Chapter 39: A Mayfly Dream, In the End
This method was proposed by Lin Qingyue.
She told Yuanniang: "Only when you are no longer of any use to him can you see a man's true face."
As a result, Yuanniang saw such an ugly face.
"It's so ugly, so ugly!" she murmured softly.
Despite the immense heartache, she finally sobered up from that false love: "The demon pill I gave you was fake, and fortunately it was fake."
"Dongfang Yan, stop her for me!" After giving the order, Ah Heng ran away.
Dongfang Yan immediately pointed his sword at Yuanniang, and the other guards in the manor also rushed forward.
Yuanniang just watched all this coldly. When Ah Heng was about to run out, she raised her hand and summoned something, and a golden thread-like thing flew out of Ah Heng's body.
The golden thread flashed and sank into Yuanniang's body.
The originally old and hunchbacked woman instantly turned back into her beautiful young appearance - her original appearance.
Having lost the life-extending thread, Ah Heng could no longer control Dongfang Yan and his guards, and he himself began to age rapidly, stumbling and falling to the ground.
Yuanniang looked at him coldly: "Since I gave you the life-extending thread, I can naturally take it back."
When Ah Heng looked down at his withered hands, he finally felt scared.
He used all his hands and feet to frantically crawl to Yuanniang's feet and begged, "My lady, I beg you not to destroy me! I have finally come this far, and will soon achieve great things. Even the one in the palace is already my pawn. I can't let this go!"
"Or...or when I become emperor, I will make you my queen. I will never leave you, nor will I look for another woman. Really, I swear!"
Yuanniang looked at him with pity. "Do you really think you can become emperor? If this country can be easily taken over by a monster, how can you and I have a chance? I told you long ago that only a simple life can bring peace and security! Don't be so delusional. I have already promised Princess Jin that I will help her get rid of the parasite of the mayfly silk."
Ah Heng collapsed on the ground, finally realizing that Yuanniang would not help him achieve his great ambitions. Everything he thought was within his reach ended up being a delusion!
His body was aging more and more seriously, and when even breathing became difficult, death would come as expected.
It was not until then that he realized that if he lost his life, he would have nothing left.
"My dear, I know I was wrong. Please forgive me this time and save me with the life-extending thread. I... I don't want to grow old... I don't want to die..."
He struggled to crawl over and tugged at Yuanniang's skirt. "My lady, didn't you tell me that you owed me a favor in your last life? So... so you should pay it back, pay it back to me..."
In the previous life... that little boy whose lifespan was sucked away by Yuan Niang and who never had time to grow up...
Yuanniang lowered her eyes, feeling infinitely sad: "I have already paid back what I owed you in my last life."
"No...my wife, I don't want to die..."
The man who didn't want to die finally died. The emaciated man lay on the ground and breathed his last.
Yuanniang walked away without even looking at him again.
It turns out that this is what it feels like when a person's heart is dead. Everything becomes empty, there is nothing to be nostalgic for, and nothing to be taken away.
Night, suburbs.
The girl in the aqua dress stood quietly in the moonlight.
She vaguely recalled eighty years ago, on their wedding night, when she had asked him, "Is your only wish to marry me?"
That night, the red light in the room enveloped the young man's face, making him look particularly handsome and gentle.
The boy's ink-black eyes were filled with her image.
He said, "My wish is to live a life of selling wine with Yuanniang, for the rest of my life."
She laughed: "Isn't it boring to sell wine all day long?"
He said seriously, "As long as I'm with Yuanniang, even the most ordinary life won't be boring."
She placed her hand on his head and solemnly agreed: "Okay, I promise you!"
She agreed, and as he wished, she accompanied him in selling wine for eighty years, never leaving him.
Unfortunately, he forgot everything.
——If life could always be like our first meeting, why would the autumn wind paint the fan with sorrow?
There was a sound of dead leaves being crushed behind her. Without turning around, she already knew the identity of the person who came.
"I lost," she said with a self-deprecating smile. "I gambled my life, but lost miserably. Princess Jin, I am at your disposal."
This was the agreement between the two before.
If Ah Heng is willing to let go, Lin Qingyue will let them go.
Otherwise, Yuanniang will leave it to Lin Qingyue to deal with.
"If it were me, I would definitely run away first after losing. You are very trustworthy." Lin Qingyue teased.
"Run?" Yuanniang stared blankly at the moonlight in the sky. She felt that the moonlight tonight was so cold that it made her heart chill. "Where can I run to? The world is big, but I have no home..."
She turned her eyes and asked Lin Qingyue: "Are you here to kill me?"
Lin Qingyue said, "Although you are not the culprit, you are the root of the trouble. Therefore, I must take you back to the Xuanjing Division for trial. Considering that you have no evil intentions and that you have sacrificed your relatives for the sake of justice, I can protect your life."
Yuanniang shook her head: "What's the difference between going to jail and dying?"
Lin Qingyue said, "But who can guarantee that you won't encounter a similar situation again? After all, as long as you exist, the Mayfly Silk will continue to reproduce. The Xuanjing Division dares not take any risks."
"I have a way to reassure you."
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Zhuque Lake is located seventy miles outside the capital, with beautiful scenery and surrounded by mountains.
At this moment, the first ray of sunlight in the morning falls, casting a layer of shimmering golden light on the lake, quiet and beautiful.
Suddenly a small flying insect flew out from the bottom of the water, breaking the tranquility of the lake.
The flying insects were flying unsteadily at first, but soon they were able to skillfully control their wings and fly in the air with graceful movements like dancing.
That is the mayfly, an elf that lives and dies every day but still strives to survive.
Soon, mayflies flew out from the bottom of the water one after another, forming groups and making a huge noise under the golden morning sun.
Once the mayfly takes flight, it immediately searches for a mate to complete its lifespan, unwilling to waste even a moment.
Among them, there was only one mayfly, flapping its golden wings, flying and flying, flying to the highest point possible, trying to take in the scenery of the world, just as it did at the beginning.
It flew gracefully around Zhuque Lake, and after spun a few times above Lin Qingyue's head, it flapped its wings and disappeared into the distance.
Lin Qingyue also came to Zhuque Lake with Xiaohua, Xie Shouzheng, and Dongfang Yan, who had not yet recovered from the planktonic silk parasite.
Xie Shouzheng asked, "That mayfly just now, was it Yuanniang? How come she has transformed back again, and there is no demonic aura on her anymore?"
"Because she gave me the demon pill." As she spoke, Lin Qingyue spread out her palm, revealing a crystal clear bead like a gem.
"This is Yuanniang's demon pill. It condenses her life's cultivation and is also the antidote to the mayfly silk."
Ah Heng knew Yuanniang was a demon, and that the hair of the mayfly demon could split into mayfly silk, but he didn't know how to solve the parasitic problem of the mayfly silk.
He was only interested in manipulating everyone and gaining supreme power, and never thought about the issue of termination.
The real way to remove the evil spirit is to use the demon pill to refine the antidote. But once the demon pill is released, Yuanniang... will never come back.
She gave the antidote to Lin Qingyue, and turned back into a mayfly, living and dying every day, welcoming the fate that was meant for her.
Perhaps, Yuanniang and Ah Heng's initial acquaintance was a mistake.
Her momentary greed led her to fall into a demon in her heart, which in turn led her to meet Ah Heng, the man of this life, and they were entangled for a lifetime. In the end, it was just back to square one.
After getting the antidote, the next step is to treat those who are infected.
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