C12

The further Yi Ren went, the more remote and rugged the road became. At the end of it, she found herself in a desolate garden.

Although it was spring, it still looked like a cold winter day. Ten thousand trees had withered, and the buildings were in ruins. The pavilion in the middle of the garden seemed to have not been refurbished for a long time.

Yi Ren knew she had taken the wrong path, but she was not in a hurry to leave. Instead, she strolled into the abandoned pavilion, took out the handkerchief that was inserted into her shirt, and simply wiped the stone bench inside. She sat down.

It was very quiet here, as if it was far away from the hubbub.

Yi Ren had a sense of spatial and temporal confusion. She vaguely remembered that on the university campus, there was a desolate place that was a good place for lovers to live, and afterwards, it was said that the medical academy buried all of the human body's organs there, and gradually no one came to visit.

Only Yi Ren would visit her often. She would sit there for an entire day, drawing the sky above the abandoned garden with her drawing board in hand.

Because he was in the abandoned garden, the eternally unchanging sky appeared even more spacious and distant, making people feel as if they were minuscule. No matter what they did, they would not be able to compare to the unchanging sky. It was just dust.

? ? Yi Ren usually used this kind of theory to comfort herself for her inferiority.

As she was lost in thought, she suddenly became interested. She ran down the pavilion, broke off a branch that was as thick as a person's thickness, and squatted on the muddy ground. She placed the branch before her eyes and narrowed one eye.

"What are you looking at?" someone behind him asked.

"Look at the ratio." Yi Ren casually replied.

Startled, she turned around in a panic.

Very quickly, she bumped into a warm smiling face, soft and bright, with a golden split.

The branch in Yi Ren's hand dropped onto the ground with a "pa" sound.

"Pei Ruochen!" Yi Ren, who rarely remembered names, accurately called out his name.

"Princess." Pei Ruochen replied in a light tone. He bent down and picked up the branch that Yi Ren dropped by accident, and imitated her, using one eye to point at the branch in front of him.

It was originally a very clumsy move, but for some reason, when Pei Ruochen did it, it looked extremely elegant and moving.

Yi Ren squatted in the same spot, not moving at all.

"Indeed, I can see different fields of vision." After Pei Ruochen finished, he handed the branch over to her and politely asked: "Is the wangfei playing alone here? Why isn't there a maid following them? "

"I was planning to go to the Flower Hall ?" Yi Ren said honestly.

"But the parlour is on the other side of the palace, and the princess is on the wrong side." Pei Ruochen gently corrected her, his eyes that were as gentle as water rippling.

Yi Ren felt that she was about to sink in.

"I know this is the wrong way." She suddenly didn't want Pei Ruochen to see her sorry state, and also didn't want him to think that she was stupid. She said without thinking, "I knew this path was wrong from the very beginning."

Pei Ruochen looked at her with interest, and asked: "If that's the case, why does the princess still want to go this way?"

"It's just that I suddenly feel like I don't need to go to the parlour anymore." Yi Ren finally stood up and clapped his hands, wiping away the dirt on his hands. "When I first went to the Flower Hall, I wanted to bring the Prince over to my place, but when I saw the maidservants, I knew that there must be a lot of princesses in the Flower Hall. I couldn't take the prince away, and the others probably didn't want to see me either, so I might as well not go."

"So, you just happened to come here to play by yourself?" Pei Ruochen asked as he looked at her with interest.

"Yeah." Yi Ren said, she looked up and smiled at him: "If I didn't come, why would I see you?"