Xu Jiao intentionally defended, but her eyes on Shangyu Ye at this moment were bottomless. The moment she met her, Xu Jiao seemed to be standing on the edge of a cliff and looking down.
Only the empty wind brushed against her skin.
There was no tenderness, no tenderness, and no emotional feedback she wanted in those eyes that were the same as the person she remembered and fell in love with later.
In this world, she is an emperor who is helped up, a pawn in the opponent's hand, and a puppet. If she can't show her use value and is not good enough, she will be killed at any time.
And in front of this-
is a chess player.
Someone who can control her life and death.
She is the heroine of this world, Yu Ye.
It's also... The regent who doesn't remember all the people she's been with, and who is extraordinarily restrained.
Xu Jiao felt that there was something gentle in her heart that was being hidden layer by layer, so that those warm and soft emotions could no longer emerge, as if at this moment there was a real world to replace, and the front edge was broken. realism.
Even if Yu Ye and Zheng Zhiyu have a single word for each other, they are not the same person after all.
Facing such a Master Yu, Xu Jiao was unable to take out her previous attitudes towards Lilith and Zheng Zhiyu. Thinking of her behavior just now, Xu Jiao lowered her head. He calmly lowered his gaze.
Like a tame gesture.
Yu Ye's action of pinching her face immediately loosened, and at this moment, Xu Jiao's voice had already said:
"It's me being too presumptuous and forgetting the etiquette."
"Master Yu, forgive me. If I'm really angry, I will copy the etiquette in the palace that I recently learned ten times tomorrow. So, will Master Yu be satisfied?"
Hearing her icy tone, Yu Ye couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.
It was Xu Jiao who was clearly the unruly person, why does it sound like she is the one who is a little unhappy now? This Prince's Highness is too temperamental.
Forcing the other party, he didn't hear the soft coquettish act like before. Yu Ye's heart was a little blocked. Previously, he thought that His Royal Highness was a delicate and clear type who could see through the thoughts of others, but now he was a little annoyed that Xu Jiao Yumu's head was out of whack. Get enlightened.
Is it because she became a prince, learned the art of the emperor, and knew that she was her biggest competitor on the road to power, so she refused to show weakness and fall behind in front of her
Yu Ye thought about it and got to the tip of the bull's horn.
The expression is also not very good-looking.
Xu Jiao could naturally see that she was in a very bad mood. Looking at Yu Ye's appearance, she immediately understood why the palace people around her felt that the Prince Regent was erratic and moody, and even she had gotten along with heroines from different worlds. Many times, people feel that they have a little understanding of the heroine in the novel, but they still don't know what happened to the face-changing of Sichuan opera like Yu Ye.
But she was also a little impatient.
Immediately, her back touched the inner side of the bed, and across the thin single coat, the solid bed surrounds like a high wooden screen beside the bed made her cool, and the hairs on the back of her neck stood up in shock.
But Xu Jiao didn't show anything on her face, she just kept a quiet, like a perfect actor with a well-behaved coat, sat up calmly, and said to Yu Ye:
"Maybe I still have some old and bad habits in the palace that have not been changed. In order to avoid some misunderstandings in the same bed with me, I will invite the palace staff to send the adults back to the mansion."
No matter how nice and well-behaved the words were, they couldn't hide the meaning of expulsion.
Yu Ye's heart was filled with fire when she heard it. She didn't know why this little guy was so ungrateful and even dared to show her teeth and claws to herself. She wanted to teach Xu Jiao a lesson, but her eyes were on Xu Jiao's bloody face. After walking around, the unpleasant words that came to my mouth didn't even come out.
In the end, she just snorted coldly, lifted the quilt, and walked out of the hall with her sleeves.
The temperature by the bed fell again.
Xu Jiao put the only soft golden round pillow in the middle, and flattened her quilt again, and then moved to the middle of the bed to lie down. It was obvious that her body was no longer so cold and her stomach didn't hurt anymore, but she actually Some can't sleep.
As if the pillow was a little empty.
When the thought flashed through her mind, she curled her lips, which was a bit too funny.
Before, whether it was the cold-blooded animal Lilith or the ghost Zheng Zhiyu, when she was in bed with her, it was not annoying to make her bed icy cold. When the weather was cold, she not only had to take a hot bath to drive her away. It's cold, and I even have to turn up the heating. Now I just sleep next to me without an ice cube.
Why don't you get up
Xu Jiao thought, her heart seemed to become a little weaker.
Over the years, the high wall surrounded by layers of iron fences and thorns around the heart wall, a high wall that could not let anyone in, but now she looks back, only to find that although those thorns look prickly, when she really touches them, they are not. Like a mature durian shell, the appearance looks bluffing, but those thorns have become a little soft.
blunt.
I don't know how many heart thieves will be secretly put in behind her back.
Xu Jiao exhaled softly, pulled the quilt over her shoulder, closed her eyes quietly, hypnotized herself to sleep quickly, and told herself again in her heart:
You should let go.
…
Yu Ye walked out of the inner hall of the East Palace.
The silver moonlight fell on her shoulders, revealing the hidden lines in the clothes woven with precious silk threads, and was wiped out again by the shadows during her walking movements.
Her figure was on the promenade, stretched long by the moonlight.
Now that the cold wind in the courtyard was blowing, she had already figured out the pictures of herself getting along with the prince, and she warned herself not to take the prince's weakness tonight.
Despise the fate of women...
Xu Shi had already learned a lesson from her, and she should not repeat the same mistakes.
It was a fifteen-year-old crown prince, who might also inherit the orthodox royal family of Dayan in the future.
It was a fledgling chick.
But there was a chain on her ankle, because she would not allow His Royal Highness to escape her control, and in this control, there is really no need to mix too many emotions into it.
All she needs is a puppet who is sensible.
Not even pets.
If you keep it as a pet, after a period of time, you will always feel distressed for a while if you kill it.
Yu Ye thought that she had lost too many important people in her life. When Xu's house was raided, she didn't even spare the dogs in the yard. She really had no more emotions to feel sad for whoever came after.
Her heart was riddled with holes as early as when she was young, like a ship with loopholes, unable to carry any emotions.
…
There seems to be a rift between the prince and the regent.
I don't know what the Crown Prince did to annoy the Regent.
Eyeliners in the East Palace soon spread the news throughout Dayan's court.
Although no one knew how it happened, the Regent had personally gone to the palace of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to guard her safety a few days ago, but overnight, the Regent changed his mind.
She never raised the proposal to make the prince the emperor again in the court.
At the same time, she also strengthened the defense in the East Palace, but this time, the courtiers seemed to have something out of it. In the eyes of the opposition, Yu Ye's behavior was more like guarding her than protecting Xu Jiao's safety. , limiting her freedom.
For a long time, the assassins who assassinated her were fewer than before, of course, these are all later stories.
At the moment, the courtroom is full of undercurrents, and people are speculating about Yu Ye's subsequent actions, whether it is to abolish Xu Jiao, the female prince, and establish a new royal family, or to use Xu Jiao as an apparent target. In fact, he really wants to take over the power of the court.
For this reason, the minds of some old ministers and family members who want to control the government are floating.
No one cares about Xu Jiao's mood, neither will they explore what kind of emotional changes she has in the relationship between her and Yu Ye, nor will they care about how her life in the palace will be held up high. , What does it feel like to be thrown down again... This is the court, it is a power struggle, and the emotions of people born in the center of the vortex are really too small an influencing factor, because there are more things that are more important than this.
She is weak and deserves to be crushed by the wheel of history.
Xu Jiao was clearly in the deep palace and had never been to court once, but she also learned about the various movements of the previous court from the occasional discussions of the people around her. She heard those people say that Yu Ye hated her, and also found out that. The palace servants around her began to show a little perfunctory when they served her.
But she didn't even raise her eyebrows.
He just quietly turned the page of the book in his hand, and smelled the dull smell of ink on the old book that had not seen sunlight for many years.
The system asked her in her mind, "Are you a little disappointed and sad? Why don't I tell you the heroine's current favorability rating for you? It's 1. Are you surprised or surprised?"
Xu Jiao found the answer to today's homework, put the book aside, raised her hand to press the corners of the rice paper in front of her with a paperweight, and then raised her hand to grind it herself, pinching her sleeves, moving slowly and slowly, as if she was very patient. look.
"Not sad, not surprised, not surprised."
System: "Huh?"
Xu Jiao's eyes moved a little, like a small drop of water that fell on the water inadvertently, and soon disappeared without a trace, she answered the system calmly in her mind:
"It's a good thing."
"If Yu Ye controls the previous dynasty and becomes the emperor herself, her career line will be a success. As long as she doesn't die, the book's ending will be he, and I came here to travel at public expense, and I still learn Going back with a lot of useful knowledge about being an emperor, this may be the easiest world for me to complete the task in."
"I should be happy."
…
Things seemed to be as Xu Jiao expected.
When the entire Dayan court was fluctuating because of Yu Ye's attitude towards the prince, Dayan suddenly welcomed the foreign ministers of Qi and Chu, and the country of Liang in the northwest was caught in the predicament of war with the three grassland tribes outside the Great Wall. He was hit by an arrow on the battlefield, although he didn't know how the injury was, this was the moment when Liang Guo's rear was wide open and the domestic defense was insufficient.
Qi, as an intermediate country bordering the four countries, has fallen into the title of the cultural capital of the past. The courtiers are divided into four or five factions, and the king of Qi is a peacemaker, struggling to deal with each faction. , Because of the emphasis on literature and light on martial arts, he is a target that anyone can fight. He can only survive by holding the thighs of the powerful countries around him, so he is now following behind the Chu State, waving the flag and shouting, taking advantage of the situation to pick up leaks.
However, the state of Chu itself, because of the monarch's incompetence and debauchery in recent years, led to its backward armament and was unable to fight against the powerful Liang **. It can definitely beat the other four countries.
They were just taking advantage of Liang's illness to kill Liang's life.
After all, the place where Liang State borders Qi is the Central Plains fortress, who can't be tempted
The friendship between the state of Chu and Dayan has always been good. After all, the two countries are very similar in a certain sense. The royal family of the state of Chu specializes in outstanding embryos, and the beauties in the harem can be said to have everything from all over the world. The previous emperors are very absurd. I heard that when he was still the prince, he followed his father and king to play with the beauties in the palace.
And Da Yan...
Specializing in lunatics and perverts.
If the monarchs on both sides sat down and chatted together, they might be able to talk about the common topic of neurosis.
Pull away.
This time Yu Ye launched the palace change, and the Chu State sent an envoy to see him. He wanted to talk about the situation on Dayan's side and whether he could maintain his friendship with the Chu State. I don't know what Yu Ye talked about with the envoy. .
A few days later, Dayan came out with news—
Yu Ye personally led the troops to expedition, as the commander-in-chief of the Qi, Chu, and Yan armies, and went to the Liang Kingdom.
March again.
The Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms defeated Liang Guo and captured the five counties of Xiluo, the Guanzhong fortress.
At the same time, Liang Guo sent the newly established seventeen-year-old prince into Dayan as a pledge.
…
Yu Ye led his troops to victory that night.
The Dayan Palace held a large celebration banquet, and the water flowed continuously during the banquet. The envoys from various countries came to congratulate, and the Dayan Royal Family sent a total of 88 men with good appearance and different appearances. Yu Ye, the great general of protecting the country.
Xu Jiao was sitting in the banquet room and saw Yu Ye's face without changing his face, ordering the people around him to accept the gift, and at the same time, he thanked the envoy of Chu State politely.
The palace sang and danced until late at night.
In the middle of the journey, Xu Jiao got up and left, and suddenly became interested in admiring the moon, but on the way to the imperial garden, the palace servant accidentally bumped into a young man in white clothes.
The people around her came up in time to inform her that this was the Prince of Liang, Nie Yunyue.
The man behaved politely, and when he saw the regulations of her arguing, he immediately took the initiative to apologize.
Xu Jiao looked at him with her eyes, and found that the legendary hero who lived in the main text was really good looking, with sword eyebrows and star eyes, such as the bright sun, very bright.
She smiled and was about to wave her hand to clear up the misunderstanding—
Suddenly, a voice came from the side: "Today there is a feast in the palace, and His Royal Highness does not celebrate the victory for his ministers, why did he come here to meet a beautiful woman in private?"