Ink Burns

Chapter 195 The Mad Dog's Woman

As the footsteps faded into the distance, the Chang family members were led away to an alley in the opposite direction.

Shui Guang lowered her hand from her mouth but didn't speak. She anxiously patted Shan Yue's hand, pointed to the door of the flat-roofed house, and patted her chest three times. The meaning was clear: Go first, they want me!

After completing the action, her eyes, brimming with tears, suddenly deflated as if all her energy had been released. Her shoulders slumped down, and she looked utterly dejected. She didn't even need to see her sister's response to know that it was impossible.

Her sister couldn't possibly abandon her and run away.

It was impossible ten years ago, and it's even more impossible now.

Shui Guang's dejection lasted only a moment; she immediately straightened her back, mustered her spirits, and raised her head to find a way out.

Shui Guang looked around and despairingly realized that there was no way out.

It was pitch black all around. The houses were connected one after another, with their eaves touching, but the ground was separated by courtyards and fences, making it impossible to pass through them smoothly and discreetly.

The flat-roofed house where they were now was uninhabited and in disrepair, and hiding behind the door was futile—there were two different pairs of footsteps outside, pacing back and forth around the small stones, searching diligently for the girls.

After Shui Guang understood the situation, she turned to look at her sister, only to see Shan Yue calmly raise her chin, her usually calm eyes revealing a clear determination.

A bright white light flashed behind Shui Guang's head.

“I’ll go out and draw attention away, you all head east.” Shan Yue’s voice was very low: “Go to the coast and meet up with Luo Feng. Hold on until Xue… until your brother-in-law arrives, then we’ll be saved.”

Cicadas chirped from inside the dilapidated house.

Shui Guang's mind went blank; all she knew was to grip her sister's hand tightly and shake her head violently: No! No! No!
It's all her fault!
It's all her fault!

She was reckless! She was short-sighted! She was arrogant! She thought she could use her cleverness to fight against this group! She thought that sending Chang Yusu to the Jingzhao Yin and handling things according to the laws of the Great Wei Dynasty would be enough. Little did she know that the law does not restrain and punish people like Chang Yusu!
She is too naive.

People have to pay the price for their mistakes.

Shui Guang held back her tears: if the goal was to divert attention, it should be her who stepped forward.

Taking advantage of Shan Yue's unpreparedness, Shui Guang took a step forward and was about to bend down and run away when a hand suddenly grabbed her wrist!
A glimpse of water.

She was the quiet little girl beside her older sister.

"Hide here and do not make any rash moves." The little girl, named Qiuyu, now had bright, shining eyes: "I...I have learned some skills in a few days. I will lead them to the shore to find Luofeng—I am confident that I can escape unscathed."

Shan Yue turned her gaze to Qiu Yu, her eyes slightly narrowed, as if considering the man's intentions.

"I only wanted to repay a debt of gratitude; I never meant any harm." Qiu Yu, hunched over, was like a shadow, her presence barely noticeable: "Miss Liu, please believe me."

Qiu Yu didn't need Shan Yue to say anything. As soon as he finished speaking, he twisted his body, grabbed the pillar of the flat house, and with great speed, he leaped upwards, like a shooting star with a trailing tail, and shot up to the roof beam, then emerged from the chimney.

Through the cracks in the window frame, Yamazuki saw Akio's incredibly agile figure leaping and darting across the eaves; his gaze could only catch a fleeting afterimage.

"Up there!"

"On the roof beam! That woman knows martial arts!"

"Chase! Chase!"

After Qiu Yu was discovered, her movements slowed down. Once the Chang family's guards had climbed the ladder, she moved swiftly, running eastward in a "回" shape along the rooftop!

Qiu Yu is very skilled!

It's definitely not what she described as "having practiced martial arts for a few days"!
Shan Yue didn't have time to think it through. Taking advantage of the situation, she grabbed Shui Guang and shrank back into the inner room.

The black fog that had billowed up along the eastern coast gradually dissipated, and the firefighters, carrying basins, cups, and buckets, returned home in twos and threes.

The two sisters held their breath and hid in the haystack of the dilapidated house.

When there are many people, they can blend into the crowd and escape.

Shan Yue thought so.

The thought had barely crossed my mind when a bright red flame burst into my peripheral vision!
A fire was burning in the corner of the wall outside the dilapidated house, and soon it kissed the wooden beams along the moss on the corner of the wall!
Shan Yue's pupils widened, and she abruptly turned her head.

Outside the dilapidated house, a tall figure flashed by, seemingly wielding a long, fiery stick.

Chang Yusu, it was Chang Yusu! Chang Yusu didn't chase after them! "Come out here." The voice was strong and resonant amidst the burning flames, echoing through the dark streets and alleys of Pingzhai.

The figure paced back and forth.

The torches were pointed downwards, igniting the moss in the corners of the walls and the grass stalks scattered on the street one by one.

“Wei Sibu, I know the person on the roof beam isn’t you—if you had that skill, you would have run away long ago.”

Chang Yusu spun around in the firelight, peering out and searching everywhere: "Come out! If you don't come out, I'll burn down all the houses, roads, and people in Qiushui Ferry. Come out and face my slaughter, and I'll spare your body. Then our feud will be over."

Shuiguang clenched her molars tightly and trembled all over.

The mountain moon fears fire.

At that moment, the burning flames were right in her line of sight.

fire.

fire!
Fire is terrifying!

Fire is like a simpleton with countless skills, acting without thinking. He possesses unparalleled martial arts prowess, yet he is reckless and indiscriminate in his actions, leaving nothing but life in his wake, good or bad.

Thanks to Xue Xiao, all the lanterns in Xue Nan's mansion were covered with glazed tiles, and she had not looked directly at this nightmare-like raging fire for a very long time.

Surrounded by raging flames, she suddenly realized that she felt no fear whatsoever!
Instead, it was calm.

A kind of tranquility that echoes the beginning and end.

Before our eyes, the raging fire on Fushou Mountain is intertwined with the scattered fires that have not yet spread into a prairie fire.

Shan Yue took a deep breath, lowered her head, and closed her eyes tightly.

The coastal pier of Qiushui Ferry is only a half-hour walk from here.

Once the villagers return.

She had no doubt that Chang Yusu would slaughter everyone in sight.

Her revenge does not require the sacrifice of innocent people.

Shan Yue loosened her sleeve slightly, and a butterfly bone knife fell into her right palm.

The butterfly knife lives up to its name.

The handle is held horizontally, with two sharp knives, one on the left and one on the right, like the two wings of a butterfly.

Shan Yue handed Shui Guang a sharp knife and whispered, "Wait for the right moment to act."

With tears welling in her watery eyes, she swept her hand across and gripped the dagger in her palm.

Shan Yue turned and strode out of the flat-roofed house.

In the slowly spreading firelight, a tall and slender woman walked slowly down the alleyway with her head bowed.

The shadows were cast by the firelight onto the blue bricks and gray tiles.

A long, curved neck, like a swan's neck.

The beautiful woman looked up, and the swan slowly and exquisitely unfolded its cool and captivating appearance.

"Young Master Chang—"

The beautiful woman spoke.

Chang Yusu turned around abruptly and saw a figure as clear and cold as the white moon amidst the blazing flames, like a lotus flower, or even more like a clear spring that meanders and stretches in the fire!
The firelight, like a beautiful woman appearing in the world, blurred yet intense, accentuated the ghostly, alluring desolation!

Chang Yusu's gaze was entirely focused on that beautiful figure.

Fire is a deadly threat, and a beautiful woman emerging from that threat is the ultimate temptation tainted with blood!
Chang Yusu's right leg was stabbed by that slutty woman, and he limped closer, leaning against the wall.

He tilted his head back, his Adam's apple bobbing: "...Mad Dog's woman...It's you. What are you doing here?"