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The name "Butterfly" made Shen Yanye and Lian Xia look at each other.

"Miss Butterfly, when I came this morning, I offered to redeem you, but you refused. Can you tell these two young masters who still have naive fantasies the reason for your refusal?"

"..." The woman named Butterfly lowered her eyes, "I... I'm in the brothel, I can get as much rouge and powder as I want, and... I don't have to worry about not being able to eat. Depends on the face of the husband, and the face of the big house..."

Lu Huashuang asked: "So, do you feel that life in the brothel is very nourishing?"

The woman nodded.

"In that case, why do you want to commit suicide by cutting your wrists?"

The woman bit her lip and lowered her head in pain.Seeing this, Lu Yishuang said, "Let me tell you. As an oiran, you are admired by many benefactors and stars in the brothel, and you get rich clothes and food, but deep down in your heart, you always long for ordinary women Happy. You hope to have a husband and have children under Cheng Huan’s knees, and then you hope to be able to care for your husband and raise your children, instead of waiting for the years to pass in the brothel. Your days are going to be extremely difficult..."

Every time Lu Jishuang said a word, the woman's expression became more painful, and before she finished speaking, tears came out of her eyes, falling like beads with a broken thread.She covered her lips as bright as red thorn flowers with one hand, and took out Supa with the other.It has to be said that the sight of a beauty frowning and tears in her eyes is extremely beautiful. There seems to be infinite sadness in those almond eyes. If it were an ordinary man, he would have held her in his arms long ago. Let this flowery beauty smile again.

Just when she was about to wipe the corners of her eyes with Supa, a hand as cold as jade clasped her wrist firmly.She raised her head with tears in her eyes, and saw Lu Yushuang looking at herself tenderly and smiling: "Even if you cry, you have to cry so beautifully, so worrying, is this appearance for those benefactors to see? Hmm... ..." She narrowed her eyes slightly, lowered her head to look into her eyes, and her long hair fell on the other's face in strands.

"...It's really pitiful." She stared at her, and then put her hands around her back, "If you feel wronged, just cry happily."

The woman was lying in Lu Yashuang's arms, sobbing softly at first, but it didn't take long before she began to cry bitterly.The crying scene this time was quite different from the previous ones. Her brows and nose were tightly twisted, her mouth was also opened wide, and she looked extremely distorted and hideous. ——That's right, who is worthy of the words "pear blossoms with rain" when they are crying bitterly?

The woman cried for a long time, her voice was so miserable that everyone downstairs couldn't help but look sideways.The old bustard heard her beloved daughter crying so heart-piercingly, thinking that the guest this time had some eccentricity and was torturing the head card of Qidielou, but the behavior of the white-haired woman was too weird, and the man in black who went in later The cold air all over her body was also frightening, she really didn't dare to open the door and go in.

After crying for a while, she lost her strength, so she began to sob softly again, and while sobbing, she took Supa and smeared her face indiscriminately, and wiped off the delicate makeup before.She cried so much that she coughed, and Lu Yishuang gently patted her on the back to comfort her.After a long time, she finally calmed down, left Lu Yushuang's arms, knelt on the ground, and said to the woman who was lazily leaning on the imperial concubine's couch:

"Fairy, please save me."

"Oh?" Lu Huaishuang glanced at the two people sitting opposite, and then returned to the woman in front of him, "But I want to redeem you, you don't want to."

"A butterfly wants to die quickly."

"Death? Do you really have that determination? There are so many criss-cross wounds on your wrist, but you are still alive now. Could it be that every time you commit suicide, you regret it at the last moment?"

"No, it's not!" The woman raised her head in panic, "Yes...it's the proprietress...she...she used ginseng soup to save me every time. I...I really don't want to live anymore..."

Lu Yushuang didn't answer immediately, but raised his eyes, looking into Shen Yanye's eyes with a questioning look.She seemed to be saying: You see, the world is full of people who would rather die than live.They are not wrong, the cause of their pain is ethics; and ethics is what they think is the "law of heaven" based on the observation of all things in the world by mortals, and everything in the world is derived from heaven, so the way of heaven is the cause of all pain. source.So you don't really think about—

"Wan Ye, let me ask you one last time, are you really unwilling to come back to my side?"

"Mother, all living beings in the six realms are equal. No one has the right to dictate what is right or wrong, what is right and what is wrong, and then force others to accept such views. This girl's choice is only her own, You can't generalize and assume that her situation is typical of everyone's situation, that her choices are typical of everyone else's. What is considered happiness to some is catastrophe to others, and vice versa. Therefore, Whether a matter is desirable or not depends entirely on the choice of the person concerned, and other people have no power or condition to comment."

Shen Yanye's answer was not beyond her expectations, but Lu Yushuang remained silent for a long time, with a slightly hurt look on her beautiful face.Shen Yanye hated seeing someone close to him show such an expression because of him, but what could he say at this moment?

"Since you don't want to be with me, then... let me change the question." There was no smile on Lu Yushuang's face, only sadness and loss remained, "Ye Ye...you...you Do you understand me?"

Shen Yanye closed his eyes and nodded slightly: "I understand." If he didn't understand, why did he mistakenly understand the way of heaven and become blind?

"Do you love me?"

"I have always respected and loved you." Without Lu Jishuang, there would be no Shen Yanye now, in various senses.

"But you still don't want to be with me." Lu Yushuang suddenly gave a wry smile, "Yan Ye, if I were the master of the six worlds, what's wrong with that? I will create a new world that you yearn for." world, I would—”

Before she could finish her sentence, Shen Yanye abruptly interrupted her: "Mother, you don't want the throne above the heavens. You and I both understand that ethics can be changed, but how can the way of heaven be changed? If you I hope to change the way of heaven, but I can only destroy the old and cannot create a new one. You also said before that it is far better to disappear than to live and suffer. Therefore, you..." He propped up his arms and said in a very tired tone, "...want to destroy the six worlds , isn't it?"

……

There was a long silence.

Lu Jishuang looked at her son with a light and calm expression, as if the two were not talking about the survival of the six worlds, but the anecdotes in the ancient scrolls, which were accidentally opened after dinner and casually glanced at the scrolls. Then it was closed again and placed in the corner of the scripture building.

"You really understand me."

Shen Yanye didn't speak.

Lu Yushuang said: "Yanye, I came to Tianyin City for two things. The first thing is to meet you and have a good last talk with you... The next time we meet, we will fight each other gone."

"……Yes."

"As for the second matter, I came here for the fragments of the mirror of life and death. You probably don't know it yet. Among the treasures stolen by Yiyin Qinling to protect Tianyin City and Yi Kingdom in the early years, it happened that There is a fragment of the mirror of life and death. This fragment was presented to Empress Tianyin of Yi Kingdom by her later. Empress Tianyin thought it was just a jade ring, so she hung it on her body as an ornament. Therefore, if you need this A piece of fragment, you can take it."

"Tell me this information, what is your exchange?"

"..."

Lu Jishuang was silent for a while.Lu Yushuang was the only person who could make Shen Yanye so excited, and similarly, Shen Yanye was also the only person who could make Lu Yushuang uneasy.His choices mattered a lot to her, and she cared about him.Therefore, even though she knew that Shen Yanye, who was a 'sheng', would never stand on the same front as her, she still asked him again and again, hoping that he would "change his mind".And every time she was rejected, even though she expected this result, she still felt a dull pain in her throat.

"...I have no conditions. As your mother, I will tell you this news. Let me tell you the truth—with your current skill, even if you have all three yang fragments and two yin fragments in your hand, you can defeat me The hope is still very slim. At that time, I will fight with you with all my strength, so it is better for you to make more preparations." After a pause, she continued, "At noon today, Yiyin Qinling will lead Yi The imperial empress's chariot will go to Guanglu Temple, where they will entertain this year's new top scholar, Yan Rui, the daughter of Dali Temple Minister."

After finishing speaking, she stood up and stretched out her hand to the woman who was still kneeling at her feet, who raised her head and stared at her blankly.

"Don't be sad anymore. Come with me. I'll take you to a place no one has ever walked into alive. That place may seem full of pain, but everything you've ever hoped for—hope, freedom, equality... It's all hidden behind the pain. There, you will be able to live as you want. If you want to go to the place I describe, give me your hand."

The woman didn't hesitate, and didn't say much, she put her finger on the palm of the man in white.Lu Jianshuang smiled clearly, then suddenly exerted force with his left hand, pulled the woman up from the ground, and then stopped her waist, her lotus feet leaped lightly, and flew out of the colored window.Shen Yanye and Lian Xia hurried to the painting railing on the balcony, only to see the snow-like white dress draw an arc in the sky, and disappeared from everyone's field of vision as everyone exclaimed.Just after her shadow disappeared, a silver light suddenly fell from the sky, and hit the painting rail beside Shen Yanye with a "dang".

A beautifully crafted silver hairpin firmly nailed a piece of silk to the wooden railing.Shen Yanye unfolded the silk, but saw the letter:

"On the [-]th day of the seventh month, at Buzhou Tianjing, at Yeyun Palace, I will fight with you."

"..."

Shen Yanye put away the silk and said to Lian Xia, "Let's go to Guanglu Temple."