"Sister-in-law, I haven't seen you for a long time... How did you get here in the past two thousand years?"
Xiang An let out a long sigh, looking at the image in front of him that was completely different from before. Only the eyebrows and eyes were slightly similar.
It was even... hard for him to connect the mustard child in front of him with his sister-in-law Poppy.
"How I lived before that incident on the plateau is how I lived during the past two thousand years."
Jie Chuzi calmly took a sip of tea and glanced at Xiang An.
Anyway, she was still somewhat... broken, but she just didn't show it on her face.
Two thousand years have passed, and she has finally changed.
"The plateau..."
Xiang An leaned against the wooden wall, looked at the ceiling, and sighed.
Brother, why are you doing this...
Awakening the poppy's humanity on the plateau, and later combining with the poppy, the story of Farewell My Concubine is still sung by the Central Plains even now, two thousand years later.
But, can Xiang An still not know who his eldest brother is?
Hope again and again, disappointment again and again, although I still admire you, but...
It has to be said that Xiang Yu's original decision may have really benefited the entire Central Plains, but the person he hurt the most... was precisely the person closest to him.
Xiaosi died in Dangshan, Xiang An returned to the Yellow River, and his lover Yu Meiren——
Then he wandered around the Central Plains for another two thousand years.
And now, he refused the poppy's call and let his younger brother be pulled out to support him.
"Why, are you curious about what I've been doing all these years?"
The poppy put down the tea cup and looked at her uncle.
"I'm sure you'll be curious... I'm not qualified and I'm too lazy to explain to you. In fact, I don't know why he refuses to meet you again..."
"But I think, maybe...it's guilt."
Poppy was slightly silent.
Don’t you have the face to meet people?
"Uncle, actually I still don't understand one thing until the end."
Looking at the tea in the cup, Poppy's hand tightened slightly.
"Lord Xiang Yu...does he have any humanity?"
"I remember him, and I also remember you, uncle. The salvation machine you two designed by the First Emperor himself once really had humanity, but why did something like that happen again?"
"I remember... it started after uncle passed away. The conflict between you and Mr. Xiang Yu also started at that time."
Xiang An lowered his head and rubbed his hands.
"Brother, his humanity is not as good as mine, or even as good as yours, sister-in-law."
Xiang An said this.
"On that day, my father and the First Emperor designed my eldest brother and me. The eldest brother was given a template for deducing magic and a more rational emotion, while I had far greater mobility and a more perceptual emotion than my eldest brother.
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"My father Ji Chao made a difference between the two of us from the beginning. This is necessary. My eldest brother and I both understand the decision of my father and the First Emperor."
"But... Big Brother himself misjudged the situation."
"He didn't know that he had made a misjudgment. The rational module that had been restarted because of his uncle's death also completely squeezed the perceptual living space. In his calculations, everything was just a price on the scale, no matter what
Is it me...or himself."
"This is also the core of the conflict between me and my eldest brother."
Xiang An stood up and stood at the door, looking at the gray sky.
"After the battle along the river, I left my eldest brother and started my own business because I couldn't understand why he remained like this. I have been trying to reawaken his sensibility, but... I failed."
"Han Xin kept persuading me to let me leave. I still had expectations for my eldest brother. In the end, he abandoned me and went to Liu Ji... Maybe fate had destined something to happen from the beginning.
"
Xiang An smiled helplessly.
Han Xin's single hand was the absolute core for Liu Ji to complete a comeback and completely defeat his Northern Chu and Xiang Yu's Western Chu.
That's a soldier.
"He can see some things, but he can't understand them. He can only look for clues about what he sees based on absolute rationality... He believes in what he sees too much."
"Now that he doesn't want to see you again, sister-in-law, maybe... he has finally developed fear."
Xiang An looked back at his sister-in-law.
"I...saw it."
"I saw the scene before my eldest brother died."
"In his final fear, I think his few perceptual modules finally came back. Looking at his life after death, he may also know whether certain things he did were right or wrong."
"Ha ha......"
Xiang An touched his head and smiled a little relieved.
"Think about it this way, whether it's eldest brother or me... or in other words, people with human nature are all like this."
"Brother, he may know that he should see you, but he hesitated for a moment and let me walk out of the summoning array. He will still regret it."
"...Is this so?"
The tea in the tea cup had cooled down, and the poppy saw her own reflection in the tea through the faint moonlight.
Lord Xiang Yu...
Do you regain your humanity after death?
Poppy will not blame Xiang Yu.
In fact, she is such a person.
Awakening humanity from the plateau, when Xiang Yu gently wiped away his tears with her fingers, she would never think that her Lord Xiang Yu was wrong.
Maybe being objective is wrong, but she is absolutely reluctant to blame.
She used to look extremely fierce, but now she is so taciturn that she hardly looks like a human being... The poppy's nature may be unexpectedly soft.
"I was also present when you were fighting by the river."
"I didn't understand why you made that choice at the time, but now... maybe I understand a little bit."
"Obviously you are aiming for the same goal, but your choices will lead you to embark on completely different paths. Such a fate...maybe it is exactly what my uncle said. It was destined from the beginning."
After drinking the cold tea, the poppy stood up, walked past Xiang An, and came to the courtyard. She hugged her legs and raised her head to look at the sky.
The clouds cleared and the fog dispersed, and the moon appeared.
Poppy remembered her own story that happened in a corner of history.
I followed Lord Xiang Yu to the bank of Wujiang River.
Xiang Yu told her decision. She wanted to refute, but what she got was a desperate reply.
Xiang Yu committed suicide in Wujiang.
Before his death, Xiang Yu suddenly revealed his decision to let Poppy go find Xiang An.
So--
What happened again?
After seeing Xiang Yu's death, Poppy saw Xiang An's death.
She finally gained people's hearts and warmth. At this moment, everything...