Help The Villainess Trapped in the Beast World's Drama (by Lotus Seeds) novel Chapter 655

Chapter 655: Chapter 585: Sweet Desire

Shen Tang restrained the flutter in her heart, her gaze turning towards the pile of books and paintings beside her.

Among them, one rolled-up scroll stood out conspicuously, with its length and width exceeding other scrolls. If fully unfolded, it would be about the height of a person.

It lay quietly in the middle of the left side, where the late Empress’s remains should have been, now serenely resting as if sharing a bed with the Late Emperor.

Shen Tang carefully took out the scroll, and the moment it slowly unfurled, her breath caught slightly.

In the painting was an exceptionally beautiful red-haired female, dressed in splendid and regal attire, with enchanting and exquisite features. Her ruby-like eyes were soul-stirring, seemingly able to instantly draw one’s soul into them.

She resembled a mystical creature accidentally stepping into the painting, yet her gaze remained gentle and focused beyond the picture.

Shen Tang even felt in a trance that her gaze met with the figure in the painting at a certain moment, making her hold her breath.

Only three words remained in her mind:

Too beautiful.

Yes, too beautiful, and... too similar.

Shen Tang looked at the woman in the painting, then turned her head to Shen Li beside her, softly murmuring, "This must be the late Empress... You indeed look a lot like her."

To be honest, Shen Li’s facial contours more closely resembled the Late Emperor, handsome and outstanding, yet the charm and allure in the eyes were more inherited from his mother. Every smile and frown was enticingly seductive, like a bewitching fox spirit causing calamities!

Shen Li gently caressed the scroll, gazing at the figure in the painting, as if old memories were quietly awakened, the once-blurred figure gradually becoming clearer.

He murmured lost in thought, "So this is what Mother looked like... I am slowly remembering."

"My hair color and eyes... I inherited them from Mother."

"When I was very young, I knew I was different from other Fox Clan cubs. I had extremely unique red hair, being the first Red Nine-tailed Fox in the clan’s history."

"Some said it was due to a mutation of the Flame Power within me, a symbol of auspicious might, but others gossiped secretly that it was because my mysterious mother came from the mixed-blood Red Fox Clan, which is why I had such a distinctive hue."

"Those people slandered my mother, secretly discussing my disreputable lineage, saying I was the illegitimate child of the Emperor and a female servant in the palace, a blemish on the Emperor’s life, hence all traces of Mother’s existence were erased... The so-called late Empress was just a title to preserve the Royal Family’s dignity. After all, no one had ever seen her true appearance."

"Although these rumors were soon quelled by the Emperor’s orders, I had inadvertently overheard them several times and always kept them in my heart."

"Now it seems, it wasn’t like that."

The vividly depicted figure within the painting is testament to the late Emperor’s deep affection for the late Empress.

Those melancholic yet beautiful poems, like wine used to drown sorrows, now seemed to have a specific emotional projection.

Shen Tang shook her head, saying, "Your mother was not from the Red Fox Clan. Although the painting does not show her beast form, you can see that her ears exposed amid her hair are longer, more resembling those of the Blood Clan."

Shen Li scrutinized the painting and indeed noticed the clue, causing him to recall the deceased Necro.

"Was Mother truly a Blood Clan member?" Even though Shen Li had vaguely speculated, he still found it hard to believe, furrowing his brows, "The Nine-tailed Fox Clan has always married within the clan to ensure the birth of pure-blood Nine-tailed Foxes, yet I..."

Shen Tang gently explained, "From the Blood Clan’s inherited memories, I learned that the blood of the Blood Clan differs from other races; it can merge with the bloodlines of other major races. Even if they marry other races, they can still give birth to pure-blood offspring of another race."

"...So that’s how it is."

By now, there was nothing left unclear.

All truths have been revealed.

The secret the Late Emperor wished to take to the grave ultimately found by them.

In fact, over the years, Shen Li had repeatedly pondered many things. After all, his mother, being the female who birthed a Prince, even if she were merely an unknown female servant, couldn’t possibly have vanished without a trace, as if she never existed in the world.

The only possibility was that the Emperor himself had sealed the information back then, unwilling to let outsiders know about Mother.

This was not out of malicious erasure, but rather a profound protection born from deep affection.

He thought the Emperor had completely wiped away everything related to Mother, but unexpectedly, he ultimately left this piece, taking it into his burial chamber...

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