Quick-wear flirting system: being spoiled by gods in the plane

Chapter 131 The Cold Knight of the Western Noble Family (26)

"..." Rui En watched her approach, her emerald green eyes trembling.

"We can't leave now," the woman said softly as she crouched down.

She tapped the woman's forehead with her other clean hand, revealing her first smile of the night amidst the shouts.

"Little Rui'en, live on for me."

Upon hearing this, Rui En's pupils shrank instantly. The next moment, she felt a sharp pain in her abdomen, followed by the sound of sharp blades piercing flesh in several other places.

In the last second before her consciousness completely dissipated, through her blurred vision, the door was forcefully kicked open, and she saw that cold, small figure.

Yu Guangzhong's woman, wielding a sharp blade, jumped from the window without hesitation...

……

At this point, the bloody truth of what happened back then was revealed, and the people in the private prison fell silent.

"I...I've let everyone down..."

Rui En smiled bitterly, her bright green pupils completely unfocused. She opened her mouth, letting the blood gushing from her throat flow from the corner of her mouth, while tightly gripping the girl's hand until it turned white.

"Just...at the beginning...I couldn't see your love..."

"...temptation...getting close...thinking...thinking it was all your ulterior motives...plus my...arrogant, stubborn...intolerant of any imperfections...so I've always wanted...wanted...to kill you..."

Yu Ci was taken aback.

Rui En: "Later... I watched you... always so calm and collected, as if... you were just used to his presence... and considered him... your possession... but you didn't... truly understand his... love... what it was..."

As she spoke, Rui En laughed, "Later... I... understood a little... Ha, haha..."

"You haven't... figured it out... cough, cough..."

"It's like...like a little child who doesn't understand love...when someone loves you...you...you don't know...that's love. But you know how to imitate him...how he loves you...and then, in turn...love him..."

"You just... need... time... to... wake up..."

"Haha... thank goodness... you're here... you will... love... him..."

The woman's words became increasingly fragmented, and Yu Ci lowered her eyes, her eyes reddening.

Rui En stared blankly at the ceiling, as if she could see those familiar figures.

She held the girl's hand tightly, laughing and crying, murmuring to herself:
"The pastries... are so sweet... When the poison was put in... little by little..."

"...Not bitter at all..."

The breath ceased, as if no sound had been heard.

6. Do not let your comrades expose your identity as a spy (including if you intentionally expose yourself) – √

Not far away, Mel quietly watched the two figures in the cell, sighed, and turned his back.

Back then, he had also witnessed the assassination of the Duke and his wife.

After the seriously injured Rui En was revived, she was already incoherent and could not be asked anything. The emperor had a bad feeling and wanted to settle the matter, so he closed the case hastily. The Duke's mansion and the outside world believed that the spy woman had killed three people, but they did not know which country sent her.

Since then, ten-year-old Lord Lancelot joined the army and never returned to the manor. Rean volunteered to stay in the backyard to manage miscellaneous affairs and rarely went out.

I thought all the sorrow would pass.

After Lord Kronoslot returned home in glory after a famous battle when he was fifteen, the whole truth gradually came to light.

The adults noticed Rui En.

Then--

Mel's reverie was interrupted by the sound of footsteps. She focused and met a pair of deep blue eyes.

He exclaimed in surprise, "Sir?"

With a soft exclamation, the other knights turned around, sheathed their swords, and saluted.

Lancelot lowered his eyes and remained silent, his aura still cold. He looked at the situation in the cell, quietly walked to the girl's side, squatted down, and held her icy cold hand tightly.

No words.

……

Yu Ci was carried away from the private prison by Lancelot. In the car, she tried to speak in a hoarse voice, but Lancelot spoke first:

"Tanasha will be back at the manor soon."

Yu Ci was taken aback, and in silence, she looked at the man with a complicated expression.

Lancelot thought that wasn't what she was going to ask, and was about to speak when he was suddenly embraced by a soft, fragrant woman.

"..." His azure eyes trembled violently, then regained a touch of dark tenderness. He embraced the person in his arms tightly and gently stroked her back in a comforting manner.

Then, he slowly and quietly added the final truth—

Lancelot always felt that his parents' deaths were not so simple. After gaining fame and military power and status in the battle, he used his influence to secretly investigate what happened back then.

This investigation naturally led to Rui En, who had been out of the public eye for many years.

Perhaps out of guilt, or perhaps because of her severe injuries and depression, she crippled her own martial arts and settled down to work at the Duke's mansion.

Whenever a new spy joins the household, she always takes immediate action to deal with them or subtly reminds Lancelot. For many years, she has maintained the balance of having only one spy in the household.

Perhaps because she still retained some of her intelligence from her past as a spy, she quickly and keenly sensed that Lancelot suspected her. However, instead of hiding it again, she made a series of mistakes and allowed herself to be monitored and controlled.

It was as if Lancelot was being told three messages in a blatantly obvious way—

She was a spy;

She wouldn't say which country sent her;

She won't hurt him.

In summary, she will eliminate all hidden dangers within the manor for him.

She will forever, forever await his punishment.

……

Upon hearing this, Yu Ci closed her eyes slightly.

She said in a hoarse voice, "Why did she suddenly want to frame me? And if she was going to frame me, why did she take poison beforehand? Isn't this a dead end?"

Upon hearing this, Lancelot gently stroked his hand and said softly:

"Rui En has carried too much on her shoulders."

His parents, her companions, the life she cherished, and the Ryukyu Kingdom she served.

She failed to protect any of them.

As she herself said, she has wronged everyone.

“Neither entirely good nor entirely bad. Neither alive nor dead.” Lancelot lowered his eyes. “She will forever linger in a state of penitent repentance, unable to find peace.”

"Until you appear."

"Remind her, tell her that she can let go of everything to truly atone for her sins, to repent, and to go to the world of rest to once again protect the people and things she failed to protect in this world."

"The framing might be to prove that we care about each other, thus confirming her suspicions; or perhaps, on her deathbed, she wanted to get rid of you and Tanasa, the last spies in the manor."

"The human heart is a complex and contradictory thing. No one but herself knows her true thoughts in the end."

"But in any case, this is a message that she wants to break free, regardless of the consequences and without leaving any room for maneuver."

Lancelot held the person in his arms tightly, his azure eyes dimming, eventually turning into a bitter silence.

His voice was hoarse: "She's free. But I'm all alone now."

"Cici, I'm the only one left."

The low, hoarse voice was filled with confusion and pain. Yu Ci's eyes reddened, and she tightly hugged the slightly trembling figure.

"..." Mel looked away and sighed.

The truth is always bloody when it is revealed.

The victim was seriously injured, and bystanders were also assaulted.

……