Chapter 491 End
Chapter 491 End
Jiang Wantang's eyes were moist and red. Her eyes were calm and her tone was cold: "Okay, I won't go in."
"But, there are some things I must clarify with him today."
"Your Majesty..." Feiyu looked a little embarrassed.
"I know, he's in there." Jiang Wantang said directly.
Upon hearing this, Feiyu looked in the direction of the gate, hesitated for a moment, and then stepped aside.
Jiang Wantang walked to the gate of Taiji Palace and did not break in as instructed.
She shouted loudly: "Ji Wuyuan!"
"Ji Wuyuan..."
"I'm here."
Jiang Wantang thought he wouldn't respond, but after she called out twice, a response came from inside.
When she heard the words "I am here", tears flowed down her face unconsciously.
She raised her hand and climbed up the vermilion lacquered gate of Taiji Palace.
However, at this moment, Ji Wuyuan was standing behind this vermilion lacquered gate, with only one door between them, and his cold voice came again.
He said: "Tang'er, what you saw is true."
"I let go..."
"Let you go."
Jiang Wantang opened her eyes wide in shock, full of disbelief.
She knew better than anyone how paranoid and crazy Ji Wuyuan had been before.
But now, he suddenly said he wanted to let go and leave me...
Jiang Wantang held onto the vermilion lacquer door and asked him softly, "Why?"
Ji Wuyuan smiled slowly, his smile revealing an indescribable bitterness: "Hasn't Tang'er always wanted to leave?"
"But I..." Jiang Wantang didn't know what to say for a moment.
"Tang'er, leave."
Ji Wuyuan's gentle and low voice came from inside the door. He said, "I actually heard everything you said to Yun Shang on New Year's Eve."
"These palace walls are but a cage to imprison you, and I no longer wish to be the shackles that bind you."
"Tang'er, this relationship was forced upon me after all."
"My mother was like that too. A relationship without affection is doomed to fail."
"When I was born in this environment, it was not expected, but I had to be born."
"I don't want my children to be like this in the future."
"I also don't want you and my mother to be trapped in this deep palace, facing a man you don't love."
Having said that, Ji Wuyuan closed his eyes tightly, and his eyelids were deep red.
He spoke in a hoarse voice, forbearingly and restrainedly: "Perhaps I can use love and guilt to keep you, but you won't be happy."
“This is not what I wanted…”
"So, I choose to let go and give you freedom."
Outside the door, Jiang Wantang burst into tears uncontrollably and sobbed.
When Ji Wuyuan heard her crying, he couldn't help but raise his hand and touch the vermilion lacquered door. He almost wanted to open it, but in the end he clenched his fist to hold back.
Then, his hoarse voice sounded again: "Tang'er, leave!"
"Don't cry anymore, don't stay any longer, let's say goodbye like this."
"Otherwise, I'm afraid if I look at you again or hear your voice, I'll regret it."
Jiang Wantang closed her eyes and said the last words to Ji Wuyuan with a choked voice: "A Yuan, I'm sorry..."
Even if I have thousands of words to say, now they can only be reduced to one sentence: I'm sorry.
Ji Wuyuan closed his eyes, tears rolling down from the corners of his eyes.
There is nothing to be sorry about, it's just that I don't love you.
......
At the palace gate,
When Jiang Wantang stepped onto the carriage seat, she inexplicably turned her head to look at the nine-zhang-high city wall behind her.
At this time, Ji Wuyuan, who was standing on the city wall, turned around and stood behind the wall pillar.
Jiang Wantang stared at the empty high wall, lost in thought.
"My Lady..." Leng Mei, who was holding the heater behind her, reminded softly, "What's wrong?"
Jiang Wantang silently withdrew his gaze and said calmly, "Alright, just send it here."
Leng Mei's eyes were red and she looked reluctant.
"Empress..."
"Take care of yourself!"
Fei Yu was also accompanying him.
Jiang Wantang pulled out the gleaming imperial dragon pendant from his sleeve and handed it to Feiyu, saying softly, "Help me return this jade pendant to him."
Feiyu looked at the dragon-controlling pendant in his hand, his pupils suddenly dilated, and he almost knelt down.
However, before he could react, Jiang Wantang had already stepped onto the carriage bench and turned to get into the carriage.
The carriage drove slowly towards the palace gate.
Jiang Wantang: A Yuan, goodbye...
At this time, Ji Wuyuan also walked out from behind the wall pillar.
A pair of deep and dark eyes watched the small carriage slowly drive out of the palace.
His fingers clenched the crabapple-patterned mutton-fat jade pendant hanging around his waist, and his eyes gradually turned red.
Tanger...
You should be the crabapple blossoming in spring,
How can I bear to see you wither in my hands?
I love you, so I am willing to go against my paranoid nature, resist my possessive instinct, and let you go.
......
After the carriage had completely left the palace, Ji Wuyuan was already standing on the city wall, staring towards the palace gate with empty eyes.
Wang Fuhai stood silently by for a long time. Seeing that he looked unhappy, he stepped forward cautiously and reported, "Your Majesty, except for the pass, the Empress did not take anything from the palace with her."
Ji Wuyuan still looked outside the palace, silent.
Ever since Jiang Wantang left, he had been standing there, looking outside the palace without saying a word.
No one could guess what was in his mind.
Just like no one could have predicted that he would let Jiang Wantang leave.
As the sky gradually darkened, Feiyu hurried over to report.
Ji Wuyuan finally responded. He turned around and said sternly, "Didn't I ask you to secretly escort her out of the capital? Why are you back?"
Fei Yu knelt on one knee and said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, the King of Zhenbei is awake!"
"The Empress received the news and went directly to Foguang Temple."
Ji Wuyuan's hands clenched into fists in an instant, his joints creaking, and then fell down weakly, with unspeakable pain sweeping over him.
This short sentence is a heart-wrenching comment.
After a long moment, he closed his eyes, his voice so soft and weak, "They...are together?"
Feiyu was stunned for a moment and said, "No."
"For some unknown reason, the two have never even met each other."
"The Queen went to Foguang Temple to burn incense for her relatives, then left a letter to the King of Zhenbei and left."
"And the Prince of Zhenbei didn't see the Empress either. Not long after waking up, he went into seclusion with the Imperial Master in the mountains behind the temple."
"The two were in the temple together, but they never saw each other or spoke a word from beginning to end."
Hearing this, the pain in Ji Wuyuan's heart eased a little, which was beyond his expectations.
He had even anticipated that she would go find Ji Wuwang after leaving the palace.
Thinking of this, Ji Wuyuan's pupils became even darker.
At this time, Fei Yu added: "However, the queen did meet the young Marquis Xiao Jingheng, and the two of them just exchanged a few words."
Ji Wuyuan didn't care much about Xiao Jingheng.
He is just a monk who has left the secular world.
On the contrary...
Ji Wuyuan suddenly asked, "Where is Xie Zhiyan?"
"Where is he?"
Feiyu said, "Master Xie returned to the Xie Mansion from the Dali Temple and has not come out since then."
"I heard that Master Xie has been recuperating at home recently."
Ji Wuyuan narrowed his eyes and said nothing more.
He looked at the sky which had not yet completely darkened, and felt that this day was too long.
Ji Wuyuan looked outside the palace for a long, long time before he spoke, his voice as light as mist: "What about her?"
"Where did she go after she left?"
Fei Yu understood instantly and whispered, "The Queen rode her horse alone to the south..."
"At this time, it should no longer be within the jurisdiction of the capital."
Ji Wuyuan stood on the city wall with his hands behind his back, his black and gold dragon robe fluttering in the cold wind.
He raised his eyes, gazing deeply towards the south, his dark eyes as deep as an ancient well.
He still held the crabapple-patterned jade pendant tightly in his hand and said nothing more.
At that time, on the official road outside the capital, dust and smoke rolled up...
"drive!"
Jiang Wantang was wearing a pink dress and a veil on her head. She was riding a horse at full speed, letting the cool breeze brush past her ears. The hem of her pink skirt bloomed like a crabapple flower in spring, free and lively.
The sky and earth are vast, the mountains and rivers are vast, and I ride my horse and step on the flowers towards freedom.
......
Conclusion: It is love, obsession, and letting go.
(Love is possession and also fulfillment.)
Ji Wuyuan: If you want to be a soaring eagle, I will let you fly high. I want you to know that I love you, but you... are free.
(My dears, the main text ends here. There is no ending yet.)
My dears, the main story ends here. The heroine is the only beauty in the main story. Next, I will write the happy ending. After the ending, I will write the If line extra story, which are Xie Zhiyan and Ji Wuwang. I will write them in order and separate the plots (you can read whichever one you like)
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