Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Open your eyes and see that this king is yours...
This was Hanyu's first attempt to assassinate Yin Jinglong after her rebirth. She originally thought that with the blessing of the goddess's power, she would be able to succeed in the assassination, but she never expected that this man could actually evade the goddess's power?
She had only heard that if a foreigner invaded the Goddess Temple and offended the Goddess' statue, no one would escape unscathed. So why was he able to escape unscathed? Not only did she fail to assassinate him, but she also fell into a dark underground black hole with her husband's murderer.
At the moment of falling, the feeling of weightlessness as her body fell made her mind go blank for an instant. The fear of death spread in her heart like a thorny vine. Even though she had died once, she was still terrified when facing the threat of death again.
She had no time to react or think. Her instinct for survival prompted her to reach out and grab anything she could, but she didn't expect that the person she was holding tightly was accidentally pulled into the black hole.
At the moment of falling, she felt that the person she was holding suddenly turned behind her. There was a strong chest behind her, so that she only felt a slight pain when she landed, and the man behind her became motionless after a painful groan.
Is there such a deep, dark cave beneath the temple? Hanyu has lived in Yulong Snow Mountain for over ten years, coming up every month to clean the temple, but she never knew there was such a hidden world beneath the temple?
Fortunately, the black hole was not deep, and there was a layer of moist soil underneath, so the two people who fell down did not die. She only felt sore limbs after falling on Yin Jinglong, while the man under her lay on the ground motionless.
Finding herself lying in this man's arms, Hanyu jumped up like a startled rabbit and quickly moved eight steps away from him.
Although the black hole was not deep, it was dark inside and no light could be seen. Only a tiny bit of light slanted in from the hole where the top had collapsed.
She couldn't see Yin Jinglong's expression clearly, and didn't know whether he was dead or alive. She just saw him lying there motionless. She wondered if this man could have died from the fall.
She approached him cautiously, and only when she got closer did she see his cold, pale face, with a layer of beads of sweat on his forehead.
Hanyu reached out and felt his breath. Her fingertips could still feel his warm breath. He was not dead yet, but his breathing was irregular, and he seemed to have been seriously injured. Looking closely, she saw that his chest under his navy blue collar was rising and falling weakly.
Although the wound on the back of his hand caused by her dagger stopped bleeding, the skin and flesh of the wound were cut open, and the white tendons and bones were sandwiched in the blood clots, which was shocking.
Hanyu thought to herself that Yin Jinglong was still unconscious and this was a great opportunity to assassinate him. Thinking of this, she found the dagger that had fallen not far away and was about to stab him in the chest again when the scene of the dagger falling just now appeared in her mind again.
He had used his body as a cushion for her, so she had only suffered minor injuries. Han Yu suddenly felt a pang of pity. Was Yin Jinglong's use of his body to protect her a coincidence? Or did he have a change of heart and wanted to save her?
While she was lost in thought, the man lying motionless over there seemed to make a faint sound. She couldn't hear what he said exactly, but it sounded like he was repeating a name.
Hanyu leaned in closer and heard him calling the word "brother" again. She was shocked to find that the brother Yin Jinglong was referring to was her newly married husband.
When she thought about her husband who was still missing in his hands, if she killed him like this, she would have no chance to sneak into Prince Yin's Mansion to rescue her husband.
As she thought about it, her hand holding the dagger hesitated.
Just as she was hesitating, the man slowly opened his eyes. His gaze fell on Han Yu, not as sharp as when they first met. "You're not dead yet?"
His voice sounded extremely weak, as if there was phlegm in his throat, and his tone was unclear whether it was relief or disappointment.
While he wasn't paying attention, Hanyu immediately hid the bloody dagger into her sleeve.
"Thanks to the goddess's blessing, I am not dead yet. I am sorry to disappoint you, Your Highness!"
Yin Jinglong coughed up the phlegm in his throat and spat out a mouthful of blood-stained phlegm. "What goddess' blessing? If it weren't for me protecting you, you would probably be lying here now."
Han Yu was suddenly stunned. It turned out that he intended to save her, but she was clearly going to assassinate him just now, so why did he risk his life to save her?
Yin Jinglong saw through her doubts and explained, "I won't let you die so easily before you help me bring back the statue!"
Han Yu sneered, and the inexplicable sense of guilt in his heart gradually subsided. How could a cruel person like him who killed his own brother be kind enough to save her? The reason why he didn't kill her immediately was because she was still useful to him.
It's a pity that she couldn't let him have his wish. Now, let alone taking away the statue, even escaping from this ghost place would be difficult.
"What is this place? Where are my guards?"
Yin Jinglong's left hand was cut by her dagger. He tried to use his right hand to support his body and sit up, but his right hand seemed to be seriously injured as well. He just stood up a little, but it slipped down again due to lack of strength. The fine sweat on his forehead turned into beads of sweat as big as beans, and his face showed a hideous expression of pain.
"I just saved your life, and this is how you repay me? Why don't you come and help me up?"
Han Yu stood there indifferently, looking with contempt at this enemy who couldn't even stand up, and couldn't help but sneer: "You kidnapped my husband and used me to take away the statue. I can't kill you in time, why should I save you?"
She left these harsh words and ignored him. Instead, she brushed off the mud and sand on her dress and searched around for something that could help her climb out of the cave.
Unfortunately, it was now completely dark, and the only remaining light leaking from the collapsed roof was slowly dissipating, making the dark cave even more eerie and cold.
Yin Jinglong seemed to have anticipated that she would not save him, so he declared, "You keep talking about your husband. Since you believe your husband is in my hands, you should save me. Otherwise, you will never see him again in your life."
Hanyu glared at him with gritted teeth, guessing that he would threaten her with her husband's life.
She stepped forward and stepped on the back of Yin Jinglong's scratched left hand, revealing the silver dagger hidden in her sleeve. Her cold eyes locked onto his sinister ones, "Why should I believe you? Didn't you say you've never seen my husband? Now you're weak and I'm strong. It would be easy for me to kill you. How can you, a tiger with broken claws, threaten me?"
The pain from the wound made him frown and his mood gradually became irritable, but he couldn't lift his other hand, so he suddenly stretched out his foot and tripped Hanyu.
Hanyu fell into his arms unexpectedly. Just when she was about to get up, he turned over quickly and pressed her under him. He, who had anger in his eyes just now, suddenly began to tease her.
He stroked Hanyu's cheek with his left hand, and the dark red blood dyed her snow-white cheeks and her thin, warm lips red.
"Did your husband, A Jiang, treat you like this on your wedding night? Since you said your husband and I look very similar, why not also..."
In the dim and cold cave, two warm bodies pressed together. Although there were several layers of clothes between them, she could still feel the heat beneath his clothes.
Hanyu looked at the face in front of her that looked exactly like her husband's, and for a moment she mistook him for someone else. Her body did not resist him and let him stick to her. However, a moment later, the smell of blood on his lips reminded her that this person was not her A Jiang.
She pushed him away and roared, "You are not worthy to mention him!"
"Why not? Your husband is my twin son, born of the same mother. He has now betrayed the emperor and is hiding in the snowy mountains like a coward. Even if I don't kill him, the emperor won't let him go. He's dead anyway, and even if you find him, you can't save him!"
"No! You killed my brother. You are not a human being, but a demon who kills without blinking an eye! Even if I die, I will kill you first to avenge him!"
Yin Jinglong sat on the ground in a daze, smiling helplessly. "What a loving couple! I'm actually beginning to envy him... Back then, I couldn't understand why he betrayed his former master, gave up his position as a general, and chose to live in seclusion among the alien tribes in the deep mountains. Now I understand. In this complicated world, if he can get a woman to treat him sincerely, he will die without regrets. It's a pity that fate is so cruel and the heavens are not on our side. You and he are from two different worlds. There will be no future together. If you really want to see him one last time, just honestly take me out of the snow mountain and return to the Central Plains with me, and you will naturally be able to see him."
Returning to the Central Plains, would he imprison her again in the dark dungeon of Prince Yin's mansion? Suddenly, the memories of her past life invaded her heart like a flood.
In her previous life, when Hanyu ran down the mountain to look for Ajiang, she also ran into Yin Jinglong's guards, but at that time she didn't know that Ajiang had a twin brother who looked exactly like him.
She looked at the mighty man sitting high on his horse, wearing silver-gray armor and a bronze sword on his waist. The familiar face was no longer as gentle as before, but had a bit more sinister and indifferent look.
Hanyu stepped forward and called out to Ajiang, but he showed no reaction to the name. He drew the black sword from his waist and pointed it at her: "Take me to the temple to find the goddess statue, otherwise my guards will flatten the entire snow-capped mountain, and all your people will become the souls of the soldiers' swords!"
She couldn't believe that her gentle and kind Ah Jiang could say these words, and she didn't believe that Ah Jiang would really kill her.
So she walked forward, and when she was only millimeters away from the sword edge, her tearful eyes stared into his cold and unfamiliar eyes.
"Ah Jiang, have you forgotten that today is our wedding day? We've already worshipped heaven and earth, reported to the goddess, and drank the wedding wine together. Are you pretending that none of this happened? Or do you simply not want to marry me? From the moment you approached me, was it all for the purpose of slaughtering the tribe and seizing the statue today?"
The black sword on her chest was suspended in mid-air, and the sword tip was trembling slightly in the wind and snow. If she was not careful within this millimeter, the sword tip would pierce her chest.
But he retracted the black sword at this moment and mocked her naivety, "Open your eyes and see if this king is your husband?"
This man who looked exactly like A Jiang claimed to be his twin brother. After hearing that A Jiang was kidnapped and killed by him, Han Yu's warm heart turned cold. Her legs could no longer support her and she half-knelt in the snow. She was so numb that she could no longer feel the biting cold of the snow water.
In a trance, she heard the order to massacre the tribe, and in an instant, the sound of horses' hooves stepping on the snow and the sound of swords piercing flesh and blood in fighting came one after another.
Suddenly, she felt a tingling sensation at the back of her neck, and then she lost consciousness.
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