Chapter 45: The Threat of Death

  "I... I'm sorry, I was just a bit jealous. I wanted to make you jealous too, to let you know that I can do without you! There's nothing between me and Mei Linghua!" Xuan Yuan Mu walked towards me, I dodged away.

  "Ling Xue? Are you angry? Don't you really want to be with me anymore?" he asked cautiously.

  My eyes stung, but I held back, in this darkness, even if no one could see me, I wouldn't allow myself to shed tears.

  "Sorry, sorry..." Xuan Yuan Wu came over and hugged me. "I'm the one who's wrong, I shouldn't have appeared in your life so late, and I still had to be jealous of your past, it's been five days, you haven't said a word to me, I admit I was wrong, don't be angry, okay?" Xuan Yuan Wu said, hugging me tightly.

  I remained silent and didn't want to struggle, after a long time, I finally asked him: "I want to leave here!"

  "Okay, okay, let's go out, we'll go to my room."

  "No, Xuan Yuan, I mean let's break up!" I've really thought about it, and you could say that Mei Ling's slap woke me up. What love is there in this world? What feelings are there? They're all deceiving people. If I have the chance, I want to live my own life.

  "What did you say?" Xuan Yuan Mu Shu let go of me and looked at me in surprise: "You want to leave me?"

  I stood up and didn't look at him: "Yes, I hope you can agree."

  "Mei Ling Xue!" Xuan Yuan Mu furrowed his brow, looking at me as if he didn't recognize me. "Is it because I went to find Mei Ling Hua? Or is it because I let you suffer injustice?"

  "None of that matters, you're the prince and will be the emperor one day. You can go find any woman you want, it's not wrong. I couldn't change my past, but I can try to change my future. So, I think we should leave each other, let's break up!" I said, tears falling down.

  "You think you can escape? I've said it before, in life you are my Xuan Yuan's person, in death you are my Xuan Yuan's ghost!" Xuan Yuan was completely unreasonable.

  "Crown Prince? Crown Prince?" Suddenly came Xue Qiufeng's voice from outside.

  "What's wrong?" Xuan Yuan asked angrily.

  "Today is the birthday of the national teacher, he has no time to enter the palace, it's our best time to retrieve the corpse. Qi Wangye has already gone to Fengyue Shuixiang, just waiting for you!" Xue Qiufeng replied in a low voice.

  "Got it!" Xuan Yuan Mu glanced at me, then turned and left. As he walked out the door, I heard him ask Xue Qiufeng, "How did you know I was here?"

  "It's impossible for you not to be where Snowy is!"

  The two of them slowly drifted away, were they going to retrieve the female corpse? It wasn't until later that I found out Mei Ling had gone mad, and it was she who let out those screams that night. After she went mad, she kept shouting "Crown Prince, spare my life!"

  I don't know what method Xuan Yuan Wu used, but he was able to turn a woman as calm as ice into a lunatic in an instant. However, I do know that the entire East Palace, regardless of whether I'm a maid or a prisoner, no one dares to cross me again. Even the maids who serve Xuan Yuan Wu alongside me keep their distance from me.

  "Mei Lingxue, I beg of you, let me go, let me out of the palace, I want to leave this place, I will never like the prince again, I beg of you, let me go, tell the prince to let me go, okay? I am your sister, we are family... Ah, I don't want that head, I don't want..." Mei Linghua suddenly ran out of her own courtyard and grabbed my sleeve, not letting go.

  The eunuchs and palace maids rushed out and dragged her back in.

  "Mei Lingxue, I'm begging you, I'm begging you, I won't take advantage of you, nor do I want him..." Mei Linghua struggled out and knelt on the ground, kowtowing to me desperately. The crowd pressed her down again and carried her back to the courtyard.

  Xue Qiufeng said that the attempt to retrieve the female corpse that night had failed. The Princess of Ye Lan was incredibly powerful at night, and Xuan Yuan Mu had barely managed to control her, only to be bitten by her in the end. In desperation, everyone decided to take action during the day when the sunlight was strong, which made things much more difficult.

  Xuanyuan's wound was not serious, and after two days of rest, he recovered. I hid in the backyard and didn't want to see anyone, even this news was told by Xue Qiufeng.

  "Xue Dajie, are you still angry? The prince has already told us that you're jealous and want to leave him as a form of punishment. But is it really necessary to do so? You're a woman, he's the prince, isn't this situation quite clear?" Xue Qiufeng muttered on and on, without end.

  "Why don't you just leave?" I was speechless. He had been talking here for a whole morning, wasn't he tired?

  "I'm not leaving. Either you go and get the prince or I'll bring him here myself!" Xue Qiufeng started to act recklessly.

  I stood up and didn't bother with him, went straight into the house and closed the door tightly.

  Then Xuan Yuan Qi came, also with the same old tricks, I don't know if they were forced by Xuan Yuan Mu or just messing around out of boredom.

  Later, these two people actually carried Xuan Yuan Wu into my residence.

  Xuanyuan Qi lifted the lid and said: "Lingxue, you handle it."

  I stared at the person on the bed, and couldn't help but be shocked. Xuan Yuan's neck had a huge wound bitten into it, with white flesh and blood vessels exposed. His face was pale, his eyes were closed, and he didn't have any signs of life.

  "Aren't you saying he's fine? How could this be?" I looked at him and asked anxiously.

  "Aren't you worried? Last time he was stabbed several times in the chest, but nothing happened. I didn't expect this to happen this time..." Xuan Yuan sighed: "You think of a way quickly, take him to the small building, only you can find a way in."

  "Why didn't you say so earlier!" I really wanted to go up and beat the two of them, staring nervously at Xuan Yuan Mu, whose neck was only half-connected, like a corpse "Go, hurry up and go to the small building!"

  Xuanyuan Qi and Xue Qiu Feng sent us to the outside of Heizhulin, the rest of the way was only me taking Xuanyuan Mu, we prepared a bamboo raft, put Xuanyuan Mu on it, I pulled the bamboo raft towards the bamboo forest.

  The sky gradually darkened, and Xuan Yuan Mu seemed to still have a breath of life, so the ghosts in the bamboo forest did not dare to make trouble. However, the most difficult thing was not the ghosts, but the bamboo rafts. After walking tens of meters, Xuan Yuan Mu fell off the swaying bamboo raft. The deeper they went, the denser the bamboo grew, and the bamboo raft could no longer pass through.

  "Xuanyuan, you must hold on, you must hold on!" I had his strong back behind me, and step by step, we moved forward.

  The wild ghosts are crying, the female corpses are screaming, and the swaying bamboo forest is becoming increasingly terrifying.

  "Xuanyuan Wu, can you hear me? We're almost home, you'll be fine, you must hold on. You've endured so much over the years, are you going to let a female corpse defeat you? Wake up, can you hear me...?" I carried Xuanyuan Wu forward with difficulty, constantly talking to him, hoping he could hear my voice.