Free Web NovelChapter 324: Chapter 324: Gu Qingyuan Finally Gets His Retribution!!
Song Wanning made no attempt to hide her malicious glee as she squatted down.
"My, what an unbreakable love you two shared, faithful to the very end... HAHAHA..."
A genuine laugh escaped her, and she felt an incomparable sense of gratification.
Even though she no longer had any feelings for Gu Qingyuan, seeing the man who betrayed her meet such an end was incredibly satisfying!
Incredibly satisfying!!
"Wan Ning..."
Gu Qingyuan snapped out of his daze, her intimate name unconsciously escaping his lips.
In the past, he had never called her Junior Sister, always addressing her as "Wan Ning."
That was, until he took in Ye Chuxue. He began to get angry with her more often, and "Wan Ning" gradually became "Junior Sister." Later still, he would impatiently call her by her full name: Song Wanning.
Looking back on it now, it all seemed like a colossal joke.
He lay stunned on the ground, his eyes filled with humiliation and regret.
"Don’t call me that. We’re not that familiar."
Song Wanning put some distance between herself and Gu Qingyuan, a flicker of disgust in her eyes.
"Don’t think you can come crawling back to me for validation just because you’ve been abandoned."
"The reason I’ve kept you alive until now isn’t because I couldn’t bear to finish you..."
The corner of her lips curled into a sinister smile. She raised her hand, and a dagger materialized in it.
The dagger’s tip first trailed across Gu Qingyuan’s pale face.
Gu Qingyuan may have come from a poor family, but he was blessed with a handsome face. He was proud and cold, always treating others with an air of detached aloofness.
She had been young then, accustomed to a lifetime of adoration. It was the first time she had met someone so cold, and she gradually became infatuated.
’Thinking back now, I really was too young, utterly unable to judge character.’
’But it was never unrequited.’
’If Gu Qingyuan hadn’t responded to my affections from time to time, I wouldn’t have fallen in so deep.’
’In the end, the more I invested, the more unwilling I was to simply hand him over to another, until I fell into a state of eternal damnation.’
’So, Gu Qingyuan owed me far too much.’
The dagger soon came to rest against Gu Qingyuan’s neck.
A chill instantly shot through his body. Gu Qingyuan shivered, and a flicker of remorse appeared in his vacant eyes.
"Wan Ning, I was wrong. I mistook a fish’s eye for a pearl. I failed you..."
At this point, Gu Qingyuan was filled with genuine regret.
Ye Chuxue was nothing like the person he had imagined.
From start to finish, the only person who had ever been truly good to him was Song Wanning!
Yet he had personally severed the bond between them, and...
"Wan Ning, I’m sorry. Please, give me a chance to make it up to you. Can you?"
His eyes reddened as a genuine desire to atone for the pain he had caused Song Wanning rose from the depths of his heart.
Scenes from their past flashed before his eyes, and Gu Qingyuan was struck by the sudden realization of how happy those days had been.
"Tch—"
Song Wanning let out a derisive snort, looking at him as if he were a fool.
"You’re quite the dreamer."
Her eyes, full of contempt, swept over him.
"Gu Qingyuan, stop looking at me like that. You’re making me sick."
She plunged the dagger in her hand downward.
"AHHH—"
Gu Qingyuan’s shriek was so bloodcurdling that it sent every last demon beast outside the cave fleeing in terror.
Blood instantly began to pour from the wound.
"Wan Ning... you... can you really bring yourself to kill me?"
Gu Qingyuan still couldn’t believe it. ’Could she truly have no regard for the bond they once shared?’
"Hmph. Kill you?"
Song Wanning shook her head, but the dagger continued to slice downward from his neck.
"I’d rather chop you into pieces and feed you to the dogs."
With that, she viciously plunged the dagger into Gu Qingyuan once more.
Her eyes were cold as she ruthlessly began to sever Gu Qingyuan’s meridians.
"Back when all your meridians were destroyed, I nearly died to save you. Now, it’s time for you to return the favor!"
The dagger flashed, and though Gu Qingyuan trembled all over in agony, he did not let out another scream.
He bit his lip so hard it nearly bled, veins popping out across his skin as he writhed in agony.
As he felt his meridians snap one by one, he knew he was finished.
He knew there was no escape.
’I should have known.’
’Song Wanning has always been this way.’
’When she loves you, you are her treasure. When she doesn’t, you’re less than dirt.’
He squeezed his eyes shut, his body convulsing, but his mind drifted back to the past.
There was a time when a treasure hunt had left all his meridians severed and his Dantian sealed.
It was his junior sister. She had braved untold dangers to find herbs for him, then performed Alchemy...
The moment he recovered, she was the one who collapsed.
...
There were too many memories like that.
Every single time, his junior sister had protected him without hesitation or regret.
And what had he done?
He had accused her, time and again, of being jealous and petty...
Accused her of being malicious.
’I was the bastard!!!’
’I was the one who was wrong!!!’
"Junior Sister..."
Gu Qingyuan stared blankly at Song Wanning.
There was a time when his junior sister’s eyes had been full of youthful fire.
Now, all that remained was cold indifference.
And wasn’t it all his fault?
"I’m—I’m sorry—"
A single tear traced a path from the corner of his eye. Gu Qingyuan’s heart was overflowing with regret.
"I’m not asking you to forgive me—"
SQUELCH—
Song Wanning stabbed him again without mercy, a mocking glint in her ruthless eyes.
"And you don’t deserve my forgiveness."
As she severed the last meridian, a look of ultimate satisfaction finally flashed in her eyes.
She rose slowly to her feet and looked down at Gu Qingyuan, who was now barely breathing. All she felt was a deep, satisfying release.
"Now, all you owe me is your life!"
With that, she swung her longsword down at Gu Qingyuan.
There was no trace of reluctance or hesitation in her eyes, only the fierce joy of vengeance finally realized.
Gu Qingyuan watched it all unfold, his heart now utterly devoid of hope.
A bitter smile touched his lips as he calmly accepted his fate.
The blade flashed, and Gu Qingyuan’s head hit the floor.
He didn’t seem to feel the pain.
In a daze, his mind drifted back to his childhood.
His master brought a little girl before him.
"Qingyuan, this is your new junior sister. You must protect her well from now on."
"I will!"
He had answered without a moment’s hesitation.
But he was the one who broke his promise.
He had failed his master’s teachings and betrayed his junior sister’s profound love.
He deserved to die.
’If there is a next life,’ he thought, ’I will never make the same mistake. I will cherish Wan Ning.’
The light faded from Gu Qingyuan’s eyes, and he fell completely still.
Song Wanning watched the entire thing with cold eyes, her heart not softening in the slightest.
With a casual exertion of her power, Gu Qingyuan’s body turned to ash. His soul was scattered, his Nascent Soul shattered completely.
Silence returned to the cave.
As she had expected, no Divine Thunder descended this time.
’Perhaps a single Gu Qingyuan just wasn’t worth the trouble,’ she thought.
She gave the cave a cursory glance, then her figure flickered and she shot out in pursuit of Ye Chuxue.
Even though she had been in the cave, her Divine Sense had been tracking Ye Chuxue the entire time. There was no escape for her.
The only thing that surprised Song Wanning was that Mo Yuan, even after learning the truth, was still willing to help her intercept Ye Chuxue.
A pensive look crossed her face for a moment before her figure blurred, and she quickly caught up to Ye Chuxue.
In her desperate flight, Ye Chuxue had tripped and fallen to the ground, still tightly clutching a stalk of Xucao Grass in her hand.
