Mu Xi stood outside the door: "Sister Jing Yao, is it inconvenient now?"
"No." Jing Yao smiled: "I happened to be changing my clothes just now, so... Xi'er has something to do with me?"
Mu Xi nodded: "Let's talk?"
Jing Yao thought of something and said hesitantly: "Are you here for Song Qinghan?"
Mu Xi pursed her lips.
She could clearly feel that Jing Yao didn't want to talk about this matter.
Seeing Mu Xi's silence, Jing Yao sighed slowly: "Come in."
The window in the room was still open, and the moonlight was shining on the window. Jing Yao walked to the window and stopped, looking at the dark night outside. She leaned on the window sill and asked in a low voice: "He asked you to come here." I?"
Mu Xi shook his head: "No, I came here myself."
There was no light in the room, only the moonlight falling on her shoulders. Jing Yao's red dress looked a bit coquettish in the darkness.
At this moment, Mu Xi felt that Jing Yao was clearly standing in front of her, but she seemed to be far away.
Mu Xi's heart moved and she said, "Sister Jing Yao, why don't you accept my uncle?"
Hearing this, Jing Yao was slightly startled. She turned back and looked at Mu Xi in the darkness.
"Why don't you accept it?" She asked almost in a whisper: "Does he like me?"
She seemed to be asking Mu Xi, but also seemed to be talking to herself.
Mu Xi quickly said: "Of course, uncle loves you very much."
Jing Yao smiled bitterly: "Really? But obviously, he was the one who didn't accept me at the beginning."
Mu Xi wanted to explain, but Jing Yao directly interrupted what she was about to say: "He was also the one who blessed me to get married to another person."
"He was also the one who left me and ascended to immortality."
"Is this... really love?"
Jing Yao said several words in succession, leaving Mu Xi completely unable to find the words to refute.
After a while, she pursed her lips and said: "Uncle has his own reasons."
Jing Yao asked: "What's the reason?"
Mu Xi said: "You should know that the Song family was destroyed by a group of powerful mysterious people."
Jing Yao took a deep breath and nodded.
"But you definitely don't know that they are still monitoring uncle and grandpa." Mu Xi walked to the window and looked at the flickering lanterns on the street. His voice was calm, as if he was talking about an ordinary thing: " Surveillance day and night, everyone who is close to uncle and grandpa is easily implicated. You can pursue her desperately, but he cannot show that he likes you at all. He can only be as distant and indifferent as he is to everyone. Treat you properly, because once he even cares about your performance, you will be in danger."
Jing Yao's eyes and heart trembled slightly. She opened her mouth to say something, but her voice was stuck in her throat.
"You have been to the underground palace. You know how it was when I first went there? They thought my mother was ungrateful. The Song family suffered such a big change. My mother was living happily in Nanyan Kyoto and had not been back to Fuxi for more than ten years. His brother and father, who were exterminated at once, had been exchanging letters in the first few years, but his uncle never mentioned the news of the Song family's misfortune in his letters. He did not dare to say it because every letter would be intercepted by someone to make sure that nothing was revealed. The news will be delivered to us only after the news is released. If my father hadn't died later, only my mother and I would be left as women and children, and those people might not be so lax towards my mother and me."
Mu Xi turned back to look at Jing Yao. She rarely said so many words in one breath, and her voice was dry: "This is to protect us, and it is also to protect you."
Jing Yao's body stiffened, and her red lips trembled slightly due to her depressed mood.
"The more you care about someone, the more indifferent they may be. Only in this way will they not involve you." Mu Xi said: "There are more than 300 people in the Song family who have worked hard for the Song family all their lives, so let them Do you want to die with your eyes open? Everyone in the underground palace is still unable to live openly and openly in the sun. Their uncle carries their hopes. Can he not take revenge? No. But how can we, who were still in the small world at that time, face the big world? Such a behemoth as the world is? My uncle is not sure whether he can go back alive, so how can he tell you that he likes you? "
Jing Yao lowered her eyes slightly, tears falling down with her movements, glistening in the moonlight.
"Maybe my father is right." She said: "The price you need to pay to be with him is too high."
In the past, she was willful and had her own way, thinking that one day the clouds would clear and the moon would shine.
Only now did I realize that my father was right, she was... killing her entire family.
"Sister Jingyao..."
Jing Yao shook her head: "So I regret it. Loving him is too hard, and I have decided to give up."
"Then why did you come to the big world? Even in order to ascend to the big world, you would not hesitate to embark on the path of cultivating demons?" Mu Xi suddenly asked sharply.
"I..." Jing Yao quietly clenched her hands into fists, and a few strange bloody lights flashed across her eyes.
Mu Xi looked at her patiently, waiting for her answer.
Jing Yao clenched her fist tightly and remained silent for a long time.
"Are you really going to give up on him?" Mu Xi asked.
Jing Yao turned around suddenly, not daring to look into Mu Xi's eyes anymore. She said in a hoarse voice: "Mu Xi, are you like Qing Han, willing to sacrifice everything for your family, even your own life? ?”
"Of course." Mu Xi said without thinking, "As long as it's someone I care about, I'm willing."
Jing Yao took a deep breath and said slowly: "Me too."
In the past, she chose Song Qinghan before her family and Song Qinghan, and she remained infatuated for ten years.
But now, between her family and him, she can no longer choose him willfully.
"What?" Mu Xi didn't understand what Jing Yao meant.
Jing Yao said: "I mean, if I were you, I would be just like you, willing to give everything in exchange for the lives of everyone in the family."
Mu Xi sighed inaudibly: "It's a pity that they can never come back."
Jing Yao lowered her eyes and her fingertips trembled.
Mu Xi said: "After saying so much, Sister Jing Yao, don't you still understand my uncle?"
"Tomorrow night." Jing Yao said, "Mu Xi, let me think about it for one night. Come tomorrow night, and I will tell you the answer, okay?"
Mu Xi nodded. She understood that Jing Yao had liked her uncle for so long and it had always been so difficult. She had already planned to give up. Now that he was suddenly asked to make this decision, it would be difficult to accept it for a while.
"Sister Jingyao, have a good rest and don't think too much. I'll come see you tomorrow night."
"Don't let him come." When Mu Xi was about to leave, Jing Yao said in a slightly pleading tone: "I... don't have the face to see him now."
"Don't worry, Sister Jingyao, I'll come alone."
"… good."