Chapter 1883 Li Lai and Chu Ping
Chu Ping trembled slightly and said, "Then, she walked up to me and dug out my eyes."
Nan Yan gasped.
"What did you say?!"
Not only was she horrified, but even Zhu Feng beside her frowned and looked at Chu Ping. Ran Xiaoyu and Xue Ling who were standing nearby were even more shocked, and their faces changed drastically.
Chu Ping said: "She, she dug out my eyes."
“…”
"I was so scared that I started crying and begging her, but she—she didn't stop."
“…”
"After she dug out both of my eyeballs, I almost fainted from the pain. Then I heard her tell me that if it weren't for me, she would have married and lived a good life long ago. It was all me who got in her way. I was born to be a burden, a drag on this family. She also warned me that if I dared to get them back, it would be more than just gouging out a pair of eyes!"
“…”
"After saying that, she pushed me down the mountain. Then she left."
Nan Yan's whole body was covered in cold sweat.
She couldn't believe her ears.
Chu Xin, the pitiful woman in her eyes, who had her eyes gouged out by a heartless man on her wedding night and had lived a miserable life, actually - actually did something worse than an animal!
She actually dug out her own sister's eyes with her own hands!
It was because her family had misappropriated her dowry in order to pay for her younger sister's medical treatment, making it impossible for her to get married!
It's so abominable!
She almost couldn't help but pound the table, but Zhu Feng held her back.
Nan Yan turned around to look at him, only to see Zhu Feng's face was gloomy.
He was obviously angry too.
But he was calmer than Nan Yan, and was signaling to her not to get angry easily. After all, there was a fetus in her belly, and such emotional ups and downs were not good for the child.
Nan Yan could only grit her teeth and endure it.
Looking back, I saw Chu Ping. Two lines of tears slowly flowed from her completely lifeless eyes. After a while, she seemed to notice it herself and hurriedly reached out to wipe them away.
She looked numb as she cried.
I guess I've cried too much.
Nan Yan said softly, "So, what happened next?"
Chu Ping choked up and said, "I fainted from the pain. When I woke up, I didn't know what time it was. I didn't know where I was, I only knew that both of my eyes were gone."
“…”
"But I don't want to die, so I can only start wandering."
Nan Yan asked, "Didn't you go back?"
Chu Ping said, "I couldn't find my way back, and I didn't dare to go back. I felt guilty for delaying my sister's marriage, so I started begging on the streets. People saw that I had lost both eyes, so they took pity on me and gave me something to eat."
“…”
"I survived by begging on the streets. I wandered for a few years, and then I met... him."
Nan Yan said: "Him? You are talking about——"
Before she could finish her words, a young guard suddenly ran in from outside.
He walked to the door and kowtowed to Zhu Feng and Nan Yan: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty."
Zhu Feng asked, "What's the matter?"
The man said, "Li Lai has returned to the Duwei Mansion."
Zhu Feng raised his eyebrows slightly, and Nan Yan immediately looked at him.
This Li Lai, or Jiang Qu, probably also has a name in this story that they have never heard of.
As expected, when Chu Ping heard the name "Li Lai", she immediately became excited. She turned around hastily and frantically reached out her hands to feel around. "He, he's back. I was waiting for him. Where is he?"
Before he could finish his words, several guards came over with a familiar figure.
From a distance, Li Lai's voice was heard: "Chu Ping! Are you here?"
His voice had never been so flustered and anxious, as if he was afraid that if he was a little late, the people he cared about would be gone forever.
When his guards heard him shouting, they immediately shouted, "Shut up! You have no right to yell! The Emperor and the Imperial Concubine are right here. If you startled them, you'll have no brains left!"
At this time, Zhu Feng said: "Bring the person in."
The guard hurried out to pass on the message. After a while, several guards came in with Li Lai. When Li Lai came in, he saw Zhu Feng and Nan Yan sitting there, and his face suddenly turned pale.
He came back and walked into a trap, and he probably guessed that the emperor would not let him off easily.
However, the next moment, he saw the figure next to him that he had been longing for day and night.
"Chu Ping!"
He was eager to break free from the shackles and run over, but the guards wouldn't let him struggle and held him tightly. As soon as Chu Ping heard his voice, she hurriedly groped her way towards Li Lai: "Li Lai! Li Lai! You're back? Are you okay?"
After stumbling and falling, the two people finally got together.
Li Lai's hands were still handcuffed behind his back, but he raised his head and said to Chu Ping with concern: "I'm fine. How about you? Did they hurt you?"
"I don't."
"That's good, that's good."
Having said that, he actually felt relieved.
It seemed as if he came back just to find Chu Ping and make sure she was safe, so he would have nothing to worry about.
Seeing this scene, Xue Ling, who was standing aside, could hardly believe his eyes.
She and Li Lai have known each other for quite some time. It all started in the Hot Moon Bay when the two of them discussed how to lure the people from Shazhou Guard into the game. Afterwards, they were rescued by Ye Zheng and entered the Duwei Mansion together. During this time together, she had never seen Li Lai show such concern towards anyone.
Even when he deceived Chu Xin like that, it was not the case.
Comparing the way he faced Chu Xin now, there is a world of difference between now and then.
It turns out that genuinely caring for someone is so urgent and meticulous, even to the point of disregarding one's own life.
Nan Yan frowned slightly.
She said coldly: "You guys, you can calm down first."
Hearing her voice, Li Lai turned around suddenly.
Looking at Zhu Feng and Nan Yan again, he looked a little panicked. Under the escort of the guards, he slowly knelt down and said, "This villain... deserves to die."
Zhu Feng narrowed his eyes slightly: "You deserve to die."
“…”
"You think that by pretending to be rescued by Ye Zheng and brought back to the Duwei Mansion, and then pretending to give me a map of the route so that they can enter without being discovered the first time, you can make me completely trust you and fall into your trap?"
Li Lai knelt on the ground, trembling.
This time, Chu Ping also knelt down.
She kowtowed to them repeatedly: "Your Majesty, please spare my life, Your Majesty, please spare my life. He did this for me and for me. Please forgive him."
"for you?"
Nan Yan looked at the two of them, then recalled what Chu Ping had just said, and asked, "You said that after wandering for a few years, the person you met was him?"
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