Jaime returned to camp, sullen and just drinking.

"Sir Jaime, the Magic Mountain is arrogant and reigns alone, and it is not necessary for us to go north to fight the strangers, and since he despises us, we might as well go back. "The military bachelor spoke.

"Fighting the Aliens is a major matter for the Terrans, and I will not break my oath and leave Winterfell because of a personal vendetta. ”

"Yes, sir. The maester bowed his head and stepped back.

Jaime saw the face of another man, not Cersei, not the Magic Mountain, but Eddard Stark.

Between House Stark and House Clegane, Jaime prefers to trust House Stark. Between Magic Mountain and Eddard, Jaime prefers Ed as the commander-in-chief and Magic Mountain as his deputy.

But now the situation is reversed, with the Mountain as the commander-in-chief, Robb the King of the North as his deputy, and Eddard as a pawn to attract the Wraiths to Winterfell.

Could Eddard Stark be killed by the Wraiths in Hearthcity?

In just over ten days, the year 301 of the Aegon calendar will be reached, and the decisive battle with the demons will come next year.

If there's anyone Jaime believes in the character and commitment of the North Alliance, it's Eddard Stark. It was also because of Eddard Stark, who was captured by the Northerners and eventually escorted to the Wall of Desperation as a night watchman, that Jaime had the opportunity to return to King's Landing. In the end, it was the Magic Mountain that led the army to the north!

I don't know what happened to Lord Eddard in Hearth, Jaime wants to be with Eddard to kill the strangers in Winterfell, is this a guilty emotion or does he want to prove that he has no intention of breaking his promise? Jaime doesn't know, he doesn't know, he just wants to kill the strangers with Eddard on the walls of Winterfell. Although he did not personally lead the army to arrive, he did come eventually.

In Jaime's heart, there are many noble warriors from the north and south, but the only one who can really trust and admire him is Eddard Stark. In the current situation, he is the only righteous gentleman in Jaime's heart.

At this moment, Eddard Stark, the only gentleman in Jaime's heart, was sitting in front of the fireplace in Fireplace City, baking a fire. The more northbound the location, the colder the climate, and Fireplace City is the closest city to the north.

It was a small bedroom with a fireplace in the bedroom where charcoal was burning. It's already snowy outside, but inside this small bedroom is like a warm spring.

There's one more person in the room: Jon Snow.

Snow still had snowflakes on his black cloak, and he had just returned from scouting the Stranger from outside.

"How far are the Wraiths from here?" said Eddard Stark, looking at Jon Snow. Jon has a black beard on his lips, thick black curls on his head, a black robe and black eyes.

"Father, the stranger is still a day's ride from here. ”

"How many ghouls?"

"The ghouls in the wind and snow are overwhelming, about 200,000 or more. They don't move fast, but they don't stop. ”

Eddard Stark turned his head to look at the flames in the fireplace, his expression was calm, a day's ride, and the ghouls walked on foot, and it would take at least three days to get here.

Eddard Stark thought for a long time and decided to tell Jon the big secret he had buried in his heart, and he changed the subject: "Jon, your hair is black. “

"Yes, Father. ”

Robb, Sansa, Arya, Bran, and Rickon all have maroon hair. ”

"Yes, Father. ”

"Do you know why?"

"Robb and Sansa's mother is Lady Caitlyn Tully. The Tully family had maroon hair, and Robb had inherited Lady Caitlin's blue eyes. ”

"You're right, Robb has their hair and eyes in their mother's blood, and you and they are not the same mother. “

"......" Jon looked at his father, his breathing became rapid, his father was about to tell him his mother's secret?!

"Jon, three years ago I went to King's Landing at the King's Road crossing, and I promised you, who came to see you off, to tell you who your mother was when you returned to the North. “

"Yes, Father, I have always remembered your promise. When you came to the North, you told me that you would tell the truth at the right time and let me know who my mother was. “

"Now that the ghosts are coming, I will stay in Fireplace, and you must withdraw with the soldiers of Fireplace City today. ”

"No, father, I'll stay, and you lead the soldiers in retreat. ”

Eddard Stark looked at Jon Snow, "Jon, Robb and the Mountain are ready for everything in Winterfell, you have to return to Winterfell to fight alongside them." “

"Father, you're going back to Winterfell too, and we can go together. ”

"Someone has to stay behind and break the queen. ”

"I'll stay. Jon said flatly.

"You go for a day, and I'll catch up with you." Eddard Stark accentuated slightly, "Jon, I don't want you to lead the army to leave first by order, you listen to my arrangement, lead the army to retreat first, and I will break off, we must lead the stranger to Winterfell step by step to fight a decisive battle." “

Jon Snow looked at his father, and his father's eyes said it all, and he made a decision that he couldn't change. Jon had no choice but to say, "All right, father, I will lead the army to retreat today, but you must retreat tomorrow." ”

"Hmm!" Ed nodded, looking at Jon, "Jon, now I'm going to tell you who your mother really is?"

“...... Who ......?" Jon's breath grew rough, the secret he had been waiting for for more than a decade!

Eddard Stark glanced at the door, the door was tightly closed, and the guards of the Stark family were guarding outside, and there would be no idle people waiting to approach.

"Your mother is Lyanna Stark. Ed whispered.

"My aunt. Jon Snow lost his voice.

"Lyanna Stark is not your aunt, she is your real mother. Ed said in a deep voice.

"......" Jon stared at his father with a round eye.

"I'm not your father, I'm your uncle, and Lady Caitlyn Tully is your aunt. Your father is Crown Prince Rhaegar Targaryen. ”

"The Mad King's son, the great enemy who forcibly kidnapped my aunt. Jon heard his voice echo through the room. He couldn't believe that the Targaryen family, which he hated the most, was actually his own family. Mad King Aerys Targaryen's hands are stained with the blood of House Stark. But suddenly, he was a Targaryen himself.

"Jon!" Eddard's broad palm rested on Jon's shoulder, "you calm down first, get ready, and listen to me slowly." “

“...... Father, I'm ready......" Jon Snow's chest rose and fell with a wheezing urgency.

Eddard Stark looked up at the flames in the fireplace, "Jon, in the year 283 Aegon Calendar, under a round tower in the Dorne Mountains, for your mother, Lyanna Stark, my vassals and I fought a life-and-death battle with the Mad King's Kingsguard. ”

"There are seven of us on our side, and three of us on the other side. I lead Holland Reed of the North, William Dustin of the Dustins, Ethan Glover of the Glovers, Martin Casher of the Cashers, Theo Wohl of the Woods, and Mark Leswell of the Leswells, led by the Captain of the Kingsguard, Hightower, and his two Kingskeepers, Sir Arthur Dayne and Sir Oswell Riveran. “

"Sir Arthur, Dawn Excalibur. "Jon had heard of Arthur's name. Arthur is a legend of his generation, and the feats he has built and the battles that have made him famous are innumerable. He made many legendary deeds for the country and the people during the Mad King era. He was once loved by the people of King's Landing for his extermination of the bandit Brotherhood of the Royal Forest. Arthur's sword, named Dawn, was cast from meteorite iron, and it was a two-handed greatsword with a bright white color. The name of the Dawn Sword also comes from this sword.

"Jon, we're going to battle with Hightower, Arthur, and Oswell under the Tower of Elysium on the borders of Dorne, all for your mother. Let's go save your mother, my own sister, who has been kidnapped by Prince Rhaegar to this tower of bliss in the south, and the usurper war has started for this reason. ”

Jon knew the cause of the Usurper War, Robert hammered Rhaegar at the Battle of the Trident, and the rebels won a complete victory, but when Eddard Stark and Stannis Baratheon attacked Dragonstone by night and were caught in a storm, only the Mad King's two children, Viserys and Daenerys, escaped in the storm under the escort of William Daery.

"When the war was over, I received news that your mother was in the Tower of Elysium in Dorne, and I rushed to the foot of the Round Tower with six brothers, while Hightower, Arthur, and Oswell were tasked with protecting your mother on the orders of Prince Rhaeggar. In that decisive battle, we were seven against three, and we had the absolute upper hand in numbers. ”

"......" Jon Snow had a thousand words in his heart, but he was silent.

"It was a duel that I will never forget, and in the end we won, Arthur Dawn Excalibur was injured in a sneak attack by Holland Reed, who was badly injured and fell to the ground, and he also had the upper hand at that time. Although he was impaled in the lower leg by Horan Reed, he killed my companion and cut my arm, before he shot down my sword twice. “

"He didn't take the opportunity to kill you?" Jon Snow couldn't figure out why Arthur spared his father twice in a life-and-death showdown.

"Arthur stopped the attack when he shot down my sword, he gave me the opportunity to pick up the sword and continue the fight, he was the best knight I have ever met, not only because of his unrivaled swordplay, but also because of his kindness, integrity, and nobility. ”

It was the first time Jon Snow had heard his father speak so highly of Arthur Dayne, the Dawn Excalibur.

"Arthur Dayne is the knight Jaime wants to be the most, and the person Barristan respects the most. In the end, Arthur, who was unable to support his leg, refused to surrender, and I had to kill him. It was a sad moment, there were seven of us, five of them died, Holland Reed was seriously wounded, I was slightly wounded, and all three of them were killed. ”

Jon Snow heard his father talk about the battle for the first time, and he could see the heaviness of his father's heart. Even after more than ten years, my father's face was calm when he mentioned that battle, and his eyes were full of sadness.

Is the father grieving for Arthur Dayne, or is he grieving for the misfortune of his mother, Lyanna Stark? or both.

"I carried Horan Reed into the Tower of Bliss, and we saw your mother, who was lying in a pool of blood, and you were lying in the crook of her arm, and you didn't understand anything at the time, and you looked at me with black eyes. At that time, your mother had a high fever and was bleeding profusely, and I could only hold her hand...... Jon ......" Eddard's eyes were filled with sadness, "Please forgive me, there was nothing I could do but watch your mother go away......"

Eddard's eyes turned red, and the corners of Jon's eyes twitched slightly.

Both men were silent for a few moments.

"Jon, you're not an illegitimate child. Ed whispered.

"I'm not?" Jon looked up, his gaze falling on his father's face. Even though he now knew that Ed was his uncle, in his heart, Ed was his father.

"Your mother, on her deathbed, asked me to raise you and protect you from harm, and she told me that Prince Rhaegar had secretly divorced Elia Martel, and that he had brought your mother to the Tower of Bliss in Dorne in order to find the High Priest of the School City to marry you. Prince Rhaegar and Princess Elia chose not to announce their divorce in order to prevent the political alliance between House Targaryen and House Martell from being destroyed. “

Jon Snow looked at Eddard Stark dumbfounded, he couldn't believe it. He has been despised for more than ten years, and when he was trained on the Great Wall of Desperation, he was called a wild seed by the training officer, all because he was an illegitimate child.

But in fact, he is not an illegitimate child.

"Rhaegar and Lyanna are legally married, and the High Priest of the School City has the legal documents for their marriage. At that time, Robert Baratheon had ascended the Iron Throne, and for your safety, I brought you back to the North, claiming that you were my illegitimate son. ”

"Father!" Jon said, his heart moved.

Ed was also infamous for him. For Ed, who values honor above life, he has endured too much criticism. Catelyn Tully once asked Ed to get rid of Jon, as long as Ed drove Jon away, Catelyn was willing to pay for it, but Ed sternly refused, and the quarrels and heart problems between the two couples were due to Jon Snow's existence.

Jon bears the name of an illegitimate son, and his father, Eddard, bears the infidelity of betraying his marriage.

"Father, my father, what kind of man is he?" asked Jon in a whisper.

"Rhaegar is a man of great valor, he is considered by us to be the best king of the future, he is both literary and military, and he loves poetry. Arthur Dayne is invincible in swordsmanship, but his spearmanship is no match for your father. In a joust, Arthur broke twelve spears, but lost to your father, and in the Harrenhal jousting tournament, Arthur was defeated again by your father. ”

Jon grew up idolizing Ed's father, and he never doubted Eddard's words.

Jon Snow's face glowed.

"Your grandfather, Aerys Targaryen, was betrayed and imprisoned in the castle's dungeon for half a year by Lord Dennis Darklin, the lord of Twilight City, who refused to pay taxes, when Twilight City was besieged by Tywin Lannister, but he did not dare to attack, because if he did, Dennis would kill Aerys. “

Jon listened intently, he didn't know about these things.

"It was only half a year before Barristan Selmy found an opportunity to infiltrate Twilight and rescue your grandfather. Duskdale was then slaughtered, leaving only Dontos Hollard, who interceded with Sir Barristan, survived. Since then, your grandfather's personality has changed dramatically, he no longer trusts anyone, he is brutal, bloody, capricious, and killed many loyal ministers. He heard that there was a eunuch named Varys on the other side of the Narrow Sea, who was proficient in spying, and hired him into the palace as his intelligence minister. ”

For the first time, Jon Snow learned how the eunuch Varys on the other side of the Narrow Sea had entered the Red Keep.

"Compared to your grandfather, Prince Rhaegar is the complete opposite, he is close to the people, he is a strong martial artist, Arthur Dayne, William Darey, the fearless Barristan and other loyal men are his personal close friends. He fell in love with Lyanna Stark at first sight at the Harrenhal jousting tournament, and by that time, your mother, Lyanna Stark, was engaged to Robert Baratheon. Robert Baratheon was also deeply in love with her. Rhaegar secretly eloped with Lyanna Stark, and no one knew the inside story, so my brother Brandon Stark was naturally not convinced and went to the Red Keep to ask for someone...... You know the rest of the story...... Your grandfather killed my brother and father, and he wants my adoptive father, Jon Arryn, to hand over my head and Robert's head......"