"Shut up!" Huo Jingsha shouted menacingly.
"Shut up, but wait until I finish! I'm going to let your wife know how ruthless you are. Look how innocent Xu Chang made you sound. Your nominal sister-in-law? Then why did you turn her into a human pig? And make her suffer in the backyard? And then you even turned your evil claws on your own son. I saw it all clearly from outside the door that day. You wanted to kill Xiaobao. If Chunlu hadn't stopped you, you would have killed him!"
Shu Yao collapsed to the ground, completely shocked and at a loss for how to react. He actually... actually thought of harming his own son.
She pressed him for answers several times, but he always evaded the question. It turned out that the root of his refusal to reveal the truth was something truly unbearable...
"Yao'er, listen to me..." Huo Jingsha's feared moment had finally arrived, and he knelt helplessly before her. "Yao'er... the reason I treated Luo Wenpei that way was firstly because she dared to poison you, and secondly because she had long been bribed by Prince Jing to become my spy. Even her madness might have been an act. I certainly wouldn't let someone like that off easily..."
"What about Xiaobao? What did the child do wrong? You keep saying you love him, but is that how you show your love by strangling him? He's so small and so cute, how could you bear to do such a thing?"
She thought Xiao Bao was safe with his biological father, but she never expected that he would almost die at his own father's hands. No matter what his purpose was, he shouldn't have had such thoughts. She would never forgive him for this!
Shu Yao looked at him with eyes full of hatred, her eyes brimming with tears. At this moment, she was unable to think or speak.
Huo Jingsha's voice was chilling. "Yao'er, I... I love you so much. That day you fainted at the door, and when I chased after you, I heard that Qi had taken you away. So I followed him, but... I saw you kissing him, and you two were holding each other so tightly. I was furious, insanely jealous. Then that damned old Taoist said that as long as I had no offspring, I could be with you again. I acted impulsively and did that to Xiaobao. It was really an impulsive act. I regretted it afterwards, and I returned Xiaobao to you the next day. Believe me, I love my son. I... I just want to be with you. Please don't leave me, please don't leave me with hatred..."
No wonder she was puzzled that morning, not understanding why he had suddenly changed his mind. It turned out he had considered using the child's life to save her. If Chunlu hadn't stopped him, would he have really killed Xiaobao? Knowing his ruthless methods, she was sure he would. Xiaobao... her son, is now just a pile of bones.
Thinking of this, Shu Yao suddenly felt a rush of blood to her mouth and nose, and it seemed as if a continuous stream of heat was flowing out of her seven orifices. She reached up and wiped her face, only to find that her hands were covered in blood!
"Yao'er... Yao'er...!" Seeing blood suddenly flowing from her seven orifices, Huo Jingsha was horrified and hurriedly pulled her into his arms. Yuefang, who was standing to the side, was also frightened by her terrifying appearance and dared not look directly at her, covering her mouth tightly with her hand.
Seeing that something was wrong, Xu Chang shouted, "I'm going to find a doctor!" and rushed out of the main courtyard.
Blood kept flowing from Shu Yao's eyes, ears, mouth, and nose. She tried to wipe it with a handkerchief, but she couldn't get it clean. Soon, a plain white handkerchief was stained bright red, which even frightened her.
"Yao'er, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, you'll be alright... I won't let anything happen to you..." Huo Jingsha's face drained of color, and he spoke words of comfort, but he looked more nervous and terrified than anyone else present. He frantically pressed his sleeve under her nose, trying to stop the bleeding, but both sleeves were soaked and stained red, and her blood still gushed out desperately.
"Don't waste your energy, wiping is pointless. Unless the bleeding stops, it's impossible to stop." The old Taoist priest of unknown origin appeared quietly at the door, followed by Xu Chang, whose face was pale. They must have met the old man halfway there.
"You're talking nonsense! It can definitely be stopped! It can definitely be stopped! Xu Chang, go to the storeroom and get the life-saving pill that the Emperor bestowed upon me, hurry!" Huo Jingsha was panicked, her voice almost broken.
"Yes," Xu Chang turned to run away again, but was stopped by the old Taoist's words...
"A life-saving pill? Heh... Even if a life-saving immortal came, it wouldn't be of any use!" The old Taoist waved his whisk. "I told you that you two should never see each other again, but you insisted on going your own way and touched her again without considering the consequences. Now she's definitely going to die." The old Taoist's tone was resolute!
Upon hearing this, Huo Jingsha immediately understood what was going on. Afterwards, he stopped panicking and quickly calmed down. "I can never truly sever all ties with Yao'er until death. Since our time has come… then I'll become a pair of doomed lovers with my wife. Either way, we're going to die, and her illness is incurable. This final time, we'll accompany each other and spend it lovingly, that's enough! Yao'er, I've said it before, if you die, I'll die with you, I will never live alone." He spoke with a magnanimous acceptance, his expression sorrowful yet resolute.
Shu Yao was startled. She turned her head to look at the old Taoist priest. Was he the one who had brought her back to life? He did indeed possess an otherworldly aura, unlike ordinary people. Although he did not want to implicate Huo Jingsha and die with her, his unwavering determination to live and die with her deeply moved her.
She could no longer doubt his love for her. Even if he had indeed taken Luo Wenpei as a concubine and used Yuefang to deceive her, she could not refute his feelings for her at this moment. She knew the cause and effect of those things. Everyone talked about her suffering, but who could understand and comprehend the suffering in his heart?
His love, like him, was straightforward, passionate, and domineering. How could she deny it? How could she hate him? He had made a mistake regarding Xiao Bao, but at the moment he contemplated killing his own son, she felt that the torment and suffering he endured was no less than anyone else's, not to mention the self-blame and fear he felt afterward. That must have been the greatest punishment for him.
“Young man, all your intelligence has been wasted. What tuberculosis? It’s just a common cold. You fool... you fool. Why didn’t you just see a few more doctors? And yet you touched her. Alas! You have once again caused the death of your own wife. It is destined that you two lovers cannot be together in this life. What a pity!” The old man shook his head and said.
"What did you say? Yao'er doesn't have tuberculosis?" Huo Jingsha felt as if she had fallen into an abyss, and rushed forward to grab the old Taoist's arm tightly to ask.
"You shouldn't ask me that. Only that assassin named Qi knows what's going on," the old man said gloatingly, brushing his hand away with his whisk.
He turned stiffly, looking at his wife, whose face was flushed and whose breath was weak, his whole body trembling uncontrollably. "You...you knew about this, didn't you? You all conspired to lie to me?"
Seeing him so distraught, as if the sky had fallen, Shu Yao was startled. "I'm sorry, I came here to find out the truth. Qi said he wanted to avenge me, but it's true that my cold is very serious. He just had the doctor who went to see me exaggerate the severity."
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