"I never ask you to pamper me, love me, or care about me. I just hope that when you miss her, you can look back at me, even just once, and I will be satisfied."
——Yu Qinglan
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"Okay, I'll go with you then."
Helan Ruizhe said this, and there was countless light in his eyes when he looked at Jin Suting.
Perhaps this is what it means to like someone. The simplicity and kindness in her are something that Helan Ruizhe, who grew up in the royal family and the deep palace full of intrigue, does not have.
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Helan Yinsheng has recently fallen in love with drinking. Maybe he loved it from the beginning, but he has been doing it more frequently recently.
"Solved?"
He held the wine glass and looked at the shaking wine with a dazed look.
Zhan Shaoang came out from the darkness and said to him with his head down: "The man is dead, no one is left alive."
Helan Yinsheng burped and smiled, "Got it, go down."
He was the one who sent Fu Wan to the General's Mansion to pretend to be an old general. As for why he didn't use people from Mu Han Pavilion, Han Shuangye had been suppressing the manpower of Funing City in the past few days, saying that his goal had been achieved and there was no need to use the people who were ambushing in Funing City.
If they expose one person here, their chances of winning will be reduced.
Helan Yinsheng's hair was disheveled and the gloom in his eyes was very scary. This morning, the Queen Mother specially summoned him alone and talked to him about Yu Qinglan's wedding date.
He didn't remember his aunt being so nosy. She had never worried about his marriage in the past few years. Why was she so anxious when his partner changed to Yu Qinglan?
He also wanted to marry Yu Qinglan as soon as possible. After all, winning over Grand Tutor Yu was a huge, time-consuming and laborious task.
But when the Queen Mother said this to him, the rebellious psychology that had not appeared for many years began to take hold again.
The old general has not yet been completely controlled by him, and everything is not peaceful. Helan Yinsheng feels more and more powerless. He also gets confused when he drinks too much. He wonders if his decision to let go of Jin Suting for the sake of the greater cause was a mistake.
Yu Qinglan watched secretly from a distance and didn't dare to get close. There was fear and sadness in her eyes. She was afraid to see Helan Yinsheng so fallen. She was not afraid of being hurt, but she was afraid that he would always be sad and she didn't know how to comfort him.
Tonight is destined to be uneasy. In addition to the general's mansion and the prince's mansion, there is also the imperial palace.
In Changding Palace, someone couldn't sleep.
Si Shuo didn't recognize his bed and slept soundly, but the person sleeping on the big bed in the main hall didn't know whether it was because he had eaten too much or because of the fear in his heart.
Shi Qingmiao couldn't sleep. She tossed and turned in the big bed, always feeling that someone was staring at her.
The lights in the palace had gone out, and her eyes gradually adapted to the darkness and she was able to see some things clearly. After Xiao Si was rescued from the imperial garden, he slept in a small nest temporarily built in the main hall.
She looked at Xiao Si's nest, her eyes blinking, and suddenly she remembered her childhood, although she had almost forgotten it, and even had no memories outside the palace in her mind. It seemed as if she had lived in such a golden-red palace surrounded by walls since she was born.
She remembered that when she was a child, she seemed to have stayed in such a dim environment. The surroundings were very small and narrow, and she was put inside, just like Xiao Si's nest now.
That feeling was very uncomfortable, and she was trying to find a way out. Although she couldn't remember it, the fragmented memories made her even more uncomfortable.
Suddenly, she heard a very regular sound of knocking on the wall, "dong-dong-dong". Perhaps it was not knocking on the wall, but more like hitting a hard object.
Her senses suddenly became sensitive. She looked around. It was all dark. Only a breeze blew in, lifting the curtains. It was cool, but very eerie, which made her spine shiver.
Shi Qingmiao tightened the quilt tightly and silently repeated to herself, "There are no ghosts, no ghosts, no ghosts," to remind herself not to be afraid.
But the more she said this, the more her mind uncontrollably went in the opposite direction, and the ghost stories her old lady had told her when she was a child slowly and uncontrollably emerged in her mind.
She forced herself to close her eyes, as if trying to cover her ears and steal the bell, thinking that she would not be afraid if she fell asleep.
But the reality was, she just couldn't fall asleep.
The strange sound of "Boom, boom, boom" became louder and louder. She tried to cover her ears but it was of no use. Instead, her head was filled with this sound.
After a while, the sound finally stopped. She couldn't stand it anymore, so she threw off the quilt and ran out of the main hall, but she saw a shadow in white clothes flash by at the door!
This was the female ghost the old maids were talking about! Shi Qingmiao screamed in physical discomfort and subconsciously ran to the nearest side hall.
Si Shuo was woken up by the shouting. He was a bad-tempered person and could not fall asleep again once he was woken up, so he hated being disturbed when sleeping the most in his life.
He got up impatiently, but before he could put on his coat, Shi Qingmiao broke in.
In the moonlight, her disheveled hair, disheveled clothes, and frightened expression really scared Si Shuo.
"How did you..."
Before he could finish his words, Shi Qingmiao rushed to Si Shuo's bed and covered herself with the quilt.
Si Shuo scratched his hair irritably and lit a lamp beside the bed, only then could he see Shi Qingmiao shivering in the quilt.
Why is this little girl so timid that she doesn’t dare to sleep alone in a big house?
"What’s wrong with you?"
Shi Qingmiao's shoulders trembled constantly, and she hid under the quilt, not daring to show her head. "Yes, there is a ghost..."
"I'm the only one here." Si Shuo shrugged with tired eyes. If Shi Qingmiao wasn't pretty and a girl, he would really kick her out.
Shi Qingmiao stopped shaking. She poked her eyes out from under the quilt and looked outside cautiously. Sure enough, she only saw Si Shuo and a lamp that had just been lit.
Then he realized that he had impulsively crawled into someone else's bed out of fear, and he was about to get up embarrassedly: "Yes, I'm sorry."
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