marry a princess

Chapter 223

Yuan Hongyi's heart was shocked, and he immediately held Bai Ziwan's shoulder, looked into her eyes, and said word by word, "I don't care."

He once said that he would love her well; he once said that he would protect her from any harm and grievance; he also told himself that as long as she was by his side, he would not care about anything... He thought He let go of his guard against her, but in fact, he never gave her real trust.He loves her, so he is afraid that she doesn't love him enough, afraid of being hurt by her, and afraid of her. Therefore, when encountering variables, he will easily doubt her, deny her, and humiliate her to make up for the trauma he has suffered in his heart.

It wasn't until this moment that he realized how stupid he was.His self-righteous revenge, in the end, not only pushed the one he loved away from him, but also regretted it too much.Seeing the indifference and calmness in his eyes, Yuan Hongyi had difficulty breathing, as if he couldn't breathe, what can he do to make Awan change his mind and give up the idea of ​​leaving him.

Is it...

Seeing the hesitation and struggle in Yuan Hongyi's eyes, Bai Ziwan smiled slightly, slowly pulled his hand away, and said calmly, "We were originally two strangers who didn't know each other. married."

"Who said we are strangers who haven't met? Have you forgotten the encounter over the past ten years?" Yuan Hongyi interrupted her and said.

"You forgot that I told you that I am not Bai Yingying, let alone Bai Ziwan, I am just a lonely soul living in this body, so the little girl you have met for more than ten years is not me. Seeing the injury in his eyes, Bai Ziwan felt pain in his heart, turned his head, and said after a while, "Let me go." The soft voice was like a dream.

Awan, are you really going to be so cruel?With a stabbing pain in her heart, Yuan Hongyi pinched her chin with moderate strength, which would not hurt her.Forcing her to look at him, he said seriously, "Whether you are Bai Yingying, Bai Ziwan, or a lonely soul, since you marry me, you can only be my wife Yuan Hongyi .”

wife?These two words again.Bai Ziwan laughed at herself, she also thought that he really regarded her as his wife, but what happened in the end?If becoming his wife would live with his doubts, mistrust and defenses every day, then he would rather die alone!
Seeing Bai Ziwan looking at him silently, a smile slowly overflowed from his clear eyes, Yuan Hongyi's pupils tightened, she was clearly smiling, why did he see determination in her eyes.This time, is he really unable to keep A Wan anymore?

Avoiding her eyes, Yuan Hongyi lowered his head and frowned in thought for a moment, then raised his eyes and said, "A Wan, wait a minute, I'll show you something."

Bai Ziwan was about to speak, but saw that he had strode over to open the door and went outside.The wind swept in with coldness, causing Zi Wan to shiver involuntarily, she rubbed her arms subconsciously, and stared fixedly at the dying candle on the table, powerless to shake.

"Xiao He, you go to guard the gate of the courtyard now, and don't let anyone in without my king's order!"

A cold voice sounded outside the house, and then the door retreated, only to hear a "huh", the candle on the table went out in response, and the room was suddenly dark.

"Don't be afraid, Ah Wan, I'll light the lamp right away." Yuan Hongyi hastily closed the door, took out his torch and lit the candle on the table.As soon as the room was lit up, he put the candlestick on the low stool beside the bed, and sat sideways on the edge of the bed.

Yuan Hongyi held a red lacquered wooden box in his hand, with intricate carvings on three sides, and a large peony and a few auspicious clouds on the lid.Perhaps it was a long time relationship, the paint color on the wooden box is no longer as bright and bright as it used to be, some places have fallen off the paint, and the peonies on the box cover have also lost their former nobility, adding a bit of coldness and bleakness, as if to tell With endless loneliness.

I saw him frowning slightly, teeth clenched, lips pursed into a line, eyes recalling and painful, staring intently at the wooden box in his hand, as if he was remembering something, or trying to bear something.After a long time, his hand brushed lightly over the box, and the corners of his mouth raised, revealing a smile.The smile was so shallow that you couldn't see it unless you looked carefully.

Bai Ziwan leaned against the bed, taking a panoramic view of every subtle expression on his face. The candle flame flickered, and the candle's tears were drooping. His handsome face was full of sadness, and in a moment something overflowed from his eye sockets, and quickly flowed across his face. It hit the wooden box with a resounding sound.

He actually cried!Bai Ziwan was taken aback, what was the source of this wooden box that could make him shed tears?His eyes fell on the red lacquered wooden box again. Judging from the carving of the wooden box, it should be a jewelry box for women.Then looked up at him again.

I saw his eyes suddenly closed, two lines of tears slid down his cheeks, his expression was full of regret.A man doesn't flick his tears easily, but he doesn't reach the sad point.Bai Ziwan raised his hand involuntarily, wanting to reach out to grab his, but held back.

After a long time, Yuan Hongyi opened his eyes, his expression had returned to the original, and he said in a flat voice, "A Wan, in fact, I should have disappeared from the world long ago. Eleven years ago, in order to protect me and my sixth brother, my mother threatened and framed me and my sixth brother. He died of injustice, and his bones were blown to ashes."

Bai Ziwan was startled in his heart, his bones turned ashes?What happened, not only caused a mother of the country to die unjustly, but was also crushed after death.

Yuan Hongyi's calm but heavy voice sounded again: "It has been 11 years. Those who knew the truth were either silenced or disappeared. And this matter has been buried in the hearts of my sixth brother and me. These years, my sixth brother and I have been sending people to We secretly searched for the whereabouts of those who disappeared, but found nothing."

Bai Ziwan opened his mouth, but made no sound.What he needs now is not someone to talk to him, but someone to listen quietly, so she just looked at him quietly and listened to him.

"It is said that a woman's lack of talent is a virtue. Although my grandfather had three sons, he disciplined his mother as a boy, even stricter than his three uncles. The mother's beauty is not only beautiful, but she also has poems, songs, piano and chess. Calligraphy and painting are all excellent, and she is a talented woman named by the emperor's father. Many people came to propose marriage and wanted to marry their mother as a wife, but they were all rejected by the mother."

"My grandfather and the emperor's grandfather used to be close friends, and the emperor's grandmother treated the empress more like her own daughter, so she often asked the empress to accompany her in the palace, jokingly saying that she would let the empress be her daughter-in-law. One day, the empress went to the palace to accompany the emperor's grandmother , In the Royal Garden, I met my father, who came back from outside, and the two fell in love at first sight. When the emperor heard about it, the emperor immediately decreed a marriage."

"The empress mother is gentle and kind-hearted. She never criticizes her servants, and is gentle and considerate to her father. As far as I can remember, the mother's smile has not diminished all day long, and she often opposes her father by reciting poems and playing the piano. Even if the father becomes the emperor, There are three thousand beauties in the harem, and their love for the queen mother is still undiminished, and they often go to the mother's harem to talk with the queen mother, or accompany me and my sixth brother to study."

"The empress mother and the empress father are deeply in love, but people are jealous. Yuan Hongjie's mother concubine Luo Shi was originally a maid for the concubine's dowry. Because of her affection for the emperor, she was jealous of the empress mother and held a grudge. She wanted to take the empress mother and replace her. The mother and concubine Liu's practiced hands, first framed the mother and then killed the eleventh younger brother and concubine who had just given birth to a child, and rumored that the mother was the reincarnation of a demon. The father and emperor knew that the mother was a human being, so they didn't believe it. In the end, they did not hesitate to send the mother to get rid of the mother. People put medicine in the mother's meal, let other men sleep with the mother, and deliberately let the father bump into it. Since then, there have been rumors in and outside the palace, saying that my sixth brother and I are not the father himself, and that the mother is an unclean woman , the ministers jointly signed a petition, asking the father to depose the mother, and drive the three of us, mother and son, out of the palace." He had a mournful expression on his face, completely immersed in the unbearable past.

"On the other side, it was rumored that the reason why the father was able to become the emperor was due to his grandfather and three uncles. The father believed the rumors and wanted to punish the three uncles, but was stopped by the emperor's grandmother. Staying behind in the frontier. Since then, the father's attitude towards the mother's queen has been worse than before. Not only did he make an exception to make Luo Shi a concubine, but he deliberately had fun in front of the mother. My uncle held a grudge against his father, and secretly colluded with foreign ministers in order to usurp the throne. The evidence is solid, and his father ordered his mother to be imprisoned, and all [-] members of his grandfather's family were executed." Yuan Hongyi smiled, but That smile was incomparably mocking and desolate.

Yuan Hongyi paused, took a deep breath, and continued: "That day, I went to the imperial dining room to get my mother's favorite snacks and went to the Lenggong. Only after I went to the Lenggong did I see that my mother was arrested, hung in mid-air, and killed by someone. There were concubines, maids and eunuchs standing around, and no one dared to speak out. At that time, the empress mother's body was not as good as before, and the whip was pierced to the bone. She fainted several times and was woken up by cold water. He smiled and said to me , I wanted to rush in to save the queen mother, but I also understood that the result of going out was that neither my mother nor my son could escape the fate of death, and even the sixth brother was implicated. I ran to beg the emperor's grandmother, but the emperor's grandmother avoided seeing her, and Grandma Xi asked I hurried back to my own palace and forgot everything I saw."

"The person who was whipped was my queen mother, how could I pretend that I didn't see anything? I ran to the cold palace and hid secretly in a corner, watching my mother being whipped and humiliated, almost fainting. The mother accidentally saw me , she looked at me with begging eyes, beckoning me to leave quickly and live well. I looked at the stubborn tears in my mother's eyes, and at that moment, I understood that only by controlling power can I protect the person I want to protect. And I His father just sat aside and made fun of his Xinfeng concubine, turning a blind eye to everything in front of him." Yuan Hongyi's eyes were full of anger.

Bai Ziwan's heart ached. Although she hadn't experienced the pain of being hurt by a close relative, she could feel the pain, struggle and contradiction in his heart.He could kill those treacherous ministers and treacherous concubines, but his father, he could not kill, but became the shadow of his life.

(End of this chapter)