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As the rose garden was dyed a deep crimson, Aelia's fingertips suddenly brushed against the uneven texture on the inside of the Peacock Blue Shawl.
The incomplete lip print glowed with an eerie Red Glow beneath the Magic Mark, reminding her of three years ago when Qin Si presented her with Rose Blush—at that time, the Maid had smiled and said this Yanzhi could capture a lover's kiss.
"Madam!" Qin Si rushed into the garden, clutching a blood-stained Peacock Pattern Skirt. The red glow from the pearl hairpin in her hair was more vibrant than usual. "The Underground Barrier has cracked again, and the Lord..."
Aelia abruptly grasped Qin Si's Wrist, her Ailya's White Nails dusted with Golden Marigold Pollen digging into the other’s skin. "Three hours ago, you said there was movement in the Crypt, and now you say the barrier has broken. Why does every report interrupt the Blood Oath ceremony?"
Dark Red Blood dripped down Qin Si's Wrist, scorching a Qing Yan mark on the Yin Sha below.
The Maid suddenly leaned close to Aelia's ear and chuckled softly. "Because each time I get to see Madam trembling with anger." Her bloodied Fingertip lightly touched the lip print on the Peacock Blue Shawl. "Just like when you discovered the Lord kissed someone else with the same Yanzhi..."
Aelia's body erupted with icy crystals, freezing three Blue Roses into Powder.
She finally recognized the Purple Mist Flower embedded in Qin Si's pearl hairpin—a forbidden flower that only grew in the Southern Region. Last year, Leonard had referred to it as a "trophy" brought back from exterminating monsters.
"Lead the way." Aelia tore off her Ice Spirit Necklace, and the melting gems in her palm formed a tracking compass.
The last remnants of the Yin Sha Blood Oath suddenly pointed toward the castle's West Side, where there should have been an abandoned Training Ground.
When the sea of Purple Mist Flowers came into view, Aelia stumbled against a Barrier Stone pillar for support.
A vast expanse of enchanting purple blooms exhaled mist under the moonlight. In the center of this floral sea, two overlapping silhouettes were clearly reflected on the Window Lattice of a wooden cabin.
The Blood Oath compass suddenly grew hot as Aelia watched her Palm Emerging from Leonard's Magic Seal—Twenty Years Ago, when they had sworn an oath using fusion bloodline magic, he had said this imprint would resonate with her heartbeat.
At that moment, the imprint perfectly overlapped with the outline of the figures inside the window.
As the wooden door exploded under her Ice Blade, a metallic sweetness surged in Aelia's throat.
The figure of Leonard draped in a Dark Pattern robe came into view, cradling a Blonde Woman who was caressing his chest with a hand adorned with an Emerald Bracelet—the inner side of the bracelet bore the lost Healing Rune of the Aelia Family.
"Is this the truth behind your monthly patrols at the border?" Aelia's cold laughter startled the Night Owl outside, as ice crystals crawled up the walls along her Skirt.
A Pocket Watch tumbled out from the drawer Leonard had hastily opened, its surface embedded with a portrait of a baby that made Aelia's Pupil contract sharply—the Flame Birthmark on that child, Mei Xin, was unmistakably the Guardian Mark she had personally blessed with Holy Water on the day Lucius was born.
As Leonard turned, his robe fell open, revealing unhealed claw marks at his Collarbone seeping Purple Mist Flower Juice.
Aelia suddenly recalled that the "Calming Tea" Qin Si had sent this morning also contained similar shimmering purple flecks.
Moonlight filtered through the stained glass window at the top of the wooden cabin, casting a spider web-like shadow across Leonard's pale face.
Aelia did not notice her Hair Tips beginning to frost, nor did she realize that the Blood Oath compass was melting—just like twenty years ago on their wedding night when she was still an eager young girl, Leonard had similarly knocked over their shared cup of wine in panic.
The sound of shattering ice crystals was particularly jarring in the silence.
Leonard and Aelia stepped on shards of glass scattered across the floor; as his Adam's Apple moved, it tugged at the claw marks glowing with Purple Light on his Collarbone. "Aelia, this flower field is a birthday surprise for Lucius..."
"Did you not notice that applying Purple Mist Flower Juice to wounds reveals lies?" Aelia's cold laughter wrapped around Han Shuang, and the tracking compass formed by melting Ice Spirit Necklace suddenly shot forth Blood Light.
The Dressing Mirror in the corner of the cabin exploded in response, and dozens of Emerald Bracelets rolled out from within its Gold Frame, each inner circle engraved with different families' Healing Runes.
The Blonde Woman suddenly let out a kitten-like sob, her trembling Fingertip brushing against her abdomen. "The Lord said once the child inherits the Holy Fire Mark..." Her Ruby pendant around her Neck suddenly cracked open, spilling not blood but Purple Mist Pollen—only then did Aelia see the Magic Pattern spreading across her Ear, identical to that of the Black Market Witch Doctor who had poisoned her Mother twenty years ago.
Leonard abruptly turned and pulled a Velvet Blanket around his lover; this action drew Aelia's attention to the Contract Mark on his lower back that was changing color—this was their loyalty Curse Mark established during their wedding, now glowing with an eerie Purple Light akin to Leonard's Concubine's pendant.
"You dare to tamper with the Blood Pact!" Aelia’s Fingertip condensed into an Ice Blade that sliced through her Palm, causing a suspended Blood Pearl to suddenly transform into a Prism.
As the moonlight pierced through the mirror and projected onto the Contract Mark, it was not Leonard's Soul Mark that emerged, but rather the reflection of the pearl hairpin nestled in Qin Si's hair.
The Purple Mist Flower Sea suddenly stirred without wind, as thousands of Pollen converged to form the enchanting figure of Qin Si.
Xu Ying, the Maid, gently caressed Leonard's pale face and sighed, "What a pity. If only the lady had discovered it half a month later, the Substitute Puppet could have completely replaced your Soul Mark."
Aelia's Pupil suddenly constricted.
She finally understood why every Blood Oath ritual had failed—those interrupted rituals left behind remnants of Yin Sha, which had likely mingled with her own Soul Fragment.
At that moment, the Ice Crystal Compass spun wildly, with the Pointer simultaneously indicating Leonard, Leonard's Concubine, and Qin Si Xu Ying.
"Did you think you were tampering with a loyal Contract?" Aelia suddenly crushed the triangular ice crystal, sending shards flying that cut into the skin of the three.
As the Blood Pearl belonging to the four collided in midair, it unexpectedly revealed the Guardian Magic Pattern on Luna's Swaddling—an anti-rebound spell she had personally embroidered for her daughter three days ago.
Leonard suddenly screamed and fell to his knees as blood seeped from his Contract Mark on his lower back.
The suspended Blood Pearl reflected a shocking truth: each replaced Soul Fragment was entwined with fine purple threads, and the other ends of these Dark Purple Threads were all buried within the Guardian Crystal above Luna's Cradle.
"You dare use my daughter's..." Aelia's Ailya's Roar shattered the stained glass window, and a violent Wind and Snow howled through the breach.
She did not notice that the baby Portrait in her Pocket Watch suddenly opened its eyes, as Lucius Mei Xin's Flame Birthmark refracted through the Watch Case onto the snowy backdrop, forming a faint S.O.S.
A roar suddenly erupted from the castle Underground, as waves from a broken Ancient Barrier startled the entire Purple Mist Flower Sea.
Amidst the blizzard and swirling Yao Hua, Aelia's Ice Blue Hair visibly faded to Frost White, while Luna, far away in the main castle Nursery, let out a Loud Cry that pierced through the barrier.
As the last of the Purple Mist Petals fell into the snow, a strange silhouette suddenly appeared on the remnants of the East Wall of the wooden cabin—its shadow unmistakably bore the signature curly hair of Lucius, and in hand, it clutched the Demon-Breaking Dagger that should have been sealed within the Forbidden Library.
The violent Wind and Snow swept past the Castle Spire, carrying with it the loud cries of a baby. The Light Spot refracted by the Guardian Crystal illuminated a swiftly moving shadow at the West Tower, where the Flame Birthmark flickering beneath its cloak resembled a meteor plunging into the snow.
When Lucius burst through the broken door of the cabin, he saw Mother Frost White's long hair dancing wildly in the Wind and Snow.
His Mei Xin's Flame Birthmark suddenly Zhuo Tong, as those curls meant to stabilize his magic were torn apart by the raging Wind and Snow, scattering sparks.
"Mother!" He tried to grasp Aelia's frost-covered sleeve but was thrown to the ground by surging magic.
As Blood Pearl from his palm seeped into a crack in the East Wall, he was startled to find his reflection holding the very Demon-Breaking Dagger that should have been sealed within the Forbidden Library—at that moment, it was clearly still locked within six layers of barriers.
Aelia's Ice Crystal Boots crunched over Leonard's scattered nightgown, and the Silver Buckle adorned with their Family Crest shattered beneath her feet. "For twenty years, every time you touched my wounds, you said it was to apply medicine," she said, her fingertip lifting remnants of Purple Mist Pollen from her lover's neck. "But it turns out you were rewriting our Contract with poison?"
Leonard suddenly grabbed Lucius's calf, dark red blood winding down the boy's silver-thread embroidered trousers: "Quickly tell your Mother that last month you mistakenly entered the Southern Region flower fields and overheated; these Purple Mist Flowers were prepared as medicine for you..." His collarbone bore fresh scratches that oozed a luminous purple liquid, forming a pattern resembling Qin Si's pearl hairpin in the snow.
"Father's hand..." Lucius froze suddenly.
Leonard's palm resting on his calf clearly emerged with a Purple Magic Pattern originating from the same source as their Contract Mark.
Memories flashed like lightning through the fog—three days ago when Father guided him in breaking seals, had those fingertips that touched his forehead been stealing his Holy Fire Mark?
A sharp sound of shattering crystal echoed from the direction of the castle, while emerald-colored lightning streaked across the sky towards the Nursery.
Aelia staggered to support herself against an ice pillar; her neck’s newly formed Ice Spirit Necklace suddenly reflected an eerie image of Leonard's Last Night—Luna, who should have been in deep slumber, hovered above the Cradle, her pupils swirling with a unique Yin Mang characteristic of Great Mages.
"So this is what you truly wanted..." Aelia's Ailya's Roar was swallowed by the Wind and Snow. As she turned, her Frost White hair sliced through moonlight, leaving an Ice Blue Residual Shadow in its wake.
Leonard struggled to crawl towards Leonard's Concubine, only to see the woman's abdomen suddenly swell with strange purple spots, beneath her skin, the unmistakable movement of clustered Purple Mist Flower Stamens.
Lucius bent down to pick up the blood-stained Pocket Watch, and the interior of the Watch Case suddenly revealed the face of Qin Si.
The phantom of the Maid licked the bloodstains at the corner of her lips and chuckled softly, "Third Young Master Lucius, do you know that every time you suffer an episode and drink that Sedative, it contains your father's lover's Fingertip blood?" The Pocket Watch Gear suddenly reversed, and he saw himself at eight years old on Ailya's Birthday Rune day, his Father's hand holding a bowl of medicine glimmering with the Red Glow of Purple Mist Flower Juice under the moonlight.
The Crystal Chandelier in the Demon Fortress Main Hall was unusually dim in the Twilight. When Aelia burst through the Gilded Gate, swept along by Wind and Snow, the whispering servants scattered like startled pigeons.
As she passed, ice crystals condensed on the carpet, blooming into Blue Rose patterns that formed a bizarre reflection against the Wisteria carvings on the ceiling.
"Milady!" The Chief Guard blocked her path at the spiral staircase, his armor still stained with fragments of Underground Barrier. "My Lord has issued an order..."
"His warrant is better off used to line a lover's coffin!" Aelia raised her hand to freeze the entire staircase, revealing all of Leonard's Concubine's Images emerging beneath the Ice Layer.
When the last step revealed Qin Si's face, the Images suddenly ignited collectively, and from the Azure Purple flames came a sharp Loud Cry of a baby.
As the Nursery door swung open, Aelia's condensed Ice Blades fell simultaneously.
Luna, who should have been asleep, was floating beneath the Guardian Crystal, her chubby Palm pressed against a complex array at its center—on the edges of that array were runes unmistakably marking Leonard and Leonard's Concubine's intertwined Contract Mark.
"Even a Newborn must be schemed against..." Aelia tore apart twenty protective charms from her Wrist, various gemstones forming a Backlash Curse in mid-air.
As the Curse pressed towards the array, Luna suddenly opened her eyes, revealing a cold smile not belonging to an infant; within her Emerald Color eyes reflected a burning figure from somewhere in the West Tower.
As Twilight completely engulfed Castle Spire, Lucius discovered half of a Demon-Breaking Dagger among the Remains in Training Ground.
The congealed blood on the blade shimmered with Purple Light, outlining Lucius as he saw his Father carrying a swaddled bundle towards the Crypt.
In the sudden burst of firelight on his forehead, he vaguely saw the Nurse who had disappeared when he was seven, emerging from the Underground barrier with a Silver Box filled with Purple Mist Flowers.
At that moment, the Floor Mirror in the main hall of the castle shattered simultaneously, and within the splintered Lens flashed Aelia pressing the Ice Spirit Necklace into Leonard's heart during his last night.
As the final crystal sank into flesh and blood, a Roar from Xi Tower shattered all Purple Mist Flowers and Centaurea Specimens, causing the castle's magical Defensive Formation to begin reversing its flow.
From deep within the Underground came the thunderous sound of chains breaking, and a long-sealed Sealing Array lit up with a Red Glow.
Luna's Loud Cry pierced through thirty layers of barriers, coalescing into an Emerald Color vortex at the Castle Dome.
When the first Xing Zi fell from the Window Lattice of Xi Tower, the apothecary mixing potions noticed that all Purple Mist Flower Juice began to flow backward, as if drawn by an invisible force toward the Nursery.
Lucius gripped half of a dagger and rushed toward the East Wing Corridor, where the Ancestral Portraits suddenly turned collectively to face him.
He saw blood dripping from the Demon-Breaking Dagger in his great-grandfather's Image, while in the background of the painting, the Crypt Entrance perfectly aligned with the cracked floor in reality.
Wind and Snow poured in through the shattered Colored Window, whipping his curly hair into flames that cast shadows on the wall resembling a waking monster.
Aelia stood before the broken window of the Nursery, holding a Crystal Bottle filled with remnants of a Blood Oath, which suddenly became riddled with cracks.
The Contract Patterns emerging from the bottom of the bottle were frantically reassembling, ultimately forming a variant pattern of Luna's Swaddling curse.
Far away in the Training Ground, the Purple Mist Flower Sea suddenly wilted en masse, and withered petals in the moonlight above coalesced into hundreds of Blood Arrows pointing toward the Crypt.
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