Ji Xili didn't know what she was doing with the hairpin suddenly, but he still asked, "My mother has something to ask you, and you have to answer it truthfully."
Sheng Ling was quiet and nodded slowly.
"What's going on these days?"
Sheng Ling bit her lip, almost turning the small piece of soft flesh at the corner of her mouth even redder. She lowered her eyes and waited for a while before saying, "Mother, do you still remember Li Yu?"
Sheng Ling thought that she would never mention the word "Li Yu" in front of her mother again, because she would be afraid. She would feel more uncomfortable than anyone else when she was afraid of saying those two words, but when she actually said them After that, Sheng Ling felt that it wasn't that unbearable, but... there was a momentary sting in his heart.
Ji Xili's expression darkened slightly and he nodded.
"When I was in Bell City, I didn't know how to survive at first, so I pawned the hairpin given by my mother. Later he found out and redeemed the hairpin for me... When I left, I went to see him , I said I would never see him again, I told him to live well, and he promised me that he would live well... Mother, when I used to like him so much, he lied to me and said he liked me too, Later, he was exposed, pretended to be Ayan again, was discovered by me, and lied to me that he had lost his memory, so forget it... But, how come he has no credibility at all... "
Sheng Ling murmured incoherently, saying whatever came to mind. Even she herself didn't know what she wanted to tell Ji Xili...
Just talking, tears fell.
But this time she didn't cry. Her expression was even numb, but she couldn't restrain herself from crying.
However, although Sheng Ling's words were confusing, Ji Xili could roughly guess what Sheng Ling meant. She frowned slightly and asked, "Li Yu... is dead?"
When Sheng Ling heard this, Leng Buding was stunned. Her whole body was stiff and motionless. After a while, she raised her head, stared at Ji Xili blankly, shook her head slowly and said, "I When he left, he promised me that he would not die..."
"Ling'er, calm down."
"I, I'm very calm, Mother." Sheng Ling stretched out her hand to show the scene when Li Yu promised her, "Mother, he really promised me..."
"Ling'er..."
Sheng Ling suddenly flattened her mouth, her eyes were red, her nose trembled violently, and her tears kept falling. She shook her head while shedding tears, suppressing her trembling respiratory tract, "Mother, why do you like someone so much? It's difficult... I don't want it so much." , like, like him very much..."
Ji Xili's heart suddenly tightened when he saw Sheng Ling like this. He reached out and wanted to push Sheng Ling into his arms and comfort him, but Sheng Ling shook his head. He was obviously extremely uncomfortable, but he still wanted to comfort her in return. Ji Xili said, "Mother, I'm fine..."
"Did he... die in Bell City?"
Sheng Ling bit her trembling lips tightly and refused to answer.
"Ling'er, Queen Mother knows that you are having troubles with your heart right now. If he is really... you go and see him. No matter what your position is, he has saved your life..."
But Sheng Ling cried and smiled miserably: "Mother, I can't go."
Even if Li Yu died, she couldn't see him.
She promised He Ruojin that she would never see Li Yu again in her life.
Even if Li Yu died.
Even if... she wanted to see him for the last time, she couldn't.
"If you are concerned about the feelings of your mother and father, the queen has made the decision for your father, and she has promised to let you see him for the last time." Ji Xili knew very well that in Sheng Ling's current situation, he could not let go of Li Li. Encounter.
Sheng Ling hugged Ji Xili and lay on Ji Xili's shoulder, gritting her teeth and crying repressedly.
She understood what her mother meant, but no matter how sad she was or how much she wanted to see him, she could never see Li Yu.
However, she should have been mentally prepared for the worst, but when the bad news really came, she was unable to accept it.
The thousands of tastes of love she once yearned for, in the end, left her with only a tragic ending.
Sheng Ling gave away the purest and cleanest love from the beginning, but it was hard to take it back and could never take it back...
That kind of despair may fade away slowly over time. Maybe one day when she thinks of Li Yu, she will no longer feel pain, but she thinks... she will never be able to like anyone again.
For Shengling, it was too difficult to like her.
Like...it's just painful.
How much she once liked Li Yu, how painful it was for her at this moment.
It's the kind of pain that can never be let go in this life.
Three days later, Sheng Ling left the city alone without saying a word to anyone. She stayed quietly in the deep forest for a whole day.
She wondered whether she should erect a monument for Li Yu, but when she thought about it, she had already informed Princess Zhou about Li Yu's death from illness, and Princess Zhou would naturally take care of his funeral.
There was nothing she could do.
But Sheng Ling seemed unable to accept this fact.
Sheng Ling stayed until dark again.
As the sky darkened, the chirping of insects in the deep forest gradually became noisier, but Sheng Ling seemed to have forgotten her fear. She sat alone by the cold river, quietly looking at the water surface that was gradually shrouded in moonlight.
Until, there was a sound of horse hooves behind him.
Someone got off the horse and almost ran over. After seeing that she was safe, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Sheng Ling!"
Sheng Ling raised her head when she heard the sound, and saw He Ruoxin staring at her with gloomy eyes and panting. She responded, stood up, and when she spoke, her voice was hoarse, "How does the general know I'm here?"
Naturally, He Ruojin would not tell her that he had used his military power and had been looking for her for almost a whole day.
He just said gloomily: "Do you know that the people in the princess's mansion are looking for you to go crazy?"
"They went to find the general?" Sheng Ling frowned.
"No." He Ruojin said coldly, "I came to the princess because of my own sentiments."
"General, don't worry about me anymore."
"Do you think I want to take care of you?" He Ruoxin's voice became colder and sharper.
Sheng Ling was silent for a moment, looked at him and said, "Then leave me alone, general."
He Ruojin also stared at her, her breathing slowly became colder, and she almost said word by word: "Sheng, Ling,"
Sheng Ling interrupted him with a calm expression: "The general is about to get a wife. It's really inappropriate to do this again."
"You care?"
Sheng Ling nodded: "I care. The innocent marriage between the general and Miss Lin should not be mixed with other things."
He Ruojin's eyes suddenly narrowed, as if he had been stabbed by something, and he slowly said, "The princess is nothing."
"You know it doesn't matter."
He Ruochen suddenly laughed and asked in a very soft voice: "Sheng Ling, is your heart made of stone?"
Sheng Ling was silent for a while, then she blinked slightly and said, her voice seemed to be restrained. She spoke with some difficulty, "General, no one's heart is made of stone."
She slowly raised her head, her eyes were red and her gaze was numb: "Maybe General He will tell me what I should do?"
(End of chapter)