What is the key to breaking the deadlock?
Where are the bride and groom?
Did she guess wrong? The key to breaking the deadlock doesn't lie with the bride and groom?
Jiang Yunshu stared at the fiery red wedding bed in a daze, his mind full of thoughts.
No, it can't be wrong.
She had a feeling in her heart that was clamoring that it could not be wrong, but she could never grasp the fleeting inspiration.
She stared at the bed in front of her, which was covered with a large red curtain. Suddenly, her peripheral vision swept over it, and the breath that had not yet been completely exhaled was abruptly stopped.
I saw——
In the dim light of the candle, a blurry shadow quietly fell on the wall with a red curtain, but the bed in front of the shadow was empty!
The damp dress clung to her body, chilling her bones. Layer upon layer of gauze, soaked with cold water, weighed heavily on her, like a grinning demon clawing at her back, dragging her into an endless hell...
Jiang Yunshu subconsciously took a half step back. Even though she was panicking, her face remained expressionless—not calm and composed, but an expression that showed she hadn't reacted yet.
Jiang Yunshu thought about it, walked behind the candlelight and looked towards the bed, where a fiery red figure suddenly appeared out of thin air.
The figure sat quietly on the gorgeous bed. The thin red veil did not conceal the woman's charm in the slightest, but instead added an indescribable nobility and mystery to her.
Beside her was a tall incense table, on which stood a silver-white incense burner inlaid with gold. The gauze-like smoke curled around her, making her seem even more tranquil.
Jiang Yunshu moved two steps to the left, and the stunning figure was still there.
She walked towards the bride cautiously, but stopped after taking only two steps.
Jiang Yunshu pondered calmly. She had just subconsciously felt that the key to the next step was to lift the bride's veil, but...
Is this really the case?
It is definitely not a coincidence that there is a magic weapon at the bottom of the palace pool. Most likely, someone was unable to make the magic weapon recognize its owner, but was reluctant to give it up, so he had to hide it at the bottom of the pool.
But the problem that Jiang Yunshu could see, couldn’t that person think of it?
It's too obvious.
She took a deep breath. What was the key to breaking the deadlock? The bride and groom...
Wait, where's the groom?!
"Squeak—ah—"
In the silent room, the sudden noise behind me was particularly harsh.
Jiang Yunshu felt a chill on his back and turned around quickly.
A black coffin suddenly appeared behind her. The lid of the coffin slid down, revealing a dark-red figure sitting stiffly inside.
The "person" turned his head in a way that ordinary people could not do - his body was completely sideways to her, but his head was turned to face Jiang Yunshu!
The lower half of the groom's face was covered in blood. A closer look revealed that it was leaking from his sewn-up lips, dripping onto his wedding gown, adorned with fluttering gold threads. His eyes, all white, spun rapidly as Jiang Yunshu looked over, turning into two dark, inky dots that met his gaze.
Jiang Yunshu's pupils gradually dilated and then gradually blurred...
In the dark.
She was awakened by a stinging pain.
There was a thick black darkness in front of her eyes, and the stench licked her face for a long time.
She couldn't help wanting to vomit, but found that she couldn't struggle open her stinging lips, as if they were sewn shut, and there was a clump of something that looked like hair in her mouth.
She struggled with all four limbs, banging her hands and feet in the small space, but to no avail. In the endless darkness, her brows knitted together, a suffocating feeling washed over her, and her face was filled with pain.
In this critical situation, she could only forcefully activate the snake-shaped mark on her right arm again.
The blood-red violent force was running around in the narrow space, but it was unable to open a crack.
Jiang Yunshu's eyes widened, a surge of intense anxiety and despair welling up within her. The "Teng Snake" mark had been there before she'd crossed over, like a brand etched into her soul, impossible to let go of, yet impossible to control. If she didn't use it, she'd become frail and sickly, and using it once would invisibly shorten her lifespan. She'd always used it as a life-saving trump card, having only used it twice in her fifteen years of peace.
She was once treated as a treasure and kept away from everyone in the Jiang family for fifteen years. As a result, she had never encountered any danger or hardship.
She was not the original person chosen to travel through time, and she never thought about what she would do if one day the "Teng Snake" mark could not be broken.
Calm down, calm down, calm down...
Think about it carefully, is it true that this black coffin cannot be broken by the "Teng Snake" mark?
With only the "Teng Snake" mark and without the matching treasure, the power it could exert was very limited. But even so, how could such an object that the Jiang family once coveted and feared be troubled by a coffin that appeared randomly in the killing realm of a magical weapon?
The "Teng Snake" mark is related to that thing, the thing that has caused great turmoil in the times time and time again, and will not easily fall into a weak position.
Jiang Yunshu closed her eyes and calmed down completely. She had agreed to travel through time and space to find that thing because she didn't have much time left.
Time is running out, so why panic now that we are in trouble?
She thought about it in the darkness, and the blood-red power that burst out from her fingertips turned into substance and cut into her arm, and light flashed before her eyes.
Jiang Yunshu closed his eyes calmly, and pain came from his arm again and again.
Her eyelashes trembled slightly, and she breathed in the long-lost air like a drowning person. She suddenly opened her eyes and breathed in greedily, one breath after another.
The room in front of her was dim and festive. The groom's face was close to her nose in the blink of an eye. He stared at Jiang Yunshu without any sadness or joy. Those strange eyes made people more and more frightened the more they looked at them.
Jiang Yunshu also looked at it expressionlessly, her eyes cold and calm. She curled up the fingers of her right hand under her sleeve, and the blood-red ribbon that absorbed the blood became more vivid. She suddenly jumped up and with a "pop" sound, slapped the groom back into the black coffin and closed the coffin lid.
In the bright red room, the blood-red ribbon touched the air, and the jet-black coffin knocked the screen backwards and flew to the door. With a loud "bang", it hit the wooden door that was shaking from being banged by the "person" outside - she controlled the strength, and the coffin just hit the door instead of being knocked away along with the wooden door.
The eleven-year-old girl was wearing a goose yellow dress. She raised her hand to stroke her wet black hair. The remaining blood beads rolled down her hair. She turned and looked at the beautiful bride who was lying on the bed without any reaction.
——So, what is the key to breaking the deadlock?
The coffin hitting the door seemed to shake the house, and suddenly a sweet fragrance mixed with a foul stench filled the room. Jiang Yunshu frowned faintly.
After a long time, the girl followed the sweet fragrance and approached the bride, and stood beside her.
She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she seemed to see the bride curl her lips. However, when she looked closely, she didn't see any curve on her red lips.
After a long time, Jiang Yunshu's heart tightened. He slowly raised his hand and reached out to the incense burner on the incense table next to the bride.
Just as her fingers touched the incense burner, something strange happened!
Jiang Yunshu's eyes went dark, and when she opened them again, she found herself in the courtyard, with the sound of gurgling water above her head.
Jiang Yunshu was startled and looked up.
I saw that the invisible barrier above my head seemed to have been punctured, and a thin stream of water rushed down from the sky.
Soon, at a speed visible to the naked eye, the water flow became stronger and stronger, and before Jiang Yunshu could think, it had formed a huge wave that swept across the entire courtyard.
It seemed like just a blink of an eye, and a biting cold swept over her whole body.
Jiang Yunshu was dizzy from the current, but fortunately she held her breath in time, and when the current calmed down, she splashed upstream.
In the empty, silent, cold pool, Jiang Yunshu had no idea how far he was from the surface, nor did he know if he had successfully swam upwards.
She can't hold her breath any longer!
She endured the pain in her eyes and opened them, wanting to see how far she was from the water, but she saw a smiling face. She was startled and forgot to hold her breath. The calm pool water suddenly became turbulent and poured into her mouth and nose.
She swallowed mouthful by mouthful subconsciously, but there was no air at all.
She struggled violently, but her entire body sank to no avail. Through the twisting water, she looked up at the beautiful figure in white above...
Cold, warm, cold, warm...
"puff--"
The warm sunlight fell on Jiang Yunshu, dispelling the coldness. When the wind blew, she couldn't stop shivering.
Jiang Yunshu took a deep breath and choked, causing him to cough rapidly and cough up acid.
She fell to the ground covered with pebbles of various sizes.
She swallowed, and then she felt her ears clear and heard noisy voices.
She looked up and around, and saw a group of beautifully dressed palace maids crawling not far away. The clothes of several men and women were still dripping with water. They were trembling, but none of them dared to make any extra movements, and just kept kowtowing to their own direction.
Jiang Yunshu was stunned for a moment, then turned his head to look at the lake. He happened to see ripples on the calm surface of the lake. Several people pulled each other to help each other out of the water, and then they all crawled on the shore.
While she was in a daze, she suddenly felt her neck tighten——
There is someone behind me!!!
Before she could react, the person behind her hooked her collar and lifted her up.
She saw the palace maids nearby, the lush flowers and green willows in the corner of the garden a little further away, and the towering imperial palace with its red walls and yellow tiles even further away. She was dragged around in a half circle and met a young man in white clothes who was walking hurriedly towards her.
The fluttering cuffs and hem of the garment were embroidered with auspicious clouds, flowers and birds in gold thread, adding a touch of luxury. The young man came fluttering in like a legendary divine bird, flapping his white wings.
Under the bright sunshine, his flying hair was dyed golden, making it hard to see...
"Hmm..."
Jiang Yunshu's stomach churned after being carried around like this. He opened his mouth and vomited all over the floor at the high-spirited young man.
The young man stopped abruptly when he saw this. The corners of his eyes on his pretty and delicate face twitched uncontrollably, and the words he was about to say circled around in his mouth.
He paused for a moment, then walked around behind Jiang Yunshu, took the back collar of her clothes from the purple-clothed boy, lifted it up, put it on the clean ground beside him, and put an outer robe on her.
The purple-robed youth had a handsome appearance and laughed heartily. "Your sister, what do you dislike?"
ah?
Jiang Yunshu suddenly realized that this was Jiang Jingjian!
She remembered that Jiang Jingyuan's brother was Jiang Jingjian, the king of the fallen Dayuan Dynasty, who was later called the "Tyrannical Lord".
Jiang Yunshu looked up at the young man in white with curiosity, and the young man happened to look over as well.
The boy didn't expect Jiang Yunshu to look at him. Although his sister had always lived with him, she had a cold and childish face since she was a child and was indifferent to everything. In the past eleven years, she didn't even talk to him unless it was necessary. He was startled when they suddenly looked at each other.
Jiang Jingjian looked away guiltily and glared at the purple-robed boy: "I told you not to hold her, let her take her time!"
After saying that, he quickly changed the subject: "Jiang Jingzong, what are you doing? Why are so many people kneeling?"
"It was all for our little Yuan. I just asked someone to go into the water, but none of them wanted to, so I had to kick them in one by one." Jiang Jingzong tilted his head, one hand hooked around the jade pendant and tassel hanging from his waist belt, tossing it casually, and said nonchalantly, "Alright, now that the person has been rescued, you can give these palace servants some gifts and leave."
"Okay, thanks." Jiang Jingjian, who was already accustomed to this man's style, nodded, gave instructions to the palace servant beside him, helped Jiang Yunshu up and returned to the palace.
A gentle breeze blew across his face. Jiang Yunshu blinked his eyes, raised his hand to block the glaring sunlight, and saw the towering buildings in the distance.
Later generations recorded that rivers of blood flowed, but now things are just peaceful and quiet.
So what if there are undercurrents?
Sad stories will be forgotten, and warm blood will eventually cool down.
No one cares, no one cares...
In the stories from ancient times to the present and even in the future, there are no winners, only the magnificent palace standing eternally in the sun, showing its sacredness.
Jiang Yunshu felt a pain in his eyes from the glare of the sunlight.
She...from this moment on is Jiang Jingyuan of the Dayuan Dynasty.
And Jiang Yunshu has never existed from the beginning to the end.
Only she herself remembers her very beginning.
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