#1084 - Chapter 1084 Yao Tao Refuses to Leave
“Yaotao! I've come to save you!” A young man shouted from the back of a dung beetle.
“Young Master!” Yaotao heard him and shouted in response.
“Stop him!” The messenger was too far away to rush forward in time.
All he could do was to remind the warriors beside him.
“Yah!”
“Ah!”
Of course, the warriors didn't dare let anything happen to Yaotao, so they had to use their bodies to block the dung beetle.
However, this was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.
The warriors who rushed up didn't even manage to inflict any damage before being kicked away by the dung beetle.
“Yaotao! Come here quickly!” After driving away some of the warriors, Lieyan reached Yaotao.
Yaotao didn't reach out her hand but shouted:
“Young Master, you should leave quickly. I can't leave with you.”
“Why? Didn't you want to be with me?” Lieyan didn't understand.
“Young Master, if I leave with you, the entire Yan Territory will be convicted because of it. Our clansmen will all become slaves as a result. I'm sorry, I can't do that.” Yaotao shook her head while crying.
“What do these things have to do with you? You're just an ordinary woman; you don't need to think about the future of the Yan Territory,” Lieyan tried to persuade her.
“I don't have to think about the Yan Territory, but you must. And the clansmen are convicted because of us, how could it have nothing to do with me?” Yaotao was still shaking her head.
“I don't care! I can do without the Yan Territory, but I can't lose you!” Lieyan wouldn't listen.
“Young Master, please leave! My mind is made up; I can't leave with you.” Yaotao just wouldn't go.
“Yah!”
At this moment, several warriors had already rushed forward and raised their bronze swords to chop at his hand.
Lieyan had no choice but to retract his hand.
“Clang~, clang clang~”
The warriors failed in one strike and began to attack the dung beetle.
The dung beetle's legs were about as thick as a person's arm, unable to withstand the chopping of the bronze swords. After being injured, it began to rampage.
“Squeak squeak squeak~”
The dung beetle, in pain, started jumping around and uncontrollably fleeing into the distance.
“Stop! Stop!” Lieyan desperately grabbed the reins, trying to control the dung beetle.
However, it was impossible to control.
“Ah!” The dung beetle swung hard, directly throwing Lieyan off.
“Grab him!” The messenger, seeing this, immediately issued an order.
The warriors received the order and immediately chased after him.
Lieyan didn't care about the pain and quickly got up, diving into the bushes.
He couldn't be caught; otherwise, as Yaotao said, it would implicate the entire Yan Territory.
“Stop! Stop!”
The warriors were in better physical condition than Lieyan, and he was about to be caught.
“Clang~, clang clang~”
Lieyan had no choice but to draw his bronze sword and stab at the people rushing up.
The warriors weren't fools, of course, and wouldn't stupidly run into the blade. Under Lieyan's sword, they didn't dare to approach at all.
Ten minutes later, they arrived at a cliff.
Lieyan only had two paths in front of him.
Either surrender or jump straight down.
He couldn't surrender, so he could only choose the second path.
“Yaotao! I'm sorry! I didn't protect you well, nor could I keep you! Since we're destined not to be together, I might as well die!” Lieyan said to himself.
With that, he leaped and jumped off the cliff.
The warriors walked to the edge of the cliff and looked down, but they couldn't see the bottom at all. Such a deep cliff, once you jumped down, it would be difficult to survive.
Now that the robber was dead, they could go back and report.
The messenger didn't say anything more after learning that Lieyan had jumped off the cliff. After resting for a while, he continued on the road back to the Jin Territory.
One month later.
Inside a stone house built in the forest somewhere.
“Grandpa, why did you save me? Wouldn't it have been better to let me die? That way, there would be no worries.”
Lieyan lay in the grass nest like a useless person, saying despairingly.
His face was gaunt, and his eyes were empty and lifeless. He had lost the will to live, the desire to survive.
“If you die, who will save Yaotao?” Cheng Bang asked.
“Grandpa, what do you mean by that?” Lieyan turned his head to look at him.
“The messenger once said that the reason the King was marrying Yaotao was because the High Priest had predicted that the Jin Kingdom would have a great disaster in the near future. Only by marrying Yaotao could the disaster be avoided.”
“Do you think Yaotao will be happy after going to the Jin Territory?” Cheng Bang asked.
“She definitely won't be happy. The King is marrying her not because he wants to have her. In that case, Yaotao will slowly grow old in loneliness,” Lieyan replied.
“That's right! The only person she can rely on is you. Don't you think you should go and save her?” Cheng Bang asked.
“You're right, I should go and save her! But my father won't agree to this, nor will he support me. In that case, I won't have enough strength to save her,” Lieyan replied.
