Chapter 1486: The Shell of Steel, the Heart of Crystal
The magnificent and luxurious Summer Sleep Palace was full of royalty and wealthy families who came to congratulate Di Lanxue on her new marriage, this was the most noble group of people in the whole continent, and it was the guest of honor that all girls longed for, but she felt lonely like never before.
They were like a rolling mountain range, overwhelming her.
But the atmosphere is really good!
There is the Pope's main marriage, the blessings of the king and queen and the wealthy families, and a groom who all the girls in the world want to marry, what more can he ask for?
On this kind of happy day, you should smile, but Di Lanxue used all her strength, and she couldn't make the corners of her stiff mouth draw an arc.
Why?
Di Lanxue bit the corner of her lip, trying to remember, when was the last time she smiled?
In his early years, the Twilight Emperor suffered the darkest and most vicious curse of fate when he fought in the north and south, and he would have no heirs in his life.
In order to keep the empire from glory, the Twilight Emperor exhausted his bloodline power and life essence, and used ancient secret techniques to finally impregnate an alien princess.
Tilan Snow was born.
As a descendant of the Brilliant Emperor, as the first princess of Twilight, and as the hope of the empire, Di Lanxue carried too much hope as soon as she was born.
In Lion's childhood, there were no puppets of other little girls, no playmates who could play hide and seek together, and no parents who could be coquettish.
Only Learn! Learn! Learn Again!
swordsmanship, military politics, strategy, economics, painting, philosophy, ......
Every day, the lion girl is either submerged in the sea of books in the Imperial Library, or she practices martial arts on the school grounds, for several years, without exception.
Even if it was the king's birthday, the lion queen carefully prepared a gift, and what she got was an indifferent sentence of 'go to study'.
The Twilight Emperor doesn't need a gift. All he needs is a perfect heir, his time is running out, and there is not much time left for this decaying empire, so family affection, love, care, these fragile emotions can be completely discarded.
The Twilight Emperor needs a princess with a steely will and physique. Her backbone is needed to prop up this empire.
Lion Ji is a filial and well-behaved girl, no matter how hard and tired she is, she is still working hard according to her father's orders, because only when she does her homework to the extreme, can she see her tired father and show a smile.
Yes, not simply finished, not perfect, but extreme!
Lion Ji wants to make her father happy. So I worked harder.
Outstanding talent, smart intelligence, and hard sweat began to infuse a brilliant flower of empire.
Countless praises, countless reputations, and countless applause began to hit like a tide, and the entire continent knew that the Twilight Empire had given birth to a most talented princess.
When Di Lanxue was five years old, she became famous, the royal family of the Nine Great Empires and the heads of those wealthy families. With enough gifts to buy a second-rate country, come to the door and propose!
years. After weighing the pros and cons, and of course the unknown court intrigues and assassinations, the Twilight Emperor entered into a marriage contract with the Huperongue family.
Dilanxue became Heinrich's fiancée and had a fiancé who was known as the hope star of the mainland.
Destiny is never in the hands of the weak!
Lion-hime rarely saw the mother, I heard when she was three years old. After reading the meaning of her mother in the book, she wanted to go and see it, but her father refused to do so.
I heard that the most pampered Mama Saranda said that the day her mother was buried. It was raining heavily.
Later, when she was a girl, Di Lanxue once secretly ran to see a corner of the royal cemetery, which was already covered with moss.
Fortunately, with the chirping of crickets and the dappled moonlight through the shadows of the trees, it's not too lonely, well, at least not lonely.
I don't know when Di Lanxue fell in love with swinging a sword, swinging a sword meticulously, swinging a sword like sweat, and swinging a sword with selflessness and concentration......
Mama Saranda, who loves Lion Ji and has taken care of her since she was a child, knows that she has always wanted to cut off something, maybe it is a cage, maybe it is herself, or the whole world?
No matter how much praise they received, the big beautiful eyes of the lion were calm, and only when they swung their swords, they burst out with a bright light like stars.
It seems that at the moment of swinging the sword, this girl is free and alive, and she feels that life has meaning!
Gradually, Di Lanxue matured and had her own beliefs, firmly believing that as long as she swung her sword bravely, she could solve all problems.
Looking at the better and better heir, the Twilight Emperor, who was suffering from curse and illness, was relieved and began to look for a way to relieve his pain.
He's remarried!
The bride is a woman from a small family, named Cersei, very beautiful, and at first glance she is the kind of beauty that brings disaster to the country and the people.
The originally lifeless palace, because of the arrival of this woman, began to have some more vivid tones.
A year later, Dilanxue had another sister.
Having a genius sister who is in the limelight is definitely torture, and Anna will be compared to whatever she does.
Anna tried her best, but she still failed.
"Why? Because this is the insurmountable gap between mortals and 'gods'!"
The little maid who accompanied Dilanxue for eight years was executed by Queen Cersei and Anna because of this sentence.
On that day, Lion Ji clearly remembered that the sky was snowing, and the little maid was burned alive, turning into ashes, and the white snow changed color.
As long as she said that Di Lanxue is a stupid little maid who can survive, she proudly held her head high and told Anna that in this world, Her Royal Highness Di Lanxue is the most powerful and gentle girl.
On that day, the lion hime, who was obedient to her father, lost her temper for the first time.
It's a pity that this is the age of obscurantism, which is half feudal and half slave, and Cersei casually executes a maid without any problems at all, even if the reason is just for fun.
"It's good to die, you don't need to be weak and sympathetic to these kinds of emotions, they make you vulnerable. ”
Twilight's answer is simple and harsh, not only does he not punish Cersei and Anna, but he also slaps the Lion Queen and replaces all her maids.
That day. The lion girl cried very sadly, and it was the first time in her life that she skipped class, so she carefully collected the snow stained with the maid's ashes and buried it under a cherry tree in the suburbs.
That cherry tree is also the resting place she will decide to rest in the future.
Trouble began to pour in.
A little parrot that was secretly raised was inexplicably killed. The feathers were plucked out and thrown in the garden, and the favorite hounds were also beheaded and nailed to the trunks of trees with javelins, and the hidden rag dolls, all of which were dug out of their bellies, splashed with red ink, and thrown everywhere like dead bodies.
Dilanxue learned to be silent. Since then, she has been swinging her sword for longer!
When he was eleven years old, his favorite grandmother Saranda also died.
On that day, Dilanxue sat for a long time under the grape trellis in the rain, and did not shed a single tear.
"I don't need a weeping princess!"
This is a phrase that Emperor Twilight often puts on his lips, and it is also the one that Dilanxue is most afraid to hear, because as soon as she cries, someone will be unlucky.
"Oh!"
Di Lanxue finally remembered. From the day the little maid was burned to death, she never smiled again.
Time flies.
At the age of twelve. The decaying Twilight Empire has finally faced its greatest crisis, when the twelve powerful Grand Dukes rebelled.
The great empires are all watching from the sidelines, and at this time, Twilight is already like an old man who is about to die, and no one thinks that her national honor can continue, even if it is the Xiu Peilonge family as in-laws. None reached out.
Di Lanxue stepped forward.
With her still immature shoulders, she carried this empire that was about to decline.
Di Lanxue began to kill, and for the first time, he cleaned most of the palace, and then took a body of blood. The twenty-four princes and Hou mansions in Wangcheng were leveled overnight, and no chickens and dogs were left.
Among them, there are many servants who have served her for many years, including the guards who have accompanied her to practice swords, the uncles and aunts she has called, and the seniors who have been educated in the Royal Academy together......
Di Lanxue knew that even if his father was seriously ill and unconscious, he was still watching himself, and he cultivated himself carefully for this day.
Lion-Ji didn't want to disappoint her father, so the blade fell, killing people with heads and rivers of blood.
Ignoring the pleas of her classmates, the cries of the women and children, and the curses of the defeated dogs, Di Lanxue sat on the throne of the empire with the scepter of the king.
When she looked down on the world and saw the poor and suffering people struggling, Di Lanxue suddenly understood that she was not living for herself.
Not wanting to disappoint her father, not wanting to disappoint her people, and not wanting to disappoint those who had pinned their hopes on her, Dilanxue wrapped herself under the cold armor of steel, and ruled the country with iron and blood and law.
Even the most accurate prophets have concluded that the Twilight Empire will fall apart this year, but twelve-year-old Dilanxue is born and the edifice is about to fall.
It was also this year that Di Lanxue won the reputation of the Iron Lion Ji, and became the best princess among the young generation in the mainland, on a par with Heinrich, which no one can match.
The country settled down.
She was grateful to Heinrich for the elixir he had worked so hard to find, and it had prolonged her father's life.
It's just that his father has cursed him, and Lion Ji even sacrificed his life and used the Great Destiny Technique to save him.
There is not much time left for Dilanxue.
The filial Lion Ji put down government affairs and searched the world for the Miracle Saintess and the Rose of the Demon Palace, hoping to save her father with the help of their magical powers.
Now that I think about it, another hope came suddenly.
In the Lava Secret Realm, Di Lanxue met the boy named Downton for the first time, got up in Weimo, and finally became famous all over the world.
Lion Ji still remembers that early that morning, when he was irritable and was wielding a sword in the backyard of the hotel, Downton appeared, and his delicate face was full of admiration and admiration.
"It's silly!"
Dilanxue decided to say so, and in the following adventures, she saw the wit, bravery, and fearlessness of this young man, and he also successfully killed Jutland's Magical Youth Tournament champion, Torres, who was highly expected by the royal family and the wealthy family, to get Sha Romenda and become the ultimate winner.
For the sake of the empire, Lion Ji has been recruiting talent. She paid attention to Downton, and then saw that he had defeated Placido with an absolute disadvantage and became the new Grand Duke of the West.
Downton's rise began here.
With a mask, she became a mediocre woman. Under the pseudonym Twilight, Dilanxue and Downton team up and head underground.
Downton's inadvertent traits were amazing, and Di Lanxue was gradually attracted, and then in the three years of Fort Crucible, Martial God Temple, she had a good impression of this man.
They are so mindful that they don't need any words. Just a look, a small thumb movement, can understand the other person's mind.
At this point, Di Lanxue realized that he might have fallen in love with Downton, and he seemed to like him too.
At that moment, Di Lanxue was proud. Be proud, know that you have an ordinary face. Defeated Sissi, who had been chasing Downton.
Except for a fool like Downton, what man would give up an imperial princess with unparalleled family background and wealth and fall in love with an ugly woman?
It's just that it is impossible for the two parties to be together, and Dilanxue's fiancé is Heinrich, and she is worried about causing disaster to Downton. In addition, there was a mission in his body, so he quietly left.
In the meantime, the Northern Council was opened, and went to the orc court to negotiate, until they were teleported into the Dragon Graveyard, where they were. Di Lanxue really confirmed her mind.
The steel shell is gradually melting.
Delanxue loves Downton!
Because he likes it, he must leave, otherwise Downton has only a dead end.
Lion thought that time could erase her thoughts, but Downton rose on the continent at a comet-like speed, and his reputation caught up with Heinrich.
The father finally died, and the holy war came, and Di Lanxue, who had been an adult for a long time, could not delay any longer.
Because of the kindness owed, the marriage contract of his childhood, and the future of the empire and the entire continent, Dilanxue must marry Heinrich.
But who knows, Downton came resolutely, the King of the Red Dragon, the Human God of War, the Orc Sword Master, the Evil Elf God of War, so many famous powerhouses, none of them could stop his pace.
Fortunately, I can still kick him out of the wedding celebration.
"Two people, there's really no way to be together!"
Di Lanxue murmured in her heart, put on her wedding dress, walked out of the palace, got into the wedding car, until she entered the cathedral, stood here, and listened to the Pope's wedding ......
Along the way, she felt like a walking corpse, and her soul was slowly dying.
What does the Pope say again?
Confess any reasons that stand in the way of your union?
Refuse to say what to say?
Will this man be your husband and marry him?
Refuse to say what to say?
Love him, take care of him, respect him, accept him, be faithful to him until the end of his life, whether it be sick or healthy, or for any other reason?"
I want to marry Downton!
Di Lanxue once firmly believed that as long as he swung his sword bravely, he could solve all problems, but now it seems that this is ridiculous!
"I don't have a choice!"
Di Lanxue screamed in her heart, but her expression was calm, she raised her eyelids with red eyeshadow, and there was no other way.
When I was a child, whenever I was tired and uncomfortable and didn't want to persevere, Mama Saranda would always tell herself that there would be a hero who would save her.
But until today, he is scarred and exhausted, but the hero still hasn't appeared!
"It's time to finish!"
Di Lanxue took a deep breath, and Sakura's lips fluttered hard.
"I ...... May ......"
There were only three words, but Di Lanxue seemed to have exhausted all her life's strength, and she felt that if she said it, her soul would die completely.
This is a betrayal of Downton, but refusal, how is it not a betrayal of his father, the Twilight Empire, and hundreds of millions of people?
Di Lanxue, who couldn't make a choice, closed her eyes in pain, but when she was about to say the last word, a familiar voice, like a thunderclap, suddenly resounded in her ears.
Di Lanxue, I'm here to pick you up!(To be continued.) )
PS: Woo woo, this chapter is too difficult to write, I wrote it for more than a day, and the next high ~ tide, we also have to brew feelings, so there is only one change today, please forgive me!