Chapter 32 (2/2)

“If you have something to say, do you have to write a letter?” Not knowing whether to laugh or cry, Xue Qilin extended her hand to receive the letter.

“It was written by Senior Disciple Sister Luo.”

Her hand shook suddenly, but she still received the letter, and then stared at it silently.

“It was found in Senior Disciple Sister Luo's quarters. We haven't opened it. After all, it's addressed to you.”

Xue Qilin nodded, and then opened the envelop and took out the letter.

“Your Excellency Young Ancestor,

By the time you read this letter, you should have found Senior Disciple Sister Li in my quarters, and I'm probably dead.

I killed Qin Chen, secretly contacted the Heavenly Sword Gate, and poisoned you,

…. the Merak Palace is in urgent need of a crisis, of a real crisis.

This crisis has an internal and an external component to it, which have to erupt in succession.

I used Qin Chen's death to cause internal troubles, having the Merak Palace sink into internal suspicion. Then, I had you captured, Young Ancestor, causing external troubles and forcing everyone in the Merak Palace to make a choice – let go of your prejudices and cooperate with each other or lose you and wait for destruction.

I don't know what choice the Palace Master and Uncle Teacher Ye will make in the end… If they can put their differences aside and come to Jinling to find me, then we will be able to rescue you safely, Young Ancestor; if not, then I'll put all blame on Uncle Teacher Ye… If the Merak Palace is really doomed, then it's better for it to be destroy at my hands than at the hands of other people…”

Tough love, that's probably it.

“No matter the outcome, I don't have the face to see you again, so I can only choose death.

Perhaps what I'm going to say next is too shameless, but Young Ancestor, would you listen to my last request?

…Please avenge me.”

“… the Merak Palace has given me everything I have now, so all my accomplishments are for the sake of the Merak Palace…?” Xue Qilin recalled Luo Qing's words.

“There were clearly many other ways…” Qi Qiqi sounded angry.

She probably things that it all was unreasonable… But can human actions really be explained with reason? Besides…

“She just chose the quickest and most effective way.”

“But she didn't have to die herself!”

“She not only died herself, but also consigned Hua Tianji to death. In one fell swoop, she solved the Merak Palace's internal and external problems… you should understand it better than I do.”

Unable to responde, Qi Qiqi was silent for a while.

After a long moment of silence, Qi Qiqi asked, puzzled: “You want to kill Hua Tianji?”

Xue Qilin raised the corners of her mouth into a strange smile. Looking at the full moon in the sky, she asked meaningfully: “What do you think?”

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