Chapter 1027 Nobody Treats You as an Enemy
"Shang Ruyi?!"
Upon seeing that beautiful and dignified face, which exuded a commanding aura in the flickering firelight, everyone was taken aback, especially Lei Yu. She smiled and involuntarily stepped forward: "Ruyi, you're alright—"
She stopped speaking as soon as she finished.
After the initial surprise, she seemed to remember something and reassured Shang Ruyi with a complicated expression: "You're alright."
The person who slowly walked behind Young Master Jia amidst everyone's surprised and astonished gazes was Shang Ruyi. To everyone's surprise, she had been unconscious after being poisoned by snake venom and seemed to be on the verge of death, but at this moment she had a calm expression, sharp eyes, and very steady steps, completely different from her previous lifeless state.
Young Master Jia's expression immediately darkened.
He frowned deeply, staring at Shang Ruyi as she slowly approached, and said in a deep voice, "You—" He stopped before he could finish speaking, his beard trembling for a moment, and finally he sighed and said, "I actually fell for your trick."
The people around them became increasingly confused, but Lüxiao and Leiyu remained silent, their flickering eyes suggesting they had already understood something. Ashina Zhuxie frowned the moment he saw Shang Ruyi "return to normal," and when he looked back at Wang Shaoqiu, who was slumped on the ground, his expression slowly darkened.
"Young Master Jia..."
Despite being stared at by so many eyes through the flames, Shang Ruyi remained calm. Her gaze flickered for a moment when she met Lei Yu's eyes, but she quickly regained her composure, looked at Young Master Jia, and then smiled slightly, saying, "No, it should be—Young Master Zuo."
"..."
This time, the people inside the stone chamber did not show too much surprise.
After all, from the moment they saw this "Young Master Jia" appear, to his plan to burn these people alive, and the things he said, everyone had already guessed his identity to some extent. Upon hearing the words "Young Master Zuo" from Shang Ruyi, he merely narrowed his eyes slightly, a cold glint flashing in the firelight, and slowly said, "When did you find out?"
Shang Ruyi calmly walked up to him: "When I saw you."
"Why?"
"No one would live in such a remote place for no reason."
"but--"
"Of course, those who practice spiritual cultivation are an exception,"
Shang Ruyi interrupted his attempt to explain, then smiled and said, "But from head to toe, you don't look like a cultivator at all."
"Young Master Jia's" expression changed, but he remained silent.
The moment he saw Shang Ruyi again, he had already gone through everything that had happened the night before. In fact, he could tell that his performance was not good without being reminded by others. Otherwise, Ashina Zhuxie would not have been so blatant in asking him about the whereabouts of Zuo Gong's suspected tomb, and he would not have needed to enter this cave after the night before and kill all these people here.
"You must be Zuo Tian."
"..."
He remained silent, but his flickering eyes said it all.
Shang Ruyi nodded, then looked over his shoulder at the stone chamber behind him where a crowd of people were gathered, and the coffin on the stone platform. Although she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she could roughly guess what was inside from the chatter of the people just now. Then she said, "Then this coffin, this tomb chamber, is where you buried Zuo Heng, right?"
"..."
"You survived and took his body with you."
"..."
“His head was taken by the court, and since his body and head were separated, he could not be buried. So, you cast a golden head for him to be buried with.”
Green Silk took a deep breath.
No wonder she felt a strange sense of familiarity when she first saw that golden head. It was the face of an old friend…
Zuo Tian gripped the torch tightly, his knuckles cracking as he said in a deep voice, "You know it's me, so what? What do you want?"
"..."
Are you going to kill me?
Shang Ruyi calmly looked at the torch in his hand: "Young Master Zuo, now it's your turn to kill."
Zuo Zhen said, "If I don't kill them, do you think they'll let me go?"
Then, she turned to look at Shang Ruyi and asked, "You... will you let me go?"
His eyes, illuminated by the flames, seemed to burn as well. Years of seclusion had made him forget much of his past: his noble birth, his once incredibly wealthy life, and the glory of conquering far and wide and commanding countless followers. He seemed to be living a different life, looking back as if he were witnessing a past existence.
But there are some things that can't be forgotten.
The panic when there is nowhere to turn, the utter despair when cornered, and the pain after escaping...
He dared not think about how these people would treat him after they learned his identity.
Does he have to go through what happened back then again?
Just as Zuo Tian gritted his teeth and his eyes gradually turned red, as if he was ready to fight to the death at any moment, Shang Ruyi just looked at him calmly, without even a trace of emotion.
She said, "You are no one's enemy."
"...?"
Zuo Zhen was startled, as if she couldn't believe her ears, and stared at her with wide eyes: "What did you say?"
Shang Ruyi looked at him calmly and said, "No one considers you an enemy."
"..."
"Especially after Zuo Chen'an's grave could no longer be found... the Zuo family, and no one in the Zuo family, was no longer important."
Zuo Tian's eyes widened.
However, Shang Ruyi's face remained expressionless, as if he were talking about something extremely ordinary. He composed himself and hurriedly turned to look at the people in the stone chamber behind him. Although some of them were still watching him warily, they were only wary of the torch in his hand. It seemed that no one cared about him personally.
Zuo Tian seemed to freeze in place, the flames flickering violently, his hands trembling uncontrollably. He murmured, "How... how could this be... how could this be...?"
Shang Ruyi said, "Life is unpredictable."
These four words, like the fangs of a venomous snake, pierced his heart instantly. Zuo Tian's hand suddenly froze, and the torch slipped from his grasp and fell to the ground!
"Oh no!"
The people in the stone chamber screamed in fright. The torch fell to the ground, then bounced up and fell onto the tung oil that was scattered all over the ground in front of them!
In that split second, a nimble and swift figure suddenly darted out and grabbed the torch!
It's a snowy scene!
Upon seeing her take action, Shang Ruyi's heart leaped into her throat, but she finally felt relieved.
She breathed a sigh of relief.
But before he could even put his mind at ease, suddenly, a spark drifted down from the burning torch and landed on the tung oil on the ground!
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