The current audience prefers sweetness over sorrow, satisfaction over suffering. No matter how much they might imagine, they would never guess that the female lead would retaliate against the male lead by killing her entire family.
"Although the ending might be the male lead destroying his Heavenly Sword and saving the female lead with the elixir of immortality, why does it feel so heartbreaking to me!"
"Yeah, the vengeance for parents is irreconcilable. Tang Ruoxuan fell in love with the wrong man, and now she's carrying his child. They absolutely shouldn't be together!"
"How can parental hatred be so easily let go? Even if Tang Ruoxuan gave up her hatred, she shouldn't be with the murderer of her parents. If I were the female lead, I couldn't live in peace and retire to the countryside with the male lead."
"Me neither. If someone killed my parents, even if I didn't want to torture him to death, I certainly wouldn't let him off easy. Being together is even more impossible!"
"Hey, don't judge Xiao Ting with prejudice. I admit Xiao Ting is detestable, but thinking about it, he didn't know back then that he would fall in love with Tang Ruoxuan. He even said frankly that if he had known this would happen, he wouldn't have killed the old Tang couple. It's all fate playing tricks. I can understand Xiao Ting very well."
"Understand what nonsense! Wrong is wrong, there's no excuse. The male lead, in pursuit of power, wantonly killed innocent people. Just because the victims were the female lead's parents, he claims regret. What about the people who died tragically under the Blood Moon Divine Cult? How should they be accounted for? Weren't they innocent? Did they deserve to die?"
Just as the disagreeing viewers were about to argue, the screen cut to a commercial, and when it returned to the main show, they quickly focused their attention again.
Xiao Ting's eyes were blinded. As he thrust his sword forward, he didn't know it was Tang Ruoxuan, but his heart felt as if it were being pierced by needles. A sudden, inexplicable fear and dread surged within him.
Suddenly, hearing everyone cry out 'Ruoxuan' in unison, he realized his sword had struck the woman he loved most in this life.
Xiao Ting was shocked and quickly withdrew his inner energy, trying to pull the sword out and stop Tang Ruoxuan's bleeding.
Tang Ruoxuan, with blood at the corner of her mouth and a look of utter desolation in her eyes, said tragically, "It's too late!"
Xiao Ting's voice was as cold as a chilling wind from hell as he boomed, "Why? Why did you do this?"
A broken smile curved Tang Ruoxuan's lips, and two lines of hot tears slowly streamed from her eyes, scorching her already scarred and tormented body and soul.
"Because I couldn't stop you, couldn't kill you, couldn't hate you, and shouldn't have loved you, so..."
Tang Ruoxuan took a breath: "So... this is the only way for our family of three to truly be together... never to be separated..."
Xiao Ting's face turned ashen. "What did you say?"
Tang Ruoxuan's face was consumed by grief. The severe loss of vitality left her so pale that there wasn't a trace of color on her skin.
She mustered her strength and said, word by word, "I never had the courage to tell you, but I'm... I'm already carrying your child..."
Xiao Ting felt as if he had been struck by lightning. The pain in his heart surged like a raging flood.
The tears that fell from Tang Ruoxuan's eyes at that moment turned into nails, piercing his heart, tearing his flesh, making him unable to speak of the agony.
He shook his head in disbelief, "No, it's impossible. You're lying to me. You're saying this to get revenge, aren't you?"
The second female lead, Huang Xiang, standing nearby, said with a heartbroken tone, "The reason she didn't tell you is simply that she didn't want her child to have a father who kills without blinking an eye when it's born..."