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The Useless Miracle Doctor Consort Is Spoiled Rotten by the Prince!-Chapter 1381 - 1376 She Changed
Chapter 1381 -1376 She Changed
Mu Rongche, having delivered the documents to Long Guan City, did not receive a reply from the old king, so he could not directly go to the capital of Ji Yun Country, so he stayed two more days in Long Guan City.
One reason was to bury the guard who had died, the other was to protect the citizens of Long Guan City.
In the two extra days he stayed, he split the guard into two to protect the citizens, and he himself, along with Luo Heng, visited various places to inquire about the timing of the appearances of those poisoned by the Gu and their origins.
He discovered that the ones who had died in Long Guan City were mostly young and strong men, leaving behind mostly the elderly, weak, women, and children, even some grandfathers.
Aside from the women who could explain some of the situation, the remaining grandfathers in the village all seemed to avoid the topic. Whenever they saw Mu Rongche, they would look at him with pitying eyes, often advising him, “You, quickly leave this place! Otherwise, you too will turn into a man-eating monster!”
“That won’t happen, elder,” Mu Rongche reassured, taking a grandfather’s hand in an attempt to comfort him.
But before he could say anything more, the old man began to weep, his eyes filled with horror and fear.
After Luo Heng’s investigation, he reported back at their place of lodging, “Your Highness, the calamity of the Gu poison began two years ago. They have never seen what the poisoner looks like, but ever since the first victim of the Gu appeared, there have been an endless number. And those poisoned, all men, mostly young and strong, in the two years that have passed, nearly all the young and strong men in the villages around this mountain have perished or been injured. Now, it’s starting to turn to these old men.”
Mu Rongche’s hand slowly clenched into a fist, his brow furrowed with a trace of heaviness, “No wonder that elder advised me to leave, fearing for my life.”
He probably knew that the men here couldn’t escape such a fate.
“But Your Highness, why are only men dying?” questioned Luo Heng, not understanding.
Would someone with evil intentions, looking to harm others, really distinguish between men and women?
Mu Rongche had made some observations over the past few days, “Her hatred for men runs deep, haven’t you noticed? In these villages and towns, even without the young and strong men, the women and children still live very well. They have money to use, and their labor is not so strenuous; on the other hand, the few remaining old men live every day in utter panic, dreading that they might be the next to die. They also dare not speak harshly to their wives and daughters-in-law.”
It was as if the natural order had been reversed, breaking the rule of male superiority and female inferiority that governed the Nine Continents.
The only person capable of doing such a thing, Mu Rongche instantly thought of Xiao Bai’s past. Her people were killed by men because they were too beautiful, and from birth, she suffered bullying. Upon arriving in Lian Hai Kingdom, her beauty brought her endless troubles and caused her to endure so much bullying.
She naturally grew to hate men.
A self-deprecating smile formed on Mu Rongche’s lips, bitter to the extreme.
What had he done?
He owed the Witch Tribe’s people, he owed Xiao Bai’s mother, and he owed Xiao Bai even more.
He thought he was saving people, thinking he could make amends, could protect, but in the end, he accomplished nothing.
Everything was because of him, and now it was heading towards a terribly deep abyss.
The future…
He didn’t even know what it would be like!
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Tormented by nightmares for a whole night, Mu Rongche dreamt that Gu worms crawled into his body, began gnawing at his flesh, and he turned into a man-eating monster. Before him was a bloody purgatory, and standing in the midst of that purgatory, the person who looked on with mocking pride…
“Xiao Bai!”
Mu Rongche awoke with his head covered in cold sweat, and just as he was grateful that it was only a dream, a woman in red slowly approached him. She wore a thin red gauze dress, her slender waist barely graspable, exposed to the air, her delicate and fair ankles, like the finest mutton-fat jade, tender and smooth.
Around her ankles, a red string held a small bell, which tinkled in his room.
Chen Ruobai hadn’t yet approached him when he rushed over and embraced her, “Xiao Bai!”
Mu Rongche called out her name fervently.
Chen Ruobai was not in a hurry to respond to him, waiting until his ecstatic fervor subsided and he calmed down to look at her before she lightly parted her red lips, the gorgeous curves of her eyes lifting with her smile, she informed him, “Crown Prince, you are mistaken, this princess’s name is Chen Ruobai.”
“Chen Ruobai…” Mu Rongche looked down at the woman in his arms, she was more beautiful than before, so breathtakingly beautiful!
Even knowing she might be a dazzling poison flower, he wanted to approach her with his life, to entangle with her till death.
Mu Rongche didn’t know what had come over him, with so many things having happened in these two years, so much suspicion, so many things he needed to speak out loud.
But when Chen Ruobai tiptoed to kiss him, his reason collapsed.
He had fallen.
Her tender affection was like poison, which he swallowed willingly.
The few days he spent with her felt like a dream, making Mu Rongche feel so unreal.
Until afterward, when she put on a red dress and got up from bed, he held her slim, willowy body and murmured, “Xiao Bai, I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have hurt you that day, my mother’s death made me lose my reason, I really didn’t mean to hurt you, I was just too angry…”
“Oh.”
Chen Ruobai’s expression was unreadable, her captivating eyes filled with utmost rational indifference.
A bone-deep chill suddenly stimulated Mu Rongche into clarity.
As he got dressed and stood up, intending to talk with her about the disaster of the gu insects,
swords clashing resounded from outside. Alert, he wanted to draw his sword to protect her, but Luo Heng burst in, his face covered in blood, staring at Chen Ruobai, “Your Highness, this woman… she is poisoned! Your Highness, run for your life!”
Luo Heng dragged Mu Rongche aside and whispered into his ear, “Ji Yun Country’s army has invaded Lian Hai Kingdom, and in three days, five cities have fallen, tens of thousands of civilians have suffered, this woman has kept it from Your Highness… Your Highness, run!”
If he didn’t run now, the Lian Hai Kingdom would be finished!
While Mu Rongche was still in shock, Chen Ruobai let out a cold laugh, “Do you think you can run now?”
Mu Rongche helped Luo Heng up, facing those rushing in from outside, all of whom were the monsters they had encountered in the mountains. As Chen Ruobai blew her short flute, they attacked frantically towards him and Luo Heng.
They were not even about thinking to run; their lives were in danger.
Mu Rongche could only save Luo Heng, watching his own guard team of dozens of men, half of them being devoured by the monsters, eaten into unrecognizable figures, the ground was filled with wails, the scene like a sunset weeping blood, extraordinarily gory and eerie.
“Xiao Bai, why!?” Mu Rongche’s forehead veins bulged, eyes red with rage.
“Because, this princess wants all of you, to die.”
Chen Ruobai’s gorgeous red lips uttered ruthlessly.
With her order, they were all captured, taken back to the capital of Ji Yun Country.
It was not that Mu Rongche didn’t resist, but those around him were all gravely injured, he could have run alone, but they would all have died!