The sun never sets rose

As the night deepened, Jiang Xinyan washed herself fragrant and white, put on a silk nightgown, and sat on the bed in a daze, the bright candlelight swayed and danced in her bright black eyes, gradually fainted a figure, and couldn't help giggling.

It's so late, and the daughter-in-law hasn't come back yet.

Picking up a pillow and gently sniffing the fragrance left on it, she suddenly felt abandoned...

There was the sound of chaotic footsteps getting closer and closer outside, and then the bedroom door was slammed open, a fiery red figure staggered in and almost fell, facing the dim candlelight, he raised his drunken face, He raised his eyebrows and chuckled, indescribably seductive.

Elizabeth stood in the position swallowed by the darkness, staring at the little figure on the bed in a daze, covered in dreamy luster, as if she would disappear if she stretched out her hand.

"Your Majesty...be careful..." The shadows following behind were Mrs. Ashley and Mrs. Norris. Fortunately, they supported the queen with quick eyesight and quick hands, so that the queen did not fall.

"You go out."

"Do you need a bath, Your Majesty?" He asked hesitantly.

However, in exchange for no sign of rage: "Get out! Can't you understand!"

"Yes…"

They fled in a hurry.

The door closed behind her, cutting off the alternation of light and darkness. The furious and ferocious expression on Elizabeth's face suddenly disappeared, and when her eyes touched the fright in the eyes of the person on the bed, she naturally turned into gentleness. She was like a robot that was about to be scrapped. He moved his steps with great effort, and walked towards the candle lighted by the bedside.

One step away, she stopped, and stretched out her hand to the shivering little man who was huddled beside the bed, spreading her long and slender fingers like flowers blooming.

Jiang Xinyan jumped out of the bed almost instinctively, rushed over and hugged her, his cheek was pressed against her hot ears, the cold and gorgeous pearl jewelry was on his chest and abdomen, and a strong smell of alcohol got into his nose...

She raised her eyes in shock, saw this drunken face clearly by the candlelight, and whispered: "How much... have you drunk?"

"Words of the heart... Words of the heart..."

The palm was pressed against the back of her head and on his shoulder, and he didn't answer, just kept calling this name in a weird tone.

"You're drunk, Liz, lie down quickly..." She was about to pull her onto the bed |, but she waved her hand to break away from the shackles, and took two steps back: "I'm not drunk, I'm sober."

That cold gaze lashed at her like a whip.

"Words...my little rose..." Elizabeth suddenly laughed maniacally again, walked to the vanity mirror and sat down. "Do you have anything to say to me? You can make any request today, and I will agree."

Jiang Xinyan smelled a storm...

However, she still remembered that she was waiting for her daughter-in-law to come back to say something, even though Elizabeth's current state did not look very good.

"Have…"

"Go ahead, baby."

He lowered his head and rubbed his hands, the tip of his tongue inadvertently licked the corner of his mouth, hesitantly said: "Um... are you going to let Mary marry Robert? I think... these two people are not suitable..."

In front of the bronze mirror was a slightly blurred face, faint fine lines at the corners of the eyes could be vaguely seen, Elizabeth's arm for picking up the necklace paused, but could not take it off.

"You two are so close that you can share this kind of thing?" I thought it would be a sharp and harsh voice, but the exit sounded so weak.

She looked at the heraldic ring on her hand and sneered.

No matter how slow Jiang Xinyan was, she should have heard the sourness of these words, so she carefully explained: "Don't be jealous, Liz... I know that these days I may... neglect your feelings for a while, but... I don't have any feelings for Queen Mary. Meaning, I hope that you will no longer confront each other..."

She felt that something was wrong with Elizabeth today, and the calmer she was, the more frightened she was.

After a long while, the man sat still as if frozen.

"Liz?"

Without warning, Elizabeth grabbed the necklace with her hand and pulled it hard, the broken pearls scattered and rolled to the ground, the anger in her heart was vented wantonly with the crystal clear white balls, hitting the ground with an abrupt and ear-piercing sound. The sound seemed to ignite the entire room in the next second.

"Not tit for tat, just let James peacefully unify the two countries, let the royal family name Stuart, you think so, right?" She slowly stood up, turned around, and faced the frightened little wife , a furious hurricane rose from the cold pupils, roaring and sweeping away her remaining sanity.

The veins on the back of her clenched fist were bulging, and there were a few broken pearls in her palm. She raised her arm and threw it at Jiang Xinyan's face. Seeing the girl dodging in fear, her aching heart actually felt Arrived a little carefree.

Jiang Xinyan rubbed his forehead that was hurt by the bead, and watched in horror as the furious and unfamiliar Elizabeth approached him, roots took root on his feet, and he forgot to back up. Then, his neck was tightly strangled by a steel rope...

The suffocation came too fast, like the threat of death.

Panic and fear made her try to break the hand away, but the disparity in strength mercilessly mocked her useless efforts, and she gradually felt difficult to breathe. Elizabeth's face full of hatred and contempt was reflected in her dark eyes, and her vision began to cloud...

She saw a pair of gray-blue eyes full of murderous intent.

She wanted to kill her, very strongly.

Despair turned into raging tears, and the hot liquid burned her delicate eye skin, and finally blurred the face that frightened her, until... a muffled groan escaped her throat, and she rolled her eyes uncontrollably.

The strength on her neck suddenly disappeared, and with the influx of fresh air, she took a few steps back and fell to the ground, breathing heavily with her mouth open and coughing violently.

"You...cough cough... spy on me...cough..."

Drop by drop of the salty transparent liquid fell on the soft cashmere carpet, Jiang Xinyan's cheeks flushed from coughing, his eyes were bloodshot, but he stubbornly raised his head, staring fiercely at the woman who broke her heart, Yelled hysterically.

The moment she was choked, she understood everything.

Elizabeth condescendingly looked down at the thin figure curled up at her feet, the rampant rage in her body tore her heart, and a voice in her mind kept accusing herself, why, why...

Just now she really wanted to kill someone.

Her heart flustered inexplicably, and her eyes became empty for a moment. She stepped forward and squatted down, stretching out her hand: "Xinyan..."

"Don't come here!" Slapped her hand away, shrunk his body to hide further, heartbroken despair revealed in his red teary eyes, and stared at her viciously, full of defense. "You never trusted me...cough cough...cough..."

The hoarse voice was accompanied by an unstoppable cough. What hurt more than the throat was the heart, and he had lost consciousness.

A shadow passed over his head, and Jiang Xinyan was caught off guard by a strange embrace, instinctively tightened his body like a hedgehog, and struggled desperately: "Let me go...!"

The feeling of suffocation brought by the god of death clearly enveloped her heart and turned into a lingering cloud. She hated this feeling, and even more hated this woman's touch.

"My heart...forgive me..." Embracing the delicate body in her arms, the proud queen wept quietly, and suddenly became fragile, incoherent like a child who has made a mistake.

Jiang Xinyan frowned impatiently, and bit her lower lip tightly to keep her heart from softening, but she was so damn easy to bully, she couldn't see how humble this woman was, and was eaten to death.

"It's really hard and tiring to love you." The compromise after helplessness is also a sigh.

"So you're leaving... eh?"

Misunderstood, Elizabeth's face froze, gently wiped the salty tears on her face with trembling fingertips, spit them out in a heavy breath, held her face and stroked it gently.

Jiang Xinyan didn't answer, and didn't struggle any more, but closed her eyes weakly, she wanted to sleep, maybe she could forget everything that happened tonight after sleeping, and took it as a dream, after that, she still loved this woman …

Of course, Elizabeth took her reaction as acquiescence.

After a while of spinning, her whole body was lifted into the air and fell heavily on the soft mattress. Then, that terrifying and hostile figure pressed up and pressed her shoulders.

"I'll say it one last time, Jiang Xinyan, don't leave me, let alone betray me, or I will kill you with my own hands. If you don't believe me, just try."

There was a suppressed cruel and cold tone in her ears, and when she saw the cruelty in her eyes, her heart suddenly went cold, and she was so frightened that she forgot to take a breath.

This woman, crazy...?

After finishing speaking, Elizabeth bit her lip hard, let go of her hand, and stood up.

"where are you going?"

"bath."

The door opened and closed, and there was silence.

Overnight, Elizabeth changed her mind. She no longer allowed Little Rose to come into contact with Mary-Stuart, and she shouldn't even have kept that troublesome woman to live in the first place. The struggle between them was a "contest of kings". Her little wife cannot be involved.

At this time, she received a letter from John Knox, the leader of the "Presbyterian Church" in Scotland.

Last year, the British army helped Scotland drive away the French. Knox expressed his sincere gratitude to Elizabeth, but turned around and criticized her behind his back. It is inappropriate for a woman to rule a country, and she is a double-faced guy.

It's no wonder that the faces of politicians are like this, and she is used to it, but today's letter gave her a good opportunity to suppress Mary.

After a sumptuous lunch, Mary waited in the room for Jiang Xinyan to come, and promised to take her to visit London in the afternoon, but she didn't wait for Jiang Xinyan, but the person she least wanted to see came.

"Your Majesty, Queen Elizabeth is here."

A white figure swayed into the door with leisurely steps, and the complicated and gorgeous pearl jewelry collided gently, making a crisp and pleasant sound. Elizabeth prefers this pure and holy color, and this lustrous and delicate quality will make her look beautiful. Sacred and inviolable, keep a distance from people.

The maids in the room saluted her one after another, and Mary also came out from the inner room, wearing the ordinary plain dress she had just changed - dressed according to Jiang Xinyan's standard for going out of the palace.

His lazy eyes swept across the girls at random, and finally landed on the little niece. His gloomy eyes floated into a smile: "My dear cousin, are you still used to living here?"

In front of outsiders, they must be called sisters.

Mary glanced at her white body that was so reflective and blinding, she didn't make trouble, and smiled cooperatively: "Everything is fine, thanks to my cousin, I am very happy."

Bah, no wonder.

"That's good."

The two queens played "official Tai Chi", which made the maids in the house tired... wishing to escape immediately.

Finally, Mary freed them: "Go down."

"Yes…"

As soon as the maids left, Mary couldn't maintain the stiff polite smile on her face, and her expression became cold: "What's the matter? Why didn't you bring your heartfelt words?"

"Oh? Can't leave my little wife so much?" Elizabeth didn't smirk at her, her face expressionless.

"It's numb to death."

"I don't want to talk nonsense with you. I'm here today to tell you three things. First, don't try to make up your mind. Second, it's time for you to go back to Scotland. Third..." He deliberately paused , raised eyebrows.

Mary narrowed her eyes slightly, as if she didn't have the lack of confidence she had when she first came here, and looked at her: "I don't have any homosexuality, and it's my ability to say that love clings to me."

"Well, very good, your ability." Nodding with a sneer, he picked up the folded letter paper in his hand, unfolded it slowly, and handed it over. "The next third, I'm going to see what you have to deal with it."

"??"

"Here's a letter from Knox."

Mary took the letter and looked at it suspiciously.

The scribbled English handwriting, with tails flying around, is a bit difficult to read, but the meaning is very clear.

The letter said: Knowing that Queen Mary is about to return to Scotland, she is worried that her Catholic belief will shake the newly stabilized Protestant rule in the country, so she implores Queen Elizabeth to be a partner in the Protestant camp and unite with him to disintegrate Mary's royal power.

Also, expressed dissatisfaction with Elizabeth's meeting with Mary.

"This Knox..."

After reading the letter, Mary gritted her teeth angrily, digging her fingernails into the paper and making deep indentations as if it were Knox's face.

"Say, should I agree, or not?"

"No, you can't promise him!" He raised his head, his face was flushed with excitement, and the letter paper was almost torn apart.

Elizabeth spread her hands and looked at her leisurely: "Then give me a reason for not agreeing, preferably enough."

"If I fall, you will be next."

"Not necessarily. You are a Catholic, and we are all Protestants. Do you think the issue of religion and politics is more important to Knox, or the issue of male and female rulers?"

"Elizabeth..." Turning her face aside, she lowered her arms weakly, trying to maintain her composure, "My greatest wish is peace, not only between our two countries, but also in Scotland. If you choose Nock Well, this island is going to be in endless war again, and you're not a militant, are you?"

"Dear cousin, I think you need to understand one thing: your existence is my threat."

"I have renounced my succession to the throne of England and am not a threat to you."

"But those Catholics are not going to give up."

"you……"

At a loss for words, Mary was so choked that she couldn't speak, she sighed helplessly, and couldn't help but frowned when the little woman got emotional.

Elizabeth watched her good show and still did not forget to tease her. She sighed and shook her head: "It seems that the education of the French court can only produce queens, but not queens. Mary, do you know that I have seen everything in you?" It's French frivolity."

These words actually have some reminders in them.

It's a pity that Mary didn't hear it, and thought it was a narrow-minded mockery.

She corrected: "I'm Scottish."

"Well, a Scot who grew up in France."

"..."

In terms of eloquence, she was slightly inferior to this cousin, and she was so ridiculed that she couldn't speak. Annoyed, she could only despise her for being rude and narrow-minded.

"So you've decided to side with Knox?"

"Look at my mood."

The signature smile made Mary's teeth itch with anger...