At dusk, the sun sets in the west. The morning glories in the distance wither and die as the sun goes down, and even the tree trunks they are attached to look lifeless.
It should be spring already, but everything seems to be still in the middle of winter, with no trace of spring warmth.
Princess Yonghe gathered her clothes and looked at the young man in front of her who had a faint smile but no smile in his eyes. She felt so blocked in her heart that she wanted to cry. She looked at him for a while and suddenly burst into tears.
She had been entangled with this man for several years. She once thought that this was her beloved, hers. But in the end, she still couldn't hold on to him.
And he also treated her as a stranger, or even an enemy worse than a stranger.
Why has it come to this
She asked herself this question in her heart, and also wanted to ask Shen Chen.
The man in front of her watched her cry, but he didn't react at all, he didn't even frown, because he was not moved by her, so her joys and sorrows could not affect him, he didn't have the slightest empathy.
Human joys and sorrows are not the same. Her heart seemed to gradually grow colder. She stood in the cold wind for a long time before finally speaking: "I thought you wouldn't come to see me."
Shen Chen stood not far in front of her with his hands behind his back. He seemed to be shrouded in coldness, and there was no extra emotion on his face. He glanced at her without saying a word.
Princess Yonghe bit her lip and wanted to order the troublesome palace maids and eunuchs to stay further away.
But Shen Chen reached out his hand to stop him. He looked at Princess Yonghe without wavering and said directly, "There is nothing that cannot be said to others. Princess, just say it directly."
He didn't know whether he was too confident in himself or too heartless to her. Princess Yonghe raised the corner of her mouth and asked sarcastically, "Is there really nothing you can't tell others? Are you going to tell so many people the details of the Guanzhong Marquis incident?"
Shen Chen raised his eyebrows in surprise: "What happened to Guanzhong Hou? What happened to Guanzhong Hou?"
Even up to now, Shen Chen still refused to tell her the truth, and always wore a mask of "no strangers allowed" in front of her, which made Shen Chen dislike her.
Princess Yonghe felt sad, but she didn't know how to be angry. After a while, she held back her anger and looked up at him and asked him, "Why did Marquis Guanzhong give my personal jade pendant to my father? Don't you know?!"
Speaking of such palace secrets, the nanny closest to Princess Yonghe had already signaled to the people below her, and they all retreated far away. They could see Shen Chen and Princess Yonghe's actions, but could not hear them speak.
The more you know about this kind of thing, the more danger you will encounter. People who have been immersed in the deep palace for a long time know this very well, and have long developed the instinct to seek benefits and avoid harm.
Shen Chen didn't pay attention to them. He looked at Princess Yonghe, calmly adjusted the jade pendant on his waist, lifted his robe and calmly sat on the stone bench next to him: "It's me, so what?"
So what...
The person in front of her looked exactly the same as when she first met him. His nose and eyes were as beautiful as before, and there was still light in his eyes. However, the smile on his face did not reach his eyes at all, and he was terribly cold towards her.
Princess Yonghe suddenly started crying hysterically: "Why?! So what? What do you mean?! Don't you know what kind of person Guanzhong Hou is? Don't you know how his previous wife died?! How could you do this to me?!"
She was so angry that her words were incoherent and she was just venting her emotions hysterically.
After a while, she grabbed her clothes and looked at the still indifferent Shen Chen, finally on the verge of collapse: "Do you have a heart? You know I like you..."
Shen Chen finally looked her straight in the eye. He looked at her with confusion, indifference, and a hint of annoyance in his eyes. Finally, he just asked softly, "You like me, so I have to like you. If I don't like you, it would be my sin. You want to destroy everything I like, right?"
Yeah
Princess Yonghe was stunned by her question. She took several steps back before she could stand steady by holding onto the stone table. Suddenly, her face turned pale, as if she had suddenly realized something: "You treated me like this because of Wei An? Because of that little bitch, because you wanted to stand up for her?"
Wei An Wei An Wei An, ever since she met this man in her life, it seemed that nothing good ever happened to her. Everything that should have been hers was no longer hers.
But what’s so good about Wei’an
She couldn't control herself, leaning on the stone table and staring at Shen Chen, as if she would not give up until she got the answer. She asked coldly, desperately and stubbornly: "Why? Why? Why do you always speak softly to Wei An, and do everything she likes for her, but you have to eliminate everything she doesn't like, like me? Don't you know my feelings for you? Is my feelings really worthless to you?"
"It's really worthless." Shen Chen sighed deeply, looked at her and said, "I just feel that your devastating love is a burden that can't be any heavier. You say you like me, but what do you know about me? Even if you know me, does it mean that just because you like me, I must like you and not like others? I haven't lied to you, nor have I promised you anything. I told you clearly from the beginning to the end that I only want Wei An."
"But you couldn't listen. Not only did you not listen, but you also did many things that I couldn't tolerate." Shen Chen looked at her, as if he felt regretful: "Nothing has come to this point in one day, Princess, today, think about how many wrong things you have done, and what you have done to Wei An... Maybe for you, this is just removing a stone that is in the way, but for me, you are killing my beloved, and I can't tolerate it."
You can't tolerate it, so you'd rather get rid of her as a nuisance
Princess Yonghe burst into tears: "Why don't you like me? What's wrong with me?! How is Wei An better than me?!"
Even now, she was still struggling with what was good about Wei An and what was bad about her, instead of thinking that she had done something wrong and gotten herself into too much trouble.
Shen Chen frowned and said, "Princess, no matter if she's good or not, I only like her. Whatever she likes, I like, whatever she hates, I hate too. There's no need for a reason. If I really need to find a reason, then there's no way... I can only say that I was born to live to marry her."