White snow, red plum, and him.

The falling snow fell in front of me, shaking my eyes, and the red plums in the white snow bloomed brightly, which also made me feel a moment of trance. This scene is so familiar, so familiar...

It seems that once was also in this place, there was a piece of white snow around it, and a tree of red plums that was as bright as flames in the snow. It was also this man standing in front of me and taking me to enjoy the red plum trees.

But, in a flash, the redness of the plum blossoms changed.

It turned into a bloody red, as if the blood that passed through my body that night, with the deepest temperature in my heart, and the life of that child, flowing out of my body bit by bit, irreversible. I just felt that the blood in my body was getting colder, standing in the snow, getting colder and colder.

My fingertips trembled uncontrollably.

No matter what I have experienced in this life or what I will experience in the future, that night is always my heart sorrow. No matter what I thought I had forgotten everything in the past and could face it without love or hate, but what I experienced in that night was an indelible pain in my life.

"Do you still remember this?"

The familiar voice sounded, pulling me back from that night.

I raised my head blankly and met the dark pupils. Although it was black, it seemed like a bottomless deep pool without even ripples. The deep pool seemed to have been frozen into ice.

“…”

I didn't say anything, he didn't say anything, and the two of them stood like that.

The snow was getting heavier and heavier. After a while, my fingertips were so cold that they were no longer conscious. A thin layer of snow had accumulated on my shoulders and head. He frowned slightly: "Is it cold?"

I still didn't say anything, but I was trembling so much that I could hear the sound of my teeth pounding.

He walked towards me, and while walking, he took off his fur coat and put it on my shoulders with his backhand. The thick fur coat fell on my shoulders with his smell. Suddenly, a warm feeling came, but I subconsciously shivered. Before I could speak, he had already said, "This way, it's not cold."

Indeed, it's no longer cold.

His body temperature was even left in the fur clothes, and his smell was filled with warmth. However, the clothes were so heavy that they had the illusion of crushing me.

I felt my breathing getting heavier and heavier, and my voice was also very low when I opened my mouth, as if I was tired: "Thank you for your kindness, I am afraid of me."

His breathing also sank for a moment, but he didn't speak immediately. He just felt a sense of depression. After a while, he said, "I brought you here. Do you still remember this place?"

"……Remember."

I looked up at the brilliant red plum tree, which was the scenery I had lived with him. The same snow, the brilliant red plum, and even people were the same.

But the mood is completely different.

He walked forward, reached out to stroke the rough and winding branches, and said slowly: "At that time, you were still—I specially brought you here to relax and enjoy the plum blossoms. There was a plum blossom that bloomed very well, and I ordered someone to fold it down and send it to Fangcaotang to put a bottle for you."

"…I remember."

He turned around and looked at me: "Qingying, I--"

Before I finished speaking, I had already walked upstairs, stood beside him and looked at the winding and vigorous branches, and said softly: "So, this plum tree has never grown again."

His face slightly condensed. He looked up and saw that the place where the branches were broken, new branches grew next to the place next to it, and plum blossoms were also full of plum blossoms, but the broken parts were still bare and never grew again.

His face darkened, and a trace of anger flashed in his eyes.

I was still standing in front of him, silently took off the fur on my body, carefully presented it to him, and said calmly: "The emperor should take care of the dragon body. It's nothing to be cold in my memory, but I won't be cold when I arrive at the imperial study."

He didn't reach out to pick him up, but heard him grinding his teeth.

My hands holding Qiuyi shook slightly below, but my face was still as calm as possible - it was not that I didn't know that my persistence would make him angry, nor did I know what he would do to me when he was angry. I have been doing this for so many years. It's not that I'm not afraid of fighting, but now, there are fewer and fewer things that can persist.

Pei Yuanzhen is right. There are some things that are done by humans!

He looked at me silently, as if suppressing the anger in his body. After a long time, he raised his hand and I subconsciously took a step back, but his hand did not raise it up, but reached under the thick fur coat and touched the back of my cold hand. The skin felt burning warm. His voice was a bit hoarse and he said, "I know, you have been in a very unsatisfactory life in the past."

“…”

"I also know that you have suffered a lot over the years."

“…”

"But, what's past is gone."

The deliberate tenderness and the hot temperature in my palm made my heart tremble. I raised my head and looked at him, looked at the bottomless eyes, and suddenly understood.

These words were not for Yue Qingying to hear.

I knew very well that he did not believe Pei Yuanzhen's words. Before the state banquet in the main hall, he must have investigated my affairs clearly, otherwise he would not have accompanied Shen Rou and the others to play that drama. He did not want Shen Rou to examine me, but just wanted me to be forced by the Shen family to admit everything. But he didn't expect that Pei Yuanzhen would suddenly appear and say those words. He didn't want to turn against the princess, so he agreed to everything she said.

But, it's just a default, not a belief.

He said these words not to Yue Qingying, but to those who should have enjoyed the glory of the world and loved them in every way, but eventually fell into the vortex of fate and suffered all the hardships.

For some reason, my whole body was already cold, but at this moment, a hot and sour feeling surged up, and my eyes suddenly turned red.

His hand was still under the fur clothes and holding my hand: "I will not blame you for the past. No matter what you have done, I will not blame you."

I looked up at him--I will let go of the past?

At this time, he told me "I will not blame you for the past"?

Suddenly I felt indescribable, and I almost started to laugh, but at this moment, a familiar voice suddenly came from the other end of the quiet palace wall: "Hey, wait for me! Qinghan!"

As soon as I heard that name, I shuddered for a moment. I turned my head along the sound and saw a familiar figure standing at the fork in the road at the other end of the palace wall. A long green dress was not thick. Perhaps because he was too thin, he even felt a sense of isolation when standing in the snow. A thin layer of snow fell on his shoulders, and the blue and white contrast made his eyes clear as a mirror, but the expression in his eyes was indescribable chaos.

It seemed like I didn't know whether it was joy or sorrow, and I didn't even have the temperature, I just stared blankly.

Look at us.

My heart suddenly sank.

Pei Yuanhao also saw him, but didn't say anything, his face was as cold as before, but a bright red figure ran over from the side. It was Pei Yuanzhen who grabbed him: "Why are you running away? I'll ask you?"

As she pulled, several books in Qinghan's hand fell to the ground. He seemed to have suddenly woken up, and hurriedly lowered his head and picked up the books in the snow.

What else did Pei Yuanzhen say? She saw us in a blink of an eye. When her eyes fell on Pei Yuanhao and I, who were wrapped around under the fur clothes, a happy smile appeared on her face, and she immediately walked over with a smile: "Brother, Lord Yue, so you are here to enjoy the plum blossoms?"

Liu Qinghan picked up the book on the ground, walked over, lowered his head and said, "I pay homage to the emperor."

Pei Yuanhao looked at the two of them, and a quiet smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, so calm that he seemed to have nothing to do. But no matter how hard my hand was under Qiuyi and trying to retract, he grabbed it hard by him. My face turned pale. I gritted my teeth and struggled hard twice, but he grabbed it even tighter.

Pei Yuanhao smiled without changing his expression and said, "It's so cold, Yumei is still running around like this?"

Pei Yuanzhen looked at my pale face again and smiled, "My sister saw that Mr. Qinghan was so cold, and she came into the palace with her coins in her arms and asked him what he was doing. He said that the emperor summoned him into the palace. He rushed in without even listening to his sister's words. He thought there was something big, but why did the emperor and Lord Yue have leisurely here?"

Pei Yuanhao smiled faintly: "It's not a big deal."

"Since it's not a big deal, then the sister-in-law wants to go to the horse farm to ride a horse later, and there is no one to accompany him. Do you want him to accompany him? "

Qinghan's skin was originally dark and healthy, but at this time it was almost as pale as paper. His whole body was as cold as a statue made of ice and snow. Pei Yuanhao looked at him and smiled and said, "Liu Qing."

"I am here."

"I have appointed you as the commander of the Light Che, and you cannot live with only some ancient books all day long."

"……yes."

"I'll accompany the princess to the horse farm to test the horse later."

"There are my husbands who follow the order."

"Okay, you can go to the Imperial Study room now, and I will come here immediately."

"yes."

After agreeing to this, Liu Qinghan seemed to want to raise his head, but hesitated for a moment, but did not look up and look at us again. He just bowed and turned around and left.

Pei Yuanzhen stood there, looking at his back, with a warm smile on her face. She waited until the back disappeared in the wind and snow before turning around and looking at us, and smiled and said, "Thank you for your grace, Brother Emperor."

After saying that, he turned around and left.

In the snow, only me and him were left.

This time, the heavy fur and his warm big hands did not warm my cold fingers back. I stood there and felt completely cold, as if I had lost consciousness. I didn't even know when the fur was taken away from my hands. But when I came to my senses, he had already put the fur on my shoulders again.

"That way, it won't be cold."
Chapter completed!