Chapter 969: 0567 Painting (Part 1)

"Fei Liya."

Hmm...

"Fei Liya, wake up quickly."

Who? Who is calling me?

"Fei Liya, stop sleeping, you should wake up."

Don't make noise, don't make noise, I'm getting up right now!

Under the call of the familiar voice, the green-eyed girl rubbed her eyes involuntarily, then sat up from the ground, looking around at the situation in a daze.

Lawn, fountain, pool, platform... the carved brick road covered with mud moss, the exquisite sculptures with missing corners, the dilapidated garden with withered yellow grass, but overgrown with weeds, everything looks so strange, yet so familiar...

This is... the old garden behind the palace?

"You finally woke up."

Looking at Fei Liya, who had messy hair and was sitting on the withered yellow grass in a daze, Prince Andre, standing behind her, couldn't help but chuckle, then continued to set up the easel, his expression somewhat nostalgic:

"You used to like sleeping on the lawn very much, especially when it wasn't so hot in summer. You always pestered me to take an umbrella and bring you to this garden to play."

"After playing until you were tired, you wouldn't even wipe your sweat, just set up the umbrella and lie on the ground, and started snoring. While sleeping, you would roll around, rubbing your little face into a mud monkey, which made me scolded by Mother quite a bit..."

Brother Andre...

Looking at the gentle expression on Prince Andre's face, Fei Liya's originally flustered heart couldn't help but relax involuntarily, then she couldn't help but ask:

"Just now..."

"Just now I controlled that troublesome cleaner and rescued you from his hands. You are safe."

"Ah... that's good..."

"..."

Looking at the green-eyed girl who asked a question but stood in place, delaying to walk over, Prince Andre blinked in surprise, then seemed to understand something, frowned and said:

"Did he say anything to you?"

"Hmm..."

Fei Liya naturally understood who the "he" in Andre's mouth specifically referred to. After recalling Li Ang's words before, the green-eyed girl couldn't help but bite her lip, but finally chose to confess directly:

"That person told me... you wanted to kill me at least twice."

"When attacking the Scorpio Branch Director, you shouldn't have known that I had already been taken away by Li Ang, but in order to avoid me being taken away by the Scorpio Branch Director, you still ordered the shelling of the 38th Administrative District where the Cleaning Bureau is located."

"Also, you let Atifi 00 replace me and control the long-range weapons of the entire kingdom. Once you see a suspicious target leaving the royal capital, you must immediately start saturation bombing... are these all true?"

"..."

After listening to the green-eyed girl's inquiry, Prince Andre couldn't help but be silent for a while, then nodded slightly.

"Hmm... I did give these two orders."

"..."

"But you also know, I had no choice but to do so."

Looking at the disappointed expression of his most beloved younger sister, Andre sighed, and explained sincerely:

"Fei Liya, you are also a formal member recognized by the King-Slaughtering Society. You know the situation there. Both you and I have constraints. We must ensure the severance of the Kroke royal bloodline, and I only have one chance to ambush the Scorpio Branch Director."

"If I held back because of your situation when attacking, and failed to keep him there, once he threw away other cleaners and forcibly took you away from the Kroke Kingdom, both of us would be executed by the 'constraints'."

"Hmm... I know."

The green-eyed girl nodded, responded in a low voice:

"I don't blame you. After all, it was all my fault that it turned out like that. If I hadn't been unable to suppress my curiosity and risked approaching Li Ang, you wouldn't have needed to make such a choice. It was me who was too willful."

"This is not your fault."

Prince Andre shook his head upon hearing this, and said with a headache:

"I agreed when you went. After all, my previous actions didn't reveal any flaws. In the eyes of the Cleaning Bureau, the entire royal family should still be alive, and they had no need to take action against you."

"But that Li Ang..."

Thinking of the guy who, even after being turned into a clown in the "Royal Night Banquet," could still find his pain points and output crazily, Prince Andre's mouth couldn't help but twitch twice, then he said helplessly:

"He is not normal."

"Fei Liya, after you were captured by him, I really thought for a long time and didn't understand why he didn't know anything, but still chose to take action to capture you without hesitation..."

"..."

After listening to her brother's complaint, the green-eyed girl couldn't help but touch the back of her head that had been cut open by Li Ang with lingering fear, and also fell silent.

Indeed, that pervert is really outrageous.

Before she decided to contact him, she had repeatedly calculated with the mechanical core, and no matter how she calculated, the final result was that he would not take action against her. But that pervert dared to do so, and after chatting with her for two sentences, he took action to capture her without saying a word.

As for how that person should be evaluated... thinking about it, only one word is suitable, and that is "not quite normal."

"Alright, let's not talk about this for now."

After the two siblings, who were exhausted by Li Ang's "abnormal behavior," were silent for a while, Prince Andre took the initiative to break the silence. While lowering his head to organize the easel, he offered comfort:

"The trap against the Scorpio Director hadn't been triggered at that time. My goal was to stabilize them as much as possible, so whether it was me or you, someone had to contact that Li Ang."

"And if you hadn't suggested you wanted to go, then the person captured by him would mostly have been me. The situation would probably be worse than it is now. In short, being captured is not your fault."

"Hmm..."

After nodding and accepting the comfort, the green-eyed girl looked at the easel placed in front of Andre, and asked with some hesitation:

"Brother Andre, are you preparing to paint me again?"

"Yes."

After stretching the canvas on the frame, Prince Andre nodded, then while cleaning the painting brush with turpentine, responded with full focus:

"In the past, when I painted you, it was always just a resemblance. Although there was no problem with the technique, I could never capture that hazy feeling. But now it's different. I now have the confidence to paint the most complete you."

"That's good..."

The green-eyed girl nodded upon hearing this, then bit her lip slightly, and then asked:

"Brother Andre, can I know why you couldn't paint me well in the past, but now you have the confidence and feel you can paint well?"

"..."

Hearing Fei Liya's inquiry, Prince Andre, who was outlining the lines, couldn't help but pause slightly, then looked up at the green-eyed girl, frowning slightly:

"Why do you ask that?"

"I just want to know an answer..."

Fei Liya's little fist clenched slightly, she looked up directly at Prince Andre in front of her, and asked softly:

"Brother Andre, is the person you have been painting really me?" ===== CHAPTER 970 =====