The carriage soon arrived at the city gate.

Ning Xihua heard the routine interrogation of soldiers at the city gate while in the car.

"Is there anyone else in the car?"

"Sir, the one in this car is my purchased daughter-in-law. She has a serious disease and the doctor said she cannot be cured, so we are planning to take her to a mass grave outside the city..."

The soldiers were obviously used to this kind of situation and were too lazy to conduct a thorough inspection. They asked a few quick questions and prepared to let them go.

Seeing that the carriage was about to leave the city gate, Ning Xihua was so anxious that he gathered all his strength and rammed the wall of the carriage, but because his strength was too small, only a slight collision sound was made.

The soldier looked back, but before he could say anything, one of the big men smiled and said, "This woman is twitching when she's sick. Maybe she knocked over a box. Would you like to take a look, sir?"

The inspecting soldier looked disgusted and waved his hand to signal them to leave quickly.

The two men nodded and agreed, then drove the carriage quickly out of the city gate.

Ning Xihua felt somewhat hopeless when she saw the carriage being allowed to pass.

She knew all too well what she might face once they reached the wilderness.

She thought she still had a chance to escape, but she didn't expect the effect of the drug to be so strong. She could only move her body with difficulty.

Amid Ning Xihua's anxiety and panic, the carriage sped along and soon stopped in the dense forest outside the city.

A big man opened the curtain and entered the carriage. Another voice came from outside: "Hurry up, I'm waiting!"

The big man said jokingly, "Got it! Be careful, this girl has delicate skin and tender flesh. Let me check her out for you first!"

Ning Xihua originally wanted to negotiate with them to buy time, but she found that after opening her mouth several times, she could only make a slight sound.

"Okay, don't waste your energy. This numbing powder can easily make a few strong horses strong, let alone a weak and fragile young lady like you."

The big man had a look of pity on his face and had already started to pull off Ning Xihua's outer robe.

“Even though I can’t hear you screaming, it feels different to be powerless like you. I just don’t know what you’ll feel like when you start crying, hahahaha…”

Ning Xihua began to tremble uncontrollably from the moment the big man touched her clothes.

The fear from the bottom of her heart was infinitely magnified, and hatred filled her heart as she watched helplessly. The physical disgust and nausea made it impossible for her to control her body.

This disgust reached its peak when the big man pulled open the collar of her shirt and lowered his head to her neck.

Ning Xihua's hand, which had been placed under her body without moving, stabbed him fiercely in the neck.

She took great pains to remove the hidden hairpin while the carriage was moving, and instantly stabbed it into the big man's neck, causing blood to gushed out.

The man immediately covered his neck with his hands and screamed like a slaughtered pig.

Ning Xihua didn't care whether the man outside the car would come up and kill her after hearing the noise. She just exerted the greatest strength of her life and moved her other hand to the hairpin. She tightly grasped the hairpin that had already penetrated her skin with both hands and stabbed it deeper with all her strength again.

At that moment, she could not hear what was happening outside the carriage, nor could she see the blood splashing all over her hands and face.

There was only one thought in her mind, deeper, deeper, to pierce his throat!

The big man was in great pain. He kicked her away and ran out of the car, trying to ask for help from his brothers outside the car.

Unexpectedly, Ning Xihua found the strength from somewhere and even after being kicked, she still held the hairpin tightly and refused to let go.

The big man could only half-drag Ning Xihua and staggered out of the car.

Just as he stepped out of the car, he was kicked to the ground by a dark shadow before he could see clearly, and then someone grabbed his hands and pinned him to the ground.

Ning Xihua lost her grip due to exhaustion and fell onto the wheel of the car.

A heavy cloak fell on her body, covering her torn and tattered clothes.

Someone gently picked her up and fed a pill into her mouth.

Ning Xihua raised her eyes and looked at Su Bi, who was covered in dust, with a dull look.

"It's all right."

He gently held her hand, pried open her tightly clenched fingers, and revealed the bloody palm that had been rubbed by the hairpin.

Su Bi's words "It's okay" seemed to call back her long-lost soul.

She was still looking at him in a daze, and only then did she smile as if she finally saw who he was.

"You're here."

Her face was still pale, but she still smiled at him.

It seemed as if she had always believed in him and believed that he would come to save her.

However, Su Bi's heart was deeply tugged by this smile, and self-blame, guilt and heartache all flooded her mind.

"Let's go home."

As he said this, he prepared to take her away.

"etc."

Ning Xihua realized that she could speak and interrupted Su Bi.

She seemed to have recovered from the kidnapping and asked him calmly, "Can you lend me your sword?"

Su Bi looked into her calm eyes that showed no trace of tears, but her expression became even more gloomy.

There were some things he couldn't interfere with, let alone things she wanted to do herself.

So he drew his sword and held it out to her by the hilt.

"Go ahead, don't be afraid."

Ning Xihua smiled, took the sword and walked forward.

Perhaps because of the pill Su Bi fed her, she had recovered most of her strength. But the sword was still too heavy for her, so she could only drag the sword on the ground with both hands and walk slowly forward.

Su Bi looked at Ning Xihua's back, her eyes full of worry.

She was wrapped in a floor-length cape, a small, frail figure, but she dragged a sword with great effort. The tip of the sword made a harsh sound on the ground, but she ignored it. She walked a little unsteadily, but every step was firm.

Ning Xihua walked up to the big man who was still being held on the ground by Huaichuan and stopped.

"Princess."

Huaichuan lowered his head to her with a guilty look on his face.

She didn't care. She only saw that the other person who was taking a break outside the car had been beheaded, but she strangely didn't feel nauseous or vomit.

The man being held had her hairpin stuck in his neck, and blood was all over the floor.

She thought, what a pity it wasn’t pierced.

Seeing her coming with a sword in hand, and hearing the guards who were escorting him calling her "Princess", the big man was so frightened that he could not care less about his bleeding neck and spoke incoherently.

"Princess...Princess, please spare my life! I was bribed and thought you were just an ordinary lady from an official family. I didn't know your identity... If I knew, I would never dare to do that, Princess!"

So noisy.

Ning Xihua frowned impatiently and raised the sword with both hands.

She raised the sword above her head, looked at the man's terrified face with tears streaming down his face, and paused.

Then, with all his strength, he thrust the tip of the sword firmly and decisively into his throat.

After a puff, the begging for mercy became silent.

Only boiling blood splashed all over her body.

Cool water droplets fell on her eyelashes, and Ning Xihua looked up at the sky in a trance.

“It’s snowing.”

Su Bi supported Ning Xihua's already somewhat paralyzed body and reached out to help her loosen her hands that were still tightly holding the hilt of the sword.

"Yeah, it's snowing again."

Fine snow fell all over her body and also covered the corpse on the ground.

Ning Xihua stretched out her blood-stained hand and caught the falling snowflakes.

She turned around and looked at Su Bi, speaking apologetically.

"I'm sorry for soiling your sword and cape."

Su Bi reached out her hand and gently wiped the blood off her face, her eyes gentle and calm.

"It doesn't matter. Their existence is to be of use to you."

Ning Xihua looked at Su Bi, who was always calm, and smiled again.

"Thank you."

After saying this, he fainted from exhaustion.

Su Bi caught her frail body and gently held her up.

"Go to sleep. When you wake up, the nightmare will be gone."