OBS Chapter 735: Without hatred, the remaining resentment will sooner or later be smoothed out by time
Chapter 735: Without hatred, the remaining resentment will sooner or later be smoothed out by time
In the courtyard, the third princess was shocked after hearing Shu He's words. She didn't even wait until the next day and set off back to Yifang City that night.
Seeing Baili Ruyun leave with a murderous look on his face, Baili Moqing keenly realized that Yifang City must be in big trouble.
But how did Shu He know?
After Ziyuan left, Yier was in a bad mood. Finally, Shu He asked Princess Yong to keep Ziyi and Zile here for dinner. Only then did Yier feel much better.
After dinner, Shu He was flipping through a book in her room. Baili Moqing handed her a glass of water and said in surprise, "I didn't expect that you would get along so well with the Third Princess."
Shu He didn't even raise his head, flipping through the book carefully, but he was also responding.
"The Third Princess? What can't we talk about? As long as they're not someone with ulterior motives or a bad heart, there's nothing we can't talk about."
Baili Moqing nodded, "The Third Princess is quite straightforward. She says what she wants to say and is not good at making false statements. I think she is more compatible with your personality in this regard."
"It's just that she's never liked getting involved in power, and she's always kept a respectful distance from us brothers. This has been the principle she's lived by all these years. I didn't expect she would break this principle for you."
Shu He glanced at him and smiled, "It just means I'm charming!"
Baili Moqing didn't deny it, but thought what she said was right! If she hadn't been like this, how could he have been obsessed with her and so crazy?
"The Third Princess is a neutral person. She has no direct interests with us. It's not impossible for us to be friends."
"Friend?" Shu He raised his eyes slightly and asked in confusion, "You treat your own sister as a friend?"
He also raised an eyebrow. "Isn't it possible? Where does true love come from among the royal family? Don't you understand this?"
Shu He didn't say anything, mainly because she didn't expect that he had such an attitude towards the third princess.
Baili Moqing sat across from her and looked at her, a glint in his eyes. "Can I ask you a question?"
She flipped through the book and hummed softly.
"You can easily forgive and understand the ill will of a stranger, but why can't you get over it when it comes to your two brothers?"
The Third Princess had harbored malice and prejudice against her from the beginning, but she didn't seem to care much and ended up becoming good friends with the Third Princess! This was something Baili Moqing didn't understand.
Shu He's hand, which was flipping through the book, froze for a moment. Then, he turned to look at him, his brows slightly furrowed. "Why are you suddenly saying this?"
Baili Moqing noticed her mood change and quickly smiled ingratiatingly, "It's okay, I was just talking casually."
Shu He was a little annoyed, so he threw down the book and walked out.
Baili Moqing looked at the books she had thrown on the table, with helplessness in his eyes.
Walking to the window and standing behind her, he asked, "That book you just read, 'Treatise on Bones and Tendons', which you found in the National Library of China? You've been reading it all afternoon. Is it really that good?"
A look of helplessness flashed across Shu He's face. He felt embarrassed and ashamed as if he had done something secretly but was caught in public.
She glared at him angrily, "What do you want to say?"
"Ah He, when we return home the day after tomorrow, they will be leaving. Do you really want us to part ways with regret?"
"You put so much effort into reconciling Yi'er and me, because you knew very well how painful and self-blaming I felt when facing Yi'er's complaints and indifference..."
"What about them? Their situation is the same as mine before. I don't believe you can't feel it."
If she was really so heartless, why would she study the book "Theory of Bones and Tendons" for an entire afternoon?
Shu Yuanqing's arm is gone, so she may really have no way to do anything, but Shu Yuanqi's leg is still there, so she still wants to cure him completely, right?
"You clearly knew that losing an arm and a leg was already a huge price to pay. You even planned a way out for them, to get them out of the center of the storm. I don't believe you did all this just to distance yourself from them!"
"Ah He, do you want to..."
"What if it was you?" Shu He interrupted him.
She turned to look at him and asked, "If it was Baili Moyan, after he hurt you like that, could you so easily say the word 'forgiveness'?"
Baili Moqing was stunned for a moment, feeling that his analogy was inappropriate. "Ah He, there's no comparison between the two! Lao Jiu wanted my life, but your eldest brother and the others only talked..."
"So you think that emotional damage is nothing compared to physical damage, right?"
There was a hint of disappointment in her eyes, which made Baili Moqing anxious. He quickly explained, "That's not what I meant..."
"If your father weeps bitterly in front of you today, admitting his mistakes, saying he was deceived by the Fourth Prince and therefore murdered you and the Second Prince, and committed all those wrongdoings... he swears that he will treat Concubine Qing well in the future, make amends to her, and to you..."
"Baili Moqing, let me ask you, can you forgive him?"
Baili Moqing went forward and hugged her. He knew that she was stuck in a dead end and talking any further would only make it harder for her to get out of it.
"Okay, okay, I was wrong. I shouldn't have said that. I wanted to help you get over the grudge, but I didn't expect..."
Shu He suddenly broke away from him, "Dissolve? How do I dissolve it?"
"When I see them as my lifeline, desperately trying to hold on to them, but they are ruthlessly pushed away, who will untie the knot in my heart?"
"When they hurt me with the sharpest words and the sharpest eyes, who will heal the knot in my heart?"
"When I'm so desperate that I want to end my life again and again, and they're all chatting and laughing around Shu Yue, loving each other, who will help me untie the knot in my heart?"
"Why should I compensate them for their guilt and resolve their emotional knot just because I'm standing here? Is it just because I'm not dead?"
"What if I die?!"
Seeing that she was getting more and more excited, Baili Moqing immediately went forward to hug her and continued to comfort her.
"Okay, okay, I get it. I understand. I won't talk about this again! Don't get too excited, okay?"
Shu He rarely cries, but recently, she has become increasingly unable to control herself.
Xuan Feng appeared outside the door like a gust of wind, his tone slightly anxious, "Your Highness, I have something to report!"
Baili Moqing could hear his anxiety through the door, but at the moment, no one was more important than his wife.
"If anything happens, we'll talk about it tomorrow!"
Xuan Feng was extremely anxious. "It's Master Zhu. He said there's something very wrong with the disappearance of the fireworks workshop, and he said he must see you today!"
Zhu Guangzheng?
"Go ahead, I'm fine."
When Xuan Feng came, Shu He had already been trying his best to calm himself down, and now he was much calmer.
Baili Moqing was still a little worried about her. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have mentioned this. I haven't experienced what you've experienced, so I really shouldn't make decisions for you so casually."
Seeing her unusual calmness, he assured her, "From now on, no matter what decision you make, I will support you!"
"Don't be too sad, okay?"
Shu He tilted his head slightly, but still nodded.
Bad emotions require time to calm down, and she doesn't need to drag him along with her emotions.
After Baili Moqing left, Shu He felt depressed and went out for a walk.
But somehow, he ended up walking outside the wing where Shu Yuanqing and Shu Yuanqi were temporarily housed.
The lights were on in the room, and three figures were printed on the window, two big and one small, behaving intimately. From time to time, there were bursts of laughter and the tinkling of small bells.
"Uncle, I really like this little bell. Thank you!"
Shu He stood on the corridor outside, watching Yi'er hug one of them by the neck, followed by joyful laughter. She couldn't describe the feeling in her heart.
This seems to be Yier’s first time meeting Shu Yuanqi, right?
Since returning to Kyoto, Shu Yuanqi has been playing the role of a "bastard". It seems that the whole of Kyoto knows that he is a playboy, a fool who doesn't know what to do. He doesn't cling to Prince Li's thighs, but instead clings to Prince Li's enemies!
First it was the Fourth Prince, and later it was the Ninth Prince. Although these princes appeared to be peaceful on the surface, who in Kyoto didn't know that the Seventh Prince and the Ninth Prince were their biggest rivals?
To outsiders, he was just a man who was tirelessly walking on a crooked road. Throughout Kyoto, countless people laughed at him and mocked him behind his back, and some even laughed at him in front of him for being short-sighted.
But he didn't care at all. He was like a person who would not let go of a stubborn idea and insisted on going his own way.
From the day they first met after returning to Kyoto, Shu He knew that Shu Yuanqi was not a fool or a fool. On the contrary, he was smarter and more patient than many people.
She just didn't know whether he suddenly grew up after Shu Yuanqing's "death", or whether he had always been so smart?
If he had always been so smart, why was he fooled by Guan Huizhi and Shu Yue?
Perhaps, "being blinded by one leaf" refers to people like him!
Shu He turned to leave, but heard a slight noise, "Who's there? Come out!"
Nanqi tiptoed out from behind the courtyard wall and smiled at her, "Princess, don't you want to come in and have a chat?"
"Did you bring Yi'er here?"
Looking at his sneaky look, Shu He knew that this kid must be meddling in other people's business.
Nanqi scratched his head and felt a chill on his back.
"Well, the Third Princess and Princess Ziyuan came to say goodbye. The master gave Princess Ziyuan a white jade token, and the princess hugged the master and thanked him. Yi'er saw it and asked me where her uncle was..."
"I thought Yi'er might be missing her uncles, so I brought her to see them..."
Shu He looked at him with a sharp gaze, "Really?"
"Of course it's true!" Nanqi straightened his back and tried to make himself look more confident.
Shu He snorted lightly, "I think you are very guilty!"
Nanqi stood beside her and asked quietly, "Princess, why don't you go in and talk to them? Didn't they say that the two young masters are going to Anzhou with General Liu and the others in a few days?"
"If you don't talk about some things now, you don't know when it will be resolved!"
Shu He rolled his eyes at him. "You're so free? How about we settle the score for your role in setting Jiang Dongping up?"
Nanqi shrank his head and immediately left the place.
Shu He glared at him unhappily.
Hearing Yi'er's happy laughter, she stopped in her tracks.
Sitting on the railing nearby, she stared blankly at the three figures in the compartment.
"Resentment, resentment." Without hatred, the little resentment she has left will sooner or later be smoothed out by time, right?