Chapter 156 The shadows of flowers are dim, the starlight is dim
The small piece of osmanthus cake was held carefully by an even smaller hand.
Jiu curled up in the corner of the bed, like a hamster that had found a nut, chewing it carefully in small bites.
Her movements were slow, with the dullness of someone who had just recovered from a serious illness, but her eyes, which had once been empty and blank, finally lit up with a faint light because of the familiar sweet taste.
Xiao Yu knelt on one knee beside the bed, motionless.
He just looked at her like that, as if he wanted to carve every subtle expression of hers at that moment deeply into his bones and blood.
He didn't dare blink, for fear that if he blinked, the fragile little light that had just come back to life before his eyes would disappear again like a phantom.
The room was so quiet that one could hear Jiu's gentle chewing sounds.
Censor Qian stood aside, watching this scene, and his heart finally relaxed a little. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and gave Xiao Yu a smile that was uglier than crying.
"Your Majesty, look, Miss Jiu can now smell things! This is great! This is a great thing!"
He wanted to say something to ease the extremely depressing atmosphere, but the words sounded dry as soon as they came out of his mouth, and he couldn't even convince himself.
Xiao Yu ignored him.
His entire world at this moment was only filled with the little girl in front of him holding the osmanthus cake.
Chu Xuanyi, who was sitting on the other bed, looked at Ajiu with a complicated and solemn look.
There is something wrong with Ajiu's condition.
She didn't just suffer from amnesia.
More like a...stripping.
Her soul seemed to be alienated from the world and her own body.
She was like a newborn baby, using her most instinctive senses to re-recognize this world that was both familiar and completely unfamiliar to her.
At this moment, Ajiu's movements suddenly stopped.
She held the half piece of osmanthus cake, her little head slightly tilted, and her misty eyes looked at Xiao Yu.
Not looking at his face, but... it was as if I was looking through his body and at something else.
"flower……"
She slurred out a word.
"What?" Xiao Yu's heart suddenly jumped up, and his voice unconsciously softened. "Ajiu, what did you say?"
"In your body..." Ah Jiu blinked, as if trying to organize his meager vocabulary, "There is... a small, pink flower... It's wilted... The petals are drooping, and it looks... so pitiful..."
As she spoke, she stretched out her other hand that was not holding the cake, and carefully touched Xiao Yu's heart through the air and lightly grabbed it.
It was as if he wanted to... help the flower that was about to wither by watering it a little bit.
Xiao Yu's breathing completely stopped at that moment.
Little pink flowers!
He remembered! That was Ah Jiu's unique way of seeing through people's "luck"!
She had hugged his arm more than once and said, "Brother Xiongxiong, don't be fooled by your cold and hard appearance, like a block of ice. But the luck in you is a beautiful little pink flower! Although there's a bit of black energy around you now, once Jiu helps you drive it away, it will surely bloom more beautifully than any other flower in the Imperial Garden!"
She doesn't remember him.
But they could still see the little pink flower that belonged only to them.
But that flower...now, because of her serious injury and his exhaustion, has become...wilted.
The immense sorrow and joy, like two conflicting torrents, clashed wildly in his chest, making his eyes hot and almost bringing tears to his eyes.
"Is... is that so?" His voice was extremely hoarse. "Then... how can we make it... open again?"
Ajiu looked at him and thought seriously, then shook his head.
"have no idea."
She stuffed another bite of the half piece of osmanthus cake into her mouth and said vaguely, "But, it seems to be wilting, Jiu... here..."
She pointed to her heart with her little hand covered with pastry crumbs.
"It feels sour and uncomfortable here."
This is a bond...engraved deep in the soul.
However, this brief moment of warmth was ruthlessly interrupted by a burst of hurried footsteps.
"Your Majesty!"
Xuan Yi, dressed in armor, walked in hurriedly, with an unconcealable look of anxiety on his face.
When he saw the scene in the room, he was slightly stunned. However, the military situation was urgent, so he immediately knelt on one knee and reported in a deep voice.
"Your Highness! The Ministry of War, send an urgent message! Our secret sentries stationed in the northern border have reported the discovery of remnants of the Wugut Tribe! Although they are few in number, their movements are strange, as if they are searching for something. The livestock of several villages have already been drained of their lifeblood!"
With a "buzz" sound!
The air in the room froze instantly!
The Black Bone Tribe!
These three words, like a lingering curse, made everyone's face darken.
The gentleness on Xiao Yu's face disappeared without a trace in an instant.
"And more!" Xuan Yi swallowed and continued, "In the court... the Minister of Personnel, Lord Wang, joined forces with several veteran ministers and submitted a petition early this morning, earnestly requesting... to enter the palace to visit His Royal Highness Prince Yu, who is 'sick'! The petition has been handed to you, Your Highness, and we await your approval!"
What a "majesty is ill"!
What a great “visit”!
How could this be a visit? This was clearly a test!
With Prince Yu's downfall and the reshuffling of power in the court, these old men with complicated connections can no longer sit still! They want to use the excuse of visiting Prince Yu to test Xiao Yu's bottom line and see if he, the regent, can really cover up everything!
"hehe……"
Xiao Yu uttered a low, cold laugh.
"visit?"
"I think they are tired of living and want to come under my sword and visit the King of Hell!"
As he finished speaking, a powerful and violent murderous aura burst out from him!
It wasn't a little pink flower anymore.
In Ajiu's terrified eyes, the warm black air in the body of the man who made her feel distressed just now was instantly replaced by countless sharp, cold "thorns"!
Those thorns were baring their fangs and claws, as if they wanted to tear everything around them into pieces!
"ah!"
Ajiu screamed in fright, and the osmanthus cake in her hand fell onto the quilt with a "plop".
Like a young animal startled by a hunter, she rolled and crawled back to the deepest corner of the bed, holding her head with both hands, her small body shaking like a fallen leaf in the wind.
“Don’t… don’t come over here…”
"There are thorns... lots of thorns... so scary..."
She muttered incoherently, and her eyes, which had just shone with a glimmer of light, were once again covered with deep fear and confusion.
This sudden change left everyone stunned.
The murderous aura in Xiao Yu was completely extinguished from head to toe as if a basin of ice water had poured over him the moment he saw her terrified look.
The coldness and brutality on his face turned into endless regret and heartache.
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