Chapter 87: Besieging the City (5)

  In front of him, the ordinary face was either apathetic or absolutely unyielding in its coldness. It was what he hated most, and also what he wanted to see most. He hadn't seen such an expression on anyone's face for far too long.

  He stretched out his hand and pinched her chin. Nalan Xinnuo's eyebrows furrowed slightly, wanting to turn away, but unable to move.

  "Hmph. Indeed, you're hiding your true abilities. With such profound inner strength, yet pretending to be a helpless scholar in need of a woman's protection."

  Nalan Xixi didn't struggle free. She just let him gaze at her like that.

  After a long time, he let her go. Suddenly, he coldly smiled. "You've done a great job."

  Nalan Xixi said coldly: "I'm here. You should let them go now."

  Huang Pu Ling's expression gradually became emotionless. He looked at her, his voice flat and calm. "Why."

  Why put yourself in such a situation for Nan Gongyan? Aren't you proud? Aren't you invincible? What does that woman have to make you give up your dignity for her?

  "Because she is Nangong Yan, my husband's sister." Narlan Xizuo replied coldly.

  This was the first time she called Nangong Jin her husband in front of others. It felt subtle. Just these two words made it seem as if the fate of the two people had been tightly linked together, and could no longer be separated.

  Huang Pu's heart skipped a beat as he looked at Nalan Xianyu's resolute expression, and suddenly felt an inexplicable pang of jealousy. His face gradually turned cold, shedding his disguise, revealing the true him.

  Cold-blooded. Indifferent.

  "Good." He sneered. "You're here."

  Outside the account. A soldier walked in. "What are your orders, Your Highness."

  "Go and call over those soldiers guarding Nan Gongyan's mansion. Just say that Ling Wang has a reward." He seemed to be smiling but not quite.

  Nalan Xixi's eyes trembled slightly, and she involuntarily clenched her fists. She coldly looked up at Huangfu Ling, whose face had a faint smile, but his eyes were icy cold.

  Hmph, how could she forget? This person has always liked to be thorough and ruthless in his actions. What he wants is not Nan Gong Jin's life, nor hers, because he knows that what will kill them is not a knife, but dignity.

  Compared to death, what they cannot lose is dignity. What they cannot do is admit defeat.

  Her fingernails were digging into her flesh, crimson threads visible beneath the surface. Nalan Xinnuo's entire body was icy cold. In all these years, this was the first time she felt unable to control her own destiny. It was also the first time she had been toyed with and ridiculed in public.

  It was the first time she felt that the person in front of her was almost invincible. He could see through your weaknesses at a glance and then strike a fatal blow. He had almost used everything she couldn't let go of to force her to give up what she couldn't afford to lose.

  Before long, a dozen or so soldiers rushed into the tent and knelt down on the ground. "Your Highness."

  Huang Pu Ling raised his hand. "Get up."

  The soldiers heard that there was a reward, and they all looked happy on their faces. They stood up one after another. Huangfu Ling held up his wine cup, elegantly filled it to the brim, glanced at Nalan Xianyu, and said: "This woman is awarded to you."

  The soldiers took one look at Nalan Xianuo and their expressions immediately froze. This woman, she wasn't a woman at all, but a demonic killer. The several top experts sent out by the camp had all died at her hands.

  This is what Huangfu Ling meant. How could they show weakness at this time? The crowd nodded and bowed. "Thank you, Your Highness."

  They finished speaking and prepared to take Nalan Xixi away. Huangfu Ling said calmly: "Right here."

  The soldiers stopped in their tracks, looking at each other in dismay.

  Nalan Xixi sneered and bowed to Huangfu Ling. "Thank you, Your Highness."

  Huang Pu Ling's movements paused for a moment. Nalan Xianuo stretched out his hand to untie his belt, and said lightly to the soldiers: "Come on."

  The soldiers looked at Huangfu Ling in shock. Huangfu Ling's eyes became even colder, his grip on the wine cup tightened, but he didn't say a word.

  But in an instant, Nalan Xiong had stripped down to his last remaining undergarment. The mottled scars on his body left the soldiers in a state of astonished excitement, and they began to stir restlessly.

  Nalan Xixi took off her undergarments. Her slender and delicate body was exposed to the air. She smiled slightly. "Begin."

  "What's holding you back?" Huangfu Ling said coldly.

  The soldiers exchanged a glance, and like hungry wolves, they pounced on Nalan Xinnuo. Nalan Xinnuo's expression was icy cold. She closed her eyes, motionless, allowing the soldiers to do as they pleased. Above, Huangfu Ling watched her with an icy gaze, his eyes never leaving hers for a moment.

  The soldiers also took off their clothes, gnawing at Nalan Xiong's tender white skin. After a long time in the military camp, the suppressed desires that had been pent up for so long were even more intense at this moment. Soon, Nalan Xiong's body was covered with bruises and scars.

  Heavy breathing sounds lingered in the tent. They hesitated, not daring to take the crucial step. Huangfu Ling gave them a cold glance. They trembled and then began to grope under her body...

  A dozen or so soldiers, like a pack of wolves surrounding their prey, licked and tore at her body. Filthy foreign objects wriggled beneath her. The scorching sensation made Nalan Xinnuo's body tense up. She gritted her teeth, her entire body trembling. Her lip corners were bleeding, she didn't know if it was from biting them herself or someone else. Fresh blood slid down her chin and into the nape of her neck, extremely enticing.

  Huang Pu Ling looked at her lips falling fresh blood, slightly stunned, and then looked at the corner of her eyes, not a single tear drop.

  Suddenly, a soldier's hand hooked onto an almost imperceptible thread. A thin gauze-like human skin mask slid down quietly. The soldiers stopped moving instantly. Huangfu Ling was taken aback.

  It's an absolutely stunning face that's completely different from those ordinary faces. Thick eyelashes are slightly trembling. The delicate features of the face are pale and moving under the candlelight, like a clear spring, making people unable to bear polluting it. The tightly closed red lips are stained with fresh blood, exuding a suffocating seductiveness, as if sensing something, the eyelashes lightly tremble, eyes slightly open.

  In the clear and moving eyes like a young deer's, there wasn't a single thread of panic, but rather an icy coldness and firm determination that made one's heart tremble with fear.

  Realizing that her human skin mask had fallen off, she felt a pang in her heart. She looked up at Huangfu Ling and met his cold gaze. Huangfu Ling couldn't help but tremble. His face was still frozen in shock, unable to tear himself away from that stunning beauty.

  At this moment, the gasping sound inside the account suddenly became more urgent. Such a face made people completely lose their rationality. Desire was like a flood beast crashing against their bodies. The soldiers' eyes turned red and were about to rush in.

  Suddenly, a fierce gust of wind flashed by. The canopy was stained with blood. More than ten soldiers had looks of shock on their faces as they fell to the ground one after another. Their blood vessels were severed, and fresh blood continuously spurted out, immediately dyeing the carpet red.

  Dai Na Lan cherished the promise and returned to her senses. She only felt a warmth in her body. A gentle embrace was carefully wrapping around her. Her heart moved slightly. She raised her eyes to look. Huang Fu Ling's face was expressionless. He stretched out his hand to explore the fur coat on the table, wrapping it around her.

  Nalan Xixi's face turned away, revealing a mocking smile.

  Huang Pu Ling pinched her chin, forcing her to look at him. Nalan Xi Nu suppressed the urge to kill him that was welling up inside her. As he forced her to gaze coldly at him.

  Huang Pu Ling gazed intently at her face, with an inexplicable flutter in his heart that had nothing to do with physical desire or romantic entanglements.

  It just feels right for her to have such a face, and only such a face is worthy of her.

  He relaxed his hand that was pinching her chin, and the pads of his fingers gently slid over her tender lips, wiping away the fresh blood from the corner of her mouth. His eyes were filled with a suppressed sense of pity. You, who should be proudly looking down on the world, why do you have to endure all this?

  For your husband. For Nan Gong Jin. For him. Anything can be given up.

  "Is it okay?" A voice devoid of warmth, chilling to the bone.

  Huang Pu Ling trembled slightly. His face gradually turned cold. He let her go, smiled lightly, but his eyes had no hint of a smile. "It's enough."

  "Let him go." Nalan Xue's icy reminder.

  Huang Pu Ling nodded. "Tomorrow at noon, open the city gate. I will bring her into the city and hand her over to you personally."

  Nalan Xixi's face stiffened for a moment, then relaxed again. This was originally what he ultimately wanted. Humiliation. It was just his plaything after catching his prey. What he ultimately wanted was still the world under his feet.

  What he said, I thought about it again in my mind. Suddenly, I remembered He Xian's expression that day. A person like him doesn't have many thoughts. Can't think of many things in this world. But somehow can feel the most real and precious emotions in this world.

  In the choice between love and responsibility, he chose responsibility without hesitation. Not because he didn't love enough, but for him, this responsibility was sacred, connected by flesh and blood, and inseparable.

  "Good." Nalan Xixi nodded.

  But she is not them. Nothing is more important than her feelings for him. She would rather be scolded all her life. She will absolutely not abandon him. To her, he is everything.

  Then." Huangfu Ling's tone became more severe. Nalan Xinnuo's eyelashes trembled slightly.

  "In front of the city, in everyone's sight, stand by my side and enter the city with me."

  "You were born and die for the Nan Gong family. I'd like to see what happens when you enter the city with me, how will the people of the Nan Gong family react."

  Nalan Xixi's entire body was chilled to the bone, even her heart seemed to be frozen.

  "Are you afraid?" Huangfu Ling walked closer, with a hint of a smile.

  Nalan Xixiao shook her head. Huangfu Ling smiled lightly. "If you're not afraid, that's good. If you are, it means everything you're doing now is meaningless. No matter how much you pay for them, no matter what you give up for them, they won't appreciate it. From the moment you followed me into the city, in their hearts, you were a despicable traitor."

  Nalan Xixi's heart skipped a beat repeatedly.

  He knew. She was afraid. That's why he said that. To make her understand how naive and foolish she was at this moment. How worthless everything she had paid for was.

  "You're right."

  Huang Pu Ling was stunned, looking at Nalan Xianyu. At this moment, Nalan Xianyu suddenly had no emotions, unusually calm. Knowing the result, she felt relieved instead. She smiled slightly, stunningly beautiful.

  "No matter how much I give up, no matter how much I sacrifice, they will never appreciate it. In their hearts, I am destined to be a despicable traitor. But even so, I still won't regret."

  She looked at him. The determination in her eyes almost froze his blood. "Because all of this was never for them to begin with."