Qi Yu returned to the palace with the child and Ying'er. Long Shang took out a bottle of pills. "Your Majesty, this is a ninth-grade pill. It can restore your health. Give it to the little prince to rest. This old minister will not disturb you any further. The maids and guards are all here."
Long Shang summoned five people, who lined up in a row and began to tidy up. One of the maids took the child to wash and tidy up. Qi Yu took out a pill and placed it on his neck, saying, "Ying'er, it's time to take your medicine."
The little golden dragon opened its mouth and ate it in one bite. Qi Yu couldn't sit still. He searched around the room and found two books. He flipped through them and read them, his mind preoccupied with Xiao Xiao's matter. The child looked so much like Xiao Xiao that he wasn't even sure. He wished it were Xiao Xiao.
After finishing his meal, the little golden dragon lay down and fell asleep again. Qi Yu touched Ying'er, feeling a little sad. He guessed that Ying'er missed her mother so much that she mistook a strange child for her. Even he himself... Thinking this, Qi Yu took out a box from his pocket. Inside were a jade hairpin and a phoenix hairpin, which he had given to his wife before. He had never seen her wear them. If she wore them, they would definitely look beautiful. Xiao Xiao was the most beautiful woman in the world.
Qi Yu glanced at it, then put it back in his arms. The little golden dragon around his neck opened its eyes and looked at it. After a while, the child returned, clean and dressed in clean clothes. However, the scars on her face were hideous and terrifying. The child had almost no cultivation. She was still a little timid when she saw Qi Yu. "Your Majesty, thank you for saving me and him."
After saying that, he realized it wasn't appropriate, so he continued, kneeling on the ground and humbly saying, "Thank you for your great kindness, Your Majesty. I will serve you like a slave to repay your kindness."
Qi Yu saw that she was covered in scars, even on her neck, and couldn't bear to make things difficult for her. "Alright, get up. You don't need to bow to me. What's your name? How did you get all these scars?"
The child dared not rise, only raising his head. "Your Majesty, my name is Evil Servant. My mother and father died when I was born. I was born mentally challenged and knew nothing. I suddenly woke up, and when I did, my whole body was covered in scars. The villagers said I was a wicked creature, that I would kill people and become a ghost. The villagers didn't like me, so they threw me into the river, saying it was a sacrifice to the river god. Not long after, I was swept deeper and deeper by the current, and then I was captured and have been in this prison ever since. Every now and then, I am pulled out and made to be bitten by monsters. Sometimes I lose control and kill the monsters, but then I am injected with a sedative. This continues and continues, and I can never break free from the restraints until I die. Some of them are betting on how long it will take for me to die, and I am waiting too. I can't endure this torture any longer."
“One day I had a dream in which a child said he would come back to save me. So I waited for this child. He didn’t mind that I was ugly or that I was incapable, so I am very grateful to you for saving me.”
The child recounted his experience simply and casually, as if it were nothing serious, without any sadness. That frankness made Qi Yu's heart ache. "Will you hate it?"
Qi Yu said something inexplicable, and the child froze, then his eyes turned ruthless. "Of course, I swear that as long as I can escape, I will tear him to pieces. I will never let him go." His gaze was fierce, filled with hatred for evil, and his eyes were pure malice, which was truly terrifying. This was not his usual Xiao Xiao.
"I still have some medicine in my storage space. I can't let anyone know why my wounds healed automatically, but you are my master, so I will choose to be honest with you. Someday in the future, I will make sure you don't regret saving me."
She continued to kneel down in a pious manner, but Qi Yu overheard an important piece of information: she possessed strange abilities, she also had a spatial dimension, and she had previously been mentally impaired; it all seemed to make sense.
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