"Big sister, what's wrong with you?" Xinli put down the pastry in her hand and turned her head to look at the beautiful woman with a sad face.

"Ali, I'm also from the palace, and I've also heard about the Queen's helplessness. I wonder if you'd like to listen?" The beautiful woman looked at Xinli steadily, the look in her eyes complex and deep.

"......Just you say it." Xinli picked up the pastry beside her and put it into her mouth in one bite.

The beautiful woman told Xinli about the conflicts she experienced from the Queen’s perspective.

"Even so... no matter what, I have things I need to do, revenge my parents, set the Evil Tribe free, I will do every one of them," Xinli drank the last sip of fairy berry juice and looked up at the stars in the sky. "The Queen is my aunt after all. My father said that she held me in her arms when I was a child. She was good to me, and I will definitely repay her in the future."

Xinli had long noticed that this beautiful woman was different. In order to get close to her, the empress deliberately fabricated the identity of a palace maid. But how could a Wuqi person, who had witnessed the Egui people eating people, approach her so kindly, give her clothes and food, and take such care of her?

Apart from her great aunt, who was somewhat related to her by blood, she couldn't guess who else in the country would be so enthusiastic towards her.

However, Xinli wanted to verify whether it was sincere or false.

She just wanted to take the opportunity to understand what the Queen was thinking. If she had no ill intentions, if she could seize the opportunity and make her feel that she was innocent, she would let her go and give her a way to live.

The Queen was very confused when she heard this. Xinli must have guessed her identity to some extent.

Now I'm testing her attitude and finding out what she's thinking.

As the queen, she certainly didn't want Xinli to harm her husband, nor did she want her to harm the people of the country.

But she couldn't persuade Xinli to let go of her hatred. It was others who hurt her first and destroyed her family, which led to her current life of being despised by everyone and lacking food and clothing.

"Oh, let's not talk about this anymore," Xinli fed the queen beside her a bite of rose-flavored pastry and took the initiative to change the subject, "This is delicious! Big sister, try it too!"

It’s better not to force her for now. What if she loses her “big brother” by accident and can’t eat? It’s not the time for her to take revenge yet.

She hadn't even started the task assigned to her by Mingtai and hadn't even met Xinying.

"It's really delicious..." The queen swallowed half of the pastry in her mouth and rolled the pastry crumbs on her lips into her mouth.

"Big sister, please tell me again about the 'bad things' you did as a child! Last time you told me that you made your brother cry and you put the blame on your father. What happened next?" Xinli held up his chin and looked at the empress, and the two began to chat happily as usual.

Later, when the empress was about to lose power, Xinli stopped having close contact with her and found excuses to stay away from her in order to avoid being blamed by others.

The two never got along that closely again.

"Sister, I actually wanted to ask you just now," Pan Yue raised her hand and asked, "Why are there so few princes of the orthodox royal bloodline of Wuqi Kingdom?"

"In fact, it's not just the royal bloodline that is rare. In the entire Wuqi country, few people are willing to have children," the White Flower Witch patiently explained to Pan Yue, "The curse and the gift from God have always been half and half. Once one of them exceeds the limit, a normal Wuqi citizen will suddenly become a new Ergui tribe. So every time a new baby is born, there will be an unlucky Wuqi citizen who becomes a new Ergui tribe."

"At the beginning, the ancestors of Wuqi Nation were unaware of this and gave birth to children as they pleased. As a result, when the children were born at about the same time, a large number of adults were directly transformed into the new Evil Tribe. They finally realized that they were reaping the fruits of their own actions, but they could not turn back after all."

"At that time, in order to ensure the safety and happiness of their children, most of the newly born Ergui people chose to go to the Yellow Sand Land to suppress themselves. Afterwards, they left a request to one of the Wuqi people, hoping that she could help keep the secret between Wuqi and the Ergui people and become the ruler of Wuqi. In the future, when the entire country is fully grown, she must find a way to break away from the control of the gods and cancel the curse."

"So that's how it is..." Pan Yue seemed to be thinking about it.

This is the dark side of human nature. Only when you experience it yourself can you understand the bitter consequences.

"They only realized it was a curse after they suffered, and they didn't cancel it directly to Feiyue. Instead, they set up a new victim to be used as a target for both sides," Panyue thought for a while, shook his head, and expressed his thoughts, "These people are not worthy of sympathy."

The White Flower Witch did not comment on what she heard, and continued, "Anyway, since then, the new generation of Wuqi people have been spreading horror stories about the Evil Tribe sneaking into Wuqi and eating people because they don't know the reason."

"There are also some words that adults use to teach children - 'If children cry and don't obey, the adults will be captured and eaten by the evil tribe! After that, they will become wild children without parents!' Over time, everyone realized that having children is not good for them at all. Except for the royal family who need to pass on their bloodline to run the country, no one in the whole country is willing to have children."

"Aren't the people of Wuqi able to live forever?" Pan Yue asked, holding up her cheek, "Why does the royal family need to pass on their bloodline?"

"Because there is really a throne to inherit," the White Flower Witch said bluntly, "Being a commoner of Wuqi is much happier than being the ruler. In addition to keeping secrets, the empresses of all generations also had to govern the country and handle diplomatic relations with multiple parties. At the same time, they also had to serve as spiritual leaders and provide emotional value to the people... A lot of messy things like customer service are done by the royal staff of Wuqi. None of them eat for free."

"Moreover, the empresses of all generations really had to sacrifice their lives for the country," the White Flower Witch continued, "and the rumors that the Evil Tribe was harming people are not groundless. We heard from Sister Xinying that a few generations ago, Wuqi Country had experienced an epidemic and famine caused by the Evil Tribe's accumulated resentment for hundreds of years."

"These grievances and the negative energy in me are the same energy. The strength of the energy directly overwhelmed the divine power possessed by the Wuqi people. At that time, no one was able to prevent this disaster, and the entire country was almost destroyed."

“When everyone was helpless and ready to die together, the contemporary queen injected her life and all her divine power into the entire East Wilderness. All things came to life as a result of the whale’s fall. Only then did the Wuqi Kingdom regain its former glory.” After the White Flower Witch finished speaking, she took another sip of milk tea out of thirst.

"In other words, from now on, the fate of every empress is to sacrifice their lives for the country and resist disasters?"

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