Chapter 197 The Battlefield of Two Women

Outside Chengtian Gate, killing broke out and blood flowed like a river.

Gu Ci walked in a pool of blood with an expressionless face, holding a long gun in his hand, and his clothes and face were stained with blood.

Prince Jing's rebel army is elite, but the troops he leads are all brave soldiers who have survived many battles and are unmatched in their ability to fight. When they fight the enemy, every sword they strike is fierce and ruthless.

Gu Ci once again showed his extraordinary strength. Just like when fighting against Fang Zan, he was completely a killing party, a crushing existence.

The Crown Prince had the upper hand over propriety, law, and morality, and he also had overwhelming strength. In just one hour, Prince Jing's side was in a losing position.

Another hour later, all the rebellions in the palace were quelled.

Xiao Xun was captured, and the farce-like abdication ended early.

Xiao Heng didn't care about anything else and asked first, "Where is my father?"

Xiao Xun sneered several times, "Wasn't he killed by you, the Crown Prince?"

Xiao Heng did not want to get involved with him, so he ordered a thorough search of the palace.

He also ordered people to bury the bodies of the two loyal old ministers and arrange many matters.

Look around.

Xiao Xun forced the emperor to abdicate and detained all the ministers in the court here, but when he looked around, the only thing missing was that familiar figure.

He didn't know that Pei Jian had been imprisoned.

At that time, he was in the northern border and received a secret letter from Pei Jian, saying that the Crown Prince was in danger and that Prince Jing was rebelling, and ordered him to lead troops to travel thousands of miles to defend the king.

However, what he said happened two months later.

Gu Ci was a general in command of an army of 300,000 and an important general guarding the border. He was not allowed to return to the capital without an imperial edict.

But Pei Jian actually wanted him to lead his troops back to the capital secretly!

The general led his troops back to Beijing——

This is a big taboo for the emperor.

If what Pei Jian said was untrue, or if he misjudged the current situation, the entire Zhenguo Mansion would be doomed if he was not careful.

His father and brother both advised him to think twice.

Gu Ci naturally knew what it meant to lead the troops back to Beijing and what consequences it would bring to the family.

But he also knew Pei Jian's character.

They grew up together since childhood.

Pei Shizhang is his best friend.

Even after Nian Xi, in his heart, Shi Zhang was still the wise and steady brother he trusted the most.

No matter when, no matter what.

As long as it was him, Gu Ci never doubted it.

But after experiencing the war, Gu Ci was no longer the carefree young man in the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion. He had responsibilities on his shoulders that did not allow him to be willful.

So he carefully selected two thousand soldiers from the camp, all of whom were his comrades-in-arms who had been through thick and thin with him.

He rescued the prince in time and put down Prince Jing's rebellion.

It was exactly as Pei Jian had expected.

Gu Ci saw no one, so he walked out of the hall with his gun in hand.

But he met Pei Jian who was walking hurriedly with a serious expression.

…

When Nianxi woke up, she was on a high platform.

Xu Wanxin was standing beside her.

The night wind was so strong that it made her dress rustle violently.

The swaying shadows of the trees during the day now appeared dark and ghostly under the moonlight. Faintly, the flickering figures of guards holding torches could be seen below.

"Awake?"

Xu Wanxin's sweet voice rang in my ears.

During the day, Nian Xi was hiding among a group of palace maids waiting for the war to subside. Xu Wanxin appeared in front of her quietly and threw a handful of smoke over her. When she woke up again, she was already there.

This is also a war.

Belonging to two women, a battlefield without gunpowder.

They looked at each other.

Without waiting for Nianxi to speak, Xu Wanxin spoke first, "I have been thinking about this day for a long time. But you are lucky to have lived to this day. Tell me, when I push you off this platform later, will you still be as charming as you are now? Or will I scratch your face so that you can never seduce a man again in your life?"

Nian Xi frowned slightly, staring at her crazy look, and said, "If it's a choice between the two, you'd better scratch my face."

At least I'm still alive.

Xu Wanxin chuckled when she heard this, "Don't you rely on this pretty face to attract men? Without your face, you will have no men either."

Nian Xi stared at Xu Wanxin's flying hair, "You are also very beautiful."

Xu Wanxin's pale face was filled with anger, but her voice was as gentle as usual, with a kind of charming and sinister tone in the dark night, "You are mocking me."

"You like Pei Jian, but Pei Jian doesn't like you." Nian Xi asked the question that had been bothering her, "What does this have to do with me? Why do you hate me so much?"

At least in this life, she did not become Pei Jian's wife, and did not snatch away Xu Wanxin's cousin.

Xu Wanxin wanted to force a sarcastic smile, but she couldn't move the corners of her lips no matter what.

Why?

Doesn't she want to hate?

The dilemma of love and hate, can't love, can't let go.

When she hated him the most, she subconsciously wanted to rescue him when she heard that he was injured and captured.

Xu Wanxin only felt that her heart was chilled by the night wind, without any warmth at all.

"Don't talk to me like a winner."

"If I were to tell you that I was jealous of you before, you would think it's fake, right?" Nian Xi said, "Xu Wanxin, I've experienced being unable to get the love I want for a very long time."

"I understand better than anyone the burning feeling of someone you love having someone else in their heart. Letting go is harder than forcing yourself. Stubbornly insisting, painfully wanting to win, over and over again, only torturing yourself."

“But what did you get in the end?”

Nian Xi raised her head. In the night, Xu Wanxin was standing in the shadows. She couldn't see her face clearly, but she knew that these words hurt her.

No matter how cruel a woman is, she always has a soft heart.

Love has many different expressions.

Nian Xi's former decadence and Xu Wanxin's current stubbornness and extremism, all of them are just for the sake of a true heart.

"But for the sake of someone else's heart, I even lose myself. Is it worth it? A man's love is not everything in life. Even if you scratch my face today and the person who loves me hates me because of it, I will be sad, but I will not be depressed or extreme."

"I am still me, and life is still life."

Nian Xi didn't want to provoke Xu Wanxin, she just wanted her to understand that sometimes giving up requires more courage than persisting.

If Xu Wanxin still had a bit of rationality, whether it was for winning or losing, or for a man who didn't care about her...it wouldn't be worth it.

Xu Wanxin hid in the dark, her eyes were red from holding back her smile, and she wanted to laugh but couldn't.

Nianxi's words were like steel needles, piercing her heart accurately. The calmer and gentler Wen Nianxi was, the more furious she became.

Xu Wanxin suddenly burst into laughter.

In the darkness of night, it has a creepy feel.

Life.

Does she still have a life?

Xu Wanxin's life had long been ruined by her own hands.

"You said, your cousin loves you so much."

Xu Wanxin suddenly smiled sweetly and leaned out from the shadows, her eyes full of inquiring interest, "When I push you down later, will he risk his life to save you and jump down with you?"