"Lin Qing, what is it that you are asking for?" Throwing the torch handed to him by the chamberlain to the corner of the palace, Bai Di looked ahead, as if he was talking to someone, "I have given you both what I should give and what I shouldn't give. What is it that you are asking for?"
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No one answered, and no one should have answered.
In front of me, there was only the gradually crumbling palace, only a little bit of flames trying to climb up the exquisitely woven curtains, and the slightly distorted air. Further away, in the sheltered area, there may be his people fleeing in all directions.
"... Haha." He suddenly laughed, "Actually... I should have known better... A person who looks at the stars all day long..."
Another pillar collapsed along with the beam, and the fire finally filled the entire hall. Bai Di stopped talking and turned around solemnly. The flying ashes covered his figure, and he didn't know where he was going.
In the thirteenth year of Tonghai, the last White Emperor in the old calendar ordered his own palace and disappeared.
In the same year, the empress ascended to power, and a new era began.
"The soil is full of life, but the water will pass away."
"Flowed eastward without a trace."
/Cough wedge doesn't seem to be suitable for this, so I wrote some more myself.../
/And I'm not really good at writing BL, so I'll just make good jokes/
/There shouldn't be any direct scenes between these two in the text (right)/
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