After rebirth, she became the favorite of the powerful minister.

Yuan Ge drank for most of the night and fell asleep in a daze at dawn, still a little drunk.

But I didn't sleep well.

The dream was of a dark night and a blood-red ocean. A big, round moon hung in the sky, dyed with blood and looking even brighter. There were trees in the yard, their leaves had fallen, leaving only strong and rugged branches, like skinny arms struggling to crawl out from the underworld and reaching out to the blood-red moon.

She slowly lowered her head and saw a pair of tender hands belonging to a child, still covered in blood, warm and sticky, and even in her dreams she could still smell the strong smell of blood.

Someone held her in an almost cold embrace, "Xiao Ge'er, my little Ge'er...it's okay, don't be afraid." There was a sense of exhaustion in the voice.

It's the mother.

Yuan Ge had lost her memory before the age of four. She didn't remember what her mother looked like or what her voice sounded like, but at this moment she knew very clearly that it was her mother, her mother's voice, her mother's embrace, but she couldn't see her face. She could only hear her mother repeating over and over again, "It's okay, it's okay, don't be afraid, my little Ge'er, don't be afraid...it's just that mother can't grow up with little Ge'er..." Her voice became lower and lower, and the hand holding her suddenly dropped.

Yuan Ge woke up suddenly and was shocked to find that he was covered in sticky cold sweat in such a late winter night.

Outside, the wind was strong and the rain was heavy. The sky was gloomy and it was hard to tell the time. Inside, the candle was swaying. Jianshu, who was sleeping on the table, woke up slowly after hearing the noise. There was no trace of tiredness in his eyes. He just glanced at the sky and turned back to say, "It's not even 7:00 yet. It's still early. Madam, do you want to get up?"

This is also one of Jianshu's abilities. No matter what the weather or environment is, she seems to be able to determine the current time at a glance. Jianshu has many such abilities, which she said she would "get used to and master if she saw more", but now it seems that her abilities are all for killing or survival.

It's really not easy.

"It's still early. I drank too much yesterday and have a headache. I don't want to get up for a while." She woke up from her dream, her rapidly beating heart had not yet calmed down, her voice was a little hoarse, and she was mentally lazy. She asked softly, "Why don't you go back to your room and rest? You can't sleep well lying at this table. It's cold late at night. If you catch a cold, you will be the one who suffers... It will be cold and damp to go back and rest at this time. Why don't you lie on my bed for a while." As she spoke, she moved inward and patted the place beside her.

"No need." Jianshu shook his head, "I'm used to it."

Yuan Ge glanced at her sideways, waved and called out, "Getting used to it is one thing, but why should you insist on making yourself suffer when you have a comfortable environment? Come up quickly! It just so happens that I just had a nightmare and broke out in a cold sweat. It's a little cold in the bed now. Come up and warm me up. If you can't sleep, just talk to me."

Since that's what he said, Jianshu couldn't refuse. He tiptoed onto Yuan Ge's bed, but just lay down on the edge of the bed with only one corner of the quilt covering him. He felt like he was walking on thin ice, like a little girl who was forced into prostitution.

Yuan Ge was still laughing to himself, and suddenly pulled the man and the blanket in. Meeting the man's unusually obvious surprised expression, he grinned, "What's the matter? Am I some kind of man-eating beast? Why are you hiding so far away?"

"No." Jianshu lowered her brows and didn't look at anyone. She lay on the soft bed with her whole body stiff. She explained woodenly and weakly, "I, I'm just not used to it... I've never been like others..." She was different from Lin Mu and Yan Huo. She was not an ordinary secret guard. She was trained according to the standards of an assassin... Lady Song worked for His Majesty and was in charge of the Northern Pacification Division. Most of the cases she handled involved court officials. They were either well versed in the law or had someone else do it for them. The law could not do anything to them, so naturally they needed some abnormal means.

Lord Song is the knife in His Majesty's hand, and she is the knife in Lord Song's hand.

There are many knives like hers, but she is the only one who is lucky enough to return to the sun and live a normal life. Even so, she is still not like a normal person, such as now. Jianshu tried to soften his whole body, slightly tilted his head and looked at Yuan Ge, "I have never talked with others lying like this, I am a little uncomfortable." In fact, even this normal way of talking took her a long time to get used to, after all, she used to only need to answer "yes", and was an assassin without even a name.

Yuan Ge also smiled, tilted his head and leaned against Jianshu's shoulder, then said, "This is my first time too... Come to think of it, I've lived for so many years and have two personal maids, but I've never talked with someone lying side by side like this."

She maintained this posture, looking up at the curtain, the wind and rain were howling outside, the remaining candles in the house were swaying slowly, casting dim shadows on the wall, everything seemed extraordinarily warm, the girl lying next to her was not smart and was taciturn, but from the moment they met, she gave people a very reliable feeling, and she was a very good listener.

So she leaned against the other person's shoulder and told him the story, "I had a personal maid before, a little girl I rescued. She was grateful for my life-saving grace and decided to stay here to take care of me... Zhixuanshan is different from those big families in Shengjing City. We don't have many servants here, just some who clean the courtyard, wash clothes and cook. Many of them are elderly people or poor people who have been displaced. Before her, I didn't have a personal maid either. I was used to being alone. Suddenly, there was someone helping me dress and wash, and I was a little uncomfortable..."

"But she insisted on staying, saying that she had no home to return to, and that her father would sell her again... so she stayed. I saw that she was smart, so I taught her to read and write, thinking that when she was willing to come down the mountain, she could find a job to support herself... She was a very opinionated girl, fierce, and protective of her master, like a wolf cub. She often quarreled with others for me, and her face turned red and she was even injured. I remember that there were two times when I was sick, and she lay on the table all night to watch over me, just like you just now."

Jianshu had already guessed who Yuan Ge was talking about. It was the woman who had committed crimes repeatedly in Shengjing City and killed so many innocent girls - Jin Su.

"Different."

For the first time in history, Jianshu expressed her thoughts. She maintained the same posture as Yuange, looking at the curtain, and said softly, "Young Madam, a wolf cub cannot be tamed. She is fierce, but has no master, so naturally she cannot protect her master."