The concubine's favorite? Break off the engagement and marry another prince, please respect you

Chapter 77

The soldiers at the gate were strong and their offensive became increasingly fierce. The soldiers defending the city began to lose. More and more soldiers climbed up the city walls and the fighting became more intense.

Lu Ping's eyes widened with anger, and he shouted, "Lu Ziyan, when you first joined the army, you were my deputy general. For the sake of the old marquis, I took good care of you. Do you really want to force me into a desperate situation now?"

At the foot of the city, Lu Ziyan, who was sitting astride a precious horse, smiled coldly when he heard this.

Ming Feng beside him tightened his reins, and he answered loudly with a deep breath, "Lord Lu, open the city gate now and surrender. The general will not leave you with nowhere to go."

"What a joke! If I surrender now and am captured and brought back to the capital, how can I keep my life?" Lu Ping laughed loudly, suddenly pulled out the sword from his waist, chopped off a soldier's head, and drank the blood while holding it.

The bright red hot blood flowed down his short beard, and the gurgling sound of swallowing made the soldiers beside him feel a little scared.

Many lives have been lost on their hands, but they have never seen anyone drink raw human blood.

Is it worthy of being half Qiang blood?

The city gate was very high, but Lu Ziyan had excellent eyesight and could see everything on the gate tower.

He narrowed his eyes slightly and spread his palms behind him.

Mingfeng handed over the heavy bow.

On the gate tower, Lu Ping finished drinking and threw the head in his hand casually. He heard a sound of breaking air. His face changed suddenly and he dodged sideways quickly, but the sharp arrow still pierced his shoulder bone.

Once the leader was injured, there was a panic at the city gate.

Lu Ping was shot in the shoulder, but his life was not in danger. He quickly stabilized the situation. However, during this short period of time, a steady stream of siege soldiers climbed up the city wall.

Amidst the bloody storm, the sun gradually set and the city gate, which had been attacked for several hours, was finally broken open.

Lu Ping was about to commit suicide with a knife, but was captured by Ming Feng.

The cheers from all around were deafening and shocking like a tsunami.

Lu Ziyan was just ordering the battlefield to be cleaned up when, at this moment, a black shadow flew down from the sky.

"It's Yunjin."

As he spoke, Mingfeng walked over quickly. A large black eagle landed on his shoulder. A sealed bamboo tube was hung around his neck. He touched Yunjin's head, took out the bamboo tube, opened it, then bowed and presented it to him with the letter in both hands.

Lu Ziyan handed the spear to the deputy general, took the letter, and cast his dark eyes over it...

Then, in front of many deputy generals, his face changed drastically. His eyes, which had not changed during the two days of siege, suddenly became violent and he shouted, "Run to the Clouds!"

The pitch-black warhorse heard the call from its master and suddenly appeared out from nowhere. Lu Ziyan jumped on the horse and left a message saying that he would return to the capital first and that all matters would be handled by Mingfeng before galloping away.

The other deputy generals watched with their own eyes as this cold-faced killer who had become famous at a young age hurriedly left, all with terrified looks on their faces.

They were worried that something happened in the capital.

Fortunately, Ming Feng was Lu Ziyan's trusted and beloved general, and he had a high prestige in the military camp. In the absence of Lu Ziyan, he could still keep the situation under control for a period of time. Besides, the city gate had been broken and Lu Ping had been captured, so the mission was accomplished.

He just stayed to clean up the battlefield, stabilize the situation, and bring Lu Ping back to Beijing.

Mingfeng is a retainer of the Lu family. Like Mingjian, he has followed Lu Ziyan since childhood. He knows that anything that can make his master so anxious and at a loss must be no simple matter.

Either something happened to the ladies, or...

…………

It was September, but the scorching heat of midsummer had not yet completely dissipated. Xie Wan Ning was afraid of the heat, so she still kept the ice jar in the house.

At dawn, the girl on the bed frowned, with a thin layer of sweat on her forehead. She looked very uneasily asleep. Suddenly, she sat up abruptly and whispered "no".

Er Qing, who was accompanying the night watchman outside, was startled when she heard the sound. She pushed the door open, walked around the screen, and asked with concern, "Miss, are you having a nightmare again?"

Obviously, in the past few months, nothing had happened... "It's okay," Xie Wan Ning covered her chest and shook her head slowly: "It's not the dream before."

She took a deep breath, looked out the window and saw that the sky was still gray, and said, "You go to sleep for a while, I'll rest by myself."

She didn't look very well, Er Qing couldn't help but worry: "Miss, you should take a rest too. Tomorrow is your big day. If you don't get enough rest, you won't be beautiful."

Xie Wan Ning nodded, lay down again, closed her eyes and dozed off.

He didn't open his eyes again until Er Qing left and the door was closed again.

She actually dreamed of Lu Ziyan.

After not seeing him for more than two months, Xie Wan Ning actually seldom thought of him. Her life was peaceful and there was nothing that could not be soothed.

The fright he brought, the irritation during their endless entanglement... and the past that she pursued passionately.

She seldom thought of him, but on the night before her wedding, she dreamed of him again...

It’s different from the previous dream.

The Lu Ziyan in the dream was not the Marquis Lu who became famous at a young age, rose rapidly in the officialdom, and was in high spirits.

he……

Xie Wan Ning pursed her lips, not knowing what this dream was all about.

It is said that whatever you think about during the day you will dream about at night, but she was not thinking about anything, but she dreamed that Lu Ziyan was bedridden and extremely sad.

Although he still has a young face, his hair is completely gray, with hardly a strand of black hair visible. His eyes are deep and unclear, with only the twilight hue, without any sign of life.

No matter how bad Lu Ziyan was in the dream, it was not enough to scare Xie Wan Ning, but inside his house...

In front of his bed, there was an old piece of clothing she had worn hanging.

An old piece of clothing that she hadn't worn yet, but had worn several times in previous dreams after marrying him.

The wind blew the empty clothes, which looked very creepy, but Lu Ziyan in the dream kept staring at the clothes.

When Xie Wan Ning recalled that look now, she felt a chill down her spine.

Is this dream as real as the previous ones?

What happens after she vomits blood and dies?

Xie Wan Ning's heart trembled slightly.

No, in the dream, he clearly liked Liu Manrou. He was cold and cruel to her, and his heart was completely focused on Liu Manrou.

He doted on Liu Manrou, and took her from a mistress to a concubine, and finally made her his second wife, trampling on the face of his legal wife.

He also called her a wicked woman. Knowing that she only had two maids she was used to, he took in Erxia and ordered people to beat Erqing to death.

She was forced to death by him, how could he be so sad because of her death?
But no matter what Xie Wan Ning thought, the look in Lu Ziyan's eyes in the dream was engraved in her mind and she could not forget it.

When she broke off the engagement, Lu Ziyan said that he had only ever loved her.

...Is everything in the dream just an illusion?
No, no!
Xie Wan Ning sat up again. She had verified that the dream was true.

Liu Manrou's face and the image of her being pregnant both appeared in my dreams.

The person she had never met appeared in her dream first. Doesn’t this prove the reality of dreams?
As for why Lu Ziyan became like that...

　There is one more chapter, a little late
　　(End of this chapter)