unforgiving

Gu Yuangui and Qi Shu were the only two people in the terrifyingly large duke's mansion, and every word seemed to be echoed by the tall oil painting vault for a long time.As night falls, thousands of houses are lit up, making the Duke's Mansion, which occupies a huge area, look like an isolated island.

The queen stood in the secret passage, looking at the nephew in the study who was alone in the study, buried in a book, her nose suddenly became sore.

She grew up in the duke's mansion, and her parents were too busy to take care of her. During her childhood when her younger brother Gu Nian was not born, she could only read books, play games by herself, and play alone like Gu Yuangui. Facing the empty mansion.No one knows better than her the feeling of being the only one left in the world, so she cherishes her brother, husband and children especially, they are her family, the treasures that make her no longer alone .

The nephew is also a family member, but this family member killed her other family member.

Taking another step forward, the queen will be able to open the secret passage and appear in front of her nephew, but she feels like her feet are filled with lead, weighing a thousand catties, and a child who has not yet formed has been stalking behind her and calling her ,Mommy mommy……

In the end, the queen still couldn't cross that line, she turned around, her wide European-style tutu skirt turned up in an elegant arc, and she quickly left the secret passage and returned to the palace.Just like her coming, no one was alarmed.

The trial lasted for ten days and nine nights. The empress, dressed in different gowns, would always appear in the secret passage, standing there for several hours, thinking that she must meet her nephew today and look her best.It's a pity, but she always gives up at the end, with constant inner struggles.

Tomorrow is a critical day for the judge and jury to announce their final verdicts.

The queen thought, no matter what this time, she must get out of the secret passage!Just like what her husband said, so many years have passed, and the sentence for accidental murder has never been so long.

And this night was destined to be different.

After Qi Shu brought Darjeeling black tea to Gu Yuangui, he heard Gu Yuangui say to him: "Stop looking for evidence that the old housekeeper stayed in the Duke's mansion."

"Until the last moment, my subordinates will not give up. There is still tomorrow and one day in the trial, and I will definitely find it tonight. Please believe me. Although my childhood memories have not been fully recovered, I can be sure that it It involves the past of the empress' miscarriage when you were a child, which is very important evidence."

"Then it's even more impossible to find it." Gu Yuangui interrupted Qi Shu unceremoniously.

Qi Shu, who is always on the ice, couldn't hide his surprise at this time: "Can this subordinate have the courage to ask why?"

"Because I have recovered my memory. I would rather bear the crime of causing the queen's aunt to have a miscarriage for the rest of my life, so that she will never forgive me, and I don't want her to collapse after knowing the truth." If the evidence is exposed, the Duke, the emperor, and the prince What's the point of waiting for people to persist all these years?

"I don't understand." The old butler hid the evidence, not to let Chris find it, but also to help Gu Yuangui one day in the future.Even if Qi Shu still couldn't remember what kind of evidence it was, he could still figure it out. The real culprit who caused the queen's miscarriage was not Gu Yuangui, it was probably Chris.Once the queen knows the truth, Chris will be truly hopeless!

"You don't need to understand."

"Is that the case that Chris killed your parents? We have no evidence, only Li Yan's one-sided statement. The Queen will definitely not believe it easily. Don't you want to avenge your parents? How to persuade the Queen to believe it, It still depends on your relationship with the queen!"

"My parents' revenge, I will avenge myself!"

The queen was dumbfounded listening in the secret passage.

She didn't understand what was going on, but she was not stupid, and she quickly extracted the central point of that conversation: [-], the death of her brother and sister-in-law may not be an accident, but was killed by Chris of.Two, there was another conspiracy behind her miscarriage back then. It wasn't her nephew who did it, but his nephew willingly took the blame because she would collapse after knowing the truth.

What kind of truth can make her collapse?

The queen didn't believe it.

She couldn't tell if this was a scene that Gu Yuangui knew she was in the secret passage and specially played it for her with his subordinates.But there is one thing she knows very well, if the old housekeeper really hid something in the Duke's mansion, then she must know where he hid it.

At the bottom of the stone wall ten meters to the left of the secret passage, there is a half-opened space. Remove the movable stone bricks, and you can see the locked safe placed there.

The model of the safe is a bit old. There is no iris or fingerprint. It is just the most traditional full-keyboard password lock. If you enter the wrong number three times, it will explode. There is no prompt for the number of digits in the password. There are thousands of combinations of letters, numbers and symbols. , the general cracker can't crack it at all.

A set of codes quickly popped up in the queen's mind, which was a secret that only she, her brother and the old housekeeper knew.

Before she got married, it was a whim of a girl queen: "When everyone thinks that secrets must have a certain order, why can't we set up a group without order? Set the password as pressing all the keys on the keyboard Every button, can't you?"

"Of course, my miss." The old housekeeper who has always had a close relationship with their siblings said so, "If I want to hide any secrets in the future, I will definitely use the password that the miss said."

"Why? Then I can untie it."

"Because I will never have any secrets from you and the young master, I hope you can unlock them."

Recalling the sudden end here, how happy they were in the old days, now it is more likely to reflect how lonely she is who survived.

With an attitude of giving it a try, the queen took off her gloves, trembling with her pampered and well-maintained hands, pressed every button on the keyboard.It is very mechanical from beginning to end, without any correlation between numbers and letters.

After a beep, the green light turned on and the safe jumped open automatically.

It really did!

The queen pursed her lips, and she became even more nervous, because she had ninety percent believed that Gu Yuangui was not acting, because there were many details that only she and the old housekeeper knew. Haven't found this safe yet.

Opening the door of the safe completely, the queen saw a communicator inside. It was an old wrist watch that belonged to the old butler, and it was embroidered with the family crest of the Gu family. It was a gift from the queen's father when he became the head of the house. The old butler's, he has always cherished it very much, even if he sacrificed his life, he would not throw it away.

The truth was close in front of her eyes, but the queen suddenly became a little timid.But it was only for a moment. She took a deep breath and pressed it without hesitation. No matter how terrible the truth was, she thought she could bear it!

But the queen never expected that this evidence would involve such a long past.

……

The queen's maiden name is Gu Yan, the jewel in the palm of the Gu family, she is no different from ordinary noble ladies, except her black hair and black eyes are very different from the public, and she is destined to marry the crown prince of the empire since she was born, and become the future queen.

This is the promise made hundreds of years ago by the royal family of Rochester and the Gu family with mysterious oriental blood.

Once the Gu family gave birth to a daughter or son with a special gene, they would definitely marry the royal family. The daughter was destined to be the queen, and the son was destined to be the king's husband.

The current emperor, His Majesty Edward, was not actually the crown prince when Gu Yan was secretly engaged to the crown prince.In that seat sat his tender and affectionate cousin, Prince Henry, then the old King's only child.

Henry has always maintained a dispensable attitude towards the engagement with Gu Yan, until he meets Gu Yan's best friend Dora, and pursues her fanatically.

Dora couldn't bear to be disturbed, she said to Gu Yan: "How can I rob your fiancé? This is really a terrible crime, and I will go to hell."

But Gu Yan said: "It's okay, if you like him too, I'll give him up to you, anyway, I don't like him, he's a bitch."

"what?"

Then, at the insistence of both Gu Yan and Prince Henry, they broke off the engagement.

The old king asked his son in his dying struggle for the last time: "If I say, if you marry Gu Yan, you will be the next emperor, and if you refuse to marry her, you will no longer be the crown prince. Do you still want to be so ruthless?"

"Yes, father, true love is invincible!"

As a result, Henry really lost his position as Crown Prince and became Grand Duke.After his cousin Edward quickly married Gu Yan, he was canonized by the old emperor himself as the new crown prince.

Everyone was stupid, except Gu Yan.

Because from the very beginning, it was not the crown prince who chose Gu Yan to be the future queen, but Gu Yan, the queen-to-be, who chose the future emperor.To put it simply, Gu Yan must become a queen, and only when she becomes her husband can she become an emperor.This rule involves the secrets of the two families hundreds of years ago. Even the old emperor can't change it. The only thing he can do is to try his best to facilitate the marriage between his son Henry and Gu Yan. If Henry insists on going his own way, he can only give in. , to help his younger brother's son inherit the throne.

Grand Duke Henry thought his father's original test was just threatening him, but he didn't expect that his father was just stating the facts.

Therefore, after accumulating strength in secret for some years, Grand Duke Henry unexpectedly turned against him. This absurd farce eventually ended in failure. Due to the infiltration of various forces, the empire was precarious, and a huge crisis occurred. disintegration crisis.

The old emperor was pissed off by his ineffective son, and Crown Prince Edward succeeded to the throne and became the new emperor of the empire.Grand Duke Henry committed suicide in the midst of the rebels before being caught, begging His Majesty the Emperor for one thing, leaving the Grand Duchess - Dora "True Love" - ​​and their two children.

The emperor was hesitant about this, leaving his cousin's blood, and if he didn't handle it well, there would be endless troubles.

At this time, Grand Duchess Dora revealed a shocking secret through Gu Yan, a close friend in her boudoir. The two children she gave birth to Grand Duke Henry were not actually Henry's. The eldest son Chris was her bodyguard. The youngest son, Andre... is the product of her affair with a child from a branch of the Gu family.

"Why are you doing this? Don't you love Henry?"

"How could I love him? I told you back then, it was a crime for him to do this, and I was forced to do it. I am not happy at all after marriage."

In the end, the emperor kept the child and executed Dora.In any case, as the wife of the rebel leader, Grand Duke Henry, it is impossible for Dora to survive, even if the queen pleads for mercy.

The bloodlines of Chris, who is already sensible, and Andre, who is still in his infancy, have been confirmed, and they are indeed not Henry's children.So they saved their lives, saying that they were executed, but in fact they were just demoted to common people for life, and their descendants were not allowed to have titles for generations.

I don't know how much enmity the rebel army commanded by Henry had with the Gu family. During the rebellion, the Gu family suffered heavy casualties, and was the family with the fewest survivors among the disaster-stricken nobles.Only Gu Yan and her younger brother Gu Nian.

Due to the scarcity of blood, Gu Nian of inheriting the dukedom decided to adopt Andre, who was still a baby, and took in Chris by the way.According to seniority, Andre is a generation younger than Gu Nian.Therefore, Gu Nian raised Andre as his nephew, while Chris said that he was his younger brother, so that the two original brothers would be a generation behind, so as to prevent others from guessing.

In the same year, Gu Nian married a lady from an aristocratic family from the Federation in order to consolidate the throne that the emperor's brother-in-law had managed to keep.

The story does not end here.

Within a few years, the Rochester royal family seemed to be shrouded in bad luck. The queen lost her dearest brother and sister-in-law one after another, as well as the second baby in her belly, so she could no longer conceive.

The empress had a miscarriage in a very quiet and leisurely afternoon, and there was no one around her, only her nephew Gu Yuangui, the little duke who had just lost her parents and felt extremely insecure.Recently, a rumor has been circulating in the palace that I don't know where it came from—the little duke has always been jealous of the child in the womb of the queen's aunt, because he is afraid of losing the favor of the only remaining relatives.

And just when the queen woke up from her afternoon nap, before realizing that she had miscarried, she clearly heard her six-year-old nephew say to her: "Auntie, your child is destined to die."

What terrible words!

Later, the queen lost her child and was diagnosed as being unable to conceive again. Because she could not forgive and could not hurt, she could only choose to ignore the existence of Gu Yuangui, a nephew, for many years.

But in the evidence hidden by the old housekeeper, it is about another unrecognizable past?real version.