Chapter 843: Han Yunxi, yousre still not leaving? (1/2)

Ning Cheng was no idiot. Since he couldn’t find Han Yunxi, he’d definitely track down Long Feiye after cooling his head. After all, some guards had spotted him diving into the abyss too. The shadow guard’s report turned Long Feiye’s gentle gaze cold and unhappy. Leaving aside the enmity between East and West Qin, he still had to get back at him for tearing Han Yunxi’s clothes to spy on her phoenix birthmark!

If not for the threat of the Wind Clan and Han Yunxi holding him back, Long Feiye would have long gone to duel Ning Cheng one on one. The man was simply looking for trouble by delivering himself here now.

“Tell him that the West Qin princess is currently in discussion with your lordship. It has nothing to do with him!” Long Feiye said coldly.

Han Yunxi didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, but she didn’t stop him, either. Just then, she suddenly recalled something that needed discussion with Long Feiye. She trusted that his shadow guards were still capable of holding back Ning Cheng.

“What are you smiling about?” Long Feiye demanded unhappily.

“Didn’t you say it was impossible? And weren’t you the one who wanted me to go? Perfect, I can leave with Ning Cheng. Then you’ll be the East Qin crown prince and me the West Qin princess; we’ll meet on the battlefield instead!” As Han Yunxi spoke, she rose to leave, but Long Feiye hauled her back into his arms for a firm kiss. Rather, it was more like gnawing on her lips.

“Han Yunxi, you treat words from my fits of temper as the truth? You’ve forgotten my real words instead!” Long Feiye laughed helplessly.

Real words.

Were they the ones that said he’d wouldn’t trade her for a country/

Han Yunxi clearly remembered Long Feiye saying such things to Jun Yixie. Back then, she didn’t even realize the high and mighty Duke of Qin would be interested in the base and petty daughter of the Han Clan.

“Fine then, let’s leave right now. We’ll hide both of our identities and get away from all of this,” Han Yunxi declared seriously.

“I’ll take you to Celestial Mountain. If we rush there now, we’ll make it before the snows block the pathways. Then we won’t be able to leave,” Long Feiye was also serious as he made to take her off the carriage. Yet Han Yunxi stopped him away. She knew that even if he was willing, he wouldn’t find peace there.

Either they kept apart, or stayed together while being natural and unrestrained, happy and loving, on a grand and spectacular style! She tugged on his hand and entwined their fingers together. “Ye, there’s something I want to ask you. Something very important.”

“Speak,” he didn’t let go.

“Ye, you once said that the floods from the Sandy River in the past caused East and West Qin to cooperate and fight against them. But it was also the cause of their civil war?” Han Yunxi asked.

She was really out of options now. Without a way to dispel the hatred between the two nations, she could only start searching for all possibilities from the start. She remembered how Ning An’s account had been vastly different from that of Long Feiye’s. Because of that, she now harbored a wild hope to dissolve East and West Qin’s differences from the beginning. Perhaps the fact that each side stuck to their version of the argument had led to some real misunderstandings.

After all these years, no one had the skills to earn the trust of both East and West Qin to make each side speak the truth. Han Yunxi was now the first.

“Yes,” Long Feiye replied.

“Did you lie to me? Ye, I want to know the truth!” Han Yunxi looked intently into Long Feiye’s eyes.

“I didn’t lie to you about that!” Long Feiye answered. Back then, after East and West Qin joined hands, the West Qin Empire spread rumors that the East Qin crown prince was a star of disaster reincarnated on Earth that would bring endless catastrophes to Cloud Realm Continent. Because the East Qin emperor was sickly and the crown prince’s ascension to the throne all but imminent, the West Qin rumors were used by the other East Qin imperial princes to their advantage. After the emperor died, a struggle broke out for the throne and left the dynasty unstable. Seizing their chance, West Qin started a war…

“Really?” Han Yunxi asked again.

Long Feiye immediately knit his brows as she hastily explained. “I...I want to make sure. Because I heard another version of the story.”

“Ning Cheng’s version of the truth?” Long Feiye asked coldly.

“Not Ning Cheng, Ning An,” Han Yunxi knew that Long Feiye was full of hostility for the Di Clan, but quickly went onto elaborate. “Ye, do you think they’d lie to me?”

Han Yunxi had already told Long Feiye about the situation with the Di Clan clan. At the very least, Ning Cheng and Ning An trusted her greatly up to this point.

“What did Ning An say?” Long Feiye finally relented.

Han Yunxi was probably the only person that could get him to yield when it came to this topic. No one else would ever get a chance.

“Did you know that there was an iron ore mine in the middle reaches of the Sandy River back then?” Han Yunxi asked.

“I do. That mine belonged to East Qin and all of Crown Prince Wu,” Long Feiye thought back, then added. “If he wanted to preserve the mine, then he’d have to destroy the dam and sacrifice the people downriver. Back then, it was the Black Clan’s armed forces who were in charge of the dam. Crown Prince Wu ordered the Black Clan to take as much of the iron ore as they could before the river overflowed.”

Han Yunxi’s heart gave a lurch at his words, but she didn’t interrupt him. Long Feiye continued to narrate. “While the Black Clan was rushing to transport the ore, the Wind Clan loyal to Wst Qin suddenly made a surprise attack on their forces to steal the ore from them. Naturally, the Black Clan resisted. Since East and West Qin were in a fierce tussle at the time, West Qin used the chance to declare war.”

“Wind Clan...Black Clan…” Han Yunxi only shook her head. “Ye, what I heard was that East Qin ordered the Black Clan to destroy the dam in order to preserve the mine. West Qin sent out its Wind Clan troops to stop them, but war broke out after all. Then the Black Clan troops destroyed East Qin.”

Long Feiye laughed coldly. “Destroy the dam? Do you know how many members of the Mermaid Clan sacrificed their lives back then just to protect it? How could the East Qin have wanted to destroy it? It’s a joke!”