"Xiang Zhi" fled back to the Nianci Temple by mistake, and at first the guards guarding outside did not allow her to pass.

"Flowing girl, why are you also in the Imperial City!"

"Your Majesty asked you to bring me here, saying that it would be able to save His Royal Highness the Prince. "How is it when you see the two people lying on the stone platform?" Has His Royal Highness the Prince woken up? ”

Xiang Zuo shook his head, "Not only His Royal Highness, but now even His Majesty has fallen into the same state of stupor. ”

"What's going on out there, why is there a war all of a sudden. ”

"You also see the situation here now, the Zhao family of the Third Duke has been planning for a long time, and now His Majesty is in a state of coma, which gives them a great opportunity. But with the secret key of the royal family, it is difficult to stop the offensive of the Zhao army with some uncertain soldiers alone. ”

Xiang Zuo looked outside the hall, "I'm afraid that the city gate has fallen now." ”

"Your Majesty has not woken up!" General Shan rushed in from the outside covered in blood, "Zhao Muye is killing in the direction of the Nianci Hall with thousands of men and horses! Lord Nara has been martyred, and now in the entire imperial city, except for our manpower here, only General Xue Shenyu and some of his subordinates are left outside. ”

"This is because we can't stop them at all, and we can't let Your Majesty and Your Highness fall into the hands of that group of traitorous thieves no matter what. Xiang Zō called the soldiers who were guarding the outside in.

"You carry them behind my back and follow me to another place, and I will inform General Xue to let him fight and pull one to the underground wine cellar where His Highness Xue Ren has stolen the wine. ”

"Well, then you have to be careful. Shan Jiang left here again, and looked at the flowing year who was in a daze, "The girl can only be wronged by you, wading in this muddy water with us." ”

"No," replied Liunian, "if I am going to die in the end, I would rather die with Your Highness." ”

Xiang Zuo was slightly stunned, "Flowing girl, do you ...... to Your Highness"

"I liked him, from the very beginning. But because he's a prince, I don't want to be with him."

Xiang Zuo looked at Xue Ren who was being carried on his back, "Your Highness, did you hear that...... The girl actually likes you. ”

Xue Ren was wandering in the abyss, and he had been pacing here for quite some time.

"It's not heaven, it's not like hell......" Xue Ren was a little curious about where he was now.

The top of his head is probably in the direction above, and there are always human lights and shadows descending one after another.

It wasn't until one of the lights came in front of Xue Ren that he stopped wandering.

"Why are you here?"

"I'm here to take you back. "The old king's voice is rarely full of love.

"Wait...... Are you ~ real or impersonating?"

"I'm your old man, can this be fake?" the king abandoned his previous indifferent attitude in front of Xue Ren.

"As far as I know, my father doesn't care so much about me. Xue Ren sneered, he didn't believe the identity of the person in front of him.

"Your name is Xue Ren, and you have a purple mark on your right chest. But it's not a birthmark, it's a brand of your mother shortly after you were born. ”

"My mother?do you know my mother?" Xue Ren was a little moved, "In twenty years, he has never mentioned my mother's ...... to me."

"It's me who pins too much hope on you, and trains you in an almost extreme way. The old king walked towards Xue Ren, "Son, I know that I owe you a lot in the past twenty years, and I know what kind of state you have spent in the past twenty years. But all of this is just because I have high hopes for you~"

"High hopes?" Xue Ren shook his head, "He is just thinking about his own Xinghua Kingdom, since he was a child, he has never treated me like a real father to his own son!"

"But he still loves you from the bottom of his heart. "The old king walked into Xue Ren's side" but he was ashamed to express it, after all, his identity is a king. And the king has to have his own set of rules."

"And I'm about to overturn that rule. ”

"It was impossible to completely liberate Xinghua, and there were people who tried but ended up inviting a more chaotic war. The old king pressed one hand on Xue Ren's shoulder.

"If you haven't experienced it yourself, you won't understand the pain of freedom. ”

Xue Ren inexplicably felt that many images appeared in his mind that did not belong to his memory.

He saw a young warrior in battle armor covered in blood, who seemed to be about his own age.

There was more than one team fighting on that battlefield, and they all seemed to be fighting for something.

"Unless you can think of another kind of freedom. The old king removed his arm, and he sensed some danger approaching.

"Another kind of freedom" Xue Ren didn't know very well, but he also saw those memories before. That chaos was caused by freedom.

"Now, you just need to know that our time is running out. There's time to think when you're gone."

The old king saw the face that had shifted from the darkness.

"You have to believe it, wait until you get out of here with my key. The refining of the new fire has been completed, but only the royal bloodline is qualified to use this domineering fire, you are my son and my future hope, you are even more qualified than me to be able to use it. ”

The old king grabbed Xue Ren's wrist and began to run in a certain direction, even though he didn't know where the exit was. But now it's even more important to run away from the demons behind you

"Father...... Emperor" Xue Ren saw some other memory fragments, remembering that it was when he was seven years old, Xue Ren was forced to stay in the imperial city to practice sword swinging, and was personally supervised by a general at that time. Whenever he slackened at all, the general would throw out the bamboo stick in his hand and whip it on his thin body.

The boy burst into tears in pain, but instead of sympathy, he was greeted with a cold punishment.

Xue Ren never understood that his father had to force him to practice swords. At this time, other children at most learn to read and read, and they not only have to read and read, but also spend more time practicing swordsmanship.

The fragments of memory dissipate, and the next scene is a somewhat broken scroll.

He had a unique sense in his heart that there was something in the scroll that was closely related to him.

The scroll unfolds, revealing a portrait within. Although the woman in the painting is not as beautiful as the country and the city, her gentle eyes seem to be able to melt the hardest ice in the world.

"Mother's ......"

"Xiangyu, if you are still there, you will definitely accuse me loudly when you see me training children like this. But I didn't have a choice...... He is your son and my future heir. Now the peace in the world is only a façade...... The big war is imminent.

In order to prevent my son from becoming a fish to be slaughtered, I can only treat him so harshly. I knew he would hate me when he grew up, but that's what I wanted. ”

"I want him to overthrow the dynasty I have established with his own hands, and rebuild an even more magnificent dynasty in this ruin, I want him to reign over the world!"

(End of chapter)