"Yuan Xingzhou, your Great Ye is truly full of romantics. Back then, General Yuwen rode alone for a thousand miles into the territory of Julu to save his wife. What a pity, what kind of end did he suffer in the end?"
At that moment, a mocking voice came from the Kingdom of Julu.
Upon hearing this, Zheng Quchi knew that he was referring to the matter of Yuwen Sheng's parents. Everyone used to say that General Yuwen and his wife had a deep and devoted relationship, but she saw something amiss in Yuwen Sheng and thought that this statement needed to be verified.
If he truly loved his wife as much as he did, why would he treat their only son that way?
Remembering what Wei Yao had once told her, when he first met Yuwen Sheng, he did not see the dignity that a general's eldest son should have. Instead, he seemed like a prisoner who had made a mistake and was confined in a cage, unable to communicate or know any outsiders, and even unable to speak.
Furthermore, his tendency to lose control and become bloodthirsty on the battlefield as he grew up further testifies that he was never treated well in his youth. He lost his mother's love and had no father to guide him.
"Are you people allowed to make unwarranted criticisms of the Yuwen family behind their backs?"
Yuan Xingzhou originally intended to break through the weak point of the encirclement with Zheng Quchi, but now he pulled Zheng Quchi back with one hand and slaughtered his way through. In an instant, a blood mist filled the air, and the enemy screamed and fell to the ground, until the person was decapitated.
"What? Does Your Highness still think the Yuwen family are loyal and patriotic people? Bah! They're nothing but a den of snakes and rats, like father, like son. Everyone knows that the Yuwen family's first wife eloped with someone, abandoning her husband and children—"
puff--
The longsword flew out, blood spurted from his throat, and he fell to the ground, his eyes wide open.
"Anyone who utters another word will suffer the same fate!" Yuan Xingzhou's cheeks were stained with the sickness of his illness, and in his eyes seemed to be a black flower, nourished by blood, teeming with slaughter and death, which eventually became a fallen flower.
Seeing that Yuan Xingzhou seemed very concerned about the Yuwen family's affairs, and had even thrown out his sword in an attempt to silence him, the rear generals deliberately sent people to stir up trouble and harass him.
However, few people know about this matter; only some veterans who had followed that general know a little about it.
He happened to be one of those who knew a little about the situation, and he used this matter to distract him, seizing the opportunity to kill him: "Yuan Xingzhou, do you know that your General Yuwen Sheng, whom everyone praises, is actually a bastard—"
"Shut up!"
He opened his eyes wide, feeling the light was blindingly bright, and the surrounding noise made his head throb with pain. Red and black, light and darkness, extreme splits tore at his mind. He held his head, his expression changing from ferocious to blank, and then to a smiling death mask... From then on, he was a murderous puppet.
When Zheng Quchi heard someone use such vicious words to curse Yuwen Sheng again, she was also extremely angry.
Why did the barbarians say this, and even the people of Julu Kingdom say the same thing? What is the truth?
Yuan Xingzhou made his move again, but this time even Zheng Quchi sensed something different. Endless crimson mist swirled around him. Before, he had been fighting and retreating, trying to find a suitable opportunity to escape, but now he didn't care at all. There was only one emotion in his eyes—kill.
The strong smell of blood, whether from someone else or from him, was nauseating. Crimson blood gathered into a stream at his feet, and the sticky, wet feeling made Zheng Quchi feel uneasy.
"Yuan Xingzhou, what's wrong?"
"Stop right now!"
"Are you crazy?"
No matter how Zheng Quchi called out to him, pulled him, or called to him, he acted as if he couldn't hear him, stubbornly insisting on killing that Julu army general.
Seeing that this method was effective, the general retreated continuously and gathered his men to resist Yuan Xingzhou.
"I almost forgot, back then, the late Queen of Ye and Lady Yuwen were close friends. She would often go to the palace to see the late Queen..."
Snap!
Yuwen Sheng gripped Zheng Quchi's hand tightly, feeling as if he had fallen into an ice cave. A low, eerie laugh escaped his throat, sending chills down one's spine.
The general was naturally terrified, but seeing so many Julu soldiers in front of him, he knew Yuwen Sheng had no chance of charging through. So he continued, "Among the seven kingdoms, who doesn't know that the First Lady of the Yuwen family is unfaithful and had an affair with another man, giving birth to this bastard Yuwen Sheng in July? Only your Ye Kingdom would venerate such an illegitimate child of such unclear origin as him as a war god..."
"Don't listen..."
The words were faint and low, seemingly not even trembling from his lips. If Zheng Quchi hadn't been watching him closely and hadn't closed his eyes, he would have almost missed hearing them.
Zheng Quchi could no longer hold back. He stood on tiptoe and covered his ears, while simultaneously opening his eyes.
She finally saw clearly how twisted and terrifying he looked at that moment.
Yuan Xingzhou's pupils constricted, his back, which had been poised to strike, suddenly tensed, his fingers clenched tightly, and his dark eyes contained a violent aura that seemed intent on destroying the world.
His icy hand touched her cheek, and Jiang pulled down her hands that were trying to hide their egos: "I told you... to close your eyes properly, why do you always disobey?"
Zheng Quchi shivered from the cold. The man's voice was terribly hoarse, and she wondered if he was trying to slide his hand down to her neck and snap her neck, which was so unruly and not very obedient.
"I'm not afraid. Although I'm a coward, I'm no longer afraid of dead people."
When she first arrived in this strange world and witnessed him kill someone, she did feel nauseous and vomited afterwards. But now, having come this far, she is no longer the person who couldn't bear to see a corpse.
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