Chapter 226

226 EVIL WU JIANG

Bai Chen could barely feel his feet, but he still forced them to move away from the small hut where Zhu Ge had taken him.

Ah, was it proper for him to use that name to address the mighty Eldest Prince of Wu Li? Bai Chen really wanted to laugh at himself once more when he remembered how the Prince of Wu Li had been toying with him all this time.

“No wonder Zhu Ge can act arrogant, and no wonder he looks smart from the first time I saw him. Not only does he come from a rich family in Wu Li, but he comes from the Wu Li palace. I’m so stupid that I decided to ignore the oddity.”

As Bai Chen continued to carry his feet to leave the small hut in the dense forest, he kept blaming himself for being too dense. And even when he said goodbye to the man in red, the man still didn’t say a word, and Bai Chen couldn’t see his expression either because the man still covered his face with the golden mask.

Bai Chen didn’t know if the man was laughing behind the mask. After all, that man had managed to trick him all along, so it must be funny for the guy, right?

That was why Bai Chen didn’t even want to imagine how that man might laugh at him behind that ugly mask. Bai Chen had even agreed to accept the man as his lover, but that was what he got in return.

Suddenly, Bai Chen stopped in his tracks when he was quite far from the small hut in the middle of the forest. He didn’t notice it, but he wasn’t far from the river now, but it wasn’t his main focus even if he heard the sound of the river from where he was standing.

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“Zhu Ge has never been serious with me, and how he suddenly said that he wants me to marry him can’t be serious either, right? It’s just part of his game, right?” Bai Chen muttered to himself, and he even clenched the sword in his hand tightly.

Ah, Bai Chen just remembered that he was still holding a sword called Wu Jiang now. He got the sword from Wu Jinhai, and he just realized that how Wu Jinhai suddenly gave him such a powerful sword was also strange.

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When the two of them didn’t know each other well, the masked man could casually hand over his extraordinary sword, and Bai Chen couldn’t help but stare at the weapon in his hand.

“He must have been up to something when he handed this sword to me,” again, Bai Chen continued his monologue as he stared at the sword in his hand. “I also lie sometimes, but I know that someone who lies is not a good person. That person has been lying to me all along, and he must have had intentions when he gave me this sword. Maybe Ma Qiao is right that this sword might have some evil power in it.”

Bai Chen still didn’t know Wu Jinhai’s reason for approaching him, but he assumed that the thing between them that happened in the Forbidden Forest was part of that man’s plan.

Once again, he bitterly laughed at himself as he muttered, “No wonder Zhu Ge couldn’t return to my palace even after the barrier between the two empires was lifted after the full moon period was over. He couldn’t return to me before I entered the Forbidden Forest, and that’s because he also participated in the event.”

Bai Chen linked one fact to another, and he was sure that Wu Jinhai had planned everything neatly from the start. Back then, Zhu Ge had said that he needed to meet his father lest he was able to return to the palace in time, and now Bai Chen knew that the man’s father was none other than Wu Li’s Emperor, Wu Shun.

Either because the man’s act was too perfect or Bai Chen had been too stupid all along. Even if some things about the man were suspicious from the start, Bai Chen had failed to connect every single point before today, and that was why he had assumed that he was the one who was too foolish.

Suddenly, Bai Chen was certain that he couldn’t trust anyone in this world, and he also knew that he couldn’t love anyone in this world either.

Why should he love a liar?

Bai Chen could feel how his chest tightened at the thought, and his hand that was holding Wu Jiang was also shaking violently. In the end, Bai Chen closed his eyes as he tried to count from one to five, hoping that he would become calmer after performing the method he had always practiced in the past.

Unfortunately, the method didn’t work this time, and Bai Chen felt angrier than calmer even after he finished counting in his head. So, he once again opened his blue eyes, and the pair of eyes instantly met the sword in his hand again.

“If this sword is truly evil, then I’d better stop carrying it,” Bai Chen decided weakly without taking his eyes off the sword.

He didn’t know where he was standing, but there were several boulders near where he was standing, and he carefully placed the sword on one of the boulders before withdrawing his hand.

His pair of blue eyes sadly stared at the sword, and he sighed heavily as he whispered, “You have a soul, right, Wu Jiang? Now you can go find your real master, and you do not have to follow me anymore.”

Bai Chen coldly said to the sword, and for some reason, he felt reluctant when he was about to part with the weapon. He even had strange delusions as if he saw how the sword whimpered miserably, but he chose to ignore it as he turned his body and started walking away from the sword.

The sword was on the rock alone, but Bai Chen didn’t look back. That was why he also didn’t notice how a pair of eyes were watching him from afar the whole time.