77. Chapter 77 Heart Knot



This was the first time Xiang Wanning saw her like this. Unlike her usual youthful and beautiful appearance, the girl in the dream had half-white hair, a frown on her face, and a pair of calloused hands.

Xiang Zhinian was still young, but her eyes were filled with loneliness and desolation, like a walking corpse. Xiang Wanning had never seen her cry so much, as if at this moment, she wanted to express her silent grief with tears.

"elder sister……"

"Don't be sad, I'm right here with you."

She approached him countless times, wanting to touch Xiang Zhinian, wanting to tell her that she was here, right in front of her...but she could only see her hands passing through his body, just as her voice could never reach Xiang Zhinian's ears.

In the end, Xiang Wanning could only sit next to her and listen to Xiang Zhinian continue talking. Every time she said something, Xiang Wanning would echo her.

"Yan Li is still waiting for me, but there is no future between him and me. I am sorry for wasting his time."

Xiang Wanning's eyelids twitched. Even though she knew this was a dream and not reality, she still asked in confusion, "Why? Why didn't it work out? You obviously liked each other."

At the end, she vaguely felt that it might be her own problem. Staring at the photo frame that Xiang Zhinian was holding, Xiang Wanning seemed to understand the purpose of the photo: this was not a retro photo, but her portrait.

But she couldn't help licking her lips, and circled around her anxiously: "But it doesn't matter to me! Sister! Your happiness is the most important!"

"Even if I die, sister still has to live!" Xiang Wanning was so anxious that she was scratching her ears and muttering to herself, but she was also angry that her words could not be heard by Xiang Zhinian in the dream. Although she didn't know what happened in the dream, even though she was sitting on the ground a little disappointed, it didn't prevent her from persuading Xiang Zhinian to change her mind: "Sister... people always have to look forward."

"Brother Yan is really great, you two are a perfect match!"

But Xiang Zhinian couldn't hear her words and just continued to talk:

"My experiment has made some progress. Brother Jiang said that the seventh international tribunal will open tomorrow, but will this time give me the result I want?"

"I will." Xiang Wanning replied to her somewhat frustratedly, still sad that she couldn't persuade her to change her mind in person. She began to be curious about what happened in this dream and why Xiang Zhinian became what she is now... She could feel her pain just by looking at her for the first time.

"It doesn't matter if I don't know." Xiang Zhinian answered to herself, and suddenly laughed softly. The corners of her lips slightly raised with a slightly crazy arc, splitting her whole face. There was no smile in her eyes, and she was as calm as a bystander.

She reached out and touched the bracelet on her wrist. Xiang Wanning saw a flash of cold light, and a flying needle pierced through her soul and shot into the wall. The place where the wall touched it instantly made a sizzling corrosion sound, and soon became an empty hole, then slowly expanded, and then collapsed with a snap - enough to see the power of this flying needle. Xiang Wanning was so shocked that her mouth opened wide, her eyes widened, and an incredible thought flashed through her mind.

...Is she planning to assassinate him in some international court? Xiang Wan Ning got up from the ground anxiously and kept muttering in her ear: "Sister, no, this is against the law!"

"Think about your brother, think about your father and mother. What if the truth is revealed? Sister, you are only twenty-one years old! Your life cannot stop here!"

But Xiang Zhinian couldn't hear it.

She placed the photo frame on the table, straightened the wrinkles on her clothes, glanced at the time on her watch, and prepared to leave in the morning light to meet her own challenge.

Xiang Wanning's eyes turned red, knowing that if Xiang Zhinian went to court with such a purpose, she would only end up dead. No matter what Xiang Zhinian's difficulties were, as long as she really shot that needle, it would all become her fault.

She desperately wanted to grab Xiang Zhinian's clothes, wanted to keep her, wanted her to give up this plan, wanted to persuade her that the future was still very long... Don't do this, please don't do this.

This dream was so real, so real that she almost followed Xiang Zhinian in tears. She said "please" many times, but Xiang Zhinian could not hear her.

Not only Xiang Zhinian, but other people in the family couldn't hear it either.

When Xiang Zhinian went downstairs, several pairs of eyes stared at her. When they saw her nod slowly, they all smiled with relief. Xiang Chisong even said to her, "It's okay. Just do what you want to do. Brother will stand by you."

Mo Yin just said, "Have breakfast before leaving."

"No, how can this not matter?"

When Xiang Wanning heard this, she came to Xiang Chisong in three steps. She was a little annoyed that they made such a decision, and she was so anxious that she didn't know what to do. She wanted to say that you can't do this, you will die! But she couldn't do anything.

A feeling of powerlessness kept rising in her heart. She couldn't help but reach out to cover her eyes, and began to hate herself for being just a ghost... Even if this was a dream, even if this was a dream, she didn't want to see what was about to happen! But Xiang Wanning could only cry silently, tears dripping down her cheeks, falling in mid-air and then evaporating suddenly, leaving no trace in this world, in this home, just like no one could find her around.

She has forgotten.

Xiang Zhinian once hugged her and cried bitterly one night, begging her not to leave and praying for her to survive. She even kept asking herself what to do, and in the end she could only watch Xiang Wanning vomit blood and feel her body temperature gradually getting colder, but she was powerless.

In the past, Xiang Zhinian couldn't stop Xiang Wanning, just as Xiang Wanning can't stop Xiang Zhinian now.

They could only watch each other go down the road of no return, but they could do nothing about it.

But she had forgotten.

There would be no chance of their ever being happy again after she was gone.

Xiang Zhinian tried countless times to be with Chen Yanli, but she suddenly took back her hand when she was about to hold it. She always wondered: How could she be happy? This was like a betrayal to Wan Ning. Only when she tore through these illusions and saw her bloody wounds could she get a chance to breathe in reality and barely hold on with these pains and hatreds.

Only then will I feel...that life is not good at all. Perhaps Wan Ning leaving here is a kind of relief and happiness.

——

Xiang Wanning followed Xiang Zhinian to the research institute where she usually worked. Seeing her greeting her colleagues, she calmly took the identity card she would need to participate in the court session, then turned around and got into the car with a smile. No one could see the storm brewing deep in her eyes.

He stared at Xiang Zhinian closely, not knowing what he was thinking. Xiang Wanning thought that he had discovered that something was wrong with Xiang Zhinian, and her eyes suddenly lit up. With the thought of grasping at the last straw, a glimmer of hope suddenly arose in her heart.

But after looking at her for a long time, the boss looked away again, and just said as he passed by her: "Control yourself and don't get excited."

Xiang Zhinian lowered his eyes, raised the corners of his mouth, and chuckled: "I will be very restrained."

She glanced at his arm and said something caring about him in a nonchalant tone: "Brother Jiang, your arm doesn't hurt anymore? Although the explosion didn't affect you, it seems that you were stabbed during the arrest. Are you okay now?"

"No problem."

When Xiang Zhinian heard this, he didn't say anything else. He reached out and touched the bracelet on his wrist, then stepped in.

"Are you just going to let her go like this? You've already noticed that something was wrong with her, so why didn't you stop her?!" Even though she knew the other party couldn't hear her, Xiang Wan Ning couldn't help but question her with a hint of despair: "Isn't she your subordinate? Isn't she your companion? Why didn't you save her!"

The man whom Xiang Zhinian called Jiang Ge just looked at the former's back. His eyes seemed to be talking to other people through her. He also seemed to sigh unconsciously: "Some people can't be stopped."

Xiang Wan Ning knew that this sentence was not said to her, because no one could see her, but she was still furious when she heard Jiang Ge's words: "How do you know if you don't try?! You obviously don't care, you don't care whether she dies or not! Even if it is an act of self-destruction, isn't it because of your shitty court?!"

She recalled the scene of Xiang Zhinian crying late at night, and thought of her asking "what should I do?" The anger in her heart grew bigger and bigger, so she yelled at him: "If it is fair, if it can heal every pain, if the perpetrators can get the punishment they deserve, if the scales will not tilt towards anyone...then why hasn't the culprit paid the price in a year?!"

"How can you so easily say 'some people can't be stopped'? Because you don't care about her, but I do! I care! I care about her life, I care about her emotions, you don't care but I do!"

"I can understand her, but I want her to live even more. Do you understand?!"

After Xiang Wanning finished speaking, she wanted to catch up with Xiang Zhinian, but after turning around, she heard a sentence coming from behind her: "It's a pity that this is an international court. It's a pity that the other party is from Country Z. Various forces are intertwined. It's not something that anyone can decide lightly."

She finally turned around in surprise, thinking that he had heard her voice. When she saw his eyes looking past her and towards Xiang Zhinian who was further ahead, she suddenly realized that he was not answering her question, but rather expressing his feelings.

Xiang Wan Ning looked away with some sadness: "So you can't protect your own people at all. You can only watch her do what you expect. Maybe you will meet her in prison after she succeeds, and then pretend to regret it... It's really ridiculous. What you said are just some high-sounding words."

She chased after him, just like she had always followed Xiang Zhinian's footsteps, and this time was no exception.

There was a noisy and chaotic sound all around. The sudden change made countless people scream in fear. When Xiang Zhinian's silver needle shot out and pierced the upright man who looked superior even on the judgement seat, his painful and miserable cry became the most beautiful music to Xiang Zhinian's ears.

"Ashburn." She spoke slowly, looking calmly at the man who was still struggling in the judgment seat: "I have already said that you must die."

When the judge asked him whether he admitted his actions, the man named Ashborn even glanced in the direction of Chinen, raised his lips, and said in a clear voice, "Yes, judge, I regret my previous actions very much, and I hope to have a chance to reform myself."

Xiang Wanning saw it all clearly, and she couldn't help but clench her fists. Then when she saw the flesh and blood splattering from his body, and even staining Xiang Zhinian's cheek, she couldn't help but frown and wanted to wipe away the blood.

But she failed to do it, not only because she couldn't meet Xiang Zhinian, but also because the other party was quickly controlled by someone.

The people who came to attend this court session came from different countries. Many of them began to accuse Ashburn as she screamed, saying that she did not respect the so-called human rights. However, no one dared to step forward to help up Ashburn's body which was festering and melting. Xiang Zhinian could not help laughing when she heard their insults.

"Psycho." She cursed, "If there were no bombs, I would really want to send you to hell together. Yashibourne must have human rights, but what about my Wan Ning? What about Yu Quezhou who died in the battle? Just because they died, do they also have no human rights?"

Xiang Wanning stood there in a daze. At this moment, she felt as if she had discovered a shocking secret.

Yu Quezhou, why is there Yu Quezhou, why is there Yu Quezhou in this dream? !

But the scene in front of her began to blur. Xiang Wanning felt that she was about to leave this dream. She felt a panic she had never felt before, but she didn't want to leave yet! What about her sister? What about her family? She wanted to...

Before she could finish her thoughts, she seemed to hear the man called Brother Jiang confessing, "It seems that I was wrong and shouldn't have insisted." But Xiang Wanning had no time to think about why he said that. She was completely captivated by the following scene. She felt as if her heart was being tightly grasped by someone's hand.

——Xiang Zhinian vomited blood when he was being dragged away.

But she was smiling, and she laughed more and more happily amidst Ashburn's screams of pain. She laughed even more contentedly when she heard the usually proud Ashburn begging for mercy in a low voice and saw his body shaking uncontrollably and the fishy liquid flowing out of his body.

She had already drunk the same poison that Xiang Wanning drank a year ago, during the breakfast she had with her family today. And at this moment, after seeing the final fate of Ashburn, the knot in her heart that had witnessed Xiang Wanning's death was finally untied at this moment.

Xiang Zhinian thought that she could finally go to see Wan Ning.

She didn't know if it was her illusion, but a second before she lost consciousness, she actually saw Wan Ning with red eyes looking at her sadly, and heard a whimper and a call from her.

She seemed to hear it.

No, she really heard it.

——Wan Ning called her sister.

Yu Quezhou: (makes a brilliant appearance) It’s my turn.


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