Chapter 170 - Is This My Punishment? (3)

Wu Yuan slowly loosened his grip on her. Seeing as she stopped being aggressive towards Yang Zheyan and Lu Weisheng. 

Xiong Jingfei downcast her eyes then looked back up at Yang Zheyan. He was also the same person who had hurt her the most! 

She slapped away the hands wiping away her face and kicked him in the legs. Xiong Jingfei loudly declared, "I will NEVER forgive you! Never!"

Xiong Jingfei took a step back away from him and hit Wu Yuan's chest with her back. She began crying again, louder and louder as the house she thought she could finally call home. It echoed her pain back to remind her that she didn't belong here. 

Is this her punishment for taking her own life in the past? She sobbed, covering her mouth. 

She did say that she will take whatever punishment is given to her for taking her life. But, wasn't it enough to lose her voice at the age of seventeen in this life? It was right around the same time, she ended her last life in the past. 

Still, why? She asked herself. 

Why does she have to meet Yang Zheyan again in this lifetime!? Punishing her for taking her life in the past was understandable! She was fine losing her voice! But why does she have to be punished by meeting him again?

"Ahhh!" Xiong Jingfei screamed and pressed her hands to her eyes. She doesn't want to see him! Who was it that is punishing her? 

Why is she following the same steps again? She already walked in these shoes once and didn't want to repeat them again. 

"Feifei!" Yang Zheyan shouted, reaching out his hands to catch her. 

"Don't touch her!" 

Wu Yuan pushed him away and caught Xiong Jingfei in his arms. He put his fingers under her nose and sighed out in relief. She was still breathing and only fell asleep. The incense must not have worn off yet, but she was too impatient and woke up earlier than the given time. 

He was glad she didn't get into an accident on the drive back. It wasn't a short drive from the shrine back to Sinwang City. 

Wu Yuan patted her head. Xiong Jingfei's hatred and rage fought the sleepiness out of her. Now that she finished screaming and crying, the incense is kicking her back to the state of sleeping. 

"You're the one who shouldn't be touching her." Yang Zheyan glared at Wu Yuan and tried taking her out of his arms. "Stop meddling in our relationship." 

Wu Yuan didn't let him have her and wouldn't let Yang Zheyan come near her. He lifted her up and shouted, "Yang Zheyan! It's you who shouldn't be touching her! Do you not see the shape she is in?"

"I-" Yang Zheyan wanted to pull her out of Wu Yuan's arms and into his. However, if he had to force it, he could hurt her, and Wu Yuan might accidentally drop her. "Wu Yuan, who are you to interfere in our relationship? Let me remind you, she is MY fiancee!"

"Does it look like she wants to see you ever again?" Wu Yuan smirked and held his head high. "Fiancee? You didn't hear her?"

"Wu Yuan!" Yang Zheyan roared, controlling his fist from aiming at Wu Yuan's face. He did hear Xiong Jingfei! She wanted to dissolve their engagement. 

"Zheyan!" Lu Weisheng stepped in between them. 

Even without saying it, Lu Weisheng knows he is the third party in this fight. He doesn't know what Yang Zheyan did to her, but he had to agree with Wu Yuan. 

Xiong Jingfei wasn't in any condition to rationally talk to them. Just the way she looked at them and was crying, it was enough to tell Lu Weisheng what she felt. 

She hated Yang Zheyan to the core and will never forgive him as she said. Overall, Yang Zheyan's presence was not going to do Xiong Jingfei any good. This was something even someone like Yang Zheyan can tell but refused to acknowledge. 

Yang Zheyan looked back at Lu Weisheng. "Are you telling me that I should just let her go with him?" 

Lu Weisheng took a quick look at Wu Yuan. He was here because of Xiong Jingfei. Why else would he coincidentally show up at Yang Zheyan's house during this time? He came because he knew this was going to happen! 

"Yes." Lu Weisheng didn't want to admit it, but if he doesn't, Yang Zheyan wouldn't. 

"Weisheng!" Yang Zheyan's tranquil like voice was long gone. 

"Zheyan!" Lu Weisheng stood in his spot between them without wavering. "We can sort this out after both of you calmed down."

Lu Weisheng tried persuading Yang Zheyan to back down. Although his chances of stopping Yang Zheyan was a slim chance. There is only one person he is aware of that can control this demon, but she was fast asleep and despised him. 

Still, Lu Weisheng took his chances. There was no way Wu Yuan was going to carry Xiong Jingfei out of here without a fight.

He doesn't know why, but he felt rather guilty when she painfully cried and screamed at them. Is that supposed to happen to a person who finally got their voice back? Shouldn't she be jumping for joy? 

['Do you think you're also innocent?']

What did Xiong Jingfei mean when she said that to him? Lu Weisheng had a feeling it had nothing to do with him tricking her. When she said that, memories of what he saw at the cursed palace came flowing back. 

['In the next life, I will help protect your love in atonement for my family's sin. Let this cut be the witness between us. As long as this cut remains, it will always be a reminder that we are sinners.']

Lu Weisheng had a sudden urge to kneel down and beg her for forgiveness, but he didn't know what for. He flipped his right hand around to take a look at his birthmark. It looked exactly the same as the cut that person made with a knife. 

What does this mean? That day, he felt the pain of the person who buried the box as if those emotions belonged to him. 

"Zheyan… Please, let them go for now." 

Lu Weisheng looked straight into Yang Zheyan's eyes. He will always side with Yang Zheyan in everything, except for this time. When he saw the smallest hesitation he needed from Yang Zheyan. 

He said with confirmation that it was safe, "Wu Yuan, go." 

Wu Yuan was about to 'thank' Lu Weisheng, but he found there was no need to do it. He walked out the door with the girl who looked like she'll break apart at the slightest carelessness. 

Yang Zheyan came back to his senses. He ran to the door, but they were gone. He punched the pillars outside of his house until a dark red color smeared across it. 

"Zheyan! Stop!" Lu Weisheng grabbed Yang Zheyan's fist. "Are you crazy!?"

"Shut up!" Yang Zheyan pushed Lu Weisheng aside and went back inside. 

Yang Zheyan knows what Lu Weisheng said to him was right, including what Wu Yuan said too. What both of them were saying made sense, but he doesn't want to let her go. 

He just knows it… By letting Xiong Jingfei leave his house after this, she will never return. The Xiong Jingfei he knows will never be the same one he used to know. 

He didn't want to let go of those hands that showed him a new world. Yet, he had no choice when she wanted to let go of his hands first.