Atractylodes

Back in the Lin Mansion, the sky was already dark, and there was an uneasy atmosphere in the air. Bai Shu sat in the room blankly and touched the Jiulian on his wrist through his sleeve, the candle light kept shaking beside him.

The wind outside the window almost overwhelmed all other sounds.Intuitively, Bai Shu felt that that person would appear tonight.

Pushing open the door, the wind instantly slammed the door against the wall and made a loud noise.Bai Shu walked out of the gate of the Lin Mansion step by step, and walked on the empty street.The moonlight shines on the bluestone slabs of the street through thick dark clouds, and Bai Shu can even feel the biting chill of the slabstones through the soles of his shoes.

His heart was beating again and again. He had heard people say that the night in Chang'an, with thousands of lights, was bright and peaceful, but the night he saw was like a ghost crying...

Suddenly, a dark shadow appeared on the opposite side of the bridge.

Bai Shu's heart suddenly rose to his throat, is it finally here?It's finally over.That person looked at him from a distance, he took a step forward, and that person also took a step forward, as if there was a mirror in the middle.But Bai Shu approached him step by step.

"Who are you?" Bai Shu asked with a trembling voice.

"You'll know."

Bai Shu's eyes widened.this voice...

Exactly like him!

Bai Shu unconsciously pressed his hand on his left wrist.

He couldn't help but stop, and he couldn't bear to take another step forward. The time was too long, and he didn't know where he would go before he couldn't help but collapse.But the man continued to walk, like a stroll in the garden, to the highest point of the bridge, looking down at Zhong Baishu.

He asked him with Lan Junrong's voice, "Who do you think I am?"

"What on earth do you want?"

"I want you to die……"

"Will all problems be solved as long as I die?"

There was a brief silence. "cannot."

Bai Shu almost collapsed, "You madman!"

"I want "Nine Styles of Phoenix Dance." This time it was Lin Jin's voice.

Bai Shu gritted her teeth, "The Nine Styles of Phoenix Dance is not here at all, how can I give it to you!"

"I didn't say I wanted it from you."

Bai Shu was stunned for a moment, then suddenly understood the meaning of the man's words, took two steps back with guilt, and sneered, "Do you think he will give it to you?"

"You are in my hands, do you think he will disregard your life or death?"

"You think too highly of me..."

"I just need to tell Lin Jin that you and Lan Junrong are having an affair. Tell me, what will people in the world think? Tsk..."

Bai Shuqi's hands trembled but he couldn't say a word of rebuttal.The man stared at Bai Shu and laughed, and at that moment, the man knocked Bai Shu unconscious before Bai Shu could send out the nine shots.

The moment he fainted, Bai Shu thought he was really sorry for Ban Xiyao. He had thought about countless tragic ways to die, but he didn't expect that he would be knocked out before he could fight back.

If he just died like this, it would be too useless...

When Bai Zhu woke up, he found that he had been taken to a cave, and the damp and fishy smell invaded his nasal cavity, making him sick.The light was very dim, and he didn't know how long he had slept, or whether it was night or day outside.Soon he will usher in his own ending, but he doesn't know whether he is closer to Lan Xuan or Lin Jin?

Bai Shu was tied up so tightly that she couldn't exert any strength in her body.

Something moved in the dark.

Bai Shu tried his best to shake his head to clear his mind, but the figure with his back facing him still did not disappear, it was not his hallucination, there was indeed someone sitting there with his back facing him.

For some reason, Bai Shu felt that the figure from the back was inexplicably familiar - it reminded him of the figure from the back standing in front of the dead wisteria all night on an autumn night.

"..." Bai Shu couldn't believe it.

"Recognize me?"

The voice was indifferent and devoid of emotion.

Bai Shu stayed where he was, and he was overwhelmed by a huge sense of fear, he couldn't believe it.After that terrifying silence, there was an earth-shattering eruption, and Bai Shu almost threw himself out, "Why! Why! Did you kill Eldest Senior Brother!"

Bai Shu's lips trembled uncontrollably, his eyes were full of anger but tears gradually came out, "Chong Luo, you bastard! I'll kill you! I... you fucking..." Bai Shu slid down against the wall weakly.

"Don't move around, or the poison will invade the internal organs and there will be no cure."

Bai Shu looked at the face approaching him, and shook his head frantically, "You bastard! Stop pretending to be my brother! You don't look like me at all! You don't look like me at all!"

The man squatting opposite him pressed his temples, with an indifferent expression, "Brother? But I never regarded you as my younger brother."

Bai Shu burst into tears, "Why? Why is this? Brother..."

Chong Luo kicked Chong Baishu to the ground, and Baishu clutched her stomach and curled up in pain.

"I said don't call me that."

"It doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense..." He raised his head and looked at Chong Luo weakly and helplessly.

Chong Luo curled his lips, "What's the reason? The reason for Lan Xuan's death? The reason for Lin Jin's death? But many things in the world are mostly unreasonable."

Bai Shu covered her face with her hands, her shoulders trembling.

"Like, I hate you."

"why?"

"As I said, there are no reasons for many things in the world. It's probably because I don't like you, and I have disliked you since I was very young. But I still have to do things because of you that I don't want to do at all. Before Chongxing was born, his parents had almost only you in their eyes. What do you think of me? A tool to inherit the family business? I also have things I want to have, but you can get everything you want. Since God is not fair, I will try to make it fair..."

"You bastard! Dad is so proud of you that he believes in you!"

"You are the idiot..." Chong Baishu thought that Chong Luo's expression would be ferocious, but he looked the same as before, calm and silent, restrained and handsome.

The familiar appearance is more painful.

Chong Luo's eyes finally changed a bit, "What do you know? Tell me, what's the point of me living like this? Chong Baishu, I bought all the freedom you have. But... you even give me I don't care at all..."

Cold sweat broke out on Bai Shu's forehead, Chong Luo's familiar yet unfamiliar face was close at hand but yet so far away.

"I never knew you thought that, I..."

"It's not important anymore." Chong Luo said, his tone actually contained indifference.

"Maybe when I practice "Nine Styles of Phoenix Dance", everything will be unimportant. I just want to pursue what I want." Chong Luo looked at Bai Shu with a calm voice, "Don't be afraid, you won't Death, but your life would be worse than death. I want you to watch all the people around you leave you. Just like when you snatched them away from me."

Did Chong Luo always think so?His seemingly open-minded and arrogant elder brother has always thought so.

"just kill me!"

Kill him, everything will be over, will Chong Luo feel better?

Chong Luo stood up and took two steps back, shaking his head, "I won't kill you, I just want you to leave my life."

There was a sharp pain in Bai Zhu's abdomen, "You...what did you eat for me?"

"It's nothing, Lan Junrong will give you the antidote..."

Chong Baishu pulled the rope a few times, "Lan Junrong? You are crazy! This matter has nothing to do with him! You come at me for everything!"

Chong Luo chuckled lightly, looked at Chong Bai Shu with a little contempt, "It has nothing to do with him? Lan Xuan was killed by me, so how could it have nothing to do with him? "Nine Styles of Phoenix Dance" is also in his hands, how can I have nothing to do with him? Is it okay? Looking at you like this, I didn't expect you to react so strongly..." Chong Luo squatted down and raised Bai Shu's chin, "If Lan Junrong dies, will you feel how I feel? ?”

"You always knew?" Bai Shu was surprised, but Chong Luo knew it from the very beginning, "But you never..."

"I never asked you?" Chong Luo sneered.

Bai Shu twitched in pain, his body was drenched in cold sweat, and the temperature in the cave was so low that his limbs were almost numb, but his eyes were red and he stared fiercely at Chong Luo, "You bastard!"

Chong Baishu felt getting colder and colder, not the air getting colder, but himself, it was so cold that it was almost difficult to lift a finger, and the blood in his whole body was stagnant...

"You kill me... kill me, kill me..."

Chong Baishu's voice became smaller and smaller, and finally he lost even the strength to utter a single syllable, and lay on the ground with his eyes open like a dead body.

Slowly close your eyes...

I vaguely heard footsteps, empty, hasty, and erratic, floating from far away in my mind.

Bai Shu turned to the corner of the wall, the light in front of him was a bit dazzling to him.The moment he opened his eyes, Bai Shu saw the black clothes in the flames.

That scene was so beautiful, so beautiful that it was a bit illusory, Bai Shu almost cried out.

"Lan Junrong?"

Lan Junrong added firewood to the fire, "You won't recognize me after sleeping?"

Bai Shu moved only to realize that he was still tied, "Hey, let me loose..."

Lan Junrong glanced at Bai Shu, and then there was a long silence.

"Lan Junrong!" Realizing something was wrong, Bai Yu's tone became tougher, "Let me go!"

Seeing that Lan Junrong was unmoved, Bai Shu struggled, "Where is my brother? Since you are here, where are others!" Bai Shu swallowed, "My brother...is he dead?"

Lan Junrong raised his eyes and looked at Bai Shu.

"Lan Junrong, say something!" Bai Shu almost roared out this sentence.

"Say something!"

Across the firelight, Lan Junrong looked at Zhong Baishu's face motionlessly, that face full of fear and anger, that face that used to be so unscrupulous.

"Bai Shu." Lan Junrong stood up, "Forget about me."

Chong Baishu is like being struck by lightning.

"What the hell did you just say! Say it again!"

Lan Junrong lowered his eyebrows, his face was extremely peaceful against the firelight, "Chong Baishu, forget about me."

"Lan Junrong, you are so fucking hot! How dare you step forward for me! You fucking let me go!" Bai Shu's veins bulged like a raging lion, cursing, but his voice had completely changed.

Lan Junrong kept looking down at Chong Baishu, without any expression on his face.Then he stood up slowly, and his back slowly moved away.

Lan Junrong just left.

Chong Baishu even took longer than seeing him to digest this fact.He just said such a nonsense to make himself forget about him and left?

Bai Zhu really wanted to cry, but her eyes couldn't shed any tears at all, and her chest hurt so badly. "Lan Junrong, you fucking come back to me! Come back!"

Bai Shu knelt on the ground weakly, his face distorted due to the great pain, "Come back... come back... you come back..."