530 Can We Negotiate? (1/2)
Eventually, he found the courage to point it towards his stomach. She did not need to figure out why. Anything was better than being cruelly tortured by the aloof Crown Prince. The ghosts lingering in this room were a testament to his brutality.
Li Xueyue's lips curled into a smile. Marquis Qin had pointed the dagger at his stomach, attempting to stab it. Except, the knife did not go through. It was because she had broken the sharp end of the knife and pulled it out.
”W-wh-what—”
Li Xueyue glanced down in time to see the knife slipping out of the Marquis's hand. He was visibly shaken up after preparing to kill himself.
”Useless even until the very end.”
Marquis Qin's head snapped up. ”P-Princess—”
”This was your only chance at a painless death.”
Li Xueyue gloated in his pale expression. He looked like he was on his last straw of salvation. His eyes grew wide and visible sweat droplets formed on his forehead. That was strange. Where did the prideful and angry Marquis go? He was just here a few minutes ago.
Did he disappear that fast when approaching death's door?
”You vengeful bitch!” he suddenly shrieked out.
Li Xueyue's smile widened. ”That's right, I am a bitch. So what?”
Marquis Qin was visibly taken aback. His mouth clamped shut as if he did not know what to say to that.
Li Xueyue took out a handkerchief and picked up the dagger with it. She'd rather not touch his germs.
”You—”
She spun on her heels and grabbed the lanterns. It was time to leave him to his own demise. She reached the foot of the door and got the last laugh.
”I'd rather be a bitch than a dead man.”
- - - - -
”Dispose of this,” Li Xueyue commanded. She placed the handkerchief wrapped dagger into Xiao Hua's open palms.
”Yes, Princess,” Xiao Hua instantly said.
Xiao Hua hurried off, already knowing a place to toss it into. At the far outskirts of the enormous Imperial Palace was the place they threw away the trash. There was an enormous furnace there that could burn anything. Before an incense stick could finish burning, someone could be burnt to ash inside.
- - - - -
”Did you find closure?” Yu Zhen asked once everyone was gone, leaving them alone inside of their bedroom.
On their way back to their estate, Li Xueyue was quiet and her responses to him were curt. Thus, he figured she'd want to be alone. He brought her back to their estate first, in case she acted out of character in public.
”Yes, I did,” Li Xueyue softly said. ”It was satisfying seeing the demon lurking in my nightmare is finally reduced to nothingness.”
”I'll handle the rest from here.” Yu Zhen closed the distance between them and gently settled a hand on her shoulder.
”Alright,” she finally agreed.
”Just alright?”
Li Xueyue tilted her head. ”Thank you,” she added on.
Yu Zhen scoffed. ”This conversation is going a little bit too easy.”
Her brows furrowed in confusion. What did he mean by that?
”I expected an argument,” he mused. ”Then, wild make-up sessions.”
Instantly, her cheeks flamed. She glared up at him whilst holding back a large smile. ”I am an agreeable person!”
”I never said you weren't.”
”But you implied it.”
”Did I now?” he retorted.