My personal opinion on Gensokyo

Under the brilliant Milky Way, the sky is full of flowers, and thousands of fireworks and the stars in the sea of ​​​​stars complement each other, turning into the most beautiful scenery in the world.

Outside the Taichu Palace, in Luoyang City, thousands of houses were ablaze with lights, a sea of ​​flowers filled the sky, fireworks were blooming, the nobles and common people were lingering in the taverns and streets, the talented women of the Tang Dynasty played the clear pipa, the cheerful Hu people beat hand drums and danced dances of the Western Regions, the people of the Tang Dynasty laughed and sang and danced, Luoyang City was prosperous and glorious, with many people coming and going, and the world was bustling with fireworks.

The fragrant wind enters your arms.

As fireworks filled the sky, atop the Luoyang Paradise Tower, a young girl threw herself into the arms of a young man.

The stunned young man subconsciously hugged her as she threw herself into his arms.

……

Don't think about it...

……

"...Then, what about Shang Yang?"

The girl cried softly with a hint of fear, filled with anxiety.

"Could Shang Yang be my dream...?"

"Once I wake up from a dream, it disappears and I can't find it anywhere..."

"……Won't."

The young man hugged her and spoke to the girl in the most gentle tone in the world.

"I'll always be there for you."

……

"I told you... don't think about it!"

Whenever I think about it, it hurts so much that I can't breathe.

The tears of love keep flowing, wetting the heart and the clothes.

Wet the heart of love.

After a rough life of just fourteen years since she was born, this was the only beautiful dream the girl had in her life.

It fell to pieces.

Behind the imperial curtain, the queen, who was also surprised by the girl's unexpected behavior, had an indifferent expression.

It really is...it couldn't be better.

"You all saw it. This time, the monster riot in Kyoto was all caused by the princess' collusion with the evil spirits."

The lady behind the imperial curtain spoke softly.

"As you have heard, during the reign of our late emperor, Emperor Tianwu, he was seduced by his own daughter and committed adultery with her, resulting in the birth of a child. This tainted bloodline, born from this forbidden union, is none other than the Emperor's daughter, Ai, whom you now see before you."

"Twelve years ago, after giving birth to Princess Ai, she once again seduced the late emperor and, after having an affair with him, became pregnant, intending to bear the late emperor's own son and usurp the throne. However, she ultimately died in childbirth, allowing the late crown prince to be successfully appointed heir, thus preserving the imperial succession. However, twelve years later, the daughter of the late emperor's illicit daughter, Ai, like her shameless mother, secretly colluded with demons and evil spirits to wreak havoc within the Kyoto Palace. She also secretly colluded with the old clans dissatisfied with the new policies, intending to disrupt the court once again."

"All of this stems from the evil left behind by the previous emperor. During his reign, he reformed the court's policies and created a brand new world. However, he was deceived by the old ways and planted the seeds of this evil. Now, the crown prince has passed away, and the emperor's grandson is still young. I am the only one who can eliminate this evil!"

"For ten years, I have inherited the late emperor's will and continued to implement new policies. Now, I will not allow the evil roots of the old world to continue to exist!"

Behind the imperial curtain, the queen gave orders in a cold tone.

"Warriors outside the palace! Drag Princess Ai out! Whip her! Strike her with the cane! Afterwards, escort her to death row and execute her immediately!"

Several guards immediately rushed in from outside the hall and dragged the black-haired girl, who hadn't responded to the outside world, out of the hall without explanation. Moments later, the terrifying sounds of whips and batons hitting people could be heard from outside the hall...

Fujiwara Palace, a prison within the palace.

Crack...

The prison chains were opened, her hands were handcuffed with iron chains, her feet were nailed with heavy shackles, her white clothes were stained dark red by the blood, and the dying black-haired girl was dragged into the prison by the prison guards.

The prison guard threw the girl, who was tortured to death, onto the wet and rotten straw without mercy, and the chains and shackles that bound the girl's hands and feet made a crisp clanging sound.

Then, there was another sound of rattling chains, and the prison was locked.

"Cough...cough..."

He coughed incessantly and turned sideways with difficulty, dark red blood flowing out of the corner of his mouth involuntarily.

There is no doubt that Ai suffered severe internal injuries from the torture just now.

The sad and beautiful face turned extremely pale due to excessive blood loss. If you look closely, you will find that Ai's body is covered with whip marks and stick wounds. The most serious one is the back. The originally intact clothes on her back were torn into torn strips of cloth soaked in dark red blood by the barbed whip.

Love's back, smooth as white jade, was beaten to a bloody mess by whips and sticks. Countless deep scars covered the back of love...

The blood that oozed out of the wound had already formed into a scab, more or less preventing Ai from losing further blood...

Terrible torture.

But during the torture of love, no matter how many times it was beaten with sticks or whipped with barbed whips, love never uttered a single cry of pain.

The girl always held the young man's heart tightly against her chest, protecting it with her petite body.

It wasn't because of love that she was holding back her moans, but because love used all her strength to press that heart against her chest, leaving her without even the strength to scream.

The girl raised her fair right hand with heavy chains with difficulty, and her eyes, no longer clear, were filled with desperate pain.

In the end, is this all I can do for Shang Yang...

In the dark prison, the girl's extremely suppressed and painful sobs echoed...

A few hours later, it was night.

In a hidden corner inside Fujiwara no Miyabi.

The black-haired girl, her hands and feet shackled with iron chains, was dragged here by several prison guards.

Along the way, the girl, who was dragged roughly, suffered many scars from the brutal torture and opened again. Dark red blood kept oozing out from the scars and blood scabs all over her body, dripping onto the road.

Love was dragged roughly into this corner of Fujiwara no Miyabi.

When she saw that a pit three meters deep and five meters square had been dug there, Ai already knew what was waiting for her.

After careful consideration, Emperor Jitong changed his decision to publicly execute Ai and decided to execute Ai secretly as soon as possible.

Emperor Chitong had already been waiting in this remote corner with dozens of loyal palace maids and palace warriors.

She saw the black-haired girl being pushed and forced to kneel in front of her, dying.

Even though she was covered in wounds, pale and dying, the girl's beautiful face became even more endearing because of her fragility.

"What a beautiful woman! It's truly a shame for the court to lose a perfect match for marriage."

Slowly raising her hand, she stroked the side of the dying girl's face, and admired her sincerely.

"My love, since you are about to die, I have a few final words to tell you."

"It's not just because of your mother and your background that I dislike you. The year you were born, the imperial court suffered a drought unprecedented in a century. This drought, sent down by the gods, caused heavy losses throughout the court and nearly destroyed the late emperor's reform policies."

"When you were four years old, playing in the palace, you held a long-dead butterfly in your palm. That long-dead butterfly unexpectedly came back to life in your hand. This strange incident was sealed by the dying emperor, and I'm sure you don't even remember it. That's why I first suspected you when I learned of the monster disturbance in Kyoto."

"You have always been an ominous person, associated with disasters and demonic things. I thought that marrying you to the Eastern Kingdom was a reward I could give you, allowing you to live out your life in the human world. However, I was wrong. Now, at the age of fourteen, you have committed a crime even more unforgivable than your mother's. You actually colluded with demons and strange people."

"Now, I can no longer tolerate you living."

"However, I will still give you one last reward."

After Danmo finished speaking, the queen waved her hand and a palace maid immediately brought a plate. On the plate was the heart that had been removed from Shang Yang's body.

The lady-in-waiting signaled the palace servants to present the plate to the dying black-haired girl.

Seeing the young man's only relic, the dying girl raised her hand with difficulty, and with her last bit of strength, she grabbed it tightly, pressing the heart tightly against her chest as if she was being tortured.

"I can only let you take this thing."

The lady spoke indifferently as she spoke the final words that would determine the girl's fate.

"Love, rest in peace...do it."

puff!

The sound of a sharp object piercing the body.

From the heart of love, a dark sword tip emerged.

The executioner standing behind the girl drew his dagger without hesitation and stabbed Ai in the back...

The heart of love was pierced from the back, and the dark red blood flowing from the tip of the sword slowly soaked through the clothes of love.

puff!

Okay, it hurts...

The dagger was drawn out and then pierced into the heart of love again.

The extreme pain makes love so painful that it is hard to breathe...

puff!

Pull out and thrust in again.

Three swords in different parts of the body are also to ensure that after being tortured, Ai will no longer have the possibility of survival.

The executioner left the dagger in Ai's body and pushed the girl's thin body hard.

thump!

Ai's body fell involuntarily into the dug pit, falling straight from the ground to the bottom of the three-meter-deep pit. The huge impact caused more blood to flow from the corner of Ai's mouth.

Taking a last look at the black-haired girl who had fallen to the bottom of the pit and lay motionless, with the dark red blood oozing from her body dyeing the bottom of the pit red, Emperor Jitong ordered some palace servants to lift the imperial sedan chair, leave this place and return to the imperial palace.

The dozen or so remaining palace samurai began to silently fill the pit with soil...

The soil kept falling on Ai's body, and Ai could no longer move. The pain of her heart being pierced and the pain in her body made it almost impossible for her to move even a little bit.

However, the dying girl endured the great pain and made the last move of her life.

Raise your right arm with difficulty.

Be patient a little longer...

Love consumes the last of its life and strength, moving its right arm bit by bit.

The white right hand stained with dark red blood stretched forward little by little, and then further...

Search, found...

After being pushed into the deep pit when touched by love, the heart that fell not far away from him still emitted a faint light.

The dying girl's pale face, bloodless, showed a trace of satisfaction with difficulty...

Slowly, bit by bit, she moved her fair right hand back to hold her heart.

The girl contentedly pressed her cheek against the cold heart.

So warm...

Pierced three times by the blade, the heart of love slowly stopped beating...

The massive blood loss made Ai, who was near death, increasingly unconscious.

so cold...

But it’s okay…it’s warm…

"...Shang Yangjun, although I still have too many regrets in this life...but it doesn't matter...until the end, we will still be together."

"For me, that's enough..."

"Shang Yangjun... no matter where you are reincarnated in your next life, please find me in the next life."

"Although I don't know whether I will fall into hell, and how many years I will suffer in hell, I will definitely be reborn as a human again in the cycle of reincarnation."

"No longer born in this cold palace, but born in an ordinary remote mountain village, growing up healthy..."

"I'll be there, always, always waiting for you..."

"We have an appointment..."

A love filled with regrets yet filled with satisfaction, in the final moments of life, found its final peace...

Gradually being pressed under the thick soil, the girl's face pressed against that cold heart, and slowly, she closed her eyes in satisfaction...

A few seconds later, the girl took her last breath.

PS1: These are two updates, merged and posted together.

PS2: The torture is over.