Reborn: Revenge of the Concubine's Daughter

Chapter 267 The two persons suffering the heartache

It was as if a venomous snake suddenly appeared in front of her. He Danggui felt her blood was suddenly frozen, which was tightly attached to her body, confining her heartbeat and breathing. It was Zhu Quan who talked to her outside!

He Danggui took a deep breath. She poked Zhu and signaled to him to be quiet and hide somewhere. After she put him on the ground, she adjusted the buckles of the clothes and veil. Then she took a deep breath, and walked out of the screen that obscured the line of sight.

It was really Zhu Quan, the nineteen-year-old Lord Ning Zhu Quan, without a mask and close at hand. He stood beside her with his hands behind, and his whole body was like an unsheathed Qingfeng Sword, full of danger.

He Danggui was no stranger to such a dangerous Zhu Quan. Three years ago, when she revealed that he was a seignior who had left the fief privately, he wanted to kill her. And now she recalled that Zhu Quan in her previous life was in similar situations at least four times, and he wanted to kill her, the master of his many secrets, to eliminate the troubles forever. She was so naive to think dully about how to maintain her appearance and how to attract his attention. What a stupid girl!

He Danggui acted as innocent and asked in confusion, “Who are you? Why do you come here?”

Zhu Quan turned to her, staring sharply at her, and asked in a deep voice, “He Danggui, where did you come from? What is your purpose? Why did you do those things to me?”

“You?” He Danggui continued to be perplexed, “Childe Feng has just left, and you appear. At a glance, I know that you are an extraordinary man. Could it be...you are the famous Lord Ning mentioned by Childe Feng? And the person under the mask of Childe Ning three years ago?”

Zhu Quan didn’t answer her. He walked around her in a semicircle with his hands behind. Suddenly, he gripped her slender neck and pinched it slightly. There was a red mark on her fair neck then. He gnashed his teeth in hatred and said with a faint trembling sound, “You said that you were from Qiyanggong Sect. I didn’t believe you at the time, but afterwards, I was trapped in your dreams, and often unable to extricate myself. I expect that it’s not surprising that there are such ghostly tricks in the Qiyanggong Sect, a palace with miscellaneous witchcraft... Why did you do these things to me? Did you aim for the position of Princess Ning? Who sent you here?”

He Danggui was almost suffocated. She knew that she couldn’t contend against Zhu Quan in military force. Therefore, she did not do a futile struggle. She clenched fists in the sleeves, and repeatedly recited the Heart Sutra silently, driving the Zhenqi in the channel to help herself breathe. What nonsense Zhu Quan was talking about. What dreams did she weave? She coveted the position of Princess Ning? Bah, she wanted to kill him!

Zhu Quan stared fiercely at the girl who didn’t struggle, cry, or beg for mercy, and if he used a bit of true force, he could kill her. What did her attitude mean? Didn’t she dare to die? Then go to hell! His eyes were cold and filled with anger. As long as this woman died, the dreams that haunted him for three years would all disappear, and he could be as free as before.

Thinking of this, he added another force. Yes, just like that, he wanted to kill her in one go. Those feelings were all imposed on him by the “Zhu Quan” in the dreams. He himself didn’t love He Danggui who had the same appearance and the same name as “Concubine He”. He detested meeting her in Yangzhou City. He hated that she had cursed him, and even more hated that he had been at the mercy of the person in his dreams and done stupid things for three full years. Who was that besotted fool? How dared he manipulate his mind for three years! Why did that fool love this little woman? There was nothing really special about her!

Seeing the slender girl gradually suffering from shock, he slowly closed his chilly eyes. Instantly, he turned his five iron fingers into a steel claw. He wanted to take off her beautiful head and hang it on his white horse, as compensation for his adventurous experience of being invaded by a dream on the battlefield last time. He wanted to hang her head for forty-nine days, so that she could not reincarnate and would deeply regret what she did... Her warm blood poured down from his fingers...

Suddenly, he had a sharp pain in his heart. The tearing pain spread from his heart to the entire chest, and flowed through his body. He cried out in pain, and was overwhelmed with despair and sadness. The pain took away all his strength and also made him relax his grip to stop committing murder.

He Danggui had a narrow escape then. She looked coldly at Zhu Quan, who curled up on the wooden floor. Was he bewitched? Or was he suffering from some strange disease? Sweat dripped from his face, and he seemed to be very painful. He had better die because of the pain. He Danggui thought. Was he really another “Duan Xiaolou” who had a deep love for her mentioned by Chang Nuo and Bai Yangbai?

As she tore off her sleeves to bind up the wound on her neck, she laughed. It turned out that Zhu Quan didn’t want to take advantage of her because of her ability, but was mad and sent his trusted subordinate to take the jewels to her yard frequently.

He was rarely sober now. After he watched the witchcraft incident in Luo’s Family, he regarded her as a witch, and suspected that she used witchcraft to force him to like her and give her supreme glory and status. He must believe that he could get rid of this plight by killing her. Hmph, since he did too much evil on his own and his hands were soaked with blood of innocent people, he would be punished by the evil immortal. That was nothing to do with her. She just wanted to stay away from him.

Zhu Quan struggled on the ground for a long time with his hands touching his chest. After that, he looked up at He Danggui and saw gloating and cynicism in her clear and bright eyes. He was annoyed and snorted. Then he turned over to fling He Danggui to the ground, kissed her through the veil, and shared all his heartache and sorrow with her through a skill of Fantasy Dream. He wanted her to be as painful as him.

He Danggui stopped struggling, only because she realized that she was pushed into a weird dream by a hand behind her.

The dream seemed to happen in the mansion where she was very familiar with. The door in front led directly to Zhu Quan’s study, Wu Xiang Ge.

This dream was strange because there were many people coming in and out through that door, but no one of them looked up at her. When she got in the way of those people, they automatically walked around, but they didn’t seem to see her at all, as if she were just a tree growing in the middle of the road. In addition, it looked like snowy winter here, but when the snowflakes fell on the ground, they turned into pale pink. It was not cold at all, and it was very pleasant when the gentle breeze blew on the face.

He Danggui knew that she was in a dream. This dream must be designed by Zhu Quan. He must have wanted to lock her in a nightmare like last time, and then killed her silently. He Danggui vaguely remembered that Bai Yangbai once said that this kind of dream was a variant made according to the Eight-diagrams tactics. In other words, in accordance with the principle of “live and let live”, there must be an emergency exit in the dream. As long as she found the exit, she would wake up from the dream.

While she was encouraging herself, she looked around, looking for every seam or hole. The dream was an illusory world, so it couldn’t be flawless. She could definitely find it...

“Stop fooling!” There was a shout not far away, “Be reasonable, okay? Look at what the hell you look like now!”

He Danggui looked in the direction of the yell. It was...Zhu Quan’s study, Wu Xiang Ge. After a short hesitation, she walked towards there, wondering what happened, and the yell sounded familiar. When she started walking, she suddenly discovered that as long as she wanted to, even if she didn’t move her feet, she would move to the place where she wanted to go.

Arriving at the door of Wu Xiang Ge, she curiously looked inside from the window. The profile of that person... He was Qi Xuanyu. She saw him pacing back and forth quickly. Then he pointed at the person sitting on the ground and shouted in anger, “All is ready except what is crucial. We are almost there through years of efforts. Why do you quit at the last minute? After we succeeded, you will be the emperor and can have all kinds of women. When did you be immersed in love?”

He Danggui moved two steps to the left, and changed an angle to look at the man on the ground. With her eyes wide open, she realized that the man sitting on the ground was Zhu Quan.

She had never seen Zhu Quan in such an awkward position. He had beard all over his chin with hair disheveled. His eyes were sunken and his face was pale, as if he hadn’t slept in a long time. There were so many wine pots spreading all over the floor around him. She thought that Zhu Quan’s ambitions must have been severely frustrated.

When did it happen? From Zhu Quan’s appearance, he seemed to be in his thirties. From the style of decoration in the house, it looked like the Green Chrysanthemum for Water Absorption that she designed for him before she was imprisoned in the Water Dungeon. There was only a handful of dry branches and leaves in the corner where the green chrysanthemum was placed, and it could no longer absorb water... Could it be in the previous life? She frowned and wondered whose dream was this, and who passed it on to this life?

Suddenly, a eunuch in gray ran in from outside and reported, “My Lord, Concubine He is dead, and Consort Zhou ordered me to scatter her ashes!”

Hearing this, Zhu Quan jumped from the ground. His long hair wrapped him like a large black net, and then he disappeared in an instant. He Danggui knew that he used Dun Shu, a kind of Kungfu that was unique and popular in Nihon, specializing on escaping or attacking others with the fully use of the surroundings materials. After listening to the eunuch, she guessed that these were all things that happened after her death. She was curious, so she followed Zhu Quan to watch the scene of her body being cremated. On the way, she though that Zhou Jinglan must be extremely guilty of conscience to destroy her corpse.

Zhu Quan came to the Water Dungeon in the back garden of the Lord Ning’s Mansion, and was just in time for Concubine He’s body to be salvaged from the water. The body was terrifying, but as the book said, the person who was poisoned by Xiaoyao Poison would look lifelike after death. In addition, there was a weird smile on her face, as if she died very peacefully and comfortably.

Looking at herself coming to a sticky end, He Danggui was calm. She had a thorough understanding, which was that the woman who fell in love was blind. A wise man would never fall in love, but a fool would be trapped by his feelings.

Zhu Quan yelled like a thunderstorm, which made He Danggui shook with fright. He made a sudden dive for Concubine He’s body and cried. His tears fell on Concubine He’s face, as if she was smiling and crying.

He Danggui didn’t know what was going on, but seeing Zhu Quan wailing, she couldn’t help being amused. She smiled and watched... But the next moment, a tearing pain hit her chest. She was in great grief, and suddenly trembled with cold.