Chapter 19: Master, you mustn't escape—please, wake up!

Everything happened too fast. Gong Ling was wearing a red veil. He had originally planned to kill Gong Ye, that beast, with one blow.

The force was definitely not small; the blow pierced Gu Shanshan's heart in one strike, leaving her no time to stop.

Blood splattered all over Gong Ling, staining her bright red wedding dress and veil.

A chilly night wind blew in through the window, causing the red veil covering Gong Ling's head to slowly slide down...

"Gu Shanshan!"

Gong Ye cried out, instinctively catching the falling body, his hand supporting Gu Shanshan's slender waist, pulling her into his arms and holding her tightly.

Touching Gu Shanshan's icy body, his heart felt as if it had fallen into an ice cave, chilling him to the bone.

"How could this happen... What on earth is going on?!"

Gong Ye held Gu Shanshan tightly in his arms, glaring resentfully at the person on the wedding quilt.

The red veil covering her head fell off, revealing Gong Ling's face.

Gong Ling was no less surprised than Gong Ye; he didn't know why this was happening either.

His eyes were wide open, filled with a bloody crimson.

"Why... how could this happen to me?"

Gong Ling's hands trembled, her grip on the dagger quivering slightly as she saw the black and red bloodstains splattered from Gu Shanshan's body on her hands.

It's broken.

"Why? Master, why did you do this?!"

Why is Master here even though he clearly delivered the person to the inn at the foot of the mountain and locked the door?

Why......

Master is going to take a knife for that beast Gong Ye?

Gong Ye clearly betrayed his master and ancestors, committing such despicable and shameless acts. He deserves to be cut into a thousand pieces and sent to hell!

Why did you go and shield Gong Ye from the knife? Why?!

Could it be that watching Gong Ye die was not what Master wanted in his heart?

Gong Ling's heart was instantly filled with endless anger and jealousy.

He couldn't understand it, and he couldn't see it clearly.

It's all Gong Ye's fault... It's all that damned Gong Ye's fault for drugging Master, bewitching Master's heart, and bewitching Master's eyes!

It's all Gong Ye, it's all Gong Ye!

He deserves to die, he deserves to die!

Gong Ling's mind was filled with this crazy thought about you, her eyes bulged out, and her eyes were filled with a scarlet blood color.

He lunged forward suddenly, shouting wildly, "Gong Ye, you bastard, give me back my master! My master is mine, and the person my master loves is me! Give my master back to me!"

His crazed state had long since robbed him of his former gentlemanly demeanor.

"Damn it, get out! Don't touch him!"

Gong Ye kicked Gong Ling, who was trying to take Gu Shanshan from him, away with a hard kick.

The dagger was stained with poison.

Gong Ye saw black blood gushing from Gu Shanshan's chest and felt a heartache so intense he could hardly breathe.

"Gong Ling, Gu Shanshan's life belongs to me. If she's going to die, she can only die by my hand. If you dare to hurt her, I'll kill you!"

Gong Ling felt hatred, but Gong Ye felt the same way.

Why? He's been through two lifetimes, and he finally managed to marry Gu Shanshan. Why did Gong Ling have to pull such a stunt to stop it?

If it weren't for that, Gu Shanshan wouldn't have died!

Gong Ye exuded a chilling and murderous aura, his eyes filled with terrifying killing intent.

He coldly ordered, "Mo Gui, summon him!"

The silver Mo Gui sword, summoned by its master, flew out of its scabbard and hovered in mid-air.

"Kill him!"

Mo Gui, having received his master's command, swiftly slashed at Gong Ling's neck.

Gong Ling's cultivation had long been destroyed by the drugs, so this time she smeared poison on her dagger to assassinate Gong Ye with the determination to kill him with one blow.

To everyone's surprise, Gong Ye didn't die; instead, Gu Shanshan was stabbed through the heart.

Faced with Gong Ye's overwhelming martial prowess, Gong Ling had no strength to resist.

He closed his eyes in despair as the sword came hurtling towards him.

She murmured, "Master, I will die with you. I will go to the underworld to find you."

A strong sense of unease rose in Gu Shanshan's heart as she was unconscious. She struggled to open her eyes and saw Mo Guijian slashing towards Gong Ling's head.

Terrified, he immediately cried out, "Stop! Don't kill him!"

After shouting those words, he spat out another mouthful of blood, which splattered onto Mo Gui Sword.

The blood of its former master made Mo Guijian sense its master's command, and it stopped immediately just as it was about to sever Gong Ling's neck.

Upon hearing Gu Shanshan's voice, Gong Ling excitedly opened her eyes.

She reached out and lunged at Gu Shanshan, crying, "Master..."

"roll!"

Gong Ye was so angry that he kicked the person away again.

Mo Guijian wouldn't listen to her, and Gu Shanshan was determined to protect Gong Ling's life at all costs.

This made Gong Ye feel doubly betrayed.

Gong Ling stabbed Gu Shanshan in the heart with her own hands, so why is Gu Shanshan still protecting Gong Ling?

Could it be, as Gong Ling said, that Gu Shanshan... deeply loves Gong Ling?

Then why did you take the knife for him?

Why did you give him hope, only to then cut off all his hope with your own hands?

Doesn't Gu Shanshan know that this is even more cruel to him?

Or... did Gu Shanshan never think about him at all from beginning to end?

Realizing this possibility, Gong Ye glared at Gong Ling through gritted teeth.

The force was so great that it almost broke Gu Shanshan's waist.

Gu Shanshan fell into a coma again, but her brows were tightly furrowed, as if she had some unfulfilled wish.

"Cough cough cough..."

Gong Ye's kick was extremely powerful. Gong Ling was kicked so hard that she slammed against the wall and then fell to the ground, breaking several of her ribs.

With broken ribs piercing her heart and lungs, Gong Ling clutched her chest and coughed up a large pool of blood.

Gong Ye wanted to kill Gong Ling, so he swung a black whip with one hand and wrapped it around Gong Ling's neck.

With just a little force, Gong Ling's neck would snap.

Gu Shanshan will never see Gong Ling again, and she will never ignore him because of Gong Ling again.

But... is that really the case?

When Gong Ye thought of how Gu Shanshan had risked her life to protect Gong Ling, he hesitated before making his move.

After a long pause, he snorted coldly and withdrew his hand.

He picked Gu Shanshan up in his arms and turned to leave, leaving behind a cold remark.

"Gong Ling, if Gu Shanshan... dies, I will tear you to pieces and grind your bones to ashes!"

God knows how much hatred Gong Ye felt when he said the word 'death'.

"Master... Master..."

Gong Ling clutched his chest as he watched Gong Ye carry his master away. Unable to stand, he crawled forward on all fours, screaming Gu Shanshan with heart-wrenching cries.

Boom!

A loud bang echoed through the dark night sky, followed by a bolt of lightning.

Immediately afterwards, a light drizzle fell from the sky, washing away all the blood and sin, and silencing Gong Lingyu's cries in the night.

......

The inn at the foot of the mountain.

After some investigation and spending some money, Xiao Ling finally learned which inn Gong Ling had locked up Ren in.

After buying the key with money, he opened the door to the inn room with a smug smile on his face.

However, upon seeing the empty house, the smile froze on his face.

With a grim expression, he threw the keys on the ground and cursed Gong Ling, "Damn it, how dare you play me!"

......

Time flies. In the blink of an eye, half a month has passed since Gu Shanshan was stabbed in the heart by Gong Ling.

For the past two weeks, Gu Shanshan has not woken up since she fell into a coma that day.

Gong Ling's poison was originally intended to completely kill Gong Ye. The poison was so terrifying that even with Gu Shanshan's body being enhanced, it would be difficult for the poison to be expelled from her body.

For the past two weeks, Gong Ye, for reasons unknown, did not take Gu Shanshan back to the mansion deep in the mountains, but instead stayed with Gu Shanshan at the Green Mountain Sect.

Of course, the corpses and Gong Ling on the ground were all cleaned up by Gong Ye's undead puppets.

No one would guess that a bloody massacre had taken place here.

Gong Ye ordered the living dead to guard the foot of the Green Mountain Sect's mountain, and no one could come up without his permission.

He himself stayed by Gu Shanshan's side day and night, never leaving her for a moment.

He held Gu Shanshan almost day and night, tightly embracing the unconscious person.

He didn't know when Gu Shanshan woke up. During this time, he invited countless famous doctors from all over the world to see her.

But those damned quacks only ever repeat the same thing: the disease is terminal, leave it to fate, accept your grief and prepare for the worst.

Leave it to fate?

How could he die without his master's permission!

This sentence has angered Gong Ye to the point of wanting to kill many times.

But every time he thought about snapping the heads of those quack doctors, he would remember the unconscious Gu Shanshan and ultimately couldn't bring himself to kill them.

Because he was afraid that the sins he had committed would be punished on Gu Shanshan.

Gong Ye, who has never believed in fate or retribution and only in himself, felt a sense of awe for the cause and effect of reincarnation for the first time.

Everything was because they were afraid Gu Shanshan wouldn't wake up.

That day, Gong Ye dressed Gu Shanshan in white clothes, then wrapped her in his own black cloak, and carried her to the ancient pear tree.

The white pear blossoms bloom year-round, and the delicate, beautiful blossoms drift in the breeze, landing on Gu Shanshan.

Gu Shanshan kept her eyes tightly closed as Gong Ye held her close in his arms.

Gong Ye, leaning against the pear tree, gently brushed away the white pear blossoms that had fallen into Gu Shanshan's dark hair.

Gu Shanshan's lips were so pale they were completely bloodless, and Gong Ye felt a pang of heartache at the sight.

He couldn't bear to see Gu Shanshan so weak and on the verge of death, so he lifted Gu Shanshan's chin.

He leaned down and gently kissed Gu Shanshan's lips.

The icy touch made Gong Ye's heart clench.

"Master, please wake up soon... As long as you wake up, I will never hate you again..."

The man's low, hoarse voice was filled with pleading.

But no sooner had he finished speaking than...

Gu Shanshan, who had been silent all along, suddenly frowned and coughed up a large amount of black, foul-smelling blood.

After suddenly vomiting blood, Gu Shanshan not only failed to wake up, but her condition became even more serious than before.

Gong Ye touched Gu Shanshan's increasingly cold voice and couldn't help but cry out in sorrow.

"Master!"