ASTRP -Chapter 205 Even the Prince Fell for It

“That’s because I knew Jin’ge first. The only reason he got to know Jin’ge was because of me.”

“So what right does he have to like Jin’ge?”

“He has even less right to fight me for her.”

Xiao Jinghan let out a cold laugh.

“A sickly cripple like you dares talk about qualifications with a healthy man?”

“Can a weak invalid like you even give a woman happiness?”

“Forget whether you can or not — just the fact that ‘Feng Jin’ge’ doesn’t love you means you shouldn’t be disturbing and forcing her.”

Shen Nan’s entire body trembled after hearing those words.

He clutched his chest, unable to breathe from the suffocating pain.

Suddenly, he coughed up a mouthful of blood.

At that moment, Azan had already brought many people over from outside.

Together, they rammed against the door, knocking aside the chairs blocking it.

Azan cried out in alarm.

“Your Highness!”

But Shen Nan kept staring at Xiao Jinghan, as if he wanted to glare him to death.

“I was the one who met Jin’ge first. Jin’ge should belong to me.”

“She should be with me… not you.”

“There is no first or last in love. Jin’ge and I love each other mutually.”

“To both Jin’ge and this Prince, you are utterly unimportant.”

The dull ache in Shen Nan’s chest worsened.

“You keep saying you love ‘Feng Jin’ge,’ saying she should belong to you.”

“If you truly loved her, you wouldn’t have wanted to replace her soul.”

“You only wanted an obedient puppet who would listen to you and devote herself solely to you.”

“You…”

“Otherwise, why did you want to replace ‘Feng Jin’ge’s’ soul?”

“Why are you suffering so much?”

Xiao Jinghan grabbed Shen Nan by the collar and dragged him close.

Azan wanted to stop him, but Xiao Jinghan merely said softly:

“Because you know you can never obtain the love you want.”

Xiao Jinghan said that if Shen Nan admitted it, he would only feel pathetic.

But if he refused to admit it, then it would feel as though he was the one abandoning “Feng Jin’ge.”

“I didn’t!”

“If that were true, I wouldn’t have let her go to Witch Gu Mountain!”

“This Prince actually understands you very well.”

“When you can’t obtain the person you love, sometimes you end up wanting the corpse of the one who did obtain them.”

Xiao Jinghan looked at the blood hanging from Shen Nan’s lips and pinched his chin gently.

“But you will never compare to your brother, Shen Ruo.”

“Much less compare to this Prince.”

“You aren’t even worthy of carrying this Prince’s shoes, yet you dare covet this Prince’s consort?!”

“If Jin’ge weren’t kind-hearted, this Prince would have long since sent you to the King of Hell.”

Shen Nan’s eyes widened.

He coughed several times, continuously spitting out bloody foam.

Finally, he could no longer hold on and fainted.

Xiao Jinghan slapped Shen Nan’s face lightly, then leapt out through the window.

He kept telling himself that he really had tried to listen to his wife.

But the moment he thought of Feng Jin’ge being trapped in danger, he became terrified and uneasy.

He would rather die together with her than wait helplessly for terrible news.

Meanwhile, Feng Jin’ge had already entered Witch Gu Mountain.

The mountain’s exterior was covered with realgar powder.

Guardians stood watch outside the mountain. Every one of them had horrifying appearances, with twisted scars across their faces that resembled centipedes.

It was said those scars were caused by the gu worms living inside their bodies.

Feng Jin’ge thought to herself how fortunate it was that she had removed Shen Nan’s worm.

Otherwise, what if his perfectly fine face ended up looking like this in the future?

No one stopped Feng Jin’ge after she entered.

She was wearing the clothing of Wu Xing Kingdom.

To them, if someone wanted to die and become food for the worms, they simply did not care.

“Urgh…”

The moment she stepped inside, Feng Jin’ge threw up.

There were corpses of insects everywhere.

She had heard a little about raising gu before.

Basically, countless insects were thrown into a jar. Whether they bit each other to death or devoured one another, the final survivor became the Gu King of that jar.

Then all the Gu Kings would be gathered together and forced to continue fighting.

And now, this mountain itself was the giant jar.

She had expected to see swarms of tiny insects tearing each other apart, but there was nothing like that.

The mountain was deathly silent.

Feng Jin’ge also discovered a person!

She hurried over. That person still had a faint breath remaining.

“Hey…”

The woman mistook her for someone from Wu Xing Kingdom.

“Quick… notify His Highness… the monster has appeared…”

Feng Jin’ge frowned deeply.

“What… what monster?”

“Run…”

The woman’s hand was weak, and blood gushed endlessly from a gaping wound in her neck.

Yet she still pushed Feng Jin’ge.

“Go… bring many people… destroy the monster…”

Before she could finish speaking, her head tilted to the side.

She completely stopped breathing.

“Hey!”

Feng Jin’ge inwardly screamed that she wasn’t from Wu Xing Kingdom at all!

She carefully examined the woman.

Aside from the wound on her neck, there were no injuries anywhere else on her body.

Feng Jin’ge had even thought that anyone entering this place would surely be covered in countless tiny bites from insects.

Feng Jin’ge let out a breath.

She hadn’t brought any weapons inside.

She planned to first find a tree branch and sharpen it into a sword.

Besides, she couldn’t leave immediately anyway. She had to remain inside for an entire day before being allowed out.

Feng Jin’ge found a suitable branch.

But soon, mist began spreading through the mountain, carrying a faint acidic smell.

Suddenly, something tripped her.

She lowered her head, only to see the thing dart away and vanish into the fog.

“What the hell was that?!”

Then the acidic smell became increasingly choking.

She sneezed repeatedly.

But aside from that, nothing seemed wrong.

Right then, Feng Jin’ge sensed movement.

She focused intently.

Suddenly, a sword shot out from the mist.

Unable to see clearly, Feng Jin’ge exchanged several moves with the attacker.

She could only tell that the person was a woman before the figure disappeared back into the fog.

“There are other people here?”

She spat to the side.

“Come out! Sneaking around pretending to be ghosts — what kind of woman are you?!”

After she shouted, her voice echoed through the valley.

But no one responded.

Just when Feng Jin’ge thought things had settled down, a branch slashed toward her from behind, nearly piercing her heart.

The attacker finally revealed themselves.

This time, it was… Xiao Jinghan.

“My lord… Xiao Jinghan?!”

Feng Jin’ge rubbed her eyes.

It definitely was not an illusion.

She even exchanged moves with him and could feel the warmth of his palm.

He was real.

“My lord, what’s wrong with you?”

“Even if you’re angry that I came in alone, there’s no need to kill me, right?”

“Aren’t I the person you love most…? Aren’t I your treasure?”

Xiao Jinghan said coldly:

“You are the monster who stole Feng Jin’ge away… die!”

Monster?

That word again.

Looking at Xiao Jinghan’s vacant eyes, this clearly was not his normal self.

Something had affected him.

What exactly was he seeing?

Feng Jin’ge did not dare fight seriously.

How could she bear to hurt the man she loved?

But Xiao Jinghan’s martial arts were extremely strong. She couldn’t keep holding back forever either.

“Xiao Jinghan, wake up a little.”

“Didn’t you come here to save me?”

But no matter what she said, Xiao Jinghan still tried to kill her.

An idea suddenly formed in Feng Jin’ge’s mind.

It was obvious Xiao Jinghan had been bewitched by something.

Which meant…

The mist?!

If Xiao Jinghan stopped inhaling the mist for a while, would he regain his senses?