sbdcsierra Chapter 618 The Last Secret
Chapter 618 The Last Secret
lie……
King Yuechuan softly murmured those two words, over and over again, then asked Lu Yangyang.
"A lie?"
"Yes, bloodline is a lie, don't you know that best?" Lu Yangyang glanced at Yin Yueling. "The reason you like Yueling is because she's exceptionally talented. Her appearance proves to you once again that so-called bloodline is not the fundamental factor in cultivating Gu techniques; talent and effort are. I don't know how Gu techniques are cultivated, but I do know that when I was in school at the academy, there was a course called mathematics. People don't value mathematics, so very few people study it, and their understanding varies greatly. But talented people grasp it instantly and can even apply it to other situations. The same applies to poetry and martial arts. All kinds of people in this world are different and have their own achievements. Bloodline, do you even know what bloodline is?"
"The person who taught me medicine from a young age told me that the essence of bloodline is just a few different blood types. As long as the blood types are the same, the blood is the same and there is no difference. So, this is a lie."
“A lie,” King Yuechuan murmured, then slowly chuckled. “Yes, a lie. For centuries, we have lived in the shadow of such a lie.”
“You’re right. I like Yue Ling because seeing her proves once again that some things simply shouldn’t exist.” King Yuechuan sighed softly. “You win.”
For some reason, Lu Yangyang had a bad feeling.
Sure enough, before her premonition could settle, King Yuechuan fell backward off the altar.
Lu Yangyang didn't have time to think before she rushed forward and grabbed Yuechuan King's hand tightly. She had seen the altar in the square. Below the altar railing was a stone wall, and directly below the stone wall was a rectangular furnace that was always burning.
If a person falls in, they will be reduced to ashes in the blink of an eye.
Lu Yangyang was strong, and in theory, she could have easily pulled Yuechuan King up. However, just as Yuechuan King fell down, the giant python that had been following him suddenly swung its long tail, wrapped around Yuechuan King, and hung him in mid-air.
Even though Lu Yangyang held on tightly, she couldn't withstand the power of the giant python and had no way to pull Yuechuan King up.
Lu Yangyang stared intently at him, gritting her teeth as she said, "You said I won, but you haven't done what you promised me!"
King Yuechuan looked up at Lu Yangyang, who grabbed his wrist tightly, trying to pull him up, but was blocked by Qingmo's strength. In the struggle, Lu Yangyang's arm veins bulged and his face turned red.
But she still gritted her teeth and persevered.
“I can give you the venom of the Azure Python, but there is one thing I must tell you: if you take the venom, the people below who are poisoned will be beyond saving. Do you want to save your Crown Prince, or do you want to save those people who are about to die?” King Yuechuan asked her with a smile.
Lu Yangyang gritted her teeth, "Those are your people, your subjects, not mine! What's the point of lying to me at a time like this! You were the one who made the bet with me, and now you're going back on your word? Why should I?"
"Hahahaha—" King Yuechuan suddenly burst into hearty laughter, his dry eyes welling up with tears. He asked Lu Yangyang, "You see, I'm willing to play with you for so long because you are such an interesting person. I've been in the deep palace for too long. When I first saw you, I thought, how can there be such bright eyes in this world? It's truly enviable."
"Lu Yangyang, why haven't you told me my last secret yet?" King Yuechuan suddenly asked.
Lu Yangyang gritted her teeth and remained silent.
King Yuechuan laughed again. "You've discovered it, haven't you? You've discovered it. I'm not actually a woman. I was born a monster, neither male nor female, an androgynous monster. After my mother discovered this, for the sake of the Yuechuan royal family's continuation, she transformed me into a woman. Later, she used Gu poison as medicine, raising me like a vessel to take on the appearance of a woman. This way, the purest bloodline of the Mingyue clan wouldn't be severed. She wanted me to marry my brother."
“But my brother, he’s a normal person. Even though he received such a perverse education from the Yuechuan royal family since childhood, he still can’t accept that the person he’s going to marry in the future is his own sister. So as I grow up, it’s like a death warrant for both of us. If we can’t resist, if we can’t change it, one of us has to die. Only in this way can the other live cleanly. But he doesn’t want that. He wants to take me away, take me away from Yuechuan, away from this damned place.”
"But how could we escape such a trap? In the end, I lied to him. I told him that I had been weak since childhood, and if I dragged him away from Yuechuan, neither of us would be able to escape. Even if we went to the ends of the earth, we would be caught and brought back. But he was different. He could leave Yuechuan to make a name for himself, to become a great general in the stories, to... to one day return with a thousand troops, to kill back Yuechuan, to kill every single person in Yuechuan, to wipe out this filthy bloodline."
"He left, and all the Elders' Council's anger fell on me. To prevent the matter from being exposed, after my brother left, my mother personally gave me aphrodisiacs and found several of the most talented men in Yuechuan to rape me. She wanted me to give birth to a member of the Yuechuan royal family so that the Elders' Council would have no choice but to compromise. But perhaps because I was born with a defect, a monster, even without male characteristics, I still couldn't conceive. She went mad and found all sorts of different men to give me drugs. She said there were precedents where hermaphrodites could successfully conceive, so why couldn't I?"
"Later I killed her and became the new King of Yuechuan, but by then my body had already been hollowed out by the Gu worms. But I didn't want to die, so I did everything I could to survive year after year. I thought that one day my brother would come back, he would come back with a huge army and kill everyone in Yuechuan."
“But even after I raised an army strong enough to destroy Yuechuan, he still didn’t come back. I’ve been preparing for a very long time, but the reason I’m doing this now is because no matter how hard I try, how much I’ve exhausted every drop of my heart and soul, and how long I’ve endured for more than fifty years, I still can’t make it through this winter.”
"So you see, even the person I trust most is so unreliable, I still have to do it myself. If I had known this would happen, why would I have endured until now?"