Chapter 501: Spend the rest of your life atonement
Is this a dream?
It must be a dream...
Yun Chen kept comforting himself, saying that everything would be fine once he woke up from the dream.
But she didn't understand. If it was a dream, why did her body feel so torn and painful?
There was also the distorted face of Yan Shijiu when he hacked at the guards, and the mad look on his face as he strangled her neck, which kept alternating, making her feel dizzy and want to vomit.
She had never felt so terrified and helpless as she did at that moment.
But to her shame, her body was completely out of control and was desperately craving and catering to him.
She kept having the feeling that her soul was about to leave her body, but she was also clearly aware of the acupuncture points where Yan Lang had previously given her acupuncture. Each point was like a firm hand, trying to pull her back, as if desperately suppressing some darkness to prevent it from rushing out.
Finally, when Yan Shijiu leaned over her and let out a sigh, this seemingly endless nightmare finally came to an abrupt end.
Yun Chen shuddered all over, opened her eyes and looked around in panic. The familiar layout of the dormitory around her told her that she was being taken back to Yan's Mansion again.
The cage used to hold A Ling was now covered with neatly arranged bedding, locking her inside.
She frantically touched her skirt, lifted the torn hem, and saw bruises and bloodstains all over her snow-white legs. The aches and pains from all over her body, as well as the blood scabs on her lips, all told her clearly:
That wasn't a nightmare, that really happened.
She stared blankly at the blood on the inside of her thigh and was about to collapse.
At this moment, Yan Shijiu, who had been sitting quietly in the dark shadows beside the couch not far away, suddenly spoke:
"Why didn't Yun Chen come out?"
Yun Chen was startled by his voice and stepped back suddenly, instinctively hiding in the opposite direction of his voice.
She wanted to take a weapon to defend herself, but there was nothing in the entire iron cage except soft brocade bedding.
The trapped beast's struggling appearance actually made Yan Shijiu even more depressed.
He sat there with his shoulders slumped, his features blurred, looking dejected, as if he had suffered a crushing defeat.
"Why didn't the other Yun Chen come out? Is it because even if I hurt you like this, it's not as important as Huo Gannian, nor as important as your faith? In your heart, I am so insignificant that I can't shake your heart, right?"
What does "another Yun Chen" mean?
Yun Chen didn't understand.
She clenched her teeth tightly, her lips trembling, but she could not make a sound. She could only stare at Yan Shijiu with eyes full of hatred.
He kept his head down, avoiding her sharp gaze, and slowly stood up from the couch, his tone dejected and cold:
"Since you don't want to go back to Yunyan with me, then let's not go back. I won't give up my plans for you... for anyone else. You don't have to think about eloping with Huo Gannian anymore, because the Black Scale Cavalry is coming to Kyoto soon, and everyone will die."
Yun Chen was stunned, forgetting all the pain in his body. He rushed to the cage and gripped the bars tightly, his voice distorted and out of control:
"What are you going to do?"
Yan Shijiu had no expression on his face:
"Early when you handed over your military power and Nan Lijun broke up the Lion and Tiger Armies, I made her careless. Using the excuse of 'not harming the peace of friendly countries and making up for the death of King Xiyan', I told her not to deploy heavy defenses on the border between Nan Kingdom and Xiyan.
The entire Nan Kingdom's border is currently most vulnerable near Xiyan. I have ordered Jiao Zuotai to lead 50,000 Black Scale Cavalry to attack from the southwest. I estimate that after consultation with the entire court, Lord Nanli will mobilize approximately 80,000 troops from the current garrison in Kyoto to meet the enemy.
But now you know, both West Yan and East Yan are mine. When the Nan Kingdom sends its troops to fight, they'll find more than 50,000 Black Scale Cavalry. I now have the entire West Yan reserve force. No matter how many troops the Nan Kingdom sends, I will only increase them by 20%, enough to completely annihilate the Nan Kingdom's troops in every battle.
After several battles, when the remaining troops in Kyoto are depleted, I will order Jiao Zuotai to attack Kyoto. After Nan Lijun dies and the Nan Kingdom is about to fall, I will reveal my identity as Emperor Dong Yan, playing the role of a lover who disregards status for love and is willing to be a male concubine. Now, unable to bear to see the Nan Kingdom fall into enemy hands, I am forced to order Dong Yan to lead a large army to rescue.
When that time comes, I will slaughter all the vicious Black Scale Cavalry in front of the entire world—this cannibalistic army, I will not spare them. From then on, I will be the savior who saves the Nan Kingdom from peril. Dongyan, Xiyan, and the Nan Kingdom will all be in my hands. I will be the king of the Three Kingdoms."
Yan Shijiu revealed all his plans. It was obvious that he had completely changed his mind and returned to his original intention.
Yun Chen was so frightened by this shocking conspiracy that his scalp was numb. Just a few hundred words foreshadowed that the land of the Three Kingdoms would be hit by a bloody storm with millions of casualties.
She could already foresee what kind of tragic scene of devastation the country of Nan would face.
"You're crazy, you're really crazy..." Yun Chen felt cold all over, "How many more people have to die..."
She didn't dare to think about how many innocent lives would be taken in the ensuing conspiracy battle.
Maybe there is Su Zhengyang, Song Qiaoqiao, Cao Shuyu...
Maybe everyone she knows will die, all for the power of a madman who wants to unify the three kingdoms!
"So, Yun Chen, you will stay in this cage until the day I ascend the throne of the Three Kingdoms. I will come to pick you up personally."
After saying that, Yan Shijiu left without looking back, his back looking extremely resolute.
No matter how Ren Yunchen banged the iron cage behind him and shouted at the top of his lungs to stop him, he did not turn back.
Yun Chen fell to the side of the cage in despair. She cried and tried hard to wipe the blood between her thighs, but she couldn't wipe it clean.
The dirty blood was like a branding iron, deeply imprinted on the skin.
She wanted to cover her head and cry bitterly for her lost innocence, but in the face of the doomsday when the country was about to be destroyed and countless innocent people would die tragically, what did chastity mean?
"Don't panic, don't be afraid... Think of a way... Cheer up, there must be a way..."
She tried to comfort herself randomly, looking for ways to escape, things she could use, but she sadly found that there was nothing around her. The iron cage isolated her from everything, and she couldn't even commit suicide.
"Anian, what should I do... Anian, Anian..."
She curled up into a ball and kept repeating Huo Gannian's name, as if only in this way could she find some firmness in her despair.
But what she didn't know was...
When she was like a trapped beast in a cage, murmuring the word "Anian".
Two top-secret handwritten orders by Huo Gannian himself, one to Luojiang in the northern border and the other to Yanlang in the eastern border.
The two letters were densely packed with words written in steady and sharp strokes, but the most eye-catching sentence was the last sentence:
"Use war to stop war, and the world will be at peace!"
Luo Jiang mobilized his army as quickly as possible, assembled a force of 100,000 and marched quickly.
On Dongyan's side, Yanlang read the letter over and over again, and the sweat on his palms almost soaked the letter.
For so many years, Yan Lang had begged, coerced, and driven Yan Shijiu... and he had hardly ever refused.
After being an accomplice to the evil for so many years, when Yun Chen's pulses were finally detected and he was ordered to prepare for the "Wedding of the Emperor and Empress", he made up his mind to end it all!
So, when a secret guard wearing black clothes with the black sparrow mark, with his face covered with black gauze and even his eyes blindfolded, quietly appeared in front of him and extended an olive branch to Huo Gannian, Yan Lang agreed without a second thought.
We can’t let Yan Shijiu go crazy like this again!
Yan Shijiu can no longer harm Yun Chen! Blaspheme his Bodhisattva! And destroy all living things!
Yan Lang was extremely determined at the time, but now, after receiving Huo Gannian's handwritten order, Yan Lang suddenly hesitated:
Are you really going to betray Yan Shijiu and join forces with Huo Gannian?
Huo Gannian said that if it succeeded, Yan Shijiu's life could be spared.
What if it fails?
I’m afraid Yan Shijiu will continue to threaten my mother, and even wait until the day he ascends the throne of the Three Kingdoms to imprison or kill me?
It would be fine if I died, but what about my mother?
Yan Shijiu will not serve his mother well, and only endless resentment will be waiting to torture his mother...
Yan Lang frowned, anxiously weighing everything over and over again. At this moment, a voice slowly approached:
"It's time to end it. He should have paid for what he did."
Concubine Zhao came to Yanlang at some point.
The secret guards of Guangyu Lanzhou have been frequently transferred recently. I wonder what Yan Shijiu is busy with in Nan Country.
The secret guards were somewhat negligent in their supervision, and Concubine Zhao often met with Yan Lang under the pretext of feeling unwell and needing to have her pulse checked.
She was dressed in a rare formal manner today, with delicate makeup, a head full of pearl hairpins, and the auspicious dress she wore when she was canonized as Concubine Zhao.
She looked around Guangyu Lanzhou, this beautiful prison, and smiled a somewhat forlorn smile:
"Lang'er, everyone must pay the price for their actions. Xing'er does, and so do I. The bloodline I gave birth to killed my love, and I feel guilty towards my child, for letting him slaughter the masses out of selfish grudges. This is my sin. And you, my child, aided and abetted the evil. You must spend the rest of your life atonement for this sin—"
Yan Lang was shocked by these words and stared at Concubine Zhao blankly, not knowing how to react.
He didn't expect that Concubine Zhao actually knew everything!
How heartbroken must she be when she found out that it was her two sons who had teamed up to kill their father, her beloved?!
Now, I have to watch my two sons kill each other...
Maybe it was because he knew that as long as she was around, Yan Shijiu would always have the leverage to control Yan Lang; or maybe it was because he finally saw Yan Lang recover from his illness and no longer needed her care.
Or maybe, it was because he had met a daughter-in-law as good as Yun Chen, and he had no regrets in this life.
Concubine Zhao stepped forward and gently embraced Yan Lang. While the latter was still in shock and had no time to react, she turned around and rushed towards a sturdy magnolia tree, slamming her head against the trunk and dying.
Red blood splattered out and splashed on the rust-red branches and leaves.
Yan Lang fell to his knees, his ears still ringing with Concubine Zhao's last words -
"Spend the rest of your life atonement."
Yan Lang rolled and crawled forward, hugged Concubine Zhao's body and burst into tears:
"Mother! I was wrong! I was really wrong! Mother..."
Unfortunately, the only response to Yanlang was the sobbing wind, blowing through the lush magnolia trees. The tiny sound sounded like the most humble confession.
Not far away, a secret guard dressed in black and covered with a black veil stood in a hidden corner. He straightened his clothes with the black sparrow mark on them and bowed in silence to the body of Concubine Zhao.
The secret guard knew that the dead were the most important, and Yan Lang should be allowed to bury Concubine Zhao first.
But the matter is of great importance and the war is about to break out, so we cannot delay.
He hesitated and said, "Third Prince..."
Yan Lang raised his face, tears streaming down his face, and his eyes were filled with endless regret.
"Tell your master I agree. But there is only one condition - don't let him live! Kill him for me!"
"Okay." The secret guard nodded and saluted, then quietly left.
Then, in less than half an hour, countless highly skilled secret guards, like ferocious black sparrows, attacked Guangyulan Island silently and in a dragnet. After a fierce battle that lasted a whole day and night, they killed all of Yan Shijiu's secret guards on the island and destroyed this "nest".
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