Chapter 20: Misfortune
Luo Xifeng suddenly turned his face away and said, "Hold tight."
Then, he raised his palm and slapped the rock wall with all his strength.
With the recoil force, the two men rushed upwards like arrows.
The moment she landed, Chu Yangyang was thrown towards Xiao Renyu, but she herself slid backwards due to inertia, with half of her body hanging on the edge of the cliff.
"Brother Xifeng!"
"Luo Xifeng!"
Two hands grabbed his wrist at the same time.
Chu Yangyang knelt on the gravel ground, her palms cut by the rough stone edges, bloody and mangled, but she still held his sleeves tightly.
Bright red blood drops dripped onto Luo Xifeng's pale face, burning his eyebrows and making them jump.
The only thing in his eyes was Chu Yangyang's face, trying desperately to save him.
When the three of them finally escaped from danger, Chu Yangyang collapsed in the dry grass, gasping for breath.
Xiao Renyu held Luo Xifeng's scarred palm, unable to stop feeling distressed, "Brother Xifeng, are there any herbs that can be used for the compress? I'll go pick some for you."
Luo Xifeng pulled back his hand and said calmly, "It's okay, it's just a superficial wound."
His eyes turned to Chu Yangyang who was not far away. Xiao Renyu followed Luo Xifeng's gaze and asked with concern, "Princess, are you okay?"
Chu Yangyang felt a little apologetic, "Sorry, Sister Renyu, my fear of heights seems to be getting worse, and it's ruining your good mood for the outing."
Xiao Renyu looked at her sincere face and felt sorry for her. "I'm glad you're okay. Rest for a while, then we'll set off again."
Now that you have climbed this far, you will regret not visiting the Feilu Waterfall.
Chu Yangyang straightened her clothes and shouted that they should continue to go out. The date between the hero and heroine had not been completed yet, so how could they go back home?
They walked for about another hour.
The roar of Feilu Waterfall was getting closer, and Chu Yangyang's embroidered shoes were already soaked with dew.
She watched Xiao Renyu standing on tiptoe to reach the wild flowers on the rock wall. Luo Xifeng raised his hand to block the thorns for her. His black sleeves brushed across the girl's blushing cheeks, just like a painting of a talented scholar and a beautiful woman in a storybook.
Tsk tsk, if they had gotten married earlier, wouldn’t she be able to escape from the Dead Sea sooner?
At this time, the Filu Waterfall came into view.
The waterfall fell into the world like the Milky Way, a rainbow rose in the mist, and a butterfly startled from the wild flowers happened to fly over two pieces of clothing that were close to each other by the pond.
Chu Yangyang touched her chin, feeling very satisfied.
This place is really suitable for a date.
"Sister Renyu, you guys just watch first, I need to go pee."
Chu Yangyang wisely found a reason to leave, leaving this beautiful scenery to the two of them.
She found a secluded corner where she could see them, sat by the gurgling stream, and admired the handsome men and beautiful women in front of her as if she were watching a movie.
Chu Yangyang felt a little regretful. She should have had a bucket of popcorn and a cup of Coke at that moment.
At this moment, I suddenly felt a cold touch on my calf.
Chu Yangyang lowered her head and saw a dark green snake wrapped around the embroidered shoes.
Her blood suddenly froze into ice.
She didn't dare move, for fear of disturbing the green snake.
However, the green snake hissed out its tongue, as if it had finally found delicious food.
Chu Yangyang was so frightened that her calves trembled.
The green snake was startled, and its sharp fangs instantly embedded deeply into the crimson skirt.
“Help!”
The roar of the waterfall drowned out the cries for help.
Chu Yangyang's right foot twisted and she fell straight into the water.
In the freezing cold pond, she barely opened her eyes and saw Luo Xifeng pushing Xiao Renyu to the shore through the swaying waves.
A man in a black robe swam towards her like a sharp blade, splitting the water's surface. His face, which was always covered with frost, now had an anxiety that she had never seen before.
Her wrist was grabbed instantly and her body was lifted out of the water by two strong hands.
Chu Yangyang regained oxygen, but before she could take a deep breath, the waterfall rushed over and swept the two of them away.
Luo Xifeng was quick-eyed and quick-handed. He stretched out his arm and grabbed a piece of driftwood.
Seeing this, Chu Yangyang immediately climbed onto the driftwood. Luo Xifeng was around her from behind, his arms across her chest, holding tight against the driftwood that was trapping them both.
He pressed his fingertips on her vital point, and the strength of his palm was enough to crush her wrist bones.
The previous anxiety had long since disappeared, and the words turned into ridicule, "The princess's tricks are becoming more and more diverse. Even playing in the water requires dragging others to be buried with her."
Chu Yangyang choked on a few mouthfuls of water and was speechless. Why did God poke her in the back and only hurt her?
There is simply no peace at all.
"Hold your breath."
Suddenly, a torrent of water came, and Luo Xifeng's bloody command rang in his ears.
Chu Yangyang had just taken half a breath when she was pushed into the water by the rapids.
Countless pieces of gravel scraped across her back. She clung to Luo Xifeng like a life-saving straw, biting her lips tightly to prevent herself from screaming.
After an unknown amount of time, the water flow gradually slowed down.
Luo Xifeng found the right moment, stretched out his arm, and hooked a branch that extended to the water surface.
With the help of the branches, the two finally returned to the shore.
Chu Yangyang lay on a reed beach, coughing violently, and every breath smelled of rust.
After being able to breathe smoothly, the severe pain in her calf gradually became clearer. Chu Yangyang trembled in pain, but did not dare to struggle.
She looked at Luo Xifeng cautiously, trembling and pointing to her calf, "Lord Luo, my leg was bitten by a snake. The snake... seemed to be dark green."
Luo Xifeng's expression suddenly changed.
He slammed her down against the slippery rock, sending up a trail of blood as he tore the hem of her skirt.
Two blackened tooth holes were embedded in the pale skin, like the grinning mouth of a devil.
Luo Xifeng immediately wrung out the hem of his clothes. The moment his slender fingers touched her ankle, Chu Yangyang was so scared that she curled up into a ball, "What are you doing?"
"The poison has entered the meridians and will surely lead to death within three hours."
He sneered and tore off the strip of cloth. "Or does the princess want to try to die by having her intestines pierced and her stomach ruptured?"
Chu Yangyang didn't dare to move.
When the warm lips touched her calves, she dug into the mud beneath her tightly.
The black blood that Luo Xifeng spat out dyed the pebbles red. The man who had once been stepped on by her now controlled her life and death.
"Why save me?" Her voice was as thin as a mosquito's.
Luo Xifeng's eyes were filled with the gloom of an approaching storm, "The Luo family case must be brought to light."
He said to himself that he still needed her help with the Luo family matter.
He narrowed his eyes, but he still couldn't let his guard down towards the woman in front of him.
He suddenly grabbed her neck and pressed her against the tree trunk, the snake venom on his palm burning her skin. "Tell me, did you attract the poisonous snake on purpose?"
The rough bark rubbed her back, and Chu Yangyang shook her head desperately.
The scattered hair stuck to Luo Xifeng's raised arm. Through her tearful eyes, she saw a hideous scar.
In the original owner's memory, she once burned his arm with a branding iron and said a few more words to the maid to punish him.
After this period of death torment and torture, she suddenly felt the same way about the humiliation Luo Xifeng had suffered.
He was only willing to endure humiliation because of the unjust deaths of his family members.
"sorry……"
She choked up and touched the scar, "I'm so sorry..."
Luo Xifeng didn't seem to expect her to apologize. He looked at her in surprise with his deep eyes, and his hard heart seemed to soften for a moment.
She seems to have really changed.
In just a moment, her peripheral vision caught sight of the scar on her wrist again, and the once ferocious and brutal beauty gradually overlapped with her current face.
Chaos's consciousness was brought back again.
Luo Xifeng shook her off as if he had been bitten by a poisonous snake.
He shouldn't have any sympathy for her.
He shouldn't forget everything she did to him in the past. He won't kill her now, he just needs her to help him find out the truth about the Chalo family, that's all.
Chu Yangyang was thrown into the mud by him and watched his back rising and falling in the twilight.
The setting sun was as red as blood, staining half of her sleeve red, and there was blood from her calf on it.
After a while, Luo Xifeng walked to the corner with an expressionless face, picked some herbs, then crushed them into medicinal juice with a stone and applied it to the wound on Chu Yangyang's calf.
The originally red, swollen and painful calves finally got a moment of relief.
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