Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Gu Nian had put on a cloak in the night, and the soft fur covered her cold inner armor. Through the bonfire in the night, she saw the fur of an unknown animal on the collar of the cloak, and she suddenly said with emotion.
The maid was adding fuel to the bonfire in front of them. When she heard this, she raised her head curiously: “What is the connection between Your Highness and this place?”
“I saved someone here once.” Gu Nian looked up from the collar of his cloak.
The maid was stunned: “Rescued people here?”
“Yes, but to be precise, it can’t be considered a human being.”
“–Why??”
Gu Nian tilted her head, as if she was lost in some kind of memory, “It must have been ten years ago. At that time, I was not as tall as the legs of my father’s table. He and Brother Wang took me out hunting, and then I saw a group of noble young men surrounding and hunting a young man here.”
The maid’s face turned pale with shock, and the pot in her hand shook out some of the water: “Were they hunting a living person?”
“Well, because that boy was special,” Gu Nian showed a playful and flexible smile, “Have you ever heard of a half-demon?”
The maid was stunned: “Is it the offspring that is rumored to be produced by combining humans and monsters? But I heard that the survival rate of such offspring is very, very low.”
“Yes, it is rare for humans to combine with monsters. This kind of offspring will basically die together with the mother in the mother’s body. The survival rate is less than 1 in 10,000. According to my father, it was also the only one he had seen in his entire life.”
“His Majesty the King fought countless battles when he was young and saw all kinds of wonders in the world. But the first time he saw a half-demon… was the hunted boy?” The maid’s eyes lit up with curiosity.
“Yes.”
“Then what was the difference between him and ordinary people? For example, did he have an extra tail?”
“…”
Gu Nian raised her eyes and saw the maid’s eyes falling on the fur collar of her cloak.
Gu Nian looked up helplessly: “No, of course, there may be, but he was wearing clothes and pants. Anyway, I didn’t see the tail.”
“Hey, Your Highness, how did you know that he was a half-demon?”
Gu Nian raised her hand and touched her eyebrows: “He had scales here.”
“Scales?”
“Yes, blood-red scales, and they looked like transparent, very hard scales with raised edges and corners.”
“It sounds amazing.”
“It was really magical.” Gu Nian didn’t know what she thought of, but she laughed suddenly and lowered her voice, “After I rescued him, I sneaked in to look at him while he was sleeping. He was cold at first, but he slowly got better. There was even a little warm feeling, and the blood inside seemed to be moving – the scales itself were like a living creature.”
“…”
The maid was stunned when she heard this.
A gust of cool wind blew, and she shivered suddenly, and looked at Gu Nian with a pale face: “Your Highness, this, this sounds strange, it is scary, but it also seems…”
“It seems to have a kind of enchanting beauty, right?”
“That’s right.” The maid nodded vigorously.
Gu Nian patted her shoulder and sat upright with a smile: “I felt the same way at that time.”
“What happened next?”
“What happened next?”
“That half-demon boy, what happened to him?”
“Nothing,” Gu Nian shrugged, “He left later.”
“Huh? Then why didn’t you take him back to the country?”
“Why bring him back home, so that another group of people could hunt him?”
The maid choked.
Gu Nian turned back carelessly and stretched out her hand towards the bonfire: “In the eyes of the world, half-demons are not magical creatures, but are synonymous with ominousness, evil spirits, and destruction of the world. If I took him back, his scales could not be hidden, and if someone found him out, don’t talk about me, even my father wouldn’t be able to protect him.”
“Then you let him go?”
“Well, what else,” Gu Nian joked with a bad intention, “Would you have liked if I kept him as a pet?”
“But a half-demon, according to His Highness, you can only see a half-demon once in ten thousand years, wouldn’t you regret letting it go like that?”
“Regret? That’s true, but it’s not that I regret letting go, but…”
“Um?”
Gu Nian sat by the bonfire, holding her cheek and looking up at the tiny stars above the forest. After a while, she narrowed her eyes and smiled: “What I regret even more is that I really should have asked him what kind of monster he was.”
Maid: “…Huh?”
Gu Nian lowered her head and said, “You don’t know, at that time I had read too many stories about animals repaying kindness, and I always thought that he would come back to repay my kindness. Then I kept waiting and waiting. Whenever a rabbit or fox ran across the back garden, I was afraid that it was him. I would thus pick it up and pull it carefully only to find out that there were no red scales. As a result, after waiting for ten years, he didn’t come, and then I discovered that those stories were made up by the human race to deceive human children.”
The maid burst out laughing: “No wonder Her Highness always goes to the back garden to bask in the sun.”
“Snort.”
Being mocked about her “sad past”, Gu Nian turned her head to the side with a dull face. Then, out of the corner of her eye, where the beauty lay roasting behind the bonfire, a shadow seemed to tremble slightly.
Gu Nian’s eyes moved, and she stood up from beside the bonfire curiously and walked around that way.
The maid was still guessing to herself: “But the scales would definitely not belong to monsters like foxes and rabbits. Fish shouldn’t be able to stay on land, so could he belong to snake or lizard species? Hey, that sounds weird. Maybe it is a close relative of the dragon? Then if we find it, we can let it have a good discussion with the evil dragon, the perverted lord of the evil dragon territory, so that he would stop bullying our kingdom… Your Highness! How did you get there!”
Gu Nian ignored the whining maid. She had walked to the stretcher and squatted down.
The beautiful man with long hair reaching his waist was lying next to the bonfire. The firelight illuminated his beautiful and erect facial features, and even his slender eyelashes cast a faint shadow on his face.
The shadow was now like the wings of a butterfly awakening from the cold winter, trembling slightly and then slowly opening.
Gu Nian met a pair of brown eyes.
There was a faint dim light flowing in them, making them as beautiful and clear as glass.
The beauty that was originally just stunning suddenly came to life and became almost enchanting.
Gu Nian was stunned.
For no reason, she suddenly remembered the blood-red gem-like scales on the forehead of the young man ten years ago, which were also cold and eerie in beauty.
Gu Nian’s fingertips touched a cold texture.
She suddenly came back to her senses and was shocked to realize that she had unconsciously raised her hand and put her fingertips to the beauty’s eyebrows.
The cool touch was from the beautiful man’s forehead.
She didn’t know if the beautiful man who had woken up from the coma was soaked in water and had thus gone stupid, but he didn’t resist at all. He just lay there quietly and looked at her.
Their eyes were now facing each other.
The beauty slowly stared at her wrist, his eyes deep and confused.
Gu Nian felt like she was bullying a child.
She was ready to take back her hand, “I…”
Before she could finish speaking, she noticed that the beauty was looking at her and his thin lips were slightly opened, as if he wanted to speak.
Out of princess etiquette that she had never had before, Gu Nian stopped talking and decided to wait for him to speak.
Then she heard this cold and enchantingly beautiful drowned person look at her and open his mouth seriously.
The great beauty: “Ouch.”
Gu Nian: “……”
Gu Nian: “?”
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