MLIAM Chapter 103

Chapter 103 He’s Dead. Just Make Do, Beg Me, Maybe… I…

Chapter 103 He’s Dead. Just Make Do, Beg Me, Maybe… I…

“Yu Shuli, he’s dead.”

Wanyan Jun reined in his horse, dismounted, walked up to Yu Shuli, and said coldly, “You know how powerful the Xizhao cannons are. Back then, with you leading, your cavalry squadron was almost completely wiped out. Now Wei Yan is injured, he couldn’t have escaped.”

“I don’t believe it!” Yu Shuli pursed his lips, his jaw clenched with force.

Waving away the soldiers who were approaching with their swords, Wanyan Jun walked up step by step and stopped in front of Yu Shuli: “I’m not him, I don’t need to lie to you.”

Yu Shuli tightly gripped the knife in his sleeve, his eyes fixed on him coldly: “Wanyan Jun, don’t push it too far.”

“I’m pushing it too far?!” Wanyan Jun suddenly burst into laughter and asked sternly, “From beginning to end, who has been pushing it too far?!”

“Back then, I was forced to Da Liang as a hostage, and I had no interest in the so-called throne and power. But the Da Liang empress and the crown prince insisted on guarding against me. All I’ve done these years is just a desperate resistance.”

“Resistance?!” Yu Shuli felt it was absurd: “You illegally transported Wushisan, which is so addictive, into Da Liang, trying to destroy Da Liang’s foundation, is this what you call defensive resistance?”

He took a step forward, glaring at him angrily: “Does resistance require targeting innocent women? Does resistance require harming people who have nothing to do with you?! Your resistance dragged so many innocent people into the game, and in the end, you hypocritically said that it was all Da Liang’s fault, and then you can wash yourself clean?”

“If you want to drag poisonous insects into the water, you naturally need sacrifices.” Wanyan Jun said indifferently: “They entered the game themselves, I didn’t force them.”

Yu Shuli sneered and shook his head: “That’s the difference between you and Wei Yan.”

“Wei Yan, Wei Yan, I told you he’s dead! Blown to bits! Not even ashes left! And you still mention him in front of me!” Wanyan Jun was furious: “Is he really that good in your eyes?”

“Tch, first of all, I firmly believe he’s not dead. Secondly…” Yu Shuli raised his eyes to look at him: “He is naturally better than you.”

“Better than me?” Wanyan Jun’s eyes turned red: “You don’t know, do you? Back then, if it wasn’t for him, the person who could have been with you was me! Me! I liked you for so much longer than him, if he hadn’t used tricks, how could you have become estranged from me?! He disguised himself as a palace maid, deliberately seduced me to let you see, just to slander me, so that he could take the opportunity to monopolize you! Is he, who only knows how to crawl in the dark and scheme against others, worthy of your love?”

Yu Shuli turned his head away: “You think people’s feelings are too simple. It’s not that I met you earlier, so I must fall in love with you.”

His voice faltered for a moment, and he replied: “It was wrong of him to disguise himself as a palace maid to make me misunderstand you. I apologize to you on his behalf.”

Wanyan Jun stared at him with wide eyes: “You know, and you still protect him?!”

“Yeah.” Yu Shuli’s faint voice almost shattered Wanyan Jun in the wind: “I like him, so I will naturally be unconditionally partial to him.”

Wanyan Jun shook his head, took a step back in disbelief, and murmured: “You’re not like this… you weren’t like this before…”

“I didn’t expect… I thought he had been coaxing you for a long time, but I didn’t know that you were aware of everything from beginning to end…” Wanyan Jun’s eyes were filled with sorrow: “In your eyes, am I struggling like an actor? You must be watching my jokes together, right?”

Yu Shuli was not moved by his appearance: “Love can make people blind, it’s normal.”

“Hahahaha… but how is he different from a thief! He stole my feelings for you, stole our time together, and in the end, he wanted to exclude me and take over.” Wanyan Jun’s eyes were complicated: “He took advantage of your amnesia to coax you into marriage, and this can also make you like him and be partial to him?”

He gritted his teeth: “If I had known this, why should I have endured it? I should have learned from him and put you…” He suddenly smiled sarcastically and walked towards Yu Shuli, forcefully trying to take his hand: “It’s okay… it’s not too late now.”

“What are you doing?” Yu Shuli waved his hand to avoid him and pushed the knife in his sleeve forward: “The small talk is over, now we are only enemies.”

“You think chatting with me is nonsense?”

Wanyan Jun tilted his head, his face twisted: “Enemies? Since we are enemies, do you know that Xizhao’s terrain is complicated, and I have ambushed gunpowder everywhere. If you want your soldiers to live well, stay in Xizhao as empress. As long as you come back to Xizhao with me, I will give your military generals a way out. Otherwise, their fate will be the same as Wei Yan’s.”

Yu Shuli narrowed his eyes, looking incredulous: “Wanyan Jun, I once thought that you still had some remnants of humanity, and considering that we are indeed still old friends, that’s why I calmly talked to you here for so long.” He shook his head in disappointment: “But it seems that you have no humanity at all.”

“Humanity? I was too concerned about humanity, too wanted to give you freedom, that’s why Wei Yan took advantage of the opportunity! If I hadn’t been a gentleman and used some medicine on you, you would have been mine long ago!”

“You keep saying that Wei Yan took advantage of the opportunity, but Wanyan Jun, I ask you, do you really understand what love is? Do you really love me? When imperial power and freedom were put together for you to choose, didn’t you choose imperial power and freedom without hesitation?” Yu Shuli said: “I’m not stupid, I didn’t not see your intentions back then.”

“But Wanyan Jun, until the end before you left Da Liang, you never mentioned to me that you liked me, did you? At that time, the dispute between Xizhao and Da Liang was imminent, you had already made your choice.”

“I have remembered everything. The first time Zhao Xuan caused me trouble, the group of bandits who kidnapped me were all your work, right? It turns out that at that time, you had already controlled many of the most vicious people in Da Liang with drugs, forcing them to do things for you. You were able to coax Zhao Xuan around in those years, and let him protect you, who knows if these drugs didn’t contribute.”

Yu Shuli met Wanyan Jun’s almost shattered gaze and continued, “You had already given up on me, or rather, you only regarded me as an item to compete with Wei Yan for, and never regarded me as a person with my own subjective thoughts. Stop using your hypocritical love words to coax me.”

Wanyan Jun’s face suddenly became extremely ugly. “Can’t I regret it?! I regret it!”

He roared in a low voice: “Since you don’t care about the lives of the Da Liang soldiers, then don’t blame me for being polite before resorting to force and being ruthless.”

“No matter how much you like Wei Yan, he is now nothing more than a handful of soil. No matter how much you hate me, you can’t escape my grasp in the end.” He turned to look at his subordinates: “Come on, take the empress back, just keep one life.”

With Wanyan Jun’s order, the Xizhao cavalry swarmed up.

Yu Shuli shrugged: “The three gates are broken, you are already at the end of your rope. The men here… won’t they be your last men, right? Wanting to capture me alive is not that easy.”

“Is that so?” Wanyan Jun smiled: “I’ll see, now that you can’t escape, how can you escape?”

Yu Shuli pinched the knife in his sleeve, his face pale in the moonlight.

He didn’t believe a word of what Wanyan Jun said.

But… seeing the forest behind him that had been almost razed to the ground, he couldn’t help but panic.

“Yu Shuli, you wouldn’t naively think that those good-for-nothings from Da Liang can still come to save you, right?” Wanyan Jun walked over: “I advise you not to struggle. The Da Liang general who was looking for you earlier was also disguised by my people. So… actually no one knows that you and Wei Yan are trapped here. It doesn’t matter if Zhao Xuan ran away, he’s useless to me as a medicine man. I only wanted you, now that you’ve thrown yourself into the net, it’s really wonderful.”

Yu Shuli pursed his lips, his face even worse, but he ignored Wanyan Jun, jumped up, and rushed towards the way he came with all his might.

He must confirm Wei Yan’s current situation, he must see Wei Yan safe and sound to be at ease.

With Wei Yan’s intelligence and wisdom, it was impossible not to discover the abnormality when the gunpowder was ignited, he must be able to escape in time!

But… he’s still injured… maybe… he didn’t have time…

The faint pale moonlight shone diagonally on the scorched earth.

The originally lush and fragrant plum forest was burned into dead trees, and the air was filled with a burnt smell. With a gust of wind, pieces of carbonized debris were blown up.

The remains of flowers all over the ground now seemed to be the wings of butterflies licked by fire, gradually decaying in the distortion.

Yu Shuli bypassed the dead trees, avoiding the pursuers, while searching for Wei Yan’s traces.

Several originally strong and upright dead branches collapsed under his hands and turned into powder.

Wanyan Jun chased after him: “I told you, with such a big explosion, he would have died thoroughly.”

Yu Shuli raised his eyes, his eyes were red, and his eyes were full of anger and unwillingness. “I don’t believe it! If I don’t find the body, I won’t believe it.”

“Silly boy, it’s blown into ashes, where is there a body?” Wanyan Jun’s eyes softened a little: “You obediently come back to Xizhao with me, I will treat you well, better than Wei Yan treats you.”

“Get lost!” Yu Shuli turned his head, his eyes full of killing intent, “Wanyan Jun, if he dies, not only will I crush your bones and scatter your ashes in this life, but I will also chase you down for generations! You must repay Wei Yan’s life!”

He wiped a tear from his eyes and swept across the audience with fierce eyes: “No one here will want to leave alive.”

“Ji An… people are dead, why do you… risk your life for him?” Wanyan Jun looked over with sympathy: “I don’t want to hurt you.”

“I! Don’t! Believe!” Yu Shuli squeezed these words out almost from his teeth. He flew out with his horizontal knife, the blade pointing straight at Wanyan Jun’s neck.

Wanyan Jun’s breathing stagnated, and he dodged in a panic, but still left a bloodstain on his neck.

His eyes darkened: “Are you serious?”

The last bit of gentleness in his eyes disappeared, he hurriedly retreated, leaving the front to the soldiers, no longer giving Yu Shuli a chance to approach him.

Faced with Yu Shuli who was impervious to reason, Wanyan Jun finally ran out of patience, he coldly waved his hand back: “Take him back, just keep one life.”

“Yes!” The soldiers who received the order swarmed up.

There were too many people, and the flashes of swords were endless. Yu Shuli fought and retreated, trying to turn back and attack.

In this way, the fight of one against many lasted for a long time, and Wanyan Jun’s face took a turn for the worse.

Yu Shuli easily blocked the swords, but smiled hatefully: “You wouldn’t really think that with just these few people, you can do anything to me, right?”

Wanyan Jun was silent for a moment, then suddenly raised his eyes to look at the moon, and then his face improved, and he also hooked his lips: “It doesn’t matter, the time is almost up.”

Yu Shuli was a little inexplicable. He quickly solved the soldiers around him, and then leaned up to Wanyan Jun, and with a wave of his hand, he killed all the guards around him cleanly.

Just as he was about to attack Wanyan Jun, Yu Shuli suddenly felt his body soften, and his body instantly lost its balance. The originally fierce offensive came to an abrupt end, and he fell uncontrollably from mid-air like a kite with a broken string.

Yu Shuli supported himself on the ground with his palms, barely stabilizing his body. He looked up in shock, and raised his eyes fiercely: “You! What trick did you play again!”

Wanyan Jun slowly walked out from the protection of the few remaining embarrassed soldiers, approaching Yu Shuli step by step, with a smile on his face, “The chase game is over.”

He picked up Yu Shuli, who was lying on the ground and could hardly move, hooked his fingers on his chin, and whispered in his ear: “The improved Wushisan is really effective. Look, it recurs regularly, not ambiguous at all.”

His eyes lingered on Yu Shuli’s face and waist, as if to strip him naked. “Wei Yan is gone, you’re poisoned, if you want to detoxify, just make do, beg me, maybe… I’m willing to help you…”