Chapter 55 Chapter 55 A man and a woman are alone in a room, this...
In Hanyu's heart, she may have had doubts about Ajiang for a long time. Perhaps as early as the time when he left without saying goodbye on their wedding night in the snowy mountains in her previous life, she had already understood deep in her heart that Ajiang had changed. It was just that she was unwilling to admit it in front of Yin Jinglong and was deceiving herself.
So, when Yin Jinglong ruthlessly revealed the truth hidden beneath the surface, she would feel heartbroken. Should she admit that she didn't love him that much anymore?
"Can you please stop pushing me?"
Tears welled in her eyes as she looked at him pleadingly. Whether in her past life or this one, she couldn't understand what she had done wrong. Why had she gotten involved in these disputes for no reason? Why had she even sacrificed the lives of innocent people?
At this moment, he also softened his heart. He knew very well that it was not her fault. She was also a victim. Yin Jingheng took advantage of Min Hanyu's kindness and innocence and started a meticulous plan from the day he first met her three years ago.
Three years ago, under the banner of reviving the imperial family, General Yin Jingheng, under the order of the Emperor, went to Yulong Snow Mountain to seize the statue of the goddess that had been worshipped by the Tomb Guarding Clan for many years.
It is true that he stole the statue, it is true that he encountered snow and wind on the way up the mountain, it is also true that he was attacked by the power of the goddess and his meridians were broken and his martial arts skills were lost, but the amnesia is questionable.
Yin Jinglong asked Hanyu to think carefully about whether there had been any suspicious behavior during the three years when she was with Ajiang?
Suspicious... behavior? Hanyu fell into deep thought.
To say that I have absolutely no doubts is impossible. If you think about it carefully, it is really terrifying.
Back then, her father had advised her not to interact with outsiders, especially those from the Central Plains. They were very cunning and scheming, and she would never know when they were taking advantage of her.
At that time, Hanyu just thought that her father was threatening her. She was naive and always believed that the interactions between people might not be so complicated. If you like someone, you like them, and if you don’t like someone, you don’t like them. At least she has always been clear about what she likes and hates.
She more or less learned about her biological parents' past from her clansmen and her father. Her biological father was from another tribe and it was said that he had pretended to meet her mother by chance at first, and the two developed feelings for each other after a few interactions.
The emotions between young boys and girls are always passionate. A'niang couldn't control herself and accidentally became a husband and wife with the foreign man. So she tried to persuade the elders of the tribe to accept this foreign man.
But how could the elders break the clan rules for her mother? Moreover, the foreign man was no good either. On the first day that mother brought him to the Lingshu clan, he took the opportunity to sneak into the clan leader's house and steal things, but was caught on the spot.
The clan leader tied up the man and put him on display in public. A'niang, who was pregnant, still knelt on the ground and begged for mercy for him.
The elders advised her not to fall too deeply in love, saying that this foreign man had ill intentions and approached her for a purpose, but her mother refused to believe them. She vowed to avenge him even at her death, after all, he was the father of her child.
Hanyu once asked the elders what the foreign man had stolen that year.
The elders were unwilling to tell her, saying it was a clan secret. Only her deceased father and the clan leader knew about it. Even her mother didn't know why the foreign man approached her until her death.
Later, the tribe leader executed the foreign man for seducing young girls and stealing important items from the tribe. Hanyu's biological father was tied up in a cage by the tribe and slept forever at the bottom of the cold river.
Dad often used this to warn Hanyu not to associate with outsiders, and not to follow in her mother's footsteps and get involved in romantic relationships with outsiders.
The young Hanyu did not understand the taste of love until she met Ajiang by the cold river. Then she seemed to slowly understand why A'niang was willing to give up her life for a man.
Perhaps she inherited her mother's infatuation, and although she didn't want to follow in her footsteps, Hanyu still ended up falling in love with a foreigner.
She had been secretly living with Ajiang for many days without telling her father. She was worried that Ajiang's identity as an outsider would be known by the tribe members and that he would be dragged away and drowned in the river.
Hanyu's abnormal behavior was eventually noticed by her father. When her father discovered Ajiang's existence, he was so emotional that he strongly opposed the two of them being together.
But Hanyu insisted that Ajiang would never be a bad person. Although his identity as a foreigner was suspicious, he had lost his memory and forgotten his past life. Now he was just Ajiang, the simple, kind and doting Ajiang.
The adoptive father couldn't persuade Hanyu who was in love, so he had to cover for her. In this way, only he, as her father, would be willing to believe his words. The elders and the clan leader would not care whether he had lost his memory or not. They would rather kill ten thousand people by mistake than let a suspicious foreigner go.
After all, these hateful foreigners have been coveting the statue for a long time. Who would believe it if they said that they approached the tribe without any purpose, just to come to the snow mountain to play and broaden their horizons?
During the years that A Jiang was with her, he lived quietly in a small wooden house by the river. He would go out to chop firewood during the day and accompany her on the roof to watch the stars at night. There was almost no exception.
Except for the day when Hanyu went up the mountain to worship the goddess every month, if she failed to return that night, Ajiang would wait alone in the hut by the river for her to come home.
Yin Jinglong asked her if Ah Jiang had gone out alone on those nights when she was not home, or if she had noticed anything suspicious about him when she returned home the next day.
Hanyu thought about it carefully and realized that there were a few times when he felt something was suspicious.
One time, in order to go down the mountain with Ajiang to sell firewood, she came down from the temple early. When she returned to the wooden house by the river, she found that Ajiang was not waiting for her in the wooden house as usual.
She waited until noon before she found Ajiang walking out from the depths of the bamboo forest beside the cold river, and there was no trace of firewood on his body.
"Ah Jiang, why did you go to the cold river? The water there is icy cold, and the river surface is freezing. You have just recovered from a serious illness, so don't go near that place again."
A Jiang only said that he went out to chop firewood and met members of the tomb-guarding tribe going up the mountain. In order to avoid being discovered by them, he took a detour to the bank of the cold river and took another route home.
Hanyu had no doubts about his words, but was worried that the cold air would enter his body, so she prepared to give the snow lotus she brought down from the top of the snow mountain to Ajiang.
"I picked this from the cliff in front of the Goddess Temple. This snow lotus draws on the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, nurtured on the top of the snow-capped mountains. It is an excellent medicine for curing illnesses. I thought you were previously injured by the power of the Goddess, so I picked this snow lotus to make a soup for you to nourish your body."
When A Jiang looked at the snow lotus, his eyes lit up. Having never seen such a precious treasure before, he carefully preserved the snow lotus, saying that it would not be too late to take it when he really needed it.
What he didn't know was that Hanyu almost fell off the cliff in order to pick the snow lotus, and her feet were scratched by the cliff rocks.
But in order not to make A Jiang worry and not to burden him, she concealed the fact that she was injured.
Now that she thinks about it, the expression on Ah Jiang's face when he saw the snow lotus was something she had never seen before. In addition, after this rebirth, he left without saying goodbye on the wedding night in the snowy mountains, and even took away the snow lotus to give to the spider refining Gu?
The precious thing she risked her life to pick for him was given to him by him, and he gave it to another woman? The thought of it made her angry! What good had she done to that spider? And she even gave it to her disgusting spider!
Wouldn't this be a waste of all her efforts?
At this moment, Hanyu was filled with righteous indignation and wished he could crush the spider under his feet.
Yin Jinglong said, his hands folded in his pockets, "Everyone knows that the goddess's power can protect all living things and captivate people's souls, but few people know that the snow lotus blooming in front of the goddess' temple atop the snow-capped mountain is a rare and exquisite treasure. If my brother really approached you for the snow lotus, then he had planned all of this from the beginning, including feigning amnesia."
He secretly wondered why such a good thing hadn't happened to him. He had spent years searching for a cure for his broken arm, learning that the Iceberg Snow Lotus could cure all sorts of ailments. But that Snow Lotus only bloomed once every few decades, and yet Hanyu had given it to that beast in human form, and he'd even used it to feed the spiders?
Yin Jinglong was so angry that he almost vomited blood, and his face looked extremely ugly.
Hanyu thought he was just angry at his brother, so she tried to explain for Ajiang: "Without evidence, it's impossible to say whether he really has lost his memory. Maybe he really doesn't remember?"
"Are you still making excuses for him? Do you know that the Iceberg Snow Lotus is also extremely important to me? How can you give it away so casually?"
Hanyu glanced at the legs that stood steadily beneath him and muttered, "Isn't your leg healed? It's not some stubborn illness. Do you really need such a precious treasure as the Snow Lotus?"
In a rage, Yin Jinglong took off his shirt and showed her his right arm covered with ugly scars.
"Open your eyes and look at this broken arm of mine. This is proof that your beloved A Jiang murdered his brothers! When I learned that the snow lotus could heal my broken arm, I climbed the snowy mountains, not for the statue, but for this snow lotus that blooms only once every few decades! Do you think I don't need it?"
Hanyu's eyes were filled with guilt. If she had known that Ajiang would waste such a treasure, she should have taken the snow lotus away on the night of her rebirth.
Just as the two were arguing about this, someone seemed to come outside the door. Yin Jinglong immediately put on his clothes and half-lay on the bed, pretending that his leg illness had not healed.
The person who came was Prince Consort Sun. He first glanced at Hanyu who was standing at the door with her head down and silent, and then glanced at the disabled prince who was sick on the bed.
I thought to myself, aren't these two people closely related? How can a man and a woman be so alone in the same room, and their clothes be so neat?
Hanyu asked quietly, "Is there something wrong, Prince Consort?"
"Someone wants to see the prince. Prince Yin, please pack up and follow me."
When Prince Consort Sun turned around, he remembered that he was now disabled, so he instructed Hanyu: "Thank you for helping the prince over here."
Hanyu agreed with a fake smile, but in her heart she was cursing all eighteen generations of his ancestors.
She and Yin Jinglong continued to act in front of outsiders. She supported the prince with disabled legs and followed the prince consort to the princess.
There was a man sitting next to the princess, and Hanyu recognized that man as the virtuous prince whom she had met in the dungeon of the palace that day.
Isn’t that the father who has never had any contact with Yin Jinglong?
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