This villain has become a ghost

Dark clouds pressed down on the mountains, and the sky gradually darkened, as if the world was gloomy. A strong wind blew, bringing endless coolness, foreshadowing the coming of heavy rain. The mountains were shrouded in mist, hazy and low, and the momentum of the mountain rain was coming.

Thunder rumbled faintly, like the pounding of war drums, foreshadowing an impending crisis. Withered leaves trembled, making final preparations for the coming storm, waiting to be eroded. A damp, oppressive air hung heavy in the air.

"Your Highness, Song Haotian led his men to retreat to the rocks in the west. Do we need to attack directly now?" Chu Shiqing asked.

Nangong Wanqing wiped the knife in her hand carelessly, looked up at Lin Yuan, and said, "Then I'll trouble General Lin and General Chu to deal with Song Haotian. However, Song Haotian is indeed difficult to deal with, so you two should be careful."

"Yes!"

"As for the Governor, take three thousand cavalrymen and follow me to look for the missing Prime Minister Wei, Grand Tutor Shen, General Qiming and others." She added.

-

There is a wild forest in the east.

The trees in the forest were tall and sparse, their trunks covered with moss, their branches and leaves lush, blocking out the sun. Many branches had withered, and the fallen leaves covered the ground, forming a thick layer of rotten leaves.

Yue Liuyun was jolted all the way on the horse's back. After he got off the horse tremblingly, he couldn't help but retching.

Nangong Mingzhu looked at her like this and couldn't help but lose half of his anger. He said lazily: "You learned well. You didn't fall off the horse."

Yue Liuyun: “…”

Big brother, please figure this out for a minute, this is your body.

"I remember that Your Majesty and I learned horse riding together. Your Majesty was extremely talented and I was far behind him. But now I am even better than him." Shen Yue said leisurely while supporting her.

Yue Liuyun glared at him and said through gritted teeth, "It's already this late, don't test me."

Neither of these two is good.

Shen Yue smiled slightly and said, "Yes, Your Majesty."

"But I don't understand. Your Majesty asked me to persuade the court officials who supported the eldest princess and wanted to overturn the verdict on General Lin Li, and then went to persuade General Lin Yuan in person. Why do you want to take this risk now?" he asked.

Yue Liuyun took a deep breath to calm his physical discomfort, and said seriously, "My original idea was very simple. I wanted to take advantage of the rebels' resistance and, together with General Lin Yuan and the civil and military officials, overturn General Lin Li's verdict."

In this way, the eldest princess became the biggest victim, and almost everything she had done was wasted.

It sounds easy, but the premise of all this is that Yue Liuyun can convince Lin Yuan, and Shen Yue can convince those ministers.

When the wind and rain came, Yue Liuyun and Shen Yue ran straight to a broken cave eroded by weeds and moss, and went in to take shelter from the rain.

Shen Yue then asked, "Then what made Your Majesty change his original idea?"

"Because of the Princess," Yue Liuyun frowned. "She knew clearly that General Lin Yuan was loyal to Daying and unwilling to rebel, yet she still dared to use him. A single move could affect the entire system. General Chu Shiqing would certainly help General Lin Yuan, but if both of them disobeyed her orders, her plan would be completely thwarted."

"So, after General Lin Yuan revealed his connection with the Princess in advance, she most likely guessed that I would go find General Lin Yuan."

"If she knew that, why would she continue? Because it plays into her hands," she said.

Shen Yue was startled. He had already guessed what was going on. Suddenly, he felt a chill and said in a deep voice, "So... her original target wasn't you, Your Majesty, but General Lin Yuan..."

That's right.

From the beginning, Nangong Wanqing wanted to get rid of Lin Yuan and Chu Shiqing instead of Nangong Mingzhu. She wanted to use the emperor or Song Haotian to get rid of them.

However, in the original book, Nangong Wanqing's plot did not emerge. It was just a simple description of a rebellion. The rebels Lin Yuan and Chu Shiqing were shot to death by the Song family's 300,000 troops who arrived late in the rebellion. Everything seemed to be natural.

-

Time goes back to... when Nangong Mingzhu and Yue Liuyun discussed this matter.

There was no cold war between the two at that time.

After the two guessed Nangong Wanqing's true intention, Yue Liuyun compared it with the plot of the original book and couldn't help but frown and think.

Nangong Mingzhu saw her strange expression and raised an eyebrow and asked, "Are there any other issues that you and I have analyzed?"

"No," Yue Liuyun put down the pen in his hand and said seriously, "Did I ever say that I know the direction of future events?"

Nangong Mingzhu curled his lips into a smile, looked at her and said, "I'm afraid it's not that simple..."

He paused, then said, "If I'm not mistaken, Qiu Shuangwan also knows about this. And... Qiu Shuangwan originally wanted to discuss this with you last time, but you deliberately revealed that my spirit was always there. Since then, he hasn't discussed this with you in person."

Yue Liuyun smiled helplessly.

As expected, I couldn't hide it from him.

"You two didn't know each other in your previous worlds, but you both knew that even Ling Chaomian didn't know about destiny. And you didn't want me to know about this..." He looked directly into her eyes with a half-smile, his eyes deep, and said in a calm tone, "...I think that the so-called 'future direction' you know should be recorded in writing."

"So, to you, this world is nothing more than a story recorded in words. The reason you didn't tell me is because in your eyes, I'm just a character in a story without free will."

Yue Liuyun: “…”

Damn, you can guess this.

Even if the paper man becomes a spirit, he can't be so smart.

She shook her head and sighed, "If only that were the case. Now I feel like everything isn't that simple."

"How?" he asked with interest.

Yue Liuyun gave him a brief account of the original book. After he finished, Nangong Mingzhu suddenly looked confused and seemed to be thinking about something.

She thought for a moment, glanced at the plate of fruit on the desk, picked up an orange, and smiled.

She said, "I feel like the story I've seen is like the outer peel of this orange. It only tells me that this is an orange and that it looks like this, but we know nothing about the complex tissues and structures within it, whether it's intact or bad, or whether it tastes like we imagined."

Nangong Mingzhu stared at the orange in her hand and said in an ambiguous tone, "You mean, the story you know isn't wrong, but rather one-sided. Its general direction is correct, but if you delve deeper into the essence of the phenomenon, the underlying reasons may be different from what you imagine?"

Yue Liuyun sighed: "Yes, that's it."

She peeled the orange, pinched a slice and put it into her mouth, chewed it a few times, and her face turned ugly from the sourness.

Nangong Mingzhu looked at her amusedly, then pondered, "You once said your mission was to save me, so in the story you know, I will die?"

"Everyone will die," Yue Liuyun said, throwing away the sour orange in his hand with disgust. He then remembered that the villain in the original book had a taste for acid, so most of the tribute fruits were sour. He actually ate them foolishly. "But you died at the age of thirty, and even the throne was taken away from you."