My Fair Princess: The Queen's Rebirth

Little Swallow took the kite she made and admired it carefully. Then she picked up the kite made by Ziwei. She saw that there were many beautiful flowers and butterflies painted on Ziwei's kite.

"Wow, Ziwei, your kite is so beautiful."

Then Xiaoyanzi took another look at Xiao Jian's kite. There was a tree painted on it, with a few lines of words written in the blank space next to it. "Oh, I don't understand this. Qing'er, can you tell me what this means?"

Qing'er took the kite from Xiaoyanzi's hand.

There is a painting of a vigorous pine tree on it, and next to it is a poem by Xin Qiji from the Song Dynasty.

Qing'er read each word and recited it silently, "...I searched for her among the crowd for hundreds of times. When I turned around, she was there, in the dim light."

Qing'er shyly handed the kite in her hand back to Xiaoyanzi.

Xiaoyanzi took the kite from Qing'er and looked at her meaningfully. Then she said, "My brother is really talented in writing. If it were Ertai, he certainly wouldn't be able to draw such a beautiful picture."

Ertai couldn't wait to pick up the kite he and Xiaoyanzi had made together and said, "Xiaoyanzi, isn't this kite we made very beautiful? It's in the shape of a swallow, and there are swallows painted on it."

"I think it will be beautiful when it flies up into the sky." Little Swallow nodded and continued with a smile, "Then let's go now. We'll have a competition to see which group's kite flies the highest."

"Okay, let's go." Ertai took Xiaoyanzi's hand and prepared to go outside, but Xiaoyanzi suddenly stopped halfway.

Ertai looked at Xiaoyanzi with a confused look on his face and asked, "What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell? If not, we can go fly kites another day."

Xiaoyanzi waved her hands and quickly covered her cheeks with her hands and replied, "No, no, I just suddenly remembered that my face is covered in bruises. If I go out, I will definitely be laughed at. That beast hit me pretty hard."

"Wait a moment." Ziwei took out her handkerchief and tied a knot at the two corners with two pieces of thread. "Xiaoyanzi, turn around."

Xiaoyanzi gently touched her cheek with her hand, then said with a smile: "Ziwei, you are really smart. This can cover up the bruises on my face."

After that, the group came to the suburbs.

The wind is a bit strong in the suburbs.

But it's just right to fly a kite.

Little Swallow picked up the swallow kite that she and Ertai had made together and said, "Ertai, I'll run with the kite, and you keep letting out the string from behind."

The voice just fell.

Ertai walked up to Xiaoyanzi, took the kite from her hand, and then handed the string in his hand to Xiaoyanzi.

"Little Swallow, just stand here with the spool of string. Leave the physical work of running with the kite to me." Ertai ran with the kite while shouting, "Little Swallow, let out the string quickly."

After hearing Ertai's words, Xiaoyanzi quickly turned the spool, and in a blink of an eye, her swallow-shaped kite flew up with the wind.

Ziwei saw that Xiaoyanzi's kite had flown very high, so she said quickly: "Wow, Xiaoyanzi, your kite has flown so high! I don't know why Erkang and I's kites have been flying for so long but never take off. They always fall down."

While letting out the line, Xiaoyanzi turned around and looked at Erkang, and found that the direction Erkang was standing was opposite to the direction of the wind.

"Erkang, you're standing in the wrong place." Xiaoyanzi rolled her eyes at Erkang, but then she thought it was funny and couldn't help but remind him, "Of course you can't stand here. Switch places with Ziwei. Ziwei, stand next to me."

"Ah, really?"

Erkang smiled awkwardly.

"Of course, the kite must be in the same direction as the wind, so that the wind can blow the kite up. If it is in the opposite direction, it will definitely not fly." Xiaoyanzi looked at Erkang speechlessly. She didn't expect Erkang didn't even know this. Ertai was smart.

At this moment, Xiao Jian and Qing'er's kites had also flown up with the wind.

Qing'er gently pulled the kite string, and a trace of sadness suddenly flashed in her eyes, but it quickly disappeared.

Xiao Jian noticed something was wrong with Qing'er, so he walked over to her and asked, "Qing'er, what's wrong with you?"

Qing'er opened her mouth slightly and said, "I'm fine."

"Are you really okay?" Xiao Jian paused and then continued, "In fact, everyone has many things they can't do about it, and many times they can't be truly free."

Qing'er nodded and was silent for a long time before she slowly responded, "Actually, I really envy Xiaoyanzi. Although she suffered a lot since she was a child, she never complained. Instead, she lived her life colorfully and happily."

"Yes, to be honest, as her brother, I actually admire her quite a bit." Xiao Jian fixed his gaze on Xiaoyanzi who was playing and fighting with Ertai not far away. Seeing her smiling so happily, a smile also appeared on his face.

"And I am like the kite in this hand. Even though this kite flies high and far, its fate is firmly in someone's hands, and it has no freedom at all."

Qing'er's eyes were slightly moist.

“It’s not easy to be free.”

Xiao Jian pulled the sword out of the scabbard and gently cut the kite string, and the kite string broke.

The kite flew farther and farther away.

Qing'er looked at Xiao Jian and said, "When the string breaks, the kite is free, but have you ever thought that the person who made the kite must be very sad and upset?"

"Yes, the kite maker might not be able to accept the kite leaving him for a while, and he would be sad and upset. But as long as he understands what the kite really wants, he will naturally be happy, and even feel that his decision to let go of the kite was the right one."

Xiao Jian said disapprovingly.

Qing'er looked at Xiao Jian who was standing beside her, and she suddenly felt that everything Xiao Jian said made sense.

She didn't want to be someone else's puppet anymore.

She has her own life, she is an individual.

It is not anyone's appendage.

"Qing'er, why are you looking at me like that?" Xiao Jian felt a little embarrassed when he saw Qing'er staring at him.

Qing'er smiled and replied, "I just suddenly felt that what you said just now made a lot of sense. From today on, I will start living for myself and I will be the master of my own life."

Xiao Jian pursed his lips and looked at Qing'er gently but politely.

In fact, from the moment he first broke into the Cining Palace at night and met Qing'er, his heart seemed to have been deeply moved by this woman.