Every time the prince opens his eyes, he sees

In front of Gu Huai, she didn't show anything unusual, but when she returned home and looked at the fallen petals in the courtyard, she felt an urgent desire to visit her own grave.

Although she knew she shouldn't go, she couldn't help herself.

The next morning, she went out of town on the pretext of burning incense, and deliberately asked the coachman to take a detour and pass by the peach forest.

The peach forest hasn't changed much compared to what I remember.

It’s just that it’s not the time for peach blossoms to bloom, so there are only bare branches.

Her grave was beautifully maintained, with a high ceiling and hyacinths and roses planted around it.

She stood in front of the tombstone, and the words engraved on the tombstone - My wife died young - were as red as blood.

The area around the tombstone is worn out, but the words are still so bright.

Lu Yaoyao looked carefully and found that the red color did not look like dye, but was smeared with human blood.

Could it be Xie Qingchen’s blood?

Disbelief, disbelief, and shock all appeared on her face.

This was a scene she never dared to dream of.

Xie Qingchen remembered her so much after her death that she had the illusion that Xie Qingchen really loved her.

But since you love me, why do you break your promise?

Could it be that this is the male protagonist in idol dramas, who only regrets after losing something?

But it's too late to regret.

……

"Miss, why did your earring fall off?" The maid noticed that she had lost an earring when she was helping Lu Yaoyao remove the hairpins and jewelry on her head.

"Oh, I don't remember. I just lost it." Lu Yaoyao said absentmindedly.

"Then I'll ask Treasure Pavilion to send a new pair to match the remaining earring! This pair of earrings is so beautiful, it would be a shame to throw away the remaining one."

"If the old doesn't go, the new won't come." Lu Yaoyao said lightly, as if she was talking about the earrings, but also seemed to be hinting at something else.

"Yes." The maid put the remaining earring close to her body and continued to undress Lu Yaoyao's hair.

……

After that, Lu Yaoyao often saw Xie Qingchen accompanying his new favorite out shopping on the street.

I don’t know if it was a coincidence, but she and Xie Qingchen’s new favorite both fell in love with a magnolia hairpin.

It was clearly her hand that touched it first, and the concubine's hand followed shortly afterwards, but she arrogantly said, "I was the first to see the hairpin, so it should be mine."

Lu Yaoyao turned her head and looked, only to find that it was Xie Qingchen's beautiful concubine.

She seemed to have just seen her and smiled apologetically, "It turned out to be Miss Lu. I'm so sorry, I didn't see it clearly just now. It turns out Miss Lu also likes this hairpin."

"This hairpin is of good quality."

Seeing that it was her, Lu Yaoyao didn't let go immediately.

Her chest suddenly felt blocked, which made her become pretentious and want to be willful.

"But I really want it. I wonder if Miss Lu is willing to give it to me?" There was a hint of provocation in the beautiful concubine's smiling eyes.

Lu Yaoyao didn't say anything, but her eyes looked at Xie Qingchen.

As if waiting for him to take action.

Xie Qingchen reached out and, using a bit of his inner strength, forcefully took the hairpin from the two women's hands and handed it directly to the shop owner. "I'll deliver it to the Prince's Mansion later."

His position was clear, he chose to stand on the side of his woman.

Lu Yaoyao maintained a faint smile on her face, but her heart was filled with anger and coldness, and she couldn't help thinking:

Xie Qingchen, what would you do if I told you that I am He Yaoyao, the person you have wanted to see but couldn’t in the past few years?

Will you buy the hairpin for me or your new favorite?

But Lu Yaoyao finally held back and didn't say it out loud.

There is no point in acting on impulse. In her world, there is an old and haggard mother waiting for her in the hospital.

Lu Yaoyao returned home, and Gu Huai arrived soon after.

I don’t know if he knew that she had been wronged, but he brought a box of hairpins.

There are all kinds of carved hairpins, including peach blossoms, crabapple, magnolia, and pine branches.

Lu Yaoyao laughed, "Did you collect all the hairpins in the jewelry store?"

Gu Huai reached out and pinched her cheek, smiling indulgently, "Yaoyao deserves the best from me. You deserve all the gold and silver jewelry."

Lu Yaoyao looked up and smiled brightly.

With Gu Huai, she can always find comfort and relax.

She should be very happy to marry someone like him!

……

East Palace.

"It's still ugly, take it off." Xie Qingchen stared at the beautiful concubine's makeup and hair, with a gloomy look that was almost impossible to dispel.

When he saw the magnolia hairpin, the scene of his first meeting with He Yaoyao emerged involuntarily in his mind.

At that time, he was beaten and humiliated by a group of eunuchs. They poured rotten food on him, and he exuded a foul sour smell.

It was He Yaoyao's voice pretending to be the Queen Mother that scared them away.

She pulled him up. She was simple and elegant, wearing a magnolia hairpin on her head, which was clean and pure white, and her hair was tied up in a flying moon bun, like a fairy descending.

So he had a strong urge to buy this magnolia hairpin and let Su Yuan wear it and tie her hair into the same bun.

But she had the same hair in a bun and wore the same hairpin, but he felt it was weird no matter how he looked at it.

No matter how similar they are in appearance, they are not similar in spirit.

"Yes." Su Yuan took the hairpin with a wronged look and undid her hair.

"Go make the bed!" Xie Qingchen said coldly.

"Yes."

Su Yuan made the bed and Xie Qingchen lay down directly.

Su Yuan stood there alone, at a loss.

Suddenly, Xie Qingchen said in a cold voice: "Why don't you get out?"

Su Yuan was frightened and left without daring to stay for a second.

Xie Qingchen:

No matter how similar the face is, it's not her after all.

Everyone else thought that he loved Su Yuan very much, but only he himself knew that only when he looked at her face, which was the same as He Yaoyao's, could he feel no heartache for a moment.

He asked her to imitate He Yaoyao's words and actions when she was around, creating the illusion that she had not left him yet in order to numb herself.

But when he discovered that she was more and more different from him, and some details that could not be imitated made him wake up from the illusion, what followed was an increasingly boundless emptiness.

It's been five years, and he really doesn't know how much longer he can hold on.

Maybe one day he will go crazy.

Su Yuan stood in the corridor, and she had almost plucked all the leaves off a pot of flowers.

She was extremely depressed. Why couldn't she capture the prince's heart even though she had changed her face and it looked exactly like the prince's deceased Bai Yueguang?

She didn't even receive any preferential treatment from Xie Qingchen because of this face.

But the Li Mansion had been raided, and it was impossible for her to restore her previous identity.

Her previous identity only made her life more difficult.

"System, what if I still can't conquer Xie Qingchen? I came too late, and he already has another woman by his side."

She was very afraid that she would die.

The system did not respond.

She hurried back to the room, walked to the dressing table, took out a brocade bag from a drawer, and took out the note inside.

The system told her to open it again after a month if it didn't respond to the summons, but she was already going crazy.