sbdcsierra Chapter 875 Don't you want to know who that person is?
Chapter 875 Don't you want to know who that person is?
"No, it's impossible!"
Xiao Tianshi screamed wildly, looking at her with a mixture of expectation and madness, "It's impossible, Ruoxue, you knew it was me who came to find you, but you still came. In your heart, there is still a tiny bit, even just a tiny bit, of love for me, no, of liking me, isn't there?"
“I know it’s you.” Blood trickled from Cheng Ruoxue’s lips. “But I hate it. I’m not reconciled. My Rong family has lost over a hundred lives because of you. I can’t accept it. I can’t tolerate anyone, anyone connected to you, still getting away with it. I’m not here to see you. I’m here for an answer. Even if I die, I must get this answer.”
When the entire Rong family was killed, she was only two years old. Her memories of anything before that are very blurry, but she will never forget her mother. Her mother had many peach trees in her yard. Her mother loved peach blossoms. When her father married her, he personally planted peach trees for her in the yard.
Her last memory of that courtyard was of late summer. Her face scrunched up from the sourness of the unripe peaches. Her mother teased her, saying that the peaches in the courtyard had only been planted for a few years and the fruit wasn't sweet enough yet. She said that when her father returned the following spring, he would pick the peach blossoms and make peach blossom pastries for them.
"When the peach blossoms bloom, your father will come back." Her mother held her and sat under the peach tree, helping her pick sour fruit.
Not long after that, her mother sent her away to be raised on her aunt's estate.
On New Year's Eve, she went back to the capital with her aunt. It snowed that night, and the Cheng family all gathered together to stay up all night. Her aunt's newborn twins, a boy and a girl, were not even a year old and were very noisy. Her wet nurse took her to rest early. She pretended to be asleep and, when no one was paying attention, she crawled out through the dog hole in the backyard of the Cheng family. The Cheng family was not far from the Rong family. Her mother had taken her there once before summer, so she remembered the way.
She ran desperately towards the Duke of Rong's mansion, wanting to ask her mother why she didn't want her anymore, why she had to become her aunt's daughter and live in someone else's family, and why her aunt's grandmother didn't like her, looking at her with disdain, giving her snacks only to her brother and never to her.
She ran very fast. It was snowing and the ground was very slippery, but she didn't fall even though her shoes were soaked.
When she ran to the back wall of the Duke of Rong's mansion, fireworks were going off somewhere. She happily jumped up and down on the ground, covered her mouth, and wanted to secretly give her mother a surprise.
She was more familiar with the Rongguo Duke's mansion than the Cheng family, and knew where she could go back without being discovered.
But when she entered the courtyard, she saw many people lying haphazardly on the ground. She couldn't name them, but she remembered what they did at home. Some tended the garden, some cooked in the kitchen, and there was also a seamstress's daughter, two years older than her, named Tian'er. Her mother said that when Tian'er got a little older, she would come to her courtyard to keep her company and become her older sister.
She saw Tian'er's small body slumped beside the embroiderer, her neck crooked as if broken. She ran over in fear and gently pushed Tian'er, but Tian'er didn't move at all.
At that time, she didn't know what death was, nor did she understand why Tian'er was no longer moving. Everyone used to walk back and forth in the yard, but suddenly they all lay on the ground. Snow water mixed with blood made her wet shoes sticky and sticky.
She suddenly became very scared and ran desperately towards her mother's courtyard. Even though it was a familiar road, she tripped and fell several times. When she finally reached her mother's courtyard, she saw the peach tree in the yard. The dry branches were covered with snow, making it look like a tree full of white flowers.
Mother leaned against the peach tree, a long trail of blood trailing on the ground.
My mother's clothes were covered in blood, as if it had flowed down from her neck.
She must have climbed a long way to reach the peach tree.
Because she said that her father would return when the peach blossoms bloomed.
"Mother, Mother, Mother, what's wrong? Mother, open your eyes! Mother, don't sleep! I'm back! Why is everyone asleep? Mother!" She ran to her mother's side and shook her hard, but no matter how hard she shook her, her mother didn't wake up.
She didn't know how long she had been shouting when her aunt covered her mouth, picked her up, and staggered away from there.
It must have been her aunt who discovered she was missing and followed the footsteps to find her. She found out that something had happened at the Duke of Rong's mansion and didn't dare to call anyone in, so she secretly ran in and carried her out.
That night, after returning home, she developed a high fever. Her aunt, fearing she would be discovered if she stayed in the capital, immediately took her back to the estate after the New Year. She never mentioned that night again, and her aunt assumed she had forgotten because of the fever.
She had indeed forgotten, and many times in the dead of night, when she dreamed of that familiar courtyard, she would think it was just a nightmare.
She kept convincing herself to forget that night, not even to think about it.
Can't think.
But she knew that all these years, she had never been able to get out of that night, never been able to get out of that courtyard.
The culprit, Duke Xiao, has been convicted and is certain to die.
She got her revenge.
But she still couldn't get over that night.
So even though she knew Xiao Tianshi knew she had used him and must hate her to the core, she was still bewitched and came to this appointment. She wanted to know, she wanted to know who else had framed his father back then.
I absolutely must know the answer.
"I'm here. Tell me, who put those letters in my father's study? Who did it?!" Cheng Ruoxue seemed oblivious to the pain, gripping Xiao Tianshi's arm tightly and staring at him stubbornly.
"Ruoxue," Xiao Tianshi looked at her in despair, "I never expected you to be a member of the Rong family. Is God playing a joke on us?"
"Ruoxue, I don't care at all that you used me. I like you, I really like you," Xiao Tianshi said, tears streaming down his face. "I know that you were no longer a virgin when you married me, but I don't care. I don't care whether it's the Third Prince or anyone else. I just want you to belong to me from now on."
"Ruoxue, you seduced me, have you forgotten? I originally only married you according to my father's wishes. I was attracted to you, but to me, women are all the same. I can have any kind of woman I want! I don't need you! It was you who seduced me. You understand me, you care about me, you made me feel what it's like to be loved. I can't extricate myself from this!"
"I know you're being harassed by the Third Prince. I even thought about destroying him. All I want is for you to belong to me completely. I trusted you so much that I even gave you the key to my father's study. I could even forgive you for betraying me. But why? Why are you a member of the Rong family? How could you be a member of the Rong family? You hate me so much!"
"Yes, I hate you. I hate every single one of your family members. Seeing you all breathing under the sun every day is an immense torment for me. I want your father dead, I want you dead, and even your three-year-old son—when I see him, I wish he were dead!" Cheng Ruoxue knew that she had already become possessed by a demon.
The time she spent with Sheng Junyi had become the highlight of her life. She contracted a strange illness that caused her to see the world mostly in black and white. The doctor said it was called strophy, and most cases were congenital. But she was different from those born with strophy; she could still see colors occasionally, though it was unpredictable, and she couldn't tell when she would lose her sight.
This is a mental illness, and mental illnesses are difficult to cure.
Cheng Ruoxue felt her consciousness fading away, and with all her remaining strength, she cried out, "Tell me, who is that person!"
Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves rang out at the entrance of the alley.
Color reappeared in Cheng Ruoxue's gray world as she saw Sheng Junyi jump off his horse and run towards her.
Xiao Tianshi shouted, "Stop him!"
Dozens of assassins in black descended from the sky, blocking Sheng Junyi's path.
Sheng Junyi gripped his longsword, the blade gleaming and sparking on the ground. A blur flashed by, and dozens of assassins were slit in the throat.
Blood dripped from Sheng Junyi's sword as his hand landed on Cheng Ruoxue's shoulder. Without the slightest hesitation, the sword pierced straight through Xiao Tianshi's body.
Xiao Tianshi was forced to lean back, and the dagger he had pulled from Cheng Ruoxue's body fell to the ground, splattering blood everywhere.
He fell to the ground, stared at Sheng Junyi, and suddenly burst into maniacal laughter, "Is it him? Ruoxue, the person you like is him, isn't he?"
"The second young master of the Sheng family, hahahaha—"
Xiao Tianshi looked up at Cheng Ruoxue with an almost sorrowful expression, blood gushing from his mouth. "Didn't you want to know who put the letter of treason into your father's study, framed him, and caused the extermination of your entire Rong family?"
"It is Duke Sheng, the father of the second young master of the Sheng family, Sheng Qishen."