Both worlds are like dreams

Xue Huang looked at him, the pain in her heart made it difficult for her to breathe.

The figure in blue no longer had the majestic look she had seen before, as if a proudly upright green bamboo had been bent by the pain.

Every step he took, he was getting further and further away from her, but he had to keep moving forward. So his steps were extremely heavy.

At this moment, the heart-eating poison was raging unscrupulously. Every step he took was like walking through a mountain of knives.

But this kind of pain was nothing compared to the pain in his heart.

Gu Qinglan couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground.

"Brother Qinglan!" Xuehuang hurried over to help him up, fed him an antidote, and then transferred her inner strength to him to help him suppress the pain.

Gu Qinglan spoke with difficulty, "I'm sorry. It's my fault that you got involved." Not being able to be together was heartbreaking, but the person he loved was forced to marry someone else because of him. If he had known this would be the outcome, he shouldn't have selfishly hoped for her to come back.

But it was too late, he could not change anything.

She had been the one giving everything for him all along, and he had never done anything for her, but in the end he let her down.

"You haven't let me down," Xue Huang said softly, "Meeting you is the happiest thing in my life. We just... are not destined to be together."

Gu Qinglan grabbed her wrist, with a thousand words in his heart that he wanted to say, but he didn't know where to start.

"Brother Qinglan," Xuehuang said with a smile, "This is my own choice. I did it for you, and not just for you. Although we are not destined to be together, our hearts are always together. I hope you live well, I hope that Fifth Brother can become a wise ruler in the prosperous times, I hope that the people will no longer live in misery, and I hope that you can bring prosperity to the world with your own hands, do you understand?"

Gu Qinglan took her into his arms, trembling as he hugged her tightly. This hug was full of heartache, helplessness, reluctance and attachment, and also compromise. He buried his head in her neck, tears falling drop by drop.

His tears were also hot, Xue Huang could feel it clearly, and she naturally understood how painful Gu Qinglan was at this moment. But she believed that he would figure it out.

Gu Qinglan hugged her tightly, as if he wanted to melt her into his bones and blood, so that they would never be separated again.

"I understand what you said," he whispered, "but I still can't do it."

"It's okay," Xue Huang patted his back and comforted him, "Time can take away everything."

Gu Qinglan shook his head. "In my heart, you are already my wife. This will never change."

Xue Huang didn't say anything, but pressed his acupoint. His palm was still bleeding, so Xue Huang took out a handkerchief and bandaged his wound.

Wei Yunzhou walked over and helped Gu Qinglan up without saying a word.

Xue Huang picked up the medicine bottle and put it into Gu Qinglan's belt. "Wait a moment." She turned and walked to the door, picked up the box from the ground, and then came to Wei Yunzhou. "Take this back with you."

Wei Yunzhou nodded, took the box and put it away, then left with Gu Qinglan.

Xue Huang looked at their backs and silently shed tears. She sighed and returned to her room in a daze.

No matter how difficult things are to face, they must be faced eventually. She and Gu Qinglan must eventually come to an end, but this moment seems to have drained all her strength.

She slumped over the bed, staring at the shell wind chimes on the bedside table, her eyes empty.

Xue Huang did not attend the morning court the next day. The Dongchu delegation wanted to give Bei Ling time for internal discussions, so they did not enter the court to meet with the emperor.

But according to Wei Yunzhou's information, when Emperor Ling proposed to marry Mo Xingyue to Su Linjin as a princess of marriage, he was indeed opposed by Shen Congfeng's faction and the Second Prince's faction.

The Fifth Prince's party is weak and cannot be too active, otherwise it will be easy for others to find fault with them.

So at the moment, there are more opponents than opponents.

Xuehuang was in a bad mood and had no interest in anything. She stayed in bed and refused to get up.

Su Linjin also pulled Wei Yunzhou to sit at the door of her room and deliberately told her these things loudly.

Su Linjin knew that she was in a bad mood, so he wanted to divert her attention by doing other things.

Seeing that Xue Huang had no reaction, he sighed, "My nephew, life is so long, why should you be trapped in the present? I heard that your free and easy sword dance attracted countless people's admiration. Since you have such a free and easy heart, why can't you see through this love affair? Second Brother, don't you agree?"

Wei Yunzhou didn't say anything. He just looked at him coldly when he heard it, thinking that this guy was going to be beaten.

Su Linjin continued to talk a lot, mostly asking her to be more free and easy, not to be trapped by love, the world is big, life is long, and she shouldn't live like a resentful woman in the boudoir all day long.

Xue Huang opened the door and threw a pillow at Su Linjin, "You've seen through the love story, right? That's fine! Don't even think about marrying Xingyue. Go home tomorrow, back to your Dongchu!"

Su Linjin dodged the pillow and jumped far away. Looking at her furious look, he smiled and said, "You finally come out?"

"I just want to sleep quietly for a while, do you have to disturb me?"

"Are you that worried?" Su Linjin asked. "You can't sleep at all?"

"I want you to take care of it?"

"Since you can't sleep, why not have some fun?" Su Linjin sat down with his pillow in his arms, "Or help me think of a way to help your uncle get married."

"You figure it out yourself," Xue Huang rolled her eyes at him, "I'm already very sad that I can't be with Gu Qinglan, and you're still trying to provoke me here, can you be a little more humane?"

Su Linjin smiled and poured her a cup of tea. "It's better to make you angry than to hold back your sadness."

"You want to comfort me? It's easy. Just have a fight!"

Su Linjin almost spit out a mouthful of tea, "What?"

"According to the Guigu Sect's rules, we have to fight first when we meet. You and Second Uncle have already finished fighting, but we haven't!"

"Or... let's just forget it." Su Linjin swallowed his saliva, obviously a little scared. Now, since the medicine man technique was released, Xue Huang's martial arts level is not as terrifying as it was then, but compared to the past, it has been raised to a higher level. If he couldn't beat her three years ago, it would be even more impossible three years later.

"What?" Xue Huang looked at him with disgust, "Are you scared?"

"When you are out, please give me some face. I am a prince after all. If it gets out that I was defeated by my own nephew, where will I put my face?"

Xue Huang raised her eyebrows, "We are all family here."

Su Linjin glanced at Wei Yunzhou who was drinking tea and smiled evilly, "Why don't you fight with Second Senior Brother?"

Xue Huang looked at Wei Yunzhou after hearing this, "Second Uncle?"

Wei Yunzhou calmly put down the teacup, "I just received a letter saying that Gu Qinglan did not attend court today. It seems that he is ill."

Xue Huang immediately stood up and left without saying a word.

Su Linjin looked puzzled, "Second Brother, you still let them meet at this time?"

"She knows her limits." Wei Yunzhou stood up, took two steps, and then turned to look at him. "But you, can you still sit still?"

Su Linjin was very surprised, "Brother, this is rare! You actually care about my lifelong event!"

Wei Yunzhou couldn't help but roll his eyes, "What I care about is the marriage."

"Don't be stubborn!" Su Linjin said with a smile.

Wei Yunzhou was too lazy to explain and just left.

After Su Linjin finished his tea, he went to look for the Dongchu envoys. His road to marrying off his niece was bumpy, and his road to marrying a wife was just as bumpy. He had to think of a good plan.

As for Xue Huang, she left the Wei Mansion without disturbing anyone and quietly came to the Duke's Mansion.

She had been here before and was familiar with the layout of the mansion, so she climbed over the wall and entered the inner courtyard.

However, she was not familiar with Gu Qinglan's room. She only came to the room that Duke Jingguo had taken her to visit before, but she unexpectedly found Gu Qinglan here.

There was no one else in the room except his attendant, who was walking away with an empty bowl.

Xue Huang saw him walking away and slipped into the house.

Gu Qinglan was sleeping soundly on the bed. He was sleeping so deeply that he didn't notice Xue Huang approaching.

Xuehuang reached out and touched Gu Qinglan's forehead. It was still very hot. It seemed that he had caught a cold in her house last night.

She found a handkerchief, soaked it with cold water, and gently placed it on his forehead. Then she held his hand and used her own body coldness to help cool him down.

Gu Qinglan hadn't woken up yet. Xue Huang stayed with him for a long time and finally helped lower his body temperature.

She breathed a sigh of relief, put Gu Qinglan's hand into the quilt, and then washed the towel for him again.

At this time, she found that the room had obviously been renovated. The furniture inside was new and better than before, and many new items had been added.

There are wind chimes made of shells, many novel toys and ornaments, a fine bow and arrow hanging on the wall, and some other novel objects.

She thought of what Gu Qinglan had said, that Duke Jingguo had bought many things she liked for the mansion, and it seemed that this room was originally intended to be where they would live after they got married.

Pity.

She sighed in her heart. She liked everything here, but she and Gu Qinglan were not destined to be together.

Xuehuang soaked the handkerchief and applied it again to Gu Qinglan.

At this time, footsteps were heard outside the door.

She immediately stood up, jumped out of the window like a ghost, then flipped over and jumped onto the roof, sitting there quietly listening to the movements below.

The person who came was Gu Qinglan's attendant. He brought back some ice cubes and wanted to help Gu Qinglan cool down, but found that there was a cold handkerchief on Gu Qinglan's forehead.

He was somewhat puzzled. Was this what he applied? Did he remember it wrong? He quickly reached out to check Gu Qinglan's temperature, and was relieved to find that it was not as hot as before.

Then he sat aside, guarding Gu Qinglan closely.

Xue Huang did not leave. She lay on her back on the roof, always paying attention to the movements below.

Gu Qinglan had repeated fevers and never woke up.

The attendant lowered his temperature several times, and Xue Huang also secretly helped Gu Qinglan cool down while he went to get ice.

But his temperature kept fluctuating.