The moonlight was dark, and the snow was still falling outside. The cold was getting stronger, and even the starlight seemed particularly sparse.
The heat wave in the hall brushed against Wei Fengyuan's blue knuckles, and snowflakes fell down, leaving dark water marks on the ground. His ink-colored robe had been wet long ago, but when he looked at Shen Jin, there was a burning fire in his eyes.
Too hot.
And caught off guard.
Shen Jin didn't dare to meet his gaze. She was inconvenient and her heart was in turmoil. She hurriedly left the word "casualty" and went to the bathroom, changed her blood-stained pajamas, and used a menstrual belt.
After she had cleaned up properly, she tightened her belt, and the breath she exhaled from her throat was stagnant.
Shen Jin leaned against the door and took a long time to relax. He gradually removed the complicated expression, put on his coat, and sorted out his emotions before walking out.
The man was still standing there, not moving around.
Behind him was a carved window. His figure was tall and straight, blocking most of the moonlight in the room. The whole person seemed to be half melted into the night, both real and illusory.
But Shen Jin knew that this was not a dream.
"Sit down."
Shen Jin first knelt on the futon, the charcoal fire in the copper stove was red, and he held the celadon teapot in his bare hands.
Although Shen Jin lived in the bedroom, it was empty like a temporary stay. The furnishings inside were not as elaborate as the boudoir she had decorated before she got married.
But when he came tonight, the whole palace suddenly became cramped.
Wei Fengyuan took off his sword and placed it on the table, with the scabbard pressing on the scriptures she usually copied.
She caught a glimpse of his movements from the corner of her eye, which were casual but also deliberately intentional. The heat was thick, blurring Shen Jin's lowered brows.
The sound of the tea grinder slowly grinding the new tea was long and fragmented.
"This year's Junshan Silver Needle..."
Shen Jin's voice was very soft. She didn't look at him, and her tone was gentle: "I still use the method you taught me before to store it."
She made tea and poured a cup for Wei Fengyuan.
Wei Fengyuan sat down but didn't drink it. He looked at her steadily.
How many years ago was it when they last met?
That time he went to war.
In the dim morning light, the Wei family army was ready to go. Shen Jin rode to the suburbs without paying attention to etiquette. The pearl hairpins in her hair were scattered in the bumps, and her black hair was messy in the wind.
——"Wei Fengyuan!"
Wei Fengyuan asked the Wei family army to continue on their way, and turned around and drove his horse to see her.
Every time he returned to the city in previous years, he could see Shen Jin at a glance in the huge crowd that greeted him at the city gate.
But every time he went to war, Shen Jin never saw him off. She was always like this and didn't like to leave.
At the moment when the two horses crossed, he suddenly let go of the stirrup, leaped neatly, and stepped over the saddle with his iron boots. He landed steadily behind her. The iron arm wrapped around the slender waist and pulled her into his arms.
Her back hit his breastplate, and the cold metal stuck to her thin clothes. Shen Jin couldn't help but tremble slightly, but his iron arm held her waist tightly.
And his warhorse was particularly smart, following behind him with a clatter.
- "Is there anything you want to order? Do you have to catch up with me?"
Wei Fengyuan asked the horse to slow down and go to the pavilion on the right.
As he said that, he smiled.
Shen Jin was a little unnatural.
- "What are you laughing at?"
- "I'm sighing. It's really different after being given a status, and the treatment has increased."
Shen Jin was a little embarrassed.
But she also admitted this.
She was really reluctant to leave.
"I asked for a talisman for you."
"Next time you come back, you must tell me that you are fine and not injured again."
"Out there, swords and knives have no eyes, you must take good care of yourself."
She warned carefully.
He also listened quietly.
Until -
Shen Jin tilted his head slightly, with an earnest look.
——"Wait for you to come back, and we'll get married."
Wei Fengyuan had this intention.
If it weren't for the fact that time was too tight and the emperor was urging him to go to the border. He was afraid of letting her down, so he wanted to just get the two of them together this time.
Wei Fengyuan held her face and put his lips on hers. His movements were hasty, but he had no experience, so he could only suck on her soft lips.
Shen Jin was embarrassed and annoyed when she heard him say.
——"I've asked the shop in Jiangnan to keep an eye out for a few pieces of bright red brocade. The South Pearl I gave you the other day shouldn't be too heavy to adorn your shawl."
But...
Things don't always go as planned.
He is still at the border.
However, Shen Jin was forcefully sent to the palace by the Shen family without any warning.
Who would have thought that after that farewell, they would meet again now?
She has changed a lot. She
is no longer the girl who would smile and joke when they met before. She is filled with the loneliness of being trapped in the cold palace deep in the palace.
Tea is Wei Fengyuan's favorite tea.
But the fragrance of the tea is a little more bitter than in his memory.
Wei Fengyuan felt suffocated in his chest: "I returned half a month ago."
Shen Jin: "I know."
Wei Fengyuan: "Although this border battle is dangerous, I have your amulet to protect me, so I have no injuries."
Shen Jin paused slightly.
She slowly raised her eyes and met Wei Fengyuan's eyes.
"I know."
His voice became hoarse: "I miss you deeply."
"I... also know."
"Then do you know why I came here today?"
After a long while, Shen Jin stopped talking.
But Wei Fengyuan didn't let her dodge. He looked at her straight in the eyes: "With your intelligence, you should have known."
"I should have come earlier after returning to Beijing, but there were too many things to deal with, so I couldn't get away."
"Ajin."
"Give me some more time."
"After I have dealt with everything properly, I will definitely take you out of this cage."
Shen Jin's fingertips turned white, and her steady breathing became disordered.
She said word by word in a hoarse voice: "Are you crazy?"
Without waiting for Wei Fengxing to say anything else. There were also waves under her calm face.
"You are a child of the Wei family, and you have too many concerns."
"So many years have passed, and I have lived a good life in the palace."
"Although you have been in the smoke of war for many years, you have your own abilities, and you are also wise to protect yourself."
"If you marry a new wife, your family will be happy in the future..."
Wei Fengyuan has not married for all these years. Isn't this a thorn in Shen Jin's heart?
She doesn't want him to be like this.
At the beginning, the incident happened suddenly, and she wanted to send someone to Shunguo Mansion to deliver a message but didn't have time.
Speaking of which...
even if she was forced and had no way out, she was ultimately the one who let him down.
"Wei Fengyuan."
Shen Jin stared at him intently: "The wedding dress has long faded."
"A person like you should be worthy of the best girl in the world. Why do you still care about me, an old married woman? "
"You should live a good life for me."
Wei Fengyuan closed his eyes heavily: "Are you living well?"
"You are like this, and you tell me that you are living well?"
Wei Fengyuan stood up suddenly: "I didn't come here all these years, not because you avoided me, but because I didn't dare to come."
"What do you mean I have too many concerns and have to bear the rise and fall of the Shunguo Mansion? It's all nonsense! In the final analysis... I can't even protect my lover. Even if the late emperor was powerful, wasn't it my incompetence?"
Shen Jin heard him say.
"I have no face to see you."
Shen Jin turned his face away, and a tear rolled down without warning.
No face?
She... wasn't she.
Wei Fengyuan walked over and carefully wiped away her tears with his calloused fingertips.
"How can you be so cruel and let me find another wife?"
Wei Fengyuan said hoarsely: "You don't want me anymore?"
(End of this chapter)
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