The Witch's Taste

Chapter 392 Her past life memories
Every suicide note, in addition to the name of the author, also has the name of the person to whom it is delivered.

In Xia Qingyu's suicide note, the name written in the address column was not her sister "Xia Zili", but "Chen Zi'ang".

Chen Ziang was silent for a moment and asked the correspondent to import her suicide note into her mobile phone. Then she said to Suzuna and Zili:
"I'll go to the lounge while you watch from the outside."

Xia Zili wanted to say something else, but was stopped by Tsukinomiya Suzuna.

"Okay." She said calmly, "Senior... we will wait for you outside."

"Well, thank you." Chen Ziang said in a complicated tone.

He felt that his current emotional state was very strange, as if his chest was feeling dull, but there was no obvious sadness.

If it was Suzuna or Zili who left this suicide note, it would definitely give him a huge psychological blow, but Xia Qingyu... really doesn't seem like someone who would actively seek death.

Even if he entered the lounge and saw her sitting on the sofa, saying in his usual sneer and mocking tone, "Do you really think I will commit suicide, idiot?" Chen Ziang would not find it strange at all.

Opening the door to the lounge, he silently took a look inside.

no one.

After closing the door, Chen Ziang sat on the sofa and took out his phone to unlock the screen.

Click on the suicide note.

The content of the suicide note was not long, and it did not contain her signature sarcastic remarks. There were not many special emotions between the lines, so that Chen Ziang seemed to be able to imagine Xia Qingyu sitting next to him, explaining the funeral affairs with an expressionless face:

"Chen Ziang."

"I'm sorry to inform you of my death in this way."

"I've been planning this for a long time, and dying is the final step in my plan."

"As long as my death is confirmed, the empire will no longer regard you as a target for assassination, and starship humans will soon be accepted by the empire."

"I owed you something in my previous life, and this will be considered as repayment."

"Next, please live well."

"Don't make the people who love you sad anymore."

……

Gone.

The file had been pulled to the bottom, and Chen Ziang was still sliding his fingers subconsciously until he finally came back to his senses slowly.

Xia Qingyu seemed to be really dead.

But... something is wrong.

Why is she seeking death?Why would her death make the Empire stop assassinating me?Also, why did the Empire want to assassinate me?
Chen Ziang was in a daze holding his mobile phone, feeling that a huge mess had been forced into his mind. He wanted to completely sort it out but had no way to start.

He stood up uneasily and walked around the lounge. Then he remembered something and quickly called Yuuki Izumo.

Yuuki Izumo was staying in the command hall and rushed over immediately after receiving the call.

"Izumo." Chen Ziang asked in a low voice, "How much do you... know about Xia Qingyu?"

"Not much." Yuuki Izumo was silent for a moment and replied, "Her Highness is very good at hiding her inner thoughts. She will only tell me to do many things, but she will never tell me her actual thoughts."

"Oh." Chen Ziang thought about it, "What about the tone she used when she ordered you?"

"It's a very normal tone." Yuki Izumo paused for a moment, "In fact, His Highness does have a slightly mean attitude toward people she doesn't know well, but that's mostly just because she's in a bad mood."

"There is only one exception, and that's you."

"Me?" Chen Ziang asked blankly.

"I can tell." Yuuki Izumo said with great certainty, "His Royal Highness's usual attitude towards you, whether it is cynicism or harsh words, is all fake."

"She never actually hated you."

"Then... why is she pretending?" Chen Ziang asked slowly, feeling that a bitter taste gradually filled his heart, like thick coffee without sugar.

"I don't know." Yuki Izumo shook his head and said, "She never allows me to ask more questions."

"Okay." Chen Ziang waved his hand, indicating that she could leave.

"Also." Yuuki Izumo walked to the door and suddenly said, "Your Highness has the habit of writing a diary, but she locked the diary in a box and did not allow anyone to peek. But now... you need me to take the box are you coming?"

"Then please bring it over." Chen Ziang nodded and said.

Soon, Yuuki Izumo came back with a box.

The box is obviously a mysterious creation, because Chen Ziang's inspiration has been reflected, and this thing is not something in the real world.

Of course, it can also be seen from its appearance.

The box is square in shape, with exquisite gilt patterns on its corners and edges.But no matter which angle you look at it from, the box always faces you with the front with the keyhole, as if it rotates with your angle of view.

Yuuki Izumo put the box on the table, then said goodbye and opened the door to leave.

Chen Ziang picked up the box and looked at it carefully.

The keyhole is a diamond-shaped groove...yes, it is a groove, with a depth of about 0.5 cm. The periphery and bottom are all solid, without any trace of the lock spring or mechanism.

Such a keyhole cannot be opened with a physical key.

But inspiration told him that this thing did have a key.

Chen Ziang remembered the key that had been left in the crack of the sofa.

He touched his pants pocket and found the key.

Looking carefully, isn't this the silver key that Xia Qingyu often takes out to play with, and can also be used to open the door in the void and pull out the teleportation channel?
The bottom of the key is round and does not fit the keyhole of the box.

Chen Ziang tried to hold the key to the keyhole, and actually inserted it.Looking at the keyhole again, it has become the round shape of a key.

When the box was opened, there was an ordinary notebook inside. It looked like an ordinary notebook that could be bought in a convenience store. The cover and bottom pages were just two ordinary cardboards.

Chen Ziang turned the page of the book, and soon there was a huge, familiar suction force, which pulled his whole body in hard.

………………

This notebook is not so much a diary as it is Xia Qingyu's past life memory.In his memory, Chen Ziang felt as if he had been forcibly transported into her body. Looking at everything she saw at that time, he could also feel the joy, anger, sorrow and joy in her heart.

Xia Qingyu's childhood was not happy.Since the royal family only had collective marriages and no free love, her parents were arranged together.

It wasn't until her mother secretly ran away from the empire, which brought great shame to the royal family. There was talk internally that she would be punished on her mother's behalf, but in the end it was the old emperor who saved her.

Xia Qingyu did not record what was said between the two in the diary.But after she left the palace, she immediately transformed into the most powerful Highness in the empire and... the old emperor's secret heir.

The old emperor gave her the greatest freedom, allowing her to choose to go anywhere in the galaxy. He also allowed her to use her identity as a secret heir to mobilize resources from the royal family chief Zhengxia Jinyan.

The only requirement is that when the old emperor is about to pass away, she must return to the empire to inherit the throne.

At first glance, this thing only has benefits for her, and the price to pay is not worth mentioning.

But Xia Qingyu did not take it lightly. She was very sure that the old emperor was not as kind as he appeared.But now there are no clues, so I can only choose to leave the empire and follow the traces of my departed mother.

Needless to say what happened next, Xia Qingyu didn't write much in her diary.

In short, she was confirmed by the Klublev family that her mother had passed away, leaving her with a half-sister.

Moreover, the other party did not have a good life among the elf nobles, so Xia Qingyu felt compassion and took her sister out of the Krublev family.

At that time, she didn't trust the Empire, and of course she hated the Federation even more, so she finally chose to take her sister to settle in the Gaotian Yuan star region, which was between the Empire and the Federation, until the two gradually grew up.

The two sisters both majored in law at university. Xia Qingyu worked in the Jibei City Procuratorate, while Xia Zili became a lawyer.

Then, there was the encounter with Chen Ziang.

In his previous life, Chen Ziang, as an operator of Countermeasures Section [-] to deal with the mystery, needed to understand the legal situation in this area when investigating the life experience of the witch Mie Nishikawa.

Xia Qingyu happened to be investigating a case at the Public Security Department. After being introduced by Chen Ziang's colleague, the two had a brief acquaintance, meeting and communication.

Soon the two parties became good friends.After handling Nishikawa Mie's case, and then Takano Seiko's case, Xia Qingyu initially provided Chen Ziang with legal knowledge support. As their interactions with each other became more frequent, she slowly began to help him find out information from higher-ups...

Until she was no longer satisfied with this friendship.

Xia Qingyu wanted to go further, but realized that she could never go further.

Because she may be recalled to the empire at any time and become the next emperor.

The genes of the ordinary royal family cannot be leaked, let alone the emperor's heir.If she is destined to become the emperor, then the empire will never allow her to have any secular spouse... otherwise the entire royal marriage system will be shaken.

The emperor was destined to be a loner.Her offspring can only be born in a laboratory. The other half of the genes come from the genetic engineering of the royal family. They can never come from a man's unoptimized natural sperm that may be distorted or contain bad genes.

Perhaps she can change this harsh and cruel system after she completely gains power, but Xia Qingyu knows better that once her thoughts are known to the old emperor, even if it is just a guess without evidence, it will immediately bring death to Chen Ziang.

After experiencing a long period of psychological struggle, she quickly made a strange choice that seemed outrageous but actually achieved "both worlds".

Introduce Chen Ziang to his sister.

Chen Ziang does not like to flirt with women. Once he marries his sister, he will never have any relationship with him that goes beyond friendship.Falling in the eyes of imperial agents means that he no longer has any value in being "removed".

This will ensure his safety.

On the other hand, as her brother-in-law, Xia Qingyu also has reason to enter his life openly and openly. She can see him, accompany him, and talk to him every day...

Even if it's not as a lover.

But it was enough to give her some satisfaction and comfort until one day she was recalled to the empire, and she always prayed that this day would come as late as possible.

………………

There was another familiar repulsive force, and Chen Ziang was kicked out of his memory.

It's like a tape that has been played and is automatically ejected by the tape recorder.It took him a long time to get used to his body again.

Looking at the diary in his hand again, it turned out that the back pages had been torn out.

No wonder he was ejected.

Chen Ziang subconsciously wanted to turn the page, but found that his hands could not stop shaking.

and so……

She said earlier that she didn't have any good feelings for me, but it was actually just a cover-up lie.

Is it because you don’t want the imperial family to know?
No matter how you look at it, "I can't marry you, so I want to turn you into my brother-in-law, so that at least for the rest of my life, I can see you openly."This feeling is really too strange...or should I say, deep?
Chen Ziang felt his body trembling a little.He didn't dare to recall the extremely bitter but deep sense of hope that filled Xia Qingyu's heart when she made this decision, just like her eyes as dark and as deep as the night sky.

He took a deep breath, skipped the torn pages, and turned to the back again.

........................

The skipped memories span a long time span, including the destruction of Takamagahara and the years when he moved to the Federation with the refugees.

Thanks to Gao Tianyuan's legal practice of moving closer to the federation, Gao Tianyuan's legal qualification certificate is also applicable to the federation.

Lawyers are one of the most lucrative professions in the Federation. Chen Ziang and Xia Zili's immigration lives soon settled down again.

Xia Qingyu changed her career to a legal consulting company, providing legal support to some small companies.She has always remained single, and often visits and stays at her sister's house for reasons such as "eating alone is boring" and "staying at home is boring".

She concealed her thoughts very well. Even when Xia Zili was not at home, she never had any ambiguous relationship with Chen Ziang.

(At that time, Tsukimiya Suzuna was probably his colleague. The two of them mostly got along at work, which coincided with the time when Xia Qingyu visited her home. Therefore, Xia Qingyu did not have much presence of Tsukimiya Suzuna in her memory. However, these two People do know each other.)
This life continued for a few more years, until the Federation declared war with the Empire.

The collective atmosphere toward human residents within the Federation quickly became sinister and treacherous.

Even if he didn't experience this memory, Chen Ziang already knew what happened next.

Realizing that the Federation wanted to launch a purge of humans within the territory, everyone went to the Garcia sector and wanted to seek help from the Imperial Embassy. As a result, the embassy collapsed in the bombing attack, and they and Suzuna Tsukinomiya were buried under layers of debris. Under the ruins.

In the end, he died, Tsukimiya Suzuna was rescued, and Xia Zili was lucky enough to not be affected because she went to find her sister Xia Qingyu.

In fact, according to this memory left by Xia Qingyu, she rushed there in advance in the name of a business trip, but in fact she also wanted to find someone for help.It's just that the target is not the imperial embassy on the surface, but the head of the imperial royal family's secret secret service in Garcia.

Xia Qingyu's request is simple: protect the safety of Chen Ziang and Xia Zili until they are escorted out of the federation.

At that time, the other party used various reasons to shirk it. It was not until Xia Qingyu revealed his identity and threatened to contact the royal family Zongzheng that he made concessions and compromises step by step, and finally reluctantly agreed.

Before Xia Qingyu could breathe a sigh of relief, she learned that the Imperial Embassy had been attacked.

It happened to be when Chen Ziang went over to ask for help.

(End of this chapter)