After the eldest daughter was reborn, the whole family knelt down and begged for forgiveness

Seeing Xiao Xuetang's frightened face, Lin Xun held his throbbing eyebrows, and finally couldn't help asking: "What did I do to make you so afraid of me?"

"Or, in your mind, I am such a person who loves killing."

These two questions are simply life-threatening and difficult to answer!

Xiao Xuetang shook her head even more vigorously, almost swearing to the heavens, "Of course not. Your Majesty, you have helped me through crises many times. In my heart, you are the best person in the world."

Xiao Xuetang didn't dare to lie in front of her elders, but when facing Lin Xun, all those sweet words came out of her mouth.

Tianshu, who was eavesdropping secretly, almost choked to death on his own saliva when he heard these words.

This is the first time I heard someone say that his prince is a good person!

Even though Lin Xun was cold-blooded and ruthless, his sharp eyes softened a bit after hearing such flattering words, but...

"Then why do you keep staring at my mask?"

Xiao Xuetang...

How come the regent suddenly became so childish and kept holding on to this issue?

Xiao Xuetang complained in her heart, but said obediently, "That's because I think the pattern on the prince's mask is very special, so I want to take a closer look."

Just as he finished speaking, he suddenly leaned down and unexpectedly looked into the eyes of the hideous pattern on the mask. Xiao Xuetang was so frightened that she almost screamed out loud!

Seeing that the little girl was really scared at this time, Lin Xun let out a happy smile after a successful prank, and asked in a cold voice: "Come closer so that you can see clearly."

Even though Xiao Xuetang was slow-witted, she could tell that Lin Xun was teasing her on purpose. She cursed in her heart that Lin Xun must have been angry with the old princess, so he teased her on purpose to vent his anger!

Xiao Xuetang was very angry, but because she was living under someone else's roof, she didn't dare to show it. She could only cooperate with him and smiled obediently, "Now, I can see it clearly..."

Lin Xun asked: "What is engraved on it?"

Xiao Xuetang...

She regretted it very much now. Why did she stay here and wait for Lin Xun to go crazy in the middle of the night instead of going to bed?

However, Lin Xun did not wait for Xiao Xuetang to answer, and said to himself: "It is a dimple beast."

"Die beast?!"

Xiao Xuetang raised the last syllable of his voice, with a hint of shock in his tone.

"Why, have you heard of it?"

Xiao Xuetang sat there dignifiedly, with his hands on his knees, like a student being questioned by a teacher in the school, answering obediently: "I have read about the beast in a book."

"The Dream Beast is also known as the Dream Tapir. It is rumored to be an ancient mythical beast. It is said to feed on dreams and can devour dreams, making the devoured dreams reappear."

Lin Xun nodded slightly, as if praising him, "As expected of a member of the Xie family, you are well-read and knowledgeable."

Compared to Xiao Xuetang of Yong'an Marquis Mansion, who wanted to admit that he was a descendant of the Xie family, Lin Xun's words intentionally or unintentionally pleased someone.

Seeing that Lin Xun seemed to be in a good mood, Xiao Xuetang was no longer as afraid as before. She boldly said, "But in the royal family, this beast is considered an ominous thing. Why would the prince wear it as an ornament?"

"Ah……"

Lin Xun suddenly sneered, and the originally pleasant atmosphere instantly turned cold. Just when Xiao Xuetang was reflecting on what he had said wrong, Lin Xun suddenly said, "Do you know why Emperor Xianzong massacred the Tianji Palace with blood?"

Something is wrong!!!

Xiao Xuetang, who had been relaxing at first, was like a cat with its fur standing on end when she heard the words. She looked at Lin Xun with her peach blossom eyes wide open in doubt...

She seemed to have touched upon a topic that she shouldn't have touched upon!

Xiao Xuetang grew up in the Xie family. During the Xie family's heyday, the family often interacted with important politicians from the court. Xiao Xuetang had naturally heard about the tragedy that happened in the Tianji Palace from the words of his elders.

Under that deep gaze, Xiao Xuetang felt a chill on his back, and even his voice trembled slightly: "Because of the emperor's nightmare."

"So everyone from the Tianji Palace to the countless monks encountered the emperor's wrath and the unprovoked disaster. For a time, the capital was flooded with blood. If it weren't for the ministers in the court who threatened to die, I'm afraid countless monks in Dayin would have lost their lives."

Having said this, Xiao Xuetang's voice gradually lowered.

The four words "blood flows like a river" sound so simple, but behind each stroke are so many lives, and the Tianji Palace...

After the previous emperor ascended the throne, he issued an edict of remorse for Emperor Xianzong's destruction of Buddhism. From then on, in order to avoid taboos, Emperor Xianzong's destruction of Buddhism and the entire huge Tianji Palace became taboos in the court.

Everyone envied Lin Xun for being able to become the powerful regent at such a young age, but if it weren't for that unexpected disaster, he would have been the most powerful heir to the palace of Dayin.

instead of...

The regent who lost his parents, fought his way out of a sea of ​​blood and corpses, and has both good and bad reputations!

A feeling of pity and tenderness arose in Xiao Xuetang's heart, and a gust of wind blew by, just waking Xiao Xuetang up...

She was crazy to sympathize with the invincible Regent!

If you have the time, you should sympathize with yourself...

At this time, she had keenly realized that the mask might be Lin Xun's Achilles' heel, representing the tragic past of Tianji Palace, but she had stepped on both.

When she looked up, she saw Lin Xun looking at her, with an indistinguishable expression of joy and anger in his eyes.

"Xiao Xuetang..."

This was the first time Lin Xun called her by her full name.

Xiao Xuetang subconsciously touched his neck, but Lin Xun just murmured to himself: "The disaster of the palace was caused by the emperor's dream, not because of..."

Because of his birth?

"Look, this is the calamity that killed my parents..."

His death resulted in the deaths of more than one hundred people in the palace.

"It's all your fault. If you hadn't been predicted to be the reincarnation of Buddha, how could His Majesty have had nightmares, burned down the pagoda, and destroyed the Buddha's bones? You deserve to die!"

His mentor, who had once taught him the classics, had a ferocious look on his face as he lay dying, and was strangling his neck tightly.

"The Buddha gave his body to feed the evil spirits, and you will suffer the pain of the blue lotus fire for eternity. You will have to atone for the sins you have committed in your lifetime!"

The pain was like flames burning his whole body, the punishment of reshaping his muscles and bones, the green vines spreading from his chest to his neck, and then to his face, turning him into neither human nor ghost, it seemed like all of this was his cause and effect.

Over the years, no one dared to mention the Tianji Palace in front of him.

The plaque that had been removed from its seal seemed to represent the past that had been destroyed under imperial power.

But now...

After so many years, he didn't expect to mention the past event that he had deliberately forgotten on such a fine night.

Some people are so sure that they think without hesitation that the disaster that happened back then was not their fault.

When he met her clear eyes at this moment, an inexplicable emotion surged in his heart and flowed through his meridians.

He rarely had such uncontrollable emotions, except in his dreams...

But now, it's not a dream.

The beautiful crabapple in the dream is so close and within reach...