Of course, Bai Sang didn't die in battle, nor was he dead yet. This news was spread by the Second Prince just to kill Bai Sang with a legitimate excuse. Bai Sang was tied to a pillar, dying and covered in blood.
Xiaoyu'er was escorted in front of Bai Sang and the Second Prince. The heart of Bai Sang, which had been dormant for a long time, started to beat again. His voice was hoarse beyond recognition. "… Yu'er—"
Xiaoyu'er was stubborn and didn't shed a tear. "He has made military achievements. Is this how you treat him?"
The Second Prince sneered. "Otherwise?"
Then he turned to Bai Sang and said, "That's your mistress, isn't she? She's quite good - looking. How about... we make a deal?"
Bai Sang looked up at him, his eyes full of contempt. "What deal can I make with you?"
"Fine, you're brave." The Second Prince burst into laughter. "Then it's not a deal. I don't need to discuss it with you at all. Come, take this little girl away and keep her as a military prostitute."
The soldiers below cheered.
Bai Sang frowned and spat out blood. "You—"
Xiaoyu'er was scared and struggled, but the hands of the soldiers around her were no longer as honest as before. They groped randomly on Xiaoyu'er's waist.
Tears rolled down Xiaoyu'er's cheeks.
The Second Prince pinched Bai Sang's chin and smiled cruelly. "I'll give you another chance to make your own choice. Either you die and she leaves, or you get promoted and get rich while she stays as a military prostitute. How about it?"
Xiaoyu'er felt a chill in her heart. She didn't want either situation.
Bai Sang felt a sharp pain in his abdomen. It turned out that a soldier in the army had gone crazy. Behind Bai Sang, the man directly stabbed a knife into him!
But Bai Sang was already covered in blood, so a little more blood was hardly noticeable. Only the Second Prince beside Bai Sang saw it clearly.
Unexpectedly, the Second Prince's eyes bulged with rage. He kicked the crazy man aside like a madman and then checked Bai Sang's condition.
Bai Sang lowered his head and had already stopped breathing.
The Second Prince was in a panic.
And Xiaoyu'er couldn't see clearly. All she saw was Bai Sang nodding.
Then she was submerged by the soldiers swarming up.
Lin Yuan covered Yi Zhici's eyes.
"Don't look."
Yi Zhici covered her own ears and buried her head deeply. Tears couldn't stop flowing. "She didn't do anything wrong at all..."
Lin Yuan was a man of few words and couldn't say any nice words to comfort her. He could only pat Yi Zhici on the back and hug her into his arms.
Xiaoyu'er dragged her broken body back to Tianbo Village. She still held a glimmer of hope that one day this war would end and Bai Sang would come back one day.
She would wait for him here, waiting for him to tell her that he was involuntarily and his agreement was not sincere.
But the villagers in the village seemed to be even more aggressive. Seeing Xiaoyu'er in such a down - and - out state, they all dared not approach but pointed and whispered, and the news reached the ears of the clan chief.
Finally, she got to her home. When she pushed open the door, she saw Luo Li hanging herself.
Xiaoyu'er couldn't cry anymore. She covered her face, and when she removed her hands, there were only blood - red eyes.
No tears.
She numbly put Luo Li down and found that Luo Li's neck was full of the same wounds as hers. Even her underwear was not properly worn, and her cheeks were swollen.
In this world, it was always so unfair to women, especially good - looking women without protection.
Xiaoyu'er washed Luo Li's body carefully and buried her in the forest on the back mountain.
But before she even flattened the soil, the clan chief led the whole village to come. They said that Xiaoyu'er was unclean and immoral and should be sent to the mountain god as a sacrifice.
Xiaoyu'er was too weak to resist. When she was dragged onto the sedan chair, she was still struggling in the direction of the grave. "Please, let me bury my mother... please—"
"Please..."
"My mother is still lying there..."
"Let her be buried properly..."
"I'll go after I bury my mother..."
Her cries were full of blood and heart - rending.
But no one paid attention to her. They tied Xiaoyu'er up with hands and feet and put her into the sedan chair and carried her up the mountain.
The clan chief said solemnly, "Please forgive us, Heaven. We have sent the unlucky star to the mountain god..."
On the mountain, the cold wind was blowing, and the trees were lush.
Xiaoyu'er was full of anger but had nowhere to vent it. She didn't know what she had done wrong, why she was in this world, and why she had experienced the family affection and love that didn't belong to her only to end up like this.
She wasn't even afraid of the strangeness on the mountain.
Suddenly, an elf - like person walked over. With deep purple eyes and long, pointed ears, it was obvious that this person didn't belong to the lower cultivation world.
The person lifted the curtain of the sedan chair. Before he could say a word, a gust of white star - wind came and hit him dizzy and grimacing.
It was Bai Sang.
But at this time, Bai Sang was translucent, not like before. He was just a soul now.
Xiaoyu'er was tied up and couldn't move, but when she saw Bai Sang, she was still happy, and her eyes were blood - red again.
The strange man was beaten by Bai Sang and disappeared without looking back in the blink of an eye.
As for Bai Sang, after this fight, his body became more and more transparent. He looked deeply at Xiaoyu'er in the sedan chair and turned into a bright and dazzling light.
That light even made Tianbo Village at the foot of the mountain bright for a moment.
Xiaoyu'er was stunned. She didn't have much knowledge and never understood. She only knew how a woman's life should be: get married, have children, and grow old.
But she couldn't achieve any of these, and she never would.
The strange man dawdled back. "How about making a deal? Do you want to take revenge? Do you want your sweetheart to come back?"
Xiaoyu'er said, "Yes."
The strange man devoured Xiaoyu'er's resentment and gave her magical power.
After going down the mountain, those villagers remained unchanged. They wanted to get a share of the benefits and always sneaked around Xiaoyu'er's house.
The strange man with deep purple eyes told her that as long as she collected the hearts and souls of 300 people, she could bring Bai Sang back.
Even if Bai Sang couldn't come back, she still wanted the lives of these villagers. She must make them pay the price.
There was something wrong with good - looking women, and there was even more wrong with good - looking women without protection. If you were harassed, don't blame those who harassed you. You could only blame yourself for being too good - looking and seducing them.
Xiaoyu'er felt sad from the bottom of her heart. In the past, she was protected by Bai Sang and never realized how terrible these people were. Now that she realized it, she would surely make them pay the price.
She still waited here for Bai Sang to come back. She believed that she would wait for him.
As every cause has its effect, this was the cycle of heaven and the inevitable retribution in Tianbo Village.