HLnovel Chapter 43 Aphrodisiac
Chapter 43 Aphrodisiac
At this moment, Xie Bohuai was running at full speed.
Ye Mingyue told him to be careful of those around him and gave him a heads-up. Before the Wusu envoy arrived at the post station, he lured out the spies in advance. However, they still encountered an ambush. Qingshan led the envoy in another direction, while he disguised himself as the envoy and fled in another direction. As a result, all his men were killed, and he was also drugged with sleeping powder.
His legs began to weaken, and he knew that if he didn't get rid of those people soon, he would suffer a fate worse than death if he fell into their hands.
The sound of hunting dogs came from afar, but Xie Bohuai didn't even turn his head.
His head started buzzing, and seeing the river ahead, he jumped in without hesitation.
Fifteen minutes later, the hunting dogs stopped on the shore and barked. Without Xie Bohuai's scent, the dogs could no longer track him.
"Useless things!" Princess Zhaoyun kicked her subordinates twice. A few days ago, someone delivered a secret letter to her, telling her to wait nearby for Xie Bohuai to come to her. Although she was imprisoned in Jing Shui Nunnery, her mother still arranged for people to serve her.
Although she didn't know if the contents of the letter were true or false, she still took the opportunity to catch Xie Bohuai and settle accounts with him. She secretly left Jing Shui Nunnery with her people and waited nearby for two days and one night.
They finally waited for Xie Bohuai to arrive, but he escaped.
"Chase after him! If you don't find Xie Bohuai, you'll all die!" She was deeply in love with Xie Bohuai, but he forced her father and mother to send her to Jing Shui Nunnery.
Regardless of the messenger's purpose, all she wanted now was to capture Xie Bohuai, lock him in the meditation room of Jing Shui Nunnery, and let him have his fun!
Knowing their master's tyranny, the guards had no choice but to go find him. Since their master arrived at Jing Shui Nunnery, he had become even more erratic, and they dared not anger him.
Princess Zhaoyun left only two guards behind. Her eyes were filled with hatred, and she secretly vowed to take revenge on Xie Bohuai.
But she didn't know that a group of people were quietly approaching from behind.
When the guards heard the noise and turned around, the group of masked men had already rushed over. The two guards were no match for them and were quickly killed.
Princess Zhaoyun was splattered with blood and screamed in fright, "Do you know who I am? I am a princess! If you lay a hand on me, my father and mother will never let you get away with it!"
"Princess? Heh." One of the masked men placed a sword against Princess Zhaoyun's neck. "You're nothing but a fool. We just lured you out. Princess Zhaoyun, if you want to blame someone, go to the underworld and thank Bo Huai. He's the one who ruined you like this!"
The man didn't kill Princess Zhaoyun directly, but instead slashed her face a few times, instantly tearing her skin open.
"what!"
Princess Zhaoyun screamed, but the pain on her face only intensified. Before she could even utter a curse, several masked men attacked, severing Princess Zhaoyun's hands and feet, leaving her with no complete body.
After finishing this, the masked man tossed a token from his pocket and placed it in Princess Zhaoyun's hand.
The token was inscribed with the words "Zhenfu Si" and was stolen from Xie Bohuai.
“We’ll go after them too. Our master said it would be best if Xie Bohuai died here.” The masked man went downstream along the river.
Meanwhile, in a farmhouse downstream, Ye Wanning was forced to drink a bowl of medicine.
Zhou Yu had five scratch marks on her face, and her hair was disheveled.
"Ye Wanning, why did you stop running?" Zhou Yu grabbed Ye Wanning's hair. "Don't think that just because your sister ran away, she'll have an easier time. On the way to the capital, those women might get sold off."
When Zhou Yu abducted Ye Wanning and her sister, he wore a mask and wasn't afraid of Ye Wanhua identifying him. He simply hadn't expected Ye Wanhua to follow him to the bamboo forest; he was short-handed, which allowed Ye Wanning to escape halfway through the journey.
Ye Wanning's throat hurt. "What medicine did you give me?"
"Of course it's an aphrodisiac! Weren't you so high and mighty, plotting to harm me? Then I'll ruin your reputation and make you as infamous as me, with no chance of ever recovering!" Zhou Yu sat across from her on the bed. He wasn't in a hurry to make a move. He wanted to see Ye Wanning at her most disheveled and dissolute, to humiliate her severely.
Ye Wanning's body began to heat up; if she were in Zhou Yu's hands, she would rather die.
Fortunately, this life is better than the previous one. She has already ruined Zhou Yu's reputation and will not let Zhou Yu kill her whole family again.
"Haha." Ye Wanning suddenly laughed.
"why are you laughing?"
"I laugh at your incompetence and uselessness, Zhou Yu. You were only able to study from a young age thanks to the charity of Xu Zhuling's family. Later, when you came to the capital, you relied on the Ye family for help. You've been utterly despicable all along. Someone like you must often feel disgusted with yourself, right?" At this point, Ye Wanning no longer expected anyone to save her. She wanted to kill Zhou Yu and drag him down with her to meet the King of Hell. That way, her life wouldn't have been in vain!
Zhou Yu was indeed enraged. He rushed up to Ye Wanning, grabbed her collar and pulled her up. "What's wrong with wanting to study and rise in rank? I'm clearly talented and could have a bright future, so why do you have to ruin me? If I hadn't seen Madam Qian, Madam Lin and you standing together so intimately on the polo field, I wouldn't have known what was going on!"
It turned out to be the case.
Ye Wanning didn't expect that Zhou Yu had also gone to Princess Longyu's polo banquet. Zhou Yu saw her associating with Madam Qian and others. With Zhou Yu's intelligence, she could indeed guess that it was Ye Wanning's idea.
But so what?
Now, Zhou Yu is considered the most despicable person by powerful families, and no noble family would want to marry him.
"It's not that I want to ruin you, it's that you ruined yourself!" Ye Wanning shouted. "You received favors from the Xu family, so you shouldn't have been greedy. Or, if you wanted to climb the social ladder, you should have acted better. Instead, you wanted to marry me, seduced Xu Zhuling, and even had a child with her. Zhou Yu, you schemed against me and the Ye family so thoroughly, even preparing the infertility drug in advance, and now you ask me why I want to ruin you? What a joke!"
"A cure for infertility? How do you know?" Zhou Yu frowned.
Ye Wanning deliberately provoked him, gripping the hairpin tightly in her hand. "If you don't want people to know, then don't do it in the first place. I knew, so I deliberately ruined your marriage with the Qian family. I even sent someone to find Xu Zhuling. Now, everyone in your hometown should know that you're keeping a mistress and that you're looked down upon by high-ranking families. Zhou Yu, your reputation is completely ruined!"
"Ye Wanning, how dare you? I'll kill you!" Zhou Yu grabbed Ye Wanning by the neck, but Ye Wanning suddenly raised her hand and plunged the hairpin into his chest.
Unfortunately, Ye Wanning was not very strong at the moment, so the hairpin was not inserted very deeply, but it was enough to give her a chance to catch her breath.
Without even putting on shoes, Ye Wanning climbed out the window and escaped.
The aphrodisiac she had drunk took effect, and Ye Wanning's legs began to lose strength. Her body grew hotter and hotter, and she could hear Zhou Yu's cursing behind her.
I'd rather die than let Zhou Yu catch me!
Ye Wanning tried desperately to escape, but she had been drugged with aphrodisiacs. Hearing the footsteps behind her getting closer and closer, she jumped into the river without hesitation.
She didn't know how much time had passed, but when she climbed ashore again, she seemed to be hallucinating because she saw Xie Bohuai sitting on the shore with bloodshot eyes, like a tiger ready to pounce.
"Thank...Thank you, sir?" Ye Wanning tried calling out, and only then did she see that Xie Bohuai's eyes cleared up a bit, but she herself felt increasingly hot.
Zhou Yu said he had given her the strongest aphrodisiac, wanting to see her beg him, kneeling before him in the most lowly and humble way. Only now did she realize that Zhou Yu wasn't exaggerating; she was desperately thirsty, and reason was no longer her priority.