Chapter 28

I had a knife hidden on me.

On the way back, I hijacked Zhang Yunhuai in the carriage.

He was very surprised, unable to believe it. “Xiao Chun, I don’t believe you really want to kill me.”

As soon as he finished speaking, my knife cut his neck, blood flowing everywhere.

He let out a long sigh and said, “The marriage your father arranged for you-was it him?”

“Second Young Master, it is only today that I finally understand one thing.”

“What is it?”

“People are the same, and yet not the same.”

He didn’t understand, so I said coldly, “Those born in the clouds, bright and noble, should never be expected to understand things rooted in the earth. The darkness they see will never stain themselves, so they remain calm, self-restrained, and pride themselves on justice for all under heaven.”

“You are the moon in the sky, I am the mud on the ground. The only thing we have in common is that we both feel pity for each other-how shallow and laughable.”

I seized his carriage and kicked him out.

Afterwards, I fled in haste, hiding in an abandoned Yizhuang in the wilderness, where I reunited with Gouer.

Late at night, the Yizhuang was shrouded in ghostly lights, eerie and terrifying.

To avoid capture, we lay inside coffins, sleeping alongside corpses.

Gouer gestured, asking me what I planned to do.

I gave him all the valuables I had, telling him to leave the Capital and find a place to make a living on his own.

Three days later, Wei Donghe would be executed. I would appear at the execution ground, face the crowd, and expose the true face of the Guodao Army.

Whether they believed me or not, it didn’t matter.

Whether His Majesty killed me or had me dismembered, it didn’t matter.

I no longer cared about the consequences. Having come to this point, with nowhere left to go, I had done my best.

I, Sun Yunchun, have lived up to my father, to my elder sister, and to every soul lost in Qingshi Town.