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A carriage came trudging through the streets of Beicheng. Snow was flying outside the curtains, and the biting wind blew in my ears, which was quite harsh.
Li Yu opened the curtain and looked at this bustling market quietly. Some places looked familiar. The first time he came here, it was Sheng Ling who took him to this most prosperous and bustling place. Go see beautiful scenery, take him to eat delicious food, tell him stories about her childhood...
This is the place where Sheng Ling grew up, and it is also the place where Li Yu once hated him to the core.
"Master... do you really want to leave quietly without telling the prince and princess?" the entourage outside the carriage asked in a low voice, obviously very worried about Li Yu leaving.
You know, Prince Zhou and Princess Zhou found his whereabouts with great difficulty.
Li Yu didn't speak. He had been very quiet these past two days. Except for saying goodbye to Gu Chengxuan when he left, he didn't speak to anyone.
He just looked at everything outside the carriage quietly, until his eyes suddenly glowed slightly as if they were immersed in a deep pool and embellished with a ray of light.
Li Yu opened the curtain a little and looked out.
There was a very familiar figure standing obediently in front of a stall waiting for the stall owner to make sweet rolls.
It was very cold. She was wearing a light white velvet heart jacket skirt, but it still seemed a little cold. Her ears were red. She stretched out her little hand and touched her ears. She jumped a little, but she was as cute as ever.
After the stall owner made several bunches of sweetheart flower rolls, she paid, took the wrapping paper, politely thanked the stall owner, and turned around to leave.
He finally saw her appearance clearly, and as expected, it was Sheng Leng.
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At that time, Sheng Ling just came here to buy some snacks, thinking of eating them with Ji Xiao, Wen Momo and the others later, but as soon as she walked a few steps with the warm flower roll, she was stopped by a boy.
"Princess...my young master wants to see you one last time, is that okay?"
Sheng Ling recognized the boy. She looked at him intently, followed the direction in which the boy came, and saw Li Yu's face peeking out of the carriage window.
She looked at him indifferently, and Li Yu also looked at her, smiling gently and calmly at her.
That spring-breathing smile was like when he was in Snow City, he was so tender that people could easily fall into his trap and be unable to extricate themselves.
But now, Sheng Ling just looked at him calmly, with no emotion on her face.
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The carriage drove until it reached the outside of the city and then stopped.
Li Yu got off the carriage and wanted to help Sheng Ling get down, but Sheng Ling didn't look at him and got down by himself with an indifferent expression.
The snow was quite heavy. When Li Yu saw the snowflakes falling in Sheng Ling's hair, he subconsciously wanted to reach out, but Sheng Ling took the initiative to take half a step back.
Li Yu was startled and smiled, took back his hand, and then said, "Thank you, princess, for coming over and meeting me."
As he spoke, he looked back at the North City behind him. The white snow fell on the top of the city gate, making it look quite chilly.
Li Yu narrowed his eyes, looked at the city gate, and slowly said: "That day, when I came back from Xuecheng with Lingling, the carriage passed by. Lingling held my hand and happily described the city to me. How wonderful it is, what I was thinking at that time was that the only pleasing thing the Emperor of the Northern Kingdom did was to raise the little princess very well, no... very well."
But at that time, he failed to catch this innocent and well-behaved little princess. He took advantage of her pure and clean joy from beginning to end. When he finally wanted to get it back, he realized that she had been taken advantage of by him. lost.
How... pathetic and ridiculous.
Sheng Ling didn't seem to want to mention the past to him. He just took out a jade pendant from his backpack without saying a word, handed it over, and finally said lightly: "Give it back to you."
The flying snow accidentally fell on the pure and flawless jade pendant, and it felt cold against Sheng Ling's slender fingertips.
Li Yu lowered his eyes slightly and looked at Sheng Ling's fingers holding the jade pendant, and asked softly: "Princess... do you take it with you?"
Sheng Ling said calmly: "I'm just ready to return it to you at any time."
Hearing this, Li Yu lightly blinked his eyelashes and raised the corners of his mouth slightly, half-smiling.
He had no intention of taking it, and Sheng Ling had no intention of taking it back.
"Princess... When I came to Beicheng with you, I said I bought you a gift. It was true, but I didn't have time to give it to you." He looked at the jade pendant in her hand and didn't know why he was laughing.
But when Sheng Ling heard his words, she didn't even raise her eyelids, and there was no expression on her face at all.
Probably because the stalemate had been too long, Li Yu closed his eyes with a slight sting, smiled deeply, and finally reached out to take the jade pendant.
Sheng Ling turned around and left indifferently.
"Don't ask me...where are you going?" Li Yu watched her turn around and asked with a smile.
Sheng Ling just paused for a moment, not wanting to look back at him yet, but the next moment, Li Yu suddenly stepped forward and held her little hand, his palm pressed against hers, and there was a cold jade pendant between the palms. .
He squeezed her little hand tightly, and his breathing became suppressed.
He was very close to her all of a sudden, lowered his head, and was right next to her neck.
"Ling Ling."
His breath was scented with frost, almost touching her ear.
With cold lips, he slowly called out these two words from his lips, using the two most intimate words to express farewell. Li Yu closed his eyes slightly, brushed her hair with his face, and drew a bitter arc at the corner of his mouth.
Then, without waiting for her to reach out and push him away, Li Yu let go of her in just a moment and turned to leave.
Lingling, I love you.
I once loved you so selfishly and despicably, and from now on I will love you too, loving you secretly, no longer hindering anyone, loving you secretly alone.
Don't tell anyone, never, never again.
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Sheng Ling walked back to the city alone.
The flower roll in my hand is a little cold.
She took a bite and found that it was still sweet, but it was so sweet that the syrup on the roll melted.
She ate for a long time, facing the north wind, and the cold snow blew her eyes very red, and she suddenly cried with suppressed sobs while eating.
My mouth was filled with the sweet taste of Hanamaki, but my tears kept falling down uncontrollably.
She knew very well that from now on, Li Yu was Li Yu, Sheng Ling was Sheng Ling, and Li Yu and Sheng Ling were no longer related.
What she knew more clearly was that what she said goodbye to today was not only Li Yu, but also the fatal love in the past.
Everyone is telling Sheng Ling that there is someone better than Li Yu, including Sheng Ling herself who believes that He Ruoxin will always protect her and accompany her.
He Ruoxin's love is simple and beautiful, and it is the love she most expects in her life.
Now that Li Yu has let her go, she must work harder to get out of that extremely bad past, so that she can be worthy of He Ruojin.
(End of chapter)