"Wei Ci wants you to meet him, do you want to go?" Cen's mother asked, sitting by Fanghua's bedside.
The woman on the bed had recovered somewhat, no longer as pale as she had been two days ago. When she first woke up, she was as beautiful as a gorgeous ghost pulled back from the eighteenth level of hell.
“If you don’t want to go, you don’t have to. You don’t have to force yourself,” Mrs. Cen continued.
After all, Wei Ci was a beast, and the things he did to her were all beastly things. It's normal that she didn't want to see him.
"I'll go!" Fanghua said.
A woman dressed in a white undergarment, both melancholic and beautiful, stood up with You Sheng's help. Her hair was casually tied into a bun, and her long, black hair cascaded down her back like a waterfall.
Yousheng draped a coat over her shoulders, then picked up the medicine and said...
"Young lady, please drink your medicine before you go."
Since arriving at the brothel, You Sheng has become much more talkative. In the past, this little maid would never have dared to say a word to her.
Go now.
Fanghua took the medicine bowl from Yousheng and left her room.
Outside the room was the backyard of the Fengyue Tower, where the girls were resting after finishing their training. Two or three of them were playing together. Fanghua pushed open the door and came out, attracting the attention of all the girls.
"Isn't this Youth?"
"Yeah, yeah, does that mean she'll be living in our building from now on?"
"Who knows? Anyway, Fanghua Tower is gone. Isn't it better to stay here? So many people want to come to our building."
"Then why isn't she fighting with Chunying here?"
"I should pinch her... but look, Chunying didn't seem to react at all."
Chunying and Liuxu sat together, talking about something, their smiles radiant.
As Fanghua passed by Cen's mother, Liuxu called out to her.
"Youth"
The woman turned around and asked
"What's wrong, Liu Xu?"
"This is for you."
Liu Xu took out a dagger from her waist. It was the same dagger that Wei Ci had used to pin her to the table that night. Fang Hua looked at it, pondered for a long time, and then took it from Liu Xu's hand.
"If you're still unhappy, just give it back," Liu Xu said.
“Now the roles have reversed; he’s the fish on the chopping block, and you’re the butcher,” Chunying echoed Liuxu.
Fanghua nodded, gripped the dagger in her hand, and followed Mother Cen into the dark room.
The corridor leading to Wei Ci's room was dark, with only the flickering candlelight indicating its presence. At the end of this dark corridor lay the hell she had endured a few days earlier.
Fanghua sat outside the darkroom, placing the medicine in her hand on the table.
With a 'clatter,' the sound of the medicine bowl colliding with the wooden table made Wei Ci look up at her.
"Lord Wei, I heard you were looking for me?" Fanghua said.
The man's lips were chapped, and in just a few days, he looked much more haggard. Two strands of hair that fell from his forehead indicated his disheveled state over the past few days.
Wei Ci stood up, gripping the gate, and said...
She said you're pregnant, is it true?
Fanghua didn't answer him. She quietly observed him for a while. That arrogant man who could decide her life and death was nothing special. Wasn't it the same? In this environment where he was manipulated by others, he was living worse than her.
"yes"
The man's eyes lit up with surprise for a moment, then he looked around helplessly and said...
"That day, that night, I remember! I remember you bled a lot, how is the baby? Is the baby alright?"
Wei Ci felt he could no longer hold onto the gate; he wanted to go out, he wanted to go out and embrace the woman before him, the woman who had borne his child. Over the years, Fanghua had been by his side the longest, and Wei Ci felt he had been very good to her.
They redeemed her from her servitude, rescued her from her misery, and provided her with a life of luxury. Therefore, it was only natural for them to have a child together.
"You must take good care of yourself and wait for me! Once my father receives the letter, he will send someone to rescue me! Then I will take you back to the capital and marry you, Fanghua."
The man's voice was filled with excitement and choked with emotion. He was excited that after so many years he finally had a child, and that he could now have a legitimate reason to bring the woman he loved into his home.
"Lord Wei, I am a prostitute, you said so yourself, haven't you forgotten?" Fanghua said expressionlessly.
Wei Ci hurriedly shook his head and said
"No...no! I was just too angry that day, I'm sorry..."
Then he saw the hand wrapped in gauze and asked in a trembling voice.
"Does your hand still hurt? Huh?"
Fanghua took a deep breath, not quite understanding as she looked at the man in front of her. Was the child really that important?
"Youthful Years..."
Wei Ci's breathing quickened. He was overjoyed. Fanghua was pregnant with his child, and he had a family now. He didn't care about Fanghua's past as a prostitute, nor did he care about her previous men. He only wanted the child and her.
"Lord Wei, I am unwilling."
"What?" Wei Ci asked, tilting his head as if he hadn't heard clearly.
"I said! I don't want to!" Fanghua said firmly.
"I don't want to have your child, I don't want to go back to the capital with you, and I don't even want to serve you! To put it another way, I'd rather it wasn't you who redeemed me!"
"Are you crazy?" Wei Ci couldn't believe what the woman was saying.
"I already told Lord Wei, didn't I? It's just that you weren't listening properly that night."
He remembered. Yes, that night Fanghua had told him many things she didn't want to do, and even deliberately provoked him to kill her.
"Lord Wei, I've come to see you today because you promised Mother Cen you would tell her everything."
Wei Ci's eyes gradually shifted from excitement to desolation. He turned around, his back to Fanghua, and said...
"You won't end up with them. They're a thorn in the Emperor's side! He won't let them get away with it."
Fanghua acted as if she hadn't heard that, and continued to ask.
Where are those Xiongnu hiding?
"What if I don't tell you?" Wei Ci asked.
"If you don't tell me, I'll drink this abortion medicine." The woman's voice was as calm as a stagnant pool. To her, the child was like a strange, inanimate object. Even if it were lost, she wouldn't bother to look for it.
After hearing this, the man turned around and looked at Fanghua in disbelief, and said...
"Are you crazy?"
"Bitches are heartless."
He really is persistent, Fanghua thought. Everyone has a weakness, and Wei Ci's weakness is his child. He's a bit obsessed with it.
Wei Ci slid to the ground and said weakly.
"They're three miles west of the center of the mountains outside the county."
"Can you... keep him here?" he continued to ask.
Fanghua ignored her and walked out of the darkroom with the medicine bowl in her hand.
The sunlight was dazzling. Although there was no snow on the ground, the white snow on the surrounding rooftops still shone brightly in the sunlight.
The young woman squinted one eye, looked up at the sun, and suddenly felt that the winter in the border town wasn't so cold anymore. Then she drank the medicine in her hand in one gulp.
It's cold, and it tastes really bitter.
But I felt quite happy inside.
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