There was a touch of pride hidden in his voice.
"I saw that the fire affected many innocent people?"
Rhaenyra hesitated, not yet understanding the significance of the fire.
"Who is affected, the prostitutes in the brothel or the clients?"
Rhaegar looked bad and contradicted his sister.
"Shh, who told you my whereabouts?"
Rhaenyra covered her brother's mouth and asked who had tipped him off.
Rhaegar shook his head to avoid her hand and widened his eyes: "Don't touch me with the hand that touched Daemon, you fool."
"Rhaegar!!!"
These words touched Rhaenyra's weakness, causing her to go berserk in an instant.
"Damon didn't touch me, he and I are innocent!"
Rhaenyra held Rhaegar's shoulders and retorted with suppressed anger every word.
Before tonight, she had indeed admired and trusted Damon.
Now there is only fear and fear.
After doing so much without getting the expected reward, Rhaegar was also very angry and said rudely:
"If I hadn't sent someone to get you, do you believe it would have been known to everyone that you and Damon visited the brothel by tomorrow morning?"
"How...how could it be possible that we sneaked out and no one knew about it?"
Rhaenyra was frightened by him, and she felt guilty and wanted to quibble.
Rhaegar bluntly said: "If no one knows, who tipped me off?"
"Damon, the person who is watching you secretly, the person who reported to me..."
"Think about it carefully. There are already three waves of people targeting you. Everything that happened tonight is not a secret."
Rhaenyra was silent.
She is not a fool, she just trusts Damon too much.
Unexpectedly, the uncle who used to be so meticulous would suddenly show his fangs.
Assuming Rhaegar didn't secretly help tonight, she couldn't imagine what would happen?
What version will the rumor spread tomorrow?
"So, this fire was to cover my tracks..."
After a while, Rhaenyra finally made a sound.
"Otherwise, you think I have nothing to do and don't take good care of myself in the middle of the night, so I come here to listen to your accusations?"
Rhaegar snorted coldly and looked at Rhaenyra with contempt.
This sister is so stupid. It is really embarrassing for him to be played like a puppet.
"What's that look in your eyes? I'm your sister."
Rhaenyra couldn't bear the look in her brother's eyes, as if he were looking at a fool, and became furious.
Rhaegar watched her going crazy quietly and shook his head.
"Pfft~"
Seeing his appearance, Rhaenyra laughed angrily.
Rhaegar looked sideways at her.
In an instant, the siblings looked at each other.
An invisible emotional chain stretched out, tightly trapping the two of them.
The next second.
Rhaenyra hugged Rhaegar into her arms and burst into tears: "They are not good people. They treat me like a piece of fat and want to eat it up!"
"You have equal burdens and pressure, you have to get used to it." Rhaegar sighed.
"I can't fight them. No one really wants to help me. They just want to get benefits from me." Rhaenyra sobbed softly.
Rhaegar leaned his face against Rhaenyra's hair and whispered softly:
"I said, I will stay with you until the stranger takes me away."
"Rega..."
Rhaenyra was choked and speechless. She just wanted to hold her brother's thin body tightly, but she was afraid of touching his wounds.
"Don't be afraid, just cry if you want, no one will laugh at you."
Rhaegar caressed Rhaenyra's back, his voice soft and touching her heart.
Thinking back on tonight’s wanton run, Uncle Damon’s wild ambition, and then embracing his younger brother...
Rhaenyra felt mixed feelings in her heart, realizing that she was just a tool of superiority in the eyes of others, and she couldn't stop crying.
He buried his head in Rhaegar's shoulder and sobbed softly.
Tears soon soaked Rhaegar's collar, and he smiled helplessly at Ilic.
Eric bowed and silently left the entrance of the rotating secret passage.
It would be rude for him to stay in this situation any longer.
It's not possible to just walk out the door, Cole is still on duty.
The secret passage is a good choice.
She cried for a while, until Rhaenyra had no energy to cry anymore, until Rhaegar's collar was soaked through.
The girl's crying gradually subsided.
Rhaenyra wiped her nose on her brother's collar, revealing a pair of eyes that were red and swollen from crying.
Rhaegar's head was full of black lines: "I think we both should change into a clean set of clothes."
"ah?"
Rhaenyra raised her head in confusion, and first glanced at Rhaegar's shirt, which was covered in snot and tears.
Looking down again, he saw that he was still wearing rough patched linen clothes.
"You turn around first while I change my clothes."
Rhaenyra picked Rhaegar up and forced him onto the bed.
He went to Rhaegar's blind spot, took off his patchwork linen clothes, and put on a nightgown.
Then, he rummaged through the closet for a small nightgown and threw it to Rega.
"I don't have your pajamas, you should wear this first."
Taking off the pink nightgown covering his head, Rhaegar's face darkened and he refused without even thinking.
"I have an injury on my back, so I don't need to wear clothes when I sleep at night."
"No, you have to sleep with me tonight and you have to wear clothes."
Rhaenyra reached out to take off Rhaegar's clothes and put on the nightgown.
"No, no, no, I would rather go back and sleep by myself than wear it."
Rhaegar resisted desperately.
"..."
After some fun, the candles in the room went out.
Rhaenyra hugged Rhaegar, who only had a pair of small pants, and breathed steadily and closed her eyes.
Rhaegar was forced to act as a pillow. He moved awkwardly and found a comfortable soft place to rest on his face.
Neither brother nor sister spoke, waiting for sleep to come.
…
The next day.
Early in the morning, spies walked into the Red Castle and sent a message to the Prime Minister.
Leonor realized something was wrong and immediately found Viserys who was having breakfast.
Inform him of last night's news.
Leonor looked solemn: "A spy reported that the princess and Prince Damon visited Silk Street last night and later went to a brothel."
"The strange thing is that a fire broke out in that brothel that night. Damon was helped out of the brothel, but the princess was nowhere to be seen."
Viserys' expression was extremely grim.
He knew the virtues of his brother, a complete bastard.
Can do anything.
He shook his head, forced a smile and said: "This is a lie, you were deceived."
"I hope so, Your Majesty."
Leonor's face looked a little heavy.
Viserys knew immediately that the truth was more or less the same.
Leonor was not Alto Hightower, and he would not criticize Rhaenyra as the heir for the sake of his grandson.
Everything he said and did was fair and unselfish.
"Damon! He is a hungry wolf!"
Viserys banged on the table like a furious beast.
When I think about what happened to Damon and his daughter, I want to hang this bastard brother immediately.
The remaining reason allowed him to calm down and doubted: "This must not be true. Rhaenyra might have just sneaked out and left after Daemon entered the brothel."
He didn't believe that his daughter would go to a brothel or even fool around with Damon.
Leonor said: "This is what I am confused about. This fire happened strangely. I heard that someone set the fire deliberately."
"Damon left the brothel when the fire first broke out and many people testified that he appeared to be injured."
"On the other hand, the princess disappeared without a trace, and no one saw her whereabouts again."
Viserys seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and secretly said: "Yes, no one saw Rhaenyra, so no one can prove that she has been to the brothel. Everything is happy."
But underneath this smiling face, there was deep anger.
"Go and fetch Rhaenyra, and tell her that her father has invited her to breakfast."
Viserys shouted to the attendants outside the door, intending to test Rhaenyra first.
Whether true or false at this time, Rhaenyra's innocence is the most important thing.
As a father, he must understand this.
Use this to decide the direction of this matter.
"No need, that's what I meant."
The door opened from the outside, and Rhaenyra walked in gracefully, raising a pretty face with a bright smile.
Viserys was surprised: "Rhaenyra, why did you come to me?"
"Aren't you going to have breakfast with me? Strange question."
Rhaenyra sat generously on the stool, showing no signs of guilt after committing the ridiculous act.
Viserys and Leonor looked at each other, both seeing doubt in each other's eyes.
