Many fragmented pictures flashed in his mind, like an illusory moon floating on the water, or a treasure buried in a desperate situation.

Ji Qingzhuo stood at the bottom of the well, she heard Shen Rongyu's messy breathing, she held up her umbrella and came to his side.

When she approached him, Shen Rongyu suddenly held her hand, his palm was warm, and her wrist was scorchingly hot.

Ji Qingzhuo felt his tightly pursed thin lips and slightly frowning brows, but with her eyes open, she couldn't see anything.

"Xiaoyu?" Ji Qingzhuo called him.

Shen Rongyu raised her chin and looked at her eyes. Her eyes were moist but lifeless, like beautiful black and white jade.

He remembered, the last time he seemed to remember something, it was also after looking at her, but the memories that were about to come up still couldn't piece together a complete picture.

Ji Qingzhuo didn't know what happened, she blinked, her long eyelashes were covered, and she said, "Xiaoyu, why don't you take a rest first."

Shen Rongyu said good, he thought, returning to a familiar place, he might be able to trigger the memory again.

He remembered that he had a very hard life before, and he was so bitter that he didn't want to recall these things, but...he was so young at that time, so small, how did he get through it alone?

Shen Rongyu always felt that he would not be able to get to where he is now by himself, but... But if Ji Qingzhuo is not here now, he should be alone now, with no one to accompany him.

What exactly is he missing?

Shen Rongyu led Ji Qingzhuo into the room. In the middle of the dilapidated house where he had lived for twenty years, there was a big familiar box with the mouth open, and a few moths fluttered away. Sprinkle crystal powder all the way.

He went up and opened the big box like a ghost. On the top of the box, there was an old travel book, which was a version from more than a hundred years ago.

Shen Rongyu opened this travel note, and he noticed the folded page in the travel note at a glance. On the folded page, it seemed that there was an error in the binding, and the illustrations on the entire page were upside down. On the page turned upside down, Shen Rongyu saw his familiar handwriting.

"Flying birds have scales, and swimming fish have wings."

"Zuozhuo agreed, you want to go to the beach with me."

Shen Rongyu clutched the page, turned her head again, and looked at Ji Qingzhuo who was standing at the door and putting away her umbrella.

He looked at her, locking her with his eyes, as if he was afraid that she would disappear from his eyes.

Shen Rongyu strode up, he hugged her and asked her a question: "Zhuozhuo, are you real?"

Memories surged, and Shen Rongyu's thoughts fell on what his mother said when she took away this travel book.

"Shen Rongyu, are you crazy? There are no palace servants in this cold palace, and even if there were, there would be no one named Zhuozhuo."

"You should have died in the first place. You look so crazy now, just like a lunatic in the market."

"Without Zhuo Zhuo, from the beginning to the end, there was no such person."

The former queen still retains her majesty, she said this to Shen Rongyu in a commanding tone.

Zhuo Zhuo, where did it come from?

Shen Rongyu also felt that she was crazy, maybe she was just his fantasy, he was so humble and insignificant, how could anyone notice him?

He remembered the night when he first met Zhuo Zhuo.

Shen Rongyu has been in the cold palace since she was born. Although the former empress did not hurt her life because of the jump on the high tower, her behavior with another man outside the palace was exposed. Not only did the former empress lose her status, but even The existence of Shen Rongyu was also questioned.

Rong Yu, originally a nice name, entrusted the expectations of his parents, but his own cognition is not wrong, his existence is a mistake, the mother clan of the former empress is very powerful, since they got married, the empress respected each other like a guest But the appearance is in harmony with the gods. The emperor of the Dongshan royal family spent several years slowly eating away at the power of the queen mother's family.

The former empress was a very romantic person. She was the eldest daughter of a family since she was a child, and she was born beautiful. She was the number one beauty in Yunzeyu. Shen Rongyu's handsome skin was mostly inherited from her. The former empress was ignorant of politics, married someone she didn't love, and didn't want him to be born when she had a child. Such behavior became the last straw that crushed her mother's family, and she was finally relegated to the cold palace. She spent her whole life studying here .

When Shen Rongyu saw the first ray of light in the world, he was facing this kind of world, a small courtyard, which circled his range of activities, and he would be trapped here for the rest of his life.

The former empress had never seen him in the future, and no one in the palace was willing to talk to him. From the moment he realized it, he was alone.

He lived so hard that he had no hope of living very early. On his ninth birthday, it was summer and the fireflies lit up. He was wearing shabby clothes and sat in the yard watching the fireflies.

Shen Rongyu didn't know what to do, his daily life was so boring and hopeless, he rushed to the firefly, walked through the grass, and came to the outside of the small courtyard, the courtyard wall of this cold palace was so broken that the wall collapsed It was covered by lush vegetation and no one came to repair it.

There seemed to be some major event in the palace, so there were no guards, and no one stopped him. Shen Rongyu came out smoothly, and he didn't know how to get back after leaving this small courtyard for the first time, like a lost lamb.

He could only follow the lightly dancing fireflies on the road, and as he walked, he left the dark place of the cold palace and gradually walked towards the brightly lit place in the palace.

Coincidentally, the big event in the palace today is that the emperor of the Dongshan royal family is going to celebrate the fifth birthday of the princess born to the new empress. On the same day in different years, two people with the same blood came to this world successively, but , one is surrounded by resplendent palaces, and the other is lost in the wild grass and fireflies.

Shen Rongyu didn't know where to go, but in a panic, she broke into the vicinity of the main hall, walked forward from the dark corridor, and the fireflies disappeared, because the lights in front of her eyes were brighter than the glowing insects.

He saw a scene he had never seen before. In the bright palace, there were countless courtiers and ministers surrounded by the three people in the center. They were the emperor of the Dongshan royal family—his father, and the new queen, who was just five years old with them. daughter.

Shen Rongyu didn't know what happened, but he was extremely embarrassed at that time, his face was full of dirt, when he got through the grass, the sharp edge of the blade cut his cheek, the clothes he was wearing were also worn out, just Like a little beggar.

The little princess in the palace had never seen such a terrifying person before, she burst into tears the first time she saw him, the emperor didn't recognize him, and ordered someone to drag him down to execute him, but some palace servants who knew his identity objected to him. The emperor whispered a few words, and in the end, the self-proclaimed benevolent emperor only gave him fifty big boards in accordance with the rules that violated the nobleman.

If the fifty sticks are knocked down, even if the person does not die, he will be disabled, but the emperor of the Dongshan royal family doesn't care. He has never acknowledged the existence of Shen Rongyu, and letting him die in such a logical way is also considered to be his wish. In his eyes, Shen Rongyu is an evil with unknown bloodlines.

After he gave the order, he turned around and teased the little princess in the arms of the new queen. She was born cute, and the tears she was frightened by Shen Rongyu just now were wiped away by the palace servants. She pointed at Shen Rongyu with a childish expression voice said, "Fifty..."

The punishment of fifty sticks naturally came down, no one interceded for him, and no one blocked him, even when they dragged him back to the cold palace, the palace servants just threw him at the gate of the courtyard.

If he wanted to rest and recuperate, he had to crawl back to the bed by himself. With such a serious injury, even if he lay down for several months, he might not be able to heal.

However, what did he do wrong, but he chased the fireflies away.

Shen Rongyu was in severe pain all over his body. He felt that his bones were broken and he would not be able to move for the rest of his life. He was just a nine-year-old child.

Unable to stand up, he could only barely crawl towards the yard, but...Shen Rongyu is not a fool, just now when he was listening to the palace man, he knew that it was his father who ordered him to be punished...It turns out that he also has relatives .

Shen Rongyu didn't understand, but he was just a little tired.

He didn't crawl back to his room to rest and recuperate, to gamble on his chance of surviving. There was a well in this courtyard, which was very deep. He thought that if he fell, he might not be able to climb up again.

The world of mortals is as hot as purgatory. He has only been here for nine years, and he doesn't want to stay any longer. A moment of pain is more decisive than a long torture.

Everyone doesn't want him to live, so is there any need for him to live?

Such a small child is not enough to support all this.

At this time, it was summer night, and the water in the well was blown by the wind, causing faint ripples. The well water was clear and cold, reflecting the moon in the sky, like a mirror.

Shen Rongyu looked at the moon in the well, the moonlight was bright and clear, but it was piercingly cold, it was already late at night, and the fireflies in the summer night did not know where to hide, in the dilapidated, dying yard, only the light The rippling well water has a hint of freshness.

He exhausted all his strength and moved himself to the edge of the well. He leaned out his upper body and looked at the moon reflected in the water.

The moon is not perfect, it is a little thin, but it is very beautiful, Shen Rongyu clearly knows that the moon reflected on the water is fake.

He stretched out his hand and stirred the water surface, the ripples swayed, and the moon twisted.

This is the most beautiful place in this small world, but... now he wants to destroy this beautiful corner with his own corpse.

Shen Rongyu lay on the edge of the well, gasping for breath. The reason why he didn't continue to move was that he had no strength. Now that he had regained his strength, he could only barely prop up his upper body, allowing half of his body to reach into the mouth of the well.

This is a deep, deep despair, and he will lose even the will to live.

Just before it was about to fall, he stretched out his hand and touched the moon in the water again.

Beautiful things are like flowers in the mirror of water and moon, if you reach out and touch them, they will be distorted and shattered.

But this time, Shen Rongyu was sure that he had bumped into something. He reached into the water, touched the bottom, and picked up a small mirror that had been dusty for a long time.

In the mirror, there is a pair of eyes, as bright and clear as the moonlight, like an ignorant little animal in the forest, her eyes are full of tears, reflecting the moonlight.

In the deepest despair, at the moment before death.

He reached out, trying to touch the moon in the water.

So, he caught the moon.