Max Level Return—I'll Protect That Fragile One

Perhaps it’s her fault for having gone through too many reincarnations, having experienced so much, that she usually only remembers the most important memories.

Therefore, she remembers Divine Xia Country, remembers her majesty, but doesn’t remember exactly what her majesty’s name was.

Xu Xingguang shook her head, sighing, ”I really didn’t expect that the world I encountered in my fifth life would be from more than two thousand years ago.” Just now, seeing Nocturnal Palace, seeing the somewhat familiar palace before her, she realized it was her design work.

Who would have thought?

Xu Xingguang quickly searched the Reincarnation Mirror Fragment for that book ”Lifetime Achievements of Infrastructure Fanatic,” and found the design drawings for Nocturnal Palace within it. She handed a stack of design drawings to Huo Wen’an, ”Look, this is the Nocturnal Palace I designed.”

Huo Wen’an took the design book; the first page was the overall simulation of the palace. The other pile of paper contained the detailed drawings.

Huo Wen’an glanced through them, not looking too closely, but he could tell that the Nocturnal Palace before them was indeed designed by Xu Xingguang.

Closing the design book and returning it to Xu Xingguang, Huo Wen’an said sourly, ”He really has deep feelings and loyalty for you.”

”Who?” Xu Xingguang couldn’t follow Huo Wen’an’s unpredictable thoughts.

With a sarcastic tone, Huo Wen’an hummed, ”Your esteemed majesty.”

”Majesty?” Xu Xingguang shrugged and said, ”I was his marshal, watched him grow up since childhood; it was thanks to my father and my credit that he could hold that position steadily. In dramas and novels, my identity would be the Regent.”

”His feelings towards me must be both love and hate. He loves my strong combat skills but hates the heavy authority I wield.”

Huo Wen’an chuckled and said, ”Yet, apart from that, you’re still a woman who has protected him since childhood, guarding the nation’s borders for him. Perhaps, he had other ideas in his heart regarding you.”

”Otherwise, why would he dare enter the Infected Zone for you, risking death? Maybe he was infected just to break in and see you one last time, forcibly awakening some ultra-strong ability.”

The more Huo Wen’an spoke, the more bitter his heart felt.

Xu Xingguang felt that Huo Wen’an’s analysis made some sense.

She couldn’t recall the appearance of that majesty clearly, but thinking of someone having once secretly loved her so deeply, Xu Xingguang felt a bit proud. ”I’m beautiful, excellent in warfare, loyal and devoted. It’s no surprise he’d fall for me.”

However...

”Regardless of whether he loves me or not, I won’t love him anyway.” Xu Xingguang said calmly, ”No one can be a hindrance on my way home.”

Huo Wen’an was stunned.

He said, ”He’s to be pitied.”

With Xu Xingguang ignoring him, Huo Wen’an suddenly asked, ”If you met me in the Reincarnation World, would you stop for me?”

Xu Xingguang looked at him with a complex gaze, then turned and walked towards the city gate, saying without looking back, ”No.”

In ten lives of reincarnations, she met many admirers willing to die for her, even though her heart was deeply moved, she never stopped moving forward.

Because, somehow, she felt she couldn’t stop.

Reality proved she was right.

Upon hearing this answer, Huo Wen’an wasn’t surprised.

He felt the woman in front of him was ruthless, yet loved her for her ruthless determination.

This was truly Xu Xingguang.

Song Chi had changed his clothes long ago, observing them from behind a stone pillar. Seeing their conversation finally end, he jogged to the city gate, joining Xu Xingguang to push open the gate.

As the gate opened, the three were shocked by the scene that unfolded.

Because behind the city gate lay only bones!

Some skeletons remained sitting, some piled up after death.

Everywhere they looked, there were heaps of bones.

As Xu Xingguang said, it truly was a tomb.

Divine Hidden Crane had built Nocturnal Palace, but it was the infected, deceased subjects who were buried.

So many bones, they had no way to walk through.

Xu Xingguang took a deep breath, saying, ”The oxygen underground is sparse; we can’t stay too long. Time is pressing, let’s go.” She stepped first onto a bone and began walking forward.

Song Chi looked at Xu Xingguang’s back with deeper respect.

The woman his uncle was obsessed with was indeed extraordinary.

Huo Wen’an and Song Chi followed Xu Xingguang into the tomb.

The bones had long decayed; stepping on them was like snapping dry wood, turning into crushed bones and white ash, making their skin crawl. But Xu Xingguang walked firmly at the front, upright, without hesitation.

She had been walking like this all those years.

They reached the mountain peak, and indeed saw the swing Huo Wen’an mentioned, but it had decayed, leaving only two posts for fixing the swing on the ground.

Song Chi stared at those posts, a glint of surprise in his eyes, he looked at Huo Wen’an, moved his lips, but ultimately didn’t ask anything, simply looking at Huo Wen’an’s Divine Hidden Sword with complex emotions.

They entered the main hall of Nocturnal Palace, and upon entering, they saw a crystal coffin.

Song Chi said, ”Divine Hidden Crane jumped into the meteorite’s center, the person lying in the main hall of Nocturnal Palace is most likely Divine Hidden Crane’s empress.”

Xu Xingguang nodded, ”Perhaps so.”

They approached the crystal coffin, looking down at the woman inside, and fell into silence upon seeing her visage.

The woman was sealed within the crystal coffin, wearing a sheer red silk, her shoulder-length black hair neatly placed behind her head with an empress crown atop. Her body had been treated with special materials, making her face appear somewhat stiff.

Yet, through the stiff, pale remains, one could glimpse her beauty in life.

Xu Xingguang’s gaze flickered, feeling a dull ache in her heart.

Song Chi said, ”The empress is very beautiful.”

Huo Wen’an didn’t comment, instead, he looked at Xu Xingguang inquisitively, asking her, ”Who is she?”

Who is she?

She is the fifth life of Xu Xingguang.