(2-in-1 chapter, together today and tomorrow)

The above is the story of the ninth chapter of "This Past Year".

Shangguan Xue closed the book and said, "Okay, the bedtime story is over, hurry up and go to sleep." ”

Shangguan Ba was lying on the bed covered with a small quilt, with an unfinished expression: "Sister, isn't there still the last tenth chapter, you told me the ending." ”

Shangguan Xue tapped Shangguan Ba's head with a book, and said angrily: "No, can't you sleep yet?" My sister's term of office is until today, and we will leave here early tomorrow morning, and you will not give me a bed when the time comes. ”

Shangguan Ba flattened his mouth, wrapped the small quilt tightly, and turned over to face the wall.

Shangguan Xue put away the books and began to count the arranged salutes to make sure that nothing was missed.

The night was quiet, with only the occasional rustling sound.

When it comes to moving, heavy books are often a big burden.

But at this time, Shangguan Xue put a complete set of "This Past Years" into the suitcase.

Shangguan has always been a dull person, and the long-term depression under Ye Lingchen made her think that she had no feelings.

Later, because of a coincidence, she read this huge book, in which the rise of the era and the curtain call are thrilling, and the love story is even more exciting.

The cold-blooded and ruthless demon, the angel of the white water, the two protagonists from the initial unforgettable love, to later parting ways to fall in love and kill each other, the former warmth turned empty.

Whether it is the first time to read or revisit, Shangguan Xue's eyes will be wet every time, so even if she is about to embark on a journey, she is also ready to collect these books in her luggage as a souvenir.

At this time, Shangguan was overbearing

You's voice sounded: "Sister, there are a few things I don't understand. Why do angels and demons in the book hurt each other as they did at the end? Didn't they all love each other before? ”

Shangguan Xue looked at the beautiful book cover and said deeply: "Because, love is our strongest emotion. ”

"When a person's love is not reciprocated, they will feel unprecedented restlessness and nothingness, and then use aggressive ways to hurt the other person, wanting to prove that they have gotten rid of love."

Shangguan Ba turned over, looked at his sister's back and asked, "Then why did the demon burn down the angel's most cherished home?" ”

Shangguan Xue's fingers crossed the two embracing figures on the cover: "Because, the people who love each other in the world are probably like this, a person who once loved you the most often knows better than anyone else how to hurt you most deeply." ”

Shangguan Ba lowered his eyes and looked extremely lonely: "But the book says that the ultimate goal of the demon is to bring the angel back to his side. If you want her back, why do you want to do such an excessive thing?"

Shangguan Xue's eyes were slightly confused, and he muttered: "Because, the demon is not a human being, and his thinking is inherently different from that of mortals. ”

"In the demon's mind - since you left me for something else, then I will take everything from you. As long as you have nothing and nowhere to go, you will end up with me alone. ”

"But the demon does not know that what he has done will be forever engraved in the hearts of the other party, and the angel will only be full of hatred in pain, drifting away from him, never to look back."

…

Shangguan Ba closed his eyes, and tears seemed to flash in his eyes: "So."

In other words, who is wrong in this book? ”

Shangguan Xue closed the box and completely sealed "This Past Year": "From their respective positions and purposes, angels and demons are not wrong. ”

"But before that, they all made the same mistake—"

Shangguan Ba opened his eyes and waited for his sister's follow-up.

Shangguan Xue's eyes were deep and vicissitudes, and she said the answer to everything: "From the very beginning, they shouldn't have met each other. ”

In the second half of the night, the snow in the royal city became heavier and heavier, and the snow shadows were everywhere in the distance, and the occasional lights were lit, and the shimmer and wisps of snow dotted the ancient city together.

Tonight is the last night for the Shangguan siblings to stay in Wangcheng, before Shangguan Xue and Niko agreed to stay for another month, and now that the time has come, she also submitted her resignation to Solandale early and obtained permission to leave.

Early tomorrow morning, she will leave the royal city with Shangguan Ba, leave Doguland, find a small mountain village that does not belong to any country and will not be disturbed by any forces, and live her life peacefully.

The last night was always sleepless, whether it was the confusion about the future that haunted the heart, or the story in the book was difficult to calm down for a long time, the brother and sister couldn't sleep in the middle of the night.

Shangguan Xue took the trouble to count her luggage to make sure that nothing was missed, while Shangguan Ba tossed and turned on the bed, sighing from time to time.

Shangguan Ba was really curious about the final ending of "This Past Year", and got up and begged Shangguan Xue bitterly: "Sister, I really can't sleep, just tell me the last one." ”

Shangguan Xue put away her things, suddenly looked stunned and froze in place.

Shangguan Ba thought that his sister was angry, so hurry up

Lay back again: "Forget it. Tell me about it next time."

"Shh Shangguan Xue made a silent gesture.

Shangguan Ba found that his sister's expression was solemn and a little abnormal.

Shangguan Xue blew out the candlelight, and the room fell into darkness, she leaned to the window, closed her eyes and listened carefully, as if she was catching something.

However, I don't know if the wind and snow are too strong, and she can't hear the abnormal movement that appeared and disappeared in an instant.

After a while, Shangguan Xue picked up the luggage containing dry food, and didn't care about other clothes or anything, and directly lifted Shangguan Ba's quilt, and said with a solemn face: "Let's go, let's leave now." ”

Shangguan Ba was a little stunned: "Huh? Isn't it tomorrow morning? ”

"What nonsense, hurry!" Shangguan Xue slapped her younger brother on the head, and just wanted to pull him up, but her expression was stunned again, and she turned her head to look at the window, her eyes flashing with unprecedented vigilance.

Not an illusion.

Someone is approaching with the help of the snowstorm!

And more than one.

The accommodation is surrounded!

Shangguan Xue made a decision immediately, flew up and grabbed the flower umbrella next to the bed, drew a circle mark on the ground that could accommodate the two of them, and then dragged Shangguan Ba in.

She took out the spare charm in her arms, and the talisman instantly ignited a strange fire under the power of yin and yang, and the spell in her mouth came out: "Mountaineering stone crack, give me a god, shrink the ground and travel thousands of miles, move!" ”

Earth shrinking technique, an advanced spell in yin-yang art, can turn distance into near, allowing people in the circle to move across space.

…

Now that the other party's intentions are unknown, Shangguan Xue can't care about whether she is embarrassed or not, she will escape first, she doesn't want to go into hiding the day before.

Sometimes, however, reality is so malicious

Not early, not late, just the night before freedom, fate gave Shangguan Xue a heavy blow.

As a high-level spell, even the mana of Shangguan Xue cannot be effective instantly, and it takes at least ten seconds to transfer the two of them at the same time.

It was these ten seconds that destroyed Shangguan Xue's hope of escaping.

"Boom!" The ceiling of the bedroom suddenly collapsed, and a crimson figure swooped down and rushed straight to Shangguan Xue.

Shangguan Xue reacted quickly, maintaining the Earth Shrinking Technique while urging the Heart Seal, and released a Yin and Yang barrier around her body without chanting a spell.

In the next moment, a roar that was difficult to distinguish between a man and a dragon resounded in all directions, and the dragon fire around the attacker surged and bloomed in the dark night, and the right hand grew armor-like scales in the twisting sound, turning into a dragon's claws.

"Boom!" The dragon's claws grabbed the Yin and Yang barrier, exploding a scorching dragon fire, and the spiderweb-like cracks spread throughout the barrier, and under Shangguan Xue's desperate gaze, the defensive barrier shattered in an instant, returning to nothingness.

Immediately after, the dragon claw pierced through the fragments of yin and yang energy in the sky, and directly pinched Shangguan Xue's throat.

"Boom!" Shangguan Xue only felt a violent feeling of overweight surging all over her body, and then a heavy blow came from her back, and she was slammed against the wall.

The choking sensation in her throat and the intense pressure on her back made it difficult to breathe and move, but she struggled to open her eyes and finally saw the true face of the comer, as well as the two badges on her shoulder, which symbolized the "left hand of the king" and the "sharp blade of the king".

Shangguan Ba saw that his sister was injured, and he was directly anxious, this 8-year-old kid whose intelligence was stuck in the slightest regardless of the difference in strength, grabbed the Xuantie double hammer in the corner

"Don't bully my sister!! ”

"Bang!" Lorna's left hand also entered the partial true dragon form, and the dragon claws clawed the indestructible Xuantie double hammer like pinching tofu, piercing through the sky of iron and pinching Shangguan Ba's cheek, pressing his huge body to the ground.

After Lorna subdued the Shangguan siblings, the bedroom door was slammed open, and the heavily armed imperial guards rushed in, watching the two of them warily.

"Click, click, click" The oppressive footsteps sounded.

Solandelle, whose clothes were covered with frost and snow, walked in, and looked at the Shangguan brothers and sisters with blue eyes, his eyes were unprecedentedly cold, and he was cold to the bone.

Soon, under Shangguan Xue's stunned gaze, a familiar figure was pushed in.

I saw that Niko fell heavily to the ground, her whole body was bound by ropes, she couldn't move, her hands and feet were broken, and she couldn't get up at all when she fell to the ground, coughing up blood.

Seeing this scene, Shangguan Xue's heart suddenly cooled by half.

Previously, Chino descended a shady curtain in the Flying Kite Province, and the news was strictly blocked by the cardinal forbidden army, and the communication technology in this era was not developed, and Shangguan Xue, who was in the royal city, did not know about this appalling thing.

But seeing Solandelle's expression, Shangguan Xue guessed that it was probably Chino's side that was making some noise.

Solandelle couldn't catch Chino for a while, so she came to arrest those of them who had been with Chino.

…

Shangguan Xue was now pinched by Lorna and couldn't speak, and she didn't dare to resist, otherwise she would probably be broken like Niko, she could only pat Lorna's hand that turned into a dragon claw, and begged with her eyes for a chance to speak.

The Onmyoji who was close to him had no combat power, let alone the above

Guan Xue's level, no matter how hard she tried, it was impossible to hurt the dragon knight of the 6th sequence, so Lorna also lowered the throat lock.

"Shhhh Shangguan Xue finally gasped, she looked at the cold-eyed Solandelle, and said in a good voice, "Your Majesty, don't be impulsive, if you have anything to say, I won't run away."

Solandelle didn't say anything, she put her hand on the hilt of the sword on her waist, and slowly pulled out her saber and hit the position of Shangguan Xue's carotid artery, her eyes full of murderous intent.

The cold and sharp touch made Shangguan Xue's face pale, and at this time she couldn't help but feel a little remorseful, why did she agree to Niko's request to stay for an extra month?

If she had left a month ago, now she and Shangguan Ba were already sitting in the courtyard of the small village counting the stars, where would they fall to the current end.

On the eve of the beginning of a new life, a person's willpower is often the most vulnerable, and the desire to survive will be stronger than ever.

Shangguan Xue, who had always been calm, couldn't stop trembling in her voice at this time, and pleaded in a low voice: "Your Majesty. There is a wrong, and there is a debtor! If Chino does something, you go to him, what's the use of looking for us to vent your anger"

"Tomorrow my brother and I will leave Doguland, forever out of your sight, no different from death, you will never see us upset again in your life!"

"So. Please give us a way out, at least give my brother a way out. His intelligence is stuck at 8 years old, he is a child who does not grow up, can you bear to kill a child? ”

The blade of the sword against his neck became tighter and tighter, and Shangguan Xue even wondered if it had cut through the skin, at any time

can cut through the delicate arteries.

Everything that should be said has been said, whether it is dead or alive, life is completely in the hands of the queen with an unknown mentality in front of her, Shangguan Xue can only close her eyes, like a prisoner waiting for trial.

I don't know how long it took, as the sense of oppression gradually weakened, Shangguan Xue could clearly feel the blade move away.

At the same time, Solandale's cold voice rang out: "Huh, kill you? ”

Shangguan Xue looked over in shock, the expression on Solandelle's face did not change, she was still cold, but the sword had been lowered, and she said coldly: "Niko was beaten like this because of the use of violent means to resist the arrest, and the attack of the imperial guards is legitimate. ”

"The law grants the monarch's power, and the rule is under the law. The law only talks about action, and the law does not punish the heart. "Even if I really want you to die, as long as you don't do anything to break the Code, let alone kill you, even if you beg me to plunge a sword into your throat, I won't do it." ”

After declaring Shangguan Xue "not guilty", Solandale patted Lorna's dragon claw with the blade of her sword, and the latter released the Shangguan siblings, and the dragon claw also returned to its original appearance in the vast steam.

Solandale used her sword to break the ropes on Niko's body, and ordered the girl to be thrown into Shangguan Xue's arms.

Shangguan Xue hugged Niko and helped her check her injuries without being shocked, although her hands and feet were broken, fortunately she was not injured and would not be in danger of life.

Solandale looked down at the three people who were slumped on the ground, and her voice was bone-chilling: "Like you said, the crime committed by Chino has nothing to do with you, so you won't

I will not be hindered by any punishment wherever I want to go. ”

"But, please do me a favor, and if you meet Chino, please tell him on my behalf—"

Solandelle clenched her teeth, because she was too hard, blood oozed from between her teeth, and her blue eyes faded from their former clarity, burning with an unprecedented fire of hatred: "From this day on, no matter where he goes, I will chase him to the end of the world until he is given the death he deserves!" ”