The young emperor stood there.

His complexion was bleak, the corners of his lips were tight, his messy platinum curly hair was tied behind his head, and blood-stained bandages were wrapped around his arms, fingertips, shoulders and neck.

...It seems that the sharp claws of fate have torn the chest of this once invincible strong man.

When falling into the depths of those emerald green eyes, Jiang Jianming's heart throbbed uncontrollably.

It's been a long time since the last time they collapsed face to face.

"Go down."

Jiang Jianming said to the guard boy in a gentle voice.The personal guard hesitated for a moment and looked at Lai An.

The emperor looked at the commander motionless, as if he had become a statue.

The commander-in-chief repeated: "It's okay, let's go down."

Until the young man left, Lai An still looked at Jiang Jianming without blinking.

"His Majesty."

Jiang Jianming stretched out his hands, "Come."

——His eyebrows and eyes are soft and clear, just like before.It's like there's never been any friction or pain between them, like they've always been fine and will be fine in the future.

The emperor took a step back with a pale face, as if he wanted to hide in panic.Jiang Jianming took two steps as expected, and stretched out his arms to hug Lai An into his arms.

"...!"

Lai An trembled all over, his lips suddenly lost their color, and all the light in his eyes went out.

What broke him was not the painful trauma, nor the aggrieved defeat, but the lover who hugged him.

Jiang Jianming stroked his hair, rested his chin on Lai An's shoulder, and ran his palms along the emperor's back from top to bottom, smoothing the blood-stained war robe.

He coaxed softly: "Shh, it's not sad, it's not sad...we're fine, we're fine..."

He felt tears fall on the back of his neck.Lai An buried his back and wrapped his arms tightly around his waist, shaking even more violently.

"...From the moment I was attacked, I knew you would come."

Two lines of tears of despair fell, the emperor closed his eyes, and said hoarsely, "I wanted to save you, but I killed you."

Jiang Jianming shook his head and said nothing, he knew it was useless to say anything now.

The high-concentration crystal particle environment in the far interstellar is by no means unbearable.The reason why he is still like a normal person now is the effect of drugs.

Since he chose to come here, it's only a few days away, and he should say goodbye when he returns to the empire to deal with the funeral affairs.

He knew it, and His Majesty must know it too.

Lai An tried so desperately to give him a chance, but ultimately failed.

And he appeared in the starship in the distant interstellar, wearing a tall and straight imperial uniform, and the golden commander epaulettes were shining.

The emperor didn't get angry as before, but kept holding him and weeping.It seems that once you let go, the person in your arms will melt away like snow in spring.

Jiang Jianming sighed secretly, he thought to himself: It's kind of cruel to be like this.

"Your Majesty, let's go home."

He lowered his eyes and rubbed his cheeks against Lai An's messy hair, "It should be spring in Bai Emerald Palace now, I still want to visit with you... Next, can you spend some time with me?"

A few days later, the expeditionary force returned to the capital of Aslan.

The failure of the expedition and the deaths of countless soldiers made it difficult for the people to accept for a while.After the emperor returned to the country, he was in a daze, almost silent all day long, and he didn't see anyone.

Jiang Jianming drove Lai An like a sheep to face the public and take responsibility for the defeat.He personally paid homage to the heroic soul and came forward to appease the military headquarters, but in the end he still didn't have time to watch the spring.

The effectiveness of the drug is almost at the end.

After finally stabilizing the situation in the empire, Jiang Jianming couldn't find Lai An again.

He also wanted to enjoy it in His Majesty's arms for at least the last few days, but he didn't know where he hid, he didn't even go to the Council Hall, and no one said he didn't know.

"Don't worry about that little bastard."

In the palace garden, he and Lin Song drank tea and chatted with each other.The latter forcefully put on an energetic look, "Think about it quickly, is there anything else you want? Anyway, we are also the ones who are in charge of the entire empire now, how about spending extravagantly in the last few days?"

Jiang Jianming couldn't help laughing bitterly when he heard the words.

He has lost his sense of taste and smell, and he has long since bid farewell to the desire for food and drink; he is sick every day, and his clothes are even more boring;

The most important thing is that the expeditionary force was defeated and returned home, so many dead could not even return to the country for burial.

If he still has the mind to think about extravagance, then he is not him.

So in the end, Jiang Jianming had no choice but to say: "Don't, thank God for letting me be quiet for a few days in the end."

Lin Song sniffled, turned his head and looked into the distance, "Speaking of which, there is something..."

"Sylph asked me to ask you, do you want to consider freezing hibernation?"

Jiang Jianming replied in seconds: "——I don't think about it."

In fact, Sylph has mentioned this to him before. Advanced medical technology can be used to preserve the human body and wake it up when there is a treatment in the future.

But Jiang Jianming has no interest in this. He knows that even if a medicine for treating chronic crystal disorder can be developed in the future, his body is already riddled with holes, and there is basically no hope of being saved.

So now it's half-dead and freeze-dried, what's the use other than wasting money, wasting resources, and adding pressure to the living?

Lin Song was also familiar with his temper, so he wasn't surprised, he just said, "Okay, anyway, we'll listen to you, and you can do whatever you want."

"By the way, where's Sylph?"

"She seems to be doing an experiment. The little girl has been working hard these two days, and she may still want to find a chance. If you have something to say, I'll call her over?"

Jiang Jianming said no, and stopped asking.

That night, he specially set the alarm clock for the early morning to wake himself up, and quietly went to Sylph's laboratory in his clothes.

He stood silently in front of the automatic door for a while, then suddenly raised his hand and knocked hard on the door.

Sylph screamed from inside.

When the little girl pushed the door open, her face turned blue and her lips trembled, "...Commander? Why did you come here in the middle of the night, you scared me to death."

Jiang Jianming looked at her with deep eyes: "In the middle of the night, you are the one, why are you still busy?"

As he spoke, he naturally raised his legs and went inside.

"Commander!"

Sylph moved to the side, blocked the way with her body, and tightly held the door frame with both hands: "Go back and rest quickly, I have a lot of germs in it, you can't enter..."

Jiang Jianming: "Your Majesty just talked to me about your laboratory yesterday, saying that it is very clean inside. He said that he grew up in the laboratory when he was a child, so I just thought of taking a look."

Sylph was angry and funny: "Commander! Don't lie to me, you haven't seen His Majesty at all these days, have you?"

Jiang Jianming: "Indeed, but how do you know?"

Sylph's face froze.She realized that she was being scammed, but she still blocked the door firmly: "What on earth do you want to do? Let's meet tomorrow..."

Jiang Jianming's expression darkened, and he said sharply, "Get out of the way!!"

The next second, he suddenly pulled out a gun.The distance between the two was too close, and when Sylph came back to her senses, the muzzle of the gun was already on her chest.

Jiang Jianming said coldly: "Ms. Silver Song, human experimentation is illegal. Do you know that as the queen from the Glorious Dominion, if you do such a thing, what will happen if you are exposed?"

"There are tranquilizer bombs in the gun. Do you want to get out of the way and I will go in; or faint on the floor and I will go in?

Sylph looked up sharply.In the night, she bit her lip, and big tears fell down.

"Do you think I want to, if there is still a way, do you think I don't want to research the medicine to cure you easily!?"

She poked her neck and cried in a high voice: "One or two are like this, either they point a crystal bone at me and force me to do it, or they point a gun at me and don't let me do it!"

Sylph stopped blocking the door, and instead grabbed Jiang Jianming's arm and dragged him in, with tears streaming down her face:

"Then you go in, anyway, I told His Majesty that I can't hide it, you go and see what he's doing—"

It was very quiet in the depths of the laboratory.

Jiang Jianming turned on all the lights, and it was so bright that people couldn't keep their eyes open.

In the innermost part is a closed laboratory.Through the metal door, you can't see what's going on inside, only countless instruments and data ticking and screaming.

There is a seat in the middle, and think Sylph was sitting here just now.

Before Jiang Jianming could say anything, Sylph stepped forward with red eyes sobbing, and slapped the switch as if to vent her anger.

After iris recognition passed, the metal door opened.

There is a short passage behind the door.There is a very wide glass door at the end of the passage, and there is another specially separated room.

The emperor, who was supposed to be above ten thousand people, was sitting inside with his head bowed in white clothes, motionless.

The pure gold crystal penetrated his right eye and heart, extending to his cheek.His body was bloody and bloody, and many parts had been semi-crystallized, making one feel chilly all over.

And in that room, blood was spattered everywhere on the walls on all sides and various experimental equipment.

Lai An just leaned against the wall, sleeping weakly in a pool of blood.

Until the sound of footsteps woke him up, he slowly opened his eyes, which looked like a sea of fog.

"Aslan...?"

He looked up and saw the person standing in front of him with a sad smile in his unconsciousness.

Jiang Jianming was silent for a long time, sat down slowly, and hugged the blood-soaked emperor onto his lap.

"Is that how you saved me back then?"

Lai An rubbed against his arms, her voice was low and hoarse, and she answered the question: "Jiang, listen to me... Just now, I had a dream..."

Under the ravages of uninterrupted experiments for many days, his cognition was confused, as if he had returned to the time when he had just had independent consciousness and was just born in the gray owl laboratory of the old empire.

In a blur of consciousness, he didn't know that he was in a dream, he only felt that the pain on his body was worth joying, and he was so happy that he almost shed tears.

"Dream..."

"I haven't met you yet."

Because in the dream, they will meet again, rather than parting.

If possible, how much he wanted to go through the past twenty years again.This time, he will definitely be able to find him earlier and protect him better.

But the dream woke up.Jiang Jianming stroked his hair and sighed, "Enough is enough, stop."

"No."

"Your Majesty, listen to me."

"No……"

Lai An lowered his eyes tiredly, shook his head slowly, and kissed Jiang Jianming's cold fingertips, "You...don't go...there is still a way...you don't know, last time I saved you..."

"Let go, Your Majesty."

Lai An's eyes gradually turned red: "I won't let you go."

Jiang Jianming: "I'm sorry, but..."

Lai An panicked, he grabbed Jiang Jianming's hand: "No, no, I know you are very tired, can you wait, you don't have to work hard, can you—"

He paused, and said in an almost begging tone, "Go to sleep, Aslan, Jiang, please."

"..." Jiang Jianming looked away sadly.

"Don't you want to see the military academy being built, and the library? Don't you want to see the condition of disabled humans get better? Soon, soon..."

"Do you want to go to the Glory Land, um, what are you talking about? You haven't been there yet. I heard that they are going to build a monument to Helga, and it will be completed by the end of this year."

"I hurt you last time, and you haven't taught me a lesson. I was defeated in the battle, and you haven't told me why..."

Jiang Jianming, who had been indifferent all this time, finally sighed helplessly, "Isn't that because you avoided me, huh?"

"Lai An?"

With just such a soft cry, His Majesty suddenly burst into tears again.Lai An shivered into a ball, like a frozen little animal, desperately rubbing against Jiang Jianming's arms, grabbing Jiang Jianming's fingers and refusing to let go.

He kept crying, sobbing hoarsely, "You stay, I will not make mistakes in the future, I will always listen to you..."

Jiang Jianming: "Your Majesty, you can't be tamed by someone forever. When I leave, just be a real person."

"No, let me try again, maybe there will be results if I try again...!"

"Please, please... Jiang, I beg you!!"

——I can’t communicate at all.Jiang Jianming sighed with a headache, the person in his arms was crying so hard that he couldn't speak clearly, he didn't look like a great emperor.

Lai An rubbed blood all over the clean clothes. Jiang Jianming coaxed him for a long time, but he couldn't do it well. He felt that the emperor was about to cry.

Jiang Jianming looked at Sylph with pleading eyes, and the latter smiled sweetly at him with the appearance of an old god.

Jiang Jianming: "...."

For a moment, he suspected that he had been tricked.

...

The next day, Jiang Jianming sat across from Lin Song, put his fist on his lips, and cleared his throat: "Cough, um... Let's discuss about freezing and dormancy..."

Lin Song stared at him blankly: "Didn't you say you didn't think about it yesterday?"

Jiang Jianming helped his forehead: "Your Majesty, he cried so pitifully that I couldn't stand it."

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