Help! The Villainess Trapped in the Beast World's Drama!-Chapter 255 - 247: Self-Deception

Shen Tang finished speaking and couldn’t care less about what Yun Han thought; she turned around and was about to leave.

Yun Han’s eyes surged with intense emotion, his hands hanging by his sides clenching tightly as he fixated on her, as if staring into some void.

He wasn’t incapable of understanding human words; he just didn’t want to probe deeply or believe them... Watching Shen Tang turn and leave decisively, his Adam’s apple bobbed as he instinctively stepped forward, attempting to grab her.

Shen Tang had no interest in any contact with him.

Yun Han hadn’t even touched her hand before Shen Tang swung him away heavily.

She turned back to look at him, her dark eyes shining with a chilling light that made one’s heart tremble; her pale, cracked lips uttered a calm voice, "Young Master Yun Han, don’t forget your status. You are a married man now, isn’t it inappropriate to be touching and feeling another female?"

Her voice, somewhat hoarse in the wind, carried a hint of mockery as she said this,

"Aren’t you afraid that your sister will find out about this when she comes back?"

Xue Yinzhou quickly stepped forward to shield Shen Tang, standing like an iron wall between the two, blocking Yun Han’s complex expression and preventing him from taking another step forward.

Xue Yinzhou’s silver-purple serpent eyes were ice-cold, his thin lips slowly enunciating, "Take another step, and I’ll kill you."

He exuded a chilling murderous aura; he genuinely intended to do so and was ready at any moment to act.

Yun Han’s face became even more unsightly, yet he had nothing to say in return.

Shen Tang’s words pierced his heart like a thousand needles, for she was right; he had no right to be near her.

Yun Han stood frozen in place, his head drooping, looking forlorn and lost.

As Xue Yinzhou escorted Shen Tang away, he glanced back at the pitiful male with indifference, full of irony and amusement inside.

Back in the secret chamber, he had seen every bit of Shen Qingli and Zaxxis’s tryst, yet he didn’t know what Enchanting Soup that female had given Yun Han, making him genuinely believe she was a pure-hearted female, even with everything said so clearly, he still refused to believe.

Ha.

Some people are happy to deceive themselves and deserve to be kept in the dark, best if they never wake up.

Anyway, to him, that couldn’t be better.

Xue Yinzhou wasn’t one to meddle in others’ affairs; he withdrew his gaze and turned away.

Shen Tang continued on her path to help the civilians.

Leading the disaster victims from the city through the underground tunnels to escape the Imperial City.

When Yun Han came over and saw the female busy amidst war and ruins, he paused, unable to look away.

His throat was dry, and he clutched his chest in despair, the dull pain growing stronger.

But why?

The one he married was Shen Qingli, the one with whom he consummated was Shen Qingli, whom he devoted himself to loving should be her.

Yet, his gaze was uncontrollably attracted to another female.

She was beautiful and brave, strong yet gentle, every movement exuding endless charm, drawing him irresistibly.

On the way here, the figure that kept appearing in his mind was Shen Tang, not the missing Shen Qingli.

Realizing this, Yun Han’s face turned ever more strangely unpleasant, he clenched his fists tightly, furiously pounding his head, trying to stop this nonsensical thought from existing.

No, the one he loves is Qingli, it will always only be Qingli in this life!

Qingli, so gentle and kind, beautiful and wise, she is the one he should always follow and love!

Shen Tang and Qingli had never gotten along, she had always been jealous of Qingli marrying him, and those words just now were surely intended to deliberately sow discord between them.

Yes, it must be like this!

He really was muddle-headed, letting an outsider’s words sway his loyalty and love for Qingli.

Thinking this, Yun Han’s formerly tangled and painful gaze gradually regained clarity, looking towards Shen Tang not far away with suspicion and a trace of coldness.

Recalling Shen Tang’s previous insults at the banquet, he was more convinced that today’s words were meant to make him suffer; anger rose in his heart.

Shen Tang’s current transformation was indeed significant and admirable, but her vile little tricks remained as displeasing as ever!

Qingli was pure, kind, and much more lovable.

With such thoughts, the strange emotion in Yun Han’s heart disappeared, confirming that his choice back then was right, and Shen Qingli deserved his true heart and love more.

If Shen Tang knew this stubborn man’s thoughts, she would roll her eyes speechlessly, and regretfully cough up blood!

Good intentions mistaken for donkey’s liver and lungs, she had to be out of her mind to remind him!

The crafty female lead surely had some tricks, even after everything said like this, Yun Han remained steadfast in believing her innocent facade, someone like him would only believe it if the facts were put directly before him.

Forget it, if someone is willing to stay asleep, she had no desire to save them.

After hesitating for a moment, Yun Han joined in helping, assisting the suffering civilians to pack up after dealing with the rebel army.

Some civilians, injured in the bombing, unable to proceed, Yun Han led the team, transforming into a beast form to carry those unable to move towards the entrance of the underground passage.

Everything proceeded in an orderly fashion.

Suddenly, a great upheaval erupted from the Imperial Palace, an urgent summons to Yun Han and his team to return to the palace to protect the leaders!

Shen Tang saw on the system map that an elite rebel army was attacking the Imperial Palace, and the troops stationed outside were struggling to hold them back.

She quickly led her people to follow Yun Han to the palace.

Upon their arrival, fierce battles raged outside the palace, with heavy casualties, from afar it looked like sandbags stacked at the palace gates, but up close they were revealed to be a wall of corpses of soldiers and civilians, forming the sturdiest yet most fragile barrier temporarily holding back the rebel invasion.

Shen Tang’s aura was cold to the extreme!

After dealing with the rebel army with Xue Yinzhou and the others, she hurried into the palace to assess the situation.

Halfway, they encountered Lin Yu and others leading the disguised Emperor, Empress, and several accompanying attendants out.

Shen Tang had learned from the system map that the Old Emperor returned to the palace to take away all the valuables in the palace—his imperial seal, treasured possessions, safely-locked safes in the hidden chamber, and all the treasures from the national treasury were all looted and taken into a space.

The Old Emperor, after decades of being the Monarch, had plundered so much from the people, holding unimaginable wealth, which was the love and sweat of most of his life.

He wore five or six light computers on his wrists, unable to contain all his wealth.

Those treasures that couldn’t fit were packed by the servants following him into ragged bags, tightly covered, and hoisted on their shoulders, secretly sneaking away together.

Seeing all this, Shen Tang felt only sarcasm and the urge to laugh.

At a crucial moment of national survival, the Old Emperor didn’t think of personally leading the army, inspiring morale, and defending against external invasions with the people, but rather cowardly fled and hid, ordering soldiers and civilians to hold back the enemy beyond the palace walls, while he hid behind the flesh wall forged from their lives, buying more time to carry away the wealth to secure his luxurious future!

At this moment.

Shen Tang deeply realized.

With such a foolish and incompetent Old Emperor, this country was utterly doomed.