Chapter 51 - Anguish

Chapter 51 Anguish

“Any exploitation is out of the question. Zhuang Sheng, it’s just that you’re stupid!” Elder Fu mockingly stated, causing Zhuang Sheng to be angered beyond words. But all he could do was helplessly sigh with a distressed heart. His words weren’t wrong ah, he really was stupid ah!

Xue Zhuyue couldn’t stand it anymore and anger appeared on his clear, cold features, “Seventh Prince, if you want our Xiu Luo villa, we’re willing to hand it all over right now, so long as you give us our mei mei back!”

“Give her back?” Lan Sheng Ling lightly laughed, his eyes were completely dark, leaving people unable to see the bottom. “How deep you brothers’ feelings are ah, even I feel moved!”

“Your Highness, do you agree to our requirement or not?” Xue Yunge heavily asked.

Lan Sheng Ling didn’t look at him, instead he looked at the short man standing by his side and said, “Fetch the Wakening Soul Fragrance.” The short man handed him a small porcelain bottle. Taking it, Lan Sheng Ling opened it and brought it under Gu Weiyi’s nose. Not even a moment passed before her eyelashes began to faintly shake, indicating that she was about to awaken.

Gu Weiyi had truly been awakened by that smell. Whilst in a daze she felt a burst of pain. When she opened her eyes, she discovered that she was looking right at Lan Sheng Ling’s annoying face! Gloomily blinking her eyes, Gu Weiyi muttered, “You scoundrel, your soul haunts me even in my dreams ah!”

Once she said her words, the perfect smiling that hung on Lan Sheng Ling’s handsome face immediately stiffened, “I think you aren’t dreaming anymore.”

Not dreaming? Befuddled, Gu Weiyi turned her head to look around. But when she looked around, she caught sight of a pair of beautiful faces that were etched in her heart! Those purple clothes and forever seductive gege; that white clothed, pure and clear like a lotus gege. Could it be that this wasn’t her own illusion?

“Ge!”

The moment Gu Weiyi clearly saw them, tears filled her eyes and began to flow down. But she was smiling. That beautiful smile, the happiness she felt from reuniting, and all her emotions. She was already incapable of expressing her mood through words! She struggled to get up and left Lan Sheng Ling’s embrace, wanting to charge over at the two gege she loved the most.

“Yi Yi!”

Xue Yunge and Xue Zhuyue were also overwhelmed with happiness. They wanted to step forward and take her away from that person’s hands. They wished to closely hug her and tell her of how much they missed her. But they couldn’t. They were terrified that suddenly stepping forward would bring harm to her, terrified that rushing would cause them to lose her. They could only longingly look at her. They couldn’t near, step forward, or embrace her.

Gu Weiyi could feel a strong force behind her, blocking her from being able to escape from Lan Sheng Ling’s bosom. Then she looked at gege who were both looking at her with terror on their faces and immediately understood. Right now, she was Lan Sheng Ling’s bargaining chip, a handle on gege. With great difficulty she had escaped from Water Pavilion’s Second Courtyard. She had run in a circle, and in the end, she fell into his hands again.

She hadn’t thought that she would one day become an inconvenience, despite the fact that she knew gege would never think that way of her. However, she couldn’t help but begin blaming herself. If only she wasn’t so lazy, it would be okay. If only she became strong, then she wouldn’t need to constantly rely on gege, causing them to always worry about her safety.

But unknowingly, while she looked at gege with such deep emotions, and vice versa, Lan Sheng Ling saw all of it. His face greatly changed and a sinister smile streaked across his lips. He had never believed in those deep emotions. What emotion would be unable to be destroyed by reality? Just like that lowly mother of his. All those familial affections couldn’t even compare to a bowl of food. Happiness? He he, he couldn’t obtain happiness, so why should others be able to? In that case, he would destroy it. It was irrelevant, but he wanted to shatter those attentive gazes and emotions. It wasn’t for any particular reason, just because he couldn’t look on at it and because the his pitiful self didn’t have it! Why did he never receive such joyous gazes? Why did they prefer to abandon all the energy they invested into him? A voice at the bottom of his heart violently whispered: destroy it, wreck it, don’t leave a trace behind!

Better if I turn my back on the world’s people than if the world’s people turn their backs on me!

“Then what if I said I also wanted Ghost Valley alongside Xiu Luo villa?”

Once his words came out, Xue Yunge and Xue Zhuyue’s expressions simultaneously changed and their faces paled. This was the first time Gu Weiyi had seen such a complex and weak expression. They had always been arrogant, proud, and wanton, and she liked them like that. They lived for themselves and willfully vented their feelings. She didn’t know why, but she felt somewhat worried.

“You.. How would you know about the Ghost Valley?” Xue Yunge forced himself to remain calm. Even though this was the deepened wound in their heart, hadn’t it already passed? He already passed away, they had no need to continue living in fear and pain.

The pain in Xue Yunge and Xue Zhuyue’s eyes and their pale faces didn’t escape Lan Sheng Ling’s notice. A casual smile appeared on his face and he slowly said, “Naturally I know because this secret had been told to me by someone ah!”

“Impossible!” Seeming to have thought of a painful matter, Xue Yunge lost himself and loudly yelled out. A ruthless streak flashed by in his green eyes! Even Xue Yunge, who was always calm, was slightly shaking. Gu Weiyi watched all of this with concern in her heart. What was wrong with gege?

“Bai Li, why don’t you speak up?” Using a somewhat threatening glance to look at the short man behind him, an unpredictable light flashed through Lan Sheng Ling’s eyes. Although he uttered the name “Bai Li” softly, it was just loud enough for Xue Yunge and Xue Zhuyue to hear it clearly. Out of the corner of his eye he caught their suddenly fierce facial expression and unconcealed hatred and pain. And just like that, his mood suddenly raised. Just as he expected, everything was in his hands. He never wanted to lose this feeling ah! Therefore, he, Lan Sheng Ling, must possess power and an unsurpassable position!

Xue Yunge’s seductive, purple eyes glared at Lan Sheng Ling, “What is His Highness saying?”

“What, you didn’t hear? Bai Li, why don’t you raise your head when you come face to face with old friends?” This time, Lan Sheng Ling grabbed the short man standing behind him and thrust him in front of everyone’s faces. Gu Weiyi could clearly see that man’s shivering and depressing figure. However, this person was awfully familiar. He wore black clothes and even a black veil, and his stature was short. This… Wasn’t this the strange male who suddenly appeared at Welcome Customer tea house that day? Gu Weiyi was certain that he had killed that customer! But, why would he be here? Unless he was Lan Sheng Ling’s subordinate. On that day he seemed to lose control of himself when he heard the storyteller talking of Ghost Valley’s poison doctor Bai Lifeng, and now Lan Sheng Ling was calling him Bai Li……

Gege was currently Ghost Valleu’s valley master, she knew of this much. Is this what the legendary, most beautiful man looked like? He and gege had to have some sort of relationship, but what was it?

And why was gege’s current facial expression so unsightly? They were ruthlessly glaring at the short male named Bai Lifeng with eyes full of hatred and killing intent! This scene was even more stifling and hostile than the one she witnessed the day gege committed patricide. Such intense hatred caused Gu Weiyi’s heart to become startled and it radiated anxiousness.

“He he” A sinister smile spread across Lan Sheng Ling’s beautiful face which was painted with wickedness and an indescribable type of elatedness. His expression caused him to look like an extremely abnormal lunatic which was incomparably sinister.

“That’s right, you guys are just old friends who are meeting again ah. Aren’t you happy to see your two favorite people Bai Li?”