Later, I finally became a white lotus in the flourishing age [Quick time travel]

A layer of frost had formed on Xie Yi's snow-white fur cloak, and he stood there motionless, like a clay puppet.

Li Kangle is dead.

He thought in a daze.

Li Kangle, the man who said he would travel all over the world and step through thousands of mountains, died.

Why not leave Jinling?

Why, do you want to die here?

Xie Yi didn't know that on the eve of the start of the war, Li Kangle came to the head of the Li clan and asked to go into battle.

It was only because of the sharp and malicious words of the eldest princess: "Thank you... I heard that he is now in the palace and is very much loved by His Majesty."

"The emperor always has some innocuous hobbies, and as a courtier, he should understand it, right?"

Li Kangle didn't know whether these words were true or not.

However, he still decided to participate in this battle for power that was bet on life and death.

The people of the aristocratic family and the eldest princess rushed into the palace wall like a torrent.Those who greeted them were the soldiers and horses who had been waiting for a long time.

Li Kangle kept killing these people who rushed up, even his vision seemed to be covered by thick and sticky blood.

When the blood-stained silver gun passed through his chest, a sharp and stinging coldness spread from his chest to his limbs, and his absent-minded pupils reflected the shadow of the person standing on the high platform, which had never happened before. clear.

Qin Zhi.

He stood there tall and high, his black armor couldn't reveal a gleam of light, and there was some contempt in his eyes looking down.

Then, this figure was melted into a flash of white, blurred, dim, and finally swallowed by darkness.

The colossal family, after all, collapsed with a bang.

The boundless sky changed from thick black to eggshell blue.

The faint light of dawn casts a faint line in the sky, gently dyes from the east to the west, and finally disappears in the deep outline of the distant mountains.The soft and thin snow drifted across the sky, covering the long and stretching palace road with a deadly and quiet posture, covering the bloodstains.

The candles in the palace lanterns gradually burned out, one by one, losing their brilliance one after another.

The shadows of the lamps pouring down like water also pulled away from Xie Yi's body.

At the moment when the last lamp was about to go out, Xie Yi suddenly called out to Qin Zhi softly: "Your Majesty."

Qin Zhi's black armor was also stained with frost.He didn't seem to notice the cold, so he stood quietly and silently with Xie Yi for a long time, until he heard Xie Yi calling him.

Xie Yi raised his head, his dark eyes were bright and cool, like a pool of cold autumn water, staring at him: "Your Majesty, will you kill my sister?"

Qin Zhi's pupils opened slightly in astonishment at such an inquiry, and a subtle emotion that Xie Yi couldn't identify flowed out of it.

Qin Zhi heard his own voice, very flat, as if discussing today's weather, so flat that he was surprised—"Yes."

If Xie Ruqing is killed, will Xie Yi hate me?Should be?

But that's it.

Xie Ruqing must die.

She is such an outstanding woman, as long as she is alive, she will be a sharp thorn in the emperor's heart that cannot be pulled out.

When Xie Yi heard his answer like this, he was actually very calm.

If he was a little more arrogant and self-willed, he might force Qin Zhi to ask why he did this, or beg Qin Zhi to let Xie Ruqing go, or even pull out the sword from Qin Zhi's waist resolutely and stab Qin Zhi.

But—Xie Yi thought—maybe Qin Zhi would never give himself any chance to hurt him.

Some things cannot be reversed by Xie Yi. When the wheel of history rolled over the dust full of strong bloody smell, in order to protect himself, he could only watch with cold eyes.

But it's still sad.

She is, after all, such a good... sister.

Xie Yi closed his eyes and opened them again.

"Thank you," Qin Zhi reached out and grabbed his shoulder, staring at him, and slowly, in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "I won't kill you."

He said it so solemnly.

Xie Yi's eyes, which were as quiet as a deep pool, finally formed a layer of ripples, slowly swayed away, and returned to calm again.He nodded gently: "I see."

Those four words rolled over the tip of the tongue and were spat out.Xie Yi actually felt a little chilly.

Because at that moment, what he was thinking was - Xie Ruqing deserved to die.

He never intervened in this contest between the aristocratic family and the royal family. What happened to these people may have been the fate they deserved.

Xie Yi did not resent Qin Zhi.

Rather than resenting Qin Zhi, it is better to resent oneself for not doing anything.

Rather than saying that he is powerless to change all this, it is better to say that he never thought of changing.

What's the point of being sad and miserable now that you've anticipated the consequences from the beginning and decided to stay out of it?

The mourning was finally pulled away from his heart strangely, Xie Yi only felt that the whole person was empty.

His thinking is sluggish.

He knew it was time for him to rest.

So relying on instinct, he bid farewell to Qin Zhi, and walked back to the hall in a daze to rest.

He was lying on the bed, in a daze, as if a pair of hands touched his face.The fingertips, which were icy cold, slid lightly on the side of the cheek.

"Take care of him."

Qin Zhi left a word to the two maids serving in the palace, then turned and walked out.

Xie Ruqing was imprisoned together with the women of the aristocratic family, and in the cell on the other side was Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess, who was already unconscious.

The woman bit her fingertips and giggled, and a small piece of the vermilion Kodan peeled off her nails.She was still wearing the costume of the eldest princess, and the palace dress was winding on the ground, like a flower that was so beautiful that it was about to decay.

At the end of the dungeon, the sound of chaotic footsteps slowly approached.

Then I heard a voice—"Your Majesty, please come with me."

The jumping flame suddenly exploded lightly, splashing out a little spark.A shadow was cast on the wall, pulled by the flickering flames, twisted ferociously.

Qin Zhi stopped in front of the eldest princess' cell door, and he called softly: "Eldest sister."

The woman glanced at him, then turned her head away without interest.Her eyes were so blank, as if the resentment last night was all Qin Zhi's illusion.

Qin Zhi couldn't be sure if she was really crazy.

Anyway, it doesn't matter if it's true or not.

"It was your mother who killed my mother first." His voice seemed to come from a secluded, quiet forest full of dark green tree shadows, with the decadent breath of rotting leaves, "Because your Mother, need a son."

Qin Zhi looked at her and stated quietly with no expression on his face.He didn't seem to need her to understand his words, he just wanted to say these things in general.

Finally, he said: "I owe you nothing."

Then someone opened the cell door, bowed deeply in a respectful posture, and presented a mahogany table with gold lacquer and silver clay, with only a glass of wine in it.

The wine was as gorgeous as rouge, very much like the sharp and dazzling red on the small golden scissors in Qin Zhi's memory.

Qin Zhi took a deep look at her one last time, turned and left.

for a long time.

In the prison that had returned to dead silence, there was a voice, low and slow, like singing poetry.

The man said: "Please go to the princess to die."

He picked up the glass of wine and raised it above his head.

The eldest princess stared at the glass of wine obsessively, and smiled grinningly: "You want to harm me, I won't drink it..."

He straightened up slowly, and glanced at the people around him.

Those few people immediately rushed up and held down the woman's hands and feet.

"Presumptuous! You...you dare to treat Ben Gong like this!" She struggled, her clothes were torn into a mess, but she couldn't break free from the suppression of these people.

As if he had never heard of it, the man slowly sang, and said, "Your Highness, please go to die."

He stepped forward, pinched her jaw, opened her mouth forcefully, and poured all the poisoned wine in the glass.

The eldest princess was released, and she fell to the ground with a dazed expression.

She first smiled dumbly, and then wailed like a child: "You all want to kill me! Father...Father..."

She cried for her father, but the man who had long since died would never respond to her and protect her.

Xie Ruqing watched those people leave coldly.

The eldest princess sat on the ground, her crying gradually died down, and finally she completely disappeared.

Her cheeks were dyed a delicate red.

This is a poison called hibiscus color, which makes people blush, like the color of hibiscus.It's the poison that makes a decent death.

The young female relatives huddled together in panic, with ignorance and fear of the future in their eyes.

Only Xie Ruqing was still sitting upright in an elegant and calm manner, with an unbelievably calm expression.

Sitting there, she stands out from the crowd.

The eldest princess seemed to have noticed her suddenly, and her eyes became clear.

She laughed and said in a thin voice, "Xie Ruqing, I remember you! You are Xie Ruqing!"

Xie Ruqing looked over.

The effect of the poison had already started to take effect, the woman spat out a mouthful of blood, and slowly wiped the blood from the corner of her lips with her sleeve.

She said: "Xie Ruqing, don't you want to know where Xie Yi is? Let me tell you."

The Eldest Princess smiled with slight malice, like a cold needle tip running over her skin, accompanied by discomfort.

Xie Ruqing realized that maybe this answer was never what she wanted.

"He is by Qin Zhi's side, and he is very much loved by Qin Zhi."

The eldest princess stared at her, saying so.

But Xie Ruqing just looked at her indifferently, a little pity appeared in her dark brown eyes, she curled the corners of her lips little by little, and said mockingly, "How did Your Highness know?"

"I……"

She was interrupted by Xie Ruqing before she finished speaking.

"Your Highness, you have already missed it once." The smile on Xie Ruqing's lips dissipated little by little, and she said sarcastically, "Do you think we will trust you again?"

It seems to be laughing at the unreliable news that the eldest princess got, so that now they are all charged with killing the nine clans.

The eldest princess opened her eyes wide in bewilderment.

It seems that he also began to doubt whether he really got the wrong news.

No one knew that at that moment, Xie Ruqing's nails made deep red marks on the palm.

If it's true, that's fine.

I just want you to live a good life.