Chapter 46: Revenge 6

  In the dead of night, Mount Qilin was as quiet as a winter's night, without a single sound.

  Her gaze had never wavered from afar, she had been hiding here for a whole day, no, not hiding, but being watched. Since entering the Qilin Mountain, she had never escaped the eyes of the ruthless and unpredictable Suo.

  Her body was getting colder and colder, but the fresh blood in her chest kept gushing out, vomiting blood that couldn't be stopped. After a day of painful torture and running around, the fatal feeling of hunger also came to join in the chaos, adding insult to injury.

  The entire day, the army surrounding Qilin Mountain showed no signs of entering. In fact, when Huo Zhe didn't return after an hour, she already knew that something was amiss outside.

  Everything was beyond expectation.

  She thought she could slip away smoothly, but didn't expect Nan Gong Jin to appear. Moreover, she didn't expect that the real troublemakers and Qiang people were all waiting here for them to fall into their trap.

  The biggest mistake was not insisting on completely eliminating Zhao Songshan.

  Nalan Xixiao's head grew heavier and the scene in front of her gradually blurred. At this time, a figure that had been hiding in the dark suddenly flashed out and rushed towards her at high speed.

  Ying Zang, Dugu Qiu sat in a wheelchair, his face without any expression, his bulging eyes blinking lightly under the candlelight, making him look even more terrifying.

  On the side, Dugu Yan seemed to smile but not quite, he couldn't speak, yet Dugu Qiu understood what he was saying.

  He said, why don't you take action? Nangong Jin is now like an ant in their hands, why don't they take action?

  Du Guo didn't respond, and suddenly a charming shadow flashed by. A white figure stopped beside Du Guo for only a second before speeding away without a trace.

  A glimmer of light flashed in Dugu Qiu's originally cold eyes, and he casually pushed his wheelchair outwards.

  Dugu Qiu stopped in front of the curtain and said calmly, "Don't be impatient."

  In Dugu Qiu's tent, on the bed, Nalan Xinnuo's face was pale. The military doctor in the camp had a worried expression, but he didn't know what to do. Nalan Xinnuo suffered from internal injuries, and that palm technique was extremely vicious, it wouldn't damage the five organs or six bowels, but it would cause non-stop vomiting of blood, and there was no way to use medicine, slowly letting the person bleed to death.

  Du Guoqiang signaled the military doctor to step down, he wheeled his chair closer to the bedside. Then from his pocket he pulled out a pill, gently pinched her chin and fed it to her.

  After taking the medicine, Nalan Xinxiao furrowed his brow tightly. The medicine indeed had a heart-protecting effect, even if one's internal organs were shattered and their life was hanging by a thread, taking it could still save their life. However, after swallowing it, there would be an intense pain, that kind of pain he knew, as he had used this medicine to save his own life back then.

  Nalan Xixi merely furrowed her brow, not uttering a single word. After a while, her eyebrows gradually relaxed, and her breathing also started to become lighter.

  Du Guo Qiang looked at her, and the originally cold eyes revealed a few unhidden tenderness. He was always unable to be cold towards this woman, unable to be inhumane, and he didn't know why.

  Perhaps at that moment, he looked at her ordinary face, and the calm determination on it moved his heart.

  But such heart palpitations were just for a moment, he knew himself, he was not worthy of her.

  He is a man who should have died long ago, ten years ago to be exact. He has been living in this world for the sake of hatred and revenge. He doesn't deserve to love, let alone with his current state, what right does he have to love?

  On the bed, Nalan Xinnuo, who was feeling unwell, slowly sat up and opened her eyes.

  Du Guo had a moment of confusion, lowered his head, and met her gaze, but was taken aback. Her eyes no longer had the arrogance and coldness of before, filled with hatred, disappointment, and regret.

  Regret? What is she regretting, that she didn't kill him with one sword at the beginning? Regret that she couldn't take his life herself? He doesn't know, all he knows is that at this moment, she hates him.

  He rarely saw so much emotion in her eyes, she had always been indifferent to everything, even death couldn't make her flinch.

  But at this moment, she became completely unlike herself.

  For whom? For Nan Gong Jin?

  For Nan Gong Yu, can you really give up everything?

  Nalan Xixi was about to get up when Dugu Qiu stretched out his hand and gently pressed her shoulder. "Don't move around for now, take a few days to rest."

  He paused for a moment and added: "Even if you want to save people, you should heal your wounds first."

  He knew that only this could persuade her to lie down and rest. Only by taking good care of her body would she have the strength to deal with him, and the strength to save Nan Gong Jin. This was a reason she could accept.

  As expected, Nalan Xixi did not refute or struggle. She didn't say a word. She didn't know what to say. She didn't understand what Dugu Qiu meant.

  Dugu Family and Nan Gong Jin are irreconcilable arch-enemies who have been at odds for generations. At this point, she was already hiding outside and couldn't do anything else, her heart had already given up hope. This amount of time would be enough for them to kill Nan Gong Jin ten thousand times.

  But Dugu Qiu is now saying such words, meaning that he has not died yet? They have not killed him yet?

  What made her even more incomprehensible was that the assassins had been secretly following her from the very beginning, but they had never made a move, and according to her situation at the time, she couldn't have resisted them even if they had attacked.

  They should have killed her directly, and if it were them, they would have also killed Nan Gong Jin without hesitation.

  However, not only did they not kill her, but Dugu Qiu also rescued her. She didn't believe he was motivated by any past affection to save her; in the past, they had no affection for each other, she just won against him, that's all.

  "Why save me." After a long time, Nalan Xixi slowly spoke up.

  Dugu Qiu's eyes trembled slightly, he thought she was too lazy to say another word to him. But when she opened her mouth, it made him at a loss for what to do. He fell silent for a moment, and smiled faintly, though no one could tell that he was smiling.

  "Do you still remember why I followed you to Bai Ming Lou?"

  "At the time I thought it was just because I won, but now it seems it wasn't."

  Dugu Qiu looked at Nalan Xixi, she had returned to her usual cold demeanor, but this coldness was a thousand times more hurtful than before.

  Her meaning was, he followed her into the Bright Moon Pavilion today, is it a conspiracy?

  "No." He shook his head.

  "It's not because you won over me, nor was it a premeditated plan. As for the world, we have no interest in it. A person who has already died once, a person who has already lost everything, what use is the world to them?"

  "Oh? Hehe, could it be that you're saying you're willing to follow me through thick and thin because you admire me?" Nalan Xinnuo couldn't help but sneer.

  "Yes." His tone was unusually firm. "Even I don't believe it myself. But when you defeated me in two moves, when you knew I was Dugu Qiu, and when you could have killed me with just a thought but chose to spare my life instead, I truly admired you."

  "Especially... when I found out about your relationship with Nangong Jin, and you knew that I would never let him go, yet you still spared my life time and again. That admiration has already gone beyond mere admiration."

  Nalan Xixi's face fell, and she furrowed her brow. For some reason, her eyes suddenly felt sore, and those past events flashed before her eyes again. She considered showing weakness a shame, yet time and again she sympathized with people she shouldn't have sympathized with.

  Sympathy can make a person weak and turn an assassin into someone who is no longer formidable.

  "Do you know what is the most difficult thing to get in this world?" Du Gu asked her.

  She didn't answer, she naturally knew, the hardest to get, also the most fatal.

  "I trust you." Du Gu's eyes were slightly red, he had already isolated himself from all emotions in this world, the pain he had experienced made him no longer dare to believe half of what this world said.

  She is no exception either. With that kind of ability and such coldness, she must have also experienced unknown pains.

  But she still prefers to trust the world a little more, even if it's an enemy, she is willing to believe in herself, and she firmly believes that even if she hands over the sword of trust to others, she has the confidence to protect herself completely.

  She yearned for more tolerance because she knew that hatred was the most agonizing thing in this world.

  The hardest thing to get in this world is trust, the most fatal thing is also trust, and the least utilizable thing is still trust.

  So he couldn't kill her. At this last moment, the moment he had been dreaming of, Nan Gong Jin was in his hands, and he could avenge himself, but that hatred was no match for her trust.

  He can't let her down.

  "Hmph..." Nalan Xixi sneered coldly. "Are you mocking me?"

  Mocking my weakness, mocking that I couldn't bring myself to do it, mocking the blind self-confidence that has brought me and him to this state?

  "No, no!" Du Guo Qiu was somewhat anxious, he didn't want her to misunderstand him.

  Nalan Xixiao raised her eyes to look at him, his anxious tone made her hesitate for a moment, but he didn't continue speaking. A pair of eyes on his expressionless face suddenly looked lost.

  He wasn't being sarcastic, but didn't know how to explain either. Because that answer shouldn't be spoken out loud.

  "How can I let him go?" Nalan Xianuo's tone was surprisingly conciliatory.

  For Nan Gong Jin, she was willing to compromise? Astonished, there was a deeper desolation.

  Nalan Xixiao's mind quickly analyzed the situation, they didn't kill Nangong Jin and even saved her, which could only mean that she still had some use value to them, as for what they wanted to do, she was at a loss.

  As he said, it shouldn't be about taking over Luo Tian, as the Holy Golden Kingdom is still under the Dugu family and is the strongest among the vassal states, and there's also a heaven's proud son like that.

  If you want chaos throughout the land, why bother with all this effort?

  What's even stranger is that since they're all alive, why didn't they return to the Sacred Golden Kingdom? Moreover, how could Dugu Han not know they were still alive, and knowing they were alive, how could he reject them at the door?

  Seeing Nalan Xixi's confusion, Dugu Qiu fell silent for a moment before speaking slowly: "As repayment for saving your life, listen to me tell you a story?"