Queen Amira put down the tea cup in her hand, frowned and stared at her daughter with a serious face: "Do you know what you are talking about, Lorena?"
"I know, mother." Rorona didn't seem to feel the pressure from the powerful demigod, and smiled nonchalantly: "I said I didn't want to leave here, or that I didn't want to stay in Nerei.
Des, I don’t want to go to that distant and unknown sea with you. I agree with your idea and I am convinced that it will become the new home of the mirror elves, but that is not the future I want. I have other ways to go.
.So I returned to Nereids today just to convey the news to you, and at the same time, express my wishes personally."
"Really?" the queen asked, "Then what is the future you want? Which path do you want to take? As an ordinary mirror elf, or as the second princess of the Nielid royal family?"
"I think it should be the former." Rorona frowned: "As for the future I want and the path I want to take, mother, don't you know best? If not, you wouldn't have agreed to my going to a human city in the first place.
Life, right?"
"At that time, I thought you were just impulsive. After realizing the cruelty and indifference of the human world, you would soon change your mind." The Queen looked at Rorona with complicated eyes: "But I didn't expect that after so many years, you would still be there.
Retaining such a... naive idea, thinking that everything in the world can be accomplished by one's own efforts."
She hesitated for a moment before describing her daughter as "childish" instead of "innocent".
There was still a slight smile on Rorona's face, and she did not feel dissatisfied or sad because of her mother's comments: "Maybe it is true, but living things are very complicated, mother. The human world is not as cruel as you think.
Indifference, there are also good people and bad people among them, just like there are peace-loving races like our mirror elves in the deep sea, but also evil species such as heart-eating demons and brain-eating octopuses are born. I realize that this truth is not
I learned it from humans, but what this sea told me.”
"I can't speak to you."
Queen Amira rubbed her brows and gave up her argument. It was not so much that she could not argue, but that she was too lazy to argue, because she knew that she could not convince Rorona. The girl in front of her seemed well-behaved, but she had never been able to argue.
Let her worry: "No matter how you say it, I don't agree with you staying here, let alone continuing to live in a human city. You are the sea-dwelling princess of Nereids City, and the royal family of Nereid."
Second Princess, I have no reason to indulge you in your nonsense. As for the curse on you, Mr. Sandro and I are trying to find a way to solve it. The inheritance of the same race on the other side of the Chaotic Sea is even longer, and maybe they will have relevant records.
Save. Rorona, don’t you want to return to a normal life as soon as possible?”
"No."
But Rorona shook her head and said softly: "That's not a curse, it's my disease."
Many years ago, when her mother, Lord Sandro, and many famous doctors in Nereids concluded that the disaster that happened to her was not a disease, but a stubborn curse, only the girl insisted that she
She was not cursed, but sick. So she tried many methods, using her own alchemy to make potions and cure diseases, but none of them worked. When all the materials that could be tried in the deep sea were tried, she turned her sights
Entering the human world. There are more unknown creatures, more magical herbs, and more incredible magic on the land. Maybe there is a way to cure one's own disease?
With this idea in mind, the princess, who has been frail and sick since childhood, still showed an extremely persistent attitude despite the firm opposition of her mother and sister, even to the point of being decisive, so that her family members who were worried that she would do something stupid had to agree with her.
Travel to human city life.
But this agreement was based on a temporary concession, and the seeds of the conflict were actually planted at that time, only to fully erupt today.
"I will find a cure." She looked straight at her mother: "To prove to you that there is no curse in this world that can trap me here. I have my own dream to fulfill.
, but that’s not your dream, mother.”
Amira frowned deeply: "Don't be willful, Lorena."
"I am not willful."
Rorona replied: "You should know my character. I have never been willful. I am just more persistent sometimes. But...that is what you taught me."
The atmosphere in the study gradually became stiff, and the sea water seemed to be frozen, without any sign of flowing. The mother and daughter, sitting opposite each other across a round table, stared at each other quietly. No one spoke first, as if speaking meant that
Compromising means losing in this war about family affection, dreams, freedom and hope.
Yes, it's war.
Who would have thought that the mother and daughter, who had never doubted their feelings for each other, would once have been on the opposite side of each other? Although this hostility had nothing to do with anything else, it only involved a mother’s overly strong love and a
It's just a girl's desire to be independent.
When Amira didn't speak, Rorona looked at her mother, the plain expression on her face and the unshakable look in her eyes. Somehow, at this moment, she thought of her father again.
…
Lorena's father loved her mother deeply, and so did the latter. They had almost no conflicts since they got together. Everyone believed that they were a destined couple in the world. Even if they were not in love here and now, they would still be in love.
We will fall in love in every place one day in the future.
But such a pair of lovers who were made in heaven eventually separated. What separated them was not the resistance of reality or political strife, but a very cruel fact: Queen Amira is the origin priest of Sequence 4, but her
The lover is not, that's all.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! When she grows up, Rorona will know that when her father realizes that he cannot spend the rest of his life with his mother, his last wish is to leave something as his mother.
and her memory in the human world. But there are fundamental differences between demigods and ordinary people, and they can even be regarded as two different lives. Therefore, not only is there a gap in life span, but also wanting to leave heirs is a
A difficult thing.
In the end, the mother chose to use a forbidden ritual in origin magic to help the father briefly improve his life level. During that happy time, they had a child, Rorona. But not long after she was born,
Her father passed away due to the side effects of the ritual, so little Rorona didn't even remember her face. During the years she had memories, she only faced her mother's gentle face and her sister's curious eyes.
Although this was the request of her lover, because she was the one who performed the ceremony, the Queen deeply hated herself during that time for causing young Lorena to lose her father. This hatred was even worse than when she lost her lover.
Grief. Because of this, she cherished the last treasure left to her by her late lover and vowed to give her complete love and not let her lose something important in her life due to the loss of her father.
No matter how busy she was at work, she would come back every night to eat with Rorona, teach her how to read, play with her, and finally tell her stories in a gentle voice to coax her to sleep... This habit continued until one day Rorona said
When she had grown up and no longer needed her mother to coax her to sleep. At that time, she was still a little regretful, but she was more happy because she had lived up to her lover's expectations and cultivated Rorona into a kind and optimistic girl.
feel satisfied.
In fact, Rorona herself knows this very well. She has realized since she was a child that her mother's attitude towards her was too tolerant, to the point that it seemed like connivance. This became even more so after comparing herself with her sister. But she inherited her mother's gentle character.
He did not become arrogant because of this, but became more sensible, and even accommodated his mother and met all her expectations for him.
It sounds incredible that a child accommodates his mother, but it is true. Lorena has never violated any of her mother's wishes: her mother hopes that she will be a good child, and she can wait in the cold palace all day.
Until her mother came back to stay with her; her mother adopted Galene and hoped that Rorona would not bully her sister, so she took out all her best toys and favorite food to share with her, and even comforted her on behalf of her mother.
She was a very sad sister after losing her parents; her mother hoped that she would be worthy of her bloodline, and that she could best serve as a role model for the Nielid royal family, so she forced herself to learn dances, poetry, court etiquette, etc. that she didn't like, no matter what.
She has always strived to maintain her self-cultivation as a royal heir, being kind, cheerful, noble, gentle, elegant, and humble, and thus became the "Haiqi Princess" praised by everyone... Perhaps the process of getting along with the mother and daughter, the essence of
The above is a process of mutual transfer.
But this transfer lasted until the quarrel six years ago. Rorona wanted to go to the human world to find a way to cure her disease, but her mother insisted that it was a curse, and she could only stay in Nereid.
This was the best way. It was the first time in Rorona's life that she disobeyed her mother and the path she had planned for herself.
When she spoke at that time and said without thinking, "Mom, you don't understand me at all," what was the expression on her mother's face? Disappointment? Shock? Helplessness? Or was it still as complicated as it is now?
People can't see through it at all, and it reminds me of the father I've never met?
There was a feeling of grievance welling up in my heart, which could not be resolved for a while.
…
Rorona's thoughts returned to reality, and she suddenly realized that she was not in the past, but living in the present. She looked at her mother sitting across from her, looking at her calm expression and tired-looking eyes and lips.
Opening slightly, her thin lips touched up and down, as if she wanted to say something.
But the words could not be said in the end.
Because the study door was suddenly pushed open.
"Mother!?" Galne, panting, broke into the room: "And Rorona, you... uh!"
Feeling the stagnant atmosphere in the room and the silent gazes from two pairs of eyes at the same time, she shrank her neck and said nonchalantly: "I seem to have come at a bad time?"