One Night Bride

             Chapter 10: Your Life is Mine

She has already had the thought of dying, but hearing the word “fate”, she sneers in her heart. She has been running away for so long, not to admit herself to fate, well, if she can still live, she must double what she has suffered to pay back to these people.

The clothes on her body have long been torn by the king of Qin, since she has been unconscious, she does not know who changed her into a strange robe. She gets out of bed, takes a bowl to eat up, although she has no appetite, she still eats a full bowl, after eating ,she sweats a little and falls asleep . 

When she wakes up the next day, her body is cool, as if it has almost healed, only the chest wound, she still puts on the thick ointment, but it does not continue to fester, and she doesn’t feel too much pain. She looks around, and the woman is nowhere to be seen.

She slowly walks out, the weather is still bad today, the sea breeze whistles , like someone who has suffered some kind of grievance. Just a short distance away, she stops and quietly leans behind a large coconut tree, only to see a group of women, about a dozen, cloaked and disoriented, being driven by a man towards the sea.

She recognizes that some of the women had been tied to the trees, now, where are they being driven?

The women are driven onto a small raft, then, no one cares about them, the man turns back, and the raft follows the direction of the sea breeze, drifting away into the vast sea.

She immediately understands that when the new women “new goods” are brought, the previous women are “released”, and so on, and so on, a round at a time.

With such a simple raft,  what are the chances of these women escaping in the vast ocean?

Suddenly, there is a sense of hope that as long as you are not tortured to death, you wil also get the chance to be “released”, as long as you can get out! and as long as you can escape!

Inspite of this thought, seeing these women’s misery, she has to go through such inhuman torture to be released – her legs are so weak that she can hardly stand, leaning against the coconut tree, sad to the core but unable to shed tears, like a lamb waiting for the slaughter.

“Sister ……”

She looks back at that tiny cry, and the teenager runs over gleefully, holding up a very beautiful shell: “How are you doing? Here you go ……”

She takes the shell, no sunlight, but the shell naturally shimmers a very special layer of pattern, very beautiful. She suddenly remembers the threat of Qin Shang Cheng, whispers: “You go away, if the devil sees you, he will kill you ……”

The young man whispers, “They have gone out again ……”

“Oh?”

Hua Rong is surprised and happy, no wonder I have not yet seen that demon, so it is out robbing again.

“They have recently set eyes on a group of merchant ships, which are for the official family, they mobilized all the manpower, and it has been estimated that they will not be easy to deal with ……”

It would be good if the whole army is wiped out.

Her heart moves, and she asks the teenager: “Do you know how to row a boat?”

“Yes. Sister, do you want to escape?”

“Don’t you want to escape?”

“I also want to get out of here ……” the teenager is full of yearning, “I heard that the capital city has many literary talents and outstanding people, I would like to go to the capital city to see …… “

She sighs,  the capital of course, although the capital is full of flowers, the traitorous ministers are in power, the ruler is faint, only less than ten miles away from the capital, is a tragic situation of selling children and women ,  hunger and a cold miserable situation.

The young man casually asks, he sees her actually talk a lot about the capital city, the people, the situation, and sees her write with such beautiful handwriting, worships her and says: “sister, if we escape, we will be together , okay?”

She looks at the young man’s face full of expectation, dumbfounded, escape is not that an easy thing?

At this time, suddenly the patrolling big man in the distance fiercely stares, since they lost someone last time, he has become very careful, although he does not walk to them , he never relaxes at all. 

Hua Rong fears that he has overheard them, she makes a wink, breaks a branch, and begins to teach the teenager to write.

Fortunately, for three days in a row, the king of Qin does not show up again, a group of pirates are naturally nowhere to be found. Meals have been served very generously, and no one disturbs the fright, after all, the young, strong vitality, Hua Rong’s body is almost well.

By the evening of the third day, Hua Rong keeps looking at the mouth of the sea, hoping that the search for the devil ship never appears again. She secretly asks the teenager: “In the past, how long do they usually go out?”

“Sometimes they will go out for four or five days, ten or so days is also common.”

She is very disappointed, so it seems, Qin Shang Cheng and others must not have died.

Sure enough, not long after, the shadow of the sails come from the distance, it is the five tooth warship.

Hua Rong is frightened that she  immediately disperses the teenager and rushes back to hide in the house.

The ship docks, half of the people have come back with large and small wounds, but happy, although they have not brought back women, they carry several boxes and cages with gold and silver treasures. The king of Qin, expressionless, gets off the ship and rushes to his “palace”.

Hua Rong secretly hides under a tree outside the door to sit for a moment to determine whether the devil was robbed of the property or defeated. Peeking out, the king of Qin is standing naked in the dusk sunlight, pouring a bucket of water all over his body, his muscles glowing bronze in the sunlight, looking like a vajra.

He takes a handkerchief and shouts: “Bitch, come here and wipe me clean.”

Hua Rong sits still, knowing that the catastrophe is finally coming. This time, they did not snatch back the women, according to their kind of orgy, tonight, they can no longer escape.

Two days ago, she wanted to live so strongly, even if it is humiliating, **, as long as she can live. To live, there will be hope. However, when it comes to this moment, the will is softened, only to smile miserably, die, it is better to die.

If you can’t even summon the courage to take revenge, just die and let those people continue to do evil.

She carries the bright red shell in her arms, a gift from the teenager. Because of its extraordinary beauty, she has admired it countless times and carries it with her, and because the long shell has a pointed mouth which is very sharp and can definitely cut the neck.

She holds up the shell, her hand keeps trembling, it is not that easy to end your life casually? Several times, people have lost the courage to commit suicide, but she still holds up the shell and aims at her throat ……

There are some things that are really worse than death.

Qin Shang Cheng sees her sitting behind the tree with her back turned, he roars but does not see her move, he takes a few steps to go over, her shell is already on the neck, as if he knows her heart, with the momentum of lightning, a palm knocks off her shell.

The shell just slides a red mark on her neck.

The King of Qin is furious, “How dare you kill yourself in front of me? Your life is mine, have you forgotten again?”

The more he talks, the angrier he becomes, one foot steps on the shell, and steps on it so hard that it becomes a pile of bright red powder, like someone’s blood.

He reaches out and grabs her like a chicken.