When Cheng Yu woke up, his mind was chaotic, his eyes were dim, and he had no idea where he was.
He barely sat up, only to feel a splitting headache. Perhaps sensing his awakening, Cheng Yu heard the rubbing of clothes in the dark, and then a dim yellow light came on.
Everything in front of him made Cheng Yu realize that he was now in a dungeon. He was very familiar with the people standing outside the prison door, but felt a little strange at this moment.
The man was wearing a black brocade robe, which made his complexion even more fair. His eyes were the same as when he first saw him in the snow.
Ten years have passed, even if he is already the king of the country, why is this person still so unreachable.
Du Yan saw that Cheng Yu just stared at him in a daze, and didn't speak, thinking that the other party was not yet awake, so he took the initiative to call: "Cheng Yu."
Cheng Yu's body froze slightly, and she pinched her brows, realizing that all this was not a dream: "Where is this?"
Du Yan was silent for a moment, then told frankly: "Mingfeng Hall."
Mingfeng Hall was where Du Yan lived when he was still the eldest princess.
Mingfeng Hall has always been the residence of the former princess, and it belonged to Du Yan before. After he ascended the throne, he moved out of this place. And Yuan Ning was used to living in the current place, so he didn't move here.
The Mingfeng Palace was left vacant, and it was very suitable to keep Cheng Yu secretly imprisoned here.
Cheng Yu whispered: "I didn't know that there are such dungeons in Mingfeng Hall..."
Du Yan felt that this situation was very strange. After Cheng Yu woke up, his reaction was different from any situation Du Yan imagined. He just raised his head and looked over. In his eyes, there was no anger or doubt, just darkness and nothing.
"Why?" Cheng Yu asked, "Is what the letter said true or false?"
Du Yan's eyebrows moved slightly, and he didn't understand why Cheng Yu was entangled in this meaningless question.
He said coldly: "I said you shouldn't come. I wanted to lure you to come and die, but I didn't expect you to be hooked so easily. Cheng Yu, I will laugh at what you have offered with both hands."
After that, Du Yan no longer waited for Cheng Yu to respond, and turned around to leave.
"Yuan Yan."
Du Yan's steps to leave stopped, but he did not look back.
"Is it so important to you to rule the world?"
"Yes."
"In the ten years that you and I have been together day and night, in your heart, there is nothing worthy of nostalgia?"
Du Yan's body froze, and without answering, he walked out of the dungeon and immediately covered the heavy stone door.
It was not until Du Yan walked out of the dark dungeon that Xiao Ba dared to speak again: "You are not afraid of causing psychological shadows to the Lord of Dreams like this. I always feel that if you do this, it will create a new source of nightmares."
"No, Cheng Yu is stubborn, how can someone who can become an emperor be defeated by such a small deceit and betrayal."
Du Yan paused for a while, and then seemed to convince himself, adding: "And this dungeon won't keep him locked up for long. Yuan Ning soon found out that Cheng Yu was missing."
Xiao Ba sighed with emotion: "You are the villain who really thought about it. On the one hand, you have to calculate the master of the dream, and on the other hand, you have to let someone come to save him."
Du Yan looked back at the entrance of the dungeon, stared at it for a while, and finally sighed: "If there is another dream, I really just want to be a pure villain."
A few days later, the envoys from Chengguo left their original country, one less than when they came.
It is also unfortunate to say that the messenger who came from afar, in the former king's palace, fell into a well and drowned after being drunk. When he was found, his face was so swollen that it was difficult to identify. If the clothes on his body were not the clothes of a country, he would have been treated as an unnamed corpse.
This corpse pretending to be Cheng Yu was a death row inmate with a similar body shape that Du Yan sent from the death row. Chengguo didn't know that their king was in the messenger group, and naturally they didn't investigate too much about the accidental death of an unimportant person.
A few days later, under the guidance of Du Yan, Yuan Ning discovered Cheng Yu who was imprisoned in Mingfeng Hall.
Yuan Ning's reaction was the same as Du Yan expected.
She broke into Du Yan's bedroom directly, and without even paying the courtesy, she raised her voice and asked, "Brother, why did you lock Cheng Yu up?"
Yuan Ning knew about the dungeon in Mingfeng Hall. She was curious when she saw that Du Yan came in and was not doing well, and she often approached the uninhabited Mingfeng Hall.
Later, while Du Yan was going to court, she touched Mingfeng Hall and found Cheng Yu who was imprisoned in the dungeon.
In the cell with a square meter, Cheng Yu was sitting against the corner of the wall. When she saw her coming in, she just looked up and then looked down at the ground without saying a word.
Cheng Yu's deadly aura made Yuan Ning unable to believe what she saw, and she only wanted to know what her brother wanted.
So, there is the current scene.
Du Yan did not deny it, but said coldly, "This matter has nothing to do with you."
Yuan Ning was completely under the control of his anger at the moment, and some of his words were unwilling to say: "Cheng Yu is obviously so kind to you, and he even came from Chengguo to see you..."
Du Yan said: "A person who is a king must abandon such useless things if he wants to achieve a long-term hegemony."
"In your heart, Qianqiu's hegemony is so important? More important than anything else?"
"Of course." Du Yan said, "Gu Shang has government affairs to deal with, you should step down."
Yuan Ning didn't move, but said, "Brother, why do I think you are different. Since, since you changed from elder sister to elder brother, you are different."
Du Yan's subordinates paused slightly: "This is me."
In the end, Yuan Ning left in anger.
After that, her actions were all under Du Yan's control. Yuan Ning took Cheng Yu's token out of the palace and contacted the dark line he stayed in the capital.
After that, Mingfeng Hall walked through the water one night.
Du Yan looked at the flames rising into the sky and knew that it should be Cheng Yu who had escaped from the dungeon.
As for when he left, why did he burn down Mingfeng Hall with a torch
Maybe it's saying goodbye to the past.
Du Yan's goal has been achieved, he looked at the red sky reflected by the fire, but suddenly felt a little lost.
It seems that the scene in Mingfeng Hall, when Tong Chengyu was playing carelessly, appeared in front of him.
Now is not the time to be sad, Du Yan still has one last thing to do.
He turned around, summoned two confidant guards, and then rode straight out of the palace.
Du Yan climbed up the city wall and looked at the vast whiteness in front of him. It just happened to be snowing heavily a few days ago, and both inside and outside the capital were covered in thick snow.
The fire in the palace, against the white snow, made the figure of the man riding away more conspicuous.
Du Yan raised his hand, palm facing up, and a bow was placed in his palm.
The man galloping away in the distance suddenly stopped as if he felt something.
He pulled the reins and turned the horses around.
One is standing on the city wall, and the other is outside the city wall, looking at each other from a distance.
Du Yan picked up the arrow and pulled the bowstring, but Cheng Yu didn't move.
Just like many years ago, Du Yan teased Cheng Yu and asked him to stand under the big tree with a tea cup as an arrow target.
Du Yan could not see Cheng Yu's face, nor could he see Cheng Yu's expression, but in front of his eyes appeared the dark eyes of Cheng Yu many years ago.
Everything seems to have not changed.
Everything has also changed. The arrow that didn't go off the string many years ago galloped towards Cheng Yu.
With a click, the jade crown on Cheng Yu's head cracked, and the long hair tied up was scattered.
The gust of wind ruffled his hair, obscuring his vision, making the figure of the ruthless man standing on the city wall in the distance blurred.
The fire in Mingfeng Hall was gradually extinguished, and the reddish sky returned to the gray-blue color it should have on a winter night.
Cheng Yu felt a little cold on his cheeks, he raised his hand to stroke it, and muttered, "It turned out to be snowing."
After all, he turned his horse's head and galloped away, never looking back.
Until the figure disappeared into the vast snow, Du Yan was still standing on the city wall, the bow in his hand was empty, but he did not put it down.
"You're still soft-hearted." Xiao Ba suddenly said.
"You think too much, I'm just worried that the vision is not good, and it really killed the master of the dream."
"This is the first time I've seen you voluntarily change your plans..."
What Xiao Ba said was not without purpose. Du Yan was an extremely rational person. Except for the objective reasons to change the plan, he would execute it step by step, and he never hesitated and relented.
Du Yan ignored Xiao Ba, he knew that he couldn't even convince him for this reason.
Young Master Yan's excellent archery skills can pierce Yang with a hundred steps, and even the general Wu Qi is ashamed of himself.
How could he accidentally kill the Lord of Dreams
Du Yan turned around, threw the bow into the guard's hand, turned and walked down the city wall.
His original plan was that the arrow should be aimed at Cheng Yu's shoulder. It would not be fatal, and the injury would not be too severe, so that it could completely cut off each other's past.
When it came to the end, Du Yan hesitated. At that moment, his hand was slightly raised, and the arrow shot at Cheng Yu Yuguan.
Du Yan didn't want to delve into what the momentary hesitation represented. Everything is a foregone conclusion, there is no point in regretting what you have done.
However, when Du Yan returned to the bedroom, he was by the pillow and found something that shouldn't be here.
Since Du Yan revealed that he was a man in front of Cheng Yu, and returned the miscellaneous pendant to the other party, he has not seen this string of miscellaneous pendants.
He didn't understand why Cheng Yu ordered people to put this miscellaneous accessory here when he was fleeing.
Whether it means that Cheng Yu has completely cut off his past friendship, or something else, Du Yan is a little uncertain in his heart.
Fortunately, everything that happened after that told Du Yan that his plan was successful.
Yuan Chang Yuan Jue began to communicate with Cheng Yu privately in the dark line of the original capital city. Above the courtroom, a dark tide was stirred for a while.
A few months later, King Cheng sent a document called expressing the sincerity of the alliance and asking to marry the eldest princess.
Du Yan sternly refused.
After the document was sent to Chengguo, Chengwang was furious and bluntly said that the original king was too deceiving.
The original covenant between the two countries was finally broken.