Chapter 499 Succubus (Part 1)
When Yun Chen looked into Yan Shijiu's cold eyes, his scalp suddenly felt numb and his breathing froze.
She had never seen Yan Shijiu so gloomy.
I never expected that Yan Shijiu would catch up so quickly and find the Green Water Pond with incredible accuracy!
How could it be possible? There was no way anyone else knew the place she and Huo Gannian had agreed to meet!
Without any hesitation, she immediately jumped up from the strange tree and escaped into the depths of the strange forest with her lightness skills.
However, after running ten feet away, Yan Shijiu did not move, and none of the people from the Yan Mansion caught up with him.
Only the two maids screamed as if their hearts were pierced by sharp blades, followed by the loud sound of an iron rod smashing their leg bones, which made Yun Chen stop in his tracks.
Yun Chen clearly heard Lan Qian's painful groan coming from behind him, as if she was trying hard not to make any sound so as not to make Yun Chen look back.
It seems that Lan Qian failed to escape in time and was caught.
"Come again."
Yan Shijiu issued the order in a cold tone.
Lan Qian then let out a heart-wrenching scream. Although the pain was extreme, she still cried out with all her might:
"Missy! Go—don't look back!!"
Yun Chen was shocked and stood still. He took a step forward and then retracted it.
Tears welled up in her eyes and she gritted her teeth. For a moment, she really wanted to be a shameless villain, ignore Lan Qian, and run away, so as not to let Lan Qian down.
Who knew that at this moment, Wan Chen's old-fashioned voice said:
"Madam, there's something new you need to hear—the Huo family's young master escaped in the middle of the night and was just captured by the imperial guards and brought back to the Huo Mansion. The servant Runhe who helped him escape was beaten half to death, and the Huo young master was also seriously injured..."
Just a few words made Yun Chen shudder all over and he froze in place.
She shook her head desperately, telling herself it was just a lie.
But Wan Chen's last sentence made it impossible for her to deceive herself. She was forced to face the reality of the failed elopement. She took steps with legs as heavy as stones, one step at a time, and walked back to the Green Water Pond.
Wan Chen said, "Madam, you should believe it. If it weren't for Young Master Huo, how would we know you were here?"
Yun Chen slowly walked out of the strange woods and saw that the green water pond was densely packed with Yan Mansion’s guards and thin masked secret guards.
The two maids had died innocently, and Lan Qian had fainted. Her calves were bent outward in an impossible posture, with broken bones protruding from her flesh, and blood all over the ground.
Wan Chen threw the bloody iron rod in his hand to the ground and said to the two guards beside him:
"This woman has been used up, throw her away."
Two guards immediately stepped forward and began to drag Lan Qian out.
It turned out that Lan Qian was wandering outside the mansion and following the convoy, and Wan Chen——
No, Yan Shijiu knew it from the beginning to the end.
He knew it, but didn't stop it.
He wanted to see what kind of trouble his beloved woman could make with the help of a little maid.
Because he already knew everything and knew that Yun Chen had been to that secret room.
Yun Chen was very cautious. He covered his tracks before leaving the secret room and hurriedly changed his clothes that were stained with pine oil. He didn't even have time to run hot water, so he used cold water to wash off the smell of pine oil.
But she forgot that A Ling had no clothes to change into, and there was some pine oil on its huge dark body. When the servants were giving it a bath in the yard, Yan Shijiu happened to pass by and noticed it.
"It's okay. After returning to Dongyan, some things can no longer be concealed. You have to accept that I am Yan Xing and also accept your own identity as the queen." Yan Shijiu said coldly, raising his hand to press hard on his brow, as if trying hard to suppress his anger.
"It's just that the Black Scale Cavalry shouldn't have let you know, and this really troubles me."
Yun Chen had no intention of responding to Yan Shijiu's emotions. He kept looking anxiously at Lan Qian who was being dragged away by two guards.
"Let her go, okay?"
Yan Shijiu was obviously stunned for a moment, and looked back at Lan Qian in disbelief, as if he was laughing out of anger:
"Yun Chen, I'm talking to you about our business, but you only have eyes for that maid? Is even a little maid more important than me? You're not afraid of being caught when your elopement fails? You're not afraid of leaving you with nowhere to go?!"
Yan Shijiu sneered, his expression provocative and contemptuous:
"You want to save her? Okay—beg me."
Without any hesitation, Yun Chen knelt on the ground with a plop.
This action was obviously beyond Yan Shijiu's expectations, and it completely ignited his long-suppressed anger.
He rushed to Yun Chen, grabbed her shoulders and pulled her up, saying angrily:
"For a mere slave! Are you willing to kneel before me, the evil leader who caused chaos in the world? I won't allow you to be so disrespectful!"
"Then what do you want?" Yun Chen neither struggled nor resisted, but said coldly:
"You like power and war, and you have already got what you wanted. You want the Nan Kingdom, and the Emperor has been completely deceived by you. You have taken everything from me and Anian. Now you want me to beg you, and I will do so."
Yun Chen's expression was so calm that Yan Shijiu became even more furious. The hand that was pinching her shoulder unconsciously became fiercer, and the pain made her unable to help but frown slightly.
"You've already won, Yan Shijiu, you have everything." Yun Chen's tone became strange and distant, with a hint of pleading:
"Please let Lan Qian go, let An Nian go."
"Don't even think about it!"
Yan Shijiu squeezed out these three words from between his teeth and raised his voice to her:
"I won't allow you to beg me for others! What do you mean by 'having everything'? I've never gotten what I wanted! You have no idea what I gave up for you? Yun Chen! I've decided to go back to Dongyan! I won't fight for anything! But why didn't you hate me or get angry with me after seeing everything in the secret room?! You're still thinking about Huo Gannian! You want to elope with him! Yun Chen! Why did you betray me?!"
Yan Shijiu became more and more excited as she spoke, and she grabbed Yun Chen's shoulders tightly with both hands, almost squeezing her body out of shape.
However, Yun Chen just frowned in pain, his eyes puzzled:
"I don't understand what you're saying. You want me just to humiliate and crush Ah Nian, right? What's the point of talking about 'failure'?"
After hearing Yun Chen's words, Yan Shijiu suddenly collapsed.
The calmer and more indifferent she was, the more he wanted to go crazy.
The anger mixed with years of grievances and immense pressure finally erupted at this moment:
"Do you think I went to such great lengths to secure this arranged marriage just to 'humiliate Huo Gan Nian'? I've been lying for over a decade, acting for over a decade! I've been deceiving the world and myself!
But Yunchen! You are the only one I am truly sincere to! Now I am willing to give up everything! I don’t care about the Nan Kingdom or my plans! All I want is you!!”
Yan Shijiu roared the last sentence, and Yun Chen was stunned.
When seeing everything in the secret room, Yun Chen was shocked and angry, but he could understand Yan Shijiu's ambition for power.
The only thing she didn't understand was why Yan Shijiu had to specifically formulate the "destroying will" strategy and devote his energy to torturing her time and time again?
Recalling her past with Yan Shijiu, every detail was hard to tell true from false, and she simply couldn't tell which one was the real him.
She would never have thought that everything about him was fake, and only those seemingly joking and understated words of "I love her" were true.
So, every day she treated him as a friend, he was carefully calculating his possession?
There has never been the romantic and funny Yan Shijiu, but only the ambitious and lustful Yan Xing?
This sudden confession did not make Yun Chen happy at all, and seemed even more shocking and terrifying than the secret room.
Looking at Yan Shijiu, who was so angry that he almost lost his mind, and whose whole body was filled with violence and madness, Yun Chen felt a panic as if he would never be able to escape from his control for the rest of his life.
"You're talking nonsense! I don't know what you're planning. But you're talking nonsense! Yan Nineteen!" She struggled to push him away, retreated desperately, looked for weapons to defend herself, and picked up a piece of dead wood to use as a shield.
Her panic actually made Yan Shijiu calm down a lot.
He drew Wan Chen's sword and approached her slowly, step by step:
"Don't lie to yourself. You love me too, Yun Chen. Otherwise, if you knew everything about that secret room, why didn't you kill me? In yesterday's battle, I exposed my lifeline to you seventy-four times, and you avoided it all. Yun Chen, at that moment I was sure that you loved me too."
Yun Chen was speechless and didn't know how to answer for a moment.
Seeing Yan Shijiu approaching aggressively with a dangerous aura, Yun Chen clenched the dead wood in his hand. Even though he knew he was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, he still attacked with all his might.
Yan Shijiu did not draw his sword, but only swung the scabbard to block. His moves were fierce but not fatal.
The iron scabbard quickly beat Yun Chen back step by step, and the dead wood in his hand became shorter and shorter, almost impossible to hold.
Soon, Yun Chen was forced into a dead end, with his back pressed against the cold stone wall.
At the last moment when Yan Shijiu was about to reach out and capture her, she panicked and suddenly did something that even she herself couldn't understand -
She raised the last sharp piece of wood in her hand and pressed the tip to her throat.
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