Shocking! The actress was dragged to the regent's bedchamber every night.

For the next few days, an unusual atmosphere permeated the camp.

The patrolling soldiers walked faster than usual, and messengers on horseback frequently entered and exited the camp.

Yu Chen spent increasingly longer periods of time in the main tent, and sometimes Su Wuli would sit on a chair outside and wait for an entire day.

Once, she lifted the tent flap and went inside. Several lieutenants sat on either side, and no one spoke. The air was so heavy it could suffocate you.

News of the decisive battle came back one evening.

Shadow Falcon strode over from the camp gate, carrying a folded document in his hand.

He walked past her without stopping.

He was clearly in a hurry.

Su Wuli watched his figure disappear behind the curtain of the main tent and also noticed something was wrong.

She stood outside the tent flap, listening to the silence inside for a moment.

Yu Chen stood in front of the map, his back to her.

"One hundred thousand, forty thousand cavalry, sixty thousand infantry, and the vanguard is already close," he said in a deep voice. "The Nanhuai army has fifty thousand, and after months of fighting, they are all exhausted."

Shadow Falcon was standing beside her saying something, but Su Wuli couldn't hear it.

Su Wuli watched for a while, then sat back down in the chair.

The snow is still falling.

It fell softly onto her robe.

She pulled her collar up to cover half of her chin.

He tucked his hands into his sleeves and looked down at the row of snowmen on the ground.

The snowman had melted most of its body for some reason, and it looked crooked and twisted.

Some have lost their eyes, and some have lost their noses.

The smallest one had melted into a puddle of water, leaving only two pebbles lying in the snow.

After a long while, the tent flap was lifted, and the lieutenants filed out.

His movements were noticeably faster than usual.

When Yu Chen came out, she stood up and reached her hand out from her sleeve.

He grasped it.

Her hands were a little cold, so Yu Chen held them a little tighter.

His thumb rubbed against the back of her hand.

The two walked back, and Su Wuli looked down at their clasped hands.

He tentatively inquired, "Is the final battle about to begin?"

"Yes." Yu Chen didn't hide it from her.

Upon hearing this, she continued to stare at the two people's clasped hands for a long time.

Stop when you reach the tent entrance.

Yu Chen turned his head to look at her, and she looked up to meet his eyes.

She parted her lips slightly to ask, "You...you came back alive, right?"

The man looked into her eyes. "Yes."

He paused for a moment, as if to reassure her, and then said, "Didn't the original story say that I would win this battle?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Su Wuli's hand twitched slightly in his palm.

In the original story, he defeated his enemies, but ultimately lost to his own people.

She knew, but he knew even better than she did.

Without saying a word, Su Wuli looked away from his face.

Yu Chen was too busy, so he didn't let her wait outside the door anymore.

Su Wuli had no choice but to stay in the tent.

That night.

When Yu Chen lifted the curtain and walked in, Su Wuli was still awake.

She sat on the bed, holding the outer robe she had sewn for him.

Su Wuli folded it neatly and placed it next to the pillow.

He placed his hand on the outer robe, his fingers slowly tracing the crooked stitches.

As soon as Yu Chen walked in, Su Wuli walked up to him.

Then, naturally, she reached out to help him remove his armor.

He didn't say anything, letting her explain.

Su Wuli moved very slowly, each button she undid was like taking apart a fragile object.

Yu Chen stood there, looking down at the top of her head, without urging her.

She continued until she removed the last piece of nail polish, turned around, and neatly stacked it on the low table.

Su Wuli stood there, her back to him, without turning around.

Yu Chen walked over, wrapped his arms around her waist from behind, and pulled her into his embrace.

Her back was pressed against his chest, her fingers resting on the back of his hand without moving.

The man's chin rested on the top of her head.

"What's wrong?"

Su Wuli didn't answer, but buried her face in his chest and then turned to face him.

She wrapped her arms around his waist.

They hugged for a long time.

He gently massaged the back of her head with his large hand.

Su Wuli did not say anything.

She simply hugged him, buried her face in the crook of his neck, and curled up in his arms, as if trying to embed herself into his body.

Yu Chen lowered his head and kissed the top of her head.

He then bent down, picked her up, placed her on the bed, and covered her with a blanket.

He lay down beside him.

Su Wuli immediately snuggled into his arms, pressed her face against his chest, and put her hands on his waist.

The oil lamp went out.

In the darkness, Su Wuli raised her hand and touched the bracelet on the man's wrist.

The black rope clung to his skin.

Her fingers slowly traced the knot, feeling the texture of the rope, and then the knot she had tied.

"Put it on properly," Su Wuli gently instructed. "Don't take it off."

"Um."

Su Wuli didn't say anything more and buried her face in the crook of his neck.

She was still clutching the bracelet on his wrist.

She closed her eyes, buried her face in his neck, and inhaled the scent of his skin.

This would calm her uneasy mind and at least ensure that he was still alive and holding her.

She buried her face even deeper.

Her hand slid down his wrist and rested on the back of his hand.

Yu Chen turned his hand over and held her hand, their fingers intertwined.

Su Wuli didn't know when she fell asleep, only that his fingers were still holding hers and hadn't let go.

…………

When I woke up, all I saw was the ceiling of the apartment.

She only hesitated for a moment before immediately reaching for her phone, finding Wang Youke's number, and dialing it.

I answered the phone after it rang twice.

Before the other person could speak, Su Wuli asked urgently, "Are you sure the plot has been changed?"

"It's changed, Mommy Sponsor." Wang Youke's voice came from the phone, hoarse from just waking up.

"I changed it that night, and I stayed up for two nights in a row. Didn't you see it? The version that's online now is the modified one. The ending has been changed, and Yu Chen is still alive."

She spoke very quickly, one sentence after another, as if afraid that Su Wuli wouldn't believe her.

Su Wuli did not speak.

Instead, he took the phone away from his ear and opened the reading app.

Turn to the last chapter of "Encountering Mountains and Rivers".

Yu Chen did not die, and Wang Youke even changed the ending very well.

Su Wuli read it three times.

changed.

It has indeed been changed.

Wang You didn't lie to her, so why hasn't anything changed over there?

Xiao Junyi was never imprisoned, and those erased memories never returned.

Yu Chen's fate continues to unfold according to the original story.

Su Wuli's finger paused on the screen for a moment before she put the phone back to her ear.

Her voice calmed down a bit, then she confirmed, "This is the version you can see on your end, right?"

Wang Youke's voice carried a hint of confusion, "Yes, it looks the same to me backstage. What's wrong? Can't you see it?"

She spoke as if she were talking to herself.

"That's impossible. I clicked 'publish' when I posted it, and it passed the review. This is the version that's currently online. Could it be that you didn't clear your cache? Sometimes phones have a cache. Could you try refreshing it?"