From beginning to end, Jiang Han just listened quietly as Sophia told her regained memories.
He didn't show sympathy or indignation, and he didn't take the opportunity to instill a bad impression about the Holy King into Sophia.
Sophia has her own judgment. To be precise, it is because she is too confident in her own judgment that she is so painful.
She didn't know which memory she should follow.
In her memory, the Holy King was very fond of her.
But that's before acquiring new memories.
The fact is that the Holy King personally killed her and the person she loved in her previous life.
More than twenty years have passed now, and her lover in her previous life may not even have the ashes.
Under the influence of this memory, she only felt that everything the Holy King did was fake.
What he prefers is only the Sophia who works hard for the church, not the Sophia who has independent thoughts and elopes for love.
"Jiang, do you know how painful I am?"
"Every time I close my eyes, images of the Holy King killing me and my lover in my previous life keep popping up in my mind."
"The next moment, he would give me the best things again, and he would call me daughter."
"I really don't know how to face him."
"I don't know how to face myself now."
Unknowingly, tears were flowing down Sophia's face.
Jiang Han took out two pieces of paper and handed them to her.
"Actually, it doesn't matter what happened before."
"What matters is later."
"To tell you the truth, the Celestial Empire has already started a war with the strange beasts, the Holy Church, and the Ganges Kingdom."
"As things stand, we are enemies."
Jiang Han spread his hands and said, "But at the same time, I know that you are not our enemy."
"Sophia, if you were not here now, would you choose to be an enemy of China?"
Jiang Han looked at Sophia and asked word by word.
Sophia looked at Jiang Han and shook her head firmly after a few seconds.
"I know why the Holy King wanted to invade the Celestial Empire."
"Because of his ambition for power, he cannot tolerate the existence of a stronger country than the one he rules."
"But I'm a woman and I don't have such ambitions."
"If possible, I would choose to establish diplomatic relations with China and maintain them forever."
When Sophia said these words, Jiang Han's eyes never left her for a moment.
And similarly, he can also tell whether what Sophia said is the truth or a lie.
Sophia didn't lie to him, Jiang Han was sure of this.
Unless Sophia's strength reached the throne level, it would be impossible to hide her words from the deduction.
Nodding, Jiang Han stood up.
"Sofia, there is a saying in China that only by never forgetting your original intention can you succeed forever."
"I give it to you, and I hope you can remember these words."
After saying that, Jiang Han turned around and left the cell.
The two met for less than half an hour, but Jiang Han was very sure that all his previous plans had now been fed back.
In this case, it's time to give the seed in Sophia's heart a broader place to allow the ideas in her mind to continue to ferment.
In fact, before this meeting, Jiang Han would only have two final decisions.
If Sophia had not awakened the memory of her previous life, or in other words, even after awakening the memory, she would still have unswervingly supported the Holy King.
There was only death waiting for her.
Jiang Han's previous plans on Sophia will be ineffective, and the two will be enemies by then.
And Jiang Han will not show any mercy towards his enemies.
There is another way, which is what Jiang Han is doing now.
He found Haechi again.
"Senior Haechi, I want to ask you to be alone."
"Literally, freeing a person."
Haezhi closed his eyes slightly. After hearing Jiang Han's words, he spat out one word: "Who?"
"Saint of the Temple, Sophia."
Jiang Han said simply.
"I want to free her."
"If she causes any harm to China after she is released, I will bear the consequences alone."
Haezhi still didn't open his eyes, but he said a good word.
It didn't know why Jiang Han did this, but it chose to believe Jiang Han.
Jiang Han slightly cupped his hands to thank him, then turned and left.
If he was gambling when he repaired Sophia's fate before, then he really wasn't gambling this time.
It is imperative to let Sophia return to the church.
With Haechi's approval, Jiang Han took Sophia away without any hindrance.
As for Sophia, she still doesn't understand why Jiang Han let her go and why China let her go.
It wasn't until the two of them flew all the way to the border of China that she could be sure that all of this was true.
"Jiang, why?"
Sophia looked at Jiang Han with a confused look on his face and said, "Why did you let me go? I want to know the reason."
Jiang Han looked at Sophia and said with a smile: "What's so surprising about this? There is no enmity between you and the Celestial Empire. From the beginning to the end, it was just because of the Holy King's order."
"Now that you have woken up, I naturally don't want to keep you locked up."
Jiang Han's explanation obviously couldn't reassure Sophia.
"Are you so sure that everything I say is true?"
"What if I'm lying to you?"
"You know, if I were the Holy King, I would have been dead when I was caught by you."
After hearing Sophia's words, the smile on Jiang Han's face faded a bit and became a little serious.
"Sophia, you made one thing wrong, and it was a big mistake."
"The Celestial Empire is not a holy church, and the people of the Celestial Empire are not holy kings."
"From the beginning to the end, the Celestial Empire has never thought of becoming enemies with anyone or any force."
"In fact, if the alien beasts don't come to invade China, China can even live in peace with the alien beasts!"
"In your eyes, the Celestial Empire is strong, prosperous, and united. It is a very threatening opponent."
"But China has never taken the initiative to take action against anyone."
"It was like this before the disaster, and it will still be like this after the disaster."
"The Celestial Empire itself is a multi-ethnic country."
"With the ability to bring so many ethnic groups together, China is far more tolerant than you imagine."
"Rather than being enemies and invading each other, what we hope more is that both sides can live in harmony and equality."
"Only peace can lead to a win-win situation, and this is something that neither I nor the senior officials of China, nor even all the people of China, believe in."
"So fundamentally, we are different from the Holy King."
"China longs for peace, is steadfast in its commitment to peace, and works hard for it."
"And the Holy King, as well as other people in the temple, only have aggression in their minds! Invasion! Still aggression!"
Sophia listened to Jiang Han's words. For some reason, she always felt that it was the first time she understood the Celestial Dynasty and the first time she heard the voice from the Celestial Dynasty.
Her previous knowledge and understanding of the Celestial Dynasty was completely overturned in front of Jiang Han's words.
