Chapter 113 [VIP] Shadow Guardian (Extra)
Ye Qiuchen was in a good mood today. He was holding a bag of medicine in his right hand and a live fish he had just bought from the market in the other hand. It was really a coincidence this time.
When old man Li, a fishmonger, saw him, he smiled particularly warmly. He greeted him as he walked along the street and asked him why he hadn't been to the market recently. He said that the sound of him arguing with others was missing on the street and he was not used to it. Those women were too arrogant and only this boy could control them.
Ye Qiuchen smiled and told Old Li that someone in the family was sick and couldn't leave recently. When Old Li heard this, he was very righteous and picked out the biggest and fattest live fish for him. Then he smiled and said that it was not good for Madam Ye to be sick. This fish was sold at a low price. Take it back quickly to nourish Madam Ye.
When Ye Qiuchen heard what Old Li said, he couldn't help but smile. He also thought that her appetite was not very good during the past few days when she was sick, so he had to make some delicious food for her to replenish her body. Seeing that her chin had become thinner, he didn't hesitate and immediately took out a handful of copper coins from his pocket and handed it to her.
Before leaving, he said hello to the man and told him that he would come again tomorrow and remember to leave him another fresh product. Mr. Li raised his head, counted the copper money in his hand, and agreed happily.
Ye Qiuchen also carried the fish home excitedly. All the way, he was thinking happily that he could use the fish to make fish soup for her to nourish her body.
He also thought about how she was about to vomit from taking so much medicine recently. Every time she saw the bowl of brown medicine, she would frown and glare at him. She wanted to refuse but couldn't. In the end, she could only close her eyes and drink the medicine obediently with a look of fearless fear.
Every time Ye Qiuchen saw her drinking medicine, he thought she was very obedient. The more he watched, the softer his heart became, and he couldn't help but want to feed her something more.
He thought to himself, and couldn't help but smile softly. Really... How could there be such a lovely master? I can't get enough of him.
Ye Qiuchen quickened his pace. The live fish on the rope was still jumping around trying to escape. Before he even reached the door, he couldn't help but shout inside.
"Yanyan, I bought some fish today. I can make you some fish soup tonight to change the taste."
Ye Qiuchen pushed open the gate and didn't hear anyone respond from inside. He felt a little surprised and thought she was resting in the room.
But when he opened the door, he found the room was empty. There was no one in the room. The bedding was neatly folded there, just as it was when he left in the morning. Nothing had been moved, but the person in the room was gone.
Ye Qiuchen was a little anxious for a moment, thinking that she had gone to do something out of depression, and almost subconsciously went out of the door to look for her, but when he rushed into the yard, he saw a plain white note on the stone table, which said that she and Seventeen were going to attend the City God Temple Fair tonight, so he didn't need to worry.
After Ye Qiuchen saw it clearly, he was stunned for a moment. His eyes fell quietly on the note. He was silent for a long time before he sat down on the stool in a daze.
Ye Qiuchen felt an emptiness in his chest for a moment. Even his breath was chilly and chilly. Is she really going to leave this time...?
They had clearly agreed to let go, but for some reason, when he saw her really follow Ying Shiqi away without hesitation, he still felt an uncontrollable depression in his heart.
My heart felt like it was pricked by a needle. It started with a slight sting, but eventually the tingling pain spread and became more intense.
He didn't know whether she would come back or not. Just a few days ago, this courtyard seemed warm and touching because of her presence. But now, he was the only one left in the empty courtyard. It seemed so lonely everywhere.
He even thought, why did she leave so quickly? She hadn't even finished taking the medicine yet. He wouldn't cling to her and wouldn't let go. Besides, there was the fish he had just bought home, which cost him more than ten copper coins. He had originally thought of giving it to her to nourish her body, but now, wouldn't it be a waste if he didn't eat it?
Can't you just... drink the fish soup before leaving?
It was such a pity to waste his good craftsmanship. She was still thinking about it two days ago. Ye Qiuchen suddenly felt so sad. Her eyes felt a little sore, as if something was about to overflow.
Ye Qiuchen was immersed in his own thoughts and did not hear the sound of the door being pushed open for a while. When he heard the slight sound and turned around, he thought he was hallucinating, otherwise how could he see her standing at the door looking at him?
She smiled at him...
Liar, fake! He was hallucinating again.
Ye Qiuchen's eyes were filled with mist, and he looked over with a mocking look. His eyes suddenly became resentful, and he didn't know whether he was blaming her or mocking himself. "What are you doing back again? Didn't you leave Ying Shiqi?"
He stared at the figure without blinking, and suddenly he felt like crying.
Especially seeing her pale face, saying such cruel and unforgiving words, but unable to help showing hope in her eyes,
"I'm telling you, I just bought a particularly plump fish today. I won't let you drink any of the fish soup I'll make later. I'll feed you to death!"
After hearing this, Nan Yan couldn't help but curl up the corners of her mouth, revealing a faint smile.
Her face turned pale and her brows were slightly furrowed. She took a few steps forward, but this time she really couldn't hold on any longer. She stumbled and fell straight to the ground.
Ye Qiuchen was stunned by this sudden change.
He originally thought that he was too sad and had hallucinations, but until he saw her walking towards him, he realized that the person in front of him was not fake, she really appeared in front of him, and she did not leave...
Ye Qiuchen couldn't tell what he felt for a moment. He was nervous and excited at the same time. Especially when he saw her fall, his body reacted almost subconsciously. He rushed forward and cushioned under her, then held her in his arms with his backhand.
Then his back was slammed into the gravel on the ground. Ye Qiu groaned in pain and his expression was distorted.
He held the person tightly in his arms, like a drowning man grabbing his last straw, but he was still unwilling to give up. He deliberately put on a stern face and muttered, "Why are you running around when you haven't recovered yet? I wonder if anyone will worry about you? You can't even walk steadily. What will you do if I'm not by your side to watch over you in the future?"
Ye Qiuchen had just finished speaking when he looked down and saw the bright red blood spilling from the corner of her mouth. His expression changed instantly.
"Yanyan, what's wrong with you? Where are you injured?"
He hurriedly grabbed her wrist hanging by her side, his hands shaking with nervousness. He originally wanted to feel her pulse, but when he saw the gauze wrapped around her wrist and the bloodstains on her clothes, he became panicked. "What happened to your hand? Why did you get yourself into this state again? Did you do this on purpose? Did you do it on purpose to make me feel so heartbroken?"
He staggered to stand up, but lost his balance and fell to the ground again. Fortunately, the person in his arms was kept safe by him.
Nan Yan reached out and touched his face. Only then did Ye Qiuchen see that her fingers were covered in blood. It was warm and sticky when pressed against his face. Then he heard her hoarse voice saying,
"I... gave him the life-saving dragon, so I accidentally... ended up like this..."
Ye Qiuchen's expression froze after hearing this. His mind was confused for a moment and he couldn't react to what she said. But when he remembered what she meant by the life-sustaining dragon...
The whole person was completely stunned.
"Impossible, impossible..."
How could she just give away something so deadly?
Ye Qiuchen tightly grasped her hand. At this moment, he was so worried that his heart almost stopped.
"You lied to me, you lied to me..."
Ye Qiuchen looked at her wound with trembling hands and feet. When he saw that the plum blossom mark of the insect had completely disappeared, the expression on his face became distorted due to excessive tension.
Then he lost control of himself, tears streaming down his face like crazy. "Are you crazy?"
"How come you can give him everything?"
"Don't you know that will cost you your life? How could you…"
Nan Yan raised her hand weakly, curled her fingers slightly, and then gently wiped the tears from his cheeks, "Because his sweetheart is sick, after all, I owe him..."
Her voice was intermittent and getting weaker and weaker. "If... I hadn't been so selfish and let him elope with me, he wouldn't have encountered so many things. Now... he has someone he likes... This is also good."
As she spoke, blood flowed out of her mouth again. She leaned her head gently on his chest, tears rolled down her nose, and her weak voice was a little hoarse and apologetic. "It's just... the only person I feel sorry for... is you. In fact, I really wanted to live this kind of ordinary life with you..."
She looked at him, a hint of hope in her tear-stained eyes, "Do you blame me? Blame me... for breaking my promises time and again, and then..."
"No, I don't blame you!" Ye Qiuchen trembled, and almost subconsciously grabbed her hand, and then pressed it tightly against his face, "I have never blamed you, never, you never need to apologize to me, everything is my own will..."
His tears seemed to have broken off the string, and he hugged her tighter, "It's me, I'm so sorry for you, I was the one who was causing trouble from the beginning to the end, I'm the one who hurt you."
Seeing the blood flowing out of her mouth, Ye Qiuchen felt as if a big hole had been broken in his heart. He was terrified and said, "You won't die. I'll find someone to save you. I'll find someone to save you now..."
"Please stop talking, okay? Save your strength. I will take you to see a doctor now. I will take you to see Ying Shiqi. I will help you teach him a lesson and let him marry you. From now on, I will never force you again. You can do whatever you want..."
"Please, don't die... okay?"
Nan Yan buried her head in his chest and coughed a few times.
In fact, she could not hear clearly what Ye Qiuchen said later, because this body had been supporting itself to its limit since the moment the medicine parasite was taken out.
Nan Yan felt the hot tears on her face, slowly raised her hand, gently touched his eyebrows, her eyes were hazy, drifting farther and farther, "I'm sorry...Ye Qiuchen."
She slowly closed her eyes and murmured, "In the next life... I will compensate you again, okay? In the next life, you find me earlier, and then I will fall in love with you first..."
She didn't even finish the word "you". The hand that was lightly touching his cheek suddenly lost its strength and slid softly from the air.
At this moment, Ye Qiuchen seemed to be on the verge of collapse.
He hurriedly grabbed her pale fingertips and pressed them against his cheek, tears pouring out of his eyes. "No! I don't want the next life, I don't want the next life! Who can say for sure what will happen in the next life? Is this life okay? I want you to compensate me in this life. Get up, Yanyan, I beg you... Please get up, get up and listen to my apology..."
"I haven't said sorry to you yet. Everything is because of me. I'm too selfish. I've caused you two to be unable to be together. It's my fault. Why don't you just stand up and scold me?"
"Get up, Yanyan..."
Ye Qiu's eyes were filled with tears and his heart ached so much that he felt like he was suffocating. However, no matter how he called out, the person in his arms remained motionless, as quiet as if he was asleep.
At this moment, he seemed to hear the sound of the sky collapsing and the earth splitting. He didn’t understand, he really didn’t understand?
Why? Why was he fine when he left in the morning, and became like this in a blink of an eye?
You must be lying to him, you must be lying to him...
He is the one who should be damned.
It's all his fault, he's too selfish...
He selfishly thought that he could win her favor by breaking them up. Obviously, they could live happily together for the rest of their lives, but it was because of him that things turned out like this.
…
Ye Qiu sat on the ground in a daze.
He didn't know how long he sat there, until the next morning, until his tears dried up, until the person in his arms completely lost his warmth, and then he heard heavy footsteps coming from the door.
Someone pushed the door open with difficulty...
He looked up and saw the miserable Ying Shiqi.
His face was covered in blood and dirt, his tears mixed with mud, and he stumbled out from the door.
"Yanyan, I'm here to see you..."
“…I remember everything now.”
He staggered to his knees, then struggled to crawl to her side and carefully held her already cold and stiff fingers.
Ye Qiuchen didn't know what he had been through, but at this moment, the emotions accumulated in his heart seemed to have finally reached their peak.
His eyes were filled with murderous intent, as if he could no longer hold back. He turned around, pulled out the long sword from under the stone table, and stabbed the opponent's shoulder with force, "Why didn't you die? Why did you come back alive!"
He shouted loudly, his eyes red, "Do you know that we are going to start over? She has already promised to give me a chance, why do you want to come back alive? You can live, why do you want to hurt her..."
The long sword pierced Seventeen's shoulder with great force, but the man opposite him didn't care at all.
As if she didn't feel the pain, her body just paused for a moment, her hands still tightly holding the person in her arms, her chin rubbing against her forehead affectionately, muttering,
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
He touched her face carefully, tears streaming down his face, "It's my fault, I'm too stupid, I made you suffer so much, Yanyan, can you please stand up and punish me?"
"How could I be so stupid? How could I not think of you at the first moment? Yanyan, come on and hit me. You can punish me in any way you want. I know I was wrong. I remember everything. I am your Seventeen, not Shiqi or the prince. I am your shadow guard..."
He repeated it over and over again like a madman, but the person in his arms had already lost consciousness.
Ye Qiuchen's fingers trembled slightly, and the sword seemed unable to stab any further. In fact, he was the one who deserved to die the most.
He pulled hard and the sword came out, with a trickle of blood splashing out. At this moment, Ye Qiuchen felt as if all the strength in his body had been drained away.
Obviously...he was the one who caused all this.
He is the one who deserves to die the most!
Seventeen, who was kneeling on the ground, swayed a bit. He held the sleeping person tightly in his arms, stood up with his weak legs, then pursed his lips and coaxed softly, "Yanyan, can I take you home? Back to our own home..."
He coaxed her as if no one was around, completely immersed in his own thoughts, "Didn't you say that we could get married as long as we bought candles and red ribbons? I actually bought them that day. I also bought a very beautiful hairpin. The stall owner told me that you have to give these to your wife when you coax her. Can I put it on you later?"
"I want to eat the locust flower cake you made. Can you make it for me when we get home? If it's too much trouble for you, I can make it for you..."
"I have learned a lot in the Film and Television Building. I can make you a lot of delicious food. If you are tired, take a nap first. I will wake you up when we get home."
As he spoke, his voice became softer and softer, and his movements became gentler and gentler, as if he was afraid of waking up the sleeping person in his arms. Then he carefully picked her up and walked towards the door.
…
Zhao Shiqi disappeared. The day before he disappeared, he returned to the Prince of Pingnan's Mansion and calmly handed the medicinal dragon to the servants of the palace. Afterwards, he told the princess that he had completely recovered his memory.
He is not Zhao Shiqi, the prince of Pingnan Palace. He is Seventeen, a shadow guard in the shadow guard building of Qixia Villa. Most importantly, he told the princess that he had actually married a wife and would no longer stay in the palace. He would leave here with his wife and live the life he wanted.
The princess and her husband were surprised. They had not expected that the first thing the child would do after recovering his memory was to leave the palace. Although they were extremely reluctant, seeing the child's unprecedented firm and resolute attitude, the prince and his wife had no choice but to let go. They owed the child too much, and they could not ignore his wishes and oppose anything he wanted to do. They once wanted to pair the child with Yuyan, but now they could only give up. They just didn't know which girl the child would marry and what kind of person she was like.
Seventeen did not reveal much about this, but when talking about marriage, he curled his lips and said that he was marrying the best girl in the world.
…
From then on, there was completely no news about Ying Shiqi, as if there had never been a person named Ying Shiqi in this world.
In the following years, no one knew where he had gone, not even the royal palace could find any trace of him.
Ye Qiuchen had been to the small village where they had lived in seclusion before, and he stayed outside the yard for a long time.
Later I heard the nearby villagers talking after dinner that this small courtyard had not been inhabited for a long time. Three years ago, a young man brought his wife here to live in seclusion, but the wife was in poor health and had not been seen for many years.
It was not until later that the villagers realized that the woman’s health problems and inability to see people were all fake. The woman had actually died a long time ago, apparently from an illness, but the man was so heartbroken that he buried her in the yard. He then talked to himself all day long, thinking that his wife was still alive. In fact, he was accompanied by this dead grave every day, and the children nearby were so scared that they were most afraid of this yard and would walk around it whenever they passed by...
But the man was also very pitiful. On the day of his death, he was still leaning against the tombstone, holding a jade pendant broken into two pieces in his hand. Later, the villagers buried him together with his wife.
Today, the weeds in the yard are taller than a person, and among the weeds stands a lonely dead grave.
Ye Qiuchen took a few steps forward and some kids who were playing and laughing accidentally bumped into him.
The child was quite well-mannered. After saying sorry, he turned around and saw the house with a flash of fear in his eyes. He quickly called his friend and said to him, "Old man, you are an outsider. You don't know that this house is a famous haunted house in the village. You can't go in, otherwise you will be haunted by the female ghost."
But three years had passed, and Ye Qiuchen's hair had already turned gray. He turned around and smiled at the child, then said in a hoarse voice, "Really? Is there really a female ghost in there?"
The child raised his head and said confidently, "Of course I have secretly peeked in through the crack of the door before. The wind was howling inside, and there were crows and snakes. It was very scary..."
The little kids nearby echoed, "That's right, there are foxes in there, and they are all raised by the female ghost. You must not go in there, old man, or you will be eaten."
Ye Qiuchen couldn't help laughing again. He reached out and touched the child's head, but his tone was relaxed. "Really? That's great. It would be nice to be entangled."
"I have been waiting for her for a long time. Look, my hair has turned white. If I really get entangled with her, I will let her take me with her."
"Anyway, I've already made a promise with her for the next life."
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