Opening the door, Mei Qing was stunned.

"Son, it's me!" the woman repeated, unveiling.

It was an aged woman, who lived a very privileged life in terms of her slender figure and smooth skin, and whose face was far more beautiful than most young women, and which you can imagine must have been striking when she was a girl. She wore no ornaments except for the eagle half-helmet on her head, and simply wore an emerald green robe, the green veil covering her slender arms, and a thin soft silver chain knotted around her waist.

Mei Qing didn't believe her eyes, but the woman hugged him and hugged him tightly, as if she was afraid that he would run away at any time. She leaned on Mei Qing's shoulder and lowered her voice to cry, and her whole body was trembling. Mei Qing's eyes gradually moistened, his expression changed from surprise to pain, he still didn't speak, but hugged the woman tightly.

After a long time, the mood of the two finally stabilized.

"Son, are you okay?" the woman held Mei Qing's hands tightly and kept rubbing them, "How long have you lived here?" She touched the rough cocoon on his hand, and looked up at the furnishings in the room, her eyes fell on the furnished furniture and the dull low couch, and her heart was even more sad.

"I'm fine here. Mei Qing smiled softly, his smile was very comforting, "I'm well fed, I'm warmly dressed, everything is fine." ”

"Have you been so alone all these years? son, how did you survive such a bad environment here?"

Mei Qing's face changed, as if she remembered the past she didn't want to recall. He looked away, and the hand holding the woman was a little stiff. The woman noticed the change in his mood, and after a long while, she asked in a trembling whisper, "You still won't forgive me for driving away your biological parents, do you?"

Mei Qing didn't speak, and the woman's tears burst out of her eyes again, "Son, whether you recognize me or not, you are my only child, forever." I'll never forget the day you spoke and called Mommy for the first time in my arms. Her words made his tears finally fall, "You are all my hope for life, so I want to give you the best in the country." My son, you have been educated by the king since you were a child, and you have never let me down, and you have dwarfed your competitors with no difficulty. ”

"Son, please consider it from my point of view. I have prepared this country for you for twenty years, and I have taken care not to let you hear any rumors, and I want you to become the greatest king of Ansu without any success. The woman sighed deeply, "I didn't expect that at that critical moment, you would tell me that you had found your biological parents." I'm scared, not that you're going to leave me, but that you're going to live a completely different life······"

The woman couldn't say any more, and lay on her arm and sobbed again.

Mei Qing stretched out her hand and stroked the woman's still black hair, "I can't escape my fate, and I can't pretend to be indifferent to my background. Even if I didn't remember anything at the time, even if I had received the best education in Ansu, the fact that the blood of the Semian clan was flowing in my body was a fact that I couldn't get rid of. ”

"Do you want to get rid of it?" the woman said eagerly, rekindling hope, "even if it's Kuller, I can ·······"

"Nope. Mei Qing interrupted her categorically, "Whatever my ancestors are, I am who they are." Slaves or untouchables, this is my birthright, and I will never refuse. ”

"Don't you regret killing that Ansu?" the woman did not give up, "if it weren't for that, Culler wouldn't have hunted you down, and you would have remained in the palace even if you weren't the king." ”

"I don't regret it," Mei Qing's eyes flashed with anger for the first time, as if she had gone back to five years ago, "how can I tolerate this atrocity happening right under my nose and my people when he defiled that Semian's wife to death, and discarded her body in pieces on the construction site where the Semian worked, and threatened to kill the poor woman's husband and children?"

"But," retorted the woman excitedly, "those Semians are not grateful to you at all, and you have buried your future for the sake of a slave you never know! You know that Culler has been looking for an opportunity to kill you, and if it were not for this he had no chance of becoming king of Ansu, how could the Senate have ignored my orders and agreed to Cooler hunting you down? Why would such a clever boy like you do such a thing, because it is too stupid and worthless!"

"If I do it again," Mei Qing said lightly, "I will do it again." ”

After a long silence, the woman was finally defeated, and she stared blankly at a crack in the ground, as if she had suddenly aged several years.

"Then," said the woman again, in a low voice, "can you forgive me, forgive me for hiding your origins, and driving away your parents·······

"I have never hated you, how can I forgive you?" Mom," Mei Qing took the woman in her arms and comforted her softly, he completely regained his composure, "For me, you are not an adoptive mother, not Princess Saya, nor the current Queen Mother, you are my mother." Twenty years in the palace of Ansu, you raised me, protected me, and allowed the son of an alien slave to live as happily as a prince, which is my fondest memory. My parents may no longer be here, but you are my eternal comfort. ”

"But you still insist on leaving, you won't go back with me, will you?"

"Mom," Mei Qing wiped away the tears from the Queen Mother's face and whispered, "When I made up my mind to end the life of that Ansu man, I chose to go the other way. I know it's a difficult road, and it might kill me, but if I don't go, it will really kill me. ”

"Why are you so persistent?"

"Because," Mei Qing seemed to answer herself, "if the door of destiny is opened, no one can close it." ”