Chapter 1359: Chapter 1354: Ruthless Chu Yifeng
Chapter 1359: Chapter 1354: Ruthless Chu Yifeng
Chen Ruobai’s face, as enchanting as a thousand-year-old white fox, still revealed no emotion.
But Rong Sheng could feel that Chen Ruobai treated her differently now; a sudden change in the plan must mean something had happened.
Yet, without any martial arts skills, Rong Sheng was powerless to stop Chen Ruobai and Xin Yi from leaving.
After they had left, Rong Sheng was nearly killed.
It looked like some men from Qiongzhou City who had been abused for a long time, but they wielded knives and axes as though they were controlled by someone.
The silver needles and sleeping draught in Rong Sheng’s hand were completely ineffective, and as she was cornered up against a wall, three men slashed their knives at her. She trembled and then closed her eyes.
This was her way of welcoming death.
Calm and resigned.
With no strength left to resist, there was no point in struggling.
But she hadn’t expected that just as she closed her eyes, three flashes of blood streaked past her vision, and a white figure swiftly dropped down, ruthlessly beheading the three men and becoming splattered with blood.
Chu Yifeng’s exquisitely beautiful face was stained with blood as he looked at Rong Sheng, his lips curling into a cold sneer, “Stupid as a pig.”
He was shocked that three ordinary men had threatened her!
She was indeed the most foolish spy he had ever seen!
Rong Sheng opened her eyes to see Chu Yifeng, “The battle began today, why are you here?”
“If Your Highness hadn’t come, how did you plan to die?”
Chu Yifeng’s lips coldly curled, “The battle has begun, and you’re of no use now, quickly get lost.”
He took her back to Ruo Shui Pass and then had to catch up with Chu Yihan’s troops.
This was an order from Chu Yihan, and coincidentally, what he wanted to do too—bring Rong Sheng back safely.
Chu Yifeng grabbed Rong Sheng’s arm without a hint of tenderness, just ready to whisk her away.
But Rong Sheng stopped him, “Wait! Something isn’t right!”
She quickly realized, “If Chen Ruobai wanted to kill me, it means she suspected me earlier on, and that means the information I passed to you previously must also be wrong! If you hadn’t come to save me today, I’d be dead, then Chen Ruobai’s battle plan…”
Rong Sheng’s face tightened, the sound of blades whirring through the air as if ringing beside her ears.
Chu Yifeng also realized, “Something’s wrong, let’s go!”
He needed to reach Chu Yihan immediately!
Chu Yihan couldn’t be in trouble!
“No, back to Qiongzhou Prefecture, find Zhuo Qing!”
Rong Sheng knew that besides Xin Yi, Zhuo Qing was the person Chen Ruobai trusted most. Any last-minute changes in the battle plan, Zhuo Qing must know.
Right now, fleeing immediately was useless; what was useful was to find out Chen Ruobai’s battle plans first.
Rong Sheng briefly explained Zhuo Qing’s background and circumstances to Chu Yifeng, guessing that a woman like Zhuo Qing wouldn’t easily yield or reveal the battle plans, so they went to her current residence, seized a few people, and confronted Zhuo Qing with them.
At that moment, Zhuo Qing was reviewing documents, preparing for the victory after Chen Ruobai’s battle and had drawn up several policies. She planned to implement them once they took over the Great Cheng Dynasty, enabling all the women in the realm to genuinely free themselves from outdated customs, thus creating a world where women ruled.
But when Chu Yifeng threw her sisters in front of her, her pen trembled, and she stood up, her eyes widening, “Who are you! How did you get in here? Guards!”
“No need to shout, they’re all dead.” Chu Yifeng’s lips wickedly curled, a sinister aura emanating from him, heightened by his blood-stained white clothes, exuding an especially grim and fierce presence.
Zhuo Qing immediately stacked all the documents on the table and walked up to Chu Yifeng, “What are you going to do? Are you… Chu Yihan?!”
Although she had never seen Chu Yihan, she was well aware that the Emperor of the Great Cheng Dynasty had a peerless visage that made all the women in the world fall for him. The man before her had tough eyebrows, a pronounced nose bridge, and a jawline as sharp as a knife’s edge — a face that outshined everyone in the world.
His presence and demeanor were unmatched.
He looked exactly like the Emperor of the Great Cheng Dynasty in the portraits!
Chu Yifeng coldly said, “Chu Yihan isn’t free to meet you, but if you don’t reveal what Chen Ruobai’s changed plans are, these two sisters of yours will undoubtedly die.”
Chu Yifeng grabbed one of their throats, and the girl immediately let out a heart-wrenching scream, “Sister! Sister, save me!”
“Whimper…”
The one he was gripping was Zhuo Qing’s sister, whom she had personally taught and nurtured in literature and poetry since her youth.
Only eleven years old.
The other one, who had trained in martial arts since childhood, had broken legs due to resisting Chu Yifeng. Though now paralyzed on the ground, she still glared at Chu Yifeng with pride and anger, “Don’t touch my sister, just kill me if you dare!”
“Do you think Your Highness wouldn’t dare?” Chu Yifeng casually struck her, and she spat blood onto the ground, fainting.
“Little sister!”
Zhuo Qing, horror-stricken, picked up the little girl from the ground, whose breathing was very weak.
Even though she knew Rong Sheng was a traitor and had brought this person here, she still looked at Rong Sheng pleadingly, “I know you have the heart of a healer, please, save my little sister!”
Rong Sheng pursed her lips and hadn’t reacted when Chu Yifeng already pulled her to the front, “In the presence of Your Highness, pleading with anyone is useless.”
The way he was dragging Rong Sheng did not resemble allies; instead, she seemed more like an enemy to him.
Rong Sheng’s wrists crackled under his grip.
Yet Rong Sheng, accustomed to his torments, remained silent.
Chu Yifeng then pressed Zhuo Qing again, and after he had almost beaten her two sisters to death, Zhuo Qing still refused to speak. Later, Chu Yifeng brought her husband and son forward.
The two men were so tortured they barely looked human. The small boy, curled up in the man’s arms, convulsively breathing so weak it could stop at any minute.
Zhuo Qing hadn’t seen them in a long time.
She thought she had forgotten they existed.
They were the ones who deeply hurt her, the ones who wanted to kill her.
Yet, upon seeing them again, her heart ached, even more painfully than seeing her two sisters severely injured!
The man held the child, his eyes desolate as he looked at Zhuo Qing, his voice hoarse, “I really want to beg you to save Rui’er, but you are such a ruthless woman, I dare not ask for too much. The child just wanted to see you one last time…”
The child in his arms was barely holding onto life, struggling even to open his eyes.
The tribulations he suffered were unimaginable and unthinkable to Zhuo Qing.
But she could never forget, from the day she brought this child home, he was like her own flesh and blood, one with her.
Now…
Zhuo Qing’s heart was ruthlessly torn with pain, her heart softened, yet her words remained harsh, “You all deserve to die!”
Chen Ruobai shared their fate; they were all severely betrayed and hurt by men, both heart and body scarred by them.
Thus, she had become just like Chen Ruobai, believing that all men in the world should, like women in the past, be subdued beneath them!
Yet the sadness and pitifulness in the eyes of the man before her were even greater than hers had ever been.