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    Hearing Luke’s uncontrollable stop, my originally anxious and chaotic mood sobered up, and I suddenly realized my neglect and injustice towards him.I am not the soul of this era, and I don’t want to treat him as one of the male favorites like other aristocrats, as a toy for fun, who can come and go when he is called.He is a person of flesh and blood, he will worry about me, and I am afraid that he will lose me… he doesn’t know, I will never leave him.He came to me when I was in the most pain and helplessness. I will never abandon him, just like… I will not abandon Leon.

    “Lord Luke, this is your Majesty’s order. You are so brave.” The servant glanced at him and spoke sullenly.

    “Shut up.” I said coldly.The servant quickly lowered his head and did not dare to say anything.

    I turned back and took Luke’s arm, looked into He’s eyes, and spoke in an extremely soft voice: “You go back to the market area and wait for me. I’ll go into the palace to have a look. I will definitely come back to you. That’s my… relative. I won’t feel at ease until I see it with my own eyes. I won’t abandon you, believe me.”

    Luke also realized that he was out of control, calmed down, and looked at me with dark green eyes.

    “Sir, I have a bad feeling.” He said: “Let’s go back to the capital first and wait for the news…”

    I shook my head: “I have to see it with my own eyes, I can’t wait a second…I’m fine, I will definitely come back, Luke, believe me.”

    Luke didn’t speak any more. He loosened his grip on my hand and let it hang down weakly.

    I hugged He’s arm tightly, and without time to say anything else, I turned around and walked out of the hotel with the servant.It was getting dark by now, so he led me to the side of the hotel and boarded the carriage.I thought Luke was following behind the car on horseback, so I was worried about Leon’s condition. Sometimes I was afraid that he was dying, and sometimes I hoped that he would survive the desperate situation, which tortured me to the point of exhaustion.It was dark and silent outside the window, and the road ran through the forest. Under the moonlight, only the shadows of the trees could be seen, but the depth was unknown.I seemed to hear someone shouting, or maybe it was an illusion caused by the noise of the carriage shaft and horse hooves.I didn’t know that Luke behind him had been intercepted by a group of people. He tried his best to break through the encirclement and called me loudly, but he could only watch the carriage getting further and further away during the fight, and was swallowed up by the darkness.

    When I finally found out that I had been kidnapped, I was imprisoned in a carriage and drove day and night.At first, I was extremely panicked because I was worried about Leon. After taking some time to calm down, I comforted myself that they were using Leon to defraud me. The deterioration of Leon’s condition should be fake, and he should be fine.

    I can only think this way, I can’t accept another outcome.

    After all, I have seen the world, and I tried to stay rational during the entire trip, not struggling or crying in vain, so as to save myself some suffering.Seeing that I was calm and obedient, the kidnappers didn’t make things difficult for me and seemed unwilling to let me get hurt.I started to guess who was behind it, but it didn’t seem like much of a problem.But why it was kidnapped is a bit puzzling to me. If it was jealousy or hatred, why would you spend so much effort instead of killing me?

    Anyway, a few days later, I was sent to a small city on the north-south border and met with the mastermind of the kidnapping.

    “My lady countess.” Elizabeth stood in front of me in the castle that once belonged to the city’s ruler, smiling at me.

    I didn’t answer and looked at her silently.Compared with the last time we were separated, she had changed a lot. Her cheeks were thin, her skin was loose and dull, and she had a mean attitude. She seemed to be ten years older.It seems that during this period, she was isolated in the palace, watching the plot being shattered and the family destroyed, and her life was very difficult.

    I’m not surprised by she’s appearance.Centipede insects are dead but not stiff. The Bartoli family has hundreds of years of heritage, so it is still possible to save a daughter.But she has already escaped here, and she wants to kidnap me here, which is confusing.

    “I heard that Her Majesty the Baroness has been very calm during the entire trip.” She smiled and said: “It is completely different from other people. She is indeed an extraordinary person.”

    Who else?She also kidnapped someone else?But I didn’t meet his victim and was locked up in his place?

    At this time, my hands were tied, but I was not thrown into a cell. Instead, I was placed under house arrest in a room in the castle. I was given plenty of food and drink along the way. It seemed that they didn’t want to harm me.What is her purpose in doing this to me?

    “Why did you do this?” I asked: “If you want to use me to threaten your Majesty, you should know that it is useless. Your Majesty has abandoned me a long time ago and does not care about my life or death.”

    “Threaten His Majesty? No, of course not. Oh my God, that man…” Elizabeth showed a hint of fear: “He is too scary, I shouldn’t… I will not provoke him again. I just hope to avoid him now, as far away as possible.”

    “Then why did you tie me here again?” I really don’t understand.

    Elizabeth looked at me for a while, and there was something weird and terrifying in her eyes that suddenly made me shudder.

    “I don’t want to kidnap you, I just want to invite you to be my guest.” She said, “But if I send you an invitation now, you will definitely refuse to come. I have no choice but to invite you in this way.”

    There was something wrong with her demeanor and words. It was obvious that she had been in panic for a long time, which greatly affected her spirit.I was frightened by her appearance and my heart was beating fast. On the surface, I tried my best to maintain calm: “If you are inviting me to be a guest, please let go of me and send a letter to my friend to say that you are safe.”

    Elizabeth just looked at me without answering, which made my whole body tingle.After a while, she said: “I really envy you, Your Majesty.”

    She paused for a moment, and then said again in a slow voice: “I have no friends. Those of us who were raised by our families have only responsibilities and no friendship. The people who laugh and have fun together today will be your life-and-death opponents tomorrow… In fact, Lady Troy,” sheSmiling again: “We were supposed to be very good friends, weren’t we? I was supposed to marry your brother, and I would become the queen of Sodom. I was trained for this for eighteen years… However, I lost my fiancé, and if there was no war, I would be sent to a monastery for the rest of my life… What happened? When another king needed chips, I was sent to the north on a gold tray by my family, and now I stand here again, still with nothing.”

    She looked at me: “Look carefully at you and me. Don’t our trajectories overlap? We have all gone up all the way, and we have all fallen back to our original shape. We all fled from the south to the north, but we didn’t escape far enough. Now, we are reunited here… Isn’t the world big enough?”

    She stared straight at me, and there was no trace of the gentle and elegant beauty she once was.I became more and more panicked, but I knew I had to calm down. If I lost control and burst out with any violent emotions, it would probably irritate her and threaten my safety.

    “We can be friends.” I said softly, “If that’s what you want.”

    Elizabeth looked at me for a moment longer, then raised her chin slightly.

    “Your Majesty, the Countess, has been traveling for several days and should be tired. Please rest early.”

    With that said, she turned around and walked out.Her manners are as elegant as ever, and more than 20 years of cultivation have penetrated into her bones.As soon as the hem of her skirt slid off the door frame, the door was locked ruthlessly.

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