Shuixi," Lu Cangyue said with ill intention, because the house-guarding beast had just mocked her for wanting to defy fate.
"Why is it called Shuixi?"
"Shuixi is a bandit from the other side of the river. He's the one the Luqi Mountain People hate the most, just like you." Lu Cangyue hugged the other guardian beast that hadn't yet awakened. "Let's call this one He'an. He has a good heart."
That day, Lu Cangyue decided to leave Yunsheng Hall, and even the head of the sect tried to persuade her to stay. The news of Lu Cangyue's hiding in Yunsheng Hall spread throughout Luqi Mountain. The reason she was able to stay there so peacefully for so long was because no one had the time to bother her.
Lu Cangyue pushed away the boy guarding the gate, opened the heavy mountain gate, and saw a fairy-like person born from the sunset, and fell into her eyes.
Green mountains and clear waters are worthy of his dazzling beauty.
"Miss Yue, please don't leave. Not only me, but Si Tan also doesn't want you to leave."
"Who are you?"
"kind."
Lu Cangyue turned around and saw that the eyes of the always silent stone statue of the guardian beast were the same as the eyes of the person in front of him, golden and sparkling.
In reality, she was not allowed to leave because of the dramatic political changes at the foot of the mountain. The crimes of the Luqishan princes were exposed, their property was confiscated and they were beheaded. Their relatives and friends all defected.
I thought that with their protection, Lu Cangyue could at least live a peaceful life.
But the house-guarding beast cannot defy human will. A year has passed since the incident at the Luqi Wanghou family, and the youngest daughter of the Lu family, who could never be found, has been pardoned. However, things in the world are unpredictable.
That day was the succession ceremony for Si Tan. Everyone, including the person in power at the time, was watching this performance between heaven and man from the audience. Only Lu Cangyue was sitting on the roof.
The young girl lamented her love affair. Those in power saw the freedom she embodied, or in other words, the blasphemy against supreme authority. Thus, the youngest daughter of the Deer Rider family, freed from misfortune, suddenly became a demon, condemned by all.
In the past, he was the ruler of the world and wanted to kill her for the sake of the people. Now he is a commoner and wants to kill a witch for his own sake.
All women in the world obey their fathers and husbands, so why is it that only the daughter of the Luqishan royal family is arrogant and domineering like a prince?
Hui Jiqing was unwilling to succeed to the throne. However, this was a seed that his father had planted in his heart since birth. For the sake of his family, for the Hui family to hold on to this position for generations to come, only then could all living beings be spared from suffering.
His encounter with Lu Cangyue had shaken him, but he dared not voice it. During the ceremony that day, as he bowed to the heavens, he looked at Lu Cangyue, his clear eyes already tainted by his inner passion. He saw the expression on the new prince's face in the main seat and knew that Lu Cangyue was in dire straits.
It was He Ai who created the Sky Crack, interrupting the succession ceremony. Si Tan was unwilling to see Cang Yue marry another man, but he dared not resist. He Ai paved a way for him.
Thinking about it now, even after more than four thousand years, Shuixi still didn't have the courage to do what He'ai had done, to follow the path He'ai had chosen. He didn't understand why He'ai, a leader in his master's eyes, would be cast as a rebel.
When he wanted to follow suit later, he could only follow Hui and Wu and completely betray his mission.
This "later" refers to the time before Lu Cangyue appeared beside Hui Zifeng. For so many years, he had never dared to admit that he was wrong and that being kind was right.
Later, he had many opportunities to stand with He Ai, but he didn't.
"What I want to tell you is that Huijiqing is dead."
After Si Tan's death, Shui Xi was finally able to escape from the stone statue and transform into a human form. He followed the last remaining heir of the Hui family and traveled around, sometimes for the family business, sometimes for fun.
That day, they were hunting on Luqi Mountain when they suddenly heard someone shouting behind them. Shuixi didn't expect that he would be slower than a human and failed to realize that it was Lu Cangyue at the first time.
If he had discovered it earlier than Huiji Wu, he might have told Lu Zangyue that the person was not her Huiji Qing.
Lu Cangyue and Si Tan were burned at the stake, but only one person's ashes remained. They concealed the secret, letting a heavy rain wash away the evidence. Only Si Tan died, and Lu Cangyue disappeared. They never thought she would return. They never imagined she believed Si Tan was still alive.
"Boss Hui!" Lu Zangyue shouted.
When Hui Ji Wu saw it was her, he said nothing but rode up to meet her. Recklessly jumping off his horse onto the cliff, he climbed up and hugged Lu Cang Yue tightly. Perhaps Lu Cang Yue thought that no one in the world would be so disrespectful except Hui Ji Qing, who loved her.
Hui Jiqing called her "Little Deer" and she called him "Brother Hui". These were nicknames between them.
In the eyes of the living, the person who died with this witch was Hui Ji Wu, and the person who killed his own family for the sake of peace was Hui Ji Qing.
In the lie that Hui Jiwu made up for Lu Cangyue, Hui Jiqing did not die in the execution, nor did he become ambitious and collude with many bandits. He was still a gentle young man in Yunsheng Palace who liked reading and writing and lived in peace with the world.
Shuixi returned to the scene, watching the two men walking in front of him clinging to each other. His first thought was, "How could Lu Cangyue, that fool, not even be able to tell these two brothers apart? Does this count as betrayal? "Dead Si Tan, what would you have thought if you had seen this?"
He knew it was wrong. If he had told Lu Cangyue the truth, the things that happened later wouldn't have happened. But he didn't say it.
When Lu Cangyue waited alone in the courtyard for her husband's return after more than three months, she finally lost control of her temper. However, she did not take any extreme measures. Instead, she went to Shuixi and asked him pitifully, "Why did Ji Qing lock me up here?"
Hui and Wu sent people to guard the gate and not let her go out. She was not informed of this, but how could she not notice it?
Six months have passed since these two people met, recognized each other, got married, called each other husband and wife, lived together, and then separated in different places. This is the first time that Lu Zangyue has spoken to Shuixi.
Shuixi could see that Lu Cangyue was a little afraid of him. She knew that everyone in the courtyard obeyed his orders, so she had to ask him.
How wonderful it would be to live like this! Lu Cangyue was by his side, and He'ai would always come back. The three of them still had a place to live, and they could live there forever. If he told her that the person wasn't Hui Jiqing, but Hui Jiwu, Lu Cangyue would leave, and He'ai would leave too.
He had thought so before, and now that he was going back to the past, he still couldn't help but think so.
"Stay here quietly," he said. "It's not peaceful out there."
Why is it not peaceful? Because Tao Shangshi discovered the secret that Lu Cangyue was still alive and began to force a marriage.
Tao Shangshi forced Lu Cangyue into marriage for the first time and sent her to Yunsheng Palace. The second time he forced her into marriage, he sent Lu Cangyue to the execution ground and killed Hui Jiqing. The third time he forced Hui Jiwu into marriage, he forced Hui Jiwu to shoot an arrow to death in front of many people, forcing Hui Jiwu to seize the throne of the world.
In order to fight for a chance to survive, Shuixi followed Hui Jiwu on a dirty road stained with blood.
But they gradually forgot their original purpose. Lu Cangyue seemed like an excuse for them to start a grand enterprise. Their true ambitions had already taken root somewhere, and they only needed Lu Cangyue as an excuse to forget the education, or rather the constraints, they had received since childhood.
Hui and Qing massacred the entire city.
Lu Cangyue, who was dressed as a soldier, showed confusion in his eyes, "You are not Huijiqing, you should be his younger brother, right?"
Huijiwu offered no explanation, but ordered Shuixi to take her home and keep her under strict watch. Her area of activity shrank from the mansion to a small courtyard, and finally, only her room remained. Even the windows were sealed shut, and the door was locked with three large locks, with three people keeping the keys.
The unrequited love of my youth has now turned into an unbreakable obsession. Even if I get it, it can't fill the hole left in my heart when I was young.
Huiji and Wu were like this, and Shuixi was also like this.
Hui Ji Wu's jealousy of his brother is greater than his love for Zang Yue. Hui Ji Qing would die for his lover, but Hui Ji Wu would not.
Shuixi is jealous of He'ai's superior talent and his love for Cangyue, and now he enjoys controlling and torturing Cangyue. He loves to see He'ai's miserable appearance when he comes to rescue his master but returns in defeat.
"Who are you? Who is Cang Yue? Can you compare with the peace of the world?"
He said this back then, and now, back at this moment, he still said the same thing. Shuixi slapped himself fiercely, and He'er was stunned.
What was Lu Cangyue, anyway? Even if he let her go, it wouldn't change the world situation; it would only cause Huiji Wu and himself pain. Unwilling to keep the pain to himself, he inflicted it on Lu Cangyue. She had no way to resist anyway.
The two of them actually have the same selfish desires, which is why they are tightly bound together.
"Ming Yan!"
A gentle voice pierced Shuixi's mind, and the words "Ming Yan" (Ming Yan) pierced his head. He suddenly couldn't remember the identity of this person, etched deep within his heart. His stone body also began to stir with desire, his eyes begging for the owner of those two words to approach him and embrace him.
He suddenly remembered their first kiss. Before that, they were not from the same world. At that moment, he suddenly understood that he had no master. He could do whatever he wanted. He could make anyone he liked his master and stay by that person's side forever.
"Ming Yan!"
With a gentle voice, the person who answered slowly appeared in Shuixi's sight.
The man did not change his usual arrogant expression, looking up at Shuixi with a condescending attitude.
Tao Shangshi, who should have died from an arrow piercing his throat, has now become Hui Jiwu's guest of honor, and Shuixi has no choice but to make tea and pour water for him.
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