Yuan Fang suddenly changed the subject, turned around, lowered his head, and rested it on Bai Xiao's shoulder, whispering, "I dreamt that I saw myself when I was just born. I was crying in the Queen's arms, and the Queen was saying something to try and keep my mother. I wanted to tell her that if she left, my father wouldn't come back, and even she wouldn't come back. But all I could say was sob..."
As Yuan Fang spoke, Bai Xiao raised her hand and gently patted his back, all the comfort turning into a tender caress.
"But that history can never be reversed... I can't even keep them alive in my dreams."
Yuan Fang spoke softly, and Bai Xiao opened her mouth, not knowing how to comfort him. Then she heard him continue, "Last night's dream reminded me of things I had forgotten."
"What's up?"
Although she didn't know what Yuan Fang wanted to say, Bai Xiao had a feeling that she might hear something unpleasant right there.
“I remember when I was very young, I overheard His Majesty and the Queen arguing about my mother’s wish for me to take her surname before she left. Although my mother mentioned that I should take her surname before she left, and the Queen agreed at the time, His Majesty was never happy about it. He believed that I was my father’s child, the child of his own younger brother.”
In fact, his mother understood everything. She knew that going to the front line would not change anything; her husband would die, and she knew she would never return. Therefore, she stubbornly made these arrangements before leaving.
He just didn't expect that His Majesty would regret it in the end.
"My aunt, the Queen, had a huge argument with His Majesty about this. In the end, I vaguely heard her say, 'That child's parents sacrificed themselves because of the mistakes the royal family made. Do you want to sacrifice another innocent child who could have escaped this curse?!'"
Bai Xiao: "..."
"I want to know what this 'mistake' refers to."
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