Dressed as a tyrant and kissing the little queen

Chapter 401

When the army of the Ling Kingdom attacked, Daqin's response was swift, and the soldiers of Daqin were also brave.

However, being attacked on all sides at the same time, it is inevitable that some people will be at a loss.

What's more, the current fighting style of Lingguo Xiaoqiying is the same as when Jizhou City was attacked back then, with iron blood and ruthlessness, not afraid of death, stepping on the pile of corpses to move forward bravely, not afraid of sacrifice at all, and without scruples.

This kind of desperate and completely desperate style of play is frightening.

When Daqin's army faced the Lingguo's army, it was rare for them to show fear.

At first, this fear was like a small gap in a dam, and it gradually grew bigger and bigger, until it collapsed thousands of miles away, with no end in sight.

In just over a month, the Daqin army led by Xiao Shangyan retreated again and again, getting closer and closer to Liyang City.

Seeing that the victory of the Ling Kingdom is in the hands, and when Daqin is about to be subjugated, the Ling Kingdom suddenly ceased fighting.

The courier delivered a letter from Ling Junxing. There were only a few short sentences in the letter, but it was enough to set off a huge wave among the generals of the Great Qin Dynasty.

"Send her back safely, and Great Qin will be safe. Otherwise, I will crush the Great Qin Kingdom and slaughter all the barbarians in the north!"

Xiao Shangyan read the letter without saying a word.

Somehow, the contents of this letter were secretly circulated in the army, and finally gathered into a raging rumor, which became more and more fierce.

At first, the soldiers didn't know why the Ling Kingdom suddenly attacked Daqin, but now they know.

No one can understand Xiao Shangyan's behavior.

Is the disaster of subjugation of the country, the disaster of extermination of the family, more important than a woman?

For the first time, the local Great Qin generals of the Great Qin Kingdom and the emerging Northland generals in the army reached an unprecedented unity of opinion, and they all knelt down outside Xiao Shangyan's tent.

If Xiao Shangyan doesn't reply to them for a day, they won't get up for a day.

Surrounded by powerful enemies, a big battle is imminent. The soldiers knelt down to petition collectively, and there was even a tendency to mutiny.

If this goes on like this, without the Ling Kingdom attacking, the Great Qin Kingdom itself will be in chaos first.

Anyone can see that if Xiao Shangyan continues to be stubborn, let alone the position of the general, or even his life, he may not be able to keep it.

However, he just refused to let go, and the two sides remained in a stalemate.

When Qin Luoyu came, the generals outside the tent knelt down on the ground.

In the twelfth lunar month of winter, their armor was covered with a thick layer of ice, and their eyebrows and beards were covered with hoarfrost.

When Qin Luoyu stepped into the tent, Xiao Shangyan sat silently in the tent. He had not slept for days and nights, and his eyes were covered with black and blue shadows.

He didn't expect that Qin Luoyu would take the initiative to come to him. After all, Qin Luoyu almost stayed behind closed doors these days.

And in this situation, she is not suitable to come.

Xiao Shangyan stood up with a hoarse voice: "Princess, why are you here? It's so inconvenient here, the princess should go back first."

Qin Luoyu looked at him silently, feeling extremely complicated.

To Xiao Shangyan, she once felt a little guilty, feeling that her arrival had changed the three princesses, so that Xiao Shangyan was full of affection and wrongly paid, and could not get the response she deserved.

She hated Xiao Shangyan before, especially after the Love Gu incident, she hated Xiao Shangyan very much.

But at this moment, seeing Xiao Shangyan like this, she didn't know how to describe the feeling in her heart.

The biggest mistake in his life was falling in love with the third princess, so that he dragged himself step by step into the abyss beyond redemption.

He should have a very good future, but because of a word of love, he plunged into a dead end and refused to come out.

He clearly knew that if he let go of the third princess and took a step back, all the desperate situations could be resolved.

But he refused to let go.

This kind of isolation and stubbornness has reached such a point that people can't hate it, but only give birth to a kind of inexplicable sadness and sympathy.

Qin Luoyu's eyes fell on Xiao Shangyan's shoulder, where the robe was torn and stained with dark blood.

It was a few days ago before the truce between the two countries. He was grazed by stray arrows on the battlefield and was not seriously injured.

Qin Luoyu sighed silently, and pulled Xiao Shangyan to sit down.

She didn't look at Xiao Shangyan, but lowered her head and carefully helped him treat the wound on his shoulder.

The girl's long eyelashes trembled slightly, her movements were gentle and her expression was focused, just like when she was treating the wound on his wrist when he was detained by Qin Shiding.

At that time, she still had genuine affection and caring for him from the bottom of her heart.

At that time, she and him hadn't come to the present situation.

It's not that he doesn't know that Qin Luoyu's journey to him is just perfunctory, and it's not that he can't see the alienation and coldness hidden behind the girl's seemingly cute smile.

But he just didn't want to face it squarely, and didn't want to think deeply about it.

In order to make her fall in love with him, she asked her to stay by his side voluntarily.

He didn't hesitate to destroy her mind, he didn't hesitate to bet his and her lives, and he wanted Cen Qi to forcibly plant a love gu.

However, two years of remorse and guilt had already tortured him to such an extent that he no longer had any extravagant wishes.

As long as she is by his side, even if she just smiles perfunctorily like this, even if she just calls Brother Shangyan just to deal with him.

He had nothing else to ask for.

Xiao Shangyan did not expect that Qin Luoyu would take the initiative to treat his wound.

He even saw a little genuine concern in her eyes.

Xiao Shangyan's heart seemed to be choked, and there were all kinds of emotions in his heart, but he couldn't say a single word.

Qin Luoyu finally sat down opposite him, "Brother Shangyan."

For the first time in more than a month, Qin Luoyu called out "Brother Shangyan" from the bottom of his heart, not just for expediency.

She met Xiao Shangyan's fiery eyes without evasion, looking at him sincerely and earnestly.

"Brother Shangyan, do you still remember that on my 12th birthday, my father gave me a very beautiful Western Region glazed lantern."

"I like it very much. I have to put it in the room every night and watch the light it emits before I can sleep."

"But the more you cherish it, the more accidents seem to happen. I accidentally broke the glazed lamp after only staying with me for a month."

"I cried for several days, and I was depressed for a long time. You coaxed me for a long time, and then you persisted in pestering your father. It took almost a year to find the same Western Region for me. Glass lanterns, given to me on my 13th birthday."

"But at that time, I had already forgotten about the glazed lamp. Although I was very happy to receive your gift, I just played with it for two days and never touched that lamp again. Because I think it is a child's play. s things."

"When I was 13 years old, I liked beautiful clothes, beautiful makeup, reading story books, and listening to operas, but I no longer liked glazed lanterns."

"The 13-year-old third princess didn't do anything wrong, and brother Shang Yan, you didn't do anything wrong either."

"But the third princess, she can never go back to the time when she was 12 years old, and she loved glazed lanterns."

"Sometimes, many things are like this, very helpless, but there is no way to change it."

"Brother Shangyan, take me back, take me back to where I should go, okay?"

Qin Luoyu stared at Xiao Shangyan, and said softly: "The past is in the past, and we can't go back. Let's all look forward, okay? I hope that the Great Qin Kingdom will be fine, and I also hope that Brother Shangyan can good."

For the first time, she took the initiative to hold Xiao Shangyan's hand: "Brother Shangyan, promise me to help the Emperor of Qin govern Daqin well, take care of my mother, and take care of Suhan, is that okay?"

From that big wedding to now, after more than four years, she and him looked at each other in such a gentle and peaceful way for the first time.

From her clear eyes, Xiao Shangyan vaguely saw the long gone boyhood.

Her eyes were so gentle and sincere, as if nothing had ever happened between her and him.

At this moment, she was still the third princess who innocently called him Shang Yan's brother, and he was still the young man who was full of vigor and yearning for her back then.

The emotions in his heart were stirring and surging, and after a long while, they finally sank again, leaving only empty loss and loneliness.

He was like a child running alone in the wilderness, stubbornly pursuing the person he wanted, but suddenly one day he found helplessly that the person he had been pursuing for so many years was just a phantom in his memory.

It is impossible for him to find her again, because she has long since disappeared. From then on, she only remains in his memory, and it is impossible to come back.

The girl in front of her clearly has the same face as the third princess.

But she is not his third princess.

What she said in such a gentle voice seemed to tear apart a bloody fact, forcing Xiao Shangyan to face up to a reality that he had known for a long time but was unwilling to face up to.

The third princess who liked beautiful clothes and beautiful makeup at the age of 13 will never turn back to the third princess who liked glazed lanterns at the age of 12.

Now the 20-year-old third princess who likes Ling Junxing will never be able to change back to the 16-year-old third princess who liked Xiao Shangyan.

The past, all the past.

Xiao Shangyan thought blankly, he and she would not be able to go back after all.

The third princess he likes, the third princess who likes him, is long gone.gone.

Xiao Shangyan stared blankly at the girl in front of him, couldn't bear it any longer, hugged her in his arms, buried her on Qin Luoyu's shoulder and choked up his sobs.

He cried like a lost child, like a bewildered and helpless child, like a stubborn child who refused to recognize the reality and refused to look back after bumping into the south wall. My heart, which I thought was hard, finally melted into a mess.

The ice melted and the mist dissipated. He was finally willing to recognize the reality, but he was struck by the heavy pain unbearably.

Qin Luoyu didn't push him away, hesitated for a while, and finally reached out and patted his back gently, comforting him silently.

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The day Xiao Shangyan sent Qin Luoyu back to Xishu was a rare sunny day.

Across a moat, at the other end is the army of the Ling Kingdom.

Qin Luoyu could vaguely see the familiar black figure on the opposite bank, looking steadily in her and Xiao Shangyan's direction.

(End of this chapter)