Chapter 107 The Walking Dead
"You...why are you here?"
"Aren't you dead?"
Lu Qiaoxiao looked at the face that she would never forget.
There was now a horrible scar on his once handsome face, and his eyes were terrifyingly sinister, emitting a creepy light in the dark night.
Pei Jinxuan shrugged his shoulders and laughed sharply, "Xiaoxiao, do you really want me to die?"
"I've always thought that even though you're married to Shen Yuheng, you've always had me in your heart, right?" He suddenly stepped forward, staring at her with eagle-like eyes, pinching her jade-like chin hard, trying to get an answer from her.
Lu Qiaoxiao tried to pull the blade out from his tightly tied cuffs.
She now fully understood what was going on.
Pei Jinxuan knew that Prince Pingyang's fate was lost, and fearing being implicated, he deliberately planned a fake death to escape.
"Minister Pei? Lin Miaofu and the others are not dead?" Lu Qiaoxiao could feel that Pei Jinxuan's emotions were very unstable at the moment. He tried his best to avoid his sharp questions and wanted to take the opportunity to learn more about the situation.
Pei Jinxuan's rough hands gently stroked her cheek, his eyes suddenly fierce, "Don't mention that bitch Lin Miaofu to me!"
"I treated her so well, yet she started hanging out with Wei Wu so early on, completely cuckolding me!"
Lu Qiaoxiao took a deep breath and stared at him: "Why did you tie me up and bring me here?"
"If you're thinking of using this opportunity to threaten Shen Yuheng and ask him to plead with the emperor to spare you from the death penalty for colluding with Wei Wu in the rebellion, then you should give up on that idea."
"In Shen Yuheng's heart, I'm not as important as you think."
After a while, Pei Jinxuan sneered and said, "Xiaoxiao, there is no such person as Pei Jinxuan in the world now. Whether it is a capital crime or not, what does it have to do with me?"
"You are still as naive as before—"
"You asked me why I brought you here. Of course it's because I want to stay with you forever. Hahahahahaha!"
Pei Jinxuan laughed wildly, his scarlet eyes looking strangely alluring in the soft moonlight.
"I told you before, you are mine, no one can take you away." "Not even Shen Yuheng can."
While Lu Qiaoxiao was listening to his crazy words, his mind was still rapidly calculating how to comfort this madman in front of him so that he could escape.
The knife in her sleeve was stuck too tightly, and the effect of the drug had not yet worn off. Her hands were bound by ropes and she had no strength to exert.
"Tomorrow, tomorrow is New Year's Eve. Let's celebrate it together, okay? Tomorrow is our wedding day!"
Pei Jinxuan held her face and said to himself, "You've seen it all. My face is ruined, but you won't mind, right? You said before that you would love me forever."
"Those people in the court are so evil, thinking about those intrigues all day long. Only you, only you follow me from beginning to end, support me, and encourage me——"
Lu Qiaoxiao looked at Pei Jinxuan's self-absorbed appearance and suppressed the urge to vomit. The person in front of her was so unfamiliar.
He used to be worthy of the title of Mr. Qianqian, but now he has become a walking corpse in front of us, which is disgusting and disappointing.
She said coldly: "Pei Jinxuan, wake up, those things are all in the past. You can't blame anyone for your current downfall. Every step you take is your own choice, isn't it?"
"That's not the case! It was Wei Wu and the others who forced me to do this! They forced me to do this!" Pei Jinxuan suddenly grabbed her wrist and threw her to the ground. Lu Qiaoxiao's arm was immediately bruised.
"He wanted me to submit to him, but he didn't trust me completely. He used me and then threw me aside! And then there's Huang Guanqiu. He pretended to be my friend on the surface, but behind the scenes he did all sorts of sneaky things to harm me."
"But they're all dead—they're all dead! Hahahahahahaha!"
Pei Jinxuan laughed crazily, his body swaying, as if he had consumed too much alcohol.
"Xiaoxiao, there are only two of us left now. They will never find us! Ever!"
"Just wait here obediently. Tomorrow, tomorrow we'll be husband and wife! Real husband and wife!"
After the madman left, Lu Qiaoxiao struggled with the hemp rope that bound his wrists. The rope was extremely thick and it was probably impossible to break it open with human power.
With the little light coming through the crack in the door, Lu Qiaoxiao could clearly see the face of the Buddha statue in the room. In the dark environment, it did not appear compassionate, but rather terrifying.
Faced with such a scene, she was not nervous. Compared with the current claustrophobic environment, the Pei family compound where people were eaten without leaving any bones was more frightening in her previous life.
This is because the state of mind of a person who is locked in a backyard and in despair is completely different from the state of mind of a person who is free to come and go and has an expectation of the future.
Although her hands were tied with ropes and she was locked in a small dark room, an unquenchable fire still burned in her heart - Shen Yuheng would come to find her.
Her mother and brother still miss her, and there are many people in this world who love her and are waiting for her to come home.
Lu Qiaoxiao couldn't help but think of the mysterious man who made the Pei family bleed in the previous life. How great it would be if he were still there.
For a mentally twisted scum like Pei Jinxuan, it would be better for everyone if he was killed with a knife.
She began to observe everything around her, crawling on the ground and climbing towards the Buddha statue little by little.
——
Shen Yuheng was walking on the street when he suddenly felt lost.
The city gates were closed, and every household was checked one by one. It can be said that all the forces were mobilized, but two hours passed and there was still no news.
He clenched his teeth and fists tightly, not even noticing the bloody marks left by the blade on his palms.
Looking at the crowds holding torches coming and going, scenes from his nightmares inevitably flashed through his mind. He was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat and couldn't calm down for a long time.
Every ordinary bandit knows that there is a female commander in the capital, and this commander is also the one that Shen Yuheng holds in his heart and dotes on.
In his confused thoughts, a face suddenly appeared in his mind.
Before Lu Qiaoxiao became involved with that man, he had never taken him seriously. But afterwards, he regarded him as his lifelong enemy and wanted to kill him as soon as possible.
"Sir, we've also asked around in West Street, and the people there all say they haven't seen the lady." A Yao came over with a lantern to report, his voice full of worry. He hadn't seen the young master like this for a long time.
A pair of cold, crimson eyes gave people the feeling that they might go crazy at any moment.
"Follow me to Pei Mansion." Shen Yuheng stared at his own face through the sword in his hand, a face that was cold and heartless.
Now he has become the kind of person that she would be afraid of and want to stay away from whenever she sees him.
Didn't she say that there were still some things that she would tell me once the government was stable?
She passed by Pei's house several times and stayed outside the door for a long time. Why?
Or is there some unknown secret in the Pei family compound that she has noticed?
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