Chapter 155: One Hundred and Fifty Three · HE · Silent Future
The neatly dressed little girl sat in her own room, beside her, a nightingale-like bird was singing.
It conveys His Majesty's intention.
She opened the drawer, and inside lay a dagger adorned with a scarlet ruby. When she pulled it out, she saw her own young face reflected on the dagger.
She walked out of the door slowly with the dagger in her hand, passed through the silent corridor, stepped on the scarlet carpet, and as she walked slowly up the stairs, she heard the sound of something dragging on the ground.
She walked up the stairs and saw the door of the innermost room was wide open. A person was lying there. Even in the polar night, she could see the blood spots on the ground with the faint light.
She approached slowly, the ruby on the dagger glowing. She walked through the corridor, her long palace dress dragging on the ground, making a slight friction sound against the carpet, which was extremely obvious in the quiet night.
The man lying on the ground raised his head slightly, revealing a face covered in blood. On his shoulder, there was a blood-red mark.
"Are you here to... kill me?"
Although his face was covered in blood, he still had a smile on his face, and his tone of questioning was as casual as if he was talking about family matters.
Hui Shuhang slowly squatted down and moved closer to him.
"Yes."
"I thought you could take me away." He said, "After all, the first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was you."
"I have been with you for more than ten years."
"Really?" He said, blood dripping down the corners of his mouth, and he looked quite weak: "...Then can you talk to me before I die?"
Hui Shuhang clenched the dagger, and then she approached him again, sat next to him, and dropped the dagger in her hand.
The dagger fell on the carpet, and the gem gleamed coldly.
She stared at the empty corridor in silence, and then her eyes fell on his shoulder.
There was a blood-red mark there. She recognized it. It was the curse mark branded by His Majesty. Anyone branded with it would die within two hours.
...She doesn't even need to do anything.
"How long have I been here?"
She suddenly heard his question.
"Have you forgotten?" Hui Shuhang said slowly, "You have been here since you were a child."
"Never been out?"
"With my company, yes, have you forgotten?" She said, "I have always taken care of you, and I know everything about you."
"I really didn't expect..." He sighed slightly: "I have done so much for the Zheng army. In the end, when the experiment is almost completed, the first person His Majesty wants to kill is me. I thought he would at least keep me until the coming-of-age ceremony."
"…Maybe it's because you went to see him today."
"What's wrong?" he immediately followed up with a question.
"Your Majesty is also hesitating. Maybe something you said made him make up his mind in advance."
"That's right." He nodded, looking a little regretful: "...What should I say?"
Hui Shuhang did not answer.
Maybe she was just upset.
"Tell me." She heard his voice: "Your Majesty, why did you send me to the altar?"
"——Because of the future." She also heard her own voice, like a puppet that could only answer. Perhaps because she was too sad, she could not feel what she was answering: "Your existence will bring uncertainty to the world. Your bloodline...itself is the source of the world's disaster. You may be unwilling and want to change something through your experiment...but His Majesty can no longer wait for the day when the experiment is successful. It is His Majesty's choice to eliminate the disaster in advance."
"What am I?"
"You are an evil dragon. You are a child with the blood of an evil dragon." Hui Shuhang said, "You are a disaster, an evil demon, a variable that should not exist, and a curse that weighs on the heads of all living beings. Whether you are alive or dead, the moment you are sent to the altar, the world will be at peace."
"……I see."
Su Mingan understood it completely.
Your Majesty's 95 points of favorability are real.
His Majesty might really have feelings for him and allowed him to live until he was sacrificed on the altar. However, in the eyes of that ruler, maintaining the stability of the world is far more important than one person.
When His Majesty knew that he might be trying to escape from control, he did not give him a chance to live beyond the remaining nine days, but killed him directly.
"It turns out that I am not the future." Su Mingan said: "Killing me is the future."
"That's right."
She heard him coughing up blood. The man in front of her was getting weaker and weaker, and he only had a few short minutes left to live.
"…What about you?"
She heard his voice.
"...If one day, you suddenly don't want to send me to the altar anymore, and you want to take me away, what kind of situation would that be?" he asked.
Hui Shuhang thought carefully for a while.
"That won't happen."
Even in this situation, the little girl was still graceful. She sat beside him, her skirt not stained with blood. Under the dim light, her wine-red eyes were full of determination:
"Although I have watched you grow up and I respect you very much, I have already made up my mind. Everyone has his or her own final destiny. Accept it calmly... This is the only thing we can do in this world."
"I mean, what if?" Su Mingan asked.
“…”
Hui Shuhang was silent for a while.
She lowered her head, as if she was in deep thought. Then, when she raised her head again, there was a hint of confusion in her eyes:
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