The queen must start from the head

Chapter 26 Self-doubt
The imperial capital, Embroidered Women's Workshop.

In the room filled with sandalwood, the slightly slanted sunlight shines on a row of colorful bead curtains, making the room full of light, like a fairyland.

"Miss, Mu Lian has arrived in the Imperial City and is currently staying in Room 32 of Dongsheng Inn. Should we..." The beautiful maid in emerald silk still stood respectfully outside the bead curtain, reporting to her master matter.

"Let's not move her for now. She established a sect called Tianxia Wushuang on Luohuang Mountain outside Tianhai City. Some things in it have unknown origins. Some people want to get the origin of these things from her. Our people will first Don't do it anymore." From the bead chain, there was still a voice like the sound of nature, and the slightly cool tone was enough to fascinate countless men in the imperial city.

"How should we deal with the matter in Haicheng that day?"

The people inside pondered for a moment, and then said, "But any city that is predicted to be destroyed, people and animals will often die, and the whole city will be reduced to ashes in the fire from the sky. This has never changed for thousands of years. Naturally, Tianhai City will not be an exception. Go tell our people to prepare to enter the city, and let those people use their remaining heat before they die."

"Yes, miss." The maid agreed and stepped back.

On the way back to the inn, Mu Lian passed by a street teahouse, and the storyteller inside was talking about the story of "fire fell from the sky and turned the world into purgatory", and said it was a prophecy.

Prophecy, what prophecy?Mu Lian tilted her head and thought for a while, maybe the people in the imperial city have a strong taste and like to listen to this type of storytelling.

Just as she was about to leave, she suddenly heard the words "Tianhai City will be destroyed" burst out from the mouth of the storyteller.Mu Lian was stunned immediately, she flew up with her feet on the ground, and landed directly in front of the storyteller on the third floor of the teahouse.

The storyteller was a slender, middle-aged man with a beard. A large living person suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, which startled him.He was about to retreat and avoid, but the other party grabbed him by the collar.

"Tell me, what did you just say about Tianhai City?"

The storyteller breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. It turned out that it was because of this. He thought that an enemy was knocking on the door.

"Don't you know, Master? Master Xinghe made a prediction ten days ago that Tianhai City will be destroyed..." Before he finished speaking, Mu Lian interrupted him, "Who is Master Xinghe? Why did he do this? Prophecy? Tell me where he lives, and I'll go find him!"

Who is it that made such a prophecy that the city would be destroyed for no reason?

Hearing this, the guests in the teahouse all looked at Mu Lian with monster-like eyes, as if they were looking at a fool, and they were so stupid.

The storyteller also sneered, and changed his tone and said, "You are not from the imperial city, but a mud leg from a remote country. Otherwise, how could you not know who Master Xinghe is? Yuan is more than a hundred years old, so he is called a "living god". In the past hundred years, the master has made four predictions that the city will be destroyed, and all of them have come true, and this is the fourth time for Tianhai City... ".

"Where does this master live now?"

When the storyteller heard Mu Lian's question, the contempt on his face became even worse, "The master lives in the palace, why? Are you going? Do you dare to go?"

For the first time, Mu Lian's face was very gloomy, she loosened the other's collar, turned around and prepared to leave.

All the spectators present laughed loudly when they saw this.

"Hahaha, I guess he's a bumpkin from Tianhai City. Hearing that Tianhai City is about to be destroyed, I'm so anxious. Hahaha, I'm so ridiculous!"

"Tch, I thought he could be so powerful, but it turns out he only has this ability. In my opinion, this guy is just a fucking coward..."

"Nothing to plant!"

"It's just a waste, what can you expect him to do?"

"What a wretch..."

There was laughter and sarcasm all around, every word pierced Mu Lian's heart like a knife.

Does she dare to go to the palace?Does she dare to arrest that Master Xinghe and ask him why he said that Tianhai City will be destroyed?Does she dare?Mu Lian was torturing her heart, she even heard the sound of her soul weeping blood, because the answer was "yes".

Yes, she didn't dare, she didn't dare to go to the palace, she might die if she went there, and she didn't want to die.

"System, I'm timid and afraid of death, am I useless?"

"Sorry, I don't have a previous host, so I can't make a comparison."

The system only replied one sentence, and then there was no further text.

Mu Lian kept walking forward with her head down, until she walked out of the teahouse, she could still hear the voices of those people on the third floor mocking her.At this moment, she could completely shatter the pillars of this teahouse with one palm, and the third floor would collapse, causing the group of people who laughed at her to fall to their deaths and maimed.

But is there any point in doing so?These people were right, she, Mu Lian, was a coward.She doesn't want to find a bunch of reasons for herself to comfort her choice at the moment, such as her own strength is limited or not all the people in Tianhai City are good, etc.

In fact, she is a timid person who is afraid of death.

Although she lived to be 88 years old in her previous life, after her rebirth, she was still afraid of death.

However, there was a voice in her heart that was accusing her, how could you be afraid of death?Which is more important, your life or the lives of a whole city?Why don't you have any spirit of sacrifice?What's more, if you go to the palace, you may not die!

But another voice jumped out immediately, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in the entire imperial capital, you have the tricks of the system, others don't know it, but you don't know it yourself?"Once you are caught and tortured to extract a confession, what do you think will happen to you in the end?
Mu Lian fell into extreme self-entanglement, and just walked all the way to the inn in a daze.

She also didn't know how she walked back to the room and lay down on the bed.

She stared straight at the top of the bed in front of her eyes, and suddenly remembered a very long time ago.

At that time, she was still a small employee who had just graduated from a prestigious school and joined a large company.Because of her excellent academic qualifications and outstanding talents, she quickly made her mark in her department. Her colleagues treated her warmly, and her superiors also valued her highly.At that time, she was extremely confident and proud every day.

Until one day, a school girl who graduated from the same school came to the company and her department.This schoolgirl is beautiful, has a high emotional intelligence, and is very capable.At the beginning, some people would secretly say some nasty things about her relying on her beauty to get to the top.Whenever Mu Lian is present, she will stop herself from saying something like this.

But gradually, no one in the department spoke ill of the school girl anymore.Colleagues began to circle around her, and the boss began to try her best to cultivate her.As for himself, it was as if he was suddenly forgotten.

She started to be sent to do some trivial things, and all the original clients in her hands were taken over by the school girl.Finally, when the economic crisis came, the company was going to lay off employees, and she was the first person in her department to be laid off.

She never understood why this happened.When she first realized that she was being excluded, she chose to endure; after being deprived of clients, she chose to endure; when she was sent to clean the office and organize documents, she still endured.Because she believes that gold will always shine, as long as she works hard enough, it will be reused one day.

Finally, on the day before she left, she went to her boss and asked about the confusion she had been having.

The boss asked her, "Mu Lian, do you think you are beautiful?"

She shook her head, "Not pretty." She was born with an ordinary appearance and had nothing to brag about.

"A person who is not beautiful and treats himself as a weed, do you think anyone will respect you? Will anyone pay attention to a weed?"

"What do you mean by that?"

"Mulian, you are a smart person, you can understand what I mean. If a person wants to live in this world, he must fight, fight for breath, fight for food, fight for property, fight for resources... , but you only know how to retreat, but don’t know how to move forward. In our department and in our company, the more you don’t fight, the more you will be marginalized and eventually reduced to a weed. It’s a pity, even if you understand now After that, it’s too late.”

After Mu Lian was laid off and returned home, she took over her mother's work and devoted herself to developing Suzhou embroidery.

At that time, she only thought that she was not suitable for the workplace, so it would be better if she didn't go to work, and gradually forgot what her boss said back then.Thinking about it now, she at that time was still retreating.

"Does a person have to fight if he wants to live in this world?" Mu Lian was lying on the bed, her eyes dull and muttering to herself.Unconsciously, someone poked a small hole in the tissue paper on the window of his room, and something like a bamboo tube was stuffed in.

(End of this chapter)