xxvi)

The eve of the succession ceremony.

I looked at the fiery red crown adorned with jewels, and the black royal robe embroidered with gold thread on the royal totem, and a white tiger skin shawl that had been folded and placed at the head of the bed, just waiting to meet the people of the underworld tomorrow. The two horns on the ribbon hung down and collided with each other in the wind, which made me a little more irritable.

The lights in Si Yi's house were out, I don't know if he slept so late or where he would go, passing by Tuyin's pavilion, the room was also dark, and I stood there stunned.

Didn't know about her... How do you sleep..

The phoenix lanterns in the Night Hades Palace were extinguished one after another, and in the end, only the light in my hand shone brightly.

Now whenever I think of Liang Sakura, I only have disgust, maybe I don't dislike her, I just hate the Night Hades, but I can't be disgusted with it openly. I'll see her tomorrow at the succession ceremony, she probably doesn't have any hope for me, and I can smile away from her.

I stood in the cold wind of the Night Hades Palace, and when I came out, I was dressed a little thiner, and I couldn't help but shudder, but this cold silence made me suddenly think of Si Yi and his Feng King again. Si Yi has always been sensible, but when Tuyin was injured by Nanmo, he rushed forward desperately, and I knew the reason for this, so I would rest assured that Tuyin would be taken care of by him.

Being too smart is not necessarily a good thing, sometimes you still have to lie to yourself when you understand, just because it hurts to say it clearly.

"Brother Ximu, what are you doing standing here?" a crisp voice tugged at my heartstrings that had just calmed down, causing me to be stunned for a moment.

I didn't speak, but Liang Sakura said again: "It's cold at night, why doesn't Brother Ximu use magic?

The night of the Hades Palace was a mixture of fiery red and pitch black, and I felt a little more guilty as I watched Ryozakura's eyes be illuminated by the light in my hand. The rules of the Night Palace are so harmful, let a child I don't know know be the queen? If I become king, I will have to find a way to abolish this rule.

"It's a good night, I'll go out for a walk. What are you doing when Sakura runs out so late?"

"Ahh It's nothing, just insomnia at the thought of tomorrow. Liang Sakura barely laughed a few times, and I didn't have the heart to chat with her, so after a perfunctory sentence, I made an excuse to leave.

I tossed and turned on the pillow and still couldn't sleep, and I always felt that my heart was heavy, like a chain wrapped around my feet and falling into the abyss. When I was hazy, I suddenly felt that I was in a void, and my body was falling rapidly, like a helpless person adrift on the sea, unable to see the end of the Netherworld... Suddenly, I felt my body jerk and realized that everything was just a dream.

It seems that for the first time, I wish that the night could become longer, so that the white sky would cover the purple and black sky over the Hades Palace a little later, so that I could have the figure of Tuyin in my mind a few more times.

I can't imagine how I spent so many days of torment in my heart.

The bell of the tower of the Hades Palace was struck, echoing over the entire Hades Palace, and perhaps it seemed that today's bell was a celebration, but I heard the bell as if it were bleeding. It's not the bell, it's my own heart.

A few attendants came in early to serve me to change clothes, and the dress etiquette of today's ceremony was particularly cumbersome, and I was already depressed and even more irritable at the moment. If the sound appeared at this time, maybe it would calm my mood a little bit, I thought.