Huangfu Xiaoyuan's sword stopped at the Crown Princess's neck. Her expression seemed to be that she was struggling, and her hands were tense with veins, unable to cut off the sword no matter what.
"What's wrong, can't you make a move?" There was no wave in the princess's calm eyes. She clamped the long sword around her neck with two fingers. She heard a crisp sound and the long sword broke.
The Crown Princess held the edge of the broken sword with her slender fingers, and while playing with it, she said with a smile: "A sword like this can't kill me."
Huangfu Xiaoyuan gritted her teeth and seemed very unwilling. She angrily broke off the sword and threw it away, then hit the princess with a palm. Unfortunately, the palm still stayed on the other side's door and could not fall.
"well."
The Crown Princess seemed a little helpless. She sighed and shook her head, then took the broken sword edge and turned back to her position.
Cang - the broken blade was thrown on the table by her. The Crown Princess leaned lazily on the table and said with some disappointment: "If this is just your realization, then I advise you to leave him as soon as possible, just like that
Just like children."
Huangfu Xiaoyuan stood silent and did not answer.
"Come to think of it, you obviously grew up next to me, but why are you not as smart as a wild child like her?"
There was a puzzled expression on the Crown Princess's face, and she tapped her forehead in distress: "Or are you really in love with him? No way."
The princess pretended to be surprised and looked at Huangfu Xiaoyuan, then chuckled and said: "Xiaoyuan, that is the enemy who made you homeless, and you actually have feelings for him?"
"Shut up..." Huangfu Xiaoyuan trembled and raised her face, her eyes red with hatred: "You are the one who made me homeless!"
"Really? I thought you would feel very happy."
The Crown Princess blinked at her and said in a frivolous tone: "You hid in the coffin and heard those things that day. Don't you have a sense of happiness that you have regained?"
Huangfu Xiaoyuan's clenched fists began to tremble uncontrollably, along with her heart. At this moment, the hatred in her eyes was used to cover up the fragile disguise, but at this moment, it was ruthlessly peeled away by the other party.
"Yeah, what a happy child. Your childhood is so enviable. What you thought you had lost long ago actually exists all the time. To be honest, I am a little envious of you."
The Crown Princess's words shattered Huangfu Xiaoyuan's fragile defense, and her weak body fell to her knees with a thump. Her trembling hands could not even hold the sword steady.
"I should never have been born in this world from the beginning." Huangfu Xiaoyuan covered her head and tried to escape from all the words, but she couldn't help crying in pain.
"It's me - it's me who harmed my father and mother..." Tears fell from the corners of Huangfu Xiaoyuan's eyes and fell on the stone tiles of the hall, like withered flowers.
"That's not right," the Crown Princess said with a smile, "Xiaoyuan, don't you already know, I am your real mother."
"Shut up—!"
Huangfu Xiaoyuan's red eyes suddenly widened. Driven by pain and hatred, she picked up the broken sword on the ground and flew towards the Crown Princess. She opened her remaining arms as if to
Embrace yourself and accept this broken sword full of hatred.
When Huangfu Xiaoyuan came to her senses, she found herself running into a gentle embrace, which she had never felt before, an embrace full of motherhood and love.
She raised her head blankly, and at this moment the princess' smile seemed to return to the gentleness she remembered from her childhood. This was a scene she had fantasized about countless times in those years.
The Crown Princess gently took Huangfu Xiaoyuan into her arms, and the warm blood flowed along the cold hilt of the sword, dotting their feet with brilliant blood flowers.
Surrounding the body that was slowly losing its vitality, Huangfu Xiaoyuan subconsciously felt nostalgic for the tenderness of this moment. The tip of her nose could not help but feel sore. When the dream became reality, pain became the main tone of the world.
"What do you mean to me?" Huangfu Xiaoyuan raised her head in a hoarse voice. After taking off all disguises, her misty eyes were full of desire.
"No."
The Crown Princess pushed Huangfu Xiaoyuan away weakly, and said softly, with her face gradually turning pale: "Never."
Huangfu Xiaoyuan slowly took two steps back, then sat on the ground, hugging her knees and burying her head just like she did when she was a child, so that no one could see how weak and pitiful she was.
The Crown Princess lay back lightly like a withered flower, blood spreading under her body and dyeing her pure robe red.
"A long time ago, there was such a monster——"
The Crown Princess had a pale smile on her lips, looking at the empty hall with weak eyes, and slowly told the strange story sentence by sentence: "Happy monsters, they have the same appearance as humans, live with others, and borrow...
They feel the human emotions and feel the human happiness, until they discover that they don’t actually belong here——
Sad monsters have the same appearance as humans, can live with humans, and can have human emotions, but when the false mask is taken off, they can only die alone and miserably...
.”
The princess' breath became weaker and weaker, and she slowly closed her eyes. Occasionally, she could make a weak sound like a kitten, which seemed to be some kind of singing. On the side, Huangfu Xiaoyuan's slightly trembling body suddenly calmed down.
Come down.
In her long memory, it seemed that she could often hear such singing during those few sleepless nights, like a clear spring, soothing her inner uneasiness.
...
I don't know how long it took, but a woman dressed as a female official entered the main hall with several palace people. Huangfu Xiaoyuan raised her head and saw a familiar face. This was an aunt from the imperial concubine's palace, named
Axiu.
"Take care of it." Axiu ordered calmly, and several palace servants stepped forward to carry away the body of the Crown Princess.
Huangfu Xiaoyuan was silent for a moment, and then said, "Can you let me... bury her with my own hands?"
"Okay," Ah Xiu nodded, and then said, "I will follow you, and I cannot send her back to Jiangnan. After all, you have a high status now. If you leave the capital without permission, you will cause a lot of trouble."
"My... identity?" Huangfu Xiaoyuan raised her head in confusion.
Axiu lowered his head and glanced at the body of the Crown Princess, and then said: "Assassinating His Majesty is a serious crime. No matter how special his status is, he cannot be pardoned lightly. The third lady of the Huangfu family has already been sentenced to death according to the canon. So, can you say so?
clear?"
Huangfu Xiaoyuan's eyes widened slightly, and Ah Xiu continued: "Although Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess also committed a serious crime, thinking of Taisun Renxiao, it would not be too cruel if we just met each other for the first time. Therefore, the imperial court decided that Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess will stay in this life for the rest of her life.
He is not allowed to take a single step out of the forbidden palace, and he is not allowed to be honored even after his death or before his death."
Huangfu Xiaoyuan opened her mouth, but then said nothing. After Axiu left, she lowered her head, looked at the empty and cold East Palace, and said to herself: "That's fine, I have nowhere to go anyway.