Dusk Returns to the Ruined Building

"Everything will eventually pass. In the past twenty years, I was wrong, and you were wrong too! The past is gone, love and hate are up to you, just leave today! For a marriage that exists in name only, you and I have trapped ourselves for twenty years! I once thought that I would be the only one to accompany you through this life, but I didn't expect that I, like Ouyang Zhengxiong, are just passers-by in your life!"

That small courtyard, that crabapple tree, that ray of sunset, now there is a handsome and elegant middle-aged man!

A cup of tea, a crabapple tree, a ray of sunset, and the worried lady still stands by the window!

This window and that door seem to be an insurmountable chasm between two people!

Ji Qingli looked at the crabapple tree, its green leaves swaying in the wind, its shadows dancing in the setting sun. He was somewhat envious of this crabapple tree, which had been with his beloved woman for twenty years, day and night!

"Zhixiang Pavilion in Jianying City, Yuyao's piano music, and the red wood donkey meat fire have all been buried in Ouyang Zhengxiong's memories. He is tired! I am tired too. You can go back to Jianying City and leave this small courtyard! No, this cage!"

Inside the window, Ouyang Zhiqing was drinking tea calmly, without any change in her expression!

"Yihong is also in Jianying City, waiting for you to pick him up. For you, I have accompanied him for nearly twenty years, and have picked him up and dropped him off in Jianying City nearly forty times. The father-son relationship is over. Go pick him up yourself this time! Look at the changes in Jianying City in the past twenty years, think about the time you spent twenty years ago, and take your son to walk the path of your life! Don't let him have any regrets. He has asked me about your past for twenty years, but I couldn't answer him once!"

Ji Qingli's hand was touching the leaves of the crabapple tree, as if he was caressing the face of his beloved woman!

"We are brothers and sisters, go and witness his glorious moment! Mother and son love each other deeply, go and take your child home! Ouyang Zhengxiong's other dream has come true, the holy sword of the current patriarch of the Ouyang family has been completed! The statue on Jianying City will soon be erected! Yihong has grown up, the prodigal son of the two families, you should also let him feel how warm his mother's arms are! You are still brother and sister, after all, you are mother and son!"

All Ouyang Zhiqing had in her eyes was the cup of tea, the crabapple tree, and the setting sun that was about to disappear, as if Ji Qingli did not exist under the tree in the courtyard at all, and no one ever spoke!

"It's been almost twenty years. Whenever I think of the days you lived, I want to cry, but when I think of the days you lived, I also want to laugh! I am sad, I am happy, but what about me? I have lived in tears and laughter for twenty years! I am really tired, I am exhausted! Although the love is deep, the hatred is strong, but my heart is broken!"

Ji Qingli clenched his hands so tightly that the crabapple leaves in his hands were torn!

"Love or not, it's useless. We spend our whole lives with ourselves! I thought it was just a joke, but I didn't expect you were talking about me. Thank you, even though it took me twenty years to understand!"

After Ji Qingli finished speaking, the true energy in his hands surged and dispersed wantonly. The leaves of the crabapple tree that covered the sky fell gently. He shed two lines of tears among the green leaves and walked out of this small courtyard that he had not set foot in for twenty years. After walking out of the door, he stopped!

"I have hated you for twenty years, and I have also loved you for twenty years! But I still can't get you to say a word? The leaves of the crabapple tree are falling, the sun is setting, please go!"

Ji Qingli's heart was broken! Really broken! For twenty years, the couple had never said a word to each other! What kind of relationship was this! What kind of torture was this?

When we said goodbye today, I thought I would hear her say, "Even though I hate you!" What a pity!

At the Ji family in Zhongzhou, after Ji Qingli returned from Yingzhou, he bravely stepped into this small courtyard as soon as possible. This was the cage he had set up for himself and Ouyang Zhiqing!

Ji Qingli decided to let go!

On the second day, the news that Ouyang Zhiqing had returned home to visit her parents spread to every mansion and household, as well as every street and alley in the Ji family's imperial city in Zhongzhou!

That small courtyard, that crabapple tree, and that sunset are no longer seen! Because the cage was burned! The fire started strangely, and it was also extinguished strangely! Only the small courtyard and the crabapple tree were burned!

Ouyang Zhiqing left alone, no one knew when she left, and no one knew where she went! She never said a word to Ji Qingli! The husband who had loved her for twenty years, the husband who had also hated her for twenty years!

However, Ouyang Zhiqing left behind a maid and a painting, with a sentence written in the painting!

Beside the courtyard that was burned to ashes, there were two people standing, Ji Qingli and the girl in green who was already in tears!

"Master, the lady left this painting to you!"

Ji Qingli was startled when he heard this, took the painting handed to him, and slowly opened it!

On the shore of the desert Weiming Lake, a boy, who looked to be in his teens, rescued a little girl who fell into the water. The two little bow-shaped braids looked so familiar in my memory!

By a lake in an oasis, a teenage boy covered the mouth of the little girl in his arms, and the tears on the little girl's cheeks were clearly visible on the paper!

The little girl with a look of resentment bit the hand of the handsome and slender boy, and the spots of ink seemed to be flowing blood!

In the desert, under the setting sun, the boy and the little girl parted in tears, one with his back to the sunset, and the other facing the sunset!

"In the vast sea and desert, grudges are hard to break, and the bonds of love and hate are dark!"

——Zhiqing is also the end of love

Ji Qingli's expression changed, he glanced at the scar on his hand and exclaimed:

"Are you her?"

Ouyang Zhiqing's heart is not cruel! Before leaving, she still told Ji Qingli some answers, but these were not the answers Ji Qingli wanted, or in other words, these were not the answers Ji Qingli expected!

The parting answer and the belated awakening, is it too late for Ji Qingli?

do not know!

But everyone knows that some loves, once missed, will be forgotten for a lifetime, and some feelings, once given up, will be hard to get back!

The ashes of the courtyard were covered with a trace of blood rain and the ashes of the painting, because there are some things that outsiders should not know, even if that was the personal maid who had been with his beloved woman for twenty years!

Ji Qingli left in a daze. For some reason, his ruthless heart that wanted revenge suddenly softened!

Being at a loss was the most realistic portrayal of him when he left the Courtyard of Ashes!