Arc 3 – Chapter 183, Vicious Princess Wants to Reverse Fate (77)

From then on, Zhou Min never saw her grandmother bring her cousins to the palace to visit her mother again. Her parents soon reconciled, and their love seemed to return to its initial warmth. As a young girl, Zhou Min gradually forgot about this period. She would occasionally hear her brothers mention it in passing, but she would soon forget their words.

Now, she had a strange feeling that her name had a significant connection with a woman who had passed away. This realisation filled Zhou Min with dread.

During the past five days, her mind had been clouded. She was constantly replaying everything she had been told by the elders and everything that happened in her past life. The information she knew in this life and the events of her past life seemed to overlap, yet they contradicted each other, turning her understanding upside down.

The father she remembered, who always pampered her and loved his family, people, wife, and sons, was described as a despicable and cunning man by the elders. The father, who, to ensure her survival, didn't hesitate to exchange blood clams and nourish her body, still gave her the Dragon Hide for her protection, allowing her to escape. This father was now portrayed as a ruthless killer, an evil man who would stop at nothing!

All her happy memories and the love she received seemed to be shrouded in shadows and falsehoods. She couldn't recognise them anymore. Most importantly, she might be the daughter of Shangguan Qi's enemy! No, perhaps she truly was the daughter of Shangguan Qi's enemy!

So, if she hadn't forcibly changed the paths of Shangguan Qi and Yin Mei, would they have also met the same people at the same time...including the elder?

In her past life, when Shangguan Qi had his soldiers at the city gates, what was his mindset? What was he thinking when he pointed his sword at the Zhou Kingdom? Was it not just about the blood clams...but also hatred?

The hatred that had been hidden for over 20 years? But, in the jungle, the complicated look in Shangguan Qi's eyes when he looked at her didn't seem like he was completely ignorant. So, what did he know? Did he know that the person who tried to kill him included her father, or did he know that the death of his grandfather's family also had something to do with her father?

For five days, these doubts nearly drove Zhou Min to the brink of mental breakdown. However, she knew that he must have had something to tell her when her third brother came to see her before he departed from her past life. What was it? Was it about their father?

Suddenly, Zhou Min realised that the host's desire to protect the Zhou Kingdom was even more difficult than she had imagined. Moreover, the so-called truth she knew from her past life might not have been seen through.

"Yun Min, we must leave today and go our separate ways. We know our situation. We will meet again in the Shura Hall of Zhou Kingdom!" When Zhou Min followed the elders out of the bamboo forest, they were standing on the official road of Wancheng. The elders divided a large part of their meagre rations to her.

Zhou Min tried to refuse, but the elders insisted on giving them to her, stating that she hadn't fully recovered yet.

Zhou Min removed the gold fork from her head and handed it to the elders, saying it could be used in an emergency. However, the elders were reluctant to accept it and only took it when Zhou Min pretended to be angry.

They agreed to meet at the Yun Lai Inn under the flag of Shura Hall in the Zhou Kingdom on the 15th day of the next month. But Zhou Min knew she wouldn't go. There were too many doubts plaguing her. If she didn't clear them up, the path to the destruction of the Zhou Kingdom wouldn't disappear, and her mission would fail. Especially after knowing the grudge between her father and Shangguan Qi, Zhou Min felt the situation was getting more complicated.

So, she decided to change her itinerary. She wouldn't return to the palace for now. She wanted to go to the frontier to find her third brother! Her third brother must have known something. In her past life, she didn't fall off the cliff with Shangguan Qi, which led to her third brother coming to find her before his departure. But in this life, she and Shangguan Qi fell off the cliff together, so even if her third brother knew something, he couldn't find her.

Since he couldn't find her, she would find him! She needed to understand how the Zhou Kingdom ended up on the path to destruction in her past life...

After bidding farewell to the elder, Zhou Min started heading towards the frontier city of Yancheng alone.

"Master, where should we go first? Back to the main hall or the Qi Kingdom?" The left protector got on the carriage, lifted the curtain, and saw a man of unparalleled beauty in white clothes, who looked like a god or an immortal, sitting in the carriage. He was gently and meticulously wiping a sharp, three-foot-long sword in his hand.

Even though he had the same face and temperament as before, his half-lowered eyes and the aura around him made people feel even more fearful and awestruck. Only when he was wiping his sword did he seem human. At other times, his aura was not just off-putting but also unpredictable and indifferent.

Despite his exceptional talent and stunning beauty, who could have imagined that his method of killing was almost sadistically cruel and bloody? This change occurred after he came out of the jungle.

"Go to the Zhou Kingdom." Shangguan Qi said coldly without lifting his head. He didn't believe that Zhou Min was dead. Shura Hall hadn't found any clues from the river valley in the past half month. He had left some people to continue searching downstream of the waterfall, but he wanted to go to Zhou Kingdom. He wanted to search the palace.

If Zhou Min was alive, she would return to the palace!

Shangguan Qi's decision surprised the bodyguard. Even though he had already known it, their original plan was to return to Qi Kingdom first to deal with that woman and Yan Tianjue. But now...

In the master's heart, that woman had become more important than anything else, including revenge...

Looking at the sword in Shanguan Qi's hand, treated with such tenderness, the bodyguard withdrew his gaze, lowered the curtain, and sat outside to drive the carriage.

The carriage moved forward. Due to the previous pursuit the people of Shura Hall were all on high alert and didn't have the mood to look outside. At this moment, Zhou Min, who had exchanged her last gold fork for silver money and walked out of the pawnshop, passed by that carriage, which looked ordinary on the outside but was luxurious.