Dingjiangshan

Ning Yan's expression flickered, he took a breath calmly, and leaned back on the cushion behind him again.

He didn't expect that Ruan Yin would be waiting for him here.

"Speaking of which, this girl is related to Mrs. Shu's family." Ruan Yin put on that almost false smile, and continued: "... I heard that she is a distant relative of Mrs. Shu's family, it is really a coincidence .”

Ning Yan seemed to hear what she was saying, but didn't seem to listen. Those words came in from his left ear and out of his right ear, leaving only a specious impression in his mind.

This is not like him, Ning Yan thought, and it is also very dangerous.

Ning Yan and Ruan Yin are just a pair of mother and son on the surface, and they can't see each other behind their backs.Ning Yan seldom loses his mind in front of her. After all, whether it's because of impatience or because of something, such an unreasonable attitude is a flaw after all.

— But today he couldn't control himself.

Ning Yan tried his best to look away from Jiang Xuan, not wanting to look at the figure that was very similar to Ning Huaijin.

But he could move his eyes, but not his heart.Ruan Yin has finally started to learn what it means to "wait for an opportunity" recently. She didn't let him hear any rumors before, and she secretly brought a woman into the palace, and even beat him when he was physically and mentally exhausted. caught off guard.

If no one mentioned Jiang Xuan, Ning Yan would never believe it.Her body shape, and even her tone of voice were very similar to Ning Huaijin, let alone her demeanor.

Compared with these, appearance has become the least important point.

——Worthy of being a queen, Ning Yan sneered in his heart. In terms of following his own preferences, he really practiced to perfection.

Ning Yan knew it was a trap, but he couldn't help wanting to jump.

Jing Zhan sat quite close to Ning Yan, so he could see the expression on his face clearly.

In fact, according to his former loyal ministers who chased and intercepted him, it was a good thing that the queen mother sent Ning Yan and Jiang Xuan to replace him, and he should be happy.

Accepting Jiang Xuan represented Ning Yan's reconciliation - not only between him and the secular world, but also between him and Ning Huaijin.

Taking a step back in this way means exposing the absurdity before, so we can meet each other in the future.

As for the conspiracy behind this woman, it doesn't matter, as long as the conspiracy is exposed on the surface and people are prepared, there will be no troubles.

What's more, a woman, even if she has no good intentions, will never be as risky as the emperor's death.

But Jing Zhan couldn't be happier.

As a subject, Jing Zhan hoped that Ning Yan would not insist on going his own way and take the path that was contrary to the world.But as a friend, although Jing Zhan hopes that Ning Yan can "think clearly", he just wants Ning Yan to let go of his obsession with Ning Huaijin, instead of asking him to find a substitute to lie to himself.

Ning Yan was silent for a long time.

Jiang Xiaohan frowned, and just about to say something, his right wrist was clenched.He looked sideways at Yan Qing beside him, only to see that the other party shook his head very lightly at him.

Just as Jiang Xiaohan never cared about how Kunlun taught his apprentices, Yan Qing seldom expressed his opinions on matters in the court.But since he opened his mouth, Jiang Xiaohan would give him face most of the time.

So he patted the back of Yan Qing's hand reassuringly, and then winked at Xie Jue who was opposite.

General Xie has been immersed in the frontier for many years, and he has a tacit understanding with Mr. Jiang. He nodded slightly to signal him, and then turned his head carelessly, trying to break the delicate atmosphere.

"Miss Jiang?" Xie Jue pretended not to hear clearly, deliberately misinterpreted Jiang Xuan's surname, and jokingly said, "That's Mingyuan's family."

Xie Jue said, regardless of Jiang Xuan's reply, he smiled and said: "The Jiang family really has beautiful women, Miss Jiang's appearance is not much different from that of my little niece... I just don't know where Miss Jiang came from ?”

When he said the second half of the sentence, his eyes happened to drift to Jiang Xuan, and they collided with the girl's eyes.

General Xie fights in the battlefield, and it is inevitable that there is some bloody aura on his body. Ordinary people would be afraid to look at him, but Miss Jiang looked at him impartially, with an indifferent expression, and she was not even half guilty. .

"The maid's surname is Jiang." Jiang Xuan said indifferently: "Master Xie misheard."

Jiang Xuan looked at it, as if she didn't want to talk to Xie Jue, she turned her head away after saying this, lowered her eyes halfway, and stood quietly opposite Ning Yan.She seemed to know how to make herself more like Ning Huaijin, so she seldom spoke and didn't raise her head very much, just waiting for Ning Yan to take the initiative to see her when he couldn't bear it.

The smile on Xie Jue's face faded, he looked at Jiang Xiaohan again, and gave him a "difficult" look.

And Ning Yan rarely knew anything about these small movements off the field. He was being burned by the anger in his stomach, and a burning pain came from his inside, as if the fire would burst out of his body at any time.

He felt angry at being fooled by Ruan Yin.

Ning Yan never thought that Ruan Yin would use this method to turn the matter of "he loves Ning Huaijin" into another sharp knife that pierces the chest, which cannot be avoided in public.

Ning Yan could hear Xie Jue talking, but couldn't understand what he was saying.

At this moment, he almost used all his control power in this moment.

Jiang Xuan and Ning Huaijin are too similar.

The moment she appeared half hidden under the lamp, Ning Yan couldn't help but recall the scene of his confrontation with Ning Huaijin last night.

The thoughts in his mind that had been deliberately suppressed before seemed to have a gate, broke through the crumbling dam in an instant, and began to flood wantonly.

From confrontation to dispute, from silence to happy conversation.Ning Yan even remembered the long-lost dream three years ago, the plum blossom wine in the dream that made him make mistakes.

It's funny to say, but at this time, Ning Yan actually felt the pain brought to him by "emotion" for the first time.

Whether it was the tangled and bewildered years when he first found out that he liked her, or the recent few months when he was like a stranger with Ning Huaijin, Ning Yan never felt such distinct and intense pain.

"Love" seems to have finally torn off the graceful and harmless mask on the outside, and began to reveal the fangs and shackles mixed with it underneath.

That feeling made him feel powerless for the first time, so that he was full of anger, but there was nothing he could do.

Ning Yan suddenly discovered that Ning Huaijin's resoluteness and avoidance did not have an impact on him, but was artificially ignored by others.

But now, his escaping brought him even deeper consequences. His instinct to escape from pain and the bottom line named "Ning Huaijin" were tearing apart desperately, almost tearing him in half.

He never complained when he lost to Ning Huaijin, but now Ruan Yin stepped on his feelings and stabbed him with such a lowly knife, Ning Yan couldn't help but hate.

But he hated not only Ruan Yin, but also his wavering self.

— That's fine, he heard a strange voice say.

That voice was like a melodious sound coming from an inch away, with a soul-stirring taste, like the ravings of spirits seducing mortals.

——Isn't the emperor's uncle wishing you to be like this, the voice said again: Marry a wife and have children, and be an emperor who does not deviate from the rules.This is just right, you can get the best of both worlds, you get what you like, and he gets what he wants.

wrong.

Ning Yan bit the tip of his tongue, forcing himself to get out of the state where he could only choose one of the two.The emotions tonight were fierce, and he had to use more energy than usual to barely suppress one or two.

Unknowingly, a wound was bitten on the tip of his tongue, and the smell of blood filled his entire mouth in an instant.

I was careless, Ning Yan thought.

It is impossible for Ruan Yin to conjure up a woman who resembles Ning Huaijin out of thin air. It has only been a few months since Ning Huaijin and his affairs were known.If Ruan Yin wanted to find such a person, she must have cast a wide net to catch this fish.

It was he who was so distracted by the affairs with Ning Huaijin recently that he didn't even notice Ruan Yin's big movements, and even let someone sneak into the palace under his nose.

He probably lived his life too easily recently, and was so relaxed that he was so smug that he made such careless mistakes one after another.

"Your Majesty." Of course Ruan Yin would not give him a chance to calm down completely, so she took the opportunity to fan the flames and said, "Why, did you not like this young lady?"

I don't know if it was an illusion, but Ning Yan only felt a tight pain in his chest. He frowned, and slowly let go of the armrest of the chair back.

He had used too much force before, leaving tiny finger marks on the cork, and his palms were also sweaty.

Ning Yan took a breath, and wanted to say something in response to Ruan Yin, but he opened his mouth, but couldn't speak for a while.

His previous anger came up too fast and too fast, it hit his chest so badly that he even made his voice hoarse.

Fortunately, no one around noticed his strangeness, it was just that he still didn't want to talk.

Ning Yan never liked to accept people in the harem, so many upstarts and old officials from the previous dynasty failed with him, and no one agreed with Ruan Yin for a while, most of them were looking at Ning Yan's attitude.

Even Shu Qinghui didn't say anything, he was like a long-distance relative who supported Jiang Xuan, success or failure had nothing to do with him, he just drank blindly and didn't care about anything else.

Shu Qiuyu glanced at him several times, but she didn't see anything from Shu Qinghui. She was so angry that she wanted to break up the banquet on the spot and go home to talk to the father.

"What do you think, Your Majesty?" Ruan Yin looked very generous: "If it's not good, I will replace you with another one later."

Ning Yan tapped on the armrest with his fingers concealed by the sleeve of his robe.He knocked very lightly, but it seemed to be very regular. After three long and one short knocks, he withdrew his hand.

He was bored from the inside out, but there was nothing he could do.

A certain idea spread uncontrollably from the apex of his heart, gathered into a cold Chinese character in his heart, tore and struggled from his lung duct all the way up, the sharp edges and corners scratched his throat, Ning Yan even felt himself There was a dry bloody smell in the throat.The word broke through the resistance, then slammed into his teeth.

Ning Yan closed his eyes, and finally opened his mouth with difficulty.

"Then stay."