No pop-up ads, so refreshing! Thanks for your support! Sounds good to me ^_^... Chapter 94

  Cangfeng Building is a place where the spirits of the valley masters are worshipped, it's a place that no one except the valley master is allowed to set foot in, and it has been a forbidden land for thousands of years.

  At this moment, Lian Luo was wearing a white dress that rivaled the snow, and although her eyes held hidden resentment and unwillingness, she still turned her body sideways, letting me enter.

  Nowadays, in Evil Doctor Valley, Su Xiuzhen is all the rules.

  The door closed slowly behind me, and I walked alone through the empty and silent front hall, along the narrow and deep corridor step by step, with only my own footsteps accompanying me.

  He stood at the top of Cangfeng Building.

  I gazed through his pale blue shirt at the scroll on the opposite wall, which was about the same size as a real person.

  A beauty is like a flower beyond the clouds, and my dream soul cannot reach her across the distant mountains. Longing for each other, it's heartbreaking.

  That is the inscription on the painting.

  That woman looked from afar, after a long time, with a flourishing face and an ethereal appearance, elegant and unparalleled. Her bright and clear face seemed familiar, yet gave people a completely different feeling. Even if I only saw the person in the painting, I already understood why my mother said "the difference between clouds and mud" back then.

  After the initial shock, doubts began to creep in bit by bit.

  Why is there a painting of someone who looks like the princess from the previous dynasty in the Cangfeng Building? Yes, just similar, the person in the painting is not her.

  That scroll, even with the most meticulous preservation, can't withstand time. The edges of the paper are slightly yellowed, and from the brushstrokes, it's clear at a glance that this painting has been stored for many years.

  At the end of the letter, two words were written - Gu Xi.

  I was taken aback for a moment, and then I realized that this painting was probably done by the previous master of Evil Valley, who was also Su Xinghe's mentor, Su Guzi.

  "This is the woman whom Preceptor Bi has loved all his life, Yun Tian."

  Su Xiu didn't turn around, facing the scroll, and quietly opened his mouth.

  "When the painter created this painting, she was already past her thirtieth year and was the empress who was a model for the world, in the prime of her youth. The difference between them was not just their status and position, but also fifteen years of time."

  In Su's gentle and calm narrative, before my eyes, a long scroll of painting seemed to unfold slowly.

  She was fourteen years old that year, he was twenty-nine years old, and they met for the first time.

  He was a young and famous evil doctor, Gu Gu Zhu, who nodded in agreement to treat her, not because of the countless precious treasures offered by her father's maternal family, but because of those beautiful eyes with clear black and white pupils.

  Day after day, year after year, the daily morning and evening encounters made him almost forget that between him and her, there was a huge chasm of fifteen years, forgot her identity, forgot her destined fate to enter the palace as an imperial concubine.

  All I see is her delicate face like a Begonia flower, and the affectionate love in her shining eyes.

  Until that imperial edict finally came down, until she was crying and tightly grasping the hand holding the sword, until she was willing to die to persuade him.

  He suddenly let go of her hand, and in fact had long understood that resisting the imperial edict and escaping marriage would put the entire family in great danger, something a kind person like her could never do.

  In a low voice, you can rest assured, I won't do anything, wait for you to enter the palace tomorrow, and then I'll leave...

  She fell asleep in his arms after crying herself out, but he stayed awake all night, watching over her until dawn.

  His fingers wandered slowly and unconsciously on her left arm, he knew that under the thin cambric, there was a crescent-shaped mark, which was the birthmark of every Cloud family's legitimate daughter, indicating her fate in life since the day she was born.

  It's not that I never had the idea of destroying this fetus, just like it's not that I never had the idea of taking her away without caring.

  However, he still couldn't bring himself to do it. How could he bear to hurt her in the slightest, how could he bear to let her spend the rest of her life in endless pain and guilt? If anyone was to blame, then let him be the one to blame.

  When the sky was slightly bright, she was still asleep, and he forced himself to leave, but actually didn't go far.

  Hiding in the dark, where she can't see, watching that most noble sedan chair in the world, gradually moving away, finally disappearing from his line of sight, finally disappearing from his life.

  From now on, it is as if a beautiful woman is separated from me by a layer of clouds.

  He returned to Xieyigu, she was the empress dowager of Tianxia.

  The new empress was extremely favored by the emperor, and everyone in the world knew it. Due to her weak body, her temperament was always gentle and calm. Therefore, the emperor searched everywhere for rare treasures and precious things, just to make her smile.

  When he heard this news, he didn't say a word and thought of her former smile as beautiful as peach blossoms.

  What kind of woman is this? In this world, which man would not be moved by her?

  Within a year of entering the palace, Yun Huanghou gave birth to the imperial heir. Although it was only a princess, the emperor was overjoyed and granted amnesty to the whole nation to accumulate blessings for the princess.

  It is said that when the princess was born, she had a crescent-shaped birthmark on her body. The emperor loved her as if she were a treasure and abandoned the traditional title of "De" for generations of princesses, specially granting her the title of "Yu Hook Princess", showing extreme favor.

  He could only smile bitterly, pick up his pen, and extremely slowly draw out her name on the paper - A beauty like a flower beyond the clouds, my soul cannot reach her across the difficult mountain pass. Longing for each other, heartbroken.

  "In Evil Doctor Valley, there's an unchanging rule that's been passed down for generations: if you want to leave your master's side, you must first kill your master. You know this."

  Su Xiu slowly turned around and looked at me, quietly opening her mouth.

  I nodded slightly.

  "There's still one more thing you don't know, which is that the disciples who have gone out must use all their strength to complete the last wish of their deceased master, even if it means sacrificing their own lives."

  I was slightly stunned, and his gaze slowly shifted to the vast sky outside the window, his voice carrying a hint of indifference and distance once again.

  "When I was thirteen, I personally stabbed the 'Drowning Dragon and Sparrow' into my master's heart. The sword was swift, he looked at me with a faint smile, asking me to swear that for this life, unconditionally protect and treat well the woman with the new moon birthmark on her body. At that time, I didn't know the reason, I just nodded in agreement. It wasn't until later when I sorted through my master's belongings and saw his handwritten notes and this painting scroll that I understood."

  I naturally understood that he wouldn't say these things to me for no reason, and I also knew it wasn't just a simple nostalgic confession. In fact, deep down, there was a vague premonition. When he mentioned the new moon-shaped birthmark on his left arm, when he mentioned his promise to Su Gu Xi, yet still, subconsciously, I didn't want to accept it.

  He didn't say anything, just quietly looked at me.

  I took a deep breath, but my voice still had an uncontrollable slight tremble: "What's the relationship between Yun Duan and me?"

  He looked at me for a long time, his words carrying a few almost imperceptible sighs, quietly rising.

  "She was the empress of the previous dynasty, and also... your mother."

  Still remember the shocking swan's reflection (harem)