No one knew how big a mistake Concubine Xue had made to become a military prostitute. From the beginning when no one dared to mock her to the time when Wanyan Lin ordered the sleeping snow bamboo to be rewarded with hundreds of taels of silver, the people in the queue had to wait for the signature, and the people who signed it earned a lot of good money.
Xuezhu, who was pale, stared up without focus. The cold question made her not feel the cold on the ground, nor any pain.
Even though she had suffered such abuse at this moment, she did not regret helping su mianyue escape. She was already waiting for the end of this moment, wasn't she?
"If there is a next life, I just hope I don't meet you." Xuezhu spoke softly, but her voice was so low that the soldiers on her could not hear her clearly.
She had once been as cold and arrogant as a bamboo in the snow, and before swallowing the last breath of her life, she had only said such a last word that no one could understand.
Maybe it's Su Mianyue, or maybe it's Wanyan Lin.
Xuezhu had been tortured for less than twelve hours before he died. The guard went to Wanyan Lin with some trepidation to tell him the news. He wanted to curse his bad luck and die in such a short time. If the emperor was not satisfied with the result, wouldn't they be punished?
However, Wanyan Lin did not show any anger when he learned that Xuezhu was dead. He gave a cold order for the body to be frozen, but did not give any instructions on what was left of the body.
He ordered the soldiers to continue attacking Huizhou City, harassing him three times a day and attacking him once every three days. The seemingly regular strategy was confusing.
While Shangguan Pei was studying Wanyan Lin's intentions, several cities, such as Linzhou city, were constantly being harassed and attacked, and the attacks were getting more and more fierce, as if they were trying to figure out the Tianlan's battle plan before embarking on a life-and-death struggle.
The gates of Jianzhou City had been closed for many days and still maintained the stance of taking defense as an attack.
On this day, Shangguan Pei was in the study discussing the strategy of defending the enemy, while Su Mianyue went to Ji Xun's former camp.
Although Ji Xun's life and death were not clear, Shangguan Pei still ordered everything to remain intact, perhaps expecting a miracle, and Su Mianyue, as Shangguan Pei's bodyguard, came here without anyone stopping him.
When he came to the familiar tent, after all, there was only a sense of coldness in the uninhabited tent. Even if Su Mianyue could remember Ji Xun's every move in the tent, there was no smell of Ji Xun in the tent.
"Yu, I don't believe you're going to go like this. It doesn't matter if you don't marry me, as long as you come back alive. But if you're safe and sound, why haven't you sent me the news of peace? You know, I've been trying so hard not to think about you these days, I was afraid that you would kill that beast Wanyan Lin on impulse, but it's impossible for me to avenge you on my own, so I can only come back here and use the strength of the Tianlan army to avenge you, whether you live or die, Wanyan Lin has the will to kill you and he shouldn't have stayed in this world!" Su Mianyue murmured coldly, but her eyes were glistening with tears.
Su Mianyue had been through so much recently that she knew how many people she would implicate if she acted rashly, and unless she sacrificed herself to stay by Wanyan Lin's side, it would be difficult to kill him in one fell swoop. The hundreds of thousands of troops were the biggest obstacle.
Ji Xun's whereabouts were already unknown because of a crazy move at the beginning, and Shangguan Pei was the one who fell into the enemy force to rescue him and almost lost his life. Perhaps the 20,000 soldiers of the Tianlan lost their morale because Shangguan Pei couldn't stay in the army.
"I didn't kill bo ren, but he died because of me. Now I understand the true meaning of this sentence. Even if I lost my mind because of poisoning, if I hadn't come here with a will to kill in the first place, how could I have implicated you?" When he came to the desk and looked at the half-written military strategy, tears dripped from Su Mianyue's eyes and soaked the writing on it.
Frantically trying to wipe her tears away, but in the end, more words were destroyed. Su Mianyue clenched her pink lips to stop herself from crying. Before she was sure whether Ji Xun was really not alive, before she avenged Ji Xun, what right did she have to cry here?
Su Mianyue tried hard to raise the corner of his lips, "Yu likes to see me smile the most. He said I look the best when I smile, so I can't cry. Yu will be sad when he finds out. He won't want to... Yu, can you come back soon? I only want you to be fine, as long as you are fine, I can not take revenge, and I don't care about anything related to Wanyan Lin anymore. I just want you to be safe, even from the ends of the earth. To live... To live..."
The corners of his lips stiffened over and over again, and Su Mianyue fell into a chair, groveling on the table with silent tears, lying in his arms, trying to hide the sadness that could not be hidden, but the effect was even more heartbreaking.
When Shangguan Pei came here to look for su mianyue, she saw her thin figure, unable to support her military uniform, fluctuating. The person who usually smiled and talked to him was now shrouded in sadness.
She wanted to go up and hold Su Mianyue in her arms, but Shangguan Pei's feet seemed to take root and could not move a single inch from the doorway.
Su Mianyue cried and slept on the desk for a long time. Shangguan Pei then went forward to light Su Mianyue's sleeping acupoint and placed her on the couch where Ji Xun had once rested. Looking at Su Mianyue, who was still in pain in her sleep, Shangguan Pei whispered in a heartbroken voice: "What if I could make you remember me and make you so sad for me, even if it cost my life?"
Shangguan Pei took off his mask and couldn't help but laugh, "I am confused. A beautiful woman like you should not be shrouded in sorrow. If I were to exchange my identity with Ji Yu, I would only hope that you would live a peaceful and happy life. Don't think about revenge or even remember my existence. I believe he must have thought the same way, but unfortunately he didn't have the opportunity to explain his thoughts to you."
Stroking Su Mianyue's clean face and wiping away the wet tears on her face, Shangguan Pei suddenly turned around and kissed Su Mianyue on the forehead. Although it was only as fast as a dragonfly, it made Shangguan Pei blush.
It was not a man's job to belittle the woman he liked, but Shangguan Pei would never do that if Su Mianyue was sober.
"Mianyue, meeting you in this life is the most fortunate thing for me, Shangguan Pei, because your existence has made me understand that there should be those emotions in life, but unfortunately you will never understand how important you are to me, even if I give my life for you." Looking at Su Mianyue's swollen eyes with a bitter smile, Shangguan Pei stroked Su Mianyue's long hair again, fearing that she would wake up, and strode out of the tent, ordering the soldiers to send charcoal into the tent.
Although his acupuncture points only allowed Su Mianyue to sleep for two hours, Shangguan Pei was still worried that Su Mianyue would catch a cold and was too busy with the war to care more about Su Mianyue. Today, he was surprised that Su Mianyue had lost so much weight that his original standard oval face had already lost its pointed undershell.
But what could he do for Su Mianyue?