24 Disappointmen (2/2)
”...forgive...me...”
Liena's eyelids were becoming heavier. Darkness was slowly engulfing her consciousness. She tried her hardest to breathe. However, as always, she couldn't fight against her will. For the last time, she looked at her parents, and family and... Nuwa.
Slowly, she went into the land of deep slumber. However, before she was totally gulped by the darkness, she saw a familiar figure was weaving hands and calling her. Seeing that face, the corner of her lips broke into a small smile as she breathed out her remaining breaths.
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”What happened?”
”Why she is breathing so loudly?”
Empress Dowager shouted when she saw Liena's breathing was becoming fast and unsteady. Her face became white to see this. She started crying,
”Endure my child, please endure.”
”What is happening to my granddaughter? Tell me?” She asked the physician.
The imperial physician kowtowed and started to mourn.
”F-Forgive me, your highness.”
”P-Princess...is...no...more.”
”NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!”
The people who were patiently waiting outside, forgot all of the so-called formalities after hearing empress's shrill outcry as they hurriedly entered the room. King Lin's face turned ashen when he saw his beloved daughter's condition. As an expert in battlefields who saw countless of deaths, he already a.s.sumed what happened. So he ran towards her bed and cried, saying,
”Forgive me, child. Forgive me... This useless father couldn't save you... Couldn't save his any children.”
In his entire life, he had never cried before, not even when his son Prince Bengt died. He was a hopeless father. He felt his earth was shattering into pieces. Everything was gone. Now, his life has no meanings. For whom he should continue living?
His daughter was even laughing yesterday. And now...how?
He started sobbing when grabbing her hand.
Everyone started to follow his suit, kowtow the ground and started crying.
Queen Lin could not tolerate anymore, so she lost her consciousness and loudly fall on the ground. The maids and physicians became terrified so they hurriedly scoop up her body and started her treatment in another room.
Amongst the chaos, only Nuwa was stupidly standing in the middle of the room like a statue. She robotically observed the whole room, which was filled with people's mourn and cries. Her heart was filled with turmoil.
'What is happening? Why they are crying?'
She couldn't comprehend with the sudden turn of events. Unlike before, she forgot crying. She sat on the edge of Princess Liena's bed, and for a long time, she stared at her face.
”Either in h.e.l.l or on this earth, I will burn whoever did this.” She determinedly lashed out with vicious words, before her emotions hysterically broke out.
[Note: Unedited chapter.]
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