The Three-Life Stone

My world next rain

I hope your world is sunny

Youth is gone, but the rain keeps on falling

No one comes close to my heart anymore

Your world has rained

Is there a rainbow blooming in the umbrella?

——Secret Love

She didn't go out that day. She was either in a daze or something. The food served was much more exquisite than usual, but she only tasted a little and had no appetite.

That night, Bei Mingchen came as usual. Looking at this lifeless and dull woman, he felt angry and said, "It is your blessing to serve me."

"Your Majesty is so gracious and strong. I am happy to serve you." Shangguan Wan'er said with a dull face. She stood up to help Bei Mingchen undress and silently undressed herself. Tears refused to fall in her eyes and she lowered her head to avoid being discovered.

Bei Mingchen showed no mercy this time, and intermittently expressed his dissatisfaction with Shangguan Wan'er's appearance: "Women are all the same... and you... think you are noble... As my woman... you should be content... So many women... can't hope to be favored by me..."

Shangguan Wan'er's unbearable plea for mercy made Bei Mingchen even more excited: "If you had done this earlier... wouldn't it be... better... just like a sheep... wouldn't it be better..."

After finishing the job, Bei Mingchen put on his clothes and said, "Alright, I won't need you to serve me in the next two days. Just do what you need to do. If you still have that dying expression, I don't mind teaching you a lesson myself."

Shangguan Wan'er couldn't guess Bei Mingchen's intention, even Xia Jin was confused.

"Please put away that dead look on your face. I will lie down on the bed for a while while I review the memorials." Bei Mingchen seemed like a different person and spoke coldly.

"Then I will not disturb the emperor anymore." Shangguan Wan'er said and was about to leave.

"You are not allowed to go out." Bei Mingchen did not even raise his head. "Just stay in this room, you can do whatever you want."

Shangguan Wan'er was stunned for a moment, then sat on the other side, picked up a copy of the Book of Songs and started to practice needlework.

Another hour passed. Shangguan Wan'er huddled at the innermost part of the bed while Bei Mingchen lay at the outermost part. The small bed was still empty.

This kind of life continued for another three days. Everyone said that Shangguan Wan'er had finally made it and won the emperor's favor. Only she knew that there was basically no communication between them during these three days, and she couldn't figure out Bei Mingchen.

In a few days, everything will return to the way it was before, but after she was favored, no one looked down on her anymore. After she lost favor, some people flattered her, some comforted her, and some gloated over her misfortune, but she didn't care at all.

When she heard that Bei Ming Mo was going to war, she played a farewell song in front of the guqin inside the courtyard wall. When the song ended, Shangguan Wan'er looked in one direction of the palace wall, her thoughts drifting far away.

"Bei Ming Mo, you must return victorious."

I won't stand by your side, and we won't have any intersection, but you will always be in my heart.

In another trance, Xia Jin came to an alley. Before she could react to her servant's attire, she saw a handsome young man taking Shangguan Wan'er's hand and running to a horse.

"Sister, remember that Shangguan Wan'er is dead, and the past cannot be turned back. Even if the glory days are gone, you must be as strong as this foxtail grass." The young man picked up a foxtail grass. It was the last gift he gave to his sister. In the future, he only hoped that his sister would be safe, happy and free.

"I will, and you take care of yourself too." Shangguan Wan'er sat on the horse, waved the whip, and left without looking back.

This city wall failed to trap me in the end. Shangguan Wan'er, any concubines, just go away. I want to pursue the life I want, I want to find out the truth.

Bei Ming Mo, you clearly returned victorious, how could you die inexplicably? I don't believe in any congenital disease or assassins from enemy countries.

Guan Wan'er couldn't hold back her tears along the way, like a river bursting its banks. No matter how much injustice she had suffered, she was not afraid. As long as one person was safe, she would be happy. But now this belief has collapsed.

She settled down in Jiangzhou. Late at night, she came to the palace. The man she loved once lived here, but now it has been sealed again. She looked at the place that she had passed by countless times in her dreams. It was so deserted and she felt sad in her heart.

She quietly crawled in through the dog hole, walked cautiously in the dark, carefully groping for the path he might have taken, and slowly looking for the location of his study and bedroom.

She gently swept away the dust and opened the book he had read before. She opened the drawer and looked at the words he had written, stroking the dried ink on them. All of them were traces of his existence. She seemed to be closer to him, but also farther away, and could never find him again.

She entered the bedroom, which had already been cleaned, but she still searched for any trace of his presence.

For many days and nights, she would crawl into that dog hole, counting the furnishings in the yard, looking for traces of Bei Ming Mo's existence. One day, when she was tired, she spread her clothes on the bed and fell asleep with her clothes on. She slept surprisingly well that night. She seemed to have seen Bei Ming Mo. When she woke up, the sun was already high in the sky. She had slept for such a long time.

Not only did she inquire about it herself, she also sought information from other black markets. However, the result was beyond her ability to achieve. Shangguan Wan'er walked on the street dejectedly, feeling sad in her heart: I'm sorry, Bei Ming Mo, I don't seem to be able to do anything for you.

How ironic, it turned out to be like this. Shangguan Wan'er walked on the path with relief, intending to find her next path again.

Suddenly someone came up and put a sack on her. She fainted before she could react. When she woke up again, she came to a very familiar place.

The surrounding splendor was dazzling. A stern middle-aged man on the high platform slowly walked up to her, grasped her chin, and smiled contemptuously: "Isn't this my deceased concubine?"

"Your Majesty, please stop joking. Perhaps I look a bit like your concubine."

"Haha, good, very good." Bei Mingchen smiled and nodded, not knowing whether he believed it or not. "Looking too much like each other is not a good thing, someone throw him into jail and wait for your punishment!"

She stayed in prison for three days and three nights with no one paying attention to her. She was also hungry for three days and three nights. Her originally clean face was now covered with dust, her hair was a little messy, and her lips were cracked and peeling due to lack of water.

"Shangguan Wan'er, look at what you look like now." Bei Mingchen approached and looked at Shangguan Wan'er. "When I first liked you, you were so shameless. Now that I haven't seen you for a few years, what have you become? Haven't you escaped from my grasp? Aren't you still being my chess piece?"

Bei Mingchen said contemptuously, and someone placed food on the stone table next to him. Shangguan Wan'er looked at his expression, sat down at the stone table and started eating, not wanting to refute Bei Mingchen's words.

She was hungry, she was really hungry, so hungry that it took a lot of effort to even walk. She was thirsty, she was really thirsty, so thirsty that she didn't even want to say a word.

"I didn't expect that such an ordinary person like you could have such an effect. I really underestimated you." Bei Mingchen was in a good mood. He was not affected at all. He walked to the stone bench and sat down, watching Shangguan Wan'er eat.

"Are you familiar with the name Ergou?" Bei Mingchen looked at Shangguan Wan'er with a smile. Seeing her looking at him in shock, her lips moved without uttering a syllable, and the curve of her lips widened a little.

"Oh, no, he is now a master of the Nangong family. He should not be called Ergou. If I hadn't helped Murong Yi to rescue you, I wouldn't have known there was such a person. There is a lot behind this person." Bei Mingchen laughed twice, "Oh, my small harem has really wronged you. Murong Yi is willing to die for you, Ergou was seriously injured because of you, and even I was moved by you at the beginning."

"You...what did you do to them?" Shangguan Wan'er pounced on Bei Mingchen with a hoarse voice and grabbed his neck.

Some guards who wanted to rush over were stopped by him. He took her hand away with a little force, stood up and brushed off the dust she had made, with some disgust.

"I came here to thank you for finding a reasonable reason for me to attack the Southern Kingdom, hahahahahahahaha."