The Useless Miracle Doctor Consort Is Spoiled Rotten by the Prince!

Chapter 1399: Chapter 1394: Picking Stars Together With You

After taking Chu Yihan’s pulse, Su Yingxue learned that what Mu Rongche had scattered wasn’t poison but merely some powder, which caused no harm, so they both chased after him.

“Ye Qingru, call the archers!” Chu Yihan ordered coldly. No matter what, he must not let Chen Ruobai escape today.

He intended to hang her head to mourn the countless civilians and soldiers.

Mo Qi was about to catch up to Mu Rongche, thinking that Mu Rongche would take Chen Ruobai and escape in the hot air balloon.

However, when the hot air balloon drifted above this high building, Mo Qi realized that the person on it wasn’t their reinforcement, but Yue Lian.

Yue Lian had come to help.

Mo Qi had already reached the rooftop, and not far away was Mu Rongche.

Holding Chen Ruobai, he had run up the building, exhausting all his strength. Now sitting by the parapet, he was gasping for breath, his face pale and covered in sweat.

Chen Ruobai, leaning in his arms, voiced her pain, “Why… did you still take me with you?”

She had killed everyone in the Imperial family of the Lian Hai Kingdom; wasn’t Mu Rongche supposed to hate her with a vengeance and, as Chu Yihan’s Vanguard Officer, want to kill her and take her head?

Why did he still take her and run to this place?

“Chu Yihan didn’t kill me; do you want me to die even more miserably, is that it?” Chen Ruobai suddenly guessed, laughing out loud, her laughter wild and defiant, “Mu Rongche, in the end, I lost. Torture me however you want! In the next life, I will fight with you again!”

She would never admit defeat!

Mu Rongche listened to her speak for a while, and finally caught his breath. He gently brushed the stray hair from her forehead, revealing that face, looking at her once fair complexion now sallow and lined with wrinkles. He whispered softly, “It was always me who owed you; what right do I have to torture you?”

If it hadn’t been for him at Long Guan City, discovering her mother and handing her over to the old emperor, how would her tragic fate have come to be, and how would today’s war have erupted?

Everything had begun because of him.

Tears of desolation welled up in Chen Ruobai’s eyes, “You owe me? You know that you owe me… why did you hand me over to your mother in the first place?”

What if she had been brought to the battlefield?

She was not afraid of war, nor was she afraid of death.

She just didn’t want to leave her side.

“Xiao Bai, do you remember Picking Stars Tower?” Mu Rongche leaned close to her ear and spoke softly.

“Picking Stars Tower…”

Chen Ruobai’s memories drifted far away, and the past rapidly came to her mind.

At the age of fourteen, relying on Mu Rongche’s doting, during her most spoiled and naughty phase, she clung to him every day, “Mu Rongche, you said you love me the most. I want the stars in the sky!”

She stood under the night sky, pointing at the twinkling stars, her lips pouting righteously.

Mu Rongche was both helpless and amused, “The sky is so high and far away, no one has ever been to the heavens, and even though I know the lightness skill, it’s only enough to flit across eaves and rooftops; where do I find you the stars to pick?”

“I don’t care! I want it! You said you love me, so I want the stars in the sky!”

She clung to Mu Rongche’s clothes, throwing a tantrum with all her might.

Mu Rongche was most annoyed by her temper, yet it was he himself who had spoiled her, and he couldn’t bear to see her unhappy.

So he spent all his energy climbing the highest mountains, gathering scholars to study the celestial patterns, and even kept people from Si Tianjian in the prince’s mansion to study for a long time until they all knelt before him, “Your Highness, it’s not that easy to ascend to heaven! The stars are farther than millions of miles from the Earth; how can you pick them? Please stop thinking about it!”

“I, the prince, do not wish for it, but Xiao Bai, she wants it,” Mu Rongche was equally helpless.

He had promised her that he would give her anything she wanted in this life, all that he had.

And so, the scene where he failed to ascend to the skies but instead broke his leg unfolded.

The citizens of Lian Hai Kingdom mocked him, renaming the once towering structure Picking Stars Tower, a warning to future generations not to imitate Mu Rongche, seeking to pluck stars for a beauty while neglecting the risk of breaking one’s own legs.

But he would forever remember, that instant when he soared towards the heavens.

His lips, brushing against Chen Ruobai’s ear, “Xiao Bai, the stars in the sky are so beautiful. I’ll take you to pick them, all right?”

“All right.” Chen Ruobai wrapped her arms around his neck.

The two of them no longer bore the same appearance as before, yet she truly longed to know, what kind of scene Mu Rongche saw when he dashed towards the sky from Picking Stars Tower that year.

“Mu Rongche!”

Mo Qi shouted loudly, unable to stop him.

Mu Rongche, cradling Chen Ruobai, leapt from atop the high tower.

Su Yingxue and Chu Yihan also witnessed this scene, Chu Yihan had intended to command the archers to shoot them down, yet now, he could only watch as the two, like a meteor, streaked across the sky, and crashed violently to the ground.

Blood, flowing everywhere.

“Mu Rongche took Chen Ruobai with him in death. Was it to get revenge on her?” Su Yingxue’s eyes brimmed with confusion; when she had arrived, she saw that many of the clothing on the gu corpses seemed to belong to members of the Imperial family.

Those must have been from the Imperial family of Lian Hai Kingdom.

Chen Ruobai had caused their deaths to be so miserable.

Most of them were Mu Rongche’s relatives, he must have hated Chen Ruobai to the extreme, right?

“It’s not revenge.” Chu Yihan’s brows knitted slightly, “As a man, Mu Rongche was preserving the last shred of Chen Ruobai’s dignity.”

If the two were to die together, if he were to expose Chen Ruobai’s head for all to see, then he, too, would surely meet the same fate.

He wanted to stay with Chen Ruobai, in life and in death.

“The two of them hurt each other to this extent, yet they still wanted to die together.” Su Yingxue shook her head and sighed. Perhaps when they died, they could no longer distinguish whether what they felt for each other was love or hate.

“Emperor, who is that!”

Su Yingxue stared blankly at the corpses of Chen Ruobai and Mu Rongche for a moment, when she suddenly noticed a dark shadow approaching Chen Ruobai. It seemed to be tampering with her body.

Su Yingxue hastily chased after it and arrived next to the bodies of Chen Ruobai and Mu Rongche. Both were mangled beyond recognition, blood everywhere, but Chen Ruobai’s body had been disturbed.

Approaching, Su Yingxue discovered a hole in her wrist, as if it had just been carved out by someone.

“Princess!”

Zhuo Qing, detained, was led over. Upon seeing the dead body of Chen Ruobai, she immediately knelt on the ground, weeping inconsolably.

Chen Qingshui also knelt down, but unlike Zhuo Qing’s emotional display, her eyes remained emotionless, calm as water.

Kneeling down, she silently kowtowed.

As if that was all she could do.

“Zhuo Qing, do you know of anything unusual about Chen Ruobai’s wrist?” Su Yingxue waved her hand, commanding people to release Zhuo Qing, allowing her to come closer.

Zhuo Qing knelt and crawled to Chen Ruobai, her heart filled with sorrow for a moment as she immediately looked at the wrist, a freshly dug hole…

“This… Inside the princess’s wrist, there should have been the Gu King!” Zhuo Qing’s eyes widened in disbelief.

To think it had been forcibly extracted?

“Taking it away is of no use,” Chen Qingshui spoke indifferently, “The Gu King must be nurtured by the members of the witch clan, and can’t survive without their bloodline.”

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