Her usually gentle eyes were filled with desolate coldness.
Feeling a chill, Tantai Ye sneered, "I've gone mad?! You scold me because of him!"
Hmph!
"I told you long ago that no one could kill you as long as I was here. You weren't actually drinking--"
"Mu Rou--"
Yelü Qi coughed violently, interrupting Tantai Ye.
Bright red blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, and his face was extremely pale.
Lan Mu Rou lowered her head, looking at Yelü Qi's complexion, and quickly tried to help him up.
Tantai Ye found it piercing to watch. He fiercely clenched Lan Mu Rou's hand and stomped on Yelü Qi, who immediately spat out blood.
"Guards."
The cabins had already been cleared. The noisy crowd had been driven back into the cabins, and they were surrounded by soldiers on all sides.
Qing Feng stood by, heard Tantai Ye's words, and immediately stepped forward.
"General."
"Pin him down!"
Tantai Ye said coldly, holding Lan Mu Rou tightly, a malicious smile on his face.
"You want me to let him go, don't you?"
"Today, I want you to watch him die. I want him to die right in front of your eyes!"
He spoke vicious words, but his hands tightly embraced her soft body, greedily inhaling the faint fragrance from her.
He felt somewhat excited.
Missed her!
He really missed her so much!
Lan Mu Rou had no idea about the malicious thoughts in his mind.
She looked angrily at Yelü Qi, who was forced to kneel on the ground, her eyes flashing with endless hatred, tears streaming down uncontrollably.
"Rou'er, if you want to leave with him, it will only be possible after I, Tantai Ye, am dead. Otherwise, it's impossible in this lifetime! We will be entangled for all eternity."
His voice was sinister and malicious, unable to hide his untamed arrogance.
In his eyes, there was the arrogance of someone who had long been in power.
"Eternity?!"
Lan Mu Rou found it ironic.
Her eyes red, she forcefully broke free from him. Her face was no longer gentle, but filled with coldness.
"To be your prisoner for eternity?"
Caught off guard by her push, Tantai Ye raised his eyebrows. Seeing her indifference, he unconsciously fiddled with the firearm in his hand, his expression taking on a sinister look.
"A prisoner?!"
He seemed to ponder for a moment, and then, after a while, he looked up and asked her.
"Will you marry me?"
His gaze was still as arrogant as ever. His glance intersected with hers in the air, defiant!
Lan Mu Rou looked at him and suddenly recalled their first meeting.
On the night of the Flower Festival, he was dressed in black, riding the Red Hare horse, a young general, full of spirit, with arrogance and defiance in his eyes.
She, holding a flower lantern, saw him from afar under the lamplight. With just one glance, her life was lost.
"What? You don't want to marry me, or do you want to marry your Brother Qi?"
He sneered, his cold eyes like gleaming blades, tearing at her flesh.
Lan Mu Rou snapped back to reality, looking at him with disgust.
She detested his malicious speculations and his condescending attitude.
She had been by his side for so many years; had he ever thought of marrying her?
Who was he putting on this act for now?
"Speak!"
Suddenly, he grabbed her hand, his expression fierce.
"Will your family allow you to marry me?"
Hearing her words, Tantai Ye's heart involuntarily surged with joy, and his fierce face softened slightly.
"If I want to marry, no one can stop me."
Lan Mu Rou sneered, "So, the Tantai clan can't control you, but you never thought of marrying me all these years, and you let them plot against me all this time."
"Don't push me. I never said I wouldn't marry you, nor did I let them harm you."
Tantai Ye said with a cold face, "Don't make excuses for your escape."
She escaped, and she was making excuses?!
Lan Mu Rou's hands trembled with anger, and a sarcastic look flashed in her picturesque eyes.
Indeed.
How could such a despicable person like him admit his mistakes? It was all meaningless.
On the warship not far away.
Li Qiong Yu leaned against the bow of the ship, the wind blowing through his black hair, looking radiant.
He watched the tense and noisy scene, licking his lips slightly.
He had missed so much good drama after going to the Southern Border.
This scene was truly familiar.
He vaguely recalled when Xiao Chi Zhan and Ye Luan were arguing at Beidi Mountain Pass; it was truly fate.
Heaven spares no one.
These two are finally getting their just deserts.
He couldn't help but curl his lips, leaning on the side of the ship, supporting his chin with one hand, watching the show with a smile.
"If he dared to take you away, he should have known his fate."
Tantai Ye raised the firearm in his hand and aimed it directly at Yelü Qi's heart as he knelt on the ground.
As she looked at him, she could clearly see the malicious smile in his eyes.
Lan Mu Rou knew he had always been ruthless, but she never expected him to kill the person who saved her out of jealousy for his own selfish reasons.
"Tantai Ye, it was your mother who wanted to kill me. He saved me. Are you going to kill my savior?"
She blocked in front of Yelü Qi and accused him.
"You keep saying I ran away, but don't forget, it was your mother who personally gave me poisoned wine, and she forced me to the brink of death."
"If you have any conscience, don't go too far."
The woman who had always been weak in front of him was now so sharp for another man.
Tantai Ye couldn't help but want to fly into a rage.
"Was it his appearance that seduced you, or did you sleep together? Did he satisfy you, that you're protecting him like this?!"
Angered by his words.
Lan Mu Rou's face turned green and then white.
"Tantai Ye, don't be so vulgar!"
He grabbed her, smiling sinisterly, "I'm vulgar, then tell me, you stayed alone with him for so long, what did you do?!"
The sky was gloomy, covered with dark clouds, as if it were about to rain.
The entire river was filled with warships.
Yelü Qi had been lowering his head peacefully, allowing himself to be captured, blood seeping from the corner of his mouth and flowing down his jaw.
Suddenly hearing such insulting words, a coldness flashed in his gentle eyes, and he looked up.
"Tantai Ye, do not push your luck. Mu Rou and I are innocent."
"Mu Rou?!"
Tantai Ye, already furious, heard his address and immediately kicked him, swiftly pulling the trigger of the firearm in his hand.
Before Lan Mu Rou could even stop him, she heard a bang. In an instant, the bullet shot out, and the person instantly fell to the ground.
And she was fiercely pulled into Tantai Ye's embrace. His chilling words fell into her ears, terrifying.
"He's dead, this is the consequence of you leaving me!"
Lan Mu Rou's body stiffened. She stared wide-eyed at the person lying on the ground, her mouth slightly open in disbelief.
Blood spread all over the ground.
A person who was alive moments ago had just died.
Dead, truly dead.
His gentle face was lifeless, his mouth filled with blood, lying on the ground, motionless.
"Yelü Qi!"