Chapter 68 Chapter 68 Except for this father and daughter, no one else will be left...
Upon hearing this, Hanyu looked at him in disbelief, repeatedly confirming, "But I clearly saw you raise your sword and chop off my father's head. Are you deliberately blaming Ajiang for the massacre of our clan in order to shirk responsibility?"
Yin Jinglong stared at her with lost eyes. He suddenly lifted his sleeve, revealing his crippled right arm, and questioned her harshly.
"Min Hanyu, think carefully. Was it me or him who chopped off your father's head with a sword in his right hand?"
At this moment, Hanyu suddenly realized that she had recognized the wrong person from the very beginning. It was impossible for Yin Jinglong to lift the sword with his broken arm, and it was even more impossible for him to chop off an adult's head easily without any martial arts skills.
So everything was wrong from the beginning. She mistook her enemy. She naively thought that her A Jiang was the kindest and most innocent man in the world, but she never saw that beneath his kind appearance was a heart that was a hundred times more cruel than Yin Jinglong's.
After rebirth, everything changed from the beginning and had deviated from the original trajectory. On the wedding night in the snowy mountains, Yin Jingheng brought Xuelian down the mountain this time, but he did not run into Yin Jinglong's army as in his previous life. Instead, he disappeared inexplicably.
As they talked, the sky gradually brightened. Yin Jinglong carried Hanyu onto his horse and said to her earnestly, "We must hurry to Yulong Snow Mountain. Otherwise, I'm not sure if my brother will massacre our clan again, as he did in his previous life."
Hanyu was extremely anxious. No matter what, even if it meant letting her die again, she had to find a way to stop him.
In order to avoid the towns along the way and fear that his identity would be recognized by the people in the city, Yin Jinglong specially chose a wild mountain road. The two of them traveled all night, but they were still one step too late. Yin Jingheng's army had already entered the heart of the snow-capped mountains.
The snowy mountain road was rugged and covered with a thick layer of snow. The horses' hooves sank deeper with every step, hindering their progress up the mountain.
In a trance, Hanyu seemed to hear the sound of fighting coming from the tribe on the hillside of the snow-capped mountain.
"No! Daddy!"
She was not afraid of the cold snow, nor did she care about the biting cold wind invading her thin body. She insisted on jumping off the horse and climbing up the mountain with her legs.
It was the winter solstice, and a few snowflakes fell from the sky on the snow-capped mountains. The ice and snow melted on her cheeks, mixing with her hot tears. When the cold wind blew, her face felt scratchy and painful.
Yin Jinglong did not dare to slack off, and followed her to climb up the snow mountain and come to the tomb-guarding tribe. The scene before him shocked his heart and he could not calm down for a long time.
In his previous life, he had never witnessed his brother slaughtering his clan. This time, when he saw it, he was suddenly heartbroken. He knelt on his knees and roared in pain.
At this time, Yin Jingheng was waiting for them to come back in front.
In order to save her adoptive father, Hanyu rushed into the tribe without hesitation.
"Ayu, wait! Beware of an ambush!"
Yin Jinglong's reminder was useless. She had lost her mind. She had to find her father whether he was alive or dead.
He was worried about Hanyu's safety and followed her immediately. When the two arrived at Hanyu's house, Yin Jingheng was sitting in Hanyu's house, as if he had been waiting for a long time, while her adoptive father was controlled by the spider beside him.
"Prince Yin is finally willing to show up? It's a pity that these innocent people died tragically because of you! Ah Yu, don't blame me. I am only returning the pain that the goddess inflicted on me to the people she protected."
Han Yu angrily shouted, "Ah Jiang, do you still have any conscience? He's my father! Let him go!"
"Oh? So what if he's your father? He's a descendant of the goddess just like those people. I have to let him experience what it feels like to be hurt by the goddess' power!"
After he finished speaking, he waved his hand to signal the spider to take action. The spider hit her adoptive father's back with its palm, and the adoptive father screamed in pain and then vomited blood.
"No! Stop it now!"
Hanyu knelt in front of Yin Jingheng and begged him to let her adoptive father go. Her father was looking at her with tears in his eyes and left her a last word in a hoarse voice.
"Ayu, I'm afraid Daddy can't... cough cough cough... can't accompany you anymore."
"No! You can't kill my father!"
Yin Jingheng pointed at the person behind her and said, "How about using his life in exchange for your father's?"
Han Yu was speechless. She looked at Yin Jinglong with reluctance as he volunteered to step forward and exchange his adoptive father's life for his own.
She reached out to stop him and asked, "Why are you doing this?"
"I just don't want you to regret the same thing as in your last life. If sacrificing my life can bring you a lifetime of happiness and peace, I think this deal is worth it."
Yin Jinglong pushed Hanyu's hand away and walked up to his brother. The two identical faces looked at each other, but their eyes were completely different.
He saw surprise in his brother's eyes, and a hint of jealousy.
"Ayu, do you love him?" Yin Jingheng forced Hanyu to answer his question.
"I don't love anyone."
"Really?" Yin Jingheng put the blade on his brother's neck. "If I kill him, will you be sad?"
Hanyu glanced at Yin Jinglong, who was determined to die, and was responded with a long silence.
But Yin Jingheng could tell from her eyes and expression that she had feelings for his brother, which made him extremely crazy. He slashed the blade towards Yin Jinglong's left hand, cutting the tendons of his left hand.
"Don't kill him!"
Hanyu subconsciously shouted out her inner thoughts. She looked at Yin Jinglong kneeling on the ground in pain. His left hand could not move, and hot blood soaked his navy blue sleeves.
"But now he's a cripple. What's the point of keeping him around? Who would submit to a crippled prince?"
Yin Jingheng suddenly changed his mind. He would not end it easily. He tied up Yin Jinglong and took him back to Shangjing City to torture him slowly, just like he had been tortured in his previous life. He would even repay him double.
The spider asked, "Master, Prince Yin has been arrested. What should be done with the other survivors?"
He waved his hand and said casually, "Except for this father and daughter, no one else will be left alive!"
With just one sentence, he left no one alive, and the entire Snow Mountain Tomb Guarding Clan became a desolate tribe of the dead, just like in the previous life.
Hanyu slumped to the ground in despair. Could it be that even after living his whole life again, he still couldn't save the lives of his people?
"Then what should we do with this father and daughter?"
"The old one was abandoned here to die on his own. As for Min Hanyu... tie her up and bring her back to the palace."
Hanyu looked at her dying father and couldn't bear to leave him alone, so she begged the spider to save him.
But that spider was a person who regarded family affection as dirt. She treated her relatives as if they were non-existent and even hated them. Naturally, she could not understand the father-daughter relationship between Hanyu and her adoptive father.
She advised Hanyu to accept reality: "Instead of struggling to death, why not just listen to your master? Perhaps one day your master will be in a good mood and willing to let you go."
Hanyu was forced to leave her father behind and was taken back to the capital with Yin Jinglong.
His A Jiang has now usurped the throne and is still lacking a queen. He ignores the opposition of court officials and insists on making Han Yu the queen.
At the enthronement ceremony, he publicized his love affair with the queen in two lifetimes to the people of the world, making everyone feel that he was a good monarch who did not forget his old kindness and did not despise his wife.
He honored his biological father, Prince Xian, as the Supreme Emperor and his mother, Consort Chunyu, as the Empress Dowager. He confined the former Empress Dowager and Emperor Xuan to the cold palace, never to be seen again. As Prince Xian was accustomed to his own palace and did not want to move to the imperial palace, he continued to live in Prince Xian's residence with Empress Dowager Chunyu.
At the same time, Princess Chaoyang, who assisted him in usurping the throne, was also named Princess Zhenguo and awarded with a fief of 3,000. Her husband was also granted a title of nobility, named "Changping", for his meritorious service in assisting her.
Prince Xian met privately with the new emperor and advised him, "Your Majesty has just ascended to great power, and is delighted to have the empress crowned. I think you should pardon the prisoners to celebrate the emperor's grace."
"Your Majesty, your ulterior motive is not to drink! You want me to release Prince Yin, right?"
"Even if he made a thousand mistakes in the past, he is still your brother after all. You have stripped him of his title and imprisoned him for some time. He has received all the punishment he deserves. No matter how great the hatred is, it should be dissipated. Isn't it time to let him go?"
Yin Jingheng flatly refused, not giving Prince Xian the slightest bit of face: "Other prisoners can be pardoned, but not him. There are some grudges that I cannot resolve by just letting him suffer a little physical pain. Father, please do not mention this matter again in the future, otherwise it will only increase his sentence."
Since this was the case, Prince Xian did not dare to mention the release of Prince Yin again. He returned home dejectedly, just as the princess and Chunyu were discussing the issue of having a son. He looked at the two powerful people inside and felt more and more useless. The title of Emperor Retired was just a title. He did not even have the power to save his son. He was not even as good as the two women inside.
"My royal brother, are you deliberately not wanting to see me? Why did you come in to see me after you came back?" Princess Chaoyang complained in a coquettish tone.
She was about to give birth in a few days, and this time she came to the mansion to discuss with the Queen Mother what name to give the child. She asked Prince Xian to join in the discussion.
Prince Xian went back to his room to rest, saying that he was physically and mentally exhausted due to the complicated affairs of the court.
After he left, the princess asked Chunyu: "Is my royal brother still worried about Long'er?"
"Isn't it? He thought I didn't know that he secretly let Prince Yin go at the city gate? I just didn't want to expose him and let Your Majesty know and blame him. In my opinion! Prince Yin is a criminal. No matter whether the old emperor or the new emperor is on the throne, he will not be able to escape death. Your royal brother just likes to do useless things and add to the trouble!"
Princess Chaoyang sighed and pondered, "If I were also carrying twins, as a parent, I wouldn't have the heart to choose one and give up the other."
The princess' words were unintentional, but the listeners took them seriously. Chunyu felt that she was mocking her for having two sons without going through the hardship of ten months of pregnancy, and that she could not understand a mother's love for her own children. She was also implying that she was treating the emperor and Prince Yin unfairly.
So, she said sarcastically, "Princess, are you accusing me of being cruel and unworthy of being a mother? Since you can't bear to give up either of the twins, then you should go and ask His Majesty to plead for Prince Yin! I'm tired today. Come! Send him out!"
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