Through her teary eyes, she saw Duan Xingzhi standing on the eaves.
She reached out her hand to him.
"Night Owl! Save me..."
Xiao Renyue suddenly grabbed her, sneering disdainfully, "You still expect that killing god to save you?"
"Don't forget, it was you who informed me to take his life!"
"He's already being kind by not killing you, why would he save you?"
Ji Xueyan recalled the scene of Duan Xingzhi saving her in her previous life, frame by frame, grabbed Xiao Renyue's wrist and bit down!
"Ah—!" Xiao Renyue screamed, flung his wrist away, and threw Ji Xueyan aside.
"What do you know?" Ji Xueyan laughed maniacally, her lips and teeth stained with blood. "He will save me, he will definitely save me!"
"This matter is not up to him at all!"
From her past life, she knew that something in the dark seemed to control Night Owl, making him willing to pay any price, even risk his own life, to protect her.
She believed that he would do the same for her in this lifetime.
She crawled out of the palace amidst the flames.
"Night Owl...save me..."
A beam suddenly fell down, blocking her path.
Xiao Renyue held up her skirt.
"Trying to run?" His face was sinister. "If I die, you won't live either!"
"Traitors...traitors all deserve to die!"
Flames licked at the corners of their clothes.
Painful howls and desperate cries echoed from inside the hall.
Duan Xingzhi simply stood there.
He watched coldly.
Until the flames extinguished everything, burying all his dark past.
He watched as Xiao Shiye ordered his men to put out the fire, watched as the two charred corpses were carried out, and looked up at the cold moonlight.
I suddenly miss Ayi so much.
He lightly touched the ground with his toes and flew towards the place he had been longing for.
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