Don't be tempted, sir

Chapter 118: Human Change

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Shen Yining groped his way in by memory, and only took out the tinder when he heard no sound. Blowing it up to detect the light was of little use in this huge building.

When I walked to the iron bars, the light could not reach the middle of the cage at all, and I still could not see Xiao Yuan.

"Xiao Yuan?"

There was no response, so he called again: "Xiao Yuan, this is Yining." Still no response, Shen Yining was a little panicked.

I looked around. How could such a big building not have windows? I used the tinder to find the stairs and climbed up. I didn't know how many steps I climbed, but it seemed that the top roof could be opened. In the last remaining light of the tinder, I finally found the gate.

As the roof slowly opened, the moonlight poured into the pavilion, and everything could be seen clearly at this moment. Shen Yining lowered his head and saw a huge bird cage in the middle. Xiao Yuan just fell quietly in the middle of the cage, without a trace of life under the moonlight.

Shen Yining walked down the steps of the pavilion. As she got closer, her tears fell like pearls from a broken string. Now she could see clearly that her Xiao Yuan was trapped here, like a wild goose that could not return home!

She ran to the cage, calling his name with tears in her eyes, but the person in the middle did not respond at all and she could not open the cage door. She could only watch him from afar, not knowing whether he was dead or alive.

When I was extremely sad, I thought of him, wiped my tears and held my breath, just staring at him in the moonlight, and suddenly I breathed a sigh of relief. His chest was still rising and falling, again and again! He was still alive!!

Shen Yining looked at Song Xiaoyuan through the cage, wanting to hug him again. Suddenly, she regretted the many opportunities she had in the past. She could have hugged him and been with him. She didn't want to leave, so she just lay beside the cage and watched over him, just like Song Xiaoyuan did before, lying down and looking at the square sky above her head. She cried for many days until she was tired, and fell asleep on the cool ground.

Both people were trapped inside and outside the cage.

Song Xiaoyuan has not woken up since that day. He could no longer tell the time in the darkness and fell into a deep sleep. Tonight, a faint fragrance that belongs only to her lingers on his nose. His long eyelashes tremble slightly. The dream was too deep and he couldn't wake up.

Alianyi came over in the morning and saw Shen Yining sleeping beside the cage guarding him, with anger and unwillingness in her eyes. He approached her and saw her face full of tears, and gently picked her up.

Shen Yining woke up and was a little frightened when he saw the person holding him.

Alianyi lowered his head, frowning: "Yining, the ground is cold, go back to the palace and sleep."

Shen Yining pushed away and stepped out of his arms, then stood firmly on the ground and greeted, "Meet the Master."

"Let's go." A Lianyi reached out to hold her hand, but Shen Yining dodged.

"My Lord, why didn't you tell me that Xiao Yuan is here?"

He reached out his hand but it fell empty, and withdrew it without showing any emotion: "Even if I didn't tell you, Yi Ning would have found it, right?"

"Master, Xiao Yuan hasn't woken up yet. Can you find someone to check on him?"

"No, he shouldn't wake up!"

Shen Yining looked up in disbelief, looking at the sinister Alianyi at the moment: "Master, what do you mean?"

"Yining, we are getting married. Since you agreed to the marriage, your marriage with him is invalid. Yining, you are mine! You shouldn't cry for him anymore." Alianyi raised his hand, and the imperial guards went upstairs to turn off the lights on the roof.

Seeing this, Shen Yining turned around and tried to stop him, but his hand was held back: "Yining said that you don't have feelings for me, do you still have feelings for him?"

Seeing the imperial guards approaching the gate, Shen Yining shouted: "No, don't lock them up!..."

A Lianyi pulled Shen Yining closer, forcing her to look at him, his cold eyes burning: "I'm asking you, but do you have feelings for him?"

Shen Yining cried anxiously: "Master, please don't turn it off, please! Open it and shine it on him, it's too dark in the building, let him see the light!"

"Don't cry, Shen Yining!" A Lianyi felt annoyed when she saw her begging him for Song Xiaoyuan.

"Okay, Changqing, please don't close the rooftop, okay?" Shen Yining wiped her tears and looked pleadingly.

"Okay, you are not allowed to come here from now on! I will drive." Alianyi raised his hand to signal the imperial guards.

Shen Yining turned her head and looked at Song Xiaoyuan on the couch in the cage. She was reluctant to leave him. She wanted to stay with him....Alianyi followed his gaze and said, "You don't want to leave him, do you?"

Shen Yining bit her lip and said nothing.

A Lianyi said with grief and resentment: "Yining was willing to let me go... In the past, I was also locked up in such a dark palace, all alone. If Yining was here at that time, would she plead for me? I'm afraid not... At that time, you were with him, Song Xiaoyuan! Enjoying freedom in the rapeseed field. I was alone, enduring these many days and nights. Shen Yining, you and I grew up together, but you were so cruel! In just one year, you fell into the arms of someone else. Even if I was really dead at that time, I'm afraid my body would still be warm! Shen Yining!"

She had thought so before, but now that she was touched, Shen Yining bowed her head in guilt and apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm really sorry! It's all because of my indecision and fickleness... I'm sorry, it's all my fault!" At this point, Shen Yining burst into tears of shame, but still looked up at Alianyi and begged: "Changqing, everything is my fault, it has nothing to do with Xiaoyuan, it's all because I always pester him and like him! Changqing, let Xiaoyuan go, everything is my fault."

"He is my sister's bird, I can't let him go. Shen Yining, do you feel guilty towards me? After all the things that happened in the past, do you have no feelings for me at all now? Every time you speak, it's only for him."

"I..." Shen Yining's hand was hurt by his grip and she hesitated, not knowing what to say. She was indeed feeling the same way.

Alianyi opened the cage door and pulled Shen Yining in. The imperial guards pulled up Song Xiaoyuan who was sleeping on the couch. Shen Yining stood there in a daze, watching the gate start. Xiaoyuan, who was unconscious, was hung up with his arms outstretched. She couldn't help crying and struggling: "Xiaoyuan! What are you doing! Let him go..."

Song Xiaoyuan was hanging with his head down, with a torn wound on his left chest. Shen Yining looked at the blood oozing from his white feathered shirt and asked in a trembling voice: "What did you do to him, Shen Changqing! What did you do to Xiaoyuan!"

"Just like what you see, although I cannot let him go, I can torture him."

Shen Yining cried out for Song Xiaoyuan, but he still didn't move. Alianyi smiled and said, "He can't wake up."

"What happened to him? What did you do to Xiao Yuan?"

Yao Jiu, who had been seeing Song Xiaoyuan in the morning, came in and pulled Shen Yining over. Alianyi smiled and let go. Shen Yining broke free and ran to Song Xiaoyuan's side. He anxiously opened his left chest, which was still bleeding, to check. The gauze inside had already been soaked with blood. Shen Yining trembled and dared not touch it.

Yao Jiu walked over and said calmly: "He is too weak to wake up."

Shen Yining trembled and lifted up Song Xiaoyuan's pale face, tears falling like pearls. Yao Jiu looked at A Lianyi: "Master, in this state, even gods can't save you."

"Then let him die!"

When Shen Yining heard that Xiao Yuan was to be killed, she walked over with her head down, crying, and knelt at A Lianyi's feet and begged: "I have failed you in the end. Please, don't let him die! Please save him."