Dusk Returns to the Ruined Building

The sea is not yet dry but the fate is over; the moon is gradually dimming but the love turns to dust.

To Ji Qingli, Ouyang Zhiqing’s smile only includes the blooming crabapple blossoms, the clear tea at sunset, three bowls and three chopsticks, four dishes and four soups. No, there are many more, but only him is missing!

The girl with a face as pretty as a crabapple in Zhixiang Pavilion, the woman with an intoxicating smile in Yuyao Tower, and the girl with a greasy mouth eating donkey meat hot pot, Ouyang Zhiqing didn't have him in her eyes, but Ji Qingli only had her and her smile in his heart!

"What's your name? I heard you are from the Ji family? Are you here in Jianchi Valley to ask for a sword?"

Ji Qingli looked back and smiled, nodded slightly, but did not respond.

"It's you. Are you here in Yuyao Tower to listen to the sound of the harp?"

Ji Qingli was slightly stunned, then nodded and smiled, but still said nothing.

"Hey, the Ji family member on horseback, are you leaving? You haven't told me your name yet. Don't you want to try Jian Ying's mahogany donkey meat roast?"

Ji Qingli whipped his horse, looked back, smiled again, and wanted to say something, but he had already gone far away!

Ji Qingli is an arrogant, dull and boring person, but sadly, he is also an affectionate person.

Ji Qingli's love is a look, but not a gentle greeting; it is a smile, but not a happy company!

Ji Qingli really doesn’t understand what love is. Sadly, Ouyang Zhiqing gave Ji Qingli a chance to figure it out twenty years ago, but now, he is still confused.

The night is as cold as water!

Faced with this second chance, Ji Qingli stretched out his hand and opened his mouth, but still didn't know how to express himself. In the end, he just smiled silently!

Ouyang Zhiqing looked at Ji Qingli who seemed a little dazed and sighed slightly in her heart. Perhaps she was really sorry for this man. He was a good man who was devoted to her and loved her. She had been married to the Ji family for twenty years and although Ouyang Zhiqing had no feelings for him, she had never thought of hurting this man!

"When the crabapple blossoms, I'm waiting for you to pick a crabapple for me. When I drink tea in the sunset, I'm waiting for you to refill a cup of warm water for me. Three bowls, three chopsticks, four dishes, four soups, I'm waiting for you to say, I'm home, let's eat! I've waited for twenty years, but it's all in vain! Is my innocence so important? Will the child in my belly always be a scar? Why don't you dare to bravely break into the home where I am?"

Ji Qingli shook his head, nodded, shook his head again, nodded again, and smiled slightly. He didn't know what to say!

"I'm sorry. I used my hatred and my heart to trap you for twenty years. If you let me go, I will let you go too. Go and conquer your world. That home is one that neither you nor I can return to. Perhaps this world should be your home!"

After Ouyang Zhiqing finished speaking, she turned around. She didn't want Ji Qingli to see the tear she shed, because this tear shouldn't exist.

Ji Qingli looked at the back of the person turning away, and his smile disappeared. He reached out his hand to ask her to stay, but he didn't know where to start, and what words to use to ask her to stay? They both walked towards a new path in life, and they could never turn back.

Ji Qingli smiled again, this time it was still a slight smile, but it was full of bitterness!

Ouyang Zhiqing walked out of the night pavilion. She was leaving. She would never come to this place again. She never wanted to repeat her fate again. She never wanted to make a choice again. Perhaps she shouldn't have made a choice twenty years ago.

As Ouyang Zhiqing walked into the night, she silently looked back at Ji Qingli and sighed inwardly:

"I like your gentle smile, but you have ambitions for the world. I'm sorry!"

Ji Qingli looked at the figure walking further and further away, and he finally shouted:

"Zhiqing, come home with me!"

"I do have a home in the Ji Family Imperial City in Zhongzhou. Back then, a child gave me a crabapple flower, drank my cup of tea, and said something to me!"

"Who is he? What did he say?"

"I'm hungry, can I come in and have something to eat?"

Ouyang Zhiqing disappeared into the night. She went to look for the child because she owed the child a meal!

Alas, Shen Yichen's dream was not complete! He forgot the most important part, which Ouyang Zhiqing did not mention!

"You are so beautiful, just like this crabapple flower!"

Then comes:

"I'm hungry, can I come in and have something to eat?"

Ji Qingli might never speak like a child in his entire life.

The waning moon disappears into the thick clouds, and the cold wind rustles my clothes.

"Welcome to Jianying City!"

"I remember twenty years ago, you said you were not welcome!"

"Twenty years ago, you wanted to take Zhiqing away from Jianying City, but today, twenty years later, you sent her back to Jianying City. You took my heart away back then, so are you going to leave your heart in Jianying City today?"

"Then let's see if you have the ability. Have you recovered from the sword wound from 20 years ago?"

"I never pulled out the sword. It has been stuck in my heart!"

"Really? Did you forge the Half-Emperor Sword just to avenge that sword?"

"You think too highly of yourself. To deal with you, I don't even need the Half-Emperor Sword!"

At the long pavilion in the dark night, Ouyang Zhengxiong and Ji Qingli clashed again, just like twenty years ago.

The north wind is howling, true energy is surging, blood is spreading, and figures are moving. They are opponents, opponents with hatred and resentment, opponents fighting for life and death. It was so twenty years ago and it will be so twenty years later!

Sadly, both of them are losers because there have never been two people in the heart of the person they love!

In the dark night outside the Xuankong Mountain, Ouyang Zhengxiong and Ji Qingli fought fiercely. This was a duel between saints, it seemed to be a duel between good and evil, and even more so a duel between two men.

"It's been twenty years. This palm strike is for the hatred of stealing my love!"

"It's been twenty years. This palm strike is the wound caused by the sword strike back then!"

"It's been twenty years. This palm tells you that the Ouyang family will never be the knife of the Ji family again!"

Twenty years passed, Ji Qingli took Ouyang Zhiqing away, and it seemed that he had abandoned his ambition to rule the world. Now he has received three slaps!

"Since it's the Ji family's sword, we can destroy it whenever we want!"

"I was able to hurt you twenty years ago, and I can still hurt you twenty years later!"

"In this love, who hurt whom? It's not certain!"

Ji Qingli quickly returned three more palm strikes!

"You have the power of inheritance?"

"What about you? Learning the trickery of the ancient Miao region is like drinking poison to quench thirst, and you will end up tying yourself up in knots!"

"Jianying City is a good place to bury bones, Ji Qingli, see you next time!"

"I am buried here as a loyal member of the Ji family. What about you? A tombstone without words? A person without regrets? I'm afraid no one will collect your body! Ouyang Zhengxiong, bring your Half-Emperor Sword next time!"

In the dark night, two figures flew away, one to the east and one to the west. They had one thing in common: they were both touching their chests and were covered in blood. Ji Qingli was bleeding, and Ouyang Zhengxiong was drinking while bleeding!

The two of them quickly disappeared into the night!

The night wind was cold, and Ouyang Zhiqing returned to the pavilion. She looked at the empty intersections to the east, south, west and north again. This was the crossroads in her life twenty years ago. She made the wrong choice back then, and it has been twenty years since then. Now she is back to this intersection again. She is really confused and cautious!

"Hey, Qing girl, wasn't that fight exciting? Two men fought to death for you, were you happy?"

Ji Xuanyan in black came and flew into the pavilion, but Ji Jingchun, the leader of the Owl Slayers, was not there!

"What about him? Where did he go?"

"Him? Which him?"

Ji Xuanyan in black asked the question knowingly, with a smile in her eyes, an evil smile that made Ouyang Zhiqing very uneasy!

"Your brother!"

"My brother? Isn't he your brother?"

"Sister Yan, I'm not as old and improper as you!"

Ouyang Zhiqing couldn't stand it anymore, she had to confront Ji Xuanyan in black!

"What's wrong with being naughty? Is it bad? I think it's good!"

Ouyang Zhiqing was helpless and said softly:

"Where's Shen Yichen?"

"Shouldn't I be the one asking you this? Didn't you leave together?"

Ouyang Zhiqing was stunned when she heard this, it seemed to be like this!

"He asked me to go first, but the Black Feather Archers of the Gongsun Family stopped him!"

Ji Xuanyan in black was also startled when she heard this. After a long while, she murmured to herself:

"So it was her, Brother Chen. No wonder you called her so affectionately at the beginning. You two really are related!"

Ji Xuanyan in black thought of Gongsun Qingyu. At the same time, she also thought of the clothes scattered on the cliff. Her smiling eyes were somewhat playful!

"Sister Yan, why aren't you worried at all? I'm afraid your brother Chen is in great danger!"

Ouyang Zhiqing couldn’t think about her own affairs anymore!

"Brother Chen is destined to have a love calamity, but the old man didn't seem to say that he has a death calamity. He might be fooling around with some woman! Qing girl, are you jealous?"

Ouyang Zhiqing agreed with what Ji Xuanyan in black said earlier and even nodded, but the last sentence broke her heart!

"Sister Yan, Shen Yichen is right, some jokes are not allowed!"

"Qing girl, I'm reminding you, you can joke around, but don't make it real!"

Ouyang Zhiqing didn't want to respond to this question and hurriedly changed the subject:

"Sister Yan, shouldn't we separate? Go find your brother Chen!"

"You said that a beauty like you went to Jianying alone. I was worried. What if you were bullied by some man?"

Ouyang Zhiqing understood that Ji Xuanyan in black would not leave her, but she was really uneasy in her heart!

"Sister Yan, what on earth are you going to do?"

"I'm here to help you get revenge. Those two men just had a fight, but there was no winner. It was so boring, and you must be unhappy. You came to Jianying for revenge, and you have to see someone die!"

"You, what are you going to do? Ji Qingli is a member of the Ji family, a member of Lingshuang Valley?"

Ouyang Zhiqing looked at Ji Xuanyan in black with a confused look on her face!

"Don't you hate Ling Shuanggu too? Isn't it good that Ji Qingli is dead? Don't you want him to die?"

Ji Xuanyan in black really stumped Ouyang Zhiqing with her question!

Although Ouyang Zhiqing has a heart for revenge, she has no intention of killing anyone. This is also the source of her inner distress, conflict, and entanglement. She doesn't want her hands to be stained with blood!

Ji Xuanyan in black looked at Ouyang Zhiqing who was deep in thought and said with a smile:

"Let's go. Some grudges don't have to be decided by life or death. You want to make his heart live in pain forever, feeling the tearing pain. Isn't that better than letting him die? Just thinking about that feeling makes me excited!"

Ji Xuanyan in black excitedly pulled Ouyang Zhiqing away, making it seem like she was taking revenge!