Chapter 620 - Chapter 620: Chapter 620: The Grand Finale (5): Chu Lan lost_1 (1/2)

chapter 620: chapter 620: the grand finale (5): chu lan lost_1

so from the very beginning, chu yi was never a sickly person and instead was always an exceptional master.

wei ruo and king ruo knew each other a long time ago.

he lost, and lost thoroughly.

wei jinyi looked at chu lan and said, “my scheme was not for the throne nor for you, that’s why you couldn’t see through it.”

“does it make any difference?” chu lan asked.

wei jinyi replied, “you shouldn’t have laid your hands on our father. since you killed him, we are forever at odds.”

chu lan said in a low voice, “no, i should have acted earlier, even when i had the qi family as my competitor. at least then, he hadn’t schemed for you yet.”

“whether it be han jin or tan rufeng and the edict of succession in your favor, all of this was a path paved by him for you. without these, i might not have lost to you today. even if i had to lose, it wouldn’t have been like this.”

“in his treatment towards you, he showed deep love and long-term planning. he suppressed me and my mother for your sake. to you, he was a good father. to me, he was not.”

chu lan’s face remained expressionless as he said all this, he was very calm.

then chu lan turned his head to look at wei ruo. there was a sadness in his eyes that wei ruo couldn’t understand. he asked her in a low voice, “can you tell me now, why you despise me so much?”

wei ruo looked at chu lan at this moment. he looked both pained and liberated as if he truly just wanted an answer.

“perhaps we had a feud in our past lives and that’s why i instinctively hate you in this life,” wei ruo replied.

her seemingly perfunctory answer was in fact, the truth.

chu lan gave a slight laugh as if accepting her answer, “then i guess i have settled the old score now.”

and before wei ruo could speak again, chu lan thrust the dagger in his hand into his own chest.

this shocked everyone.

wei ruo looked at chu lan in disbelief.

in his dying moment, chu lan looked at wei ruo, “maybe… i didn’t really love you, but rather, the time i spent in that place. it was peaceful and warm, without conflict or power struggle. people around me only had goodwill…”

after he finished speaking, chu lan closed his eyes.

han jin immediately stepped forward to check.

he then shook his head at wei jinyi.

chu lan had… chosen to end his own life…

wei ruo watched as chu lan lay on the ground, his blood staining his white mourning clothes red…

all wei ruo felt in this moment was a piercing discomfort, rather than satisfaction.

suddenly, wei ruo felt as if a nameless weight in his heart had vanished.

what faded away along with it was his fear and disgust towards chu lan.