The bright moonlight shines through the window and covers Diya with a bright gauze dress, while the deep shadows drown the naked girl.
The witch approached cautiously, as if afraid of waking the princess from her sweet dream.
When Diya came to the bedside, the girl's face was clearly reflected in the witch's eyes. Tranquil, peaceful, and beautiful, the girl was a sight to behold even when she was asleep. Just by looking at her sleeping face, one could feel the divinity that made mortals feel ashamed.
She is Sleeping Beauty, Liz of 'Lisdiya', the other side of Diya, and Princess Yisu who is truly recognized by the gospel spirit.
The princess left the tower, and the White Queen, Black Butler, and Red Death also left the tower.
Only Sleeping Beauty is still trapped in the tower.
Diya sat on the edge of the bed, holding Sleeping Beauty's hand tightly. A great sense of fear gradually crept into her heart. Things she had never thought about before exploded in her heart like thunder.
Sleeping Beauty is not her sister, Sleeping Beauty is Lisdiya. Only one of Sleeping Beauty and Secret Princess can exist at the same time. When Sleeping Beauty is awake, Secret Princess will be asleep, and vice versa. Therefore, Lisdiya's awakening and rebellion have never been discovered for more than ten years. The palace does not even know that she has become a magician, because from the night when she learned the truth, the terrified Secret Princess hid herself, and only Sleeping Beauty, who was unaware, appeared in front of people.
Diya remembered that when she overheard the truth that night, she really ran away. Because there was nowhere to escape in the tower, she escaped into her heart - at that moment, Lisdiya split into Princess Secret and Sleeping Beauty. Reality was too strong and too cruel, so Princess Secret hid in the shadows and let Sleeping Beauty face reality alone.
Sleeping Beauty didn't know the truth, and didn't even know the existence of the Secret Princess. She integrated all the advantages of 'Lisdiya' and was the perfect candidate for the armored saint, so the former queen never doubted anything. Princesses of all generations were pure and innocent vessels of gods, and rebellious people like Diya were outliers.
With the barrier of Sleeping Beauty, Diya was able to create sisters such as the White Queen, Black Butler, and Red Death. They absorbed knowledge and nutrients bit by bit over the past ten years, resonating with the virtual realm, and only had eight hours of sleep time for thinking - not activities, the body in the sleeping state cannot move, but can use all the thinking resources of the body - but they still grew into a true magician, and even broke through to the golden realm and stepped into the time continent.
It was not until Diya received the blessing of the bronze dragon and had the confidence to escape from the tower that she regained control of her body. Since the secret princess had the courage to leave the shadow, Sleeping Beauty should fall into a permanent sleep.
Diya never thought that there was anything wrong with this matter. Sleeping Beauty played a trick while the secret princess accumulated strength. Isn't this a perfect plan? However, when she passed by the dozen doors just now and looked at the little princesses inside, she realized a problem belatedly -
She ran away, so the only one left to suffer was Sleeping Beauty.
She has sisters to accompany her, but Sleeping Beauty does not. In Sleeping Beauty's world, she is always alone, living alone in a high tower, looking at the distant scenery, accompanied by dolls and books.
Diya didn't even dare to communicate with her. Sleeping Beauty had to be a perfect princess to conceal her escape plan. Once Sleeping Beauty knew something and her mind was polluted, the power they had accumulated with great difficulty would be taken away. The divine vessel did not need wings that could fly out of the cage.
When she finally escaped from the tower, Diya could not wait to wake up and greedily embrace the world. Sleeping Beauty never breathed the air of freedom for a second. To her, she had never left the tower. Her life came to an abrupt end that night, and she would only sleep for the rest of her life.
No, she woke up once... When Ash was about to become the vessel of the Gospel Spirit, Diya woke up Sleeping Beauty and asked her to complete the armor sanctification and become the Gospel vessel to save Ash who was about to lose himself.
If she thinks about it carefully, she is really selfish. When she needs to suffer, she wakes up Sleeping Beauty and hides away to escape reality; when it is time to enjoy, she can't wait to jump out. She has been on the throne for a year, but she has never let Sleeping Beauty come out for a day to take a good look at the world.
She didn't dare.
In the past, it was for survival and freedom, so Diya could let Sleeping Beauty suffer without any psychological burden. Now that she can control her own destiny, she has no idea how to face Sleeping Beauty... They should be two sides of the same coin, sharing the joys and sorrows, but Sleeping Beauty took the bitterness, and Diya was unwilling to share the sweetness.
Split the real time equally? One third, one quarter? But no matter how much, Diya was unwilling to do it. She usually looked rich and generous, but the premise was that it didn't involve things she cared about. Once it involved her own interests that she couldn't give up, she would rather be a selfish bad child.
She is willing to share everything with her sisters, but she is absolutely unwilling to divide her own life.
"Um?"
The sexy girl snorted cutely, she slowly opened her eyes and saw Diya sitting beside the bed. She rubbed her eyes and sat up on the bed, her hair was loose and not messy, and her delicate figure could not hide her nobility.
"Diya?" She looked at herself, as if she knew something, and smiled, "Have you told Ash the things you regret not being able to say in person?"
"I said it, Sister Liz."
"That's good."
Sleeping Beauty opened her arms towards Diya, who reached out to hug her. She squinted her eyes with a satisfied expression on her face: "I've always wanted to hug you like this. After living for so many years, I suddenly found that I have a sister. You don't know how happy I am."
Diya sniffed and sobbed, "I'm sorry."
"I should be sorry," said Sleeping Beauty, "but I have become a burden to you."
"But I believe you will be fine, because from now on, you are the only one..."
"Lysdea."
The Sleeping Beauty in his arms disappeared without a trace. Diya sat on the bed, feeling that the world was moving away from her. She was drowned in the overwhelming darkness, and frost seemed to condense in her blood vessels... From then on, there was no more Princess Secret and Sleeping Beauty, only Lisdiya who had merged into one.
She gradually became complete, but at the cost of having to endure the pain she was trying to escape from. She was stuffed back into the body of the little princess, and experienced her childhood and youth again from the perspective of Sleeping Beauty... She read and wrote in the tower room day after day, learned etiquette, and looked into the distance. She had no friends except dolls, and she could only hide in the quilt on thunder and lightning nights. She stretched her hands out but could not touch the world, and the world never accepted her.
In a trance, a memory that the princess never cared about but was crucial to Sleeping Beauty came into her mind: a white dove broke into the princess' bedroom in the tower, probably from the flock of white doves that inhabited the Arran Lake below. The white dove was not afraid of people at all, or maybe it was just not afraid of her. It became the princess' only playmate, rubbing the princess's little hand affectionately. Time seemed to stand still, and the princess and the white dove kept playing, chasing, and laughing in the tower...
Until the maid came to deliver the meal, she heard the sound of the door and the white dove seemed to be frightened and flew out immediately. The princess wanted to chase it, but the white dove flew out of the window and out of the cage.
The princess could only watch it fly farther and farther away. There was nothing she could do... nothing she could do.
She has no home.
She has no love.
She has nothing.
The girl's consciousness continued to sink in the dark sea, passing by the bubbles of happiness, and the world was left with only a cold abyss. The feeling between pain and fatigue spread throughout her soul, and she couldn't even move her fingers. She couldn't escape this long torture... When it came time to risk her life, she could do it without hesitation, because a momentary impulse was always so cheap, but if it was a fate that required persistence and struggle, she would be powerless.
In the final analysis, she is still just a child who has not grown up. From the day she chose to escape, she was destined to be a little girl who would never grow up.
The sound of bubbles bursting rang in my ears until it became a familiar sound:
"Lysdia, look."
Diya opened her eyes and saw a familiar yet strange scene. Looking at Nabisteen at night from the window of the high tower, the brightly lit city was like a reflection of the starry sky, but what attracted Diya's attention the most was a giant Ferris wheel in the distance. The brilliant colors and the circular light belts turned into circles of light, as if to light up the entire night.
"How about we go to that new playground when you feel a little better?" Ash asked.
Diya then noticed that she was held in Ash's arms, with half of her buttocks sitting on the edge of the windowsill. She murmured in a daze, "Am I dreaming?"
"You're not dreaming. This is the amusement park you wanted to build. It was completed in the six months you were away." An Nan said, "Although you can fly, I think you would like the Ferris wheel. I specially asked them to build the largest one within the limits of alchemy."
Diya turned her head and saw An Nan standing on the other side of her. An Nan poked her forehead and complained, "You guy, you actually slipped away without saying a word and left the country to me for half a year..."
"Don't do this next time." She hugged Diya and rubbed the little queen's face affectionately, "Welcome back, Your Majesty."
"You said you wanted to go home. Although I don't think this is the home you miss, it is where you have lived for more than ten years, and the scenery here is really nice..." Ash asked, "Are you feeling better?"
Being held in the arms of Ash and Annan, Diya turned her head and looked at the Ferris wheel in the distance. Although she could create brighter and more magnificent flames, for some reason, the light spinning in the dark night warmed her heart more than any other light.
This is definitely not her home, but it is also her home.
Diya hugged Yaxiu's neck with all her strength and grabbed Annan's hand, "Yaxiu!"
"Um?"
"Stay in Fuhui from now on, okay? Then we can live together, okay?" Diya's eyes were misty with tears, and her voice was crying: "And no matter what happens, you are not allowed to hate me, okay?"
"No." Ash was very decisive.
An Nan was stunned, and even Diya was stunned.
"I will still hate you if I have to," Ash patted her back gently, "but no matter how much I hate you, I will still love you."
"As for the rest, didn't I make a promise to you a long time ago? After the weaving ceremony, we will be a family."
"We will live together, play games together, go to the amusement park together," said Ash. "We will also do many things we have never experienced before."
Diya nodded heavily, and at this moment the light bulb in the room suddenly went out, probably because it had not been used for a long time and had a malfunction. But the room did not fall into darkness, and the light from the Ferris wheel in the distance shone into the tower, casting colorful shadows on Yaxiu, Diya and Annan.