Chapter 274: Don’t you have any feelings for me?
After being forced to retreat seven steps by Helian Feng, Xiao Nanyan drew a half arc with the Jinghong Sword in his hand to deflect the opponent's sword, and also used his ultimate move "Eight Swords of Returning Heaven":
Flying geese treading on snow - Yue girls washing sand - rainbow piercing the sun - iron cavalry on the icy river - snow dancing in the wind - fishing alone in the cold river - purple swallows skimming the water... these forced Helian Feng to retreat step by step.
Until the last move - the Milky Way leaks back.
Xiao Nanyue flew up into the air, then turned around and quickly fell down. At the same time, he swept his left palm across and hit Helian Feng's right back. He only used 20% of his strength in this palm.
With a thud, Helian Feng was hit by the palm, staggered to the ground, and his sword flew out of his hand.
"Don't move!"
The tip of Xiao Nanyan's sword was instantly against his throat. As long as he lowered his wrist slightly, he could end his life.
"Helian Feng, do you have anything else to say?"
"The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit! Xiao Nanyan, kill me!" Helian Qiang suppressed the severe pain in his heart. At this moment, he was no longer afraid of life or death, and his eyes were full of madness.
"good!"
Xiao Nanyue's hand holding the sword paused slightly, the tip of the sword was shrouded in cold light, but he was reluctant to stab down.
Su Qinyao, who was on the hunting platform, saw this and screamed, "Feng'er!"
She stumbled and bumped into the corridor pillar, her jewelry fell all over the ground, and she almost fainted.
Deathly silence instantly enveloped the battlefield. Tens of thousands of soldiers forgot about fighting, and even the flashes of swords and sabers froze in mid-air.
Helian Feng looked at the murderous intent surging in Xiao Nanyan's eyes and suddenly laughed wildly:
"Xiao Nanyan, a gentleman can be killed but not humiliated! If you don't kill me today, I will take your life someday—and Xiyan, if I don't die, I swear to take her back!"
"court death!"
Xiao Nanyan's pupils suddenly shrank, and the tip of the sword glowed coldly.
At this critical moment, a white shadow suddenly approached and grabbed Xiao Nanyan's sword handle:
"My Lord, please spare his life."
It was Xi Yan.
"You plead for him?"
Xiao Nanyan's sword-holding hand trembled slightly, his eyes as cold as ice:
"Are you attracted to him?"
Helian Fengwan never expected Xiyan to plead for him. In his dying eyes, a trace of ecstasy suddenly rose:
"Xiyan, you, you don't want to die alone, you care about me, right?"
Xiyan looked at the disheveled Helian Feng in front of her, and felt a little sad. She felt that the world was impermanent and unpredictable.
When he left the house in the morning, he was still the high and mighty His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, but now, he has become a defeated general, reduced to dust.
Looking at Xiao Nanyue's cold face, she knew that if she said something wrong, it would anger him.
However, Xiao Nanyan was reluctant to take action, and Xiyan speculated:
Perhaps he didn't want to kill Helian Feng today. After all, killing a prince, not just his own brother, in public would inevitably leave a bad reputation.
Helian Feng had saved her life several times, so she dared to give it a try. If she could see through Xiao Nanyue's thoughts and save Helian Feng's life, then Helian Feng and she would owe each other nothing from now on.
Xiyan stared at Helian Feng and sighed softly:
"Yes, Your Highness, I do not wish you to die. You have saved my life several times and have shown me deep affection. I am deeply grateful. However, this is only gratitude. Xiyan has never had any romantic feelings for you."
She turned her eyes to look at Xiao Nanyan:
"Your Highness, I feel that my sins are grave and I cannot rest in peace. I beg you to spare his life this time. If there is a next time, Xiyan will not stop me. This time, I only hope that Your Highness will allow me to repay the favor I owe to the Crown Prince and have nothing to do with him in the future."
As Xi Yan finished speaking, Helian Feng was struck by lightning and stared at her in disbelief:
"Xiyan...you have no feelings for me at all?"
Thinking back on the past two months of their time together, all those subtle moments of tenderness now turned into sharp blades, cutting his heart.
"Your Highness,"
Xi Yan lowered her eyes, her long eyelashes casting a trembling shadow in the firelight:
"I feel only gratitude towards you, not affection. I have been lurking beside you for two months, but Xiyan has only been thinking about how to kill you..."
Helian Feng only felt his eyes swelling and a fishy and sweet taste rising in his throat.
He knew that Xiyan said this to save him. However, in her eyes, he saw the calmness of a still heart. Perhaps she really had no feelings for him, as she said.
It turns out that the first love that sprouted in my life was ultimately a one-man show.
"Xiyan," Xiao Nanyan's frown relaxed a little, and he raised her chin with his fingertips:
"Are you saying this sincerely?"
"That's absolutely true."
Xi Yan met his gaze, her eyes reflecting his shadow:
"I just said that I owe him a favor, and I've repaid it today. From now on, we owe each other nothing."
Xiao Nanyue suddenly chuckled, reached out and pulled her into his arms, his palm resting on the curve of her lower back, his chin resting on the top of her head, inhaling the faint fragrance of her hair - that was the most familiar scent to him over the years.
After experiencing the sudden death of his parents, in the bloody chaos, the only reality for him was the warm body in his arms.
"Okay, I promise you."
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