Chapter 256 Facing Death with Unwavering Spirit
Princess Jun's eyes were as deep as an icy pool, calm and composed. Instead of retreating, she stepped forward: "You want to kill me? Come on... Heh, now the Gao family has betrayed the Mu family, and you, a descendant of the Mu family, have become a henchman of the Gao family. This is nothing short of recognizing a thief as your father. If you have the guts, then stab me with your sword... stab me..."
In despair, Mu Xi became a bystander. Now that the princess's personality was truly determined to perish together with everyone else, she did not want to stop her.
Mu Chong, though outwardly fierce, was actually weak-willed. Seeing Mu Xi's reaction, he was forced to retreat, but he still refused to back down: "Death is too good for you... I'll make you wish you were dead..."
"Heh, you think you can make this county suffer a fate worse than death? You probably haven't killed anyone in your life, have you?" The county lord's personality approached step by step, showing a willingness to sacrifice himself for righteousness.
Mu Chong was right; he had never killed anyone before. His hand holding the sword trembled involuntarily, and he retreated step by step.
The princess's face was like an ice sculpture, and she stepped forward step by step, as if she felt no pain, no fear, only a detached indifference as if she were facing death.
As she walked step by step toward the sword tip, Neili said to Muxi one last time, "This body ultimately belongs to the Soul Master. Whether it lives or dies is up to the Soul Master. But as a wisp of spirit of the Mu family's daughter, I have nothing to repay you with and no more attachments. I return to the Soul Master, hoping to protect him in the end."
After saying that, he transformed into a ray of white light and merged into Mu Xi's heart meridian.
Mu Xi instantly regained her balance, stumbled forward, and her chest collided with the tip of Mu Chong's sword again. However, a heat surged in her left heart meridian, igniting a surge of courage.
"Ah..." Mu Chong panicked and withdrew his sword, only to be cornered against the wall.
Mu Xi regained her body, knowing that yet another personality had vanished. Overwhelmed with grief, she found courage in despair and stepped forward: "A scholar can be killed but not humiliated... Let's see what you look like now... The third young master of the Jin Fangjun Mansion? Heh... You're nothing but a stray dog."
In a panic, Mu Chong wildly brandished his sword, and the words "a stray dog" struck a nerve. Suddenly enraged, he launched a frenzied counterattack, attacking Mu Xi: "It's all your fault! It's all your fault..."
Instantly, another long tear was ripped open in Mu Xi's clothes, and a bloody gash appeared on her right arm.
Cao Pan'er suddenly pulled Mu Xi away from behind to avoid her.
Mu Chong, however, seemed to have lost his mind, wildly swinging and slashing.
Unable to dodge, the two tried to escape through the door, but were blocked by Mu Chong's guards. Just as they were fleeing and being chased inside, a figure suddenly rushed in from outside, screaming with a sob: "You won't hurt the prince..."
Zhelan's small body shot in like an arrow, pushing aside the guards and standing in front of Muxi without regard for anything else.
With a "whoosh" sound.
Mu Chong's sword pierced into the soft body.
Zelan's mouth was agape, her face a mixture of immense fear and reckless courage. She slowly lowered her head and looked at her chest.
The cold blade, more than half of it, was already deeply embedded beneath her drab, coarse cloth garment.
Bright red blood gushed out in large gushes, dripping onto the broken porcelain and wine stains on the ground.
"Murder..." Liu's mother, who had just arrived after hearing the news, saw this scene and shouted in panic.
The entire Fangfei Tower, inside and out, was instantly thrown into chaos as countless people heard the commotion.
The madness and rage on Mu Liu's face froze the moment the sword pierced that frail body.
"Murder?" His bloodshot eyes widened suddenly, his pupils shrinking to the size of pinpoints. Upon hearing Liu's mother's exclamation, he flung the sword away as if his hands had been burned.
"Ze Lan..." Mu Xi reacted and rushed over to catch Ze Lan's limp body.
Zhelan instinctively covered her chest with both hands, slowly raised her eyes to look at Muxi, moved her lips as if she wanted to say something, but no sound came out.
Mu Xi shouted to Liu Mama, "Find a doctor! Find a doctor! Please, please find a doctor for her and save her..."
After a shout of "Murder!", Liu's mother panicked, but more and more people gathered outside the door.
But no one paid attention to Ze Lan, and no one went to call a doctor.
After finally realizing that he had actually killed someone, Mu Chong, who had been standing there stunned, staggered and ran away, fleeing in panic surrounded by guards.
With no one to help Zhelan, Muxi panicked and tried to stop the bleeding, but the gushing blood from the wound quickly took away the warmth of life.
"Escape...escape..." With her last bit of strength, Zelan managed to utter only two words. Her wide eyes gradually lost focus, and finally, her hands, which had been covering the sword, fell to her sides, and she closed her eyes.
An overwhelming wave of grief swept over us.
Mu Xi held Zhe Lan's body tightly, wanting to wail, but the immense grief choked her throat and heart, preventing her from making a sound.
She doesn't remember what happened after that.
All she remembered was that Zelan's body was forcibly taken from her arms, and then she and Cao Pan'er were dragged downstairs to the backyard and locked in a simple room.
Mu Xi had lost all her strength and lay paralyzed on a dilapidated wooden bed in the room, unable to move at all.
For the next few days, she and Cao Pan'er were confined to the house, with someone bringing them a meal and water each day.
Mu Xi couldn't eat or drink, but Cao Pan'er didn't force her. Instead, she forced Mu Xi to swallow all the food and then used water to moisten her chapped lips and throat little by little.
After an unknown amount of time, Mu Xi finally recovered somewhat from the grief of losing Zhe Lan.
"Why haven't they come yet?" Mu Xi asked, her voice hoarse and sounding unlike her own.
Although Cao Pan'er was saddened during her imprisonment, she remained calm throughout.
Seeing that Mu Xi was able to get up on her own, she came over to help her: "Who are the 'they' that the young master is talking about?"
“Now that our identities have been exposed, ‘they’ could be the owner of this brothel who is trying to avoid trouble, or Mu Chong and the Gao family who hated us back then, or even that Grand Marshal Gao Quan… In short, we have no shortage of enemies.” Mu Xi had been waiting for the past few days while lying down.
Waiting for a final, decisive end, waiting for a cathartic release.
Several days passed, but nothing came.
Cao Pan'er draped a tattered quilt over Mu Xi, then turned around and pulled her own tattered quilt over herself. She had already thought this through: "I suspect that in this chaotic world, someone has died in Fangfei Tower. If they don't want to cause trouble, they will try their best to suppress it. Otherwise, they wouldn't have taken Zhe Lan away so quickly that day, and there wouldn't have been any further news afterward."
“Ze Lan…” Upon mentioning Ze Lan, two lines of tears flowed down Mu Xi’s face again.
Cao Pan'er, afraid of being reminded of painful memories again, quickly continued, "Mother Liu probably had two reasons for locking us up here. First, if anyone investigates later, she can hand us over to clear her name and give a better explanation. Second, even if no one investigates, we are obviously involved with the Third Young Master Mu Chong. We don't know what his situation is in Moyang City, but since the entire city is under Gao Quan's control, he must be hesitant to act rashly, afraid of offending this newly promoted Prince Mu."
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