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In ancient times, a king hunted a monster that was said to be wise, so the king asked it, what is the best thing in the world? The monster replied: The best thing in the world is not to be born in this world. The king asked it again, what is the next best thing? The monster said that he died when he was born.

When Odosia was very young, she heard the words of an ancient Greek philosopher for the first time from the personal teacher of the royal family, but as a child, she just thought it was cynical. However, as she grew older and experienced countless things and watched the conspiracy and tricks in the purple court, the emperor finally understood the true meaning of this sentence.

Life is beautiful, but the hardest thing in the world is not to die, but to walk alone with heavy responsibilities and live like years. This is probably what it says in the book of Isaiah-"Looking up to the sky and looking down to the earth, it is unexpectedly hard, dark, and deep pain. And those who are displaced will be driven into the darkness of the abyss."

At this time, Odosia felt as if she was plunged into the icy water, and her limbs seemed to be filled with lead water and she didn't even have the strength to struggle. Obviously there was a feeling of suffocation, but he was still sober. She can't remember exactly what happened before. She only remembers that that night she took her sleeping daughter and agreed to the entrustment of Grand Duke Anastasius like a will, and then she fell into this state. However, That feeling made her almost collapse. She seemed to jump off the cliff, but the abyss she was in never bottomed out.

Until Odosia's ear rang a heartbreaking sound, like a bell ringing in the night, awakening everything so that she finally saw a glimmer of light. At this moment, the voice pulled her out of the abyss of despair.

"mom--!"

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"mom--!"

She opened her eyes abruptly, and the woman who was beating violently because of her sudden awakening of her heart saw a pair of extremely reassuring eyes, as bright and translucent as two green ambers, surpassing all the miraculous medicines, and her heart finally settled down. And it was not someone else who awakened her, it was his daughter Helena.

The little girl who had already cried into tears even had a hoarse voice, but when she watched her mother finally wake up, Helena still burst into laughter at the first moment, as if she threw a swallow into the forest, threw herself at Odosia’s. In his arms, he kissed his mother's cheek warmly.

The stunned Princess Odozia looked at her daughter and then came back to her senses, holding the little Helena in her arms for a long time, and the tears at the corner of her eyes had long been flowing uncontrollably and wet the clothes.

Seeing the mother and daughter hugging and crying, Justinian, who waited silently, was silent and didn't bother them. For him, family affection, even if it hasn't crossed here, is already a very strange thing, but seeing this scene, his heartstrings are still touched.

Compared to Odosia, who was in a weak and frightening state before, Justinian checked the condition of Little Helena, but it was quite normal, but she fell into a coma and woke up very early. . No matter how she tried before, Princess Odothea was always unconscious, but she finally woke up miraculously because of her daughter's crying. This may be the power of family affection! Although this statement is a bit old-fashioned, there is no better explanation for Justinian.

At this time, Odosia, who was holding her daughter, finally noticed Justinian next to her, watching as she was in a ruined monastery, and the snow fluttering in the sky came down one after another. For a while, I only felt that all this was my own illusion.

"Is that you... Justinian?"

But at this moment, the first thing Justinian who came forward did was to kneel down in front of Odosia, as if a sinner was repenting, and pressed his arm to him. In front of his chest, he said in a deep tone:

"His Royal Highness, you are shocked."

I saw an incomparable guilt in the eyes of this young man. Although Justinian was happy for Odosia and the others at this time, he was more guilty of his previous decision-making mistakes.

"Please forgive me for being a bit late. If I had come earlier, or even if I had been careful before, I would have avoided all this."

Those lake-blue eyes also shed tears of regret at this moment. For the first time, this big boy who had always been deep in Odosia's eyes showed such a fragile side. Feeling the grief he was holding back in his heart, Justinian gave Odosia this feeling like a child who would not say anything in his stomach~www.ltnovel.com~ despite the experience After a life and death catastrophe, Odosia didn’t mean to blame Justinian in her heart, but the daughter who put down her arms and walked forward slowly, she still walked in front of Justinian. He smoothed Justinian’s hair that had been messed up in the chicken coop because of his running around, “I know what you’re suffering, but it’s not all to blame you, Justinian! You just want to be able to do it well! That’s all. Sometimes, things like fate are too fond of teasing us."

When Justinian went to the south to deal with the harassed Venetian, she didn't actually object too much, but no one thought that this would be a trap deliberately set by Leosgros. If you really want to blame, you can only blame them for having to pin the fate of the entire empire on such a thin young man. Dependence on other people is the greatest proof of weakness.

But after hearing these words, Justinian became even more embarrassed, and his voice became choked.

"But I..."

"You're just burdened with too much... Don't blame yourself for this, or else what is the meaning of their sacrifice?" Odosia's persuasive persuasion, like a sister, finally allowed her to endure the mood swings. Justinian couldn't control it anymore, and tears burst into tears.

And Odosia also looked at the crying Justinian quietly. With so many responsibilities imposed on him by others, this big boy needs this kind of opportunity to vent his depression. Although he is the little fox of Moria who makes the Latins extremely afraid to deal with countless princes outside, he is actually only a half-year-old child. Will be awkward, will be arrogant and negligent, will also regret the mistakes they made.