Huangfu Xiaoyuan's sword stopped on the crown princess's neck, her expression looked as if she was struggling, her hands were tense, and she couldn't cut this sword down no matter what.

"What's the matter, can't you do it?" There was not a trace of wave in the princess's calm eyes, she clamped the long sword around her neck with two fingers, only to hear a crisp sound, and the long sword broke in response.

The crown princess pinched the blade of the broken sword with her fingers, and said with a smile while playing: "Such a sword can't kill me." ”

Huangfu Xiaoyuan gritted her teeth, she seemed to be very unwilling, she angrily broke the sword in her hand and abandoned it, and then slapped it at the crown princess, but unfortunately this palm still stayed on the other side of the door and could not fall.

"Ugh."

The crown princess seemed a little helpless, she sighed and shook her head, then took the broken blade and turned back to her position.

When the Broken Blade was thrown on the table by her, the crown princess leaned lazily on the table and said with some disappointment: "If it's just such an enlightenment, then I advise you to leave him quickly, just like that child." ”

Huangfu Xiaoyuan stood in place and was silent, without answering.

"Speaking of which, it's clear that you grew up next to me, but why aren't you as clever as a wild child like her."

The crown princess had a puzzled expression on her face, and she knocked her forehead in distress: "Or do you really like him?" No way. ”

The crown princess pretended to look at Huangfu Xiaoyuan in surprise, and then said with a smile: "Xiaoyuan, that is the enemy who made you homeless, you actually have feelings for him?" ”

"Shut up." Huangfu Xiaoyuan's body trembled, raised her face, and the color of hatred stained her eyes red: "The person who made me homeless is you!" ”

"Really? I thought you'd feel happy. ”

The crown princess winked at her, and said in a flirtatious tone: "When you hid in the coffin and heard those things that day, didn't you have a sense of happiness that you had lost and regained?" ”

Huangfu Xiaoyuan's clenched fists began to tremble uncontrollably, even with her heart, the hatred in her eyes at this moment was used to cover up the fragile disguise, but at this moment it was ruthlessly peeled off by the other party.

"Mmmm, what a happy child, your childhood was so enviable, what you thought you had lost has always existed, to be honest, I envy you a little."

The crown princess's words shattered Huangfu Xiaoyuan's fragile heart defense, and her weak body fell to her knees with a thud, and her trembling hands couldn't even hold the sword.

"I wasn't supposed to be born into this world in the first place." Huangfu Xiaoyuan covered her head and wanted to escape from all the words, and she couldn't suppress her painful crying

"It's me—it's me who hurt my father and mother" Tears slipped from the corners of Huangfu Xiaoyuan's eyes and fell on the stone bricks of the main hall, like withered flowers.

"No," the princess said with a smile: "Xiaoyuan, don't you already know, I am your real mother." ”

"Shut up——!"

Huangfu Xiaoyuan's red eyes widened suddenly, and her body, driven by pain and hatred, picked up the broken sword on the ground, and flew to the crown princess in one step, and the other party opened her only remaining arm, as if she wanted to embrace herself, and accepted the broken sword full of hatred.

When Huangfu Xiaoyuan came back to her senses, she found that she had crashed into a soft embrace, which she had never felt, full of motherhood and love.

She looked up blankly, and the princess's smile seemed to return to the gentleness she remembered when she was a child, a picture she had fantasized about countless times over the years.

The crown princess gently took Huangfu Xiaoyuan into her arms, and the warm blood ran down the cold hilt of the sword, dotted with brilliant blood flowers under the feet of the two.

Surrounded by the body that slowly passed with vitality, Huangfu Xiaoyuan subconsciously felt a little nostalgic for this moment of softness, the tip of her nose couldn't help but sour, when the dream became a reality, pain became the main tone of the world.

"You're to me, the hell—" Huangfu Xiaoyuan raised her head in a hoarse voice, and after removing all disguises, her misty eyes were full of longing.

"Nope."

The crown princess pushed away Huangfu Xiaoyuan a little weakly, and said softly with a gradually pale face: "Never." ”

Huangfu Xiaoyuan slowly took two steps back, and then sat on the ground, like when she was a child, clasped her knees and buried her head, so that people could not see their weakness and pitifulness.

Like a withered flower, the crown princess lay down lightly, blood spreading under her body, staining her pure robes red.

"Once upon a time, there was such a monster—"

The crown princess had a pale smile on the corner of her mouth, and her eyes looked weakly at the empty hall, and slowly told the strange story sentence by sentence: "Happy monsters, they have the same appearance as people, live with people, borrow human emotions, feel the happiness that belongs to people, until they find that they don't actually belong here-

Pathetic monsters, with the same appearance as humans, can live with people, can have human joys and sorrows, but when the false mask is removed, they can only die alone, tragically."

The crown princess's breath became weaker and weaker, she slowly closed her eyes, and occasionally made a weak voice like a kitten in her mouth, which seemed to be some kind of singing, and on the side, Huangfu Xiaoyuan's body, which was trembling slightly, suddenly calmed down.

In her long memory, it seems that she can often hear such songs during those sleepless nights, like a clear spring, soothing her inner uneasiness.

I don't know how long later, a woman dressed as a female official entered the main hall with several palace people, and Huangfu Xiaoyuan raised her head and saw a familiar face, this is an aunt in the palace of the concubine, named A Xiu.

"Clean up." Ah Xiu lightly ordered, and several palace people stepped forward to carry away the body of the crown princess.

Huangfu Xiaoyuan was silent for a moment, and then spoke: "Can you let me. He buried her with his own hands. ”

"Yes," Ah Xiu nodded, and then said: "I will follow you, and I can't send her back to Jiangnan, after all, you are now a valuable person, and if you leave Beijing without permission, you will cause a lot of trouble." ”

"My. Identity? Huangfu Xiaoyuan raised her head in confusion.

Ah Xiu looked down at the body of the crown princess, and then said: "Assassinating Your Majesty is a serious crime, no matter how special his status is, he can't be pardoned lightly, the third lady of the Huangfu family has been sentenced to death and executed, so do you understand?" ”

Huangfu Xiaoyuan's eyes widened slightly, and Ah Xiu continued: "Although Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess has also committed serious crimes, but thinking of the Taisun Renxiao, if you recognize each other at the beginning, you may not be too cruel, so the imperial court has decided that Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess will be grounded in the palace for the rest of her life, and she will not be allowed to take half a step, and she will not be honored before her death." ”

Huangfu Xiaoyuan opened her mouth, and then didn't say anything, after Ah Xiu left, she lowered her head, looked at the empty and cold East Palace, and said to herself: "It's okay, anyway, I have nowhere to go."

(End of chapter)