Although Xiao Ting didn't pay much attention to the Ninth Prince's coldness and indifference, she knew it well.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have faced her savior, Xu Lingyue, who was so cruel and embarrassing her in the hall.
Not to mention treating him like that, Yuchi, who has followed him for many years, was heartbroken.
He is a cold-hearted person, but why should he save himself
He obviously has no relationship with her anymore, she is no longer his princess, she is not his woman, she does not need his protection.
As the Ninth Prince of the empire, he is extremely trusted by the emperor. If he becomes an official, he will definitely accomplish a lot, and he can even sit below one person and above ten thousand people.
He is only twenty years old, and the days to come are still very long. She will keep him alive and witness that he becomes stronger and stronger. He will marry a concubine and have a concubine as beautiful as a flower. Maybe there will be many children in the future. After all, the royal family is very capable of giving birth.
With his level of beauty, if he marries another beautiful woman, the children in the future will definitely look better, including boys and girls.
Nine Princes Mansion will be very lively.
He will go to court and become the real ruler. No matter who is the king in the future, he will have his place. Power, status, wealth, everything, he will become the real winner in this life.
Obviously, he will live such a life in the future, even if he does not become an official, he still has superb martial arts, and he can enjoy the world with the person he likes.
This is the path Xiao Ting chose for him, and she intends to protect him on this path.
Even if it is miserable and his identity is exposed in the future, he will still live happily, even if he kills the world, he will still live well, won't he
But now
As a yin and yang physique, if she let him go, it would be considered as a change of fate for him.
Why would he still die, and still die to save her.
Is this karma
Is this the reincarnation of heaven
Is it because she was soft-hearted and did such a wrong thing for a while, that she went through those half a year of suffering
Now that Heaven has set things right, even though the death of the Ninth Prince was not killed by her own hands, it was also caused by her...
She couldn't accept such an ending.
"Master, is this what you said, the way of reincarnation, does it have its own way?"
"You said that everything in this world has its own decrees and cannot be changed, so I have never tried to change anything. I just want to live my own life well. Even if everything is predestined, I also want to live according to my own will. Even if I eat and wait to die, I will follow the destiny."
Xiao Ting sat on the ground, looking at the cold ground under the hanging coffin without a trace, talking to herself foolishly.
It was empty there, not even a speck of dust belonging to the Ninth Prince could be found.
She knew it, so she was lost, and her heart seemed to be empty, extremely empty.
"But what about now?" She smiled lowly, "I've only done this one thing, but this time I didn't follow your teachings, and it ended like this."
"Master, where are you? Master?"
"Master, tell me, what is the purpose of my coming here? Everyone has their own mission. What is my mission?"
Xiao Ting was talking to herself at first, but then she seemed a little crazy and asked loudly.
"You said I shouldn't be in love, so I rejected everyone."
"You say it would be a disaster, but even if I didn't like him, I never did, he's dead."
"Master, what is the disaster you are talking about? Is it the disaster of the world, or my own? Master, tell me, what should I do?"
At the end of Xiao Ting's speech, her voice became hoarse, and she fell to the ground, almost collapsing.
What you have always believed is not necessarily true.
What has been followed is not necessarily good.
She was at a loss at the moment, not knowing why she had persisted and been persisted for so long.
What is the meaning of her existence
The master said that no matter where she is, she should put herself out of the world and be a spectator to experience the way of heaven, so that she can transcend the world and not be trapped by the eight sufferings of the world.
Only then can life be worry-free!
But now, she suddenly found that everything she followed didn't make any sense.
What should come will still come, what should happen will still happen.
If you can't do what you want, what's the point of living without worries
Or is it that her realm is still too low to understand the relationship between them
She was unable to think about this, her mind was in chaos, and the cool wind blew in, and she shivered unconsciously.
"If so, what is the purpose of my life? Master."
"If, in the dark, there is a hand that has planned everyone's life, and we are just a pawn in his hand, moving according to his wish. If this is the case, I don't want to be a pawn, I don't want to, master, from now on, I will cherish this life, and there are no rules in this world that bind me, master, did you hear that? I don't want to... "
Xiao Ting yelled, as if she had been reborn, she felt much more relaxed.
At this moment, the moment when the Ninth Prince died, Xiao Ting completely collapsed. Everything she believed in had been overturned.
In the past, she always obeyed the destiny and believed in reincarnation.
He has only done one thing in his life, that is, let go of the Ninth Prince.
She firmly believes that she can protect him and help him.
After all, it was a life. Four women worked together to maintain a life for twenty years. She wanted him to live. Even as Chu Yun's father, she also wanted him to live. She didn't want to see them sad.
She will guard him and watch him, and will not let him really endanger the world.
But before that step was reached, everything had just begun, and the Ninth Prince died, and disappeared in ashes.
It means that the soul cannot be reincarnated, and there will be no trace of him in all time and space in this world.
After Xiao Ting yelled, she fell silent, her head was empty, and all her thoughts had been condensed.
She felt relieved, but after the relief, she felt powerless. The feeling of falling into the abyss and not seeing a ray of light was very heavy.
Hesitation, restlessness, unspeakable, all kinds of emotions intertwined, making her mind a mess.
"Tired?"
Some lonely voices rose from the top of her head, empty and clear.
At the same time, a long shadow was reflected on the bluestone floor in front of her, stretched very long.
Xiao Ting raised her head suddenly.
On the hanging coffin, the Ninth Prince, who should have vanished into ashes, stood facing the wind. Standing at the very front, looking down at her, his eyes met hers, his expression was calm, and there was no scar on his body.
The blue flame above the hanging coffin has all disappeared, disappeared without a trace.
All this was so dreamy that Xiao Ting couldn't believe her eyes.
She stood up abruptly, feeling that all the strength in her body had come back, rubbed her eyes hastily, and looked up again, it was still the same, the man was still standing there, casting a long shadow in the moonlight.
She asked in surprise, "Are you not dead?"
The Ninth Prince frowned, and stood with his hands behind his back, "You really hope that this king will die?"
"Of course not." Xiao Ting shook her head again and again, and even wiped her eyes, "Of course I hope you live well."
All the uneasiness and hesitation in Xiao Ting's heart were instantly washed away by joy.
The Ninth Prince tapped his toes, floated down, and landed slowly in front of Xiao Ting, saying, "I will take you up."
Xiao Ting nodded hurriedly. While the Ninth Prince's bracelet was around her waist, she naturally put her hands around his waist and hugged him tightly.
Until now, she didn't feel real.
There were no traces of burning around the hanging coffin, the coffin lid was still unadorned, the color of the bluestone did not change at all, and even the temperature did not change in the slightest.
This made Xiao Ting a little bit stunned, could it be that she was wrong, this is impossible.
"My lord, what happened just now?" Xiao Ting looked at the Ninth Prince in a daze, she clearly remembered that all this was so real.
Ninth Prince just shook his head and said, "I don't know."
"The flame just now, you can also see it?"
Ninth Prince nodded: "Naturally."
Even he was surprised that such a flame that burns everything was extinguished just like that.
Xiao Ting's eyes flickered, she stared at the Ninth Prince, then let go of the Ninth Prince's hand, and began to knock on the coffin lid, there was really no trace of destruction.
And there was no trace of temperature, as if what they saw and experienced just now were all illusions.
This is so weird.
Neither of them mentioned Xiao Ting's abnormality just now, but they both had their own calculations in their hearts.
Soon, Xiao Ting found that the restrictions around the coffin had been lifted, so she tried to put down the hanging coffin.
Xiao Ting walked forward with a candlestick in her hand, the Ninth Prince looked back at her and said, "Stand back."
Xiao Ting backed away embarrassingly, the Ninth Prince waved his palm and pushed the lid of the sarcophagus, and then it fell heavily on the ground.
A cloud of dust was raised.
"Cough cough cough..." Xiao Ting waved her hands again and again, fanning the dust aside, and then leaned forward to have a look.
"What a good thing, let me have a look."
But when Xiao Ting came close and took a look inside, she was instantly dumbfounded.
The bottom of the coffin can be seen at a glance, there is nothing, it is empty.
Both of them were a little surprised and looked at each other. It was too strange that there was nothing inside such a coffin that was well protected.
Xiao Ting naturally didn't believe it, she stuffed the candlestick into the Ninth Prince's hand, jumped in, touched it carefully up, down, left, and right, and finally sat inside with her mouth pouting.
"There's really nothing, it's unscientific."
The Ninth Prince's interest has always been low, always so indifferent, he didn't have any hope for it, he just waited to see it by chance, so he wouldn't be disappointed.
Seeing that Xiao Ting still touched Yin, he stretched out his other hand and pulled Xiao Ting out, "It's not a good place, what are you doing sitting in? Come out."
Xiao Ting was dissatisfied, "But there is nothing here."
In fact, with just one glance, the Ninth Prince can tell that there is no interlayer or other mechanism inside, and the bottom of the coffin is very thin, unlike ordinary coffins.
And this kind of sarcophagus is rarely used now.
(end of this chapter)