Chapter 23 Birds and Fish (XI) “——I just want you to die…

Even as a spectator, Lian Qiang was shocked by the truth in Shao Yu's words. Every detail was horrifying. What on earth had Huai Xu done to her...

Huai Xu still wanted to argue: "I just want to keep you, I'm afraid you will return to heaven..."

"That's my home. I should have gone back. You know what wings mean to a winged person. I begged you, but did you stop cutting off my wings because of my pleading?"

Shao Yu's grip tightened little by little, and it looked like he really wanted to kill Huai Xu. "You've cut off your feathers one by one, and now I have to watch them being reassembled. Why don't you experience the feeling of having your scales cut off?"

Huai Xu was almost out of breath, but he still tried his best to squeeze out a few words: "If the wings are separated from the body... the winged person will die... the power of the wings will also be exhausted... but I... have tried my best to use secret methods... to protect you..."

"No. You just want the power of my wings, to help you expand your territory. You told me yourself that you've been secluded in the Canglang Sea for too long, and you're unwilling to give up." Shao Yu shook her head, denying him. At this point, she regained her composure, let him go, clapped her hands, and stood up. "Don't deny it. Do you dare say you don't want to refine it and use it for your own benefit?"

After a violent coughing fit, Huaixu continued to defend himself: "If I was just using you, why would I strip you of your soul and combine it with Yuyi to become Qingji? Why would I marry Qingji?"

"That's because you're greedy. You covet power, yet you still want to unite with the Feather Clan behind me." Shao Yu lowered his head, his pupils reflecting his miserable appearance. "You only dare to marry Qing Ji, not Shao Yu."

"There's a huge difference between our statuses. If I rashly propose marriage, Yu Huang won't agree..."

Shao Yu interrupted him sternly, "Excuses, they're all excuses. You haven't tried anything, yet you're acting on your own, assuming that the Emperor wouldn't approve. Ultimately, you're nothing but a selfish, despicable person who only cares about yourself."

After saying this, she shook her head with regret: "It was my fault back then. I didn't know people well enough, so I was deceived by you for a moment, leading to the bitter consequences today."

His gaze fell back on Huai Xu, and the disgust in Shao Yu's eyes became more and more clear: "If I had known you were such a person, if I could do it again, I would never want to meet you."

Seeing that she was trying to erase the past, Huai Xu, who had just been trying to argue, wanted to reach out and grab her clothes: "I was wrong... Don't say that, Shao Yu, Shao Yu, tell me, what do you want in order to forgive me?"

Seeing that he was about to touch the hem of the skirt that seemed out of reach, Shao Yu had no intention of retreating. Huai Xu was overjoyed, but just as he was about to grasp the corner of the clothes, a spiritual power cut the cloth.

Huai Xu's face was suddenly filled with surprise. He held it tightly to prevent it from falling to the ground. His lips trembled as he looked at the girl's face. She was standing against the light, so his expression could not be seen clearly. Then he spoke -

"Why should I forgive you?" Shao Yu asked him back in a firm yet doubtful tone.

"——I just want you to die."

Her attitude was so resolute that Huai Xu stopped moving for a long time, and then burst into laughter. He laughed so hard that he couldn't catch his breath, and kept coughing intermittently.

"...You are right. As a king, my intentions are not right and my virtue is unworthy of my position... I have made a grave mistake and have brought you to this point. If I do not want my clan to suffer the wrath of the Feather Emperor, then only death can bring me relief."

Now, the once high-spirited king had lost all his arrogance. He simply lowered his head and said calmly, "Shao Yu, if you can hate me and remember me, it would be a happy thing for me."

Shao Yu frowned and didn't want to refute him anymore.

To her, Huai Xu was just a tiny speck of dust in her eyes.

Now, she was finally able to get it out of her eyes.

Laughter stirred the wound, and blood continued to flow from Huaixu's seven orifices. He covered his mouth and nose, which were constantly bleeding, and stared at Shaoyu with hope in his eyes: "Shaoyu, you and I are husband and wife after all. Can you kill me..."

"No." Shao Yu took another step back, determined to keep his distance from him. Worried that her attitude wasn't obvious enough, she added, "I'm going home, and no one can stop me. I don't want to dirty my hands because of you."

Lian Qiang and Chi Xingji watched them in silence. At this point, it was all about their love and hate. Lian Qiang wondered what could have made such a proud Huai Xu falter like this in the last moments of his life.

Is it love or power? She is not Huai Xu, she can't tell the difference.

Huai Xu stared at Shao Yu for a long moment, until he realized the man before him wouldn't waver again. He could only smile wryly and conjure up a dagger, pointing it at his heart. He said, "Call me greedy or pretending to be pitiful, but I have one last, unkind request. After I die, please don't vent your anger on my people."

Since they were inviting Shao Yu and the Yu Clan, Shao Yu thought for a moment and nodded.

After receiving the nod, Huai Xu smiled and said, "Shao Yu, when a man is about to die, his words are kind. I didn't lie to you. I really did... love you."

After saying that, without waiting for Shao Yu's reaction, or perhaps because he was afraid of her reaction, he stabbed the dagger into her heart fiercely. Not feeling it was not enough, he turned it a few times.

The blood splashed far away, but did not touch the hem of Shao Yu's skirt. She stared at him intently, as if in a trance, or as if watching in mourning.

In an instant, the Mermaid King, who had brought her endless torment, was reduced to sand before her eyes. The ultimate fate of every Mermaid King was to be denied reincarnation, transforming into a handful of sand, returning to the ocean that nurtured them.

The tragedy finally came to an end. Lian Qiang was immersed in it, not coming back to her senses until someone stood in front of her and said, "Your hand."

She just woke up from her dream. It was Chi Xingji, who was looking down at her hanging hands with a serious face.

Lian Qiang instinctively wanted to follow his instructions and extend her hands. Halfway through, she realized something was wrong and tried to withdraw her hands, but Chi Xingji had already seen it.

"How did you get hurt?" He gestured for Lian Qiang to open her palms so that he could see the injury clearly. Chi Xingji's expression was not really kind. It was as if he was blaming Lian Qiang for having told her to take care of herself a few days ago.

Lian Qiang was busy healing herself and didn't dare to speak. Shao Yuyou beside her added, "To save me."

Chi Xingji couldn't blame her in front of Shao Yu, so he urged her to treat her wounds before turning to Shao Yu and saying, "Since the princess has been saved, why not return home as soon as possible so that Yu Huang won't have to worry about her anymore."

Shao Yu listened and smiled lightly: "I won't go back."

"Why?" Chi Xingji was puzzled.

"I can't go back."

The two looked bewildered. Shao Yu smiled again, as if this could calm the tears welling up in her eyes. "I can't go back. My wings were separated from my body, and he refined half of them. There's no way I can reattach them."

"Then what are you going to do..." Lian Qiang asked involuntarily, and only after asking did she realize how stupid her question was.

A winged person who has lost both wings, what can she do? What can she do?

Lian Qiang refused to give up and said, "But this is not your fault..."

Shao Yu is at least a princess of the Feather Clan, so why can't she have some room for maneuver?

"But no one cares about the process. Everyone only sees the result. In their eyes, it's better to die than to live in disgrace." If you ignore the sparkle in her eyes, Shao Yu, the person involved, seems much calmer than Lian Qiang. "Don't look at me like that. It's my misfortune to encounter such a thing, but it's nothing to sympathize with."

She looked at Chi Xingji at the right moment and said, "I will follow my heart from now on. I'm just sorry, Immortal Lord. I don't know what my father asked of you, but I can't let you get what you want."

Chi Xingji just shook his head: "It's okay. Princess, what are your plans?" No matter how eager he was to regain his memory, Shao Yu's experience moved him even more, and he didn't want to force anyone.

"Are you planning anything?" Shao Yu's gaze suddenly became distant, and her tears vanished. "Maybe I'll travel somewhere else. Even if I have no place to come from, I don't necessarily have no place to go."

As she spoke, she burst out laughing: "I was born without any vision, so all my tribe members just regarded me as a freak. Now that I think about it, it probably means that my fate is determined by myself."

Lian Qiang smiled along with her, and Chi Xingji also said to comfort her: "I think so."

The atmosphere relaxed considerably. Shao Yu looked at the wings, still pure white in the mud and sand. "These wings are useless to me... There have been a lot of turmoil in the past few days, and the mermaids have suddenly lost their king. For the time being, let's keep them to enhance the feng shui of this place."

Originally, the three of them were well aware of the merman's mess but had kept it to themselves, but unexpectedly, Shao Yu brought it up first. Lian Qiang was startled, then said, "Huai Xu treated you like this, why are you still so open-minded..."

Shao Yu paused as he folded his wings and buried them in the ground. He said calmly, "It's not that I'm being magnanimous. The one who made the mistake was him, not the innocent people. Besides, he's dead. Even if the hatred between us can't be wiped out, it's not the turn of the remaining mermaids to retaliate. There's no such thing as that in the world."

Lian Qiang agreed deeply, but she saw the girl raised her face again and looked at her seriously: "I haven't thanked you yet. I don't have anything to give to the Immortal Lord. It would be useless if I gave it to him, so I will give you something."

Lian Qiang was about to refuse when Shao Yu took out a ball of light from his brow and plunged it directly into her body. Lian Qiang suddenly felt her body lighten, and then an infinite heaviness pressed down on her.

Her knees went weak and Lian Qiang almost fell to her knees. Fortunately, Chi Xingji was quick to support her in time: "Are you okay?"

Lian Qiang wanted to wave her hands to show that she was fine, but she didn't even have the strength to do so.

Shao Yu took into consideration that she was a demon cultivator, so the spiritual power he allocated to her was relatively turbid, leaving it for her to use. However, because it was too turbid, some of the remaining emotions of the original owner were also borne by Lian Qiang.

"Don't worry, she'll be fine." Shao Yu listened attentively. "It seems someone is coming. I'm not in the mood to clean up this mess anymore. You guys should leave quickly."

They had caused such a big commotion, but it was strange that no one came until now. After saying this, Shao Yu made a hand gesture and disappeared on the spot.

Chi Xingji looked at Lian Qiang's condition and realized that it couldn't be resolved quickly, so he said "I'm sorry" and picked her up again.

For a moment, Lian Qiang felt dizzy, but she just concentrated on savoring the emotions brought by Shao Yu.

She even got a glimpse of... the past of this Feather Clan Princess.

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