Cang Lan Dao - Chapter 25.1

Chapter 25.1
Accept All Her Conditions

When these words came out, both of them fell silent.

After a moment, Qin Jue reacted. He stared at Luo Wanqing: “You said you’ve only seen her a few times.”

If only a few times, how would you know so much information?

Luo Wanqing pursed her lips and hesitated for a long time before she said: “Actually, three months ago …… I met her.”

“Where?” Qin Jue calmed down a lot. As soon as he asked, he remembered that the woman in front of him was a death row prisoner from Yangzhou. He reacted, “In Yangzhou prison?”

Luo Wanqing nodded hesitantly. Qin Jue smiled at the thought: “She came to kill me?”

Luo Wanqing didn’t dare to make a sound. Qin Jue thought before reacting, “The assassin who ran away was her?”

“You …… “Luo Wanqing pursed her lips, “How do you know her?”

When Qin Jue heard this, his expression calmed down. He said softly: “Three years ago, I became a target of assassination. When she passed by, she saved me and sent me home. She takes great care of me on the way, and I ……”

“You like her?” Luo Wanqing asked.

Qin Jue did not speak. Over the lives of family members, how dare he say these despicable words?

He slowed down before answering: “Before leaving, she said she may return to ask for wine. I believed her, and I learned to make wine and other things. I waited for her every day. After two years, she finally came. She said she came to ask for wine. Then, she stayed, and we got together. She lives in my house, and I let my family meet her. We’re ready to get married. “

Qin Jue spoke hoarsely, “Before the wedding, someone reported my family for plotting treason. They found military armor in my house and also seized the paperwork about my father plotting to rebel. The evidence was conclusive with my father’s seal on the paperwork.”

“And then?” Luo Wanqing was puzzled.

Qin Jue said softly, “When they raided my house, I was still happy, thinking it was lucky she didn’t marry me and get implicated. I didn’t see her that day. Then, they escorted my father to Dongdu, and my family and I stayed in jail. At trial, the presiding officer said that the one who prosecuted my family was my fiancée, Zhang Jiuran.”

Saying this, Qin Jue laughed as tears poured down his face, “Later, I heard news of my family’s deaths. My father, my mother, my younger sister — I felt that I deserved to die, and on the night that I planned to kill myself, she came.”

That day, he had just been tortured and in a state of disarray, and she stood in the prison, watching him quietly.

“She apologized to me. She said she was sorry. She said she was an assassin for the Feng Yu Pavilion and that getting close to me and marrying me was all just a means for her to fulfill her mission. She originally wanted to leave after completing her task, but now she wants me to live well.”

Qin Jue said, tilting his head, “She said for me to cherish my life, and after she avenged her great revenge and killed Xie Heng, she would come to me and let me kill her. But what’s the use of killing her? My family is dead, and I’m the only one left, so even if I kill her, what would I get?”

“When she came to say this, saying she liked me, she was just humiliating me. When did she ever have a crush on me? It’s just making a fool out of me, playing games over and over again, and even now, she’s just mocking me for being incompetent and unable to kill her!”

When Luo Wanqing listened to all of this, she couldn’t react.

Kill Xie Heng?
Xie Heng is Liu Xiniang’s enemy?
Then why did Liu Xinang want to exchange identities with her?

According to Qin Jue’s statement, Liu Xiniang is a ruthless person. Even if she had harmed her beloved’s whole family, she would only say, ‘Wait for her to complete her revenge’ before looking for him. How could she be so easily moved by the sentence ‘leave the Feng Yu Pavilion’ and give up her plan to kill Xie Heng?

She has a parasite on her body, and she can’t easily exchange identities with her. If she leaves the Feng Yu Pavilion, she only has one way to die, so what she exchanges with her is not an identity but a life. Moreover, before she left, she gave her half of her internal power —

No.
Luo Wanqing remembered that on the road to Dongdu, that fake Qin Jue said, “If someone tells you that they can give half of their inner strength, then they must be lying.”

At the time, she thought it was because he didn’t know that the world has many tricks, but now that she thought about it, that wasn’t the case. If leaving the Feng Yu Pavilion was equal to death, then Liu Xiniang may — have already had the will to die. She didn’t give her half of internal force, but all of it.

Why?
Why should she die?
She had sacrificed so much in her life. According to her, she entered the Feng Yu Pavilion to take revenge on that noble person. She killed many people. She even killed her lover’s family with her own hands. Now, when she neared the end, she’d actually given up. Why?

Luo Wanqing’s thoughts were complicated. In a flash of lightning, she suddenly realized that something was wrong.

How did Liu Xiniang determine her father’s murderer?
She pulled out a broken blade from her father’s stomach, and that Feng Yu Pavilion’s master, Xiang Sizi, who had adopted her, had told her that the person who had killed her father was a high-powered person, and now she had heard from Qin Jue that that person was Xie Heng.

How did Xiang Sizi know? Based on the broken blade? But how does it convince you? Unless this broken blade is unique.

Luo Wanqing couldn’t help but think of the first time Liu Xiniang saw the dagger Jiang Shaoyan had given her. She was shocked and paying extra attention. She said the dagger was a family’s made and asked her where it came from —

“Have you seen that broken blade?” Luo Wanqing suddenly asked.

Qin Jue was bewildered, and Luo Wanqing looked back at him, “The knife that she pulled out from her father’s stomach.”

“Yes.” Qin Jue nodded, “She carried it all the time.”

“What does it look like?”