The dry leaves on the ground had already caught fire, and the guards were shouting for help to put out the fire, while also surrounding Ali and Xu Yi.
Ali dragged Xu Yi back into the house, where most of the fire had already started burning, and a wave of heat hit them in the face.
Xu Yi looked at the room that was about to become a sea of fire, and said to Ah Li, "Poisonous woman... no, Su Li, calm down, we can talk slowly."
Ali shoved Xu Yi to the ground, spread her arms wide, and made him see her red wedding dress. She said sadly, "Do you see this red wedding dress I'm wearing? I thought that on our wedding night, if I explained things to you properly, you would understand me and pity me."
"But what about you! You left me alone in the bridal chamber while you led people to search for my sister in that lake. It's been so many days, and you're still looking. Do you think you can find her?"
At that moment, something inside the house burned through and fell next to Xu Yi.
Xu Yi moved aside, knowing he couldn't provoke Ah Li at this moment. He glanced at Ah Li's appearance and noticed the fire in the room. This person had anticipated his arrival and was just stalling for time outside.
Ah Li squatted down, grabbed Xu Yi's chin, and said, "Do you know? Today, you've ruined yourself! You ignored me, and the people in the manor didn't treat me like a proper wife. They didn't even send me any food, and they took a lot of my dowry from me."
"When there was nothing left for me, they cut off my food and locked my courtyard gate. Xu Yi, did you know about these things or not?"
As Ah Li's cries of anguish filled the air, Xu Yi suddenly realized that he had indeed never inquired about her affairs since she married him. He slowly said, "I'm sorry, I didn't know any of this."
"I'm sorry, is being sorry enough?"
Ah Li raised her hand and slapped Xu Yi across the face. Xu Yi's face swelled up instantly. He wanted to glare at Ah Li fiercely, but he held back.
The fire under the sycamore tree seemed impossible to extinguish, growing ever larger.
Inside the house, a beam had fallen down.
As Xu Yi raised his hand to block, the original owner lunged at him, trying to shield him from the burning beam.
The original owner said, "I don't love him anymore, let him go."
The original owner who had disappeared earlier had not left; she remained in this courtyard.
Ahri took off her red wedding dress and draped it over the original owner of the body. "Are you really going to let him go?"
Xu Yi lost consciousness at this point because he had been crushed by the beam.
The original owner raised her hand and touched Xu Yi's face. She said, "You have already said everything that needed to be said for me, but he has no remorse at all. Instead, he is thinking about how to settle accounts afterward. I was wrong. I loved the wrong person."
Ah Li then asked, "Are you going to be reincarnated?"
"No, I also want to find my sister. All these years, she has disappeared without a trace, neither alive nor dead. Where is she?"
Ahri noticed that a guard was about to rush in, and she said, "Okay, I'll take you to find your sister."
The next second, a woman in a red wedding dress lay on top of Xu Yi. She had taken most of the damage for Xu Yi and was already dead.
The original owner looked at the two people on the ground, then at Ahri.
Ah Li curled her lips into a smile. "You starved to death back then, so even if he knew that, he probably would have just ignored it. Now, you've shielded him from most of the beam's damage and died right in front of him. I wonder what he'll think?"
Ahri also gave Xu Yi a false memory: before he lost consciousness, he saw the original owner of this body shield him from a falling beam. As the original owner was hit, she was still asking him, "Xu Yi, did you ever like me, even just a little bit..."
At this moment, the original owner looked at Xu Yi. Tears were sliding down her face, but instead of falling, they disappeared.
The original owner said to Ah Li, "Thank you."
A door appeared beside Ahri, and she said, "Let's go find your sister now."
"good."
Ahri took the original owner away.
Several guards, soaking wet, rushed in and found Xu Yi trapped under a beam, along with the woman lying on top of him.
"Quickly, save them!"
Seeing that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, several guards hurriedly moved the beams aside, then picked up Xu Yi and escaped.
The woman in the red wedding dress was left in the sea of fire.
After Xu Yi was carried out, the house collapsed.
Dust and smoke flew everywhere, followed by a loud boom.
Xu Yi woke up groggily to find himself surrounded by several guards, but the person in the red wedding dress was gone.
Xu Yi forced himself to ask, "Where's Su Li?"
One of the guards said, "Your Highness, we didn't bring that woman out."
"Who told you not to bring the people out?"
Xu Yi felt dizzy and lightheaded. He tried to clear his head, but he still passed out.
When Xu Yi woke up again, his father and mother had returned and were still by his bedside.
Prince Jing walked up to Xu Yi, looking even older. He said, "If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have left the manor with your mother, allowing you to run wild."
Xu Yi's mother also said, "Your father sent people to gather the people in the mansion for questioning. Many people in the mansion took that person's dowry and even cut off their food. They didn't starve to death, but instead caused this mess. Yi'er, you handled this matter haphazardly."
Xu Yi simply glanced at the smoky blue gauze curtains above the bed. "And what about her?"
Prince Jing said, "He died. When he was found in the ruins, he was no longer recognizable as human."
Xu Yi closed his eyes. He didn't feel heartache; instead, he felt a sense of absurdity that this person had died just like that.
Didn't she say she wanted him to stay in that courtyard with her? In the end, she still shielded him from the falling beam.
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