Vanessa wakes up from a nightmare.

In the dream, the sword-wielding samurai rushed into the empress's bedchamber and slashed through the two picturesque men, splashing hot blood on the armor made of cold iron, like poisonous spiders of all sizes climbing the black city wall.

"My lord, the traitor has been removed." The samurai wearing a tapered half-iron helmet gave way to the red-robed official behind him, and the man covered his nose with a handkerchief, glanced at it with disgust, and hurriedly turned his face away, and a buzzing voice came from under the veil and replied: "Hmm! Throw them out, and kill their cousins overnight, and throw them all into the streets. ”

"My lord, there's another woman here," the samurai's words were without any emotion, as if Vanessa didn't exist, "and Erzhang was executing her. ”

The red-robed official turned to leave, and gently spat out a word: "Kill." ”

The candlelight of Yingsendai reflected every sharp blade in front of her, as well as Vanessa's glittering face, and she suddenly burst into hysterical laughter—this qiē was finally over, and I could go home.

I'm the dividing line*******

The stone city of Neverwinter has a long history, and no one remembers who designed and built it in the first place. It has gone through 500 years of wind and rain, changed the lord three times, each brick and stone has its own story, the streets and alleys and all the balconies are planted with thousands of petals that bloom in all seasons, and the top of the castle tower hangs brightly colored flags and royal family crests. However, it was still night, so the whole of Neverfell looked like a gray beast, dull. Vanessa sat in the corner of a low wall, like a rag bag with only garbage. The sky was turning white and blue, and the cobblestone alleys were occasionally roaming with a few nocturnal cats, looking at her with indifferent eyes, not sure if she was a living creature.

Finally home. Vanessa tried to touch the long-lost pebbles on the ground with her trembling hands, but before she could touch anything, ten fingers hurt her and she gasped. That was the last lesson the Nesheites taught her – torture. All night, the two beautiful devils sent her to hell, they kicked and beat the most painful acupuncture points on her body, drove bamboo sticks into her fingernails one by one, washed her feet with hot oil, and pierced her legs with silver needles...... But none of this has brought her real harm, the Neisheren is right, the wound of ** will always heal, and the real damage comes from the spirit. Just like she was pushed off the tower by Solanda four years ago, she still has a deep fear of her sister, and that fear torments her more than one night.

Solanda, my sister, even if I am still afraid of you to death, I still have to come back to face you, I don't know how it will turn out, I'm tired of running away, anyway, I won't give you another chance to erase my existence.

Vanessa stood up against the wall and limped in the direction of the palace.

When the morning light blurred the starlight, and the lighting crystal in front of the stone steps of the palace gradually faded, the guards guarding the door were listless, and the spears in their hands almost touched their helmets, and the sound of Vanessa's footsteps made them sober up a lot, and one of them opened his eyes and immediately aimed his spear at the woman in front of him.

"Who?"

Vanessa was about to speak, when she inadvertently glanced at the pennant embroidered with the royal crest above the guard's head: the blood-dripping twin swords surrounded by flying dragons. What's going on? Our family crest is clearly a dragon and a rose crown. She instinctively told her that something was wrong, and she wanted to turn around and slip away, but the guards had already asked that if she escaped now, she would be caught as a suspect, so she made up a random name: "I'm Taisha from Longji Town," and then made up a reason, "I came to find my aunt, her name is Weima, and she is the wet nurse of the princesses." ”

"Weimar? Oh, you said Aunt Weima," the guard rolled his cloudy eyes, which had been turned earthy yellow by bad wine and tobacco, "she had been hanged a month ago. ”

"What?!" Vanessa was taken aback and died? This can't be, he must not be talking about her Weima! "I'm talking about Weima from Longji Town, a fat lady of forty."

"That's what we're talking about." Yellow eyes looked at Vanessa, indicating that she was awake.

Really dead? The old nurse who always smiled and told herself the legend of the dragon and the knight, the fat woman with the double chin and warm embrace, she really died? Weimar takes care of herself as if she were her own daughter, she is so kind, unless she is a princess who protects her and never argues with anyone, how can she be hanged?

"Who's giving the order?"

"General Koman." Yellow eyes withdrew her spear and looked sympathetically at the woman in front of her, her hair was messy and covered in blood, she must have had an unimaginably horrible experience, and now she was told that her aunt was dead, and I really didn't know if she would go crazy with grief.

At this time, Vanessa was rapidly searching for the name "Koman" in her memory, ah, it was the sand rider who came back with Solanda, and he was only Solanda's close guard before he was pushed off the tower. Koman's "general", the blood-dripping sword family crest with distinctive Solanda characteristics, so Solanda has obtained control of Neverwinter, so where are his mother and sister? Were they hanged too?

"Why? Why did he hang her? Although she really wanted to ask the queen about her current situation, she still had to continue to play the role of Tae-sa for now.

"The crime is theft." Yellow-eyed replied.

"What did she steal?"

"We don't know," said Yellow-Eyed regretfully, "and what she stole cost her life anyway." ”

No. Weimar's home was destroyed by a great flood that engulfed her family and newborn baby, Weimar had no relatives and no reason, and finally joined the court to serve the royal family, she often said that the palace was her home, and every Delin was her family, who would steal their own things? But there are no absolutes in everything, don't Weimar and herself also have some ulterior little secrets, maybe she has a reason why she has to steal, even if she pays for her life, she will not hesitate to do so. My intuition told Vanessa that this must have something to do with Solanda, and to understand this, I can't stand here, I have to find a way to enter the palace.

Vanessa lowered her head, rubbed her eyes with the back of her hand, and then concentrated on showing a grief-stricken expression, "I don't believe my aunt will steal, we are all decent people, but the facts are in front of me, and I have nothing to complain about, I just beg you to let me go in and sort out her belongings for her, and count my niece's grief as much as possible." ”

"No, miss, you can't go in," Yellow Eyes stopped Vanessa in embarrassment, "General Coman has an order that no stranger is allowed to enter the palace. ”

Vanessa raised her hands in front of her eyes to let the guards see her broken nails, her yellow-eyed eyes widened, and she took a half step back in fright, "I have gone through a lot of hardships to get to Neverwinter," she cried bitterly, "I didn't ask for a sip of water or a slice of bread, I just wanted to clean up her bones and retrieve her relics, and such requests were not allowed?" ”

"What happened?" An angry voice came from a window overhead, "Open the door and bring her to me." ”

It turned out that the guard on the opposite side woke up General Coman in time, who was asleep. Yellow-eyed breathed a sigh of relief as if he had grasped a life-saving straw, and entered the palace with a weeping Vanessa.

"Miss, you should wash your face and change into clean clothes, it's rude for you to go to see General Coman like this." The guards kindly reminded Vanessa as they walked.

"My aunt is dead, how can I be in the mood to dress up?" I just had to have a bloody face and a filthy body, in case he would recognize me. I stayed in that place called Da Zhou for four years, and although I grew taller and changed the color of my hair, careful people can still think of what I looked like when I was a child, and I can't take risks.

Dressed only in a white shirt and gray pajama pants, Koeman was sitting in a chair in the long table hall and looking at Vanessa with a blushing face. After listening to her tell her about her origins, he looked her from top to bottom, and when his gaze brushed over her face, Vanessa's heart shrank suddenly, and she forced her composure, her tearful eyes met his gaze, and she did not flinch.

But apparently he didn't recognize her, and Coman raised his chin at her, and his voice came from his thick black beard, "What's the matter with your injuries?" ”

"On the way here, I met a gang of robbers, my lord."

"Which way?"

"The intersection of the trail leading from West Kings Avenue to Dulin Town, my lord." God bless Weima Nurse, she used to tell herself that there were often robbers on that road, but I hope they are still there, "They suddenly appeared, took all the money from me, and wanted to ** me," Vanessa closed her eyes in pain, because this way she would not be betrayed by false eyes, "I didn't obey, they punched and ......kicked me," she pretended to be unbearable, and couldn't go on.

"You said you're from Dragonback," Coman pointed to the sand table on the long table, "but Dragonspine is south of Neverwinter, how did you get to West Kings Avenue?" ”

This man is very difficult to deal with. "My lord, I was going to Dulin Town to join my brother, our parents had just passed away, and I couldn't afford to live alone, but when I got to my brother's house, I found that his life was also difficult, he lived by growing oats and cotton, he had six people to support, three sons, two daughters, and a wife paralyzed in bed, and-" Vanessa pretended to find out that she was off topic, and hurriedly covered her mouth and changed the subject, "I don't want to drag them down, and I heard that my aunt has a good job in the palace, so I decided to come to Winterfell to find her." What, you don't believe me? Vanessa looked at Corman innocently, "You can go to Dulin Town and ask, my brother's name is Matt, Wheat Ears Matt." "God knows there's no such person there, but just fool around for a moment.

"I will. But until things are figured out, you'll have to spend some time in the dungeon. Coman wouldn't let her go any further, and turned to the guards and said, "Take her out and keep her under strict control." ”

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