Vanessa was in no mood to be angry with her father, "When I was in the Flame Country, she used reversal magic to swap identities with me, and I was forced to flee to avoid trouble, and I don't know what happened after that. At that time, I had already agreed to the marriage proposal of Terrence the Prince of Flame, and this old fox had actually seen through Solanda pretending to be me from the first sight, but he did not expose her, and I think he had only one purpose, which was to use her status as the eldest princess to contain me so that I would not dare to betray him. ”

"So Solandar is still in Terrence's hands?" Ivan led Vanessa to the end of a passage, where an ancient, decaying wooden door appeared in front of him.

If she was still in the Flame Country, Terrence would have formed an alliance with her a long time ago, but Vanessa still nodded, "I think you must first go to the Flame Country to get rid of this highest-ranked queen. "Let's tie up Ivan first, and I'll figure out a way out. The princess looked at the wooden door in front of her and asked, "What does this mean?" ”

"Just go in and see." Ivan pushed the door open, and the heavy hinges on the wooden door gave a painful protest, and a damp and musty smell came to his face.

Vanessa ...... "This is a dungeon converted room, and although the torture equipment and straw have been removed, the smell of feces and urine left over from the previous prisoners is still permeated. On the only small bed, a young man with dark hair held out his hand to the princess.

"Koeman?!" Vanessa looked at the man on the bed in shock, he had a huge wound on his chest, the flesh turned out, and the blood stained the entire cotton shirt red. How did he end up here? Vanessa covered her mouth and instantly understood that the person who had flown with her before was General Koman. The Dragonwinged Angels were not completely willing to die for Ivan, and Koman, who was supposed to be transported in top secret, was still seen by Vanessa, but it seems that Ivan really has no parent-child affection for his children, and Koeman was immediately sent to this dark basement after losing his usefulness.

Vanessa quickly stepped back, but Ivan blocked her way, "What do you mean by that?" The princess asked annoyedly.

"Coman can't see the light," said the princess's father, with a grim face, "and if it is known that he has returned to Neverwinter, things will only get worse." So I need you to treat him personally until he can get out of bed and walk around. ”

"You're treating me like a maid?" Vanessa scoffed, "And I'm not going to heal anyone." ”

"You must know," Ivan's eyes burned in the darkness, "he's your brother." ”

"I have known this for a long time, and he has wanted to use it more than once to target my identity and put me to death."

"It's not like that," said Koeman, who had been silent, with difficulty, "I really want to help my father's daughter ascend to the throne." ”

"It turns out that everything you did was for your good father," Vanessa narrowed her eyes and looked at Corman, "Don't forget, you have benefited from the Cursed Family, but I grew up in the peaceful and warm Delin family, you killed my mother, deceived my sister, and got my little sister to be missing, I don't take your life is already out of family affection, if you want me to save you, unless you take all the thrones of the Six Kingdoms for me!" ”

"If you talk too much, your teeth will loosen." Ivan looked at Vanessa with a cold face, "You have no choice, girl, once someone knows that Coman is seriously injured and has returned to Winterfell, the country of Midsummer will be in chaos, and when the princes and lords will come to the city, the throne will not necessarily be anyone's." So you have to keep this secret strictly, and you have to cure him as much as possible, after all, there are only three of us left in Winterfall with the surname Ivan. ”

Vanessa understood the meaning of her father's words and reluctantly acquiesced.

After Ivan left, Vanessa cut the blood-stained shirt for Koeman, medicated and bandaged it, and the wound on his stomach was caused by Victor's dagger, but fortunately it did not hurt the organs, and there was no poison on the blade, and it did not look fatal.

At this moment, the princess had time to observe the furnishings of this little room, which, a year ago, might have been dark and damp, covered with dirt and the sound of dripping water, but now, in order to make Koman a temporary dwelling, Ivan had turned it into a cozy secret room, with a woollen blanket on the floor, brocade on the walls, long bee candles giving off abundant light, and furnishings of strange and austere style, including a long table on stilts, several chests, and a tall bookcase full of medicine bottles. They are all made of driftwood, and the oddly shaped strips of wood are cleverly put together, polished and polished, and glowing a dull gold in the candlelight.

"You know I didn't mean to hurt you," Coman barely opened his eyes, closing them again in weakness, gasping for a moment before continuing, "I'm doing this to give you back the throne." ”

"Including the torture of Queen Chloe?" Vanessa replied coldly, "You didn't have to do that, but you burned her to death." ”

"Chloe, Solander, how will you ascend to the throne if you don't get rid of them?" Coman smiled palely, "Hmph, Queen Chloe is not as simple as you think, she has many little secrets, do you know, how did your adoptive father die?" ”

Prince Valentine? What did Corman know about the death of his kind father, who had been heartbroken for a time and had only recovered for more than a year, when Coman mentioned his death? The princess stared at her brother on the bed, waiting for him to continue.

"It was three years ago, our father wrote me a letter, the letter said that he had found the daughter who had the blood of the king, all the clues pointed to the second princess of the Midsummer Kingdom, and he asked me to contact the inner line in the palace of Midsummer - your Weimar mother, Prince Valentine intercepted my letter to Weimar, he found out your identity, and was about to report to Queen Chloe, on the way he met Solanda, because Solanda has been violent, he scolded her a few words and hurried away. When Weimar discovers that the letter has been stolen, in order to save you, she forges a letter from Queen Chloe to the archbishop, and deliberately leaves it in front of Solanda, mentioning that the queen wants to give up the throne to Prince Valentine and abolish Solanda's succession to the throne. ”

"I see," Vanessa had made a similar inference before, after all, the possibility of an adult accidentally climbing over the one-man high guardrail of the collapsed tower and falling down was very small. "But what does that have to do with Queen Chloe?"

"The point is that she didn't do anything after learning of the death of her beloved prince." Coman gasped, "Don't you think it's suspicious. ”

Indeed, the mother and father are deeply affectionate, and the death of the prince should not be counted in such an unexplained way.

"The answer is that she knows that Solandar pushed the prince off the tower." Coman smiled, "This is what she told me after she lost her fifth finger." ”

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