ASTRP -Chapter 198 Both Brothers Like Feng Jingge

“Hurry and go!”

Feng Jingge followed the attendant into the inner hall. It was still the same room as yesterday, except the medicinal smell inside was even stronger now.

It felt as though Shen Nan himself was drowning in a vat of medicine.

Shen Nan was awake, hugging his knees as he sat on the bed.

Before she entered, the attendant quietly told Feng Jingge, “Our prince’s eyes… temporarily can’t see anymore.”

Because of the gu worms?

“When he raised the first gu worm, the same thing happened once before. His body had weakened to a certain extent…”

“But blindness accompanied by coughing blood is a first… The amount of blood he’s been vomiting is terrifying…”

“I’m truly afraid that one day I’ll wake up and find my master gone…”

The attendant was genuinely worried about Shen Nan.

Feng Jingge nodded, already forming a plan in her mind.

“Alright, I’ll go in.”

The door was pushed open.

Shen Nan’s senses were still quite sharp.

He immediately turned his head, his eyes unfocused and blank.

“Azan… where did you run off to?”

“You’ve been gone so long just to pour some water.”

Oh, so the attendant’s name was Azan.

Shen Nan’s face was already pale as paper.

Wrapped in a thick cloak, he looked so frail that Feng Jingge feared the cloak itself might crush him.

“Why aren’t you speaking?”

“Aren’t you usually so good at lecturing me?”

“Anyone listening would think I’m the servant and you’re the master.”

Feng Jingge carefully observed Shen Nan. Only now did she realize just how familiar this place felt to her.

Even more scenes suddenly surfaced in her mind.

The original owner asking about Shen Nan’s health.

The original owner accompanying Shen Nan during meals.

And another scene—

The original owner being pinned down here while Shen Nan held a dark writhing insect and pried open her mouth…

It was horrifying.

Feng Jingge immediately shook her head.

Shen Nan sounded slightly angry.

“Azan, why aren’t you speaking?”

“I… I know you care about me…”

The man leaned weakly against the wall.

“I won’t die. In this world… the people who can die immediately are actually the fortunate ones…”

Feng Jingge covered her head. A sharp pain stabbed through her mind, and she accidentally knocked into a decorative object behind her.

Unable to catch it, it crashed to the floor with a loud bang.

Shen Nan instantly asked, “What happened?”

He even groped his way off the bed, only to fall heavily onto the ground.

Feng Jingge hurried over to help him. But the moment Shen Nan touched her hand, his face turned cold and he shoved her away.

He began crawling back on his own.

“Bullying a blind man… I really didn’t know losing your memory could give you such twisted hobbies.”

“I didn’t… I saw your attendant carrying out a basin of blood, and I got worried about you, so I came to check on you.”

Shen Nan let out a mocking laugh.

“Hah… came to check on me? Worried?”

“If you were so worried, why didn’t you marry me?”

“Do you even remember what you promised me?”

“You said that once you escaped the Feng family, you would marry me and never step foot in Jing Nation again.”

“You even said you’d help me overthrow Jing Nation…”

“Cough, cough…”

Shen Nan suddenly coughed violently.

Feng Jingge quickly supported him and, with almost irresistible force, got him back onto the bed.

“If Jing Nation falls, does that mean Wu Xing Nation can rule over it?”

Feng Jingge let out a breath.

“Use your brain for a second. Why do you think Jing Nation targeted Wu Xing Nation first back then?”

“Because aside from gu worms, Wu Xing Nation has nothing particularly remarkable.”

“This is the only place suitable for raising gu worms.”

“If your insects tried invading the imperial capital in large numbers, they wouldn’t survive long because of the climate!”

Feng Jingge continued analyzing the war from back then.

The reason Wu Xing Nation lost was because they stretched their battle lines too far…

That made Jing Nation believe they could win the war simply by piling up enough corpses.

“If Wu Xing Nation remains confined to this region, your population is too small to ever become the overlord of the nations.”

“If Jing Nation collapses, the next to rise would be A’luoluo Nation. It would never be Wu Xing Nation’s turn.”

Feng Jingge also said that while Wu Xing Nation excelled at assassination, and gu worms could kill Jing Nation’s emperor, they could never wipe out Jing Nation’s power structure.

Besides, the former emperor of Jing Nation was already dead. Xiao Yu was now emperor.

He was still just a child, while Xiao Jinghan currently held power.

So there was no way she would help Shen Nan.

“Stop clinging to this obsession. Can’t you just treat it as me changing my mind?”

Feng Jingge said everyone had moments of youthful impulsiveness.

She attributed the original owner’s actions to ignorance in her younger years.

“I think back then I only wanted to escape the Feng family, so I joined hands with you and dreamed of overthrowing Jing Nation.”

“But as I got older, I realized the limits of my own abilities.”

“I was just the unloved daughter of the Feng family. What qualifications did I have to cooperate with you?”

“Let it go.”

“Wouldn’t it be better to simply live well in the present?”

Feng Jingge felt she had nothing more she could say.

Talking about compensation now felt meaningless too.

Shen Nan’s hand clenched tightly into a fist.

“I want revenge for my sister… And you once said you wanted revenge for your mother too.”

“What?”

Mother?

The original owner’s mother?

“Revenge for my mother?”

“What revenge?”

Could it be that Madam Feng hadn’t died from illness after all?

Was she murdered by Chen Jinfeng?!

Feng Jingge felt that was the only possibility.

“I don’t know what revenge you’re talking about… You never told me.”

Shen Nan only said that the Feng Jingge from back then had been utterly resolute.

“Jingge, you once said we were kindred spirits.”

“You said you loved me. I believed you.”

“But now it seems… that love was so cheap.”

He said they had walked through every corner of this palace together.

They had secretly kissed in hidden corners.

Yet Feng Jingge still felt something was wrong.

If the original owner truly loved Shen Nan, she shouldn’t feel absolutely nothing.

And then there was Shen Fufeng.

Also known as Shen Ruo.

“I want to ask you something. How much does your brother know about us?”

“And as the eldest prince of Wu Xing Nation, knowing your health is so poor, why doesn’t he return?”

“As your older brother, shouldn’t he stay in Wu Xing Nation and take care of you?”

Shen Nan pressed his lips together.

“I know my brother likes you too, so I kept many things from him.”

“He cares deeply for me. Even though he liked you, he never showed it.”

“But I knew he couldn’t bear watching us live happily together, so he left early.”

“As for where he went, I don’t know either. Sometimes he comes back to visit me.”

No wonder Shen Fufeng knew everything about her and Xiao Jinghan.

So he was actually a prince of Wu Xing Nation.

Yet in front of her, he had never once mentioned Wu Xing Nation or Shen Nan.

Still, Feng Jingge couldn’t shake the feeling that Shen Fufeng wasn’t as good as Shen Nan claimed.

“Why are you suddenly asking about my brother?”

“Don’t tell me… you like him?”

“…”

“Stop talking nonsense. I’m already a princess consort now. How could I possibly like him?”

“And even if I weren’t, I still wouldn’t like him.”

Shen Nan said nothing, but his mood seemed to relax somewhat.

Seeing this, Feng Jingge immediately pressed Shen Nan down. With the fingers of her other hand together, she pressed against his abdomen.