Sit back and wait
However!
What arrived even before the attack was the freezing cold pool water.
“Wow—”
The invisible barrier above the house seemed to disappear suddenly, and the dark pool water rushed into the house like a floodgate opened. The thick pool water rushed onto the ground of the house and immediately rolled up huge waves.
Jiang Jingyuan was caught off guard and choked on the water twice. He quickly mobilized the jade bracelet to raise an invisible barrier around him.
Her left fingernails dug into the wall of the house. She did not immediately float up with the current. Instead, she stood still, only opening her eyes and looking upwards.
The thick pool water was as dark as the abyss, and the ripples on it seemed like the wrinkles of some living creature's skin frantically stirring and wriggling.
Jiang Jingyuan saw a black figure in the distance that almost melted into the pool water. She squinted her eyes, trying to see the other person's face clearly.
At the same time, that cold gaze was accurately cast on her. Unlike the previous impatience, the other party's eyes now revealed violence, sinisterness and strong murderous intent.
The dark figure floating up in the pool suddenly moved his clothes.
Jiang Jingyuan, who was at the bottom of the pool, suddenly felt something was wrong. He grabbed the wall with both hands and ran quickly in the raging water to hide behind the house.
brush--!
The surging pool water was instantly torn into two pieces from the middle, and the violent sword energy slashed from top to bottom, straight towards the direction where Jiang Jingyuan was!
The cold murderous intent came overwhelmingly, distorting the space.
The distorted image of the pool water in front of him was still in his vision, and Jiang Jingyuan's eyes and heart trembled.
Before the sword energy arrived, he felt the pressure like a huge mountain. His skin and flesh, as well as his internal organs, seemed to be tangled together...
Her vision went dark, and she opened her mouth. Large amounts of dark red blood, faintly mixed with minced meat, gushed out of her mouth, staining her chin red, winding down her jaw to her neck, and were quickly washed away by the thick pool water that hit her face.
The nails of his ten fingers that were digging into the wall were lifted up and broken, and Jiang Jingyuan flew backwards without any resistance, like a light swan passing through the sky in a graceful arc.
The sword energy from above drove the pool water to press against her heart, while the thick pool water from below squeezed the back of her head, almost beating her into a pulp of broken bones and flesh.
The white light around Jiang Jingyuan flickered. Every time the barrier shattered, she had to erect another barrier of white light in this narrow space that was compressed to the extreme. Hidden in the dazzling white light was a layer of dark red "cocoon" that was as dark as ink and blood.
"boom--"
The figure in white fell into the depths of the dark, cold pool.
“Clatter—”
The house collapsed in an instant, and bricks and wood piled up into a mountain, crushing the white-clad figure in the depths of the pool and blocking the stunned and inquiring sight of the black-clad man above.
The next moment, the cold pool water seemed to be stirred violently and quickly by a hand, frantically forming a huge whirlpool. The man was unable to react in time and was sucked into the whirlpool and thrown upwards.
“Cough… cough…”
The blow was so severe, and coupled with the previous injuries that had not yet healed, the person under the rubble was covered in blood and turned into a bloody man in the blink of an eye.
Jiang Jingyuan's eyes were filled with darkness, with tiny sparkles of bright white stars. The accumulated blood in her mouth and nose choked her trachea. She wanted to cough, but even every gentle breath was painful. She could only spit out blood unconsciously. Her last moments of consciousness were spent on maintaining the water-proof barrier around her.
After an unknown amount of time, her consciousness gradually became blurred, and she could only feel that the cold pool water flowing and hitting the surroundings seemed to become calmer.
She said in her heart in a daze: "I can't wait any longer, I have to leave..."
In an instant, the purple-red spiritual power that surged out of the darkness suddenly blew away the ruins of houses that had piled up like a small hill at the bottom of the pool.
Jiang Jingyuan turned over and lay on the ruins of the house base, with his head hanging down, his whole body bent like a shrimp, his mouth open, spitting out black and red dirty blood.
The dark red blood turned into strands in the pool water and drifted away in the direction of the water flow.
Jiang Jingyuan staggered to his feet, breathing softly, and walked up step by step on the water.
Strands of black and red blood continued to drift out from her body. Her eyes were slightly dazed, and her body seemed to follow instinct, lifting her foot, lowering it, lifting her foot, lowering it, and moving upwards...
“Wow—”
The water in the pool surged.
The moon was bright and the stars were sparse. A breeze blew in the cool night, causing the water to shimmer and ripples to appear on the surface of the pond.
Under the weeping willows by the pond, a black figure was hidden in the darkness, quietly gazing at the lake not far away, wondering what he was waiting for.
"Swish—"
In the surging pool of water at night, a pale hand reached out from the surface of the lake. Large droplets of water shimmered with a cool light under the bright moonlight and slid down the arm...
In just a moment, the hand sank weakly into the water.
Jiang Jingqian, who was wandering anxiously on the gravel road, was sharp-eyed and saw this brief scene. He was suddenly filled with great joy, but it was quickly replaced by deep worry.
Without thinking, he tore off his outer robe and threw it on the grass beside him, ran to the edge of the pool, and dived into the water.
It has been thirteen days. Every day during these thirteen days, he "passed by" the pool under various pretexts during the day. After dark, he quietly avoided people and slipped to the poolside, guarding it all night long.
Under the overt and covert pressure from Jiang Jingzong and Jiang Jinghui, in order to prevent them from looking for Jiang Jingyuan, Bai Ri could only occasionally sneak into Jiang Jingyuan's palace on his own initiative, using the illusion he learned in childhood to pretend that there was someone in the palace, but he could only face the empty palace.
And at night, he didn't even dare to close his eyes and stared at the silent pool water as always.
After the third day, he followed Jiang Jingyuan's previous words and never approached Jiang Jingyuan's palace in public. He hid in his residence during the day and did not go out again. He was trapped in heavy regret and fear all day long.
He was constantly afraid that someone in the palace would suddenly scream, "His Highness Jing Yuan is missing," but what he feared even more was that Jiang Jing Yuan really had an accident...
He felt that if Jiang Jingyuan didn't show up again, he would really go crazy.
Fortunately...
The icy water enveloped his entire body, as if freezing his blood. Jiang Jingqian swam towards the sinking figure in the distance.
In fact, he still hadn't seen clearly whether the figure was Jiang Jingyuan. While he was looking forward to it, he was also thinking that if it wasn't Jiang Jingyuan, he really didn't know if he could continue in such long-term despair and regret.
When he swam to the person's side, Jiang Jingqian did not rush to identify her face. He just pulled off her heavy plush cloak, then grabbed her clothes tightly and swam towards the shore.
"puff--"
“Clatter—”
The sudden cold woke Jiang Jingyuan up. She coughed, and blood dripped from her mouth, leaving a flower-like black and red bloodstain on the ground.
"you……"
Hearing the sound, Jiang Jingyuan's eyelashes trembled slightly, and the water droplets hanging on them dripped. She opened her eyes and saw Jiang Jingqian with wide eyes and a look of shock on his face.
"Ahem, let's go first." Jiang Jingyuan instantly realized that he had come out from the bottom of the pool, and whispered in a hoarse voice.
As soon as she opened her mouth, blood gushed out. The lower half of her face and neck, which had been washed clean by the lake water after the barrier could no longer be maintained, were stained red again.
Jiang Jingqian's pupils shrank and he paused for a moment, but he didn't dare to delay any longer. He picked up the outer robe beside him, wrapped Jiang Jingyuan tightly, and helped her up.
In the darkness of the night, the bloodstains on the ground could not be seen clearly. Jiang Jingqian could only scoop up some water with his hands and hastily pour it on the grass.
After dealing with all this, Jiang Jingqian supported Jiang Jingyuan and walked quickly back to the palace, squinting his eyes at all times to see if there was any blood dripping onto the ground.
The cold wind blew, and the drooping branches of the willow trees by the pond swayed. Two people walked in the dark night like cats, silently and stealthily.
"Click...squeak..."
Jiang Jingqian pushed open the palace door quietly and almost dragged the half-conscious Jiang Jingyuan into the palace. With a "click", he closed the door with his backhand. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief in the darkness and sat down on the ground weakly.
brush--
The moonlight filtering through the window lattice swayed gently like a thin gauze. Deep in the inky black palace, an orange-red fire suddenly lit up.
“!!!”
Jiang Jingqian was startled and trembled all over. He pursed his lips tightly in time to make no sound, but his eyes slowly widened as he stared at the direction of the fire in the darkness.
Feeling the movement around him, Jiang Jingyuan also trembled, suddenly woke up, and looked up at the fire deep in the palace.
"Are you back?"
The orange-red candlelight flickered, dimly illuminating a delicate profile, and the orange-red eyes turned to look at the two people slumped at the door of the hall.
“??!”
Caught off guard by this scene, Jiang Jingqian and Jiang Jingyuan beside him shuddered subconsciously.
I saw——
Deep in the palace, the man sat lazily leaning against the back of a chair, his legs crossed, staring coldly at the two of them without saying a word.
“Jiang…Jiang…”
Jiang Jingqian was so stunned that he couldn't speak.
Jiang Jingyuan, who was standing next to him, was also a little stunned. He couldn't help but wonder if he had accidentally misremembered the time again. Otherwise, how could the person who appeared here waiting for something to happen be Jiang Jingjian?!
"Strange?"
Jiang Jingjian raised the corner of his mouth and said sarcastically, "Do you think you could have kept it a secret until now?"
"It's me! I've been covering for you for so many days!"
He sneered, "When I returned to the palace, no one mentioned your disappearance, and I didn't see Jiang Jingzong and Jiang Jinghui coming to look for you, so I knew what had happened."
"Have you become more capable?"
Jiang Jingyuan and Jiang Jingqian were sweating profusely as they listened to this. They changed their posture and knelt in the same place, not daring to stand up.
I didn't expect Jiang Jingjian's cold face to be so intimidating.
Jiang Jingyuan and Jiang Jingqian secretly exchanged glances:
Why are you kneeling?
Why are you kneeling down too?
"Tell me, what are you doing?" Jiang Jingjian asked, glancing at the two of them coldly.
Jiang Jingqian answered subconsciously: "Jing..."
"Jiang Jingyuan said." Jiang Jingjian interrupted coldly.
Well, she knew that Jiang Jingjian was really angry this time... Jiang Jingyuan looked up at the person sitting not far away, opened her mouth with a guilty look, but before she could say anything, she spat out another mouthful of blood.
"Your Highness Jing Yuan?!"
"you?!"
Jiang Jingjian was so frightened by this scene that he couldn't sit still anymore. He jumped up instantly and rushed over to support Jiang Jingyuan who was about to fall face down on the ground.
It was only then that Jiang Jingjian and Jiang Jingqian could see her condition clearly in the dim light of the candlelight:
They had previously thought it was a flowery dress, but when they got closer they discovered that the pattern on the red dress was mottled and of varying shades, clearly the color of blood!
The dress, so wet that its original color could not be seen, was now covered with clusters of black and red flowers, which was shocking to the eye.
Jiang Jingjian's pupils suddenly shrank. He took out a white porcelain bottle and put it to the girl's mouth. Jiang Jingyuan drank the emerald green cool liquid with a "gulp".
After putting away the porcelain bottle, Jiang Jingjian felt a slight chill on his fingertips. He looked down and saw dark red blood spreading on Jiang Jingyuan's red clothes from under his fingers that were holding on to her shoulders, deepening the dark red color.
Jiang Jingjian was startled and rolled up one of her sleeves, revealing an arm covered in bloodstains. Upon closer inspection, he saw that there were tiny, inconspicuous holes scattered all over the arm, as if they had been pierced through!
The medicine I just drank took effect, and the dense blood holes healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The next moment, the healed wound suddenly burst open, spurting out countless blood drops that slid down the arm.
Jiang Jingjian looked up at Jiang Jingyuan's blood-soaked dress in shock and doubt.
What on earth caused this injury? Even pills can’t cure it...?
And judging from the looks of it, Jiang Jingyuan's injuries elsewhere are definitely not simpler than the one on his arm...
Jiang Jingjian felt complicated. He even thought it was a miracle that Jiang Jingyuan was still alive.
While Jiang Jingjian's attention was focused on his injuries, Jiang Jingyuan looked up at the young man in black in front of him and blinked.
Jiang Jingqian: “!!!”
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