Chapter 237
"Because I always felt that the castle wasn't safe for my mother, and I wanted her to be happy." Ling Wu raised her eyes, her gaze filled with determination.
Before the queen could speak, she caught a glimpse of a man standing in the direction of the pavilion.
The man was tall and slender, and his crown prince's distinctive attire shimmered with a hazy silver light under the moonlight.
She knew this was him warning her.
Knowing that Leng Wu must be wary of Landric's words lingering on her lips, she could only suppress the overwhelming helplessness in her heart and gently admonished him:
“Awu has grown up and can distinguish right from wrong on her own, so she doesn’t have to follow everything in the journal.”
Lingwu nodded, then felt the number the Queen had written in her palm—five.
The fifth page of the journal reads: "Respect and love your elders."
Aside from the Queen before her, Celestia's only elder is Landric.
So she was reminding herself to stay away from Landric?
We reminisced for a long time, from sixteen years ago to the present.
Even as she left, the Queen lingered, holding Lingwu's hand with reluctance.
But when Lingwu stepped outside the door, the Queen took the initiative to let go of Lingwu's hand and handed her a dagger.
Lingwu tucked the dagger into her sleeve.
The queen, who remained where she was, turned around and left behind her last words in a hoarse voice: "Awu, do not come again after today."
"Why? But didn't you say you were going to take A-Wu to the East?"
But the Queen had already closed the door to the weaving workshop.
Lingwu only had time to see those heterochromatic eyes, filled with deep tenderness and maternal love.
"My Awu will be free," the Queen murmured to the closed door.
She then took out a dagger shrouded in black mist from her sleeve and walked towards Landric.
“Your Highness, as you wish, I have not revealed everything.” She walked towards Landric step by step.
The moonlight outside the window was slowly obscured by dark clouds.
Landric's eyes held a complex expression. He glanced at the dark clouds swirling in the sky outside the window, then walked towards the Queen.
After the queen and princess meet once, they will surely die at the hands of the crown prince.
This is part of the story and cannot be changed.
Landric raised an eyebrow. "Then you really do keep your promise."
"Keep your promise? Ha..." The Queen chuckled softly, tears streaming down her face. "And what about Your Majesty? Will you also keep your promise and let Awu leave when she turns eighteen?"
“There is no Awu in the Rose Kingdom, only Princess Celestia.” Landric’s eyes were indifferent.
"So you lied to me back then." The Queen's tone was calm, but her eyes were filled with a frenzied, bloodthirsty glint.
"Only you would believe the words of a three-year-old, would you?" Landric coldly watched the dagger the Queen thrust at him.
The tip of the dagger gleamed darkly, and the queen's lips curled into a sinister smile.
The dagger stopped three inches from Landric's face, and a resolute glint flashed in the Queen's eyes.
Just as Landric sighed and decided to obliterate her from this space, the dagger in the Queen's hand flipped her wrist, its tip pointing towards her own brow.
Landric looked puzzled. "What do you want to do?"
He hasn't made a move yet, and the plot shouldn't be that the queen commits suicide.
The queen suddenly looked up at him and smiled brightly, then gripped the dagger and plunged it into her own forehead.
At that very instant, Ling Wu suddenly pushed the door open and entered.
The sight that came into view caused the girl's pupils to suddenly contract, following her initial confusion.
"Brother Wang..."
"Mother!"
Landric's eyes showed visible panic as he explained, "Awu is not what you see."
Ke Lingwu pulled out the dagger shrouded in black mist from her hand, gripped it tightly, and plunged it into Landric's chest.
"Awu, I didn't do it." Landric looked at the bloodstains on his chest, his eyes darkening.
Lingwu didn't look at Landric. After releasing her grip on the dagger, she turned and supported the Queen's body as she was about to fall, her skirt billowing in the wind.
A mist of water spread before the girl's eyes.
"Didn't you say you were going to take A-Wu back to the East?"
But the queen simply stared ahead with her heterochromatic eyes, her gaze bitter. "There is no East. It's all... fake..."
She struggled to stay conscious and then shoved a metal rose into Ling Wu's hand.
The queen's lips trembled slightly. Seeing this, Lingwu leaned down and said in a very weak voice, "Awu, find a way to leave this...this fake world!"
She had seen many people who possessed this metallic rose disappear from the world naturally and casually, only to reappear after a period of time.
They used many obscure words, such as "NPC," "quest," and "plot," and many more, which made her vaguely understand one thing.
This world is fake; they are all just playthings for people's enjoyment.
Especially her Awu, who was the most frequently mentioned person in this group.
According to the setting she discovered, the mother and daughter could only meet once.
With Landric, who was like a god in this world, around, she couldn't risk saying these things to his face.
Only in this way, and only in this way, can these items be safely transferred to Awu when it is unexpected by Landric.
She slowly closed her eyes, as if in relief.
[Ding, Princess of the Castle's Darkness Value: 95]
Lingwu gripped the metal rose in her hand tightly, then lowered her eyes to stare at the Queen's face.
Another new soul has entered the underworld. Once this matter is settled, the two of them can meet.
Her silence, neither crying nor making a fuss, made Landric panic.
If the corruption value reaches 100, the instance will be closed, and the Celestia in front of you will also be destroyed.
"Ah, Ah Wu." He clutched the blood spreading across his chest and stepped forward, trying to rouse Ling Wu from her daze.
“I have a way, I have a way to bring her back to life,” Landric affirmed.
Ling Wu then turned her head, her eyes no longer clear as before, only cold indifference, and asked, "Is what you said true, Brother Wang?"
"Brother Wang has never lied to you."
"What about the pills?"
Landric's voice was hoarse: "Awu..."
Lingwu knelt on the ground and held the Queen's upper body in her arms.
She took out the handkerchief that Luan Jing had given her, paused for a moment, and then a sarcastic smile appeared on her lips as she carefully wiped the blood that was spreading downwards from the Queen's brow with the handkerchief.
"They're all liars," she whispered hoarsely.
Landric couldn't tell whether the pain in his heart was from the dagger or from Lingwu's hoarse voice.
He wanted to embrace her, but his hand trembled slightly and withdrew in mid-air.
"Awu, as long as I want her to, she won't die. As long as I want everyone in this world to die, no one will die."
"As long as you want?" Ling Wu tilted her head and looked directly into his eyes.
Feng Jing was deeply immersed in the identity of Landric, who harbored forbidden love. He gazed into those extremely indifferent eyes and nodded.
"Yes, if I want to."
He smiled faintly, as if trying to please her: "But from now on, as long as A-Wu wants, the life and death of everyone in this world can be controlled by you, A-Wu."
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