Chapter 102: Back Then 4

Changyi listened to her hysterical laugh and furrowed his brows.

"Oh," Shunde stared at him, "you probably won't live to see that day. When Ji Yunhe comes, I will sacrifice the two of you together. She is a nine-tailed fox, you are a jiaoren, with your power I will be invincible! Hahahahaha!"

"You will never get her." Shunde's eyes turned.

"Oh? Is that so?"

"She won't fall for your trap." Shunde laughed, and the unhealed scar on her face looked like a snake.

"She won't? Ah... these words sound really familiar... Back then, while Ji Yunhe was locked up in the Grand Master's house, she also said I would never get you..."

Changyi's heart skipped a beat. Back then... Ji Yunhe said that?"... But look," Shunde continued, "after all these years, here you are. And I am certain that she will come even if she knows this is a trap."

Shunde pressed her face closer to the black iron bars.

"Six years ago, she was willing to risk her life to push you off a cliff and set you free, then sacrifice herself to keep my men from chasing after you..."

Every word she spoke struck Changyi like thunder. His eyes grew wider and wider.

"... What did you say?"

"Oh?" Shunde smiled.

"She never told you?" She looked at his expression and laughed out manically.

"She never revealed anything after you took her to the north? Why she pushed you, why she was captured, and how I tortured her for six years."

Changyi's face grew pale and his lips trembled. He felt a painful chill burst out from his body, piercing through him from inside.His breathing involuntarily quickened and his fingers wanted to clench, but the pain kept him from making a fist.

"Haha, she couldn't even bear to let you hear the truth."

When Ji Yunhe was taken to the north, she was already too weak. Changyi understood why she never told him. With a dying body, she felt it would be pointless and would only serve as an unnecessary distraction.

And now...

She had gone through life and death, and returned to his side. Changyi thought it was his own lost and found, so he said the past no longer mattered.

He thought he forgave her, and learned to let go... But it turned out that was not the case. She hid the truth and endured everything by herself... For him.

"Ji Yunhe will definitely come." Shunde glanced at Changyi.

"You two can die together as my sacrifices." She turned and left.

He closed his eyes. He could sense that Ji Yunhe was already nearby in the capital. She must be making plans right now, but no matter how great the plan, the imperial dungeon was not a place you could just come and go in one piece.

Changyi opened his eyes and stared at Shunde's back. He could not let Ji Yunhe risk her life like this. To keep her from coming, he would need to either escape, or die. Changyi braced himself against the wall and stood up unsteadily.

"Stand still," he weakly called out. Shunde stopped in the hall.

Changyi lifted his pale, frosty hand and bit himself on the wrist. The blood flowed out and dripped down, and they did not stop there. They pulsed on the ground as more and more flowed from his wrist, gradually coalescing into a blood-colored ice sword.

"You want my life, fine. But you want to touch Ji Yunhe, no."

Shunde mocked him, "Jiaoren, what makes you think you can still talk to me like this?"

Changyi did not answer her. The blood sword pierced through the damp air inside the dungeon, and shook the ground under the entire city.