Awakening of Rebirth

Nearly ten days had passed since the news from the front line arrived at Talan from Knossus over the mountains.

Looking at the battle report from afar, and the sad news of Mingluo's disappearance, Chang Sheng's heart, which was extremely restless, cooled down bit by bit.

Ever since Wodo came back and the black dragon was resurrected, the things that made her forget about food and tea every day, and toss and turn every night, which she was most afraid of all the time, finally happened one by one.

She once wanted to protect the living people by all means because the dead could never return. She thought that as long as she was determined enough, cruel enough, and not afraid of infamy or being misunderstood, she could keep them by her side... ... But until now, she realized that everything she did was in vain.

Jiang Zheng is gone, three months have passed without any news, Ming Luo has gone, three months have been disobeyed and never returned, even at the cost of turning into a dragon to protect those who should have nothing to do with him, both of them decided against it, and she again How can we get them back?

She began to think about what she had, the supreme right, or the endless glory and wealth?

Are these really a kind of happiness to her...

Suddenly, scenes and scenes lingered in her mind.

She saw the mountains of corpses and the sea of ​​blood in the Far East, her father's head hung high by the demons, and the bruises all over her body, and she still wanted to comfort her younger brother until he died.

She saw countless vines stained with blood, saw the broken blade piercing the girl's chest, saw the four seasons in the firelight, saw the dead elves in the outskirts of the city, and saw the bloody relatives on the Cloud Tower...

"You...would you hate me if you saw me now?"

Chang Sheng was taken aback by her own thoughts. She thought she could let go of everything, but found that it was just a self-deception after losing everything. Those people or things that had been imprinted on her heart never really let her go for a moment.

"Your Majesty, Madam Nora has been clamoring to see you since she heard the sad news of the disappearance of His Highness Mingluo!" The place trembled slightly.

Now in Talan City, no one is not afraid of her.

She thought this was what she wanted.Today, she is not a kind person. She does not need to be respected or loved. It is enough for those who are dissatisfied with her to be afraid of her.It's just that for a moment suddenly, she felt that she was so lonely, so lonely that there was no one beside her who dared to stand and listen to her, let alone listen to her talk.

"Get up." Chang Sheng said, pondered for a moment, took a deep breath, and decided to meet his younger brother and sister who had been under house arrest for a long time.

During the three months since Mingluo left, Nora has been very quiet. She promised Mingluo that she must not provoke Changsheng, so no matter how much grievance or anger she had in her heart, she dared not express it.

Every time there is a battle report from the front line, Chang Sheng will order someone to make a copy in advance and send it to Nora, along with a sentence: "Knossus will die sooner or later, and I hope the princess can let Mingluo go. Persuade him to come back. If you don’t mind, Ainota will try her best to accommodate the refugees from Knossus, and will definitely give you and your brother the inexhaustible glory and wealth in your life.”

Such rumors almost wished to trample on the dignity of the once honorable and proud princess, and then tell her that she already had nothing, and obedience was the only way out.

Nora knew that Chang Sheng hated her, and even attributed the fact that Ming Luo led the army away from Ainota to Knossus without authorization to her instigation.Now Her Majesty's thoughts, thoughts, and even actions tend to be extreme, and I am afraid that she has already lost her mind.Now that her life is in the hands of Changsheng, Nora has no other way to change this suffocating situation except fear and prayer.

She firmly believes that her brother and Mingluo must have a way to resist the attack of the demons, just like when she was a child listening to the nanny tell a story, she firmly believed that the end of the story must be full of evil, to trust, to look forward to the dawn that will come after dawn.

However, this trust collapsed along with the bad news from the front line.

Mingluo disappeared without a trace during the battle to defend the imperial capital, and his life and death are still unknown, and his whereabouts are unknown.This news almost broke all her sanity and shattered all her expectations.

The moment Chang Sheng stepped into the dark room, he saw Nora lying on the bed, looking at her with red eyes that seemed to be pleading, and asked her with a smile that seemed to be choked up: "How could this be? It's a lie... How can such a good person suddenly disappear?"

"I know what happened and why he suddenly disappeared."

After Chang Sheng finished speaking, she closed the door behind her, and the only light source was blocked outside the house again. She looked into Nora's unbelievable eyes, and gritted her teeth, "But I'd rather not know!"

Nora could detect an extremely dangerous aura from Chang Sheng's body, as well as a kind of suppressed grief.This kind of grief cannot be faked, something happened to Mingluo...

"Don't you care about him? Why do you have to push him to the road of no return for your own selfish desire?"

"This is not selfishness/desire. Knossus was captured by the demons, and Ainota will face the demons. What good does this do for you?"

"Benefits? You mentioned this word to me again." Changsheng couldn't help laughing at himself, and said, "You want Mingluo to help your brother, you want him to protect your country, you say this is not selfish desire, because you can Did you save a lot of people? Then let me tell you, I want Mingluo to stay in Talan obediently. I think he ignores your country’s ruin, because I have already made a deal with the black dragon, and he has already promised me that as long as I am alive One day, the demon army will never invade Ainota!"

"This is my righteousness to Ainota. What I give up is the lives of people who have nothing to do with Ainota!" Chang Sheng said, suddenly strode forward, grabbed Nora's wrist, and gritted his teeth: "Mingluo If he hadn't participated in this war that had nothing to do with him, he wouldn't have been expelled by the selfish humans he protected, and even deeply hurt!"

Nora was so frightened that she shrunk her whole body to the corner of the bed, trying to break free, but she couldn't twist Chang Sheng at all, so she couldn't help crying, "Can you let me go, let me go!"

"Let go of you? I'm just holding your hand now, but you've been holding on to Mingluo's life!"

"what are you saying!"

"I said, that silly child Mingluo, knowing that he is a dragon, is destined to be feared and loathed by humans, knowing that his cultivation is not enough, once he transforms into a dragon, he will not be able to return to human form without strong external help, but he still has no hesitation to break through the seal , just to protect those human beings who will eventually hurt him and expel him!"

"Why, we are born to hide our heads and hide our tails! Obviously we were born and raised here, and we have been loyal to human beings, even at the expense of opposing our own people, but we didn't dig our hearts out... But in the end , just because of the sentence 'not my race', all our efforts were completely denied..." Chang Sheng's eyes that were gradually reddened were filled with uncontrollable anger.

She said: "Do you know? Mingluo may never come back. Humans can't tolerate him, how can he survive in the gap between the demons and the human race? The black dragon will not let him go easily, he... I am afraid More bad luck than good luck."

Suddenly, she couldn't stop crying and laughing until someone seemed to strangle her throat, no matter how much she opened her mouth, she couldn't make any sound.

Finally, she let go of Nora's wrist, looked at Nora's completely devastated collapse, twitched the corners of her mouth, leaned close to her ear, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Could it be that I shouldn't give you the money?" A little retribution?"

As she spoke, her emotions became more and more agitated, and she reached out to pinch Nora's neck, wanting to use a little more force, but couldn't stop trembling with the painful struggle of the prey at her fingertips.

Finally, she tried her best to control her emotions, stroked Nora's stomach, and said, "You think I'm a devil, don't you?"

Nora clutched her neck and panted heavily, staring at Chang Sheng with her eyes red from crying in horror, sobbing in depression and not daring to speak.

"Actually, I have never thought of taking revenge on anyone. I just want to use that disgusting identity to obtain a corner of peace from the palm of the black dragon, so that the people I care about can live without worries... But I found out, what should I do? Can't even protect them?"

Chang Sheng could no longer tell right from wrong in this life, she only knew that when she stood up to resist, someone would break her legs, and when she knelt down to beg for mercy, someone would force her to stand up and fight.

"My heart and my hands have been clean before." Chang Sheng said, "If it wasn't for those people who sold their souls for their own selfishness/desires, who pushed me to this point step by step, maybe I could still be on the battlefield, with The identity of the third princess of the human kingdom Ainota died with honor."

Nora tried her best to squeeze her body against the corner of the bed, Chang Sheng was like a demon, so close to her, as if she could be crushed by reaching out.The thoughts in her mind were already in a mess, and the panic and grief were mixed in her heart, making it difficult for her to breathe.

The dark room is depressing.After an unknown amount of time, Nora finally heard the first voice after the silence—Chang Sheng fell down at the foot of the bed and muttered to herself in a daze.

"Mingluo, my younger brother. If I want to trade your life with the black dragon regardless of the cost, will you never forgive me again?"

"But if I don't trade with the black dragon... what can I do to save you..."

Changsheng has lost the courage to choose, because every selfish choice she made, as if she was seen by the sky, was punished one by one... How much she wanted to save Mingluo, but how much she was afraid that Mingluo would rather die Also unwilling to accept her "pay".

After all, that child is so stubborn.

Nora gritted her teeth, grabbed a corner of the quilt tightly, and tried to calm down: "Mingluo doesn't need your help, you don't deserve it."

"I'm not worthy?" Chang Sheng couldn't help but hugged his knees and curled up, helpless like a child.

"In the face of difficulties and obstacles, he relies on his own efforts to win, and you rely on sacrificing others to seek perfection. The same is inhuman, but you are divided into evil and good, and you attribute all this to your own life experience... Could it be that you are inherently evil Is it?" Nora asked, "When you violated your own heart for the first time, didn't it really hurt? If it hurt, how could you bear to impose the evil that gradually eroded yourself on Mingluo?"

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"Do you have to push yourself step by step to the point where everyone is deserted and has nothing, and then you blame the world for being unfair to you?"

——Chang Sheng, don't listen to that woman's nonsense, she is just selfish but dare not admit it.

"roll!"

My head hurts like it's about to burst.

——How can you have nothing?You have what many people dream of, and it's all because you make the right choices!

"Don't say any more!"

It's so loud, this sound...

——Why do you care about those who have left you?Obviously they left you first, why should you blame yourself for it?

"I told you to shut up!"

How is it still alive?Why is it not dead yet!When will it be willing to let me go!

Chang Sheng suddenly went crazy, stretched out his hand and grabbed his neck fiercely, his eyes were bloodshot, his eyes seemed to pop out of his sockets, his feet kicked on the ground involuntarily due to pain, making a terrifying sound.

Nora curled up aside and bit the sheets tightly, not daring to make a sound at all.

After an unknown amount of time, Chang Sheng suddenly let go of his hands, leaving a circle of strangle marks on his neck that was red and somewhat blue.

She cried and coughed, laughed and got angry, and after a while, she finally calmed down.

"Azheng... In my whole life, I should never have never done it. I just shouldn't have come back with you to go through this experience again... If it wasn't for this, I wouldn't know that there are thousands of sufferings in this world, and none of them can defeat the betrayal of relatives... "

At that moment, Chang Sheng felt as if he had lost his soul, with a heart that tolerated good and good, never accepted evil and evil, and finally ended up with nowhere to rest.

She suddenly felt that the vision in front of her eyes became hazy with blood. When she opened or closed her eyes, all she could see was a dark red world.She tried hard to open her eyes to see everything thoroughly, until the pain was so heavy that a line of blood and tears fell from the corner of her eyes, which was so red that it was piercing and piercing.

Finally, she wiped away her tears, the blood was still on her face, she got up and stumbled back a few steps, turned around and staggered away.

In the winter of 779 Imperial Calendar, Mingluo, the leader of the Southwest, disappeared after the defense of the Knossas capital.

For a moment, panic was thick like dark clouds, like the wings of a devil, almost covering the entire sky of El and the mainland.

Just when despair was about to cover the land, Changsheng suddenly extricated himself from the pain and led his troops to the front line of Knossus to support him. .

That was the first time Nicole saw Chang Sheng. On the day when the reinforcements arrived, he looked at the king of a country who had already turned gray at a young age, his eyes were full of surprise.This queen, who has always opposed Mingluo's support for Knossus, will come here to fight the demons in person, which makes him feel that Chang Sheng's arrival is a conspiracy.

But when he tried to test Chang Sheng, Chang Sheng's attitude was unexpectedly calm: "You don't need to know what I think, and you don't need to worry about those rumors before. Killed it with my own hands, from the moment I decided to lead my troops here, I have nothing to do with the demons."

The word "no relationship" is almost tantamount to admitting that there was a relationship, but Chang Sheng didn't care at all.She knew that she hadn't just come to her senses, but... after she had nothing left, she suddenly wanted to protect Mingluo's things that he wanted to protect at all costs.

Nicole couldn't help being embarrassed: "You put it that way, I don't know how to proceed."

Changsheng said: "I no longer put Nora under house arrest. No matter whether Mingluo can come back, I will treat her kindly from now on. If she wants to go home in the future, I will not stop her..."

"Perhaps, I should say sorry to you, Mingluo's life and death are still uncertain, I really..."

"Needless to say, I know it well." Chang Sheng interrupted Nicole, and looked up at the distant sky. She had heard from other people that that was the direction her brother was going.

Mingluo, I will definitely look for you. If you are alive, I will save you at all costs. If you are dead, I will take the heads of thousands of demons to sacrifice to your spirit in heaven.

Ah Zheng, will I look up to you a little bit for me like this?

The author has something to say: It’s almost two days since the end, I haven’t written abuse for a long time, so in the last few chapters, I have tortured myself to a point that my liver hurts... But believe it or not, the ending was written a year ago Well, it probably counts as he, um...