The Prince Wants to Assassinate Me Every Day-Chapter 781 - 367: I Won’t Be Sad If You Die (Five Updates)
Song Yanqing remained silent the entire time.
He just kept looking at Xie Ruotong, watching as the tears in her eyes suddenly brimmed over and then, drop by drop, slid down her face.
He didn’t know how to answer Xie Ruotong’s question.
He didn’t know how to tell her.
The skull he was carrying in his hand belonged to Lin Qianyu.
They had captured Muge City, defeated the Beimu army, and he ordered the soldiers from the Bai Family to take down the skulls of the special forces soldiers that were hanging on the city walls.
For the other special forces, he instructed the soldiers to bring them back for proper burial.
Only Lin Qianyu’s, he brought back for her.
But suddenly, he dared not hand it to her.
He was afraid that seeing it would cause her to collapse.
That she would find it hard to accept.
Song Yanqing’s vision started to blur as well.
After an endless silence.
Xie Ruotong suddenly took it from Song Yanqing’s hands on her own initiative.
Song Yanqing’s Adam’s apple bobbed.
It seemed as if his fingers twitched slightly, but in the end, he didn’t stop her.
He just watched as Xie Ruotong carefully unwrapped the package.
Then.
She saw a face devoid of any blood color.
A pale face.
Xie Ruotong’s tears, like pearls, grew bigger and bigger.
Bigger and bigger.
Falling incessantly.
Song Yanqing clenched his fists tightly but didn’t dare to step forward.
How he wished he could offer her some comfort.
Yet.
He couldn’t even utter a sound.
Xie Ruotong abhorred everything about him.
"Where is the body?" Xie Ruotong asked.
Even with tears streaming down her face.
She still didn’t cry out loud.
She still wasn’t out of control or hysterical.
She just asked him in the most calm voice where Lin Qianyu’s body had gone.
"I’ve searched," Song Yanqing said, "but haven’t found it. Not just Lin Qianyu, the bodies of the other special forces weren’t found either."
"So... they all died?" Xie Ruotong’s voice was trembling and desperate.
Song Yanqing fell silent.
Silence was consent.
"What about the Princess?" Xie Ruotong asked again.
She was so sensitive, as if she already knew everything.
Lin Qianyu was dead.
The Princess would surely come to see her right away.
But she didn’t come.
Didn’t come...
What that signified.
"The Princess... also perished," Song Yanqing said with a heavy heart.
Xie Ruotong felt as if darkness had descended before her eyes.
At that moment, it was as if the sky had collapsed upon her.
She slowly closed her eyes.
The tears from her eyes grew more torrential.
By her side.
Important people.
One by one, they all left her.
Her grandmother.
Lin Qianyu.
Ye Qichi.
Her special forces.
All had gone...
"Ruotong, restrain your grief," Song Yanqing’s heart ached to the extreme.
When he received the news of Lin Qianyu’s death, he knew.
He could never atone for his sins in this lifetime.
It was he who had suggested Lin Qianyu go on the rescue.
He couldn’t escape his involvement in Lin Qianyu’s death.
"Why didn’t you die?" Xie Ruotong reopened her eyes, her eye sockets blood-red.
Her gaze fixed on Song Yanqing.
Looking at him, unscathed.
The grotesque scars on his face were still so fierce.
His thin, frail body still appeared so weak and vulnerable.
Yet he was.
Still alive and well.
The Princess with her special qualities, Lin Qianyu with her agile moves and high martial arts skills, and her special forces—yet all of them, the entire force, had perished.
Why does the Almighty.
Deal such an unfair hand.
"If I died, would you be a little happier?" Song Yanqing asked her.
Enduring the heartache, sharp as a knife’s cut.
He asked her calmly.
Xie Ruotong said, "I won’t be happy."
How can one be happy at death?
"But I, will not be sad."
Meaning.
That if Song Yanqing died, she would not be sad.
But if others died, she would be devastated.
Song Yanqing’s eyes subtly shifted.
The pain in his heart, he just let it spread endlessly, numbly.
He thought.
Being here, perhaps he truly couldn’t help Xie Ruotong at all.
He couldn’t be her support.
Couldn’t give her comfort.
Even.
He even made her feel, the unwillingness of this mortal world.
He said, "I’ve let you down, sorry."
Sorry.
The person who died, wasn’t me.
Song Yanqing executed a standard bow towards Xie Ruotong.
Then turned around and left.
His departure seemed somewhat disheveled.
Yet unexpectedly, erect.
Xie Ruotong could no longer see clearly, everything before her eyes.
She just held Lin Qianyu, tightly in her arms.
Forever and ever, unwilling to let go!
...
The Bai Family army returned to the capital five days later.
It took them five days of marching.
To reach Xun City.
The citizens of Xun City all came out to welcome them. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶
Cheering for their victorious battle.
Cheering for Prince Xiao Jinxing.
As soon as the Bai Family army entered the city gates.
All the citizens welcoming them knelt on the ground, shouting, "Long live Prince Xiao, long live, long live forever!"
They affirmed.
The imperial status of Xiao Jinxing.
Xie Ruotong sat inside a carriage.
One of the few carriages.
She was in it.
She watched the kneeling citizens, their cheers, their adoration.
But they never knew.
How many soldiers were sacrificed in a war.
How many soldiers became overseas corpses, turned into wandering spirits.
The army went straight into the Imperial Palace.
Xiao Hezhen was the most excited.
Upon hearing the news of the army’s return, she had been waiting at the palace gate since before dawn.
Governing the country for these months.
She truly had been anticipating this day every moment.
Thinking incessantly, that once her brother returned to take his position, she could continue to be a carefree Princess.
"In front of the civil and military officials, you still should be mindful of your status and demeanor; after all, you are a Princess of the nation, you must maintain your dignity," Wu Xufan couldn’t stand it anymore, he felt that Xiao Hezhen’s neck had stretched an inch longer.
Being reminded this way, Xiao Hezhen also felt she might have been a bit impolite.
She kept her composure.
Striving to maintain the demeanor of a Princess.
Besides Wu Xufan, Gu Xingchuan was also by her side.
Gu Xingchuan had been assisting Xiao Hezhen in the palace all this time.
At this moment, he followed along to greet the triumphant return of the Bai Family’s army.
From afar, they spotted the magnificent troops arriving at the palace gate.
Riding a white steed, naturally leading them was Xiao Jinxing.
His cold face maintained his noble and dignified aura.
His tall figure, beneath the fluttering military flags, was imposing and formidable.
Even Gu Xingchuan had to admit Xiao Jinxing’s impressive appearance at this moment.
Not just his looks.
But also his military expedition this time, which truly only took a few months to beat Beimu Country into a complete retreat.
Furthermore, because of this war led by Xiao Jinxing.
Other kingdoms dared not stir any trouble against Daxuan Kingdom again.
At least during the time Xiao Jinxing claimed the throne, Daxuan Kingdom would enjoy peace and prosperity, becoming an unprecedented golden era!
Xiao Jinxing dismounted from his horse.
"Third Brother!" Xiao Hezhen couldn’t contain herself anymore.
She dashed forward and threw herself into Xiao Jinxing’s arms.
Her brother would be the greatest Prince, the greatest Emperor in Daxuan’s history!
"You’ve worked hard during this time," Xiao Jinxing hugged Hezhen for a moment.
Yet without showing much emotion.
Xiao Hezhen frowned.
Although her third brother was always cold, he wouldn’t be so icily indifferent towards her.
She felt... something was off with her third brother!
