Chapter 476 A Secret Affair Between Two People, Monk Murders!

Jia Guan: "No!"

"I have never had even a shred of true affection for you!"

"Zongzheng Zhiyuan, do you know that I have only ever felt disgust for you!"

"I hate how shamelessly you always linger your sticky gaze on me."

Even after all these years, in my heart, you are not as important as a single hair of the moon!

"In my heart, she is the star and the moon, while you are nothing but a rat in the gutter!"

"Yue'er is upright and honest. You, on the other hand, have been jealous of her since childhood because she is better than you in every way, including looks and talent. You are even more jealous that your royal brother only dotes on her as his sister."

"How many times have you tripped her up and framed her? Do you really think I know nothing about it?"

"Comparing yourself to her is just humiliating!"

With that, Jia Guan shoved Zongzheng Zhiyuan hard to the ground with a single palm strike.

Zongzheng Zhiyuan lay there awkwardly, motionless, before finally managing a bitter smile.

Then the laughter grew louder and louder, but it contained an endless bitterness.

When she looked up again, her face was covered in tears.

Zongzheng Zhiyuan looked at Jia Guan with a sorrowful expression and asked, "Since you despise me so much, and are so infatuated with Zongzheng Qingyue, even becoming a monk for her back then... then why did you spend the whole night with me, Zongzheng Zhiyuan, in this meditation room of Ningyuan Temple seventeen years ago?"

"Is this your devotion?"

"Is this the unwavering devotion you've been holding onto?"

"Xie Huaiyuan, you are a complete hypocrite!"

Jia Guan threw down the Buddhist prayer beads in his hand, rushed forward, and kicked Zongzheng Zhiyuan hard.

"I told you to shut up, shut up!!"

"That night seventeen years ago, you deliberately drugged my tea."

Even so, I was still calling out Yue'er's name!

"The person I saw in my daze was her! Not you!"

"You disgust me, you slut!"

He went berserk, hitting and cursing the princess.

The airs of a high monk that he had maintained for over twenty years completely vanished at this moment.

He truly became that twisted and repressed demon in his heart.

Zongzheng Zhiyuan screamed a few times, trying to get up, but was stomped down by Jia Guan.

She wanted to scream for help, but the guards had already been sent far away, so even if she screamed until she was hoarse, no one would save her.

She has lived a life of luxury and high status for so many years, and she has always been the one to beat and scold others. She has never suffered such torment.

Even though she loved Xie Huaiyuan very much, she began to hate him at this moment: "I told you! I told you!"

"Back then, in order to pursue Yue'er, you were like a dog in front of her, cautiously begging her to love you."

"But Zongzheng Qingyue has no idea what kind of insidious and selfish person you really are in private!"

"You're completely captivated by her, yet you're secretly flirting with me."

"Some obvious actions have made me secretly fall for you, but you only say it's the proper etiquette between a subject and his subjects!"

"Xie Huaiyuan, you're a two-faced scoundrel!"

"Do you really think Zongzheng Qingyue doesn't know that you were the one who pushed her onto that man's bed back then?"

She then threw her head back and laughed wildly: "She always knew."

"That's why, in order to preserve her innocence, she resolutely chose to marry into the Liang Dynasty as a princess for a political marriage."

"I should thank you, Brother Huaiyuan, otherwise I would have been the one forced into a political marriage back then!"

"You and that person drove her to her death, so what right do you have to criticize me?"

"You deceived her heart, yet you didn't cherish it. You even hypocritically came to Ningyuan Temple to become a monk, and you even sculpted her likeness as a Guanyin statue—you are simply defiling Buddhism!"

As Jia Guan listened to her scathing and piercing curses, he calmed down completely.

He picked up the Buddhist prayer beads from the ground.

Suddenly kneeling forward, he pressed Zongzheng Zhiyuan between his legs, then quickly wrapped the long string of Buddhist beads around Zongzheng Zhiyuan's neck.

As she stared in shock, struggling to escape, he expressionlessly tightened his grip on the beaded string.

"Are you trying to kill me to silence me?"

Suddenly, a faint voice came from behind the Guanyin statue.

Jia Guan suddenly looked up, his scarlet eyes fixed on Guanyin's face.

Until that faint sigh came from the statue again.

This time, Jia Guan was startled and turned around, falling to the ground.

"She...she spoke!"

Jia Guan's face turned completely pale.

Zongzheng Zhiyuan clutched her neck and quickly pulled off her prayer beads. She lay on the ground and coughed violently for a long time before she truly felt that she was still alive.

He actually wanted to kill her?

"Xie Huaiyuan, how cruel you are!"

She pointed at him and cried out in a shrill voice.

Just then, the door was suddenly kicked open from the outside with a loud bang.

The imperial son-in-law, Zhang Tingjiu, stood at the door with a gloomy face, staring at the two people inside.

When Zongzheng Zhiyuan saw him appear, her face instantly filled with terror.

"You... how did you get here? How long have you been here?"

"Did you hear anything?"

Zhang Tingjiu stepped inside.

He looked anxious.

"Princess, are you alright?"

What happened?

“I heard the princess calling for help from afar, so I rushed over without thinking.”

"Have I... disturbed you two?"

Zhang Tingjiu's questioning gaze shifted back and forth between the two, especially noting that Zongzheng Zhiyuan still had the abbot's Buddhist beads wrapped around her neck.

Why would something so intimate appear on a princess?

His doubts made Zongzheng Zhiyuan's eyes flash with guilt.

Why are you asking so many questions?

"Just now, I only asked the abbot to perform a ritual for the child we had that died in the womb."

"That's when I got a little emotional."

"I'm alright now, please help me up and let's leave."

Zhang Tingjiu seemed not to dare to ask any more questions. He helped Zongzheng Zhiyuan up and left the Guanyin Hall.

As he descended the steps, he suddenly turned back and glanced at the man inside the hall, who was wearing a cassock, had his eyes closed, and remained silent.

Zhang Tingjiu's eyes were now filled with resentment and hatred.

Xie Huaiyuan, so my daughter is actually your child!

You two are indeed having an affair!

This is intolerable!

I will make you two repay a hundredfold for the humiliation you have caused me, Zhang Tingjiu!

After the princess and her husband left, Jia Guan suddenly knelt on the prayer mat in front of the Guanyin statue.

"Moon, have you come back to see me?"

"If you can really speak, could you say one more word so I can hear it?"

However, the hall was deathly silent, with only the sound of the wind passing through it.

Jia Guan lowered his brows dejectedly: "I know you still hate me."

"But just now, it wasn't my imagination, was it?"

"If you hadn't stopped me, I would have already committed murder."

"More than twenty years have passed... It's been twenty-six years since what happened back then."

“While you were still alive, I chanted sutras and prayed for you every day.”

"If you die, I will chant sutras for your salvation every day."

"But you still hate me!"

"Back then, didn't you still manage to preserve your innocence in the end? Am I really so unforgivable?"

"Imprisoned in this Ningyuan Temple, never to step out again for the rest of my life. This is already my punishment; are you still not satisfied?"

"I know that no matter how many scriptures I recite, I don't deserve your forgiveness, but Moon, you won't even come to me in my dreams for a single day. I'm truly unwilling to accept this—"