Chapter 347
Chapter 347
"How's the plan going?"
"Proceeding smoothly."
"After she marries you, you know what to do, right?"
"Ah."
A familiar male voice came from inside the hall, calm and emotionless.
She always came and went freely in Nalan Fengxing's palace. That day, she entered the palace to discuss marriage with Nalan Fengxing, but she saw someone who shouldn't be there in Nalan Fengxing's palace.
As the son of a minister, Rong Hengyu was not allowed to enter the palace without being summoned. Even if Nalan Fengxing summoned Rong Hengyu to the palace, she would not have missed the news. She should have been happy to see Rong Hengyu, but she stopped and used the screen to hide herself.
She didn't understand why fate treated her this way, always making her stumble upon secrets. Last time it was about her origins, and this time it was about the person she loved most.
It was all a setup. She met Rong Hengyu by chance, fell in love with him at first sight, and began a crazy pursuit of him. In the end, she listened to her elder sister's advice, forced Rong Hengyu into marriage, and made it a fait accompli.
She thought that she would soon have her own home, a husband who cared about her, and would no longer be alone and helpless.
But she didn't understand why; it was all a scheme orchestrated by her closest and dearest loved ones.
Her elder sister, her lover.
They all wanted her dead.
That day, she fled in panic, lacking the courage to go in and expose their conspiracy. Instead, she returned to her residence and locked herself in her room for a day and a night.
She couldn't bring herself to do it. She couldn't bear to part with her elder sister, who had been the person she respected and loved most since childhood. Even after learning that she was not her father's biological daughter, she still couldn't bear to leave her. She couldn't bear to part with her elder sister, so she was willing to support her in ascending to the throne.
She also couldn't bear to part with Rong Hengyu. He was the first person she had ever liked so much. People always said that she was lustful and dissolute, and that it was common for her to pursue men in such a sensational way. She might fall in love with someone else after a while.
That's not how it is. Only she knows that she really, really likes Rong Hengyu. She wants to marry him, and even if Rong Hengyu wants to be with only one person for life, she will agree without hesitation.
She knew she had obtained Rong Hengyu through despicable means, and she felt guilty, but she did not regret it.
So even knowing about their conspiracy, her first reaction wasn't anger or resentment, but panic and fear, followed by endless sadness.
She locked herself in her room and thought about it for a day and a night, and finally decided to marry Rong Hengyu.
The reason why her elder sister wanted to kill her was because she was afraid that she coveted her throne. So she decided to go to war with the army and guard the frontier, as far away from the capital as possible, so that Nalan Fengxing could rest assured. However, this delayed Rong Hengyu, who had to guard the Xianwang Mansion alone.
She's selfish; she can't bear to part with anyone; she's afraid to face everything; she's a coward.
She lost all these memories after being seriously injured by assassins on her way back to the palace. But if she had remembered them earlier, would things have turned out differently?
Nalan Jingwen's eyes were bloodshot. He was pressed hard to the ground, unable to move. Dust flew everywhere, but he could only taste bitterness in his mouth.
Rong Hengyu...
Rong Hengyu...
"Break her arms and legs! Sever her meridians! I'll make sure she's a cripple from now on!!"
The heavy sticks, as heavy as steel, kept falling, tearing flesh and blood. Nalan Jingwen could even hear the sound of his bones breaking inch by inch, being crushed to pieces. His wet hair stuck haphazardly to his face, and streams of blood and foam uncontrollably gushed from his mouth, dripping down the corners of his mouth and mixing with the mud and sand.
Both her arms and legs were broken, and the intense pain made her dizzy and disoriented. She collapsed to the ground like a lump of mud, her clothes torn to shreds, covered in blood and gore.
The pain of having her meridians severed was less than she had imagined, but it still made her tremble violently. Her body involuntarily arched, and she clenched her teeth tightly, sweat pouring down her face.
It hurts.
But the pain in her heart was far worse than any of these. Every breath she took felt like countless needles piercing her throat and then down into her heart, causing her unbearable agony.
Nalan Jingwen could imagine how disheveled he was now, probably with no part of his body intact.
She was right; she was now barely recognizable as human, her hands and feet twisted in a bizarre and wretched position.
Yuan glanced at Rong Hengyu beside him and said, "I'll give you a chance. Kill her."
Rong Hengyu did not look at her, but continued to gaze down from the city wall without changing his expression, his phoenix eyes devoid of any emotion.
"I don't like bloodshed, you know that."
Yuan gave a bored smirk. "Since you're unwilling, then let's find someone else."
The two voices weren't loud, but they were enough for Nalan Jing to hear clearly. She struggled to lift her head, wanting to see who Yuan had chosen, but just one glance made her freeze in place.
A dagger was thrust into Lin Tian's hand. The dagger was covered in rust and so dull it probably couldn't even cut a watermelon, but it would be infinitely more torturous than a sharp blade. She looked panicked as someone held a sword against her back. Nalan Jingwen was suddenly pulled up without any mercy, causing her to gasp in pain.
Lin Tian's hands trembled uncontrollably as he stared in shock at Nalan Jingwen, who was almost unrecognizable. His lips trembled as if he wanted to say something, but all the words were stuck in his throat, and he couldn't utter a single syllable.
"Kill her with the knife in your hand, and I will release you and your husband."
Nalan Jingwen felt a buzzing sound in his head, as if he could not hear anything, and his blood froze and became cold, as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
Enraged, she couldn't help but roar, "Why drag innocent people into our feud?!"
Yuan smiled and said, "Jing, you always said that I am cruel and bloodthirsty by nature, and that the world should not fall into my hands. But are the people you protect truly pure and kind?"
"Today I will show you just how ugly and selfish everything you are protecting really is."
Why don't you guess whether she'll actually attack you to save her own life?
"Hurry up and do it, or your husband's life will be in danger."
Yuan smiled eerily, as if victory was assured. Nalan Jing was so angry that she trembled uncontrollably, and every word she spoke made her feel like she was suffocating from the pain.
Lin Tian glanced at his husband not far away, then at Nalan Jingwen in front of him, and couldn't bring himself to do it no matter what.
"Do it!"
A Yuan's scream rang out, and Lin Tian couldn't help but turn around to look. He saw a gruesome bloody gash on A Yuan's neck. "No! Don't hurt him! Please!!"
Yuan looked at her pleading face without a trace of pity in his eyes.
"Then do it!"
With tears streaming down her face, Lin Tian approached Nalan Jingwen with trembling hands. The latter had no strength left; her bloodless lips moved slightly, and then she forced a smile at Lin Tian, her voice weak, "Do it, don't be afraid."
After saying that, he closed his eyes wearily, hiding the pain in them.
"I'm sorry, I'm so ......"
Lin Tian kept apologizing to her, tears streaming down his face. In the distance, A Yuan was kicked to the ground, and Yuan's sinister voice rang in his ears again: "If you don't make a move, I'll kill him!"
"don't want!!"
The dagger in his hand suddenly pierced Nalan Jingwen's chest. She groaned and her breath became even weaker. Lin Tian's legs went weak and he fell to the ground. He stared in disbelief at the dagger in her chest, then quickly came to his senses and ran towards A Yuan. He carefully helped A Yuan up from the ground and looked up at the people watching the show on the city wall.
"Can we go?"
"of course."
Lin Tian breathed a heavy sigh of relief, glanced at Nalan Jingwen one last time, and then helped his husband leave. But the next moment, a whooshing sound came, and an arrow flashing with a cold light flew towards the two of them. Nalan Jingwen's pupils shrank sharply, and before he could even utter a sound, he watched helplessly as the two of them fell in front of him.
Nalan Jingwen finally broke down and roared, each word filled with blood and tears, wishing he could devour the flesh and blood and grind the bones to ashes.
"I will kill you!"
I will definitely kill you!!
Even if it means being reduced to ashes and suffering eternal damnation, she will definitely kill her!!
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