Hearing this strange question, Zhou Cheng paused for half a second: "I've always been here."
“But I remember you can’t come back. They told me you were dead, murdered by extremely cruel means. I didn’t believe it. I searched everywhere for you, turning the whole Central Plains upside down, but I couldn’t find you.”
"I've forgotten what happened in the end, it's been too long."
"I only remember that a long time later, I found a little clue, and then I dug with my hands for a day and a night in one place, and finally dug out half a bone."
"I desperately want to avenge you, but I don't even know who's behind it all. Even if I use all my resources to find those perpetrators, they're just scapegoats..."
“Cheng, tell me, who exactly harmed you back then?”
"Please don't go."
"I'm afraid, afraid that all of this is a dream, and that when I wake up, you'll be gone..."
Cheng Xianyi gripped Zhou Cheng's sleeve tightly, as if her memory was playing tricks on her, muttering incoherent nonsense in her sleep.
What died?
Brutal murder?
Half a bone?
Zhou Cheng frowned as he listened to these strange messages. He was clearly still alive and well, so how could he have suddenly died with only half a bone left?
Is Xianyi so frightened that he's talking nonsense?
Zhou Cheng patted Cheng Xianyi's back with some concern, and at the same time turned his head to look at the corpse in the wooden box again. Those unseeing eyes pierced Zhou Cheng's pupils!
Is it just my imagination?
Zhou Cheng felt a slight throbbing pain in his arm bones, which made him feel very uncomfortable, but he couldn't quite put his finger on where it hurt.
"Okay, okay, I won't leave." Zhou Cheng suppressed the strange discomfort in his heart, touched Cheng Xianyi's hair, and said softly, "This scene is too cruel. It's normal for you to be scared since it's your first time seeing it."
"It's okay, don't think about it, it'll be fine after a while."
Cheng Xianyi buried her head in Zhou Cheng's chest.
Thump thump thump........
It seemed that only by listening to his heartbeat could she prove that everything from years ago was over, and that her current life was not a dream, but that the person she had been waiting for for so many years had finally returned to her side.
"Young Master!!"
"A girl named Acai had a piece of paper in her mouth."
"It says... that the Black Dragon is in their hands, and that you should prepare one hundred deadly weapons and arrive at the Cheng Gui Ge branch at the border at 9 PM tonight to exchange them."
"If the time limit is exceeded and the killing weapon is not found, the Black Dragon's corpse will be delivered to the inn tomorrow!"
"Location: No. 13, the second alleyway on East Street. The head of Chenggui Pavilion is also there."
The black rat inadvertently noticed that A-Cai's mouth was slightly open.
Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that a piece of paper was stuffed in her mouth.
Every word in the letter exuded arrogance and conceit, making Black Rat furious and Zhou Shiying's brow twitch with rage, wishing he could draw his sword and avenge A Cai.
Zhou Shiying, choking back tears, reached out and closed A Cai's wide-open eyes.
She took a deep breath and, her chest filled with rage, uttered, "Cheng Gui Ge! I have no grudge against you, and the Zhou family has never provoked you. Why did you use such cruel methods to kill A Cai!"
"Back in Wangcheng, I thought you were reasonable people, but I never expected... that you would stop at nothing for a weapon!"
“A-Cai........."
"I promised to go back and save you, but I never expected that you would die before I returned. Don't worry, I won't let you die in vain. I will avenge you and kill that master of Cheng Gui Pavilion!"
A tear rolled down her cheek.
Zhou Shiying immediately raised her finger and wiped away the tear stains with her fingertip. Her face was ashen as she rushed back to her room, drew her long sword, and charged towards East Street.
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