"ah--!"
A heart-wrenching scream echoed above the Cliff of No Return. A ragged girl curled up in a ball, her body covered in blood, every inch of her exposed skin scarred and stained her white clothes with blood.
"Luo, Luo Yishui, my Jun family has been so kind to you, how could you treat me like this?" Jun Liuyue looked at the woman with the sword in front of her in fear.
Luo Yishui was an adopted daughter of the Jun family. When she was a child, she saw Luo Yishui being bullied by a beggar and begged her grandfather to take her back to the mansion, where she became his personal maid. Later, with the help of the Jun family, Luo Yishui's talent was revealed, and she begged her grandfather to take her in as his adopted daughter.
"Hahaha." Luo Yishui seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world. "A debt of gratitude as heavy as a mountain? If I hadn't awakened the Phoenix Totem and become a Beast Soul Master that everyone envies, why would that old bastard Jun Tianlan have taken me into the Jun family? Wasn't it just to use me—to solidify the Jun family's position as the head of the four major families?"
"Jun Liuyue, why is it that despite all my efforts, I'm only an adopted daughter? I have to carefully ingratiate myself with everyone, while you? You rely on your dead father's military achievements to enter into a marriage agreement with the Crown Prince? Jun Liuyue!"
Luo Yishui suddenly bent down and grabbed Jun Liuyue by the neck. "If Heaven is so unjust, then I, Luo Yishui, will set things right today!"
"If I die, Grandpa won't... let you off the hook!"
"Hahaha! Just a piece of trash. Besides, your Jun family has long been despised by the royal family. Once I marry His Highness the Crown Prince, your Jun family... will be doomed, hahaha!!" Luo Yishui laughed wildly.
"No, it's impossible! Brother Yu couldn't be so heartless, it can't be!"
"Jun Liuyue, you're such a fool! If I hadn't invited you out in His Highness the Crown Prince's name, why would you have obediently come? Or rather, without His Highness the Crown Prince's consent, why would I have done anything to you?!"
"No, it can't be! I'm going to ask Brother Yu! You must be lying to me!" Jun Liuyue struggled to get up. She and Sikong Yu had grown up together since childhood, childhood sweethearts. He wouldn't treat her like this...
Before Jun Liuyue could get up, Luo Yishui kicked her to the ground, her dirty face being stomped into a mud puddle, the mud blurring her vision.
"Jun Liuyue, do you think you can go back today?" Luo Yishui sneered. "How naive! But don't worry, soon your dead grandfather and the entire Jun family will be coming to keep you company!"
"Yishui, her blood is too dirty, don't dirty your hands." A man emerged from the darkness.
He was dressed in black and had removed his cloak.
The mud blurred her vision, but Jun Liuyue still struggled to lift her head when she heard those words. When she saw who it was, she was shocked.
“Jun Chengfeng…” A member of the Jun family.
Orphaned and raised by her grandfather from a collateral branch of the family, but now… Jun Liuyue saw Jun Chengfeng take the dagger from Luo Yishui's hand and carefully wipe Luo Yishui's hands with a silk cloth, “Yishui, your hands are dirty.”
After wiping it clean, he turned to look at Jun Liuyue on the ground: "Miss, don't blame me. Blame yourself for being a good-for-nothing! Your existence is only a disgrace to the Jun family. But Yishui is different. Yishui has awakened a beast soul totem, and it is a fire phoenix that is a rare occurrence in a hundred years. With Yishui around, the Jun family will get better and better, while you... will only be a disgrace to the Jun family."
As long as you are alive, the patriarch will not allocate cultivation resources to Yishui.
"Young Miss, I'm only doing this for the good of the Jun family. Patriarch, you're too foolish! He's not suited to lead the Jun family."
"Pfft!" Jun Liuyue finally couldn't hold back her anger and spat out a mouthful of blood. "You ungrateful wretch, Jun Chengfeng! Grandpa has nurtured you for so many years, and you actually betrayed me... You really deserve to die!!"
Seeing Jun Liuyue in such a disheveled state, Jun Chengfeng's eyes showed a moment of emotion, but it quickly disappeared.
"You, you two despicable couple!!" Jun Liuyue wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth. "Even if I, Jun Liuyue, die, I will not die at your hands! You wait, even as a ghost, I will not let you go..."
With a strength she didn't know she had, Jun Liuyue struggled to her feet and leaped into the abyss behind her!
The wind howled from the edge of the cliff.
"Young Miss!" Upon seeing Jun Liuyue fall off the cliff, Jun Chengfeng's pupils contracted. Below this cliff was a forbidden area of the Wuwang Mountain Range, a place rife with chaos and miasma. Falling down there would surely mean certain death!
"Chengfeng, what if Grandpa finds out..." Luo Yishui pretended to be scared.
"Yishui, don't worry!" Jun Chengfeng looked at Luo Yishui with heartache. "I won't let this affect you. You don't know anything about it."
“But, Brother Chengfeng… I don’t want you to be implicated because of this.” Luo Yishui looked up at Jun Chengfeng.
Jun Chengfeng's heart stirred. "Yishui, you always think of others. But don't worry, I have a foolproof plan. I'll just say that the young lady secretly left the group and was injured by a high-level demon beast. I was also seriously injured while protecting the young lady. After I woke up from my coma, the young lady was gone."
"Chengfeng, you are so good. If I hadn't met His Highness the Crown Prince in this life, I would have chosen to marry you."
Luo Yishui leaned gently against Jun Chengfeng's chest and said softly.
——
Bang!
Pain! Excruciating pain spread throughout my body, as if every inch of my meridians had been shattered.
"They're still alive?"
The sharp pain made Jun Liuyue frown, but... not being dead was practically the same as being dead; she was barely clinging to life.
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