The sun never sets rose

- We will meet again.

The blond girl I met outside the theater that day disappeared into the crowd after saying this to her. I never thought that I would actually meet again today, and it was still in such a formal occasion.

About ten years old, with a plump figure, fair skin and beautiful appearance, thick seaweed-like long golden hair hanging down his waist, wearing a simple white dress, wearing a lily and green leaf wreath on his head, he looks like a fresh girl among the heavy makeup court ladies. The water hibiscus is reminiscent of the elves in the forest in fairy tales.

"Merry Christmas Your Majesty."

Olo curtseyed behind his mother, kissed the queen's fingertips reverently and respectfully, with a bright smile on his cheeks, and a voice as sweet as honey, "Blessed by the grace of God, it is truly a three-year life Blessed and honoured.”

This little mouth is sweet...

It was the first time Jiang Xinyan knew that flattery words in English could be used in this way.

Of course, it doesn't matter. There is a soul from her hometown living in the girl's body. This is what Jiang Xinyan cares about. Her finger bones hurt when she pinched the armrest of the chair. It took her a lot of effort to suppress the excitement in her body Emotional, a layer of cold sweat oozes from his forehead.

These days, she has lived like a boat sailing in the vast ocean in the dark, with no end in sight, no future, no hope, lonely and lost.But now, her fear, anxiety, and uneasiness suddenly disappeared because of the appearance of the lighthouse Olo...

--Thank God.

wrong……

—God to nm!

No one noticed the colorful expression changes on Jiang Xinyan's face. Everyone's eyes were focused on this unique and somewhat weird girl, as well as her duke father and unspoken mother.

"I haven't seen you for many years. Ms. Olo has grown up so much. Merry Christmas." Elizabeth helped her up herself, but there was a deep chill in her smiling eyes, and she glanced at the people around her from the corner of her eye.

Heh, I just saw it a month ago.

There was a subtext hidden in this sentence, and all the unmarried male nobles present looked at the queen in unison, most of them concealed the inner undercurrents under the calm surface.

"I am very happy to be able to return to the motherland with my father, and it is also an honor to attend His Majesty's court ball."

"In that case, we must have a good time tonight."

Smiling lightly, he handed the girl's hand to a young male nobleman, "Thomas, take care of Miss Olo."

The man named Thomas gave a gentlemanly salute, took the girl's hand, and smiled: "My honor."

There was warm applause in the hall, and then the figures of the two people merged into the crowd. The Duke of Huttings and his wife also stepped aside. The beat dances.

The maid poured wine for Elizabeth. The scarlet liquid in the golden cup swayed unconsciously with her, and reflected the sparkling light of the candle. She took a sip calmly, and there was a trace of excitement in her calm gray-blue pupils. The cold and hostile air quickly disappeared, and he turned to look at the dazed girl beside him.

"Want to dance?" Put down your glass.

Jiang Xinyan's eyes followed Olo's figure, and when he came back to his senses, his face was blank: "What?"

"Dance."

"I...I can't dance well..." She blushed and lowered her head. Although she had mastered some basic dance steps after learning for a week, she would get nervous when so many people were watching.

Especially, with the goblin Elizabeth...

"It's okay, I'll take you."

Leaning closer, her low and hoarse voice was close to her ears, with a playful smile in her eyes, she stretched out her slender hands, "Beautiful Miss Jiang, do I have the honor to invite you to a dance?"

The warm breath gently brushed the ears, his face suddenly turned red, he glanced sideways, and caught a glimpse of Elizabeth's face close at hand, his pupils lost focus in an instant, and tremblingly said: "Okay..."

He hesitated to take the hand with clear lines, and when the fingertips touched the slightly hot temperature in the palm, they were instantly wrapped tightly and received a comforting look. Afterwards, Elizabeth led her to stand up.

My heart skipped a beat, I felt dizzy...

As the queen got up, the music stopped abruptly, and the people on the dance floor also stopped their movements and retreated to the sides. All the guests focused their attention again, and thunderous applause resounded through the hall.

Jiang Xinyan felt that she was about to suffocate, and she wanted to escape.

Amid the applause, Elizabeth held her hand tightly and walked down the steps to the middle of the dance floor. She smiled softly at her and whispered, "Relax, your palms are sweating."

"..."

Jiang Xinyan met her gaze, nodded slightly, took a deep breath, let go, and stood face to face.

The familiar sound of the violin flowed slowly, accompanied by the harmony of the lute and the flute. It was a dance step she had learned, and she had heard the tune. She relaxed, raised the corners of her mouth, raised her arms in accordance with the beat, and saluted each other.

Turning around in a circle, lifting the skirt, holding Elizabeth's hand in a familiar rhythm, interlocking fingers, and looking at each other.

The surrounding ladies formed a circle holding hands, and surrounded the two of them. The female singers of the chorus sang with high-pitched voices, and cheerful drumbeats were suddenly added to the soothing music, pushing the atmosphere in the hall to orgasm...

Elizabeth is a born dancer, with a strong sense of music and rhythm, graceful figure and elegant manners, she instantly becomes the dazzling focus on the dance floor, her captivating gray-blue eyes glanced over Jiang Xinyan's face inadvertently, as if indulged Unruly, like a variety of styles, ignited a prairie fire in her heart, and suddenly, her body came close...

Whispering in her ears, she said: Your face is too red.

"..."

An arm was wrapped around her waist, and the beat was changed. Jiang Xinyan almost didn't react, and followed her steps dangerously towards the edge of the dance floor, so that most of her body weight was leaning on Elizabeth, and she could not help but smell a familiar fragrance from the tip of her nose. look sideways.

Elizabeth winked mischievously at her.

This action was supposed to be performed by a man holding a woman's arm, but Jiang Xinyan successfully entered the role of a little daughter-in-law, letting the proud queen beside her hug her, followed the front team to the end of the dance floor in time, and then let go , exchange partners.

The new dance partner was a handsome young guy, and she suddenly remembered what Elizabeth had said: If you dare to dance with a man, you will cut off the man's head...

Fortunately, after a short dance, they switched back again.

Like a king of the mountain, Elizabeth took back her little oriental beauty forcefully, and when it was time to change her partner in the next section, she directly returned to the center of the dance floor with her arms around Jiang Xinyan, disrupting everyone's rhythm at once.

"What are you doing…?"

"I'll convict him of treason when I go back."

"Hey…"

"Don't talk, dance."

The musicians were very witty, they changed a few beats, everyone followed suit, and after a while, they resumed the previous dance steps, but Jiang Xinyan didn't have the heart to dance anymore, and his mind was full of worries about that handsome guy who had been bad luck for eight lifetimes...

At the end of the song, the hall once again burst into warm applause.

Jiang Xinyan breathed a sigh of relief and felt a little tired. Not only was dancing a physical effort, she was tense after the whole dance, and she didn't dare to relax at all. She was afraid of making a joke and embarrassing herself and Elizabeth. It seems to be okay now. She was quite satisfied with her performance.

After returning to her seat, the maid served the fine wine, but she was snatched away by Elizabeth before she drank it, "No drinking."

"why?"

"Who was drunk on my bed last time, huh?" He murmured ambiguously, deliberately accentuating the pronunciation of "bed", with a playful smile at the end of his eyes.

Suddenly, his face was slightly hot, and he bit his lips tightly: "What does this have to do with whether I can drink?"

"It means that you don't drink well, and accidents are easy to happen if you drink. Last time it was my bed, but next time I don't know where it is." She suppressed her smile and looked at her seriously.

"Then don't you drink too..." Sophistry, absolutely sophistry.

"Can you drink ten men like me?" She raised her eyebrows, her tone became severe, and she held her hand tightly, as if warning.

"..."

Shocked, Jiang Xinyan shrank her neck and stopped arguing. Maybe this is the saying in later generations that "you don't drink a drop, or you don't pour a thousand cups". Apart from admiration, there is also a little bit of heartache...

Looking across the girl's depressed face, she sighed softly and changed the subject: "I have a gift for you, come with me."

After finishing speaking, he pulled her up involuntarily and walked towards the side door. The guards who were stationed nodded and opened the door.

This is a small room connected to the back of the Whitehall, which is full of Christmas gifts from noble ministers and foreign envoys, from glittering gold jewelry to rare and expensive animal skins, each of which is worth a lot. Liancheng.

"You... What did you bring me here for?" Looking around, he was a little at a loss.

Elizabeth smiled mysteriously, turned around and walked to the corner of the room, and took out a rectangular object covered by a cloth, about half the height of a person, "Guess what it is."

Shaking his head, he felt vaguely expectant.

The slender knuckles pinched the thick cloth, and gently opened it, a half-length portrait of a figure came into view, and the vivid facial features of the person in the painting could be clearly discerned by the bright candlelight.Black hair like ink, bright eyes and white teeth, a slight smile on the corners of the mouth, and a look that looks forward to something, blooming with a touch of translucent brilliance.

This person...isn't he himself?

The color of the paint is still very bright, it should be a recently completed work, but she has no impression at all, shouldn't this kind of portrait be painted against the main body...

"I drew it, does it look like it?"

At some point, Elizabeth walked around behind her, quietly wrapped her arms around her shoulders, and moved closer.

"Like, but when..."

"I have your appearance in my mind." He whispered softly, his thin chin crossed the girl's slightly trembling shoulders, pressed his hands on it, and walked away.

Breathing suffocated, like a weak current rushing through the heart.

The slender knuckles slid down her shoulders, and suddenly, a pair of strong arms wrapped around her waist, and the hot and humid breath brushed her ears, and she chuckled, "Do you like this gift?"

"Like..." The body was stiff, and even the tongue became clumsy, and he mumbled an answer, not sure whether it was because of joy or fear.

"Then... do you have any presents for me?"

The ambiguous and hoarse voice disturbed Jiang Xinyan's thoughts. She subconsciously grabbed the hand around her waist, but it was held tightly like red-hot iron tongs. The more she broke it, the tighter she fell, and then her whole body fell into Elizabeth unexpectedly. In his arms, a thick shadow hung over his head.

"No...um..."

The warm and soft lips suddenly moved up with the hot breath, with a hint of madness and arrogance intruding between the lips and teeth, it was a strange taste, all entangled with her increasingly heavy breath, like a rough beast.

The fragile line of defense in my heart suddenly collapsed, and I was cautious like walking on thin ice. The dim candlelight pierced my eyes with mist, blurring the face of the person in front of me. I felt that as the air in my lungs was gradually exhausted, I was drawn away...

"First time?"

Let go of the girl who was about to suffocate, she frowned slightly, but there was a trace of joy in her eyes.

Like a fish returning to the water, she couldn't wait to take a big breath, her flushed cheeks were scorching hot, she looked a little embarrassed, she nodded helplessly, avoiding the scorching gaze.

"This is the most satisfying gift I have ever received."

It is also a priceless gift.