worthless [rebirth]

"Your Highness, should this painting be hung up or..." Xiao Tao came over to ask Chen Ling with the portrait painted by Jiang Chi.

Sitting by the bed, Chen Ling looked at some playbooks that Xiao Tao had brought. When Xiao Tao asked him, he raised his head from behind the flickering candlelight and saw that it was the painting that Jiang Chi had given him during the day.

When Jiang Chi ran back with him on his back, his hair was drenched by the rain. Chen Ling was fine, covered by that dress, but his body was just a little damp.After entering the door, Jiang Chi was in a hurry to change his dry clothes, so Chen Ling handed the painting to Xiaotao.

Chen Ling still remembered the joy in Jiang Chi's eyes when he handed Jiang Chi a clean cloth towel to wipe his hair.

Seeing the painting again, Chen Ling thought for a while and said, "Find a box and put it away."

The young man in the painting had a dazzling smile. Chen Ling didn't want to face such a painting all day, it made him feel strange.It was clearly not him in the painting, because he would never show such a pure smile to Jiang Chi.But vaguely, Chen Ling didn't want to just throw away the painting, not because he was afraid that Jiang Chi would be angry if he found out, but because of his selfishness.

"Yes, Your Highness." Xiaotao replied, took the painting and went to find a box to put it in.

Chen Ling read the books for a while, and seeing that it was getting late, he put the books on the pile of books that Jiang Chi had arranged for him before, undressed and went to bed.

After Jiang Chi sent Chen Ling back, he left without waiting for the rain to stop, because a little eunuch came to inform that Jiang Chao was coming.Chen Ling speculated that it might be because of the murder of Wu Guo's special envoy. In his previous life, Jiang Chi handed over the case to a guard leader next to Jiang Chao for investigation, but he didn't know if Jiang Chi had listened to his reminder in this life. , Beware of King Huainan.

Realizing that he was worried about Wu Guo's case, Chen Ling froze for a moment.This matter has nothing to do with him, why should he worry about it?

Chen Ling felt that his brain must be broken. It would be best if Jiang Chi had no time to visit him for days and nights because he was busy with this matter.Thinking of Jiang Chi being so busy that he couldn't eat or sleep at night, and his chin was covered with light blue stubble, Chen Ling smiled and felt a little better.Gently moving his injured calf, Chen Ling lay down slowly, and was about to fall asleep after pulling off the life-long cover.

Closing his eyes, Chen Ling suddenly saw Jiang Chi running in the rain with him on his back.Turning over, Chen Ling opened his eyes, hugged the quilt, thinking over and over again what he said to that person while lying on Jiang Chi's back today.

……

"Achi, I'm homesick..."

"What did you say?"

"Take me out of the palace after you've been busy for a while."

"You can leave the palace, but leave the country... Let's talk about it later."

……

Does Jiang Chi mean that he agrees?Why did you agree?

Chen Ling's brain is not very bright, especially when it comes to analyzing Jiang Chi's psychology.Rubbing his forehead, Chen Ling sighed with a headache. He always felt that something was weird. The elusive Jiang Chi was even more dangerous than the paranoid and terrifying Jiang Chi before.

That night, Chen Ling had the dream about the bamboo forest and the thatched hut again. When the day was about to dawn, he woke up crying and screaming. He was still crying at the end of the dream but couldn't make a sound.

Xiaotao heard Chen Ling's cry and entered the room, and saw that Chen Ling was crying almost to tears in his dream, hugging the quilt with extreme insecurity, she was startled.

Chen Ling opened his eyes, which were as swollen as peaches, and saw Xiaotao's worried face.

"Did Your Highness have a nightmare?" Xiao Tao handed over a handkerchief to wipe the cold sweat off Chen Ling's forehead.

Chen Ling took the veil and wiped it blankly, but his mind kept thinking about that strange dream.He couldn't remember many things in the dream. He only remembered that at the end there was a woman in red standing on a high platform, holding a bowl of blood in her hand, as if she was holding some kind of ceremony.

Chen Ling frowned, and he started to have a headache after thinking too much. It seemed that he shouldn't remember the content of the dream, and he subconsciously didn't want to delve into it.It seemed to be an evil abyss, and people's sense of self-protection made Chen Ling subconsciously avoid the truth.

Returning the handkerchief to Xiaotao, Chen Ling shook his head and said, "It's nothing, I was chased by bad guys in my dream, and I cried in fright."

"..." Xiaotao opened her mouth and didn't say anything, but she thought in her heart that she could cry in fright even if she was chased by someone.

"What time is it?" Chen Ling asked, his eyes were so swollen that he barely opened them, his dark eyes were still wet with tears.

Xiaotao said: "It's already passed the fifth watch, and the emperor will come down in a while."

"Yeah." Chen Ling said: "Changing clothes for me, I won't sleep."

"Yes, Your Highness." Xiaotao found the clothes that Chen Ling wanted to change, and fetched hot water for him to wash.

By the time Chen Ling packed everything up, it was already dawn.

Jiang Chi went down to court, and directly asked his servants to deliver the breakfast to Fengwu Palace. He wanted to accompany Chen Ling to eat.

The first time he saw Chen Ling when he entered the room, Jiang Chi immediately noticed his red and swollen eyes like peach pits, frowned slightly, and asked, "Why are the eyes so swollen?"

Xiao Tao was arranging the plates, when she heard it, she replied: "Your Highness had a nightmare last night and woke up crying."

"What dream?" Jiang Chi asked Chen Ling softly, and while carrying him from the bed to sit by the table, he said to Xiaotao, "Hurry up and get two boiled eggs from the dining room."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Xiao Tao stuck out her tongue at Chen Ling and ran away.

Gently rubbing Chen Ling's eyelids with his fingertips, Jiang Chi said softly, "What dream did you have, can you tell me?"

It was still the weird dream, the mysterious woman in red. Although Chen Ling couldn't remember exactly what happened, he remembered how tired and gray-haired the man in the dream was, like an old man.

Chen Ling just looked at Jiang Chi like that, with doubts in his dark eyes.The temperature from Jiang Chi's fingertips was very comfortable. After a long time, he gently closed his eyes, let the other party massage him, and repeated what he had said to Xiao Tao: "I dreamed that someone was chasing me, and I was so scared that I cried. "

"..." Jiang Chi paused, rubbed the back of Chen Ling's head, and laughed: "Fool, dreams are always reversed."

Chen Ling froze for a moment, opened his eyes and looked at Jiang Chi's smile, feeling inexplicably relieved.He twitched the corner of his mouth, nodded slightly, and said: "Well, I remember, dreams are always reversed."

Jiang Chi didn't seem to be bullying enough, so he rubbed Chen Ling's head a few more times before saying, "The food is getting cold, let's eat quickly." He took a bowl and filled some white rice for Chen Ling, and picked up some more Give him food.

"Zi Ling."

Chen Ling was buried in the food that Jiang Chi had given him when the other party suddenly called his name.Chen Ling said "Huh?", raised his head and looked over, but saw Jiang Chi staring at him, hesitating as if he wanted to say something.

"I don't know what you like to eat yet, so I just asked someone to make some for you." Jiang Chi seemed a little embarrassed, and he didn't meet Chen Ling's eyes when he spoke.

Chen Ling remembered that the two of them didn't know much about each other in the previous life. He never told Jiang Chi what he liked, let alone cared about Jiang Chi's preferences.Most of the contact between the two was spent in disputes, and there would never be such a harmonious time like now.

Seeing that Jiang Chi had been waiting for an answer, Chen Ling put down the bowl and chopsticks, and said softly, "I like... fish, and vegetarian dishes with a lighter taste."

"Fish." Jiang Chi smiled, put a piece of chicken that he had given to Chen Ling before into his bowl, and then gave him another piece of fish. Worried about thorns, he specially picked the meat from the belly of the fish, and said : "Try this."

Chen Ling took a small piece of fish and put it into his mouth. Although he didn't like the taste, he still nodded and said, "It's delicious, Chi, you should eat more."

Chen Ling just said it casually and was polite, but it made Jiang Chi happy.

Jiang Chi almost finished the meal with a smile, laughing so hard that Chen Ling couldn't figure it out, but he asked him to eat more, so what's there to be happy about?

After eating, Jiang Chi picked up the egg that Xiao Tao had brought, peeled off the shell and applied hot compresses around Chen Ling's eyes.

"Close your eyes." Jiang Chi ordered, but his tone was rare and gentle.

Chen Ling closed her eyes obediently.

Jiang Chi took the egg and rolled it around Chu Ling's eyes, and said, "Zi Ling, there was a new development in the Wu case last night. This matter is indeed related to King Huainan, but...how did you know?"

Chen Ling trembled, and was about to open his eyes when Jiang Chi stopped him in a low voice.

"do not move!"

Chen Ling had no choice but to continue to close his eyes and let the warm eggs roll around his eyes. Although it was comfortable, he couldn't see Jiang Chi's expression when he closed his eyes. Naturally, he couldn't determine whether the other party was angry or something else. Chen Ling I was a little apprehensive.

"Zi Ling, you'd better give me a reasonable explanation for this matter." Jiang Chi said, lowering his voice.

Chen Ling was thinking a lot, trying to find an excuse quickly.What could he explain? He couldn't tell Jiang Chi that he was reborn and had already experienced all these things, right?

"Well... When I left the country, I heard from my father that the spies got the news that the Huainan king of Jiang country and the prime minister of Wu country had a private meeting... So..." Chen Ling searched his brains, made up a half-truth and half-fake reason, and said: "I'm worried that this is a play written and directed by the King of Wu and the King of Huainan. It's just... to sacrifice the life of a special envoy to embarrass Jiang Guo..."

If Chen Ling's eyes were open now, Jiang Chi would definitely be able to see the tension and guilt in his eyes, luckily he was closed.It's just that Chen Ling didn't expect that the excuse he made up would turn into a proverb.

Jiang Chi didn't seem to have any doubts about the authenticity of Chen Ling's words. He frowned and thought for a long time before he let out a breath and said, "If this matter is really as you said in your analysis, it will be much more difficult. Now, the king of Huainan can't move yet."

"Ah?" Chen Ling was stunned for a moment, and couldn't hold back his eyes. He held Jiang Chi's wrist to prevent him from continuing to heat him up, and said anxiously: "You said that you would take me out after the case is over. King Huainan can't move for the time being, do you still count on your words?"

Jiang Chi didn't expect Chen Ling's reaction to be so big, and he was in such a hurry to leave the palace, but he was amused by the way he blushed now.

"Why are you in such a hurry to get out of the palace?" Looking at the slender fingers clasped around his wrist, Jiang Chi raised his eyebrows and asked casually.

Counting his previous life, Chen Ling had been in the deep palace for four full years. He naturally wanted to escape from this prison as soon as possible, but he also found that he was a little angry, even if he was anxious, he shouldn't let Jiang Chi see it.

Letting go of his hand little by little, Chen Ling slowly calmed down. He lowered his head and whispered, "I provided you with such a big clue, you can't turn your back on it..."

Seeing Chen Ling's aggrieved appearance, Jiang Chi stopped teasing him intentionally. He peeled off a new egg and put it on for Chen Ling. He said with a smile: "You are the first one who dared to bargain with me and said that I turned my face and refused to accept it." .”

"..." Chen Ling thought to himself, how could he be so unlucky, he wouldn't be the first person to be executed for this.

Jiang Chi said: "But for the sake of your merits, I agree. After tomorrow morning, I will take you out to play, okay?"

"!" Chen Ling raised his head abruptly, causing the egg to almost touch his eyes, but fortunately Jiang Chi reacted quickly and took it away in time.

"Really?" Chen Ling confirmed carefully.

"You're not joking." Jiang Chi said, looking at Chen Ling's still red and swollen eyes, he frowned and said: "But tomorrow's eyes can't be swollen like this anymore, I sent someone to bring some peace of mind tea, why are you so busy these days? Is it a nightmare?"

Chen Ling tilted his head to avoid Jiang Chi's concerned gaze. He lowered his eyes and nodded, and said softly, "I'm fine."

Jiang Chi held Chen Ling's face, kissed his eyes lightly, pressed his forehead against Chen Ling's forehead, and said softly: "Zi Ling, I really want to just look at you like this... It won't take long, a lifetime is enough ..."

Chen Ling felt that the Jiang Chi in the dream overlapped with the Jiang Chi in front of him, and he suddenly felt a little sour in his heart. He didn't dare to look into Jiang Chi's eyes, so he closed them.

"Hmm..." His lips were caught, and Jiang Chi gave him a soft and light kiss, without lust, just a shallow kiss that was extremely cherished.

Jiang Chi asked: "Can we... have a long life?"

Chen Ling had nothing to say, and was wrapped in Jiang Chi's arms. He leaned against Jiang Chi's firm and warm chest, and remained silent, with complicated emotions flashing in his dark eyes.

Jiang Chi is really nice to him now, but the memory of the past cannot be easily erased.

His name is Chen Ling, he is Jiang Chi, and together they are Ling Chi.

Having already died once, Chen Ling saw many things more openly, but what Jiang Chi did to him and his relatives could not be forgiven.

Chen Ling couldn't imagine how he would carry those unbearable memories with him and go on with Jiang Chi, living what he said... a lifetime.

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