Isaac glanced through the book; it was about the self-cultivation of a monarch, with the main theme being "absolute reason."
In the author's condescending and lengthy writing, absolute reason is elevated to a pedestal, while emotion is regarded as a stumbling block on the path to the throne of power.
The title of the first chapter is "Making Yourself Unpredictable".
As the absolute and supreme being, the monarch's rule extends not only to his subjects but also to his favorite concubines and offspring.
As monarchs age, those who can profit from their sudden death will not only be ambitious vassals, but also their close family members.
...
The other person's words were too cold, as if they truly viewed emotions as something entirely harmful and without any benefit.
Eight hundred years ago, Isaac also received personal instruction from Empress Catherine the Great, and there were some similarities between them. He became fascinated as he watched.
So much so that when night fell and he returned to his room, he was still carefully reading the words on it.
He was seeing examples of sons killing their fathers, wives killing their husbands, brothers turning against each other, and mothers and sons becoming enemies during the First Dynasty, but at this moment, he saw Yun Wei return.
He suddenly panicked.
Because he hadn't figured out how to face Yun Wei at all.
To be honest, he shouldn't have been in the other person's bedroom at all.
He could feel the other person walking towards him step by step, which made his fingertips tremble involuntarily, and the words on the book swayed under the light.
Oh, he looked closer and saw that it read, "Conceal your true thoughts."
Yun Wei seemed to sit down next to him and poured tea into his teacup.
Has the other party done this before?
It seems not.
So, just by following the book's advice and suppressing his emotions, could he really gain Yun Wei's concern?
Isaac was skeptical.
Immediately afterwards, he heard Yun Wei urging him to go to bed and rest.
Isaac was completely stunned.
While skillfully donning his disguise and putting on a show of compliance, he earnestly pondered the feasibility of putting the book's contents into practice.
But when he looked up at Yun Wei, he suddenly felt utterly pathetic.
Does he really have to resort to such despicable means to confirm Yun Wei's affection for him?
He lowered his head somewhat bewildered.
Yu Guangli watched as his master quietly walked toward the bed.
But what he was really thinking was that Yun Wei was drifting away from him little by little.
For some reason, Isaac felt a sense of panic welling up inside him.
This panic overwhelmed the sum of his previous anxiety and restlessness, like a towering wave crashing against the black sand.
He suddenly felt inexplicably that Yun Wei was not happy.
The room finally became completely quiet.
His master, with his back to him, lay on his side on the bed, like a small cloud.
Isaac then realized that the constant lighting in the room was a bit too bright.
He tried to refocus his attention on the book in his hands, but suddenly found that he could no longer concentrate on the content that he had been enjoying reading.
His fingers, which had been pretending to turn the pages of the book, seemed to weigh a ton, and now he didn't want to make a sound at all.
Isaac stared blankly at Yun Wei's retreating figure.
As a strong and robust soldier, his hearing had always been excellent, and the other person's breathing actually gradually became steady.
Yun Wei actually fell asleep.
Realizing this fact, Isaac couldn't help but feel a little annoyed.
He seems to have missed an opportunity forever.
He gently closed the book in his hand, placed it on the round table beside him, and nervously approached Yun Wei.
He walked the short distance of just a few steps with exceptional clumsiness and caution.
Stealthily, holding one's breath.
He glanced back every few steps, moving with the sway of a fox.
However, before he even reached the bedside, he saw clear tears rolling down Yun Wei's closed eyes.
Crystalline tears slid rapidly down the bridge of the master's nose and silently fell into the pillowcase below.
The tear was so dazzling that Isaac wished it were just his imagination.
Before he could recover from the shock of the scene, he heard Yun Wei muttering something in his sleep.
The other person seemed to be speaking Bili language, which Isaac couldn't quite understand.
He approached Yun Wei more cautiously, and his eyes darkened when he saw the wet streaks on the other's nose.
But then, he heard Yun Wei's murmur in his dream.
In an instant, Isaac felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and even his blood froze completely.
He looked incredulously at his lover who was so close to him, only to hear her say:
"Isa...let's break up."
...
Yun Wei had another nightmare.
He dreamed about many things that happened before he traveled back in time.
The dream was completely illogical and chaotic, even dragging all his classmates from kindergarten to junior high school into one classroom.
The inexplicable escape and killing was also chaotic.
Even though he was aware that it was a dream, he was still exhausted and drowsy, unable to break free from the intertwined edges of the dream.
Then, he was reunited with his father, who had beaten him.
The other person's face was already blurred, leaving only a ferocious concept.
Against a backdrop of overlapping blood and tears, the image of Isaac's angry face from earlier that day suddenly appeared before his eyes.
This caused him, who was still reaching out to block, to suddenly give up resisting.
The next moment, in the other person's silent gaze, the scene quietly shifted again as they fell weightlessly.
They found themselves in a boundless, pitch-black world.
The only light emanating from the other is the faint glow that illuminates this universe.
Isaac was looking at him coldly, his cool and handsome features as resolute as ever, but the deep affection within them was hidden.
The other person's full lips were slowly opening and closing, but Yun Wei couldn't hear a sound.
It seems that in this space without ether, even the medium for sound transmission has disappeared.
Only then did he realize that he was crying.
Through his blurry vision, he tried to decipher Isaac's lip movements, only to find that the other man was announcing to him:
"Yunwei, let's break up."
Yun Wei was struck as if by lightning.
Almost the instant he realized what the other person was saying, his legs were suddenly grabbed by countless thick shadows.
Isaac, who was not far away, merely glanced at him indifferently before turning and walking away.
Yun Wei tried to chase after him, but was tripped by the shadow that stuck to his legs and fell to the ground.
He opened his mouth wide, struggling on the dark ground, screaming desperately, but no sound came out.
As Isaac walked further and further away, the shadows around his legs began to pull him down.
As his body was swallowed by the abyss, his senses slowly faded away.
This feeling was so strange, as if he was no longer a complete version of himself.
In the final moments before he vanished completely, he finally heard his own heart-wrenching sobs—
"Isa, don't break up."
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