所有故事的开始都起源于一场众神游戏.
在这片人迹罕至的土地上,很少有人相信神灵.
这是黎明的第 361 年,也是 Lan Gete 的新皇帝 Hugh 在位的第三年.
卡诺斯宫的树木郁郁葱葱.微风吹拂,发出沙沙的声音.
在厚厚的绿枝和树叶背后,阳光从缝隙中透进来,穿过窗户,照进一座白色的塔楼.
一个皮肤白皙,身穿丝绸睡衣,略带病恹恹的人坐在柔软的床边,周围是医生和女仆.
"哎哟~好痛~"年轻的公主把头向后仰,轻声呻吟着,双手紧紧地搂住着卡罗夏的腰.
"殿下,您能再坚持一会儿吗?我们很快就会把绷带取下来.卡罗夏绷紧了身体,试图控制自己的双手放慢服药的动作,同时温柔地哄骗着眼前这个娇小的人.
"好~"帝罗儿乖乖地说道.
卡罗夏用剪刀从侧面剪下遮住公主眼睛的纱布,小心翼翼地用镊子轻轻地挑开卡住的部分.
"现在我们需要清理它.殿下,请闭上眼睛.
"嗯."她修长上翘的睫毛微微颤抖.
在助手的帮助下,卡罗夏拿了一块温暖潮湿的布,轻轻地擦拭了公主的眼睑.有点痛,也有点痒.
卡罗夏能感觉到公主轻柔的呼吸和不适的小蠕动.
这是当天的最后一项任务.这很简单,而且进展很快.
"殿下,都完成了.你现在可以睁开眼睛了.卡罗夏把工具放在一边,蹲下头看着公主的眼睛.
帝罗儿缓缓睁开了眼睛.经过三年的精心呵护,她脸上的疤痕已经基本褪去,但仍然有淡淡的棕色印记.
她有一双非常特别的眼睛.她右眼的琥珀色-金色与休帝的一模一样,而她左眼的玫瑰-粉红色与塔塔隆的一样,象征着美丽和希望,表明她是一个受到众神祝福的孩子.
Such special eyes, however, now lost their luster and could no longer see.
She shook her head and looked around, still unable to see anything clearly, not even the light.
"I still can't see." Diluo'er tried hard to raise a smile, controlling her emotions to comfort those who had put in so much effort. "It's okay. I can manage without these eyes."
Karoxia asked, "Do you feel anything else?"
"No." Diluo'er shook her head.
"Your Highness, we'll do our best to find a way." Karoxia knelt on one knee, placed her left hand on her right shoulder to salute, and said with her head lowered, "Next time it will be better."
"I've tried so many times. I know these eyes won't get better. There's no need to waste time." Diluo'er's smile carried an unwavering determination. "I'll go to my brother and ask him to give up. I won't make things difficult for you."
"Your Highness, curing your eyes isn't just because of the emperor's order. All of us hope that your eyes will recover."
"Because of that rumor, right? But there are no gods in Lan Gete. We've already abandoned the gods."
The gods didn't help them over three hundred years ago, and now that Lan Gete is prosperous three hundred years later, there's no need for them to exist either.
"Your Highness..." Karoxia sighed. She wanted to persuade further, but stopped under the princess's unwavering expression.
"Doctor Karoxia, you've all done your best. I know that. I just... don't want to hold on anymore." Diluo'er walked familiarly to the fan - shaped window. This was the path she was most familiar with in the past three years. She sighed, "These three years have been... too hard."
She stretched her head out, feeling the warmth of the sun. The gentle breeze blew through her hair, dissipating the smell of medicine on her body.
"You can leave now."
"Yes..." Karoxia sighed softly and left the room with the others.
The closed door also concealed the doctors' sighs of pity.
"If only that hadn't happened..."
"The demons shouldn't exist. If it weren't for them, our princess wouldn't have become like this..."
"The princess has changed a lot in these years..."
"..."
The princess really had changed a lot in the past three years, Karoxia thought.
The former princess, though a bit willful, was innocent and lively. Now she was uncharacteristically quiet for her age.
No matter how they comforted and persuaded her, or what methods they used to treat her, they couldn't bring back her vitality.
She was like a flower gradually withering, without the desire to grow.
Inside the room, Diluo'er was still standing by the window, listening to the birdsong outside and the gossip of the doctors and maids as they left.
Had she changed a lot?
Maybe not.
She still loved the outside world very much. She loved the bustling market streets in Chelbes City, loved it when Kayaka took her to find the sporadically blooming Tataloan in the grass in the forest outside the city, loved going on adventures in the hidden black market in the corner, and loved buying ancient books with a faint woody fragrance...
However, she had been staying here for three years to recuperate and hadn't seen the outside world for a long time.
She also hadn't seen Kayaka for a long time.
Kayaka was Diluo'er's personal knight and the second son of the current head of the Sinevis family.
Kayaka was three years older than Diluo'er. Since Diluo'er was seven years old, he had been by her side, protecting her safety.
However, three years ago, the demons launched an assassination attempt, aiming to disrupt the succession ceremony by killing the heir.
No one expected that the demons' target was Princess Diluo'er. At that time, the guards in the Canos Palace were all with Prince Hugh, who was about to succeed to the throne. Kayaka single - handedly resisted dozens of elite demon warriors to protect her from getting hurt.
The demons died and instantly turned into ashes.
When the guards rushed over in a hurry, Kayaka was kneeling on the ground covered with black ashes, his body covered in blood. Under the layers of shredded flesh and blood, the white bones were faintly visible.
Behind his tall figure was the princess he had been tightly protecting.
The terrified Diluo'er was ice - cold all over, trembling non - stop, her body covered with blood and dirt.
Unfortunately, the seriously injured demon lurking at the end didn't plan to give up his target.
When everyone let down their guard, he teleported in front of Hugh, scratched Diluo'er's face with his sharp claws, and at the same time stabbed her eyes. Just as he was about to launch another attack, he was stabbed to death by Prince Hugh, who had reacted.
"Diluo'er! Where are the doctors? Hurry up!"
...
The scene was chaotic at that time, and Diluo'er didn't remember the details clearly after waking up.
After that, she had been staying here.
Doctor Karoxia came every day. She was the best doctor in the country.
If he wasn't too busy, Hugh would also come. He always thought that it was his fault that she got hurt and tried every means to find a way to treat her.
Every time Diluo'er comforted him, he wouldn't listen. He was really a headache.
She hadn't seen Kayaka. Hugh said that he was recuperating in the Sinevis family and would no longer be able to serve as her bodyguard.
However, it was just a knight leaving. It was a very ordinary thing.
As some people leave, others come.
After that, a knight order was specifically assigned to guard the place where Diluo'er was recuperating.
The leader was a powerful knight who was 1.9 meters tall. She was the first woman in the history of Lan Gete to rank first in knight training. Her name was Kling.