Noble First Daughter-in-law

Chapter 1027 No One Considers You an Enemy
"Shang Ruyi?!"

As soon as they saw the beautiful and dignified face that exuded an imposing aura in the flickering firelight, everyone was shocked, especially Lei Yu. She smiled and took a step forward involuntarily: "Ruyi, you are okay--"

As soon as she finished speaking, she stopped.

After the initial surprise, she seemed to have thought of something, and said to Shang Ruyi with a complicated look: "You are okay."

It was Shang Ruyi who slowly walked behind Mr. Jia amid everyone's surprised and astonished gazes. To everyone's surprise, she had been unconscious after being poisoned by a snake and seemed to be in critical condition. But at this moment, her face was calm, her eyes were sharp, and her steps were very steady. She was completely different from her previous dying appearance.

Mr. Jia's expression immediately darkened.

He frowned, staring at Shang Ruyi who was approaching slowly, and said in a deep voice: "You——" He stopped talking before his beard trembled for a while, and finally he sighed and said: "I was fooled by you."

The people around were becoming more and more confused, but Lu Xiao and Lei Yu remained silent, and their flickering eyes seemed to have understood something. Ashina Zhuxie frowned the moment he saw Shang Ruyi "recovered to normal", then looked back at Wang Shaoqiu who was slumped on the ground, and his expression slowly became gloomy.

"Master Jia..."

Although he was being stared at by so many pairs of eyes through the burning flames, Shang Ruyi remained calm. His eyes flickered for a moment when he looked at Lei Yu, but he immediately calmed down and looked at Master Jia. Then, with a slight smile on his face, he said, "No, it should be Master Zuo."

"..."

This time, the people in the stone chamber did not look overly surprised.

After all, from the moment they saw this "Master Jia" appear, to the time he wanted to burn these people to death, to the words he said, everyone had more or less guessed his identity; and when he heard the three words "Master Zuo" from Shang Ruyi's mouth, he only narrowed his eyes slightly, a cold light flashed in the light of the fire, and he slowly said: "When did you know."

Shang Ruyi walked up to him calmly: "When I see you."

"why?"

"No one would live in such an inaccessible place for no reason."

"but--"

"Of course, those who practice cultivation are exceptions,"

Shang Ruyi interrupted his words of defense, smiled again, and said: "But from head to toe, you don't look like a cultivator at all."

"Master Jia"'s expression changed, but he said nothing.

Because the moment he saw Shang Ruyi again, he had gone over everything that happened last night in his mind. In fact, he could feel that his performance was not good without anyone reminding him, otherwise, Ashina Zhuye would not have asked him so blatantly about the whereabouts of Zuo Gong's suspected tomb, and he would not have had to enter this cave after last night to kill all these people here.

"You must be Zuo Zhen."

"..."

He remained silent, but his twinkling eyes told it all.

Shang Ruyi nodded, then looked over his shoulder at the crowded stone chamber behind him and the coffin on the stone platform. Although she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she roughly guessed what was going on from the chatter of those people just now, and then said, "Then this coffin and this tomb must be where you buried Zuo Heng."

"..."

"You survived and took his body away."

"..."

"His head was taken away by the imperial court, and he could not be buried without his head and body, so you cast a golden head for him to bury."

Lu Xiao took a deep breath. No wonder she felt a sense of familiarity the moment she saw the golden head. It turned out to be the face of an old friend...

Zuo Zhen clenched the torch in his hand, and the protruding knuckles of his fingers made a crackling sound. He said in a deep voice: "Now that you know it's me, what are you going to do? What are you going to do?"

"..."

"Are you going to kill me?"

Shang Ruyi looked at the torch in his hand calmly: "Master Zuo, now it is you who wants to kill someone."

Zuo Zhen said: "If I don't kill them, will they let me go?"

Then he turned around and looked at Shang Ruyi: "Will you let me go?"

His eyes seemed to be burning in the light of the flames. The seclusion of these years had made him forget many things in the past, such as the nobility of his birth, the extremely wealthy life, and the heroic spirit of fighting in the south and the north and commanding the support of hundreds. He seemed to be a human being in the world, and looking back on the past, it was as if he was looking at his previous life.

But, there are some things that can’t be forgotten.

The panic when there is nowhere else to go, the despair when being forced into a desperate situation, and the pain after escaping death...

He didn't dare to think about how these people would treat him after knowing his identity.

Does he have to go through what happened that year again?
Just as Zuo Zhen clenched his teeth and his eyes gradually turned red, as if he was ready to fight to the death at any time, Shang Ruyi just looked at him calmly, without even a trace of emotion.

“You are no one’s enemy,” she said.

"...?"

Zuo Zhen was startled, as if he couldn't believe his ears, and stared at her with wide eyes: "What did you say?"

Shang Ruyi looked at him calmly and said, "No one regards you as an enemy."

"..."

"Especially after Zuo Chen'an's grave could no longer be found... the Zuo family and anyone in the Zuo family are no longer important."

Zuo Zhen’s eyes widened.

But there was no change in expression on Shang Ruyi's face, as if he was saying something very ordinary. He calmed himself down and quickly turned his head to look at the people in the stone chamber behind him. Although some people were still looking at him warily, they were only wary of the torch in his hand. It seemed that no one cared about him.

Zuo Zhen seemed to be frozen there, the flames flickered violently, and his hands were shaking violently. He murmured, "Why, why is it like this... why is it like this...?"

Shang Ruyi said: "Things in the world are unpredictable."

These four words were like the fangs of a poisonous snake, piercing into his heart. Zuo Zhen's hand suddenly froze, and the torch fell out of his hand!

"It happened!"

The people in the stone chamber screamed in fear. They saw the torch fall to the ground, then bounce back suddenly and fall towards the tung oil on the ground in front!
In this split second, a nimble and swift figure suddenly jumped out and grabbed the torch!

It's lying in the snow!
When Shang Ruyi saw her take action, his heart was in his throat, but he finally felt relieved.

She breathed a sigh of relief.

But before I could put my heart back, suddenly, a cluster of sparks floated down from the burning torch and landed on the tung oil on the ground!