Heiankyo love story

The Asakura family was too quiet.

Jiang Xue was sitting in the corridor, playing those sacrificial music over and over again. From the time the sun crossed the mid-heaven to the west, she did not see anyone passing by here. To be precise, not only did she not see anyone, she also Nothing was heard.

It's as quiet as the room in Ma Cang Ye Wang's room in Heian Jingzhong, where there are no living people.

No one can live in a house. Once there is no vitality of living people, even if it is decorated with carved beams and painted beams and resplendent in gold and jade green, there will be a kind of dead silence.

At this moment, the Asakang family was exuding such a gloomy air.

Under such excessive silence, Jiang Xue even had the leisure to think about the speed of falling leaves and the sound of flowers withering. Watching the sun gradually sinking below the horizon, she could use her own heartbeat to beat the sound of the piano.

She is avoiding all memories and effective thinking, and frees her mind as much as possible.

It was the silent defiance she could do.

Even if Ma Cangye Wang has spiritual vision and can read minds, he still can't control what she thinks, can he?

As dusk fell, King Ma Cang Ye returned to the courtyard exhausted.

From a distance, he heard the sound of the piano, but this familiar yet unfamiliar sound made him frown even more.

Familiar with such skillful skills, those superb playing skills can probably be called rare in the world, but the "emotion" corresponding to such excellent skills has not been invested in the music, so it is no longer as amazing as before. The contagious power of Heian-kyo.

It was a completely different sound from Xue Ji's piano sound in the past.

He could no longer hear any emotion from the sound of the piano, and was no longer affected by the phantom of the music. Instead, he could hear the cold sarcasm miraculously.

Is Xue Ji angry?angry?Hate it?

...that is probably a matter of course.

Ma Cang Ye Wang silently moved the corners of his mouth, his black eyes deepened.

He already knew what it would be like to forcibly lock Xue Ji here. She was a strong Ji Jun who would smash a golden cage, but other than that, he didn't have any reason to let her stay by his side. method.

Xue Ji would not joke about her engagement with Prince Dunren. When she told her about her engagement with Prince Dunren, he knew that it was impossible for him to use gentle methods to persuade her to change her mind.

The onmyoji in white stood at the gate of the courtyard, looking at the girl who looked like a delicate doll in the corridor.

She closed her eyes, without any expression on her face, just like the sound of her piano, wearing such a cold and isolated mask.

After the gentle smile and sweet voice faded away, her beautiful face had an ice-like temperament, cold and hard, yet inconceivably possessed a crystal clear and refreshing brilliance.

It was like looking in a mirror, showing a part of "Xue Ji" that didn't exist in the past. Interestingly, this is the side that really fits her real name.

If it was the princesses of Heianjing, I am afraid that they either committed suicide early in order to protect the dignity of the nobility, or they resigned to their fate with grief, but neither of these two emotions existed in Xue Ji.

Even if she stays here seemingly "submissively" at this moment, her heart has never yielded.

The softness on the outside and the firmness on the inside formed such a strong contrast that the girl under the setting sun at this moment also became strange.

Whether it's Jiang Xue or King Ma Cang Ye, both of them are well aware of the fact that "Jiang Xue knows someone is coming".

Jiang Xue just doesn't want to accommodate some troublesome onmyoji anymore.

With the effortless, skillful and ruthless way she plays at the moment, how could her keen senses as a musician not remind her that there are footsteps here?

The sound of the zither did not change due to the arrival of King Ma Cangye, and it was still played according to the original rhythm, as if declaring "you are not important to me" invisibly.

After a while, King Macang Ye still didn't want to stop listening to the sound of the piano. He walked over slowly, sat down beside Jiang Xue, and said softly: "Even at such a distance, I can't hear you thinking What... Xue Ji, how on earth did you do this?"

Jiang Xue continued to play, eyes still closed, and replied blankly: "I just didn't think about anything."

"I didn't think about anything..." Ma Cang Ye Wang looked at Jiang Xue's side face, and suddenly stretched out his hand to reach the corner of her eyes, "Have you ever cried?"

Jiang Xue opened her eyes very quickly, raised her right hand, and quickly grabbed someone's wrist, stopping his touching.

Ma Cang Ye Wang's fingertips were less than an inch away from the corner of Jiang Xue's eyes.

The two looked at each other, and after a silent stalemate for a moment, King Ma Cang Ye gave up first, and then Jiang Xue let go, picked up the bow that had just fallen, hugged the huqin, and let out a sneer.

"Whether I have cried or not seems to have nothing to do with your Excellency, so don't worry about it."

King Ma Cang Ye sighed softly when he heard the rhetoric that deliberately drew boundaries and distanced himself.

"I'm very sorry."

On the contrary, Jiang Xue was stunned for a few seconds because of this apology, and then laughed a few times dryly as if she had heard some bad joke but was forced to join her.

"That's interesting. I, the imprisoned person, are not crazy, but the imprisoned person is. If you really feel sorry, let me go back, wash my neck and wait-ah, it seems that Heianjing doesn't use this often. A sentence. Let me explain, the meaning of this sentence is - wash your neck clean, and wait to be stabbed twice."

Ma Cang Ye Wang said after a while: "Why does Xue Ji have to speak in such a tone?"

Jiang Xue asked back: "So, what tone do you want me to use? If you and I are in different places, can you speak to your prisoner calmly and even with joy?"

"...It's really interesting." Ma Cang Ye Wang was not provoked, but laughed after a while, and said with Jiang Xue's eyes as if he saw a mental illness, "In the past, Xue Ji would have disagreements, but now Completely agreed. As much as I don't want to hear that answer, I'm glad..."

Jiang Xue was choked by such unexpected words for a few seconds before recovering, and said angrily: "If you don't have the 'spiritual vision' that saw a ghost, I still have countless nice lies to tell. Since If I can’t be fooled, then what else do I have to worry about. It’s because of my carelessness that I didn’t expect today’s situation. I have nothing to say. Let’s omit those useless formalities. What am I getting here?"

In the past few months, King Ma Cang Ye had imagined many situations when he and Xue Ji would meet again, and also thought about what would happen to the two of them if things went to this point, but, in all his predictions, None of them include today's situation.

Be it anger, hatred, or sadness, these strong emotions are not found in Xue Ji.

She acted too calmly.

Too calm, this is the biggest difference.

——It was as if to say that the "Xue Ji" he had known in the past half a year, who was full of joy, anger, sorrow, and joy, never existed, and the only thing left was this one who exuded from the inside out and was incompatible with this world. A person with a cold breath.

Ma Cangye Wang carefully examined the girl in front of him, even if he looked into her eyes, he still couldn't see her heart through such an appearance.

So familiar... stranger.

At this time, King Ma Cang Ye thought of the two sentences that Jiang Xue was once proud of, and those two sentences that were popular among musicians.He looked her in the eyes and read it.

"Set the four o'clock, divide the cold and heat, overturn the clouds and rain, stung and thunder, turn death into life, and bring forth all things with one song. Urge the pillar of heaven, cut the veins of the earth, reverse the chaos of the four seasons, reverse the five elements, turn life into death, and wither all bones with one song."

Jiang Xue didn't even move her eyebrows.

"In the past, I always thought that Xue Ji couldn't do the latter sentence... Now it seems that I was wrong at the beginning."

Ma Cangye Wang reached out and gently touched the corners of Jiang Xue's eyes, his fingertips gently traced along the face to her chin, and gently picked it up.

When the four eyes met, he could see more clearly.

Those eyes are as dark as night, and there is a backlog of blood in the deepest part, like blood clots that have been frozen by the ice sheet, and the faint blood can only be felt when they are close.

From the beginning to the end, Jiang Xue's expression didn't change, but at the end she raised her hand and knocked off King Ma Cang Ye's hand.

"Your eyes..." Ma Cangye Wang looked at Jiang Xue's dark eyes, suddenly understood something, and laughed in a low voice, "Yeah, it's very clear if you look at it this way, these are a pair of eyes that have killed people. Eyes that only human beings have. You have killed people, with your weak hands that seem to only hold musical instruments..."

He felt the shock and interest brought by an extreme confrontation, and laughed a few more times before continuing.

"Afterwards, you played music with bloody hands, so that song made Dongxue appear in a season that shouldn't appear. Under the blood, there are cold corpses."

If King Ma Cang Ye said such things earlier, or anyone else said such words, Jiang Xue might not be able to face it.

For a long time, she wanted to escape from those years of holding a sword, and for a long time paralyzed herself with music, trying to cover up the other side of herself with her musical talent-forced to hold the sword and hold the sword Only then can she fall asleep, take the initiative to hold the sword, longing to return to the battlefield again, that is the side that she deliberately uses "Dione of the Ice Sword" as the code name to seal it off.

She used to think that by abandoning the "name", she could abandon the time connected with it, as if she stopped saying the name "Han Xi" on her household registration after taking the name "Dione", or as if she was After getting the title of "Jiang Xue", she abandoned "Dione".She instinctively seeks warmth, wants to become a brighter and better person, and wants to get a pure self without flaws and sins, so she deliberately divides her life section by section, leaving only praise and admiration in the end. Accompanied by "Jiang Xue".

However, she no longer thinks that way.

Seimei Abe freed her from such an escape.

Even if he is not a "perfect" person, Abe Seimei is willing to go to hell to save her soul. Even if he is not a "perfect" person, he will still accept her tenderly, protect her, enlighten her, and face her calmly as "Di" One"'s cold expression, frankly gave her the sword to protect herself, and let her know that it was not an ulterior secret.

She is the cowardly and useless "Han Xi" who only pleases her mother and seeks perfection. She is "Dione" who holds a sword and fights at the forefront of Aincrad. "Jiang Xue" is also her—she has always been just herself.

Therefore, at this moment, Jiang Xue was still calm when she heard such harsh words that were close to interrogation, and even smiled slightly.

There was a flash of light in the dark eyes.

"Yes, I have killed and saved people."

Jiang Xue asked back.

"I heard that people who haven't killed people don't know what the eyes of the murderer look like. So, have you ever killed someone?"

King Ma Cang Ye did not answer.

He thought of the sorcerer he killed when he was young, and the master who died in his hands a few years ago.

After a while, he answered Xue Ji's previous question.

"I just want you by my side."

Jiang Xue asked nonchalantly: "Does it not matter if what is left is a human figure with no appearance?"

After a brief silence, King Ma Cang Ye embraced Jiang Xue in his arms, showing a wry smile when she couldn't see her.

"Yes. If you don't get the company of your heart, you can even have a human form."

Jiang Xue was silent for a long time, deeply impressed by this advanced concept of "getting people without heart", feeling that there is no room to take advantage of, and said after a while: "I really want to break your neck."

King Ma Cang Ye chuckled and replied, "If you can do it."

When the night completely covered the land, Jiang Xue looked at the people close at hand and tried to reach out several times, but finally thought of the "dog leash" around her neck and put down her hand, and closed her eyes bitterly, as if there was a thermostat next to her. large pillow.