Rebirth: The Journey of an Heiress novel Chapter 280

Chapter 280: Chapter 278: Guard Her for a Lifetime_1

"It’s all right! It’s all right, I won’t let anything happen to you..." Li Tianfu held Lu Tianzhuo tightly, screaming madly, "Li Zhijie! Call a doctor! Hurry! If anything happens to him... I’ll make sure all of you are buried with him!"

Lu Tianzhuo opened his mouth, blood gushing out...

He wanted to tell Li Tianfu that if there was an afterlife, he would still stay by her side. But in the next life... he didn’t want to be a eunuch anymore. He wanted to be Li Tianfu’s man, to be her husband, to protect her all his life.

But before he could say a word, Lu Tianzhuo’s pupils dilated, and his grip on Li Tianfu’s fingers slowly loosened.

"Lu Tianzhuo! Lu Tianzhuo!" Li Tianfu shouted with heartbreak, crying, "Don’t leave me! Lu Tianzhuo... you promised to stay with me! Lu Tianzhuo, get up! Get up!"

Bai Qingyan stood behind Li Zhijie, watching Li Tianfu, whose clothes were stained red with blood, desperate and collapsing. Only now did she realize that Li Tianfu and Lu Tianzhuo’s relationship was unusual.

At this moment, she understood why Lu Tianzhuo was determined to kill her. This Lu Tianzhuo... was the adopted son of Pang Pingguo.

Back then, after she beheaded Pang Pingguo and destroyed Shu, the Emperor ordered the extermination of Pang Pingguo’s Nine Clans. Her grandfather advised the Emperor of Jin to spare Pang Pingguo’s family, saying it was unnecessary to create more bloodshed.

Unexpectedly, it left such a hidden danger.

Li Zhijie feared that the Crown Prince of the Jin Kingdom would see the princess they sent for marriage holding a eunuch’s corpse and become displeased. Before the Prince entered, he ordered someone to separate Lu Tianzhuo and Li Tianfu.

"Let go of me! You bastards dare to touch me! Give A Zhuo back to me! Li Zhijie, you’re tired of living!" Li Tianfu trembled all over, screaming hoarsely, like a mad beast about to go berserk, "I am the Princess of Xiliang! Who dares to touch me, I’ll kill your Nine Clans!"

"The Empress Dowager ordered that all matters of this peace negotiation and marriage be managed by me, giving me absolute authority!" Li Zhijie, his face stern, looked at the guards and maids pushed away by the mad Li Tianfu, gritting his teeth, "Send the Princess back to her quarters now. Without my orders, she is not allowed to take a single step out. Otherwise... I’ll take your heads!"

Li Tianfu struggled, screamed, and cried out in despair, calling Lu Tianzhuo’s name but was still carried into her room by the strong guards.

When the Crown Prince and Xiao Rongyan, along with the Crown Prince’s soldiers and the Bai family guards, rushed in, they saw Lu Tianzhuo’s death and Li Zhijie’s severe injuries.

Earlier, Xiao Rongyan was at the Crown Prince’s residence, discussing accompanying Emperor Yan and his younger legitimate brother Murong Li on a lake excursion, mentioning that the grand eunuch Feng Yao, who had business dealings with him, invited him to join them after learning about his painting boat.

Who knew that just after they finished talking, the guards from the Bai Mansion arrived with a brocade box.

Upon hearing that Bai Qingyan had taken the Sun-shooting Bow to the posthouse to confront Li Zhijie, Xiao Rongyan, worried, hurried over with the Crown Prince.

At this moment, Bai Qingyan was unharmed. Xiao Rongyan’s deep, gloomy gaze turned to Li Zhijie.