It seems that the villain is targeting me.

Her gaze lingered on the other person's light golden hair, and she didn't know what was going on in her mind.

After a while, the bird shook its head and patted Anna's head gently.

"It's okay," Xiaoniao said softly, "I'm glad you're not hurt."

Her voice was a little hoarse, as if she rarely spoke.

Anna raised her head, wanting to ask the stranger in front of her to help her find her brother, but her attention was soon attracted by the bird's wings folded on the left.

The beautiful and smooth wings like silk made Anna open her mouth in a wow.

A fragment flashed through her mind quickly, and Anna suddenly felt that the person in front of her looked somewhat familiar. She seemed to have seen someone with wings on the left side somewhere.

But those memories were too old for a six-year-old child. Anna tried hard to recall them for a while, but couldn't remember anything.

"Anna?" Xiao Niao reminded her, "Did you get lost from the adults?"

Anna then remembered what kind of disaster she had caused, and her face fell.

When Xiao Niao saw her expression, he guessed it was almost right.

She glanced at the door behind her and whispered to Anna, "I have to tell your family that you are here. They must have been looking for you for a long time."

Perhaps because she knew that she would not be able to escape this disaster sooner or later, Anna nodded with a sad face.

Xiao Niao then stood up and walked to the door, knocked gently, said something to the outside, and after a pause of a few seconds, the sound of hurried footsteps was heard outside the door.

Anna sat on the ground in frustration, thinking that she might be scolded soon.

Suddenly, she noticed something shiny on the floor, buried in the pile of the carpet.

It was a thin chain. Little Anna looked along it and found that at the end of the chain was a small leather ring, which was tied to Xiao Niao's right ankle.

Anna was only six or seven years old, but the environment she grew up in made her understand some things.

"Ah...you, you are locked up..." Anna said blankly, with a sympathetic look on her face.

She had a good impression of the person who rescued her from the dark passage and regarded Xiao Niao as a kind and good person.

The child's simple and straightforward thinking pattern quickly came to a conclusion. Anna looked at the bird and asked cautiously.

"Did the bad guys lock you up here?"

Xiao Niao's arm trembled unconsciously, and she subconsciously raised her hand and stroked her left wing.

A protective posture.

Anna's innocent words left her speechless. Xiao Niao breathed very slowly, and she felt as if a heavy stone was pressing on her chest.

After a long while, she shook her head very faintly, almost imperceptibly.

"...No," Xiao Niao sat down slowly, speaking softly, "I'm not a bad person."

Anna thought for a while in distress, not quite understanding what the bird said: "Okay... then who locked you up?"

"He was a very important person in my past."

Xiao Niao turned over his right palm and looked at his palm.

Her skin had become much paler, lacking the necessary color from rarely seeing the sun.

"I lied and hid something very important from her."

Xiao Niao looked away, his breathing becoming a little rapid, "She... couldn't accept it, so she locked me up."

Anna's eyebrows immediately raised.

She said angrily: "This is too much!"

"Even if you did something wrong, she can't lock you up like this," Anna said seriously. "Why don't you explain it properly? Since you are such important people, you should cherish each other even more."

Yes, it is really very simple, even a six-year-old child can understand it.

"Because I can't speak," Xiao Niao smiled gently at Anna. "Adults are stupid, right?"

The child nodded seriously.

"No matter what, she shouldn't have locked you up," Anna said stubbornly. "Well... even if, even if my brother did this to me, I will never talk to him again."

Anna's favorite person in the family is her brother Lucas.

Xiaoniao seems to be seriously

As she listened, the corners of her eyes twitched slightly, and then she suddenly lowered her head and buried her face deeply in her palms.

"No, I..." she said haltingly, "I just..."

Xiaoniao could actually understand Gwen's thoughts.

She wanted to escape from this world, but in the eyes of people in this world, she was acting on her own will, not seeking any help, and only wanted to die.

If she had told Gwen about her condition at the very beginning, and after trying every possible treatment without success, Xiao Niao would have told Gwen that she did not want to rely on medication to survive and hoped to give up treatment.

Gwyneth may be sad and upset, but she will eventually let it go, respect her decision, and choose to accompany the bird through the last moments of her life.

She had made up her mind to do this when she married the half-human bird.

But Xiao Niao couldn't understand the fear in Gwen's heart at that time.

She didn't care about her illness at all, and didn't think deeply about how it would affect her wife.

This is a difference in concept caused by information asymmetry: Xiaoniao just wanted to deal with the matter and leave, so he didn't tell Gwen anything.

Before ascending the throne, Gwyneth repeatedly said, "Please let me share with you. No matter what happens, we will face it together."

The bird promised Gwen, but eventually broke his promise.

She still did what she feared most: disappearing silently without leaving any message.

This is the most painful thing in the world. The person you cherish the most and love deeply is unwilling to tell you anything. You don’t know what you did wrong, and no matter what you do, you can’t change that person’s decision.

This ultimately pushed Gwyneth to the extreme end of the abyss.

Xiao Niao slowly figured out the matter later. She understood that it was her own momentary lapse of judgment that pushed Gwen step by step to her current situation.

Birdie could understand why Gwen did what she did, she could understand it intellectually.

I can understand that.

I don't blame her.

"I...I just..."

Xiao Niao lowered her head deeply. She didn't want Anna to see her expression. Her ankles, which were tied with chains, were shaking constantly.

"I just... don't want to see her anymore."

Chapter 127 She Didn't Get a Response

Gwyneth looked forward and saw a familiar corridor in front of her. It was paved with natural marble. The early winter sunlight shone on the hollow carvings, leaving intricate shadows on the ground.

Turning around and walking back from where she was standing, the golden banquet hall was at the end.

In the past, whenever a banquet was held in the palace, the invited guests would walk through this corridor with their female companions, their skirts gently brushing against the bright red carpet.

It was along this corridor that Gwen first appeared in the capital's social scene, and it was also her first encounter with the bird.

But now she took a step, but in a completely opposite direction.

Gwyneth couldn't remember how long it had been since she had a good talk with Xiao Niao. Even the last time they met seemed like a long time ago.

She couldn't even remember why she tied up Xiao Niao in the first place.

Was it to prevent the bird from escaping again after waking up, or was it because she was worried that the bird would harm itself while she was away?

At the beginning, Gwyneth actually just hoped that Birdie would give in to her, promise not to think about those stupid things again, and accept treatment obediently.

As long as that's the case, I will let her go.

But at the same time, a deep and gloomy voice laughed in his mind, mocking with interest:

Come on, what kind of preventive measures require tying up all of a person's limbs? And using subordinates and relatives as threats?

You are simply following your own darkest desires, wanting to trap this person by your side forever.

This fact pierced Gwyneth's body like an arrow, leaving her with an almost numb pain. She swallowed it with difficulty, but then she fled.

Gwyneth wondered how long she had been walking along this corridor. It wasn't far from here to the palace where her husband was, but she felt that this short distance seemed to have no end.

Finally, Gwyneth stood in front of the carved wooden door.

Her bird is behind this door.

When the news that Anna was missing was learned, everyone in the palace was extremely anxious. Countless guards were mobilized to look for her. In just half an hour, they had searched every place where little Anna might have gone.

When Her Majesty the Queen learned from the servants who had hurried over that Anna was staying with her husband, her heart finally relaxed.

Gwyneth didn't even have time to think about how her little sister ended up at Levi's place.

She was just full of gratitude. It seemed that Gwen felt subconsciously that she was safe with the bird, and she would not have to worry about anything as long as it was handed over to her.

It has always been like this in the past.

No matter what the situation, this person always opens his arms, wanting to protect everyone around him under his wings.

But the little bird may never have thought that the harm would come from the person closest to it.

Gwyneth slowed down, her hand raised and suspended in the air, the door was right at hand, but

But Gwen didn't just knock.

She hesitated for a long time, waved her hand to dismiss the servants behind her, and then gently opened the door.

Two people, one big and one small, were sitting at a small table in the room. There was a plate of snacks and freshly brewed tea on the table.

Anna, who had been missing for almost an hour, was sitting in a chair, chewing snacks one bite at a time.

The previous experience in the dark tunnel did not seem to affect little Anna's appetite. Instead, it made the child feel thirsty and hungry. While still chewing, she reached out to grab the next piece.

Xiao Niao had his back to her, concentrating on fiddling with something on the table, and didn't seem to notice her arrival.

On the contrary, Anna, who was munching on snacks, quickly noticed her sister standing at the door.

The child didn't expect her to come so soon, and immediately stopped eating snacks and drinking tea, with a clear look of guilt on his face after causing trouble.

Gwen looked at her sister accusingly.

She had heard her mother complain before that this child was even more naughty than Lucas when he was a child. This time he was missing for such a long time that it really made the adults outside very worried.

Fortunately, Anna was not in any danger, which can be considered a blessing in disguise.

Gwyneth looked at her dejected sister, but her gaze shifted unconsciously as if drawn by a magnetic force.

Xiaoniao was only a few steps away from her. After walking for a while, he could put his hand on her shoulder. Gwyneth stared at his back. Even through the layers of cloth, Gwen could see that his body was thin.

Gwyneth couldn't help but feel a bitter taste on her tongue.

She kind of hoped that Xiao Niao would turn around and look at her. She really missed her, and even just a brief glance would be enough.

Her Majesty the Queen's lips moved slightly, and she finally spoke.

"...Anna," Gwyneth said with a hoarse voice, "Come here, I'm here to take you back."

The child let out a pitiful "oh". She looked at Xiao Niao sitting next to her, her face full of reluctance (she didn't really want to go back and be scolded), but she still said goodbye in a low voice (she knew she couldn't escape).

Anna slowly jumped down from the chair and walked to Gwyneth's side with a bitter and resentful expression.

The child bumped into her legs recklessly. Gwen reached out to hold her sister's back in a daze. When she raised her head again, she found that Xiao Niao had turned around.

Gwyneth tensed up instantly, her body frozen in place.

Xiao Niao silently glanced at the child who threw himself into Gwen's arms, and gently pushed the plate of snacks on the table with his fingers.

"I just made some tea," the bird said calmly, as if it were just a normal invitation. "Would you like some?"

"it is good……"

She answered subconsciously before thinking.

Gwyneth was stunned for a moment, then her heart began beating violently, and her voice was even hoarseer than before, as if she was trying hard to control some strong emotions surging in her body.

"it is good."

Gwen barely suppressed the impulse in her heart, and sent Anna to the door. She asked her servant sister who was waiting not far away to send her back to Lucas, and then returned to the room.

She walked to the table, squatted down and untied the iron ring on the bird's ankle, then sat down on the chair next to her.

At this time, Xiao Niao also put down the things he had been fiddling with in his hands.