Chapter 1392: 1387: Chu Yifeng and the Others Were Drugged
Chapter 1392: Chapter 1387: Chu Yifeng and the Others Were Drugged
How could they possess such formidable combat strength without cause, and enter the battlefield oblivious, only to seek help after death?
One by one, they were all enigmas.
After Chu Yifeng had finished cleaning up, he finally staggered back to Chu Yihan’s military camp. Before entering the camp, he thought of that woman cold as ice, and suddenly a wicked idea came to mind, “Go, find a stretcher. Carry this prince, say that I’ve been seriously injured and have fallen into a coma, and take me directly to Chu Yihan.”
“Yes,” Ah Hong executed the order without question.
By the time they reached the military camp, it was Ah Hong himself who personally delivered Chu Yifeng into Chu Yihan’s camp. At the entrance of the tent, Rong Sheng, clad in a pure white dress, ethereal as a fairy, suddenly tightened her gaze when she saw the stretcher.
“Chu Yifeng…” Rong Sheng murmured unconsciously.
Why would he be seriously injured?
Ye Qingru and Mu Rongche had already withdrawn their troops and returned; why did he act so rashly?
Chu Yifeng was carried in front of Chu Yihan, and as soon as Chu Yihan approached, he stood up from the stretcher on his own.
The worry in Chu Yihan’s eyes turned into a thin anger, “Chu Yifeng, what are you doing? Pretending to be sick with me?”
He was being troublesome again!
Chu Yifeng patted his clothes, smelling the blood scent he had managed to get on himself, and explained coldly, “I’m not pretending for you, I just wanted to see if Rong Sheng has any conscience towards me.”
Chu Yihan shouted angrily, “Get out!”
Facing a formidable enemy, and he still had time for love and romance!
“Don’t be angry, I have something important to tell you. The group of living Gu-people who later appeared and blocked the city gate, half of them were regular soldiers, but the other half were innocent civilians. They seem to have been affected by a kind of terrifying medicine that greatly enhanced their strength, but it was temporary. I fought them until night, and they all died without battle, with blood flowing from their seven orifices,” Chu Yifeng said, his expression was as serious as ever when speaking of important matters.
“Did you bring back a corpse?” Chu Yihan asked.
“I did, and I’ve already sent it to your empress,” Chu Yifeng, as always, handled things thoroughly and appropriately.
“I understand, go and rest,” said Chu Yihan, urging him to leave, but he then lay back down on the stretcher, feigning a ‘serious injury.’
Rong Sheng, in the end, couldn’t resist following the stretcher carrying Chu Yifeng into his tent, but after Ah Hong and everyone else had left, the man on the stretcher suddenly pulled her into his embrace.
In the dark of the night, his eyes shone astonishingly bright, and the corner of his mouth held a hint of a wicked smile, “Rong Sheng, do you still say you’re not my woman?”
“Chu Yifeng, you deceived me!”
When Rong Sheng tried to break free, it was already too late.
In their struggle, all she could hear was Chu Yifeng, fervently asking her, “Rong Sheng, what exactly happened that made you, a woman, so cold and distant towards me? Or is it that you never had a heart, and only felt for me?”
Rong Sheng did not answer him; whether she had a heart was irrelevant now.
What mattered was that she had finally realized one thing:
She couldn’t bear to see Chu Yifeng get hurt again.
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In the capital of Ji Yun Country.
On the throne, Chen Ruobai had already turned completely gray-haired. The relentless practice of gu magic had drained all her vital blood, and now she sat on the throne as weak as a withered flower, devoid of strength.
Chen Qingshui came to report to her, “Princess, in just one day, they will be able to breach the capital city and storm into the royal palace.”
“Absolutely not!” Chen Ruobai knew in her heart that she was nearly unable to hold out, but Ji Yun Country’s capital city couldn’t simply be captured because Chu Yihan said so!
There were still her scattered gu corpses and gu poisons here, as well as the gu formations.
Unless he didn’t care about the lives of his soldiers, willing to exchange their corpses for his military achievements.
“Princess, if there is no other way, we should abandon the city and leave first. If it were only Chu Yihan, we could linger for another two days, but the person commanding the central army is Mu Rongche.”
No one else dared to say such things to Chen Ruobai; it could only be Chen Qingshui, her sister.
Besides her, no one else was willing to approach Chen Ruobai anymore.
“Mu Rongche!” Chen Ruobai’s white hair flew up, her gaunt cheeks tensed, eyes widened, pupils suddenly constricted, “It’s him! He actually… took to the battlefield on behalf of Chu Yihan, to fight me!”
In that instant, Chen Ruobai was filled with indignation, but then she thought, why couldn’t he?
She had annihilated Lian Hai Kingdom, killed his mentor, slaughtered his subjects, abused his kin, and humiliated him. Mu Rongche should be the person who hated her the most in this world.
So, for him to break through Long Guan City and seek revenge on her, why couldn’t he?
“Heh…”
A cold laugh escaped Chen Ruobai’s lips, “Even if I must die, Mu Rongche and Chu Yihan, they must definitely die as well!”
She wanted to fight them to the bitter end!
“Princess, rest assured, Chu Yihan’s brothers and Mu Rongche, they will surely die.”
From the shadows, Yun Dan emerged, dressed in a black cloak, and from the sound of her laughter, one could tell she was a person of dark intent.
Chen Qingshui had many doubts about her, but since she always followed orders, she didn’t ask any further.
However, when she was leaving, she ran into Zhuo Qing, and she asked Zhuo Qing if she wanted to go in and see Chen Ruobai. Zhuo Qing gave a bitter smile, “At this point, how could the princess wish to see me again?”
“Oh.” Chen Qingshui did not say much more.
But then Zhuo Qing stopped her, saying she wanted to invite her for a drink.
Chen Qingshui went, and for half an hour she said nothing. Zhuo Qing, on the other hand, poured and drank by herself, muttering to herself for a long while.
When her eyes became red from drinking, she grasped Chen Qingshui’s sleeve, “You’re a princess too, are you just going to watch, wide-eyed as your sister and Ji Yun Country are trampled to the ground?”
Chen Qingshui’s face remained calm, her nondescript features like a bowl of water, bland and tasteless.
Her voice, too, was as placid as water, “I am not a princess, I don’t have the qualification to do anything. I can only obey the princess’s orders.”
“You clearly are!”
Zhuo Qing grew somewhat agitated, clutching tightly at Chen Qingshui’s wrist, “You are the Eleventh Princess, of lowly birth, only striving to survive, but you serve Princess Ruobai. Do you want to watch her consume her strength and die?”
Chen Qingshui glanced at Zhuo Qing, “Prime Minister Zhuo, although she is my sister, she despises the fact that she shares the same father’s blood with me, she won’t listen to me either.”
From her birth, she understood her powerlessness over life. Growing up, she realized her powerlessness over her future. And now, she could only live day by day, as a person just getting by.
She had no great ambitions and no interest in meddling with political affairs.
The day her sister, Chen Ruobai, dies, if she truly cannot go on, she’ll simply slit her throat and end this life.
There’s no need for attachment.
“But what about the emperor of the Great Cheng Dynasty, their elite troops, and our people? Are they all to be sacrificed for the princess?” Zhuo Qing stood up, her agitation somewhat excessive, “That Yun Dan, she drugged Chu Yifeng, and once something happens to him… the entire Great Cheng Dynasty and their army will be finished.”