withered prosperity

Yun Ji stood on the shore where weeds grew freely, looking at the water pavilion in the lake from afar.

Seeing someone finally come out of the door, he curled his fingers involuntarily.

Soon, the boat with the red lanterns came back to where he was standing.

"Master." Walking off the boat was a blind old woman.

"how was it?"

"My lord took some food, but very little." The old woman replied, "I drank the medicine."

"Did he say anything?"

The old woman shook her head, Yun Ji could only wave her hand to let her go down.

Then he stood there by himself and looked at it for a while.

Looking out from here, Tianye is empty and the moonlight is cold, only the lonely water pavilion emits the only warm light.

But every window is closed...

Yun Ji lowered his head and took out something from his body.

The feather-style ornaments and the pearls adorned with gold threads emitted a warm light in his hands.

Even though it's just a delicate and slender thing, it feels extra heavy for some reason.

Maybe it's because what he holds in his hand is not only this one real thing, but also many...

Maybe it was really influenced by the Da Xiao Yao Jue, he still couldn't face Yan Hai calmly.

Especially these days, once he met Yan Hai, he would immediately be controlled by various uncontrollable emotions and do some bad things.

On the contrary, the anger lingering in his heart, so far away, finally no longer burns so fiercely at this moment.

And this ebb and flow, those things lurking in the darker depths, slowly emerged.

Standing here alone, he has no way to blame everything on Yan Hai, although he did think so when he learned the truth.

It's all Yan Hai's fault!

It's all Yan Hai!

It was he who lied to me!

He disguised himself as a young girl, fascinated me when I was young, and then suddenly one day, he disappeared... In the vast crowd, there was no news, and I didn't even know the name of the other party. Like a short dream.

When I searched to no avail and felt hopeless, he changed his face and came to me again.

And I... for more than ten years, I didn't recognize him.

So, his deceit is irritating, but I really... have nothing to blame?

In order to verify the authenticity of Yan Hai's words, he asked Yue Liuyi repeatedly about the fight between Yan Hai and her back then.

Yue Liuyi told him that it was after Jia Chongshan gave the head, and she learned of Yan Hai's movements from Yin Yuzhang's news, and quietly followed the plot.

[It happened so many years ago, and I can’t remember some details. Anyway, that time, both of us were injured. At the beginning, he was injured a little bit more seriously. I chased him all the way to a place not far from Qianqiu Mountain , and was wounded by him in turn... I actually found it strange that he wanted to hide in a random place, and I might not be able to find him with his ability, but he ran so far with his injuries.

What's more, you know that he is usually very alert, not to mention getting close to him, you can't hide the slightest movement from him, but for some reason, that time on the Bibo Lake, he was so absent-minded as if he had lost his soul. I would also think, who or what distracted him?

I don't know if he thought of Yue Qingbi at that time, you have to know, he was very fond of Yue Qingbi back then...]

Yue Liuyi repeatedly tested his relationship with Yan Hai. After seeing Yue Qingbi's portrait and his reaction, she seemed to have misunderstood something, and her words were intended to provoke him.

But he didn't know where his confidence came from, and he felt that what Yue Liuyi said that made Yan Hai absent-minded was not Yue Qingbi, but himself back then...or in other words, it was his rash proposal for marriage that time.

Because counting the time, Yan Hai came to Shangjing to kill Jia Chongshan after he left without saying goodbye, and was later plotted to be seriously injured by Yueliuyi. I arrived at Chaomu Pavilion earlier.

Thinking of this, Yun Ji couldn't help but think of Yan Hai he saw last night, and of that hideous and terrifying scar.

For a person like Yan Hai who cared about his appearance, such an injury might not be much worse than killing him.

If he had known earlier that the "slightly more serious injury" that Yueliuyi had said was actually to such an extent, how could she have escaped so easily?

And there is...

Looking at Cui Yu in his hand, Yun Ji felt something stuck in his throat.

There were already too many entanglements between him and Yan Hai that could not be sorted out, how could they have expected that there would be such things in their previous generation.

To be able to do such a thing to a singing girl who has no power to resist, it shows that Yin Yunni should be in love with Xie Manting in her heart!

yes!From family background to talent and appearance, they could have become an enviable couple, if not for... those terrible desires that grow in the darkest part of the heart...

He was born with such an appearance that everyone thought he was of Ximan blood, even among the Yin clan, they only thought he was the son of Yin Yunni and the eminent monk Wu Luona of the Ximan.

But the truth is far from that...

In fact, Yin Yunni can't be blamed for being ruthless, after all, giving birth to a child with such a grotesque appearance, in her opinion, just represents her seemingly beautiful and prosperous life, but in fact it is sad and hopeless.

In the last days of her life, she was still cursing the monster she had born.

Yin Yunni, Yin Yunxi, Xie Manting, Yan Yingniang...these four people made the life of herself and Yan Hai a grotesque and absurd nightmare.

A nightmare from which I cannot wake up...

The moonlight was covered by clouds, and the wind blew the long grass into a whirling sound.

Yun Ji turned his head and looked at the nearly deserted palaces not far away.

It used to be so resplendent and magnificent, but it has only been more than ten years, and it has become so dilapidated.

Therefore, he has always believed that the human heart must be controlled.

Because the most unbearable and inescapable part of his life all started from unrestrained desire...

At this moment, a blue butterfly flew past him.

Yun Ji's expression froze, and he grabbed it in his hand.

It was different from the ones I had seen before. The blue color of this butterfly was almost transparent, and it shone like a firefly in the night.

Before he had time to think about what this meant, the sound of flapping wings suddenly came from all directions.

He turned his head sharply.

Hundreds of thousands of butterflies came from nowhere, like a flickering band of light, standing on the surface of the dark lake.

Where he is heading is his Yan Hai, where he is...