Li Wan Heng Jin
She remained silent, staring at him calmly, her eyes as cold as the ones she used to look at strangers beside her.
She didn't speak to him like she did in the nightmare, but was calmer, more like the real her.
Heng Jin was actually more afraid of her current calmness and indifference. He would rather be condemned and scolded by her.
He understood what this meant given Li Wan's temperament.
The magic sword in his hand flew out uncontrollably, the tip of the sword aimed accurately at her heart and flew straight towards her.
At the same time, the spell that the Moon Fairy had cast on him was suddenly released. Without thinking for a moment, he used all his strength to teleport to her side, cast a spell to control the magic sword to stop, and the tip of the sword was only an inch away from his body.
Suddenly, there was a lot of noise in the hall.
At this moment, her icy soul was also placed on his neck.
"What's Emperor Heng Jin up to now? Don't you think it's contradictory?"
"Now that things have come to this, no amount of excuses will make any difference compared to the pain I've caused you. Wanwan, I will protect you until my death. Follow me closely."
"Leave? Tens of thousands of heavenly soldiers and generals and this palace full of rebels, who wouldn't want me dead? You've caused the current situation, haven't you? My Heqi and my loyal subjects all died here. I will never live in vain. I can't defeat you now. If you truly feel guilty, pay with your life."
Heng Jin pressed his neck against the sword blade, turned around to face her, and handed his magic sword to her.
"Hundreds of loyal ministers and generals have died tragically at my hands. I deserve to die as an atonement for this sin."
Li Wan immediately took the magic sword he handed over and placed it on his neck. The sharp blade immediately made him bleed.
The murderous intent in her eyes couldn't be deceived.
Repeatedly suppressing her grief and anger, she gnashed her teeth and said, "I wish I could tear you into pieces! Dying to atone for your sins would only make you feel better, but it wouldn't repay us in the slightest. I'm so incompetent that I couldn't even bring myself to kill you. It's ridiculous that I thought you were far more useful alive than dead, that your military exploits had truly blessed countless souls, and that they would still need you in the future, and wouldn't hesitate to take your life."
Before Li Wan let go, the magic sword was wrapped in surging spiritual power. A powerful divine power urged it to break away from Li Wan's hand, and it rolled and fell to the open space on the side. Half of the sword body was tilted and inserted into the crack in the ground.
All the people in the hall came together to pay homage to the Lord of Heaven.
Turning around, he saw the sullen-faced Emperor of Heaven. Facing the Emperor's majesty, he was terrified and cautiously protected her behind him.
"I didn't realize that all these years of careful upbringing had turned you into the wretch you are today, Jin'er. You truly make me both happy and disappointed."
"Through all the sins I've committed today, I've already betrayed my original intention of protecting all living beings and my duties and obligations as a god. I'm no longer worthy of being a god. I beg you, Lord Heaven, to remove me from my position immediately."
"You think you can abolish your divine position so you can unburden yourself and live peacefully with her? Don't even think about it. Even if I treat you as my own son and show you every favor, I will never allow you to go against the heavens. You insist on falling into depravity and joining the witch. Then die here with her. If you kill her, I can forgive you for today's incident, and you will still be the first to achieve the feat."
Heng Jin and Li Wan knew very well that if the Emperor of Heaven was not here, Heng Jin might be able to save her if he fought hard.
Right now, it is a dead end with no doubt about it.
He took off his thick armor, knelt before the Heavenly Lord, kowtowed solemnly, and performed a great ceremony. "I choose to die here with her."
Li Wan swung her Ice Soul to commit suicide, then collapsed on the throne. Using her last remaining strength, she said to Heng Jin, "I feel sick of dying with you."
After saying this, she died.
Just like the ending of his nightmare, Li Wan died with her eyes wide open, filled with resentment.
Caught off guard, Heng Jin didn't even dare to touch her body, because before she died, she said with a tone of disgust and resentment: I feel uncomfortable dying with you.
The Heavenly Lord teleported behind him, pierced his chest with his bare hands, got close to him, and shattered his divine essence.
When he was dying, he heard the Heavenly Lord say in his ear: "You who would be defeated by a petty lover are unworthy to be my adopted son, you are a traitor."
His consciousness gradually faded and his five senses were gone.
The scene displayed in the memory scroll fell silent and dark again, and a white dot the size of a fist lit up in the distance. The light it emitted gradually increased and expanded, completely dispelling the darkness.
The scroll showed Heng Jin, dressed in a bright red wedding dress, sleeping on the couch in her bedroom. She suddenly woke up and sat up.
Looking down, she saw the red silk flower tied on his chest, and then looked at the unfamiliar wedding clothes he was wearing, and Heng Jin was even more confused.
Wasn’t he... killed by the Heavenly Lord?
Could it be a dream within a dream?
Everything that happened was too real. At the moment, Heng Jin couldn't tell whether she was in a dream or reality.
Heng Jin wanted to summon Xiang Yao to question him immediately, but Tianjun pushed open the door of his bedroom first.
After closing the palace door, the Emperor sat down beside his couch with concern and straightened the red silk flower on his chest that was slightly crooked.
"I'm sorry, Jin'er. It's hard for you to be a widower at such a young age. However, I'm even pleased that you have this awareness. Marriage and love shouldn't be a stumbling block."
widower?
He didn't even know who he was going to marry, yet he was about to be labeled a widower.
Could it be that this marriage is a... marriage in the underworld?
Even though he had doubts in his heart, he felt that he should not ask the Heavenly Monarch for confirmation and clarification. He had no choice but to follow the Heavenly Monarch's words and responded, "I'm not wronged."
Tianjun nodded with satisfaction, cast a spell and conjured up a crystal clear dagger out of thin air and handed it to Heng Jin.
The dagger was a crimson red, its sheen as dazzling as a ruby. The scabbard, made of the same material, fitted the dagger perfectly, and without carefully examining the rounded sides, one would be hard to detect its presence.
"This dagger is made of red whale marrow and soaked in a corpse-dissolving poison. It will completely corrode her body overnight. To be absolutely sure, you will use this dagger to kill her when the time comes."
Heng Jin took the dagger from Qin Liang, resisting in her heart and trying to guess the identity of the bride.
He had only seen the corpse-bone poison in ancient books. This poison was rare and precious, and the method of making it was even more vicious and cruel. It was the only method of making poison that used "living dead" to extract corpse poison. The secret to its success lay in the juice of a corpse flower that bloomed in ancient tombs thousands of years ago.
The poison penetrates into the flesh and blood through the wounds, and begins to corrode the internal organs and flesh from the inside out. The pain is no less than that of a mortal being subjected to the punishment of slow slicing.
The specific method of making the drug has long been lost, and there are only a few records.
Although I don't understand the whole story, why would he go to this extent and plot against a woman by using marriage as an excuse?
How he hoped that this was just a nightmare.
"Jin'er, don't overthink it. It's not that I don't believe you can't take his life. It's just that, in my heart, I've long considered you my own son. At this moment, I'm not just the Emperor of Heaven, but also a father worried about his child. You, you, using your spiritual consciousness to sign a life and death agreement is no joke. It's so reckless and infuriating. I'm truly afraid... Jin'er, do you understand?"
At this moment, the tearful Emperor really looked like a kind father.
Heng Jin, who also always looked up to the Emperor as her own father, did not feel touched by the concern after hearing these words. Instead, she felt that they sounded fake.
Such an outrageous thought emerged in Heng Jin's mind, and she herself was shocked and puzzled.
If you fail to sign a life and death agreement with your spiritual consciousness, you will face the end of your spiritual consciousness being destroyed and your soul being scattered.
He secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Since it was a life-or-death agreement he had signed...
The bride...it couldn't be her...
"Jin'er?"
Heng Jin, who was called back from her trance by the Heavenly Sovereign, responded, "Jin'er understands the Heavenly Sovereign's good intentions. I also regard you as my reborn parent."
"Good boy. When you return from your mission, I will officially declare to the world that you are my only biological son."
The Heavenly Lord hugged him and gently stroked his back as if he was comforting him when he was a child.
After a brief embrace, Tianjun asked again, "Did you not get enough rest last night? Or... Ever since I joined, I've noticed you've been a little uneasy."
"I had a long nightmare last night. It was so real and terrifying that I'm a little uneasy. Don't worry, Lord Tian. I will adjust to my current state as soon as possible and will definitely complete the mission."
"Okay, all the gods and immortals are waiting for me, so I will leave first. I believe my Jin'er will not disappoint my husband and father, right?"
"Well, I respectfully send you off, Lord Tian."
As he stood up to leave, the Heavenly Lord asked him with a smile, "Jin'er, why are you still calling me Heavenly Lord? Don't you want to be your father's heir?"
Heng Jin understood that the Lord's words were not really asking whether he wanted to be his offspring, but were a warning and a test, asking whether he had wavered in his determination to kill his bride.
He doesn’t want to…
I don't want to hurt a woman in this way. Even if she has made a huge mistake, I shouldn't use marriage as an excuse to murder her.
However, he didn't understand the cause and effect, so he could only go with the flow, pretending not to understand, and answered the Tianjun's literal answer in a seemingly obedient manner.
"Yes, Jin'er respectfully sends father off."
Tianjun patted his shoulder with satisfaction and praised: "Good boy."
Not long after the Heavenly Lord left, the auspicious time for the wedding arrived.
During this period, he never saw Xiang Yao, nor could he summon him to ask questions.
He had no memory of this marriage, and it was like two nightmares...
It makes people feel frightened and uneasy.
At this critical juncture, he couldn't reveal his memory loss and cause unnecessary trouble, so it was even more impossible for him to ask anyone other than Xiang Yao. He only trusted Xiang Yao.
Heng Jin rode on the wedding sedan that was decorated with red silk and stars. A hundred-year-old red phoenix circled and danced around the sedan, and sweet fairy music played. The long wedding procession stretched as far as the eye could see, and it was very lively.
The wedding carriage did not go into the demon world, but went to the place where he was born - Qiwu Mountain.
Since his parents and clansmen were all killed, no outsiders have moved into Qiwu Mountain. He no longer has the basis to guess the identity of the bride based on the wedding venue, let alone take the opportunity to figure out the reason for her murder.
On the way to bring the bride onto the wedding sedan and back to heaven, he was secretly observing her out of the corner of his eye.
But she said nothing, and her red veil covered her face tightly. Every time the wind blew and lifted a corner of her veil, Heng Jin's eyes would follow nervously, but she never got what she wanted.
Unless it was absolutely necessary, he didn't want to offend anyone by looking at her face through the red veil.
He tried to sense the bride's breath and magic to determine where she came from, but she brought the purple orchid with her.
The shape of the purple orchid resembles a swallow, and it often blooms in the form of "two birds on a branch". Gradually, creatures picked it and gave it to their lovers and close friends, hoping that like it, they could accompany and coexist with each other forever.
It grows on the cliffs of some fairy mountains in the flower world. The more slippery the crevices in the rocks are and the more often there is thick fog, the more it likes them.
When the first rays of morning light rise from the horizon, the entire purple orchid, including its branches and roots, will become transparent. It will not return to its original purple color until sunset, very slowly.
Because it is difficult to find, many creatures do not know much about it and choose to give it as a gift with more readily available symbolic objects.
What they don’t know is that its greatest function is actually to cover up one’s own aura when wearing this flower.
She raised her hand slightly, and pointed at the ground with her slender, white fingers. Heng Jin looked in the direction she pointed, and saw a line of words floating in the hidden corner in front of her eyes, which were manifested by magic:
Emperor, you are not allowed to peek.
Heng Jin, who was "caught", felt a little embarrassed and blurted out the word "sorry" subconsciously. Although the apology was sincere, it seemed awkward.
After listening to him, she tilted her head slightly to look at him, then quickly turned her head back and said nothing.
Through the red veil, he had no idea of her reaction.
"Why don't you speak?"
The bride said, "Because of what I just said, I only want to let the Emperor know, I don't want anyone else to hear it."
The familiar voice made him suddenly feel uneasy. His whole body felt as cold as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, and even his breathing became slow and heavy.
No wonder, the heavenly plan was to have him marry her and then kill her.
The wedding carriage stopped just as she finished speaking. On the high throne, the Emperor sat upright, looking somewhat serious, his emotions expressionless, which made it easy for the audience to imagine and suspect more... Perhaps the Emperor did not like this marriage of his "adopted son".
Heng Jin took a quick look at the guests at the banquet, as well as the wedding attendants, and found that not a single one was from the Demon Realm. Even Li Wan's younger brother He Qi and the Pluto King Cha Suxun had never appeared from beginning to end.
What on earth... happened...
He no longer worried about being punished by heaven for calculating the fortunes, and immediately put his hands into the wide sleeves of his wedding robe and calculated.
Calculation revealed:
It was he who seduced her heart step by step and made her fall in love with him.
It was actually he who discussed this plan with the heavenly beings and many colleagues. In order to dispel the distrust and concerns of the gods and immortals towards him, he decisively signed a life and death statement with his spiritual consciousness to prove his firm determination to kill her.
The reason why he chose to marry her and then kill her was because he took into account the various aspects of life in the mortal world during the negotiation process.
Since ancient times, women have been easily trapped by marriage. And the most effective way to easily ruin a woman, even to the point of "wiping out her entire family," is through marriage. Once the name of a couple is attached, it seems that the consequences of bestial behavior can be reduced to a light "punishment" at best, or even just "sighs and criticisms."
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