In the Princess Residence's bedroom, Shui Yun heard a maid report that Jing Chen had returned. She had someone push her to Sushi Pavilion. That was the favorite residence of Jing Chen's birth mother, Princess Luyue. Before her injuries had healed, she had always lived there. But a few days ago, the tendons in her hand had healed and she could lift her wrist a little, so Jing Chen had arranged for her to move to another place.
Ever since the matter of her scheming against Yu Shu had been exposed, Jing Chen hadn't turned against her and still took care of her injuries. He had personally treated her every day and helped her recuperate. But Shui Yun knew that this Senior Brother of hers, who had always been easy to talk to, had never forgiven her for what she had done.
Shui Yun sat in a wooden wheelchair. The guards at the door didn't stop her, so she entered the pavilion unimpeded. Looking around the front hall, she saw Jing Chen sitting by the east window. He was holding something in his hand, lost in thought.
"Senior Brother, where have you been all day?"
The sky was dark and it was just past dinner time. Shui Yun knew that Jing Chen had left early in the morning on a horse without even bringing a guard with him.
Shui Yun's popularity in the Princess Residence was very good. In such a large residence, there were dozens of servants, but only Jing Chen was a proper master. The servants all knew that the Ninth Prince had to call her 'Little Martial Aunt' when he saw her, so they didn't dare to slight her. It wasn't difficult to grasp Jing Chen's whereabouts.
When Jing Chen heard this, he raised his head and looked at her. "You don't need to know."
Seeing his cold attitude, Shui Yun's eyes darkened. It wasn't that she didn't feel bad, but if he asked her if she would regret it, the answer was no.
Senior Brother was a great calamity. His life had been saved by her father and her martial uncles. He couldn't abandon righteousness for the sake of a woman's love.
If she had to do it again, she would still make a move on the woman who had moved Senior Brother's dao heart, forcing him to cut off his love.
Shui Yun had the maid push her in front of Jing Chen and had them withdraw.
When they got closer, she could clearly see that Jing Chen was holding two crumpled pieces of paper.
"What did Senior Brother take out?"
Before Shui Yun could see the words clearly, Jing Chen had already folded them again and stuffed them into the front of his shirt.
"Nothing." Jing Chen turned to look at her. "What are you doing here instead of resting?"
Shui Yun's hands were crossed stiffly on her knees. She lowered her head slightly and said, "You haven't come to see me recently, and there is no one in the Princess Mansion who can talk to me. I, I somewhat miss Senior Sister and Junior Brother. Senior Brother, is there any letter from Taoism? My father knows that he can't walk, so he must be sad."
The palace lanterns in the outer hall were all lit up, illuminating the loneliness and worry on her thin little face. Shui Yun like this was very pitiful. However, Jing Chen looked at her for a while and said, "Since you are so worried, why don't you go back to the sect? Your Death Tribulation has been broken, and the person who broke it has also been found. There is no need for you to stay here. After you go back, Martial Uncle will definitely find a way to cure your leg injury."
Shui Yun stiffly raised her head. Was he, was he driving her away?
She forced a smile and said, "My leg is inconvenient, how can I go back? Not to mention that you are alone in the capital. I am even more worried."
"Worried?" Jing Chen nodded. "That's why you've been keeping an eye on me all day, trying to find out my whereabouts. Even the guards by my side have been sending you messages from time to time. Do you feel at ease now?"
Shui Yun couldn't smile anymore. The man in front of her who had seen through her little tricks with an expressionless face made her feel a little unfamiliar.
The sound of cicadas outside the window came in intermittently. Occasionally there was the sound of partridge birds, and there was the croaking of frogs outside the building … But it seemed that the attic in the night was exceptionally quiet.
"I am just concerned about you," Shui Yun finally found her voice, "You found the person who broke your life, but you are not willing to tell me who that person is. I want to help you, but I don't know where to start."
As she said this, she smiled bitterly, "I know you still hold a grudge against me for scheming against Miss Yu, but you have to think about it. This is related to the lives of the elders in the sect. How can I just watch you mess around? If you really implicate them in some disaster and harm them, you will definitely regret it. I would rather you blame me and stop you. Senior Martial Brother, I was wrong, but did you do the right thing?"
Jing Chen listened to her words and was in a daze. He thought of Yu Shu's disappointed eyes in the small courtyard at dusk.
"Yes, you were wrong, but I was the one who was wrong the most."
Shui Yun thought that he had heard her words, so she quickly softened her voice. She clumsily moved her right hand, grabbed a corner of his sleeve, and gently pulled, "Senior Martial Brother, it's been so long, your anger should have subsided by now. If you really can't, I will go see Miss Yu tomorrow and apologize to her in person. As long as she is willing to forgive me for a moment of foolishness, I will accept it even if she beats me to vent her anger."
In any case, the person who broke my life had been found, so that woman was no longer a hindrance. If she could make up with Senior Martial Brother, then there was no harm in her admitting her mistake.
Jing Chen came back to his senses and met her pleading eyes. He suddenly chuckled, and there was a trace of ridicule in the corner of his mouth, "Am I very easy to deceive? I will believe whatever you say. "
"Senior Martial Brother?" Shui Yun didn't know what Jing Chen meant by this. She just felt that he was a little strange tonight, but she couldn't tell what was wrong.
"Martial Uncle Sect Leader told me that I am destined to bring disaster to the people close to me, so I have to be pure and have few desires. I painstakingly recite Daoist scriptures and stick to my heart of Dao. I can't be easily happy, angry, sad, or happy. Otherwise, I will suffer a great disaster and will implicate the elders."
"I believed him. Since I was five years old, I have been very careful, afraid of causing trouble. I don't dare to cry, laugh, and don't dare to get close to others. I lived like this for more than ten years. Do you know who I talked to the most in the Zhengyi Sect on Mount Longhu? It was a mountain monkey. "
Jing Chen looked ahead with unfocused eyes, not looking at Shui Yun's expression.
"You told me that you discovered Xiaoyu's secret and said that she shouldn't live and was a lonely soul reincarnated, so you threatened me to break all ties with her and not contact her."
"I also believed you, so I broke all ties with her, broke my oath, and let her down."
Shui Yun couldn't help but interrupt him, "Why did you suddenly say this as if someone lied to you?"
"You guys didn't lie to me, did you?" Jing Chen's voice was a little cold.
Shui Yun moved her shoulders uneasily, opened her mouth, and said helplessly, "Okay, even if I was wrong, there is no problem with Miss Yu. What the Sect Leader said should be the truth, right? All these years on Mount Longhu, it's true that whoever is close to you will suffer. Even I often stumble. Senior Brother, what are you thinking? Why are you speaking in such a disorderly manner? Why are you so suspicious? "
Jing Chen lowered his head and said to himself, "Now that things have come to this, I don't know what is true and what is false."
The sect leader, who had cared for him since he was a child, lied to him and didn't let him fall in love for more than ten years. It had nothing to do with the evil spirit of Kedu Star, but she was afraid that after he met the person who broke his life, he couldn't bear to kill the man and was unwilling to marry the woman.
His junior sister lied to him and wanted to kill the woman he liked, forcing him to make a choice. It had nothing to do with his joy or anger, but he was afraid that he would implicate her family.
Even his master, who raised him until he was an adult, lied to him. He knew that he was a great disaster, but he never mentioned it to him.
In this world, the people closest to him would treat him unscrupulously in order to achieve their goals. What else could he believe?
Only her, only that person. She lied to protect him.
"Senior Brother, what's wrong with you?" Shui Yun was full of suspicion. A few days ago, Jing Chen was still fine. Today, he went out and came back with a change. He must have seen someone and heard something.
She thought about it and soon had a guess. She frowned and asked in a low voice, "Did you go to see Miss Yu again today?"
Ever since he came back from worshipping the ancestors and found the whereabouts of the person who destroyed his life, Senior Brother no longer had to worry about the disaster on Kedu Star. He sent the tiger bones to Yu Shu and reported to the Imperial Historian's Library every day. Shui Yun had heard of these things.
However, her relationship with Senior Brother was stiff, so it wasn't easy to dissuade him. She could only keep an eye on his whereabouts. However, she expected that Yu Shu wouldn't make up with him so easily. She had seen that woman before. She was powerful and arrogant. She was not easy to talk to.
Right now, Senior Brother's strange appearance must have something to do with Yu Shu.
"Did she say something to you?" Shui Yun's expression changed. She grabbed the hem of Jing Chen's clothes tightly. She didn't know where she got the strength to reprimand him in a deep voice, "Senior Brother, you are a great disaster. You carry the righteousness of the country on your shoulders. You haven't broken your life and haven't escaped from the calamity. You still have the mind to listen to the gossip of an outsider. I, I really don't know what to say to you!"
Unexpectedly, the next moment, Jing Chen raised his hand and broke free from her. He raised his head and looked at her with a pair of clear eyes. "Outsider? The outsider you mentioned saved my life. She wasn't afraid of me, a disaster. She stood up for me when I was in danger. In your eyes, she is an outsider. But in my eyes, she is the only person in the world who sincerely treats me well. "
Jing Chen pressed his hand against his chest. Through the fabric of his clothes, the two thin halves of the promissory note actually made him feel a lot of hatred for a moment!
He hated his gullibility, his naivety, his ruthlessness, his helplessness, and even more so, he hated the fate that he was born with.
Why was he the great disaster?
When he was born, his parents died. He was originally a bad omen, but because of the agreement between the royal family and the Taoist Sect, he survived. So in the eyes of those people, his life was not his, right?
But what else could he do except accept this fate?
"Ha …"
Jing Chen laughed. At this moment, he understood a truth. He stood up and was about to walk out.
Shui Yun wanted to stop him and ask him. But she had just recovered from her injury, so she couldn't grab Jing Chen. She could only whisper behind his back, "What happened to you? Senior Brother, Senior Brother!"
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