Cang Lan Dao - Chapter 10.2

Chapter 10.2
Save Me!

The more Luo Shangchun listened, the more puzzled he became. As he neared the inspection tents, he smiled. “Why do you have so much to instruct? No need to finish in one breath. We still have a lot of time.” Saying this, Luo Shangchun raised his eyes, looking towards the tent used for searching. “Go. Brother will wait outside, and then we’ll chat slowly.”

Luo Wanqing’s eyelashes fluttered. She lowered her eyes and didn’t say much. The inspection tents for men and women were separated. The two parted ways and Luo Wanqing walked into the tent. She watched as a female jailer came up and searched her body. She took away all her things, leaving only her dagger. She helped her stick it into her waist and whispered, “Hide it well. You won’t be able to keep it if someone found it on the road.”

Luo Wanqing looked at the other party and realized she was Jiang Shaoyan’s person. She stared at her silently. The other party noticed she didn’t move and frowned, “What are you doing?”

“I’ll trouble you to bring a message to the Prince,” Luo Wanqing looked at her and smiled gently, “I’ve known the Prince for five years. Our love is deep, yet our fate is shallow. I hope that the Prince will remember me. If I unfortunately perish, I want a memorial tablet and enshrine it where I can see the Prince day and night, lest I won’t be able to find him when I’m on my way to the Yellow Springs.”

“What did you say ……”

“Zheng Clan is a temporary solution for him.” Luo Wanqing knew that this jailer would not do something for nothing. She slightly bent down, probed forward, and whispered in her ear, “The Prince is still taking care of me so far, so if you tell my words to him, the Prince will remember you.”

Hearing the jailer’s eyes light up, Luo Wanqing smiled faintly and saluted to leave. When she turned back and exited the inspection tent, her eyes immediately went cold. She knew Jiang Shaoyan as a person. He was ruthless, but he wasn’t heartless towards her. He didn’t want her to die.
So even if she stabbed her, he would still take care of her. Then she will have to “die” for him to see.

Liu Xiniang would create a death accident on the way to Lingnan to ensure that the government wouldn’t trace them back. If the news of her death reaches Jiang Shaoyan, and if Jiang Shaoyan is willing to store her memorial tablet, there will be a rift between Zheng Biyue and Jiang Shaoyan. Moreover, people always miss their lost past. After leaving this sentence, ‘I won’t be able to find him when I’m on my way to the Yellow Springs.’ Jiang Shaoyan will take it as she loved him to the end of her life.

He thought she would hate him, but she loved him.
He thought she would live, but she died.

Such an accident, he would remember. Then, during those days and nights when he saw the tablet, it would deepen the impression. As his life gets arduous in the future, he will miss this lost person more and more. If all went as she thought it would, this feeling of his would be her great advantage. If not, then there was no harm.

Luo Wanqing’s heart was slightly bitter as she realized this. She had never thought that one day she would treat her feelings as a calculation and that one day, she would think about Jiang Shaoyan’s relationship with her like this. From the age of fourteen to nineteen, her daily greatest wish was to be able to marry Jiang Shaoyan. And now, it has become killing Jiang Shaoyan.

She couldn’t help but smile bitterly, feeling that this was like what Jiang Shaoyan had said. Regardless of love or hate, the most important thing in her life was him.

Luo Wanqing closed her eyes unwillingly, understanding that this was Jiang Shaoyan’s conspiracy. But so what? She hated him for the rest of her life. But she also wanted Jiang Shaoyan to carve her name, for the rest of his life, in his world, so that when he thought of the three words Luo Wanqing, it was akin to skin and pluck out his flesh, hating that he would never see her again for the rest of his life.

Thinking of this, she opened her eyes. Ahead was the exit of the prison. There was a high platform where an official stood. Each jailer in the row handed the paperwork to the official at the door, and the official read out the name and the crime. After checking the correctness, the woman took the iron shackles, while the man took the iron shackles and wooden board. Not far from the official platform, there were blazing fire pits on both sides to keep the officials warm. That was the place.

She settled down and looked up at her family. She could only send them so far before she had to head back and go where she needed to go. She quietly watched her family members walk out one by one. When it was her turn, the official shouted, “Next, hurry up.”

Luo Wanqing’s heartstrings trembled. She didn’t make a sound, lifting her steps forward, silently lifting her hand to caress the dagger hidden in her waist. Her body trembled slightly, her gaze fixed on that fire pot. She touched the dagger’s sheath and still felt Jiang Shaoyan’s blood on her hand. This cold touch suppressed her fear, and her steps became urgent. The crowd finally realized something was wrong, but it was too late. She didn’t hesitate for a second, and amid the crowd’s shrieks, she slammed headlong towards the fire pit!

Between the sharp pain of blood and flesh burning, what surfaced before Luo Wanqing’s eyes was the appearance of Jiang Shaoyan smiling gently at her as he held his sword under the afternoon sunlight in Jiangnan. At that moment, all the pain became irrelevant as she pressed herself to roll in the coals, feeling blood fill her mouth.

She felt a myriad of emotions pressing down on her chest, finally exploding into a mournful, shrill howl that resounded through the prison.
“AHHHHHH!!!”

Author’s Notes: Mini Theater

Luo Wanqing: “My greatest wish right now is to kill Jiang Shaoyan.”
Jiang Shaoyan: “In the future, the name I love and hate the most in my life will be that one person.”
Xie Heng: “Heh, what can I say? Look at me crawling madly and gloomily between you all. Look at me! All of you look at me! I’m the strongest!”
Reader Fan: “Crawl? Where are you crawling? Crawl to the early chapters and show us!”
Xie Heng: “……”