The fate was changed, the mistress of the Hou family was slapped in the face and made money to win

Chapter 715: End of Peace Talks

Cheng Du's eyes turned red, "Sister..."

Wen Yan looked at Cheng Du seriously and showed an apologetic smile, "Adu, no, Your Highness the Ninth Prince, I'm sorry, my sister will also leave you first. My parents and my brother have been waiting for me for too long. I have to go find them."

After she is reunited with her parents and brother, she will once again be the A Yan who is loved and spoiled by them.

It was too tiring to be the owner of the Wuliang Tower, Wen. Now, she could finally be A Yan again.

"Sister..." Cheng Du hugged Wen Yan and felt her breath gradually fade away in his arms. Suddenly, he felt a huge sense of helplessness and confusion in his heart.

It had been too long, the two of them had been together for too long, on the road of escape, in that dark black market, he had thought those moments were the most difficult and painful.

But at this moment he realized that the most painful moment was when he was suddenly left alone.

After a long time, he carefully put Wen Yan down, stood up and looked at Jiang Suining and Shen Yanxi.

"If I had a choice, I really wish I had never met you two. Then, maybe my sister and I could have a different ending."

"Sorry, but we have to do this." Shen Yanxi frowned and said.

"There's nothing to be sorry about. You just said it. It's just that our stances are different." Cheng Du curled his lips again, but his expression no longer had that lazy attitude. Instead, there was a dead silence.

Sensing something was wrong, Jiang Suining immediately said, "Cheng Du, don't be impulsive. We are only ordered to take you back. The emperor may not..."

"Will they not kill me?" Cheng Du replied with a sarcastic smile, "Can a remnant of a fallen nation who wants to start a war between the two countries really be let go? Even if the Emperor Beiyang wants to show his generosity and doesn't take my life, the best case scenario is that I will be imprisoned for life, without freedom, and barely survive. If it were you two, would you be willing to live like this?"

Cheng Du's words left Jiang Suining speechless for a moment. Indeed, it was impossible for either her or Shen Yanxi to accept such a life, but...

"As long as we are alive, there is hope and the possibility of recovery. Life is still long and no one can predict what will happen in the future."

"Life is indeed very long, but some people's lives have already ended. It ended on the day when Dongyuan was destroyed, and on the day when my father and mother died tragically. For the rest of the days, they just carried on with a little illusory hope. Now..."

Cheng Du glanced at Wen Yan lying on the ground.

"Now even my elder sister is gone. There is nothing left in this world that I can miss."

Shen Yanxi frowned, "Cheng Du..."

"Sir Shen, you should live when you should live, and die when you should die. I think you know this principle very well. If you two really still care about the little friendship we had before, don't let me become a prisoner."

All the unfinished words of Shen Yanxi disappeared. Looking at Cheng Du who had made up his mind, he finally nodded.

The poisoned dagger cut his neck, warm blood spilled into the dense forest, and Cheng Du fell down.

The fight on the official road had ended long ago, and all the men in black had been killed or were killed.

As the sun moved westward, everything outside the imperial city came to an end.

Meanwhile, in the imperial city, teahouses and taverns were all discussing the peace talks. The common people only felt that the sky was clear and the air was fresh, and no one knew what was happening outside the imperial city.

Five days later, the peace talks between the two countries ended.

Xilin paid Beiyang one million taels of silver and 50,000 war horses in exchange for the captured Xilin soldiers and three cities.

At the same time, an agreement was signed that there would be no war between the two countries for at least ten years.

On the day when the Xilin envoy left the city, Jiang Suining took Xiao Yue, who had been rescued and brought back to Beiyang earlier, to meet Murong Yu.

Murong Yu was originally going to be severely punished for bringing back a false troop deployment map, but because of the peace talks between the two countries and Murong Yu's experience as an envoy to Beiyang, he was sent here again to be in charge of the peace talks this time, as a way to make up for his mistake.

It's just that he didn't take the lead this time, and didn't have much decision-making power. So it seemed like he was sent here on purpose to suffer this humiliation.

At the city gate, Murong Yu looked at Xiao Yue, as if he was looking at her seriously for the first time.

"To be honest, this prince never thought that the fifth princess would make such a choice."

Injure yourself and return to the team so that the whole plan can continue.

In his original understanding of Xiao Yue, he was an extremely selfish person, and also very timid and cowardly. Even if threatened, he would probably try his best to protect himself instead of actually hurting himself and putting himself in danger to fulfill Beiyang Kingdom's plan.

"If it were in the past, I probably wouldn't have believed that I could achieve this. But..." Xiao Yue paused, "Maybe it's because I am the fifth princess of Beiyang after all."

After all, she had enjoyed the benefits of being the fifth princess, even if it was not for long, and even if the past ten years had nothing to do with her, but now that she had become Xiao Yue, there were some things she could not escape.

Of course, there is another very important reason. Although she wants to protect herself, she also does not want to hurt innocent people. If she really watches others pay with their lives, she will probably not be able to rest in peace for the rest of her life.

Murong Yu laughed, "Anyway, after this incident, the Fifth Princess has a life-saving talisman. Congratulations."

"Thank you, Ninth Prince. I also hope that after you return to Xilin, you will not be punished again for this matter of the defense map."

"I appreciate your words, Princess." Murong Yu turned his head and glanced at the team still waiting. "It's time for me to leave. Goodbye."

The team set off, Murong Yu rode on his horse and went away with Xilin's team.

Xiao Yue looked at Murong Yu's back, and the previous doubts popped up again, and she asked Jiang Suining.

"Do you think he really doesn't hate Emperor Xilin? I always feel that according to his personality, he should take revenge on Emperor Xilin and avenge his mother."

Jiang Suining's eyes were calm. "We are not him. No one can tell what he is thinking in his heart. We also don't know how he lived in the years before he regained his status as a prince. Maybe he really has no hatred in his heart. Maybe he judged the situation and let go of the hatred. Or maybe... he is waiting. After all, the premise of revenge is to accumulate enough strength and then wait for the opportunity to strike a fatal blow."

Xiao Yue nodded, sighed and said, "Yes, maybe for Murong Yu, everything has just begun and is far from over."

"Of course it's not over." Jiang Suining chuckled, "Whether he puts aside his hatred and pursues power, or endures and waits for the opportunity, as long as he is still alive, everything is far from over."

This is true for an individual and for a country as well.

However, the plans, conflicts, and calculations that might occur in Xilin have nothing to do with them for the time being.

"Sui Ning!" Two voices called out from behind.