Chapter 111.1 : As If Afraid She Wouldn’t Die Thoroughly! (Part 1)
"Mm-mmh…!!"
Just as Tang Xuerong was still clinging to her last breath, a long, sharp tree branch stabbed straight into her throat.
Tang Qingmo even twisted the branch, completely piercing through and destroying her windpipe!
"Getting your throat pierced by a branch on the hillside when you 'accidentally' fall off a cliff… that's perfectly normal, right~?" he said with a smile.
[Mm. Very normal.] the system responded silently.
"Mm-mmh…! Cough!"
Tang Xuerong's eyes widened in terror. She felt her entire body suffering pain beyond imagination!
She couldn't move at all anymore. Even breathing—which she thought she might still be able to do—became incredibly difficult. A massive amount of blood poured uncontrollably from her mouth!
It hurts…
It's unbearable…
What… what happened?
Tang Xuerong didn't understand.
Was she… thrown down by Tang Qingmo…?
She didn't know…
She only knew her consciousness was slowly becoming blurry…
Yes—like she was about to return…
Back into the darkness…
The very darkness she had once fallen into herself…!
"What? You're dying already? Compared to Tang Feifei, you've got it way easier!"
At that moment, Tang Qingmo's mocking voice reached her ears.
"Looks like as long as you pierce the neck or split the head… even the Daughter of Fortune can still die."
"..."
Tang Xuerong didn't know what Tang Qingmo was talking about. She only felt exhausted…
So she could finally… just fall asleep like this?
Finally no longer… be tortured by these demons…!
"Oh right, my dear Fifth Sister."
But at that moment, Tang Qingmo slowly stepped closer, then lowered his face to look down at her.
"Even if you die, you'll still have plenty of value to me~"
Tang Xuerong: "..."
"Don't worry. I'll make good use of your death… to ruin your good little brother and the Tang family completely!"
!!?
Right before her consciousness turned pitch-black, Tang Qingmo's words caused a brief flash of shock inside her.
"Even when you're dead, I won't let your grave be peaceful. Your reputation, everything you had… will rot in infamy forever!"
!!!!!
[Tang Xuerong's Regret Value +500!]
[Tang Xuerong's Regret Value +500!]
[Tang Xuerong's Regret Value +500!]
...
Up until the final moment before her life stopped, Tang Xuerong produced another huge surge of regret value!
Then her eyes rolled back, her body convulsed for several seconds—before finally going still…
The system spoke softly: [Host, Tang Xuerong's death has been detected.]
[Mm. I saw it…]
Tang Qingmo stretched his arms and looked at Tang Xuerong's corpse.
"Young Master Tang! How is Fifth Miss Tang—mmph!!"
Lu Tianren, who had rushed over, saw Tang Xuerong's body—her limbs snapped from the fall, and she had already stopped breathing!
"This is…!?"
Even though he had mentally prepared himself, the sight in front of him still made Lu Tianren recoil in shock.
Tang Xuerong was wearing a light green hospital gown, and large stains of red blood were still smeared across it.
And the thick, long tree branch piercing through her throat was—obviously—something Tang Qingmo had driven into her!
As if he was terrified she wouldn't die properly!
"Mm!"
Lu Tianren unconsciously covered his mouth, feeling as if stomach acid suddenly surged up his throat.
This was the first time he had truly seen a corpse so gruesome and unbearable to look at. His chest felt tight, and a violent wave of nausea rose like it was about to burst out of him…!
"Ugh…" He rushed beneath a large tree.
He wanted to vomit, but nothing came up. His chest felt heavy and sickening!
"Pull yourself together." Tang Qingmo only let out a helpless sigh. "You're the young master of the Lu family. In the future, you'll have the chance to go to the battlefield against mutated beasts."
"Compared to how brutal things are on the battlefield… this is nothing, isn't it…"