Yu Shu sat in the carriage and ordered Liu Zhong,
"Go to the south of the city, Huixing Street."
Jing Chen followed closely on horseback. After passing Qianyuan Street and heading south, he gradually became familiar with the road. Only then did he realize that this was the direction to the small courtyard on Huixing Street.
At dusk, the restaurants and taverns along the street were open for business. The smell of cooking wafted in the air, and the smell of alcohol and oil accompanied the hawkers' calls. Ordinary people came and went. The streets in the south of the city had always been noisier than those in the north.
The carriage came to a residential area. Because the road was narrow, they stopped at the intersection. Yu Shu left Yun Dou in the carriage and got off alone.
Seeing this, Jing Chen also tied the horse and quickly followed behind her.
Yu Shu did not look back at him. She walked into the alley and arrived at her first place in the capital.
The door of the small courtyard was tightly locked. There was a layer of dust on the lock and there were some scratches. It had been unguarded for a long time and had been targeted by thieves.
Yu Shu tiptoed and found a key in the corner of the door. She opened the door, patted the dust on her hands, and lifted her foot to push open the door.
The two entered the small courtyard. Yu Shu asked Jing Chen to close the door and immediately asked,
"Is there anyone following you outside?"
Jing Chen hesitated for a moment and nodded honestly.
Ever since he came back from worshipping the ancestors, there had been many spies nearby. It was said that they were sent by the emperor to protect his safety. But with his martial arts, there was no need for others to protect him. He only acquiesced to them to make them feel at ease.
"Can they hear us if we speak here?"
Jing Chen gathered his internal energy and pricked up his ears to listen outside the door. He said to her, "They are far away, they can't hear us."
"That's good." Yu Shu looked around the small courtyard that had a beautiful memory.
The sun was setting, and the setting sun peeked through the gray eaves, elongating the shadows of the two people in the courtyard. There was a faint smell of firewood and rice coming from the house next door. Once, in this small courtyard. It was also filled with people.
He remembered the beginning, the shy Xiaoxiu, the innocent Mingming, and the idiot who had lost his memory and trusted him wholeheartedly.
But now, it was all gone.
Yu Shu's eyes were filled with disappointment as she turned around. He faced Jing Chen and said slowly,
"There are some things that I haven't had the chance to tell you before. Today, I'll tell you all at once."
That night, after the two of them broke off their friendship, they spent a period of time as strangers. Then, Jing Chen confessed to Yu Shu about the Fate Breaker. Every time the two of them met, Yu Shu would either frown at him coldly or ridicule him. She was never willing to give him face.
However, for some reason, compared to her angry look, Jing Chen was more afraid to see her cold and distant attitude.
"Xiao Yu, if you have any resentment or dissatisfaction towards me, just say it all out. As long as you can vent your anger, I'll do anything. "
Yu Shu listened to Jing Chen's aggrieved words, but her heart was not moved at all. She looked at his handsome face and said calmly, "You and I first met in Yiyang.
"You and I first met in Yiyang. Little Xiu and I were kidnapped by a group of thieves, and you rescued us. I owe you one."
"Later, my godmother was seriously injured. I asked you for help, and you accompanied me to raise money. That was how she was safe. I owe you twice. "
"After I entered the capital, I was discovered by the two bandit leaders who hijacked the ship. They sent killers to silence me, and you took the knife for me. I owe you three times. "
She carefully counted, again and again. Although she was talking about Jing Chen's benefits, her clear calculation made Jing Chen subconsciously panic.
"When I owed you the first time, I thought you were a trustworthy person, so I thought of ways to get close to you and became friends with you."
"When I owed you the second time, I thought you were a trustworthy person. Then, you confessed to me about the disaster on Planet Kedu. Only then did I truly see you as a friend."
"When I owed you the third time, I thought you were a trustworthy person. You first saved my life, and then you risked your life to protect me. Only then did I fall in love with you. Taking advantage of your amnesia, I coaxed you to be my so-called boyfriend and girlfriend."
At this point, she could not help but chuckle, thinking that she was smart at the beginning.
Jing Chen, however, had a different feeling. Recently, he often dreamed that in the small forest in the south of the city, she blinked her bright eyes and asked him seriously.
Do you like me?
Such a bright and vivid little fish had always been buried in the depths of his heart. It was like the small bag of candy that Fifth Uncle brought back when he was a child. No matter how sad he was, as long as he secretly held one in his mouth, he would not have to worry.
"Jing Chen, do you still remember the things you promised me?"
Yu Shu was silent for a moment and suddenly asked.
"…" Jing Chen was absent-minded and could not answer for a moment.
Yu Shu turned sideways and raised her hand to point at the central room facing south. That was the place where they used to eat.
"Here, you and I will make a promise. You will swear that one day when you recover your memory, you will not leave me."
She turned her hand and pointed at the room facing east. That was the room Jing Chen used to live in.
"Here, you will personally promise me. When you remember everything, you will still remember the promise with me. You will not regret it."
She turned her head and took back her finger. She pointed at her heart and poked it hard. She opened her eyes wide and looked at him. Her voice was hoarse.
"And here, I remember everything you promised me. I remember how good you were to me. So at that time, I was willing to go through water and tread on fire for you. I knew that your fate was Ji Du Xing, but I still kept you by my side and carefully protected you. From the mouth of the Yangtze River to Anling City. Later, I was plotted against by the Ji family and was taken into the Celestial Commissioner's Office. They forced me to tell them your whereabouts. I was kept in the dark and did not know your identity. I was afraid that they would harm you, so I gritted my teeth and did not say a word about your whereabouts."
"You might not know this, but although I'm a strong-willed person, I'm extremely afraid of pain and death. But as long as I feel that you're worth it, I won't do anything to harm you even if they put a knife to my neck, let alone break one of my fingers."
"But what about you!?" Yu Shu roared involuntarily. Her heart was cold because of the sincerity she had wrongly given.
"As soon as you regained your memory, you left without saying a word. I could take it that you did not want to implicate me. But you did not even leave a word. Were you not afraid of making me anxious? Did you have feelings for me or not? Do you know that I braved the heavy snow to look for you in half of the city? Because of this, I became seriously ill and even missed the exam. I almost missed you. "
"Later, you became a Daoist and regained your identity. You gradually drifted away from me. Even when I was in danger and asked you for the Yellowfrost Stone, you refused me. At first, you gave the Yellowfrost Stone to me. I exchanged the ancient sword for it. Selfishly, I regarded it as a token of love between us. But you changed your hand and gave it to your junior sister. Yes, you have been in the same sect for more than ten years. As an outsider, I cannot compare to you. But are you going to treat our agreement as bullshit?! "
Being questioned and accused by her like this, Jing Chen did not know why. But when he saw the disappointment and resentment reflected in her black and white eyes, it stung his eyes.
So it turned out that he had already started to hurt her without her knowing?
He had never thought about these things.
"You clearly knew that Shui Yun was sinister and plotted to kill me, but you still protected her. Yes, I was fine, but she became a cripple. The world sympathizes with the weak. I know you are in a difficult situation, but where did the fool who claimed to protect me go? "
Yu Shu had long given up on Jing Chen. Her heart was cold. But now that she was talking about the past. She could not help but feel sad. She was not reconciled. She really was not reconciled!
"In the end, you and I parted ways. If you had simply said goodbye and never contacted each other, it would have been fine. But you just had to involve me in a big dispute and violate the agreement with me again."
She took a deep breath and clenched her fists in her sleeves. Once again, she made up her mind. Then she looked up at Jing Chen who was full of guilt. She did not soften her heart at all. She firmly said:
"The first time, I saved your life on the river. The second time, I took care of your patient. The third time, I broke your finger for you. These three times, I've paid you back three times. We don't owe each other anymore."
After that, without looking at Jing Chen's expression, she turned her head and went into the main room. After searching for a while in the simple bedroom, she came out with a folded square note in her hand.
Jing Chen looked at the paper in her hand. A bad premonition spread from his brows to his chest.
"This is the promissory note you wrote to me last year. You have already violated your promise. This piece of waste paper is useless."
Jing Chen watched as Yu Shu opened the well-preserved promissory note, tore it in half from the middle, crumpled it into a ball, and threw it at his feet.
"Remember, I'm even with you."
At this moment, as if someone had dug a corner of his heart, he almost suffocated from the pain.
He wanted to bend down to pick up the ball of paper. He wanted to say sorry to her. He wanted to tell her that he already knew he was wrong. He would definitely abide by the agreement with her in the future, protect her well, and not make her sad again. But —
He could not move a muscle.
So he could only look at her ice-cold eyes and listen to her ice-cold words.
"Jing Chen, I don't owe you anything. If you want to be a big disaster, that's the fate you were born to carry. If you don't want to give it up, that's your choice. I don't want to help you break your life, that's my choice. I know you can't give up, but why don't you ask yourself — — why do you want me to entrust my life to you and share this huge responsibility?"
"When you've thought this through, come and beg me again."
Yu Shu spat out all the bitterness she had accumulated in the past. She looked up at the sunset in the sky, and even her vision became clear.
She was a cruel person, but she was also a person who valued relationships and righteousness. No matter how many harsh words she said to Jing Chen, she always knew that she would always have a trace of softness toward Jing Chen — —
Not because of this righteous daoist in front of her, but because of the naive and cute fool in the past.
And it was because of this softness that she came up with a new idea.
Her gaze swept past Jing Chen's face. Without saying anything more, she turned around and walked toward the courtyard door. Her pair of eyes that were getting brighter by the day were brewing with an unknown expression.
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