Quick Wear: Driving Gods in a Dark Fairy Tale

The carriage sped all the way from the royal city. After half a day's journey, from noon to dusk, we finally arrived at the holy mountain.

The holy mountain, which is covered with snow all year round and ice all year round, is covered with a layer of fiery red veil. The white snow pours down, and under the reflection of the rosy glow, it looks like tiny stars.

Each piece of snow has a different color and is stained with scorching temperature.

Filina asked the servants to stop at the foot of the mountain, and she walked up the mountain alone, walking on the thick snow, wearing a cloak.

The bright cloak looks like fire and maple, and is particularly eye-catching against the white snow.

After walking for only a short while, Filina's golden hair that was scattered outside her cloak was stained with a lot of broken snow, and there was also some white cover faintly falling on her eyelashes.

She raised her hand to wipe away the ice crystals on her eyelashes, shook off the snow on her cloak, and continued walking up the mountain.

Under the thick snow-covered ice, rose seedlings broke through the snow, and rose thorns were everywhere where the red maple-colored cloak went.

They grew wildly, with luxuriant branches and leaves, paving a solid non-slip staircase on the ice for the owner of the cloak. The most gorgeous roses bloomed on the top, welcoming the owner's arrival and presenting her with the most beautiful crown.

Filina exhaled lightly, and wisps of white mist lingered in the air before dissipating.

She walked aimlessly, her boots making a crunching sound as she stepped on the thorn-covered ice.

After walking in the holy mountain for who knows how long, she finally stopped and smiled with satisfaction.

In front of me, on the flat snow ground, there were ice lotuses proudly blooming deep in the ice. Six ice-blue olive-shaped thin petals were freely spread out, revealing three tiny red stamens in between.

They bloom at the top of the holy mountain, like elves guarding the holy mountain.

Looking out from the distance where the ice lotus spreads, you can see the entire royal city. Standing here, you can have a panoramic view of the scenery in the royal city. It is wrapped in rolling white mist, looking small and far away. From here, it seems as if the entire royal city is under your feet.

This is the widest and flattest area near the top of the holy mountain.

It is also the place where you can enjoy the most beautiful scenery.

"Little princess, you finally got out. Don't you want to see the scenery you long for?" Filina said gently with a smile.

She took off the hood of her cloak and gently brushed off the snow stuck to the fur on the edge of the hood. After standing in silence for a moment, the little princess regained control of her body and was shocked beyond words by the sight before her.

She looked down at the royal city shrouded in clouds and mist and remained silent for a long time.

She had never looked at it from this angle before. It should have been such a familiar place, but now it seemed extremely strange.

It was as if she had never really known this place.

"It's so beautiful! I've never seen such a royal city before. It's much more beautiful and smaller than what I saw in the palace." Ai Luo exclaimed softly.

Felina laughed out loud, "Just standing on the holy mountain and looking down at the royal city, do you think it's beautiful?"

Arlo didn't know how to answer, so he said truthfully: "This is the most beautiful sight I have ever seen."

"That's because you've never walked out of the Royal City." Filina said, "You've been trapped there since you were born and have never left the Royal City. Of course, you've never seen anything better than the Royal City. You can only imagine those scenes from the servants' words and from various storybooks. But if you really saw them, you would know how pale and superficial your imaginations are."

The sunset gently passed through the clouds, and all the scenery below the mountain was coated with warm colors.

The snow on the Holy Mountain cannot reach the Royal City, but the sunset glow in the sky can sweep all the way from the Holy Mountain to the Royal City, sprinkling all over the world. Its changing colors can be appreciated wherever you are.

Ai Luo looked at it with satisfaction, stretched out his hands to catch the snow falling from the sky, but unfortunately the temperature in his palms always forced the snow to melt the moment it touched, and he could never make out its clear appearance. "This is the first time I have seen such heavy snow. It turns out that it is like ice and feels very cold to the touch."

The four seasons in the royal city are like spring, with gentle breezes all year round and few changes from severe cold to extreme heat.

It was seven years ago that Arlo last saw snow.

But at that time I could only watch from inside the house and couldn't go out, let alone touch the snow that looked fine and crystal clear but was as thick as cotton on the ground.

Ai Luo always thought that such snow should be as warm and soft as cotton, but in fact it was icy cold, which was completely different from cotton.

Although there are many descriptions of snow in books, the feeling of imagining it in books and actually touching it are still different.

Just as Ai Luo had always known about the existence of the Holy Mountain, had heard many people talk about it, had seen picture books describing it, and had also secretly imagined its appearance in her mind.

But she had never really seen the Holy Mountain and had never been there, so seeing it with her own eyes at this moment still left her with the same shock.

Ai Luo thanked him from the bottom of his heart: "Thank you."

No matter who you are, thank you for taking me out of the royal city and showing me this different scenery.

Filina said lazily, "If such a simple request requires thanks, then your thanks are really worthless."

"It's just to see the scenery on the holy mountain. If you want, I can take you out to see all kinds of different scenery at any time. You don't have to care about anyone's face, and you don't have to listen to anyone's advice, whether it's sincere or false, no matter if their status is nobler or lower than yours... As long as you want it, it's fine."

"..."

Ai Luo shook her head. "But they are mostly doing this for my own good. They will be worried. This shouldn't be..."

Filina smiled, but her smile was full of sarcasm.

"Is this for your own good, or is it to imprison you and turn you into a puppet that they can control at will?"

Aurora was silent, his fingers unconsciously twisting the fabric of his cloak.

"Wake up, little princess. Is it that hard to admit that they just want to control you, use you, and don't love you?"

Ai Luo lowered his head and gave a very light bitter laugh, "...it is quite difficult."

As the little princess finished speaking, two small dents suddenly appeared on the snow.

she cried.

With the arrival of Filina, Rose immediately let go of Binglian, and snuggled up to Aurora affectionately, like a pet that saw its owner was sad and came to its side at his mercy.

Carefully, she used the most tender petals to wipe away her tears and clustered the beautiful flower buds in front of her. Like a magic trick, they instantly bloomed in front of her, forming a natural bouquet.

Arlo looked at the large bunch of blooming roses clustered together and felt a little overwhelmed. She even forgot to be afraid.

Everything in front of me was taken away by this bouquet of dazzling red roses.

Filina: "Do you like it? If you don't like this variety of roses, there are many more. But I think red roses are more eye-catching and more beautiful in the snow."

Iroh: "…What on earth are you?"

Filina sighed and said, "Do you really have to ask this question to the end? If I were you, I wouldn't ask this question."

"Look, a tool that can help me realize my wishes infinitely, why should I care who she is? I just need to know that she can be used by me and can help me, that's enough."

"There's no need for me to ask who she is. I'll know after a certain amount of time."

Ai Luo held the bouquet of roses that Filina gave her, recalled her words, and burst into laughter. "I suddenly feel that you are similar to someone I respect very much."

"To be precise, the tone and attitude of your speech are very similar."

Filina seemed a little interested in this, "Oh? Who is that?"

Ai Luo thought about it in his mind and smiled: "He is a very young, elegant, knowledgeable, good-looking, but very strict gentleman."

Filina: “…”

"You seem to like him very much?"

Arlo blinked slowly.

Like it?

Ai Luo recalled the shadow in his mind.

Who wouldn’t like such a person?

But do you really like it?

It doesn't seem to be the kind of love that makes the gentleman and the lady at the ball feel heart-pounding and blushing.

"No." Ai Luo was silent for a moment and replied, "People like him are lying if they say they don't like him, but there are too many people who like him, and I'm just one of them. If you think about it carefully, I just respect and rely on him, but that's all."

Arlo knows the difference between "liking" and liking.

That is absolutely different.

"Besides, he won't like me either."