Chapter 901: Ning Jing, you’ve won (2/2)

Now she suddenly remembered what Tang Li had said on the day he picked her up. Could I marry Ning Jing if I didn’t have a heart?

She had retorted, If I say that you can’t, will you give up on marrying me?

What a joke it seemed like now. She gave a sardonic laugh “Tang Li, I never thought you and the Pear Blossom Rain Needles were the same--both lacking hearts!”

At this moment, Tang Li couldn’t tell whether Ning Jing was putting on a show for the head elder or truly angry. He was still figuring out how to reply when the head elder cried, “Miss Jing, Master Ning’s met with trouble!”

Ning Jing suddenly realized that Ning Jing was in mortal danger. That would be the only reason he tried the Pear Blossom Rain Needles in the first place. “What happened to my big brother?”

The head elder threw caution to the winds and told Ning JIng and Tang Li everything. Nobody had needed his signature in the gambling house just then. It was just Ning Cheng’s guards who had returned to report the bad news. Hearing this, Tang Li was stunned. He never realized his big brother was together with Han Yunxi. Ning Jing’s face had all but turned white.

“My big brother...my big brother was poisoned...and blinded? No...I don’t want this!” As she spoke, she broke into tears. “I refuse to believe it! I don’t want this!”

She wanted to run away from the Ning Clan because she disliked Ning Jing and his strict ways, but she had never hated him. Nor was she angry at him! Ning Cheng wasn’t just the Ning Family Head, but her older brother, her very own! Their parents had died young, so it was Ning Cheng who supported the Di Clan and propped up the Ning Clan! Her brother was like a father, sacrificing so much more than any of his siblings. She knew how to run away. Perhaps Ning An and Ning Nuo did too. But Ning Cheng never ran. He had his own selfish thoughts too, but he would never allow himself to give up.

No matter how heavy the injury, good days would come after surviving the bitter ones. But eyes were different. And the needles had hypertoxic poison as well. How was he supposed to recover? Even the head of Medical City, Gu Beiyue, might be helpless before the cause!

Ning Jing couldn’t help but slap herself in the face. Tang Li cried out at the sight. “Ning Jing, what are you doing?!”

What was she doing?

If she had controlled her selfish impulses and the feelings she shouldn’t have, then Ning Cheng wouldn’t have fallen to this point! She should have long told him about the relationship between the Tang Clan and Long Feiye! Then he’d suspect the validity of the Pear Blossom Rain Needles!

But she hadn’t!

She was one of the guilty ones as well!

The ever stubborn Ning Jing started to cry uncontrollably for the first time in front of outsiders.

Big brother, I’m sorry!

The head elder didn’t want to believe it either, but the guards and archers had all witnessed what happened with their own eyes. Still, he had no idea what Ning Jing was going through right now. In an angry voice, he cried, “Miss Jing, it was all because of that Pear Blossom Rain Needle! If it wasn’t for that, Master Ning wouldn’t have ended up like this!”

Ning Jing’s vision was blurry with tears as she glared furiously at Tang Li. At this point, Tang Li knew his agreement with her was invalid now. Their game of true and false had come to an end. He assumed that she’d interrogate him, but she only raised her hand and demanded, “Tang Li, are you releasing me or not?”

Tang Li hesitated, but Ning Jing didn’t give him a chance to delay. She coldly said, “Someone come, cut off his left hand!”

So ruthless!

Tang Li unclasped his own bracelet and shrugged his shoulders. “Ning Jing, you’ve won.”

“Keep an eye on him,” Ning Jing said before stalking off.

The head elder stared at the bracelet on the ground and finally realized why Ning Jing hadn’t been able to leave Tang LI a step. He couldn’t figure out why the two needed handcuffs, but there was no time for questions. Right now, the Di Clan not only faced the issue of Ning Cheng in danger, but Myriad Merchant Hall in trouble as well…

1. Black Yimi Flower - as far as I can tell, there’s no English name for it. You can search the Chinese term on Google and some sources will tell you it’s a plant that grows in the African desert that suddenly blooms into four-petaled flowers against a different colored bed of underlying petals.