Chapter 144: Meeting the Arch-enemy
The entire Gentle Breeze courtyard was burning and Xing who is incapacitated as of now was in deep contemplation amidst the burning building with the embers rising and the heat was unbearable.
What led to this? Xing wondered, if she was on the other side, she’d have made plans to kill the one person who’d make others withdraw from the fight to.
The Ran family’s escape was a distraction by Shihong and I fell for it! Distracting me with the Ran family and letting me know that he is planning to burn the city and when I ran around trying to protect my family, I was the target all along. And here I am... About to die...
And where did I go wrong? Till four months ago, I’ve saved more people than I hurt. But now after I got a family, I’ve killed more people than I saved. Why is it all going bad? Why am I getting morally worse? Does loving people make you weak? Xing bit her lips to get the pain to let her be awake as she was suffocating.
That’s not it...I’ve never changed. My strategies have changed from using the sword to using other plots but not my goal.
Protecting those around me!
Till now, I’ve always cared only about others and never about me. But I was safe because I was always protected... There was Haru who watched my back, Shengli who watched over me and also... The Gods... Now I have no one beside me and that’s why I’m weakened...
A tear escaped Xing’s eyes.
Xing had an unreasonable fear of fire and that combined with the effects of the poison was making her gradually lose her consciousness but she was not ready to give up. She has to survive!
That’s right! Haru is not here, Shengli’s whereabouts are unknown, the Gods cannot get here ... But...
If I am the frigging ’Divine Ruler’, I’m not going to end in a frigging fire in a courtyard inside the inner palace like some weak woman! That’s just plain insulting! Death by a sword, I can agree but I refuse to die in a fire! And too many people want me alive.
With the resolve to survive somehow, Xing noticed with all the fire there wasn’t much smoke considering the fact that there was still snow everywhere. This fire is definitely weird, she noted. She still could not move but thankfully her senses were still intact.