It was the first time he had seen her cry.

Under the high platform, the oncoming breeze blew the young man's forehead, and Duan Lizheng looked up at the girl on the high platform in a daze.

It was the first time he had seen her cry.

The misty eyes in Song Huaizhu's mask shook an even thicker mist.

In the secret room under the British Mansion, in such a sharp pain of life and death, she did not cry.

On the Wuqu Hidden Screen Peak, under such unfair treatment that reversed right and wrong, she didn't cry.

But at this time, on the high platform, the girl still had a snowy long sword on her shoulder, and for the first time burst into tears.

Ruan Qing knelt opposite her, the hand holding the sword kept trembling, her body kept trembling, her mind didn't know how to face such a situation, but as a swordsman, she knew that she couldn't draw the sword.

Zhu Luan did not bleed.

That's because the blade stuck in her body blocked the blood vessels, but if the sword was drawn, it would bleed immediately.

She could not let her Highness bleed.

And she...... What have you done so far?

She actually ......

Ruan Qing's mind was a mess, and he was able to retell a conversation that only the two of them knew.

There is only one in this world.

Her Highness has returned, but why, she and her Highness will be such a meeting scene.

The sword in her hand plunged into the body of the man she thought to herself.

She almost killed her.

With his own sword, kill her.

...... the hell she What is it to become a swordsman?

Ruan Qing's vision blurred again.

Yes, she herself asked to become a swordsman.

"I heard you were beaten by your new master?"

In the third month after Princess Yingluan's death, the little palace maid Ruan Ruan was summoned by the Queen of Heaven for the first time.

In the past three months, she has learned all the rules of the palace from scratch.

It seems to have grown up overnight.

At the cost of a bruise, she understands the truth of this world, but the strange thing is that she does not feel pain from being beaten.

She seemed to have squandered all her blessings in the previous nine years, and all the sorrows and joys in the dark night three months earlier.

The only thing that remained in her heart, which became deeper and deeper as time passed, was only one emotion.

It's just unwilling.

and regret.

She regretted that she had done nothing.

Standing in front of a raging fire, she wasn't even qualified to grieve. After all, she has never been of any use, just under the favor and protection of His Royal Highness, the most useless, ignored by everyone, the little girl who can only hold candy and cry.

Her backer has fallen, and all the palace maids who usually have festivals with her are waiting to see her liveliness.

But to everyone's surprise, the little palace maid just endured all this in silence. Even Ruan Qing didn't want it himself, he was almost pampered and grew up, and he had such a strong endurance.

This endurance surprised all the grandmothers who watched her grow up.

At this point, the life of the little palace maid Ruan Ruan seems to have been decided.

Whether it's scolding or bullying, it's okay to get used to it, after all, no one will care about her anymore.

She will live gloomy and silent in this palace, and finally release her from the palace to marry after the age of twenty, or coil her hair and become a silent and obnoxious old woman.

And the light that once appeared in her life force will be buried in the bottom of her heart, and she can only let the wound in her heart exist, or forget, or never forget.

That's what she thought.

Until she was summoned by His Majesty with sincere trepidation.

Ruan Qing really didn't know what His Majesty the Emperor could do with her as a little palace maid, maybe it was finally time to hold her accountable for leaving her post without permission.

At the last moment, she did not stay by her Highness's side.

Thinking about this, Ruan Qing was much more relaxed.

The wound in my heart suddenly stopped hurting.

Before meeting that, the little palace maid Ruan Ruan used to think that the lady who lost her beloved daughter must let her accompany her highness forever.

That's actually not bad.

But when she knelt on the cold green bricks and leaned over to put her forehead on the ground, she never thought that such a sentence would come from the top of her head.

"I heard you were beaten by your new master?"

Ruan Qing was stunned, if it was Ruan Ruan, the little palace maid in the past, she would definitely nod her head at this time.

She used to be the one who was pushed by other palace maids and had to complain to Her Royal Highness the Princess.

But at this time, listening to the question of the woman sitting on the clouds, Ruan Qing was silent.

"Back to Your Majesty, there is nothing to do, the slave is doing well."

That's what she answered at the time.

Then there was silence above.

Ruan Qing knelt motionless, waiting for the final verdict with a restless heart. She had never felt so calm.

She was already able to accept all the endings, even if she was willing to bear all the wrath of that mother.

However, after a long silence, the woman's calmer voice was heard from above.

"I'll let you out of the palace."

She didn't call herself me.

It is said that His Majesty is very unaccustomed to this self-title, and it is rarely used except in the previous dynasty, but it is the first time that Ruan Qing has heard such words...... And meet such people.

The identity of this person, the self-proclaimed and the content of her words made Ruan Qing extremely shocked at that time, so shocked that he forgot the etiquette he had just learned, and raised his head in a daze.

She saw the pale woman with the look in her eyes.

Then Ruan Qing understood.

And her highness, exactly the same eyes.

"Your Majesty, the slave is terrified...... Even so, Ruan Qing bit his lip, took a deep breath and snorted.

didn't scold, didn't get angry, but instead said to let her out of the palace.

"It's okay," the woman on the dragon chair smiled, "I know you're not happy here. ”

"Forgive me for not having time to deal with your business in three months."

Let yourself forgive her, she said.

Such a person, let yourself forgive her.

Ruan Qing's mind went blank, and then he only felt large tears welling up in his eyes.

Why was she crying at the time?

Presumably she felt that she was not worthy of forgiveness at all, let alone this person's forgiveness.

And the person on the high platform, as if he could even guess her thoughts, just spoke gently.

"You don't have to feel guilty about it, my daughter has always had a wish."

Ruan Qing saw the woman on the dragon chair who had been calm, and for the first time showed irrepressible sadness when she said this.

"She told me that she hoped you could grow up happily and live your life according to your choice."

"And now that she's gone, let me replace her and fulfill her wish."

When he heard the word daughter, Ruan Qing was like being hit hard.

She thought she had forgotten, but she couldn't.

Ruan Qing's vision blurred.

In the bright sunlight, the girl crouched down and held the candy cube in front of her.

She said.

"Ruan Ruan, I want you to be free."