Chapter 244

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Chapter 244: Xiaowan

General’s Mansion, Wedding Day.

A good day, auspicious day, to bow and marry.

A general, of noble descent, being able to marry a commoner in the eyes of many is already a great fortune, because love is a luxury that ordinary people do not possess.

This general, in a certain sense, is not an evil person, having never done any wicked deeds of bullying men and oppressing women. But he also can’t be considered a good person, because he has a common ailment shared by the noble family of this era – whatever he desires, he must obtain, regardless of the wishes of others.

The number of guests is not many, he stands in the middle of the main hall, waiting, watching the bride approach with a red veil, feeling an accelerated heartbeat in his heart. He doesn’t care about the means, he just wants to finally obtain the woman he has been waiting for three years, causing his heart to surge with excitement.

Watching the bride approach step by step, he recalls the stunning beauty he saw for the first time, but no matter what, he could not impress her. And now, finally…

He couldn’t help feeling a bit dry in the mouth, he raised his head and drank wine, just one cup of wine, making him feel somewhat intoxicated.

“The bride is here!”

“Get ready!”

The old maid shouted loudly, “Kneel and pay respects to Heaven and Earth!”

The bride stood still, motionless.

The general frowned, raising his head, and said, “At this time, you still want to throw a tantrum? Bow and marry first.”

The bride spoke, “Since it’s this time already, I have a question to ask you.”

The general chose to give in, “You may speak.”

“This wine, is it Daughter Red?”

“Yes.”

The bride bent down, took a cup by herself, raised her head, drank it down, and the red veil swayed with her movements. The red candle illuminated her silhouette, elongating her figure in the firelight.

The red veil still fell, she turned her back to the general, wearing a bright red wedding gown. She threw the cup, the glass shattered as it hit the ground.

“Good wine… so this is the taste of Daughter Red.”

The general frowned, this was truly the first time he saw her in this manner, not at all the peerless beauty of a peony he had imagined in his heart.

But in the moment she turned her head, he still felt the same emotions as before, that kind of overwhelming feeling.

He should be overwhelmed.

Because the bride revealed a dagger, the blade fell from her hand, slashing directly across his face, cutting into his nose and plunging into his bridge, severing half of his nose, splitting his lips into four pieces, blood streaming down. The general fell to the ground, holding his face in agony and howling.

The guests were all stunned, witnessing bloodshed on this joyous day, what a disaster.

Only Liu Xiaowan was seen, holding a dagger, with a smile on her face, her rouge even more red.

She let out a sigh of relief. “I’ve wanted to do this for a long time. Every time I see your face, I feel disgusted and wish to stab you with a sword. Yet you insist on thinking that you are so charming that every woman should love you… If you were just flirting with the women in this city, it would be fine. But you had to provoke me. I’ve already told you, I don’t like you. The more you pressure me, the closer you are to death.”

“You crazy woman, I am married to you legitimately,” he said.

“So, should I accept it happily?” Liu Xiaowan scoffed. “Have you ever asked me what I think? Or do you think I’m just an object and my thoughts don’t matter?”

She stood there, looking down at the bleeding and powerful figures. “Whether it’s being left behind by my childhood sweetheart or being entangled by scum like you, am I just an object? Either discarded like old shoes or sold for a price, I’ve had enough!”

She removed her hairpins and jewelry, throwing them to the ground. Her hair fell loose on her shoulders, flowing with the wind.

“Even if I can’t marry the person I want to.”

“Even if I can’t have the dream home I’ve always wanted.”

“I won’t allow you to trample on my dignity…”

She raised a dagger, pointing it at everyone.

“Who are all of you? Are you worthy to decide my fate?”

Liu Xiaowan mocked everyone mercilessly, and then she kicked the general in the abdomen, flipping him over.

She rolled up her sleeves, untied the bandages on her arms beneath her wedding dress, and the already cut wrists began to bleed.

She intended to die here, without any hope of returning alive.

Liu Xiaowan looked at the approaching guards and then glanced at the fallen powerful man on the ground. She cursed herself for being too soft-hearted to kill, though she had the courage to die. But… dying cleanly wouldn’t be a bad thing either.

Suddenly, she felt like drinking, but unfortunately, the daughter red wine under the willow tree in her old home had never been opened.

She stood there, gazing into the distance where her beloved never returned, with a mournful and sorrowful expression.

I am here, but where are you?

If you don’t come back, I won’t be able to see you one last time.

You, wooden head.

When I’m gone, please don’t be sad. Just be like a wooden head, ignorant and unaware… Alright?

She closed her eyes.

The wedding dress turned into a blood-stained coat, dyed scarlet red.

…

Tensions rose, and in an instant, everything came to a halt, and everyone suddenly disappeared.

Chao Lu picked up the blood-stained coat and held it in her arms, feeling dizzy for a long time.

With the blood-stained coat, she staggered back to the courtyard and saw the old woman again. This time, she suddenly didn’t want to ask questions anymore, maybe because she had no strength left to ask.

“You saw everything.”

“Mm.”

“Liu Er is dead,” Chao Lu said listlessly. She felt like half of her heart had died too.

“Don’t you want to know what happens next?” the old woman asked.

“What more could there be to follow?” Chao Lu’s mindset crumbled, almost unwilling to hear the rest of the story.

The old woman spoke, using just one sentence to instantly lift her spirits.

“If I were to say, he’s returned?”

“Is this true?” Chao Lu immediately asked: “You’re not deceiving me?”

“The story continues like this…”

…

The guards surrounded the woman, her wedding clothes now stained with blood, no longer a bride but a criminal who had committed a great crime.

“Capture her!”

The guards of the General’s Mansion rushed forward, but at that moment, a loud rumbling sound came from not far away, accompanied by the roar of a tiger.

A figure approached straight ahead, dressed in a black robe with a golden Crouching Tiger pattern embroidered on the clothes, holding a half-dead person in their left hand and crushing a knife in their right.

“Who are you?” the guard commander furrowed his brows, looking at the astonishingly powerful youth.

“The Pacification Officer of the Monster-slaying Bureau… Irrelevant people, step back.” The youth revealed his identity, released the person in his hands, and took a step forward without hesitation.

“So it’s the Monster-slaying Bureau, but this is the General’s Mansion. Please wait, sir…”

Before the words could finish, the guard commander’s feet left the ground, and in an instant, the youth closed in, grabbing the guard commander’s neck with his right hand and lifting him up effortlessly, even more relaxed than holding a chicken, allowing the other person to struggle.

The Pacification Officer of the Monster-slaying Bureau, who emerged from the sea of corpses and blood, said word by word, “Are you teaching me how to do my job? Or are you intending to protect monsters?”

The guard commander was overwhelmed by the all-pervading killing intent, trembling and collapsing to the ground in fright.

“Get lost!”

The guard commander left, and the surrounding guards looked at each other in amazement.

It was only when the youth raised his thumb and seemed to be implying drawing his sword did they finally retreat one after another.

“Nobody’s allowed to leave!” The General, who had finally become accustomed to the feeling of pain, climbed up from the ground and roared, “I don’t care about your Monster-slaying Bureau. This villain and this woman are together. Capture them all for me…”

Before the words “capture them” could leave his mouth, the hysterical General seemed to have forgotten that his power and authority meant nothing in the eyes of these two individuals. He was completely useless, a joke even at the brink of death.

No one saw when he drew his sword, but they heard the sound of him sheathing it, a sharp clang.

Three lines of red appeared on the General’s body, and his neck and chest were severed, blood gushing out as his body fell apart into several chunks of raw flesh, dying instantly.

The guests looked at the General turned into pieces of dead meat and immediately screamed hysterically, “Someone is killed!” “The General is dead!”

But the youth calmly said, “The monster is dead, so shut up.”

Immediately, all was silent.

This was an absurd case of calling a deer a horse.

The Pacification Officer said the General was a monster.

Therefore, the General must be a monster. He had to be.

He looked to the right, and the guests nodded reluctantly; he looked to the left, and the guards shook with fear but also nodded.

In the end, everyone unanimously agreed that the general was a demon, or rather, he had been replaced by a demon.

Crouching Tiger came to slay the demon, he did not kill anyone.

Thus, the red became white.

…

After a quarter of an hour, the young man walked on the road back home with the girl on his back.

Liu Xiaowan, obediently leaning against his back, as if she was tired from playing when she was a child, he carried her home on his back.

Above them, the starlight shone brightly, and a cool breeze blew in the night.

“How did you come back?”

“The battle was over, I saw a letter.”

“And then you rushed back all the way?”

“Yes.”

“How long did it take?” the girl asked softly.

“Five days and four nights…I didn’t sleep a wink,” he said, as if it were an insignificant matter.

Liu Xiaowan hugged him tightly, holding on even tighter. “I thought you wouldn’t come back.”

Bai Wei didn’t know what to say, in the end, he condensed his words into two. “…I’m sorry.”

She pressed her ear against his chest and said, “I forgive you, because you came back.”

“This is my home,” Bai Wei said. “I will always come back.”

“Do you also care about family? I thought you only cared about the country and the world.”

“The country is important, but family is also important. Because you are here, I can leave with peace of mind,” the young man, whether it was due to exhaustion or not wanting to hide anymore, spoke out his inner thoughts. “Wherever you are is my home, even though we are always apart.”

At this moment, the girl opened her eyes, slightly lifted her tender head, and her eyes bloomed with a radiance more beautiful than a billion stars. Her smile surpassed the brilliance of the night sky and dimmed the stars, shyly hiding behind the moon, unfortunately, he did not turn around, missing this scene of inexplicable beauty.

Liu Er hugged the young man tightly, wishing to merge the two into one.

Even if it was just a moment, she returned to the summer of being ten years old, able to embrace intimacy without restraint.

“Blockhead,” Liu Xiaowan’s voice was filled with joy. “You like me, don’t you?”

“Mm,” the young man’s response was without hesitation. “I like you.”

“Then…will you marry me?”

“If you’re willing to marry me.”

“Of course, I’m willing.”

“I’m very busy, I don’t have time to take care of the family, and I’m a fool with low emotional intelligence. In case something happens to me, you will have to be a widow for the rest of your life.”

“I’m not afraid to be the widow of the Bai family…I’m twenty-three years old, and no one wants me.”

“What’s the deal with that general?” he asked.

“Didn’t you kill him? Who else would want me? I can only marry you, you forced me to have no other choice,” she said with a voice full of bitterness. “I was destined to be a bride of the Bai family since I was little, that’s what the people in town think.”

“If you feel aggrieved, you can let go.”

“I won’t, you are mine,” Liu Xiaowan clung to his arm, happily repeating, “You are mine for this lifetime, for the next lifetime, forever and ever, you are mine.”

Bai Wei helplessly, “Nothing has changed… Just like when we were kids, stubborn, tenacious, stubborn.”

“Wooden.”

“Hmm?”

“I like you.”

“Hmm.”

“I want to marry you and be your wife.”

“Hmm.”

“I want to have children with you.”

“Hmm.”

Under the starlight, she blissfully closes her eyes, wearing the wedding dress she knit herself, leaning against the back of her beloved, anticipating the long-awaited wedding.

Blood drips down the wedding dress, leaving a trail of vivid red marks, like scattered petals of crimson flowers.

“If there’s a next life, I will definitely marry you again.”

She softly murmurs, “Don’t forget me, okay…”

Their tightly held hands loosen slightly and slide off the young man’s shoulder.

Bai Wei pauses his steps, opens his mouth, but swallows the words silently, then continues forward.

“Xiaowan, let’s go home…”

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