"..."
Upon hearing Pan Ling's request, Qin Yiyan remained speechless for a long time.
She realized that since she had been staying here for a long time, her mother tongue had become silent.
I was thinking I was having a good chat with Pan Ling, but she had to do this annoying thing, didn't she?
Honestly, she's no better than her heartless master!
I thought we could empathize, but I didn't expect you to be able to either!
However, she has indeed become interested in the other party, and if she gets stuck here, she's afraid she won't be able to sleep tonight.
So, after a moment's hesitation, she had no choice but to bring over two desserts, gritting her teeth as she said, "Miss Pan, please enjoy."
She was good at serving her Holy Maiden, but she wasn't good at serving others—although she was nominally Xu Shi's maid, the other party had been so busy these past few days that he hadn't had time to tease her.
"Okay, thank you, Sister Qin."
Pan Ling didn't stand on ceremony at all, took the dessert, took a sip, and made a satisfied sound.
After enjoying the dessert, she slowly began to talk to Qin Yiyan about the "principles of heaven".
This was the first time the red-haired girl had heard the complete truth. Before, it was mostly just a few words and fragments, enough to arouse her suspicion and thought, but not enough to form a complete story.
However, the more she listened, the colder she felt. After all, if what Pan Ling said was true, did it also mean that her life of the past twenty-odd years had been nothing more than being manipulated like a pawn in someone else's game?
Her position as a pawn was particularly delicate—because her most loyal Holy Maiden was an "observer" under the control of the person behind the scenes, which meant that the other party must have known all of this beforehand.
However, the Holy Maiden would definitely not tell her these things. On the contrary, she would make good use of Qin Yiyan as a sharp weapon. If nothing happens, she would most likely try to bring Qin Yiyan and Luo Yu together so that she could also join this big family in a natural way.
If something happened... then it's even simpler. The red-haired idiot hasn't forgotten what happened during the final battle at the Holy See.
This is actually quite disheartening—after all, she's been taken care of like a younger sister for so many years, and not only does she not get any credit, but she's also being schemed against like this.
It seemed that at this moment, Qin Yiyan finally realized what was happening. She had wanted to drink some water to calm herself down, but she found that her hands were shaking so badly that she couldn't even hold the cup properly, and it fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.
"This...it can't be real, can it?"
She is still trying to deceive herself.
Whether it's true or not, you know in your heart.
Pan Ling remained unfazed.
This is the advantage of knowing early—to be honest, when she first heard these truths, she was no less surprised than Qin Yiyan.
This was only when Xu Shi gave her a general overview. Later, her master had things to do, so she spent most of the next few days taking care of the old man with Wen Shengkui, and heard more from him.
This feeling of lingering fear is even stronger.
However, she has now fully accepted all of this and can even educate others as someone who has been through it all.
Yay! (Read in a monotone)
Qin Yiyan knew perfectly well that this was true; she just couldn't process it right away.
After all, she was different from Pan Ling, or rather, she was more deeply involved than Pan Ling—you know, she didn't only have Luo Yu by her side, but also Xu Ying.
Now that she's told that these people all have problems, how can she possibly let it go just because she heard it a second ago?
"...That's fine then."
After struggling for a long time, she spoke with a vacant look in her eyes, "Now that Her Highness the Holy Maiden is also guilty of a crime... and has lost her previous memories, I can just raise her as my younger sister again."
The subtext is that they chose to forgive.
Pan Ling didn't say anything after hearing this.
Xu Shi had also given her a lot of serious psychology materials these days, and she knew very well that the knight commander in front of her was probably more inclined to be a sacrificial type, or rather, a people-pleasing type.
This is why she is not as decisive as she seems, but rather somewhat indecisive—her personality has been shaped over the past twenty years, and she is still willing to find a reason to convince herself to accept everything in her own way.
Thinking about it carefully, this might also be the positioning of her "character" in this plot. To put it bluntly, all these years she has been taught in this way by everything around her, with the aim of making her become like this, willingly accepting all possible changes.
They seem a little pitiful, don't they?
If it were Pan Ling a year ago, she would definitely have felt sorry for the other party because of this, but now...
All I can say is that we should let go of our desire to help others and respect their fate.
She'd said everything she needed to say, so what more could she ask for? Anyway, it wouldn't change anything. To put it selfishly, it was actually a good thing that she was willing to properly train Xu Ying, who had been turned into a blank slate. Not only would it save her master a lot of trouble, but it would also make it easier for her master to control her, wouldn't it?
"So sometimes I wonder, besides arranging for 'observers' to set things right, does 'natural justice' itself also do something to these so-called 'protagonists' to make their lives smoother?"
Pan Ling ignored Qin Yiyan's thoughts and simply finished her analysis.
This was an idea she had after talking with Grandpa Wen. She hadn't had a chance to tell anyone yet, so she decided to use the red-haired silly girl in front of her as a confidante.
That's what she thought anyway; otherwise, even with her master's help and guidance, her feelings for Luo Yu wouldn't have changed so quickly.
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