Chapter 144 You Don’t Deserve It! (Update 1)
In the City Lord's Mansion, Shen Zongji killed the guards and servants who failed to guard Furong Garden properly. He lay on the ground covered in blood and laughed crazily.
He laughed and muttered, "Pei Xingju! You are actually Pei Xingju!"
After a while, he slowly stopped, as if extremely tired, and closed his eyes.
Suddenly, a faint fragrance wafted from the air filled with blood and burnt objects.
The fragrance was getting closer and closer, and then it stopped right in front of me.
"Are you here to laugh at me?" Shen Zongji didn't even open his eyes.
Liu Ningyan was silent, but the corners of her eyes and eyebrows revealed a kind of pleasure of venting.
"You killed so many people, did you feel good?" she asked.
Shen Zongji curled his lips: "It feels so good!"
"I feel happy too." Liu Ningyan said.
Hearing this, Shen Zongji opened his eyes and saw her slowly smiling: "You killed the wrong person. The one you should have killed the most is me."
Seeing Shen Zongji's puzzled expression, Liu Ningyan continued, "I was the one who set the fire in Furong Garden."
She laughed heartily. "I've long wanted to burn down this place of yours, to burn away the shame you caused me by imprisoning me here."
Shen Zongji's eyes were sinister: "Did you bring Pei Xingju in too?"
Liu Ningyan shook her head: "I didn't bring him in, I just helped cover for him."
"You already knew his identity?"
"No," Liu Ningyan said, "Thank you very much for letting me know tonight that he is Pei Xingju. So, I am really happy."
Shen Zongji sneered repeatedly: "What a treacherous bitch! If I hadn't protected you all these years, you would have died long ago. But now you team up with outsiders to deal with me!"
Liu Ningyan suddenly pulled out a dagger from her sleeve and pressed it against his chest.
She raised her chin, her eyes filled with ruthlessness and anger: "You're protecting me? Haha... What a funny joke!"
"In order to curry favor with that person, you conspired with others to frame my Liu family, causing our Liu family to be destroyed. What? Do I still have to thank you?"
Shen Zongji felt the cold blade against his chest, but he was not panicked at all. Instead, he closed his eyes calmly.
"Even without me, your Liu family would still have suffered this disaster. If anyone is to blame, blame your father for his stubborn temper. If he had known better, he wouldn't have been able to save the Liu family. I'm helping you. Look, without me, your Liu family would have nothing left."
The Liu family was a wealthy local family in Yuzhuang, with branches all over the country. However, as the saying goes, "big trees attract winds," the Liu family soon became a target.
Six years ago, someone approached Master Liu and asked him to build ancestral temples across the country in the name of the Empress Dowager Ciguang. While it would have been fine if they were just for the Empress Dowager, Master Liu learned that these temples would be dedicated to the common people, and that he would receive a 30% share of the annual incense money. How could he agree to such a utterly unscrupulous act? His ancestors, three generations of honest businessmen, would never seize the hard-earned money of the people. He immediately refused.
Unexpectedly, this rejection became the root of disaster for the Liu family.
At this moment, Liu Ningyan's hands were shaking, and hatred filled her. She used some force with the dagger. The sharp blade pierced into the flesh, and blood gushed out.
"Believe it or not, I will kill you right now! Make all your life plans come to nothing!"
"Letter." Shen Zongji spread his hands: "Come on, kill me if you want!"
Liu Ningyan hesitated for a moment, about to take action, but then heard him ask: "Ningyan, before I die, I want to ask you..."
Shen Zongji frowned and recalled, then asked, "When your father wanted to marry you to me, why did you refuse?"
Liu Ningyan was stunned.
Shen Zongji, an orphan, was taken in by his father at the age of six. Since the Liu family had no male heirs, his father initially intended to raise him as an adopted son. However, Shen Zongji later displayed remarkable intelligence and talent, handling both business and officialdom with ease, resolving many of his father's problems.
Gradually, his father came to rely on him, value him, and wanted him to inherit the family line. So he proposed that Shen Zongji be his son-in-law and marry his daughter to him.
At that time, her father had asked Liu Ningyan, and she refused without hesitation. The reason was simple: she and Shen Zongji grew up together, her father regarded him as his adopted son, and she also regarded Shen Zongji as her brother. She had no romantic feelings for him, so she refused without hesitation.
But not long after she refused, the Liu family suffered a disaster. Afterward, Liu Ningyan was hidden in a brothel by Shen Zongji and taken as his own. During the time when Liu Ningyan resisted, he imprisoned her in Furong Garden and subjected her to constant humiliation.
Now, he actually has the nerve to say that he is good to her.
"Haha...hahaha..." Liu Ningyan suddenly became crazy.
"You want to know the answer..." She slowly stopped, her eyes full of contempt and disdain: "How can you, a useless person like you, be worthy of my love?"
After he finished speaking, Shen Zongji's throat moved and he made a hissing sound. For a moment, he couldn't tell whether it was heartache or chest pain.
He suddenly gasped for breath and spoke intermittently, "Do you like Pei Xingju... Haha - but he left you behind... Even though you helped him so much, he still doesn't like you."
"Don't forget your identity," he laughed cruelly and happily: "You are just a bitch! You can only..."
He spoke slowly and clearly, "Not worthy of a useless person like me."
Liu Ningyan burst into tears, her tears trembling, and the strength in her hands suddenly increased.
At this moment, Shen Zongji grabbed her wrist with his backhand and pulled out the dagger.
He glanced at the blood flowing from his chest, his eyes filled with arrogance: "Want to kill me? You're not capable enough! In this life, we are destined to be tied together until death."
At this time, Commander Yu came over and was shocked to see him lying on the ground bleeding profusely.
"City Lord," he reported, "Prince Liang has returned and wants to see you."
After hesitating for a moment, he continued, "Prince Liang also said that we should bring Miss Ningyan with us."
Upon hearing this, Shen Zongji's face changed drastically.
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The City Lord's Mansion was almost reduced to ashes. Except for the Zhaiyue Pavilion which was still intact, the rest of the place was almost only in ruins.
In the courtyard beneath the Zhaiyue Pavilion, the night wind rustled, sweeping up fallen leaves from the ground into the air. In the center of the empty courtyard stood a bench, on which Liang Jinxian sat.
His long hair was disheveled by the wind. At this moment, I lowered my head slightly to admire his long, bony fingers.
These hands, which should have been as white as jade, were marked with sword marks.
The marks are not deep, but ugly enough.
Hearing footsteps, he slowly wiped the blood off his head.
"Coming?"
Shen Zongji rolled off his wheelchair and frantically prostrated himself on the ground. Finally, he glared at Liu Ningyan and said in a low voice, "You've met your master, why don't you kneel down now?"
Liu Ningyan stared at the young man in front of her. His face was not from the Central Plains. His light-colored eyes were charming and handsome, and his thin lips were slightly raised. He looked like a noble and elegant young man from a wealthy family.
However, only she knew that the man in front of her was her enemy.
Because just now, Commander Yu called him Prince Liang.
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