The First Genocide's Grudge

  "What's wrong?" Ye Tianming's thick eyebrows furrowed.

  "Earlier, all of the assassins we caught took poison and killed themselves!"

  "What!" Ye Tianming's face turned cold, and he hastily walked to the side, only to see that the three black-clad men they had just caught all had dark faces, blood flowing from their mouths, clearly poisoned by a potent toxin.

  He reached out to one of their necks and felt for a pulse, but there was no sign of life. His brow furrowed in concern: "It seems they had already made up their minds to die together. But who exactly wanted the Saintess dead?"

  A soldier beside him presented an object in front of Ye Tianming: "General, this is what we found on them!"

  Ye Tianming took the thing that looked a bit like a token, turned it over and examined it carefully, his eyebrows furrowed in concern. To actually dare to oppose the current emperor, that person must be tired of living!

  Put the small token in his bosom and ordered: "Take care of them well, don't disturb the people!"

  "Yes!" Several of the soldiers dragged away the three dead men in black clothes.

  Ye Tianming returned to the entrance of the inn, slightly raised his head, and gazed into the deep night with a solemn expression. For some reason, he had an uneasy feeling.

  Upstairs.

  An was lying prone on the ground due to a back injury, and upon hearing the sound of the door opening, he thought it was Ling Feng returning. Without lifting his head, he asked: "Ling Feng, how is the Holy Maiden?"

  The door was closed again, but there was no response. Instead, a familiar scent wafted in, and he slightly tilted his head back: "Little fairy, how did you get here?" Strange, this scent? He thought it was...

  "The saintess asked me to come and take a look at the young master!" 'Little Fairy' held back her smile, saying as she poured a cup of tea and handed it to Anan.

  "Is she all right?" Anan asked without suspecting anything else.

  "You sacrificed yourself to save her, of course she's fine now! Didn't you say that you definitely wouldn't let anything happen to her?" The 'Little Fairy' had a sly glint in her eyes.

  "Ah!" The voice? Anan was a bit dizzy, staring at the 'little fairy' in front of him in surprise.

  Who would have thought that 'Little Fairy' burst out laughing, stretched out her hand and tore off the thin human skin mask on her face: "How come you're allowed to wear it, but I'm not?" It was unexpectedly Mei'er.

  It turned out that before leaving Western Xia, Mei'er had secretly made two human skin masks of herself and Xiao Xian with Ling Feng, thinking that they would come in handy someday.

  Just now, Ling Feng went to see her and gave her this human skin mask. She was worried about An's injury and wanted to come and take a look at him, but outside were all Ye Tianming's people, no matter where she sneaked out from, she would be discovered.

  Then, let Xiaoxian pretend to be herself lying in the room, while she pretends to be Xiaoxian's appearance, walking past Ye Tianming's side with a big and open manner, not only deceiving Ye Tianming but also almost deceiving Ah Nan.

  "Mei'er!" As soon as he saw Mei'er, Anan seemed to feel that even the wound on his back didn't hurt so much.

  Mei'er covered her mouth with her hand and whispered, "Speak softly, do you want to attract Ye Tianming and the others over here?"

  "Ah..." An Na seemed to still be in a daze from her sudden appearance.

  "Why? Did you think I'd forgotten favors and obligations, and gone to the imperial city to be a concubine?" Mei'er suddenly found this man's silly appearance quite amusing.

  "No, I thought you should be grateful and hug me and cry instead!" After the surprise, his sly face didn't change.

  "You just think about it!" Mei'er gave him a white eye, got up and put the teacup on the table.

  "What's wrong? Are you here to worry about me?"

  "I was just wondering if you were dead or not?" Just as she was about to say a few words of gratitude, his words inexplicably made her angry again. How could this mouth be so detestable?

  An said with a sly smile: "Yan Wangye found me annoying, saying that I still haven't finished with you, so he didn't dare to take me in and sent me back. Besides, we haven't even done that yet, how could I bear to die?"

  "You're really sick! The archer's skills are too poor, how didn't he hit your mouth?" Mei'er struggled to get up from his arms.

  "Ow, it hurts!"

  Just a slight movement, and An's back injury hurt again, causing him to frown and hum softly: "I'm saying, Mei'er, no matter what, I'm still the one who saved your life. You don't have to repay me with your body, but can't you even give me a hug?"

  It still hurts to recall, and the words I say are still so unrefined!

  Mei'er was angry at his wickedness, but she didn't move again. After all, that arrow had hurt her deeply, and she knew it.

  Her neck itched all of a sudden, and Mei'er couldn't help but shrink back, furrowing her brow as she said: "Your mouth is still so detestable, I really hope that one day someone poisons you mute!"

  "The most venomous woman's heart, no matter how I say it, I've saved you, yet you curse me, really not good, deserves punishment!" An said, and forcefully kissed her neck.

  "Hey!" Mei'er subconsciously touched that place with her hand, and her eyebrows furrowed even tighter: "I'm too lazy to talk to you! Since you won't die, I should get going too!"

  This kind of intimate contact always made her inexplicably afraid, strangely, in the past when she was modern, if she wanted to seduce a man, she would sit on him wearing just a few pieces of cloth and be completely at ease.

  However, being with this stinky man Anan, as long as she gets a little close to him, she feels a kind of fear, just like now, her whole body is wrapped tightly, but she's still afraid of sticking together with him.

  Facing Mei'er's sudden retreat, in the darkness, Ah Nan seemed somewhat flustered and exasperated. Ignoring the pain on his back, he grasped Mei'er's arm: "Mei'er, do you still remember what I said? If one day I fall in love with you, I will take you to elope to the ends of the earth, no matter how unfilial or unrighteous it may be!"

  At this moment, he only wants to be with her. What identity, what status, what unforgivable sin, what unendurable injustice - all these have become nonsense to him. He just wants her, completely and entirely. If it's said that men are creatures who think with their lower body, then Anan is one at this moment.

  Mei'er, who had already withdrawn, still had a slightly uneven breath, but the passion from earlier had dissipated somewhat. After taking a deep breath, her voice returned to its usual calmness: "The feeling you had for me just now is something that comes naturally with human nature, it's not love. You didn't fall in love with me, and I didn't fall in love with you. After tonight, I will be the princess of Shangguo, and you will still be who you are!"

  It's still the same old her, Anan doesn't even know who he is or what he looks like!

  Just now, she admitted that her heart had moved for a moment, just that one moment. As soon as she thought of the hatred as deep as the sea and as heavy as the mountain, how could she give up because of her own little personal feelings?

  She can't do it!

  In her heart, hatred far surpassed everything!

  "Mei'er, isn't my word worth believing even a little bit?" An's voice carried an inexplicable sadness, causing Mei'er's heart to tremble for just a moment, but only that.

  "It's not that I don't trust you, it's just that whether I trust you or not, the outcome is always the same!" In fact, she only believed in herself. No one in this world could be trusted.

  This is what Boss taught her when she first carried out the task, that at critical moments, one can only believe in oneself and cannot trust anyone else.

  "If you believe me, then follow me! Unless you care about that wealth and glory!" Anan seemed to still not have come out of the impulse from just now.

  "Follow you? Then become a sinner under the sky? And send all the people of Western Xia to the battlefield?"

  Mei'er's words made Anan silent, Mei'er was right, she had her own mission, and he had his own responsibility, even though that responsibility, he never wanted to have, but couldn't shake off!

  He cannot indulge his own desires, and he cannot abandon the millions of people in Western Xia!

  Mei'er lightly jumped over him, landed nimbly on the bed, and with a swift motion lit the oil lamp and put back on her human skin mask, just about to leave.

  "Mei'er!" Anan called out to her.

  Hesitating for a moment, Mei'er turned back: "Rest well, you've already safely delivered me here, and that's considered completing the task entrusted to you. From tomorrow on, everything about me will have nothing to do with you, and you can also return to report back!"

  Mei'er's tone was calm and peaceful, without a single ripple, completely gone was her loss of control from just now.

  An's dark eyes were shrouded in a hint of sadness: "No wonder people say that men in this world are almost extinct. They often say that men are heartless, but it turns out that what men can do, women can also do, and women can even be more ruthless than men!"

  "I'm not heartless, I'm just completely emotionless. Haven't you heard the saying? 'If heaven had feelings, it would have grown old; if humans had feelings, they would die young!' Just like Wu Chen'er back then, if it weren't for that one word 'emotion', with her intelligence, how could she have ended up in such a state?"

  After all, it's just one word "love" that harms people, so she doesn't need love!

  An looked into Mei'er's eyes and saw that she was truly heartless. She shook her head, suppressing the deep sense of loss within her. Since they couldn't change the fact that they had to part ways, she might as well leave a good impression.

  "Tomorrow, I'm in this state, can't go see you off, you take care!" As he said this, Anan clearly heard his heart thud once and shatter into pieces. He wasn't unable to go, but was afraid that if he went, he wouldn't be able to bear parting with her.

  "You take care too!" After saying that, Mei'er didn't stay any longer and turned around to open the door and leave!

  As her figure disappeared at the door, Anan's hand stretched out towards her, and his lips moved, but in the end, he still didn't call out.

  That sentence has been lingering in his mind all along: 'She is destined to be a demon of chaos, you can't touch her! You can't have any feelings for her either!'