The princess is killing like crazy again

Wang Wanru finally couldn't help but turned her face away and cried.

Life is so boring. You want this and that, and you will never be happy no matter what.

She is, Xiao Yurong is, and everyone in the world is.

She wanted to cry for Xiao Yurong.

"I'm in this state, but you just know how to cry." Xiao Yurong reached out and wiped Wang Wanru's tears.

"Master." Fuyang Wei walked closer.

Wang Wanru hurriedly turned sideways and touched her face twice with her sleeve to wipe away her tears.

Xiao Yurong asked calmly: "What's the matter?"

Fuyang Wei said: "Cui Qining has led the Cui family army to the suburbs and is expected to enter the capital tomorrow."

"Okay." Xiao Yurong closed his eyes.

Cui Ci Ning did indeed camp in the suburbs with the Cui family army.

The battle robe he was wearing was stained by the night dew, wetting the corners of his clothes.

Gazing across the lights of thousands of homes at a place with the most lights, the biting wind seemed to cut the corners of his eyes. At this moment, the pain of his beating heart was greater than the warmth of the cold old capital.

How should he face Xiao Yurong?

Cui Ci Ning thought.

"Thinking about her?" Cui Ci'an walked closer and asked.

Cui Ci'an should have stayed in Yinzhou, but Cui Ci'ning was in a daze all day long, and he was really worried.

So he temporarily handed over the affairs of Yinzhou and the clan to his third uncle, and returned to the capital with Cui Ci Ning.

Cui Ci Ning did not answer.

"If you really can't let it go, you might as well go and ask tonight. What do you think? If you don't dare, I will accompany you." Cui Ci'an said.

Cui Ci Ning remained silent.

Cui Ci'an just thought that he agreed. He was always like this whenever there was anything related to Xiao Yurong.

It’s not easy to sneak into the princess’s mansion. Not only are there traps, but there are also a lot of guards.

With three circles inside and three circles outside, the patrolling Fuyang Guards protected the Zhaoyang Palace like an iron barrel.

Even the two brothers of the Cui family were discovered.

Yu Shu originally wanted to kill the man directly, but after hesitating for a moment, he reported it to Xiao Yurong first.

Xiao Yurong hadn't slept yet. She was sitting by the window looking at the flowers in the yard.

After listening to Yu Shu's report, she was silent for a moment, "...Don't worry about it, just pretend you didn't see it, let them do whatever they want."

"Yes." Yu Shu hid in the darkness again.

When Cui Ci Ning and his elder brother approached Xiao Yurong, Xiao Yurong was still sitting alone and motionless beside the bed, silently looking at the flowers in the yard.

Xiao Yurong was alone and seemed to have been sitting there for a long time.

Her eyes seemed a little dull and her face was pale. The night wind blew, and she covered her mouth with a handkerchief and coughed twice.

Cui Ci Ning caught a glimpse of a dark red stain on the handkerchief.

He heard that Xiao Yurong's teacher had left Beijing, his father and third brother had died, his fourth brother had been exiled, and he had also quarreled with his eldest brother.

I also had a falling out with my uncle tonight.

He remembered that during the march, Xiao Yurong told him that Huo Zhao spoiled him and taught him the basics of life, and that he was a very important person.

So many blows, so many setbacks, and Xiao Yurong was sick again.

Cui Ci Ning felt that Xiao Yurong was wronged from his perspective.

Xiao Yurong really made him sad.

Only when Xiao Yurong lived a good life could he naturally hate Xiao Yurong.

But Xiao Yurong was not living a good life, and he didn't know whether he should hate Xiao Yurong or feel pity for her.

"Cough cough cough cough!" Xiao Yurong coughed while leaning against the window sill. The strong aroma from the Suanni incense burner gave her a headache.

Cui Ci Ning stepped forward and extinguished the incense.

After this set of actions, Xiao Yurong was stunned, and Cui Ci Ning himself was also stunned.

After making eye contact with Cui Ci Ning, Xiao Yurong looked at Cui Ci An behind him.

Cui Ci'an didn't expect Cui Ci'ning to go up directly, and he smiled awkwardly at Xiao Yurong.

Theoretically, we would meet tomorrow, but they chose to break into the princess's mansion today. It seems that the Cui family either has bad intentions or is mentally ill.

But since he was the one who came up with the idea, he couldn't say much.

"Haha, you guys chat, I'll wait outside." Cui Ci'an smiled awkwardly and took a few steps back.

Cui Ci Ning was silent for a moment and then entered the hall.

"What on earth were you, Cui family, thinking by breaking into Zhaoyang Mansion at night?" Xiao Yurong sighed.

Cui Ci Ning asked: "Didn't we say that we would never see each other again in this life or death?"

Xiao Yurong paused.

Cui Ci Ning continued to ask: "Didn't I say that I would go back to my Yinzhou and you would go back to your Yujing?"

"Why do you want to see me? Why do you specifically want to see me?" he asked in a hoarse voice.

Xiao Yurong closed his eyes and said, "For Chule's great cause, for the Xiao family's empire."

"Ha——" Cui Ci Ning laughed out loud.

Sure enough, it’s still for these.

He closed his eyes tiredly, "What about this time? What do you want?"

"The northern country is eyeing us covetously, and the Liu family has wolfish ambitions. The Cui family cannot afford to have any more problems." Xiao Yurong said.

"If you say so, I might as well just join the Liu family." Cui Ci Ning sneered.

Xiao Yurong looked at him quietly, "Wouldn't that just be repeating the same mistakes? It's not what you want, like in your previous life."

"Previous life?" Cui Ci Ning repeated it and smiled, "I suddenly remembered that I had thought about taking you back to Yinzhou and going to Yujing with you."

His eyes were red. "I say, when this battle is over, you must come to Yinzhou if you have the chance."

"You said..." He imitated Xiao Yurong's tone and said vividly, "Since the wine in Yinzhou is so good, you must treat me to a drink when the time comes. If I don't get drunk during this beautiful time, wouldn't it be a waste of good times?"

Xiao Yurong looked at him silently.

Cui Ci Ning remembered every word clearly. "I said, of course, come back to Yinzhou with me, and I'll buy you as much as you want to drink."

"No wonder Li Yaozhi told me that a short pain is worse than a long one." Cui Ci Ning laughed hoarsely.

He could clearly recall the words that had tormented him every night in the past few years: "I told you I wanted to go home, and asked you how I could become like I used to be."

"It was you who told me that the past is dark and cannot be retrieved, and the road ahead is long. I can't stop, or I will die." He turned his face slightly, smiled with red eyes, but it looked like he was crying.

"You said, keep moving forward, Mingyang, you can look back, but you can't take the old path," he said.

Every word Cui Ci Ning said was not only his own memory, but also made Xiao Yurong recall it again.

"I said I was afraid of losing my home, and you said, no, no, Zhaoyang Mansion is also your home." As he spoke, his tone changed at the end and he chuckled self-deprecatingly, as if to hide the sob in his words.

He was once a young man in fine clothes and riding a horse. He enjoyed the moon in Xiaoyuan, drank the wine in Yinzhou, admired the flowers in Yujing, and climbed the willows in Zhaoyang.

He had opened his heart, poured out his lungs, and poured out his blood.

The person I hate didn't die, and the person I love can't die either.

"It's all fake, it's all lies." Cui Qining turned his face away and blinked away the tears in his eyes, "Liar."

Xiao Yurong looked at him and said, "That night in the cave at Pingnan Mountain, I thought you were laughing, but actually you were crying."

"At that time, or even earlier, you knew all this, right? You had already been reborn at that time." Xiao Yurong asked.

"Yes." Cui Ci Ning admitted.

A mess from two lifetimes.

Xiao Yurong closed his eyes.

She asked, "So you are here to kill me?"

Cui Ci Ning did not answer.

"I never intended to kill your people in this life." Xiao Yurong said, "I detained your father in Yujing, and I didn't intend to kill him."

She said in a tired tone, "He went to Beijing to report on his work. I kept him here not only because I wanted to see you again and explain things to you, but also because he was seriously ill and it was not suitable for him to travel across mountains and rivers again."

Cui Ci Ning paused for a long time and shook his head slowly, "But I can't believe you."

How could he trust Xiao Yurong anymore?

He didn't dare to gamble, and couldn't afford to gamble.

"We have been together before, but in the end you still don't believe that my blood is hot." Xiao Yurong smiled sarcastically and nodded, "That's right, if you don't open my heart and take out my lungs, how do you know that my blood is still hot?"

She pulled out the Night Awakening and stabbed herself in the heart.

Cui Ci Ning's pupils suddenly shrank and he stretched out his hand to grab the blade.

He caught the dagger with his bare hands, and the sharp blade cut his hand into a bloody mess.

The scene seemed to have returned to the time when he pointed a knife at Xiao Yurong, and Xiao Yurong stabbed himself in the chest with the blade in his bare hands.

Only this time the roles were reversed.

"Are you crazy? What are you crazy about? What are you going to do!" Cui Ci Ning snatched the dagger from Xiao Yurong's hand, threw the weapon aside, and pressed Xiao Yurong's shoulder.

During the struggle just now, Xiao Yurong accidentally cut his collarbone.

Blood flowed down her collarbone and wet her clothes. She looked at Cui Ci Ning steadily.

Without any warning, Xiao Yurong raised his head and kissed Cui Ci Ning.

She stretched out her hand and pulled Cui Ci Ning to lower his head. Cui Ci Ning froze for a moment, then hugged her back tightly and pulled her into his arms.

When Cui Ci Ning's hand, which was pressed on Xiao Yurong's neck, stroked her jaw and cheek, a sticky blood color spread out.

Both of them had blood on their hands. They exchanged a kiss, and Cui Ci Ning still exposed his weakness to Xiao Yurong.

He didn't know whether Xiao Yurong was sincere or not at this moment, but if Xiao Yurong wanted to kill him now, he had no backup plan.

After the kiss, Cui Ci Ning took a step back with a pale face.

He almost completely exposed the fact that he still loved Xiao Yurong, and exposed all his weaknesses and scars.

He pushed the door open in a panic and walked out.

It was a huge mistake for him to follow Cui Ci'an's advice and break into the princess's mansion at night today.

Cui Ci'an was guarding outside. When he saw Cui Ci'ning's miserable appearance with blood all over his palms, he ran out in panic and was frightened.

Could this be a murder of passion? Could it be that his silly brother accidentally killed the princess after quarreling with someone?

When Cui Ci'an saw Xiao Yurong following behind, although his heart skipped a beat because of the blood on Xiao Yurong's body, he still breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, it’s probably just a quarrel between young lovers.

Or they decide to suffer a short pain rather than a long one, and break up.

"Ming Yang." Xiao Yurong looked at Cui Ci Ning's embarrassed back and stopped at the door.

Cui Ci Ning stopped stiffly, but did not dare to turn around.

There was a brief moment of silence. Xiao Yurong looked at the tallest flower on the branch in the yard, which was swaying in the evening breeze.

"You..." Xiao Yurong opened his mouth, but no sound came out, as if he had suddenly lost his voice. Then he reacted and controlled himself to speak, "...Do you still love me?"

It seemed like there was a bit of cautious expectation, but in fact Xiao Yurong himself did not have any expectations.

Cui Ci Ning stood stiffly for a long time. After a brief loss of voice, he seemed to be overwhelmed by the cold and vast sadness.

"You and I had a deep blood feud in our previous lives." He said slowly in a hoarse voice.

Cui Ci Ning smiled self-deprecatingly, "How can I still love you with so much blood between us?"

After a long silence, Cui Ci Ning did not get a response.

His inner defenses gradually began to waver. He opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but clenched his shaking hands.

At this time, Xiao Yurong's gentle voice came from behind: "Okay."

Cui Ci Ning loosened his clenched hands and looked at his toes in blank stare.

His Adam's apple rolled, he swallowed the bitterness with difficulty, and walked forward.

Almost fled in panic.

As soon as Xiao Yurong asked him, "Do you still love me?", Cui Ci'an immediately ran several miles away to avoid the scene.

Seeing Cui Ci Ning stumbling out, Cui Ci An quickly chased after him, "What's wrong with you? What happened?"

"Don't ask, big brother... Don't ask..." Cui Ci Ning seemed to have experienced a long and fierce battle, and was now exhausted and hoarse.

In an empty place, he knelt on one knee at a corner of the mansion wall under the moonlight, slowly leaning down against the wall, almost choking with sobs and unable to speak.

Cui Ci'an didn't know what to say. He was really doomed.

He racked his brains to comfort Cui Ci Ning for so long, but Xiao Yurong asked him, "Do you still love me?" He worked for a month for nothing! Just this one sentence could make Cui Ci Ning collapse.

Cui Ci'an put his hand on Cui Ci'ning's shoulder and sighed, "Do you really have to leave your life in the South?"

But what could he do? What else could he do? Cui Ci Ning lowered his head and clenched his teeth.

This night was absurd and sad.

But the next day I had to put on a smile and be respectful to everyone.

Cui Ci Ning's eyes were still a little red as he went to the court to report on his work.

Xiao Yuxie also maintained his compliments, expressed concern and condolences, and then asked Cui Ci Ning to visit General Cui.

He said that he would let the Cui brothers stay in Beijing for a few days, and they would be able to return to Yinzhou with General Cui someday.

Seeing Xiao Yuxie's unreluctant look, Cui Ci Ning began to think, maybe Xiao Yurong really left because of his father's health?

Seeing Cui Ci Ning's somewhat dazed expression and his absent-minded back when he left, Xiao Yuxie sat on the dragon chair and pulled the corners of his lips.

He turned to look at Xiao Yurong beside him. His sister looked tired and indifferent.

What Xiao Yurong said was true. He wanted to have a detailed discussion with Cui Ci Ning and for the sake of General Cui's health.

But could it be that Xiao Yurong had never had any thoughts about it from beginning to end?

Xiao Yurong must have thought that if the Cui family made any unusual moves, General Cui would be taken hostage.

Just because Xiao Yurong is his sister, he understands Xiao Yurong.

There is sincerity, of course, but underneath that sincerity there is more calculation and defense.

Trust? Cui Ci Ning didn’t trust Xiao Yurong, so did Xiao Yurong trust Cui Ci Ning?

Xiao Yuxie held one of Xiao Yurong's hands and patted it gently with the other hand, as if to comfort or remind her.

"It's okay." He said in a very low voice.

Xiao Yurong raised his eyes and looked at him.

Xiao Yuxie smiled: "Rongrong."