His entire cultivation was scattered, and his whole person instantly aged.
With his cloudy eyes, he looked at Xiuxiu in his arms with tenderness.
Xiuxiu had been waiting for him for too long, and he had come to find her, hoping she wouldn’t be angry.
He didn’t know if Xiuxiu would be angry with him for embracing her with hands stained with blood.
The ghost groom’s eyes slowly closed as he fell back, and Xiuxiu lay peacefully in his arms.
Xie Changzhou and Liao Wu remained silent.
After a long while, Liao Wu sighed, waved his hand, and the bodies of the two disappeared.
His white robe trailed on the ground as he turned and walked towards the outside of the room.
“Master Xie, I leave this to you. I will go and fulfill his wish,” Liao Wu said.
“Bury them together.” Xie Changzhou nodded slightly.
***
When Sui Ning woke up, her whole body was in pain, but there was a pure warmth energy that flowed into her meridians.
The system saw her wake up and quickly called out to her: “[Host, you finally woke up! You scared me.]”
Sui Ning reassured it helplessly: “I’m fine, don’t worry.”
She was about to struggle to sit up when a clear and gentle voice came from behind her: “Ningning, don’t move. You are seriously injured.”
The system also said, “[That’s right, Host. You don’t know how terrifying you look covered in blood. Let Xie Changzhou treat your wounds first.]”
So Sui Ning had no choice but to sit and wait patiently for Xie Changzhou to heal her.
She weakly asked, “What about Su Kou and the others?”
“They are all okay. Liao Wù has already sent those girls back home. Su Kou was feeling cold here, so she went out to wait,” Xie Changzhou replied.
“Some of their wedding clothes were already quite old, so they must have been kidnapped for a while,” she added.
Xie Changzhou nodded and said, “Sui Ning is clever. Those women are indeed the brides who were abducted earlier.”
The Ghost Groom used Yin energy to select his brides, and in the past few years, he had only kidnapped and kept them in captivity until he had enough for his plan.
In the past half-year, his crime rate has risen because he was lucky to find three brides whose Yin energy was high enough.
As Xie Changzhou healed Sui Ning, he explained the story of the ghost groom to her.
Sui Ning listened in silence, sighed deeply, and said, “The world is unpredictable; fate plays tricks on people.”
Even if the ghost groom’s actions were driven by revenge, they could not erase the bloodshed and guilt he had caused.
The parents who cried day and night because their daughters were kidnapped, the escorts who sent Sui Ning off to be married, and even the Lǐu family who had arranged for Sui Ning to replace Liu Yu as the kidnapped bride.
All these disasters were caused by the ghost groom.
Suining finds it difficult to evaluate his actions.
For a moment, the ice room fell silent, with only the faint breathing of two people remaining.
After a while, Sui Ning felt her meridians gradually relax, and the pain also decreased a lot.
She gently called out to Xie Changzhou: “Jianzun, I’m fine; you don’t need to continue transmitting spiritual energy to me.”
“Ningning, don’t move; you still have some injuries.” Xie Changzhou held her body down while she tried to get up, his warm voice carrying a hint of firmness.
Sui Ning had no choice but to sit still and wait for Xie Changzhou to continue treating her injuries.
His spiritual energy was as warm and comfortable as he was, causing Sui Ning to feel drowsy. Her head drooped slightly, as if she were falling asleep.
Xie Changzhou couldn’t help but want to laugh; a hint of a smile appeared in his eyes, and his heart softened.
When he and Liao Wu came nearby, he noticed an immense strangeness in the air. He followed the strangeness into the ice room and saw a scene that almost made his heart stop.
Countless red threads pierced through Sui Ning’s body, and her wedding dress was dripping with blood. A pool of blood had already gathered at her feet, and her face was pale as she lowered her head. Enjoying the story? Read on at NovelPing.
At that moment, Xie Changzhou’s hands holding the sword were trembling.
Now, even he, who was slow to realize things, recognized that something was different.
He had paid too much attention to Sui Ning.
At first, he thought she was a spy for the demon clan, but now he was willing to believe in her and thought she wasn’t such a bad person.
So he was willing to protect her, care for her, and take care of her.
But now it seems that his attention to her has gone too far.
He sees that Sui Ning acts cute, and he can’t help but soften. He feels happy when she is happy, and he doesn’t mind when she sticks to him.
Even when Sui Ning gets close to him, he feels a flutter in his heart.
Xie Changzhou’s warm eyes show confusion as he looks at Sui Ning with a hint of puzzlement.
At the age of five, he began practicing with his master at Wenjian Peak, but his master had never taught him about these feelings, and he didn’t understand why he was experiencing these changes.
What exactly did he think of Sui Ning?
Just as he had not yet figured it out, Sui Ning, who was dozing off, lost her balance and fell forward suddenly.
Xie Changzhou reflexively grabbed her arm before she fell, and she fell back into his arms.
He smelled that sweet fragrance again, which was as sweet as the candy he had eaten as a child and never forgotten for the past three hundred years.
Xie Changzhou looked down and met Sui Ning’s clear, bright eyes. She looked a bit startled, like a lost deer.
Because she was scared, her red lips parted slightly, and Xie Changzhou’s gaze fell on her rosy lips. His heart began to beat faster, and a hint of darkness crossed his warm eyes.
He felt an inexplicable desire in his heart.
“He was somewhat… thinking of kissing her.”