246 Arrow Tower (2/2)

Maid Lotus was still calm, but her voice changed slightly. This made Gu Shenwei suddenly feel that she was a cute young girl instead of a cold-blooded, cruel killer. He asked, ”Are you jealous?”

”I'm not...” Maid Lotus denied too quickly. She felt that she was being untruthful. She then sneered and admitted to it. She said, ”So what if I'm jealous? I will still kill you.”

”So you have chosen the hardest and slowest method to kill me.” Gu Shenwei didn't say ”the most painful”. Even though he became colder, he pretended to be indifferent. He said, ”You still couldn't bear to kill me. You said that Death Scripture made you unable to forget hatred, but you didn't act according to what the book said, which was to kill me in one shot.”

”Aren't you the same? There were several occasions that you could have killed Tenth Young Master, but you always find some excuse to miss the opportunity.”

Both of them became silent as their chemistry vanished. They resumed talking after a long while.

”My real name is Gu Shenwei.”

”I know that.”

Gu Shenwei had talked nonsense during that time when Gu Shenwei fell into a coma due to his injury. Maid Lotus took care of him all night and heard everything.

”This is the dagger Shangguan Ru gave me.” Gu Shenwei took out a dagger from a parcel beside him. He said, ”It originally belonged to me as it was a gift from my father. Shangguan Nu killed my family and took this dagger away. He then gave it to Shangguan Ru.”

Gu Shenwei recited this story in order to prove that it was impossible for him to like Shangguan Ru. Maid Lotus understood his intention, but wasn't touched. She said, ”There is nothing wrong with liking someone. If you are able to toughen up and kill all the people who you loved, you will be victorious. You have failed, and I will not.”

For a moment, Gu Shenwei wanted to plead with her. He even thought that the real reason behind all this trouble was for him to plead Maid Lotus for forgiveness and express his love for her. However, he didn't plead. As he had endured years of humiliation, he didn't want to lose his dignity at the last moment.

”New Moon Hall will destroy Golden Roc Fort?”

”Of course.”

”When you kill Shangguan Fa and Shangguan Nu, please tell them my real name if possible. And Governor Wei Song. He is my enemy, but I don't know who is the mastermind.”

Maid Lotus twisted her head as to look at Gu Shenwei and said, ”I will kill all your enemies, and will find out who the mastermind is. Whenever I kill a person, I will tell him that you are the descendant of the Central Plain Gu Family, and you are the one who asked me to take revenge.” Her voice was unprecedently gentle.

”Thank you.”

”No, Thank you. After you die, I will need a new source of hatred so that the Death Scripture swordcraft won't be affected.”

Gu Shenwei recalled the eleven-year-old Chu Nanping. He wanted to master Heartless Swords, but could not bear to kill the friends that he just made. The girl in front of him was the best candidate to practice Heartless Swords.

They stopped talking and moving. They allowed the night to settle in as though there were an iron wall separating them.

The chill in his body penetrated into his bones, and Gu Shenwei tried to remain silent. Maid Lotus wanted to watch him die of qigong deviation, but he didn't want to be like Slave Yao, who lost control.

A ray of sunshine of dawn shone past Maid Lotus's head and landed on Gu Shenwei. He didn't feel any warmth, but was moved by the scene before him. He couldn't help but said, ”You are so beautiful.”

Maid Lotus was enveloped in the ineffable light. She looked like the very first flower in the world, which was free from pollution. Even the air that she took in was the freshest.

Maid Lotus turned her head in amazement. With the change in the angle of the light, she returned to her usual appearance. She was still very beautiful, but she had lost that holiness, which others looked up to. She appeared slightly different, as if she had... cried.

There was no better chance than this. The estrangement between both of them disappeared completely. A sentence from the youth could possibly defeat the powers of Death Scripture and turn hate into love.

A dark cloud moved past and its shadow covered the entrance. Maid Lotus suddenly jumped off from the bed, as though she were ambushed. She pulled the bow as she was suddenly on high alert. After a long time, she was relieved. She became highly sensitive to her surroundings.

The opportunity had passed but Gu Shenwei had yet spoken. Death Scripture had little influence on him now and he could think clearly. He was tired of endless killing and was willing to pass this difficult task to others.

He would soon die of qigong deviation, but he was sympathetic and thankful towards the mastermind of this plot, Maid Lotus.

Maid Lotus grasped her sword shaft tightly and was suppressing her feelings. She was on the verge of collapse. She understood all Gu Shenwei's thoughts as though his mind were transparent. She then felt very proud. She not only wanted to kill the person whom she loved, but also to avenge him.

This pride made her push all reasons of hatred to the Death Scripture. She carefully avoided her true intention. Her hatred was caused by Slave Huan's delay in reciprocating her love.

A small group of killers approached Reincarnation Cliff early in the morning. Maid Lotus's facial expression changed and she said, ”Foolish Liuhua. He had been followed.”

Liuhua's whereabouts were revealed. Those killers who discovered him hadn't fully understand the importance of this incident.