Traces of her existence were completely wiped out from the world. Even if someone occasionally recalled Ruan Xiang's past, it was just a little ashes in their hearts that would be blown away.
She woke up in the surface world.
A world only for the dead.
But all her memories come from the world of the living.
She still remembered that day when it snowed heavily, and Li Yixian slowly turned into ashes and scattered in the endless falling snowflakes.
I can't tell whether it is ashes or snowflakes.
Occasionally she would think of Li Yixian.
She knew that she and Li Yixian should not have interacted, just because she had fallen into many delusions, dreaming up this dramatic and ridiculous story.
now,
She saw Li Yixian again.
Ruan Xiang doesn't know if this is delusion or reality.
She only saw Li Yixian and Li Yichen standing side by side, looking at the mountains and rivers in the distance. They were both young men in spring clothes, and their splendor could not be concealed.
but,
so far……
It's still snowing heavily now, with a biting wind piercing my bones, and the snow blowing against my face.
Ruan Xiang walked forward with difficulty step by step.
But it's still hard to get close to.
She fell to the ground and was buried in the wind and snow.
In the end, she could only stretch out her hand in the direction of Li Yixian, but she couldn't catch anything. Only the overwhelming snow drowned her deeply.
Until her whole body was covered with pale snow,
There is no trace of the past.
…
Ruan Xiang is a very cowardly person.
She clearly knew...but never dared to mention it.
I hate the memories countless times, but I dare not forget them no matter what. I just think that as time goes by slowly, the sores in my heart will one day heal.
That's what she thought.
Can……
It's very difficult.
she remembers,
That night, the moon was as cold as water, and the alleys were winding.
Ruan Xiang seems to have been abandoned here.
People around her were coming and going, speaking some obscure words. She tried hard to identify them, but the sounds that fell into her ears eventually turned into an unpleasant murmur.
In fact, Ruan Xiang doesn't like winter.
Ever since she was a child, she has always preferred spring scenery.
Maybe it's because she was born in spring, or because the spring breeze has always been gentle, and she likes all gentleness.
Apart from……
Snowy winter.
It doesn’t snow every year in the ancient city of Haizhou, but every year when it snows, there is a heavy snowfall. The entire long street is covered with white snow, and it is covered with snow as far as the eye can see.
"I like it very much..." At that time, Qing Yi's eyes followed the window and looked out, looking at the white world, his eyes lit up, "I want to go out and play."
Then he pulled Ruan Xiang over,
The two of them did not enter the vast snow.
That was a heavy snowfall that will remain in Ruan Xiang’s memory forever.
after that,
There was no snow this winter,
There is no Tsing Yi either.
Ruan Xiang was walking on the road with the help of a pale street lamp. He could hear people talking around him, but he couldn't hear anything clearly.
She doesn't look back, she just heads forward.
She just wants to go home.
Even if I haven’t been back for a long time...
The moment he opened the door, Ruan Xiang thought he would see a mottled white cat huddled in a corner.
But no more.
Will not come back again.
Ruan Xiang used to like to call it Xiaobai.
At that time, someone asked her: "Because it is a white cat, is it called Xiaobai?"
Ruan Xiangyi argued righteously: "Xiao Bai's full name is Bai Xue, but he disliked the late spring, so he went through the trees in the garden to make flying flowers. However, the name was too long, so I chose a short name."
"Okay, okay, I believe it."
I don’t know how long it took, maybe months, maybe years.
Later, the man asked again: "What is Xiaobai's name?"
"Uh..." Ruan Xiang racked his brains and thought for a long time, "Maybe... Bai Yu jumped into the boat with his beads?"
She also forgot.
So the man laughed: "That's not what you said last time."
I don’t know why,
Insignificant memories always surfaced in his mind inadvertently, but Ruan Xiang couldn't remember the memories he desperately wanted to retrieve.
She was afraid that one day she would forget all those precious memories, but she could still think of some trivial and irrelevant things.
But some things can never be forgotten no matter what.
Just like that heavy snowfall one day.
Not only did it cover the long street,
It also covers Ruan Xiang’s heart.
Sometimes the memory is not so clear,
Just like that night, the dim lights reflected bottles and cans in the blue and white corridor, and it seemed like a dream was sealed at the end of the corridor.
It's very cold...
Ruan Xiang took her hand,
I really want to ask her,
Why is it that I am the only one who doesn’t know?
But my palms feel cold to the touch.
So she couldn't ask anymore.
The street lights that night were still dim, and she slumped on the stairs, hugging herself, taking out her phone but not knowing who she was looking for.
Except crying,
I no longer know what to do.
Ruan Xiang was wondering what else she had left besides these memories.
Is there nothing left?
If there is,
Why can't she find it?
…
When Ruan Xiang woke up again,
Being in someone's arms, it felt warm and comfortable, as if she had fallen into the warm and fragrant jade, which made her unable to bear to let go.
"Are you dreaming?" Someone asked with a half-smile.
Ruan Xiang opened his eyes and found that he was in a room with a stove. Although it was windy and snowy outside, the room was still warm and pleasant.
She fell into the woman's arms, and the person speaking next to her was Li Yixian, who should have turned into ashes and drifted away.
"...?" She blinked slightly doubtfully.
Li Yixian pulled Li Yichen, who was holding his arms beside him, and said, "This is the outside world. This is my second brother, and she is my second daughter."
The woman holding Ruan Xiang smiled softly: "The wind and snow haven't stopped outside, so why not stay here first."
Li Yixian's second daughter, Li Wanshun, the head of Wenxi County.
Li Yichen was obviously not interested in Ruan Xiang. He kept his eyes outside the window from beginning to end, as if the heavy snow in the sky had some fatal attraction for him.
Seeing Li Yixian and Li Yichen living in the same room and being so harmonious, Ruan Xiang couldn't help but feel a little inexplicable.
But what she cares more about is Li Yixian.
"I thought I would never see you again..."
Li Yixian, who turned to ashes in the heavy snow that day, was still deeply engraved in Ruan Xiang's heart. She wanted to reach out and grab Li Yixian's sleeves, but she was afraid that all she would encounter was nothingness.
She is not afraid that Li Yixian will die,
She was afraid that she might mistakenly think that Li Yixian was not dead.
Li Yixian was as gentle as ever. He held Ruan Xiang's hand and told her: "I'm here."
Warm and cool to the touch.
So Ruan Xiang felt relieved: "I know."
The surface world is very similar to the real world, except that it does not belong to the living. The people who walk here are the dead who still have unresolved obsessions.
Ruan Xiang doesn't know why he is here.
She has no obsession anymore.
She felt that Li Yixian should not be there either, but Li Yixian was still here. Not only Li Yixian was there, but Li Yichen was also there.
"Brother." Li Yichen, who had been silent until now, suddenly spoke, his eyes still falling outside the window, "It's time to go out."
Li Yixian nodded: "Okay."
Saying that, he stood up.
But Li Yichen held him down. He turned to look at Li Yixian, then at Li Wanshun, and said, "Wan'er, come with me. Brother, just stay here and rest."
After that, he left first and his figure disappeared into the endless wind and snow.
Li Wanshun stood up and asked Li Yixian for his opinion.
Li Yixian smiled helplessly and nodded.
So Li Wan followed Li Yichen and walked out.
"You really listened to him." Ruan Xiang looked at this scene and suddenly understood why Li Yixian died under the Xuanwu Sect.
Li Yixian just smiled, but did not answer. Instead, he changed the topic and asked, "Is there anywhere you want to go?"
Ruan Xiang shook his head: "No."
She has no place she wants to go, no one she wants to see, no things she wants to do, and no meaning for her existence.
"Um?"
"You have a lot of people here, so you can take me in if you don't want me." Ruan Xiang looked at Li Yixian, and then also smiled.
Three years ago, Li Yixian was taken in by Ruan Xiang. Three years later, Li Yixian was asked to take in Ruan Xiang.
"It's rare to see you smiling. It seems that you have lived well in the past three years."
"I've been working hard too..."
Ruan Xiang no longer falls into such a sad state from time to time, but occasionally feels a little depressed. Most of the time, he is no different from ordinary people, except for recalling some unpleasant past events in his dreams that day.
"That's good." Ruan Xiang had this change, and Li Yixian felt relieved, "However, it's quite dangerous in the outside world now."
"How to say?"
"There are monsters in the inner world and some evil spirits in the outer world. In short, be careful. If you are worried, you will be fine if you stay in the Li family."
Ruan Xiang blinked: "...Li family?"
"There are four hundred and thirty-seven members of the Li family, and there are also some guards who follow the Li family, totaling more than ten thousand people." When talking about this, Li Yixian was still calm and calm.
"Could this be the legendary story of going to Quantai to recruit old troops and killing Yama with a hundred thousand banners?" Ruan Xiang couldn't help but sigh.
Come to think of it, not only Li Yixian, but also Li Yuan, the founder of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Yu, the empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty, could all meet here one by one.
I just don’t know if I meet people from other dynasties, will they be able to fight?
After thinking about it for a while, Ruan Xiang actually found it a bit funny.
"What are you laughing at?" Li Yixian was a little curious.
"No, no." Ruan Xiang waved his hand and couldn't help laughing again, "I just suddenly thought that if you go out and meet people from other dynasties, what a grand scene it will be. If you have a disagreement, I'm afraid there will be a fight.
It’s more fun.”
Li Yixian raised his eyebrows slightly.
"You said, if you bump into someone from later generations, and when you are about to fight, you hold a fifty-meter-long Tang knife to kill someone, and you directly pull out an artillery pistol, hiss... that scene...
…”
Horrible.
Li Yixian was helpless: "What are you thinking about."
"Some reasonable speculations."
"Stop thinking about these useless things." Li Yixian knocked her on the head and said, "I'm going to see Shimin and the others first. You just wait here. If you're bored, you can play whatever you want."
"Okay." Ruan Xiang nodded.
…
The table world is basically the same as the real world.
Ruan Xiang can still play games or watch videos here. In short, how he lives in the real world can be completely replicated in the surface world.
She met a boy.
Guardforce.
A boy whom she found very gentle.
In fact, in Ruan Xiang's world, except for Li Yixian, no boy in the world has the gentleness she knows.
Naturally, it is not appropriate to call Li Yixian a boy.
But that doesn't stop Ruan Xiang from thinking Wei An is gentle.
So Ruan Xiang prefers to play games with him. Even though he loses more and wins less, isn't the most important thing is that comfortable and relaxed feeling?
Except for Guardforce,
None of the other people he met through the game were worthy of Ruan Xiang’s memory. To Ruan Xiang, those people were all dispensable.
Even said,
If Ruan Xiang is unhappy one day,
It's the same thing if you delete it and play with some other people.
Ruan Xiang was playing a game when suddenly someone ran in excitedly and shouted: "Father——"
The sound stopped suddenly.
Because he saw Ruan Xiang.
Ruan Xiang took a look at him and judged from his appearance that he should be one of Li Yixian or Li Yichen's many sons. Combined with his naive and naive demeanor, he deduced that this person should be Li Chengqian without a doubt.
Then Ruan Xiang showed a smile: "His Royal Highness?"
He did not correct Ruan Xiang's title, but asked: "Who are you?"
"Ruan Xiang."
Li Chengqian was silent, probably thinking about who Ruan Xiang was, but obviously, he couldn't figure out the result.
"If you are looking for Li Yichen, he has already gone out." Ruan Xiang pointed to the door, "Maybe he will come back later, but he may not come back."
"What did you say?" Li Chengqian was shocked, "It's so dangerous outside now, how can my father stay outside?"
Ruan Xiang was also stunned: "Danger?"
Li Yixian is also outside.
"No, I have to go out and find my father." Li Chengqian said, turned around and walked away with a firm pace, and then plunged into the heavy snow outside the door.
Ruan Xiang was a little dumbfounded.
She was familiar with the history of the early Tang Dynasty, so she also knew something about Li Chengqian. As far as she knew, Li Chengqian was an out-and-out idiot.
Li Chengqian was also supposed to be a crown prince, but he ruined his future with his own hands.
Different from Li Yixian's gentleness, he is a man with low self-esteem and strong will. He clearly has countless ways to inherit the throne, but he has chosen to embark on a path that leads to death and no life.
Forced into the palace.
Li Yichen also forced the palace to take the position back then.
How could he not know Li Chengqian's methods?
However, the king who was unscrupulous and even willing to kill his brothers was unexpectedly tolerant when faced with the forced conquest of his legitimate son.
None of the participants survived, except Li Chengqian, the mastermind.