ASTRP -Chapter 203 Feng Jingge Plans to Go Alone to Witch Gu Mountain

Feng Jingge said that just like earlier, as long as someone obeyed him, any random maid would do.

In his mind, he never truly cared about the fall of his country.

Even avenging his sister was only an excuse.

“You don’t love your country either. You don’t love your mother or father.”

“And your older brother too…”

“Because if you truly loved your parents, you’d know they would never allow you to do this.”

“To destroy Wu Xing Kingdom and ruin the very foundation that lets its people survive.”

“And your brother, Shen Ruo.”

“You said before that he left on his own, but I’m guessing you forced him away, didn’t you?”

“Otherwise, at a time like this, you would’ve already brought him here to deal with me and my prince.”

“Am I right?”

Shen Nan swept the blankets off the bed and hurled them toward Feng Jingge.

“Shut up!”

“Just shut up!”

“Get out…!”

“Prince Shen Nan, revenge is one thing, but wanting to be loved is not something you can force onto others.”

Shen Nan knelt on the bed and slowly raised his head.

“Is it wrong… that I want to be loved?”

“If it weren’t for Jing Kingdom, my parents would still be alive… they would’ve continued loving me!”

“And my brother too. Our bond would never have broken apart.”

Shen Nan kept rambling, asking who had turned him into this way.

The one at fault was Jing Kingdom, not him!

“I know. I knew from the beginning that Jing Kingdom was wrong.”

“What the late emperor did was indeed wrong, but he’s already dead.”

“People still have to keep living. You can’t cling to the past forever. It’ll only make you suffer more.”

Feng Jingge asked him whether replacing her with a maid would really solve everything.

Could his parents come back?

Could he and his brother return to the relationship they once had?

The only ones who would truly suffer were the common people and the surrounding vassal states.

And himself.

Shen Nan clenched his fists and took a deep breath.

“I don’t care about anyone else. I only want myself to be happy.”

He said that after his father died, his mother fell into depression and eventually passed away as well.

Then because of Feng Jingge, the brotherhood between him and his brother shattered.

Now he was all alone. Other than wanting to be loved, he could no longer feel any vitality in life.

At that point, Shen Nan could not help but pound his chest.

“Jingge saved me. I wanted Jingge to love me.”

“I wanted her to become someone who only loved me and only devoted herself to me!”

“But her eyes and heart only held my brother!”

“Why?”

“I was the one who met her first! If it weren’t for me, she never would’ve met my brother.”

“You talking about going to the mountains to watch the snow together, embracing each other in some corner of the palace…”

“Those are all just your own fantasies. None of it ever happened.”

“You’re lying!”

“It happened! All of it happened!”

Shen Nan said he loved Feng Jingge.

He no longer knew what good things he could possibly give her.

As long as it could benefit Feng Jingge, he gave it to her.

He gave and gave until he himself was utterly exhausted and had nothing left to offer.

If she demanded more, the only thing left would be his own life.

“You say I raised Gu worms for her. Could I possibly not love her?”

“But… you also swapped out her soul…”

Shen Nan roared, “That’s because she wouldn’t obey me!”

Then Shen Nan said, “Your name is Feng Jingge too, right?”

“I hate you now!”

“Go into Witch Gu Mountain for me.”

He pointed out the window toward the mountain visible from nearly every corner of the royal palace of Wu Xing Kingdom.

Actually, Gu worms were supposed to be raised inside special jars.

But he sneered and said that Jing Kingdom forbade the practice. Whenever they found Gu worms, they threw both the worms and the jars straight into the fire.

So they had no choice but to raise them inside the mountain.

Every year, people who had long nurtured Gu within their bodies would enter the mountain to retrieve the surviving worms.

But ordinary people—especially outsiders from Wu Xing Kingdom—would die without question after entering.

“Feng Jingge, I don’t know what you’re thinking.”

“You look like the kind of person who would sacrifice yourself for others.”

He breathed heavily.

The Gu worms had only recently been removed from Shen Nan’s body, and his physical condition was terrible.

His pale fingers were so thin they were almost skin and bone.

And yet he still pointed those fingers at Feng Jingge.

“More than a year ago, the Gu worms spread through Jingge’s body to the people around you.”

“If you refuse to enter Witch Gu Mountain, I’ll instantly control the worms and kill people.”

He sat upright again.

“Of course, I can’t kill too many people.”

“But among the people they kill… there may be someone you care about. Isn’t that right?”

More than a year ago…

The original owner had always lived in the Feng household.

Feng Jingge immediately thought of the Feng family.

Truthfully, even if everyone in the Feng family died, she would not feel much.

Even Feng Mingyue’s death would not devastate her.

But there were still unresolved matters between her and the Feng family.

For example, the death of the original owner’s mother.

She absolutely had to personally settle that score with Chen Jinfeng!

She leaned close to Xiao Jinghan’s ear and whispered a few words. Behind their backs, the two exchanged something.

Then Feng Jingge said, “Fine. But I have one condition.”

“If I can come out alive from Witch Gu Mountain, will you let go of the past… and let go of me?”

“Alive?”

“I already want you dead. Do you really think I still can’t let go of you?”

He declared with absolute certainty that Feng Jingge would never come out alive.

Taking advantage of the moment his guard was down, Feng Jingge rushed forward, grabbed his chin, and shoved a pill into his mouth.

Shen Nan gagged for a long time but failed to spit anything out.

Still, he was not afraid. He laughed and said, “Do you think I care about my own life or death?”

“I already told you—you don’t even love yourself.”

“But this medicine isn’t meant to kill you. It’s meant to make you utterly humiliated.”

Feng Jingge said she could control the medicine.

She could make Shen Nan strip naked in public.

Shen Nan cursed under his breath and said there was no way such a medicine existed.

Feng Jingge clasped her hands behind her back.

If souls could be swapped, then what was so strange about a medicine like this?

Shen Nan choked on his words, suddenly unable to reply.

Then Feng Jingge said something that shocked Shen Nan even more.

Even Xiao Jinghan looked slightly surprised.

“I’ll still go to Witch Gu Mountain.”

“But if I come back alive, plus this medicine, you must agree to my condition.”

“That means you can never again think about overthrowing Jing Kingdom.”

Feng Jingge stepped forward.

“In return, my prince and I will definitely give Wu Xing Kingdom favorable treatment in the future.”

“I can even publicly declare before everyone that everything was the late emperor’s fault.”

After all, the late emperor was already dead—she could say whatever she wanted.

But Shen Nan scoffed at her words.

“You’re only a princess consort. Do you really have that much authority?”

“My prince does. He’s the Regent Prince. All of Jing Kingdom’s power is in his hands.”

“As long as he wants something, there’s nothing he can’t obtain or accomplish.”

The corners of Xiao Jinghan’s lips curled upward slightly, but Shen Nan looked even more displeased after hearing that.

“Hah!”

“Even if that’s true, what happens if you die inside Witch Gu Mountain? Will you still undo this medicine?”

“Or are you planning to use this as leverage to force me to go save you?”