Chapter 50: The Shadow That Is Hard to Hold

Zhou Zhi's steps became chaotic. She had to hurry up. Facing the mad phoenix chick, she was afraid that he would exhaust his energy in a short time, which would be bad.

Sure enough, after this, the phoenix chick aged faster.

Without a second thought, Zhou Zhi turned around, grabbed a disciple and threw him to Phoenix Chick, "Let's go after you've drained it. Don't waste my time, someone's coming!"

Jiaoran saw that Suixing was thrown to the old monster by his mother. He saw that the old monster grabbed Suixing's head and sucked something from Suixing's body through the air. A red light came out from Suixing's head and was greedily sucked by the phoenix chick.

The other disciples wanted to go over to stop him, but when they saw Zhou Zhi threatening them with a sound of "hmm", they had to give up. They watched their fellow disciples cry for help in pain, and in the blink of an eye, they saw Suixing turned into a skinny corpse.

Jiaoran sat on the ground motionless, holding the seriously injured Zhuxing in her arms. She couldn't be distracted to save him. Her senior sister's breathing was weak, and she was really afraid that her senior sister had died like her father, so she used all her strength to press on her to stop the bleeding.

She held her breath and looked at the evil face of the Phoenix chick.

It was because A Niang associated with such people that she was deceived so miserably.

Zhou Zhi said to Bu Yue, "You dare to stop me?"

Bu Yue was angry, but he couldn't break up with this woman, otherwise both he and Zhu Xing would lose their lives.

"How dare I." He said as he stepped aside, allowing Zhou Zhi to grab Mu Jin.

But how was this like him? It wasn't chaotic enough. Since she wanted to take Mu Jin away smoothly, he would make the situation even more chaotic.

So he shouted at the top of his voice, "Junior Sister!"

Jiaoran sat on the ground, looking at him, still panting, "What?"

Zhou Zhi impatiently wanted to take Mu Jin away, "You know the consequences of not following me."

Bu Yue looked around the room and saw the chaos. He wondered how his junior sister could be so confused. With her ability, it would be easy for her to escape by herself, but she had to hit a wall here.

"My little junior sister, the one who was raised as the apple of my eye!"

"What do you want to say? Shut up!" Zhuxing interrupted him with all his strength.

Jiaoran was slow to react and still didn't know what he wanted to tell her.

She didn't even notice Mu Jin's sudden change in expression. His fair face suddenly turned pale, as if covered with a layer of wax paper.

Bu Yue walked slowly, but his eyes never left Zhuxing and Jiaoran.

He coughed a few times and cleared his throat. "Junior Sister, do you think that Master's Wife ended up like this because she associated with these unscrupulous people?"

"Ah, I really don't want you to cry, but everyone already knows the truth. Look at them, everyone in Huiyingmen, besides you, who else has been kept in the dark?"

Bu Yue looked at Jiaoran's tired expression and suddenly felt pity. The next words might make this little girl who had finally returned home completely despair.

Zhou Zhi suddenly drew his sword and slashed at Bu Yue to stop him from speaking, but he dodged it.

He didn't hesitate. If he didn't say it now, he might never have the chance to say it again.

"I don't care what you want to say anymore." Jiaoran said slowly.

"You don't care?" Bu Yue laughed out loud. "You don't care, do you? Well, Jiaoran, listen to me. I'll tell you why you were chosen to go to the Governor's Mansion. I'll tell you why you almost died—"

This time it was Mu Jin who roared, "Shut up!"

Jiaoran had never seen Mu Jin look so frightened. This was totally unlike him. She thought that someone like him would not frown even if a knife was placed on his neck.

"Stop talking nonsense, Bu Yue. You want to kill Zhuxing, right?" Zhou Zhi threatened him with Zhuxing.

Even Zhuxing was frightened. She struggled to open her eyes and kept saying, "Let's go... Jiaoran... Don't listen to him, let's go quickly..."

Bu Yue pointed at Mu Jin and then at Zhou Zhi.

So, Jiaoran's eyes slowly moved to them, bypassing his father's body and the blood on the ground.

Under the dim light, A Niang's scar was not as noticeable as her clear facial features, and she saw two somewhat similar faces.

Slowly overlap.

She stared at them for a long time without taking her eyes off them.

"You're not so stupid that you can't see it now, are you?" Bu Yue said in a low voice.

Jiaoran was still sitting on the ground, silent and seemingly indifferent.

No one knows what is going on in her mind.

It seems like he is restraining something.

After a moment, Jiaoran stood up and raised his head.

She grew up in Huiyingmen. Her eyes were like stars that never fall from the sea, and like gems that still shine even after being washed by tears.

At this moment, all vitality was lost, and the bright eyes became extremely dim.

She couldn't utter a word.

Mu Jin was so frightened that she ran towards her desperately.

This time Zhou Zhi didn't stop him.

Mu Jin wanted to say something, but all his words turned into a sigh.

Jiaoran looked at him, and the pair of eyes he loved so much were like stars falling into the deep sea, sinking deeper and deeper, and finally losing all their light.

"Do you also think I'm ridiculous for coming all the way here to die?"

Mu Jin held her blood-stained face in his hands, his heart broken. Even though he could speak eloquently, he could not say a word in defense.

Jiaoran suddenly pushed him away, raised his head and burst into laughter.

She laughed so happily and powerfully that no one could tell that she was a heartbroken person.

"Crazy." Zhou Zhi murmured, and then wanted to take Mu Jin away.

Jiaoran no longer cared about anything. She kept laughing and couldn't stop no matter what Mu Jin said.

At this moment, Chai Hui's horse's hoof crushed the inn's door. His men surrounded the place and killed all the people outside the inn. He shouted, "Jiao Ran, your brother Chai San is here to save you!"

The smile on Jiaoran's face suddenly stopped. She picked up her father's weapon from the ground, then flew out from inside the inn and stabbed at the sign of Huiying Inn outside the inn.

With a loud bang, the plaque that had gone through decades of vicissitudes turned into pieces.

Scattered around outside the inn.

She sighed softly, "It turns out it's not difficult at all!"

After saying this, he turned around and said to the crowd, "It was Zhou Zhi and her son who plotted against me first. I was raised by Zhou Zhi and I owe her my life. Now, because of her scheme, I have narrowly escaped death and returned here to repay her kindness. From now on, through thousands of mountains and rivers, Zhou Zhi and I will be like this plaque."

It was for the illusory family affection that she was plotted against by Zhou Zhi, and it was also for the illusory love that she was plotted against by Mu Jin.

The word "love" is extremely hypocritical. When she left the Fish and Dragon Wonderland, Zhu Su said, "People are burdened by glory and obsessed by love, but they don't know that these are just invisible winds, elusive shadows, and unattainable things." She only now began to understand this.

She was deceived and toyed with time and time again by the person she trusted the most, which is why she is suffering such humiliation now.

Jiaoran grabbed the railing upstairs, feeling momentarily unsteady. Her head ached so badly that she didn't want to say a word. Zhu Su had said that the world was meaningless, and now she finally understood.

She saw their faces with different expressions and heard their chaotic and noisy voices.

The blood in her chest was pounding and something was buzzing in her ears.