Look at Me (First Update)

When Su Liang walked in, the dishes in front of Lonicera were already empty.

"Is it enough?" Su Liang asked.

Lonicera nodded quickly, "That's enough. It's delicious!"

Su Liang sat down and said, "Have you thought about it?"

Lonicera nodded a little slowly this time, but there was determination in his eyes, as if he had made some important decision, "I have thought about it."

"Why did you become the emperor's secret guard? What happened to your master and your sister?" Su Liang asked bluntly.

Ling Dong took a deep breath and said, "Since the founding of the Qian Kingdom, there has been an organization that has been serving the royal family and only takes orders from the emperor. No one else knows about our existence, including the queen and the prince."

Lonicera said that this organization is called Qianlongwei. The emperor's guards lurking in the dark.

Lonicera doesn't know her true life experience because she has been taken in by her master since she can remember. She might have been sold by her biological parents, she might have been abducted, or she might be the child of a senior in the organization, but no one could answer her questions.

The men in Qianlongwei are all named after trees, and the women are all named after flowers. Lonicera's master is named Shaoyao.

After each Hidden Dragon Guard reaches the age of twenty, they will begin to recruit disciples, and eventually they will train a boy and a girl to take over and continue to protect the emperor, but in fact, they will unconditionally obey the emperor's orders and do whatever they need to do.

Honeysuckle grew up with a girl one year older than her and a boy one year younger.

The three people are called Jinhua, Yinhua and Baiyang respectively. Yinhua is the honeysuckle in front of Su Liang now.

Although the training was very hard and Shaoyao would hit and scold them, the three of them depended on each other like brothers and sisters. Jinhua has the highest talent for martial arts and the most sensitive personality. She protects Honeysuckle and Poplar everywhere.

They have to learn not only martial arts, but also many other things, such as how to disguise themselves, because after completing the training, they may be assigned to work in the enemy's country as spies.

Until last year, Shaoyao told them that they would meet the emperor soon and asked them to prepare.

That night, Jinhua committed suicide.

Lonicera burst into tears when she said this, but Su Liang had some guesses.

"Because the master told my sister that she only needed two apprentices. She secretly accepted one more in order to choose a better one. Only one of our sisters can survive. She only told her about this and ordered her to kill her. Kill me..." Lonicera choked with sobs and couldn't continue.

As a result, Su Liang already knew. Jinhua couldn't bear to kill Lonicera, whom she regarded as her younger sister. Perhaps she didn't want to continue such a life anymore, so she chose to commit suicide.

"Master lied to us, saying that she didn't know why my sister committed suicide." Liandong said in a deep voice, "My sister left her hairpin to me. Inside the box was engraved a word, "escape", because she knew that people like us , in the end, there will be no happy ending.

Su Liang remembered that she first knew the name Yinhua, and she casually asked if there was another sister named Jinhua. At that time, Lonicera's expression changed significantly for the first time.

Lonicera also said that the reason why their sisters were called Golden Flower and Silver Flower were not official flower names because Shaoyao only prepared one name to take over from her, and eventually it was given to one of them and the other one died.

"That name is also called peony." Lonicera mentioned these two words with a look of disgust on his face.

Su Liang stared, "So, your name to the emperor is Shaoyao? Does the emperor know that you call yourself Yinhua in front of me?"

Ling Dong shook his head, "If the emperor knows, all I have to do is plead that it is to hide my identity."

After finishing speaking, Lonicera's eyes sparkled with water, and he looked at Su Liang and said, "The master renamed his subordinate Lonicera, and he really liked it. The master said that honeysuckle is a kind of medicinal material, also known as Lonicera, and the subordinate thought it was called Lonicera japonica. This name feels like I am living with my sister, she is in my blood and has never left.”

Su Liang sighed slightly when he heard this. Originally, she knew nothing about Lonicera, so changing the name was just a casual remark, but she didn't expect that it would touch the deep feelings in Lonicera's heart.

"Where is your brother?" Su Liang asked.

Ling Dong shook his head, "After we met the emperor, we were separated and never saw each other again. Previously, the master asked his subordinates to go to Yanguo to kill Muya, and they went to report to the emperor. The emperor said that if the subordinates cannot complete the task, they will follow Brother died together."

Su Liang frowned. Liao Dong was right, Duanmu Yi did not regard them as human beings, and considering the imperial power system of this world and the status of the emperor, Su Liang should not be surprised that he did such a thing. Not only Duanmu Yi, the royal families of other countries may not have people like Liao Dong, there may even be more, and the selection is more cruel.

From an objective point of view, if Su Liang wants to criticize Duanmu Yi, she should first criticize the rules of survival in this world.

But from a subjective emotional point of view, it is naturally impossible for Su Liang to empathize with Duanmu Yi, because the real victim is Lonicera.

But it was the peony that killed the golden flower. Duanmu Yi may not know the existence of Jinhua at all, and even if he knew, he wouldn't care.

"Are you saying all this because you want me to rebel?" Su Liang looked at Lonicera and asked.

Rendong couldn't help but shook his head, "No, no, I definitely didn't mean that. It was the poisonous woman Shaoyao who killed my sister. The emperor didn't even know about my sister's existence. Ever since I met the master, I have always been thinking about my sister. The last words she left behind were that she told me to run away, but where could I go? If I ran away by myself, Bai Yang would definitely die. When the master gave him the name 'Lonicera', my subordinates had a feeling that maybe this was the reason. God's will, the master is the opportunity that the subordinate is waiting for. Because the master is too good, the subordinate does not want to be the emperor's slave and betray the master."

"Then what do you want?" Su Liang asked calmly.

"You can only tell the emperor what the master wants the emperor to know. No matter what the emperor asks you to do, I will tell the master." Ren Dong said respectfully.

"I thought that people with such experience as you would understand a truth better, that you can know a person's face but not his heart." Su Liang's face was calm, "You trust me so easily, have you never thought that you would misjudge me?"

Ren Dong shook his head, "No, no. Although the time between the subordinate and the master is not long, the subordinate believes that he will not misjudge me!"

"You are gambling. Anyway, I dare not kill you." Su Liang snorted.

Ren Dong nodded, "The subordinate admits that it is gambling, because the master is the opportunity that the subordinate has been waiting for, and I don't want to miss it, and I don't want to do the wrong thing again."

"You want me to help you find your brother?" Su Liang asked.

Ren Dong shook her head, "I have no right to ask the master to do anything. As long as the master can accept my following, I will be grateful. I just hope that one day, if I meet Bai Yang, the master will show mercy to him."

"I can't promise you something that hasn't happened yet." Su Liang shook his head.

Ren Dong no longer mentioned Bai Yang, and talked about the two times she met the emperor.

Duanmu Yi's words did not exceed Su Liang's expectations. She knew that Ren Dong was sent to monitor her.

"Like Shaoyao, where did they go after retirement... and having a successor?" Su Liang asked.

Ren Dong shook her head, "I don't know. But Shaoyao said that as long as you perform well and make meritorious deeds, you can get freedom and wealth when you reach a certain age."

Su Liang thought, this freedom may be to wander in the underworld, and wealth may be ghost money...

But it may not be. Because Su Liang thought that young people are suitable to be sent as spies. The older they are, the higher their martial arts are. The Qianlong Guards around 40 years old are unlikely to be killed, and they may still be with Duanmu Yi.

All of them had a single line of contact with Duanmu Yi, and they didn't know where the others were, so they could avoid collusion and betrayal.

And Ren Dong was actually a spy arranged to be next to Su Liang. The reason why they first met was because her figure was very similar to Su Liang, and Duanmu Yi arranged her to be her substitute.

"You just said that the emperor has asked the prince to send someone to summon me back to Beijing?" Su Liang frowned.

Ren Dong nodded, "Yes." Duanmu Yi asked Ren Dong to see how Su Liang reacted when he learned that he was going back to Beijing, and then report back to him.

"I know, you can rest here, and go to the kitchen to get water yourself." Su Liang got up and left after saying that.

...

Back in the room, Gu Ling was sorting out the books Su Liang had read recently.

"Master, she will stay, you go." Su Liang said.

With a swishing sound, Gu Ling tore a medical book that Su Liang borrowed from Duanmu Yi into two halves.

"Master, be careful. You have to return this book." Su Liang hurried over and took the book from Gu Ling. "You broke it. Bind it again."

"Su Liang." Gu Ling looked at Su Liang with a cold tone. "What did you say just now?"

Su Liang smoothed the torn pages and said, "Oh, I think Ren Dong is not lying to me. She is really willing to join me. But you can't meet her. She said that someone from the capital has come to summon me back to the capital and should be here soon. You go first and restore your identity in the capital. You can go back at the same time as me to avoid suspicion. It happens that Ren Dong is here. She can escort me back."

Su Liang finished speaking and looked up at Gu Ling. "Master, you are not happy? Then what do you think is more appropriate?"

Gu Ling's beautiful eyebrows slightly frowned. "It can only be like this?"

"I know Master, you don't want to go back, and I don't want to either. But if someone from the royal family comes, it will be unreasonable if you don't go back." Su Liang said.

"That honeysuckle, do you plan to keep her forever?" Gu Ling asked.

Su Liang shrugged, "It's like I want to keep her. I can't drive her away, and I can't kill her, so what else can I do? If she becomes a double agent, it will be good for me. I'll wait and see how she does."

"Are you leaving tonight?" Gu Ling's brows still didn't relax.

Su Liang sighed slightly, "Otherwise, if you live under the same roof, it will be difficult for you not to be discovered by her."

Gu Ling was silent for a moment, and then said in a faint tone, "Why do I always hide?"

Su Liang held his forehead, "God, don't forget why you can't show your true identity from the beginning to now. If you don't want to hide anymore, you can only return to the capital to be the Marquis of Changxin."

Gu Ling said nothing, got up and went back to his room.

After a while, Gu Ling came over with a bag. Su Liang packed the leftover buns and pancakes from dinner for him, "Just make do with it for now. I'll make you something delicious when we return to Beijing."

"Remember to take a look at Wanjia Restaurant on the day you return to Beijing." Gu Ling said.

Su Liang was stunned, "Ah? What are you looking at?"

"Look at me." Gu Ling's face was calm, "Don't forget what you said."

"Which one?" Su Liang was a little confused.

Gu Ling looked at her steadily.

Su Liang soon reacted and smiled before speaking, "Oh, I did say that when the great god regains his identity, I will perform a love-at-first-sight performance on the street, and then pursue you. But is this plan still going on now?"

Gu Ling reached out and hugged Su Liang into his arms, and soon let go, ending this farewell ceremony, and finally left three words, "Act well." He left after saying that.

Su Liang held his face and acted like a crazy fan, "Wow, Marquis Changxin is so handsome!"

A familiar voice came from not far away, "So stupid."

When Su Liang chased after him, Gu Ling was no longer there.

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