Why in Chapter 334?
Qiu Heng grabbed Yun Xiang's hair, her eyes red: "Why did you hurt Fang Zhou too, not only did you hurt me?"
Yunxiang screamed in pain, "I didn't mean to, I didn't mean to! Let go of me, it hurts so much..."
"It hurts?" A flame flickered in Qiu Heng's dry eyes. She slapped Yun Xiang hard, then grabbed her hair and threw her to the ground, before stepping on her face.
"This hurts? Three years ago you pushed me into the deep pool, and three years later you pushed Fangzhou into Qinglian Lake. You still have the nerve to complain about the pain?"
At this moment, all talk of composure, noble demeanor, and not losing face in front of her beloved was utter nonsense to Qiu Heng.
All the skills she learned and all the books she read were just ways for those people to mold her into the way they wanted her to be.
In reality, she's just a country girl, and right now all she wants to do is go crazy.
Qiu Heng picked up Yunxiang and slapped her across the face: "Tell me, why did you do this!"
"I--"
Another slap landed, and Yunxiang spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with her teeth.
"Will you tell me or not!"
The girl, who looked like she was going crazy, raised her hand high again, which looked like a vengeful ghost in Yunxiang's eyes.
"I'll talk, I'll talk, but you keep hitting me, how can I explain?!" Yunxiang cried out in despair.
Qiu Heng then lowered her hand and glanced back at Xue Han standing at the door.
Xue Han hurriedly said, "Aheng, take your time, there's no rush. I'll wait for you outside."
Xue Han breathed a sigh of relief as he thoughtfully closed the door.
It's good that I can vent.
Inside the door, Qiu Heng forced herself to calm down and looked at Yun Xiang, whose face was swollen.
At the moment Yunxiang pushed her into the deep pool, she was filled with countless questions, questions that haunted her for ten years in that Great Xia Dynasty. Upon her return, the doubts remained, but she had no time to seek out the missing Yunxiang for personal revenge.
The world is too big, and she has so many things to do; how could she possibly have the energy to search for someone who has disappeared?
Now, the time has finally come to resolve our doubts.
Why would this childhood friend poison her?
"Yunxiang, I've wanted to ask this question for a long time: why did you hurt me?"
Yunxiang moved her lips slightly.
The girl's calming down didn't make her feel relaxed; instead, it made her even more afraid.
"I—" she choked, her nose and tears a tangled mess.
Qiu Heng stared straight at her, her eyes like those of someone looking at a dead object: "You can keep quiet, I have plenty of time to wait for you to speak. But the longer you wait, the angrier I'll get."
Yunxiang instinctively covered her face: "I'll talk!"
Qiu Heng waited expressionlessly.
Perhaps having decided to speak, Yunxiang seemed calmer, and her gaze towards Qiuheng held a strange quality: "Aheng, why aren't you dead? How long have you been in the capital? Have you met Brother Bai?"
"I'm the one asking you this."
“Ask me—” Yunxiang touched her swollen cheek, thinking about the interrogation she had undergone after being found by Xue Han’s men, and the beating she had just received, and suddenly felt a surge of anger.
She stared into Qiu Heng's eyes and slowly said, "Ah Heng, it was Brother Bai who made me push you into the deep pool."
"What?" Qiu Heng grabbed Yun Xiang's collar. "What did you say?"
“I said, Brother Bai told me to push you into that deep pool.”
She let go of his hand and took several steps back, her back pressed against the cold wall.
It's so cold! It's only August, and the Mid-Autumn Festival hasn't even passed yet, so why is it so cold?
This isn't autumn in the human world; she must be in a freezing hell...
"You're lying to me. Yunxiang, you've done all sorts of evil things, and you're even trying to smear Brother Bai."
"Slandering dirt?" Mentioning Ling Yun, the white-haired elder brother they all knew, who was as bright as the moon, Yunxiang's fear was suppressed by jealousy, and she even felt a sense of pleasure looking at her distraught playmate.
"Aheng, you know how I feel about Brother Bai. How could I bear to smear him?"
Qiu Heng stared at Yunxiang's mouth opening and closing, feeling dizzy.
It's not just mudslinging, it's... really?
"Why?" she asked firmly, her voice sounding as if it weren't her own.
Yunxiang shook her head: "I don't know."
"Don't know?" Qiu Heng drew her soft sword from her waist, which coiled around Yun Xiang's neck like a nimble snake. "I don't want to hear your excuses anymore. If you don't tell me, I'll give you more than just a slap."
Yunxiang opened her eyes wide in horror.
Just now, Qiu Heng pulled her hair and slapped her. Although she felt pain and fear, it wasn't this kind of fear.
Her crazed playmate reminded her of the people who fought in the village, people she knew well.
But now, it's unfamiliar, and terrifyingly frightening.
Ah Heng was just an ordinary country girl like her, so how did she become a ruthless killer after not seeing her for more than three years?
"I really don't know why Brother Bai wanted me to do this..." Yunxiang's voice trembled, and she dared not move.
Qiu Heng sheathed the soft sword: "Tell me in detail what Brother Bai said to you."
"Three years ago, in early February, Brother Bai said goodbye to us, saying that he had recovered enough to go home. Do you remember?"
"Remember."
Yunxiang bit her lip: "Later, I went to find Brother Bai alone and told him I couldn't bear to see him go. Brother Bai... Brother Bai said that the day he pushed you into the deep pool in the mountains, he took me with him..."
"Impossible, no way." Qiu Heng coldly denied, her nails digging deep into her palms.
"I didn't lie!" Yunxiang felt relieved looking at Qiuheng's confident look. "Brother Bai is a young master from a prominent family in the capital. You can get so many officials to look for me, so go find Brother Bai and ask him yourself. See if I've lied to you."
"And what about you?"
Yunxiang was stunned: "What?"
Qiu Heng stared intently at her: "Even if what you're saying is true, even if... even if Brother Bai asked you to harm me, you still did it? We've been friends for over ten years—"
"Friends?" Her deepest, most painful memories were stirred up, and Yunxiang momentarily forgot her fear, her expression twisting in pain. "At first, I genuinely considered you a friend. But why, when we're all country girls, did you have to be so beautiful? The villagers always praised you, saying you were a golden phoenix born from a mountain valley. Just because I was often with you, they'd say I wasn't pretty when they praised you. But am I really ugly? I'm clearly prettier than Erni and the others!"
Qiu Heng closed her eyes.
"And your parents, why didn't they try their best to have sons like everyone else in the village? Instead, they treated you, a girl, like a treasure, and even bought you a maid. As for me, I lost my parents when I was young, and I was treated like a slave in my uncle and aunt's house, beaten and scolded, and I couldn't even get enough to eat..."
Looking at Yunxiang's ferocious expression, Qiuheng realized with shock how foolish she had been before falling into the deep pool.
Yunxiang became more and more agitated as she spoke: "I can tolerate all of this, but then we ran into Brother Bai. We met him together, and I even helped him get back to the Taoist temple when he was lost. Why is it that Brother Bai only has eyes for you? Why!"
Each question, "Why?" filled Qiu Heng with sorrow.
She also wanted to ask why and on what grounds.
(End of this chapter)
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