King Cheng angrily denounced the original country for being too deceiving. When the document to tear up the covenant was sent, Du Yan happened to have the document that Cheng Yu had asked to marry the eldest princess.
After sending away the messenger from Chengguo, Du Yan picked up the marriage proposal and read it again.
In this document, Cheng Yu's wording is a bit strange, and the whole text only refers to the eldest princess, and does not mention Yuan Ning's name as a taboo. What is even more incomprehensible is Cheng Yu's behavior of begging to marry the eldest princess.
After Cheng Yu left, Du Yan was ready for the other party to break the contract, but he did not expect that Cheng Yu would break the contract in this way.
Cheng Yu wanted to break the contract, and there were many excuses, but he chose to marry the princess.
In fact, if Du Yan is really a monarch who only has dominance in his heart, the most correct thing to do at this time is to marry Yuan Ningyuan into a kingdom. For the time being, stabilize the relations of the allies, and after rectifying the dynasty, then choose the opportunity to destroy it and rule the world.
As for twin sisters or biological daughters, in the hearts of emperors since ancient times, they will never be able to compare to Qianqiu's dominance. Fortunately, Du Yan's purpose has never been to dominate the world.
Otherwise, Yuan Ning's fate would probably not be much better than in the movie theater. Could it be that this incident really made Cheng Yu hate herself to the bone, so she completely ignored Yuan Ning's innocence and regarded her as a victim of the political struggle.
Just when Du Yan had some mixed feelings in his heart, an unexpected guest arrived.
Yuan Ning stood at the door and called out hesitantly, "Brother."
Since the fire in Mingfeng Hall and Cheng Yu's escape, Yuan Ning has been a little guilty and dare not see Du Yan. She knew that her brother was very smart, and after thinking about these things for a while, she knew that Cheng Yu's escape from the dungeon had nothing to do with her.
Yuan Ning avoided seeing Du Yan, and Du Yan was also busy with government affairs. The two brothers and sisters had not seen each other since Cheng Yu left.
Du Yan looked at Yuan Ning who suddenly appeared in front of him, and raised his eyebrows in surprise: "Xi Ke, Gu Huan thinks you don't remember your brother anymore."
Yuan Ning sneered and took out the hand behind his back: "Brother, I made peach blossom cake for you."
Du Yan glanced at him, nodded slightly, and motioned her to come in: "Wait until I finish approving the documents on the table."
Yuan Ning was very pleased to put the cakes on the table beside the bed, and instructed the maid to set up a small stove and boil water to prepare tea. After she was busy with all this, she held her chin and waited quietly for Du Yan to finish her work.
After Du Yan finished his work, he sat down opposite Yuan Ning: "Tell me, why are you looking for me today?"
I didn't want to, Du Yan only said a word, and saw Yuan Ning move back, and then gave a big salute.
Du Yan was a little surprised: "What do you mean?"
Yuan Ning straightened up and said, "I let Wang Cheng go. If my brother didn't look at the brother-sister friendship, he would have taken me down for a long time."
"..." Du Yan didn't deny it, now that Cheng Yu has left, even if Yuan Ning knew the truth, it wouldn't change anything.
"At that time, I said that brother, you are ruthless and unrighteous, and you only have Qianqiu domineering in your heart. I was wrong." Yuan Ning said frankly.
Hearing this sentence, Du Yan immediately understood why Yuan Ning suddenly came to apologize and asked, "Do you know about the marriage?"
Yuan Ning smiled bitterly and said, "This matter is spreading so much, how could I not know it at all. If you only have Qianqiu domineering in your heart, how can you refuse marriage."
Du Yan said, "This matter has nothing to do with you. I know that there will be a battle with Chengyu, so how could I put you in such an unbearable situation."
"I, I am willing to go to Cheng Nation to marry."
Du Yan was stunned for a moment, but saw Yuan Ning's serious expression, not joking. He pinched his eyebrows: "Do you know how miserable the princess who went to marry the enemy country ended up after?"
"Brother, it's the most appropriate way to send me to marry now, but you refuse." Yuan Ning couldn't understand Du Yan's approach, "It was the most appropriate way to kill Cheng Yu at the beginning. Why did you just lock him up?"
Yuan Ning became more and more excited: "You are obviously also concerned about Tong Chengyu's childhood friendship. You are obviously soft-hearted, so why do you always put on a ruthless appearance?"
Although Yuan Ning is naive, there is a stubborn and impulsive part in her character. Du Yan is a little worried that she will do something that disrupts the plan under her impulse, so she has to persuade her patiently.
"The trend of the world, divided for a long time, must be united. Qi Zi's star-watching divination said that the emperor and the stars are getting brighter, and the trend of the world, you and I are powerless to change."
Du Yan sighed: "Ning'er, the original two kingdoms will not coexist in the end. The past is the past. If you keep it in your heart, it will not do me, Chengyu or you any good."
Yuan Ning said, "Then I just want to contribute to my brother..."
"Ning'er, even if I lose in the future, it will only be inferior to others. I don't have to end up using my sister's happiness to plan the world's fate."
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A carrier pigeon landed on the windowsill, Cheng Yu put down the document in his hand, got up and walked.
He raised his hand and took off the bamboo tube tied to the pigeon's leg, and from the bamboo tube, he took out a volume of secret letters.
Just glanced at the beginning, Cheng Yu's face moved slightly, and he took the secret letter in the palm of his hand. After sitting back on the slump, he read it carefully with a cautious expression.
Because this secret letter came from the dark line in the original king's palace.
After Cheng Yu escaped from the Mingfeng Palace, most of the dark lines he buried in the former King's Palace were found out by Du Yanshun.
The dark lines he painstakingly left behind are now only one person by Yuan Ning's side. This person is by Yuan Ning's side, and he has no access to confidential matters, and even has few opportunities to contact Du Yan, so he has not been exposed.
The news about Yuan Ning has no value to Cheng Yu, so the dark line will naturally not risk spreading the news. Now this is the first time he has sent a secret letter, and it is related to Du Yan.
On top of the secret letter was a long conversation between Yuan Ning and Du Yan.
Cheng Yu looked down carefully for a long time, and the corner of his mouth finally ticked: "As expected."
In fact, in the secret letter, Du Yan didn't say why he had secretly plotted Cheng Yu, but he didn't refute Yuan Ning's statement.
Looking at the handwriting on the letter, Cheng Yu recalled what happened back then.
That day, after being trapped in the dungeon by Du Yan's envoy, Cheng Yu couldn't accept it for a while.
After he received the letter from Du Yan in Chengguo, and after seeing the meaning of missing that was vaguely mentioned in the letter, he didn't even hesitate for a moment, and went to the original country with the envoy, just to meet.
During the journey, Cheng Yu even considered the possibility of jointly ruling the world with Du Yan. However, Du Yan's glass of wine chilled the fiery heart in his chest.
Just when Cheng Yu was about to die in the dungeon, Yuan Ning suddenly broke into the dungeon.
When Yuan Ning saw the situation, he was very excited and said that he wanted to question his brother why he did these things. At that time, Cheng Yu's heart was completely immersed in pain, and he did not stop Yuan Ning's reckless actions.
When Yuan Ning entered the dungeon for the second time, Cheng Yu began to feel that something was wrong.
Du Yan acted carefully and was very scheming. Just relying on the pure Yuan Ning, how could it be possible to hide from Du Yan's eyes again and again and break into the secret dungeon of Mingfeng Hall.
Unless all of this was done intentionally by Du Yan.
In order to confirm his conjecture, Cheng Yu tentatively handed over his token to Yuan Ning and asked Yuan Ning to go to Jucai Building to find someone.
Cheng Yu has never deliberately concealed his many connections with Jucailou in front of Du Yan.
If Du Yan really wants to put him to death, or take this opportunity to achieve hegemony. He would definitely not let Yuan Ning contact Cheng Yu's subordinates in the Jucai Building so easily. However, everything went very smoothly. Yuan Ning brought the dark line he buried in Jucailou and quickly rescued him from the dungeon.
When leaving the dark dungeon. Cheng Yu felt that she had never seen Du Yan clearly. Whether it was the vicious eldest princess at the time or the original king with a gully in her chest now.
Although full of doubts, Cheng Yu's frozen heart beat quietly. He handed over the miscellaneous accessories that he had always brought with him and never left to his subordinates, and instructed the other party to put them in Du Yan's bedroom at the right time.
Before leaving, Cheng Yu set fire to Mingfeng Hall. In this way, he bid farewell to the past and the eldest princess of the past.
After leaving the city, Cheng Yu suddenly felt a throbbing in his heart, so he pulled back his horse and turned around.
Above the city wall in the distance, he saw that familiar and unfamiliar figure. Behind him was the sky that was reddened by the fire of Mingfeng Hall, and the boundless snow.
All boundaries are blurred, but the people above the city wall are inexplicably clear in Cheng Yu's eyes.
At this moment, Cheng Yu finally understood.
That person is not a phoenix soaring in the sky, and the dew from the parasol tree alone is not enough to support him. He has always stood above the clouds, ethereal and unpredictable, if he does not have the most powerful strength, he will never be able to hold it in the palm of his hand.
Cheng Yu watched the wind roll up the man's cloak, and watched the man draw the bowstring.
He remembered the girl who drew the bowstring to him many years ago, and Cheng Yu suddenly felt a sense of connection.
Everything Du Yan did seems to be to cut off the past friendship between the two, so that when they meet each other in the future, they will have no worries about each other.
When the arrow broke through the air, Cheng Yu didn't move. He knew that Du Yan would not kill him, and since the other party could let him go, he would not kill him.
This arrow is probably intended to cause him some injuries, so as to completely renounce justice.
Cheng Yu waited for the severe pain to come, but only heard a click, and the jade crown on his head shattered.
When the jade crown fell on the snow, Cheng Yu was stunned for a moment, and then there was joy in his heart.
After all, the man was still soft-hearted, even though he walked down the road ruthlessly, at this last moment, he still couldn't bear to hurt himself.
At the moment of trying to understand, Cheng Yu felt a little cold on his cheeks, and he wondered why he shed tears when it was the joy of being born out of desperation.
He reached out and touched his cheek, and murmured, "It turned out to be snowing."
Cheng Yu glanced at the people on the city wall for the last time. Although he still didn't know the other party's purpose, he already knew the direction of the other party's path.
If you wish to meet me on the battlefield, it is as you wish. Wherever you want to go, I will walk side by side with you.
Cheng Yu turned the horse's head and galloped away. When he comes back here again, he will definitely know everything, and he will never let this cloud in the sky slip away from his palm again.