female catcher

Chapter 207 Overwhelmed

Su Zhen's appearance is always so unexpected.Just like in an ordinary day, when I suddenly looked up while walking in a hurry, I saw a rainbow in the sky.

A short period of sunlight hit the door, drawing a bright white and transparent picture frame on the wall. He stood there, dressed in a white shirt, with picturesque eyebrows and eyes, and his smile was still the same.

Xia Chu stared at him blankly, his mind suddenly went blank.It was as if time was stuck in this moment, and then slowly rewinded.No frustrating withholdings, no crushing goodbyes, no crying, no regrets.Back in the early summer of April, when she opened the door, she was still that youthful young man, walking in like a flower and a dew.It's astonishing as an encounter.

Maybe just for a moment, but it seems like a long time.Xia Chu came back to his senses, held the cloth towel tightly in his hand, and after a moment of bewilderment, he bent down and bowed down, "Your Majesty sees the Emperor, my Emperor... oh, long live long live."

Xia Chu's worship made Su Zhen suddenly withdraw from the memories of Yi Nian, and with a stab in his heart, he stepped forward and pulled her up, "Xia Chu..." He smiled reluctantly, "Don't call yourself a slave, don't bow down."

Xia Chu looked at him, lowered his head a little, then raised his eyes and smiled at him again, "Thank you, Your Majesty. But...you can't do it if you don't."

"I said it's okay. At least when you and I are alone, it's still the same as before." Su Zhen looked Xia Chu up and down, and smiled with curved lips.Xia Chu also lowered his head to look at himself, and awkwardly pulled down his rolled-up cuffs, wiped his clothes again, and finally helped the bun on his head with a smile, "It's weird, isn't it?"

Su Zhen couldn't help laughing out loud, shook his head and said, "I'm not used to it. You are really different from the Luo Qun hair temples, gold hairpin jade ring, and what I remember." He took a step forward, raised his hand and touched it lightly. Her hair, "the hair still hasn't grown, it's still so thin..."

Su Zhen's eyes fell on her face carefully and cautiously, his breathing was cautious, and his fingertips touched the temples next to his ears, which really made his heart tremble slightly, and his eyes were slightly hot, "I I've been imagining for a long time what it would look like if you put on a woman's attire..."

"I myself..."

Before Xia Chu finished speaking, Su Zhen stretched out his arms and gently embraced her, put his chin on her shoulder, and let out a long sigh, "Xia Chu, I miss you very much, I really miss you……"

Poems and dramas have portrayed so many things in the world of mortals, how many resentments and loves have been described like flowers, and there are thousands of love sentences in the world, but at this moment everything has been left behind, but this plain I miss you very much.

It is the worry of day and night, it is the repeated accumulation of the thin past, and the lovesickness that cannot be wiped away in the heart becomes ashes.I can't sleep at night when I can't eat, I just miss you when I lean on the railing and look at the traces related to you.

The room was very quiet, and when Xia Chu heard the trembling of his breathing, it was as if someone pinched the indescribable softness in the bottom of his heart with his fingertips, and the pinching was painful.She wanted to laugh but didn't laugh, wanted to speak but only opened her mouth, closed her eyes, and finally held back her tears.

After a while, Su Zhen raised his head and pulled Xia Chu to look again, "I'm used to seeing it now, and thinking about it, you should look like a woman. In the past, you were really good at hiding things."

Xia Chu smiled apologetically, "I have no choice but to arrest a woman if she can't. Your Majesty forgives her."

"I didn't mean to blame you. It was because I lied to you first, and I was afraid that you would not forgive me."

"How come..." Xia Chu lowered his head and rubbed his palms, "This identity is a little scary, no wonder the emperor can't tell me the truth."

Su Zhen lowered his head and smiled, "If you want, you can still call me Mr. Huang. Or, if you want to call me Su Zhen, that's fine."

"No, this is in the palace after all." Xia Chu shook his head.After finishing speaking, he glanced at him, hesitated and asked: "I don't know if the emperor asked me to be this female officer because he wanted to..."

Su Zhen's heart tightened, his smile froze for a moment, then he showed his face and said softly, "I want you to come and accompany me."

"Accompany... the emperor?" Xia Chu didn't know how to understand this sentence, and looked at him vaguely.Su Zhen nodded, "Young Master Huang lied to you before. It was really a last resort. You said you didn't know my name and where I lived, and you said you couldn't convince yourself to know me. I want...to get to know you again."

Xia Chu was startled, "Acquaintance again? With...the emperor?"

"With Su Zhen." He nodded and smiled, and saw all the blankness and hesitation in Xia Chu's eyes. His heart sank slightly, and he asked cautiously, "You don't want to see me? Or, do you hate me?"

Xia Chu's mind was a little confused, he took a breath and wanted to speak, but seeing Su Zhen's expression, he swallowed the words again, shook his head after a while, "No."

Saying that I don't want to see him is really a bit against my will.It's not that she doesn't want to see him. Just because she wants to let go of her feelings for him doesn't mean she won't miss him or hate him.After all, I was really moved, after all, there is a last resort here.

Emotionally, she is willing, but she is separated by a high wall of reason.She wanted to see him, but it was not like this, not in the palace.

Su Zhen smiled relaxedly, "Stay here for the time being, and I will ask An Liang to change your palace for you in a few days. There are many people in the inner court, so that you won't be tired of dealing with it."

"Your Majesty." Hearing what he said, Xia Chu collected his thoughts, hesitated and said, "It's not that I don't want to see the Emperor, let alone hate it. It's just that I never thought of meeting in the palace. Your Majesty You have thought a lot about me for making me a female officer, but I...don't want to enter the palace." After speaking, Xia Chu turned his head slightly under Su Zhen's gaze, and his voice gradually dropped.

After speaking, the room fell silent for an instant.After a while, Su Zhen said softly, "Xia Chu, look up at me."

Xia Chu pursed his lips, hesitated for a moment before raising his head, and Su Zhen's expression met her eyes.There was a very clear smile on his lips, and his gaze was like a clear lake under the moonlight, for no reason, just looking at it like this made people feel distressed.

After staring at the two sides for a moment, Xia Chu couldn't help but want to avoid this gaze, but he heard him say with a sigh, "You know my heart. Don't you? You're not heartless towards me, are you?"

Xia Chu's heart skipped a beat, but he didn't respond.

"So I took you into the palace, so I don't want you to leave. I think you are by my side, I think I can see you when I turn my head, and I can protect you with my arms. You were besieged in the mansion, and you were injured , You have been slandered, I am very concerned and distressed. I sent someone to visit you secretly, but it was not me after all. When I found out that I didn't even have the right to care, I knew how much I hated. "

Su Zhen spoke very lightly and slowly, as if he was speaking eloquently, but every word fell into the bottom of Xia Chu's heart.She closed her eyes and lowered her head, pursed her lips tightly, and tried hard to swallow back her tears.He caressed his forehead helplessly, afraid that Su Zhen would see his expression, but he couldn't hold back the slight trembling of his fingertips.

"Can you give me some time, let me like you well and aboveboard. I don't want to always be immersed in the bitterness of the past, and I don't want to have only the memories of farewell forever. I am the king of a country, and I can force everyone to do what they don't want What I want to do, but I don't want to and I can't force your emotions."

Su Zhen gently pulled Xia Chu's hand down, wiped the crystals from the corners of her eyes, "If you don't want to be a concubine, even if you just let me watch you, if you tell me one day that you don't want to see me again, you hate me ..., I'll see you off. Xia Chu, is that okay?"

Su Zhen held Xia Chu's hand, and the purple jade grape pendant quietly landed on her hand.Xia Chu watched with tears in his eyes, unable to say anything.

Her heart hurts.He is her April day in the world, the first beauty throbbing like a breeze in the forest, she has laughed, cried and cared for him.He didn't apologize to himself, he didn't do anything wrong.Slowly expressing affection, but in a few words, it is full of caution like walking on thin ice.There was no begging in the words, but every word and every sentence seemed to be begging, an almost humble gesture of the king of this country.

Can't say yes, can't say no.Nothing can be said.

Su Zhen wiped away the tears for her, not knowing whether he should be relieved or sad, he was silent for a while, only to come to see her some other day, and left in a hurry.He was afraid that if he faced her tearful eyes like this again, he would be unable to restrain himself from hugging her tightly.

Xia Chu covered his face and sat silently on the edge of the bed, his heart was in a mess, his emotions and reason seemed to have both collapsed.For the first time in her life, she felt so confused that she couldn't figure out anything.

Jiang Shangyi stood behind the verandah of the west wing and watched Su Zhen leave, feeling a twinge of fear in her heart.Fortunately, she didn't do anything to Xia Dianshi.She thought she was only related to Anliang, but she didn't expect that the emperor was behind him.

Fang entered the palace for a long time, and the emperor who never entered the inner court came, which shows that the relationship is not ordinary.Although she didn't know the reason behind this, how difficult things between men and women can be.

After Su Zhen walked for a while, Jiang Shangyi restrained her expression, walked to Xia Chu's door, and raised her voice, "Servant Xia Dian."

Xia Chu was startled in the room, responded in a panic, jumped up and rushed to the side of the washbasin to scoop up two handfuls of water and splashed it on his face before running to open the door.

Seeing her come out, Jiang Shangyi took a look at her, and then smiled slightly, "Is there anything missing in the room after being here for half a day?"

"Ah?" Xia Chu was stunned for a moment, and was dazzled by her almost kind smile, and hurriedly said: "No, oh, thank you Jiang Shangyi for your concern."

"If there is anything missing, you can tell Yuan Fang, she is familiar with Shangyi Palace. If there is anything you can't solve, just come to me." Jiang Shangyi said.

Although Xia Chu was a little puzzled, he still nodded with a smile, "Yes, thank you Jiang Shangyi."

After finishing speaking, Jiang Shangyi told her to have dinner at Youshi, and then left calmly.After she left, Xia Chu let out a long breath, leaned against the door and looked up at the palaces stacked in front of him, thinking about what Su Zhen said just now, his mind felt empty.

In Fengyi Palace, Yongwei was checking the palaces with the Shanggong Bureau, and she said, "I don't know how many girls are recruiting this time, is it enough?" She turned her head to Qianqian and said, "Forget about it for today. , Let Shangyi Palace come here tomorrow, if it’s not enough, I’m afraid we’ll have to recruit again.”

Just as he was talking, he saw the young envoy of Fengyi Palace come in through the curtain, and Fushen said: "Empress, Shangyi Palace, Jiang Shangyi, please see me."

(End of this chapter)