Damn it, stay away from me, Charlotte!
Chu Yuanqing felt as though her brain were being pried open. Familiar yet strange emotions sprouted and spread from the sealed domain, while overwhelming sorrow boiled like lava.
The scene of Charlotte's deathbed seemed to overlap with it continuously, sprouting a brand-new scar.
"No... no... no!"
But there was nothing she could do to change it.
Chu Yuanqing was like a mute pantomime actor who could only serve as the backdrop. The entire tragedy was reflected in the depths of her eyes. Flames licked Charlotte's ankles with long tongues, leaving indelible scars on her fair, tender skin, and were about to swallow her whole like a devil.
After so many years, that regret had caught up with her again. It was as though Satan had clenched his fist around her heart, intending to use fear as a net to devour her impure soul and atone for the sins of the past.
And just as she thought this illusion was about to end,
Charlotte smiled. Her lips brushed against the young man's ear, her eyes half-lowered as she hummed a lullaby in a soft, soothing voice:
"Edelweiss, edelweiss..."
"Greet me as I bloom in the morning..."
"Small and white, clean and bright..."
"Shaking happily at me..."
Chu Yuanqing stood there in stunned silence.
Of course she would be speechless. This nursery rhyme was far too familiar to the children in the orphanage in the City of Doomsday.
Sister Ellie, who was gentle and compassionate, loved handing out candy to the children, and often wore a bright smile. She used it most often to lull them to sleep.
Thus, this nursery rhyme from Austria held a special place in the hearts of the children at the orphanage.
Naturally, that included... herself, who had witnessed her