It doesn't matter what the lord is.

"Soon."

This time Fang Lita grabbed Fang Shisan's collar fiercely, lifted her frail body up easily, and shouted:

"Do you think I'm a fool? 'Soon', 'Soon', I hear you say this every day. How long will it take? I need an exact time! Tell me, tell me!"

His eyes were red and he was panting.

Fang Shisan opened his mouth and replied:

"I do not know either."

As soon as Fang Lita let go, his sister fell back into the wheelchair. Without saying anything, he slapped Fang Shisan hard. Fang Shisan was already weak, and the slap made her face swollen on the left side, with blood dripping from the corner of her mouth. Fang Lita rushed over, pushed her to the ground, and pinched her neck tightly with both hands.

People need a reason to excuse themselves.

No one wants to admit their incompetence, so they often blame their incompetence on others.

Only in this way can they feel more comfortable.

Fang Shisan tried in vain to push his brother with both hands, but Fang Lita was so angry that he did not hold back at all.

"It has always been like this. Do you really think I treat you as my sister? Do you really think I dare not hit you? I am the mayor of Tianxing City! I am the master of this place! Why are you always better than me? Why do people only listen to you? Now you tell me that you can't come up with a solution, and I will make sure you can't come up with a solution!"

Fang Lita grabbed Fang Shisan's neck with one hand and punched her hard in the face.

The sound of the bridge of the nose breaking can be clearly heard.

Blood flowed everywhere.

Fang Lita punched Fang Shisan in the face again and again, not holding back at all. Fang Shisan gasped with difficulty, and with both hands weakly grasped Fang Lita's hands that were pinching her neck, and whispered Fang Lita's name as if begging. However, those heartbreaking calls did not make her brother change his mind. Fang Lita stood up shakily, stepped on Fang Shisan's chest, making her breathless, and then kicked her in the face viciously.

Fang Shisan's face was covered in blood, his lips were cut, and the corners of his eyes were cracked, looking extremely miserable.

Fang Lita hooked the necklace around Fang Shisan's neck with his toes and said with a grin:

"You're still wearing the gift someone gave you? Why don't you run away with him? You don't care about me at all, do you? You're really my good sister, am I so unbearable in your heart? Are you so dissatisfied with me?"

He suddenly raised his foot, and Fang Shisan's body was hooked by the necklace and lifted up, but the silk thread that strung the necklace was not strong and broke in an instant.

All of a sudden, pearls big and small fell on the jade plate, scattered and could not be found.

Fang Shisan instinctively groped around, and Fang Lita broke his wrist again.

Painful gasps and suppressed cries continued to sound.

Fang Lita squatted down, grabbed his sister's hair with one hand, dragged her up from the ground, pulled her face in front of him, and asked with a smile:

"You like him, right, sister? Otherwise, why would you refuse to give me your body again and again? Now I don't want it anymore. You are a good-for-nothing trash who can't even beat that fat guy Fang Yuan! What's the use of you for me? Tell me yourself, what's the use of you for me!"

He stepped heavily on Fang Shisan's chest.

The ribs were broken and pierced into the lungs.

Blood foam was surging around Fang Shisan's lips.

Fang Lita kicked Fang Shisan hard, causing her to roll on the ground. Although he stopped talking, the strength in his hands grew stronger and stronger until Fang Shisan was covered in wounds and dying. He stopped only when he was only one breath away from death. He panted with a smile on his face, grabbed Fang Shisan's long hair, dragged her to the door of the City Lord's Mansion, and kicked her out.

Fang Shisan fell on the bluestone road and groaned in pain.

Fang Lita smiled, went back, threw out Fang Shisan's wheelchair, and smashed it next to her.

"If I had known you were such a loser, I shouldn't have invested so much money in you. Now you are useless, sister. Trapped? Being a coward? I can do those things too, so I don't need you anymore. I don't believe you have no other options, you just don't want to help me, right? Then get out, get out of the City Lord's Mansion, and never come back."

Because Fang Lita had unreasonably beaten the people of Tianxing City before, no one dared to approach the City Lord's Mansion.

Naturally, no one witnessed all this except me hiding in the dark.

The heavy gate of the City Lord's Mansion slammed shut, separating the inside and outside of the wall into two completely different worlds.

In fact, from Fang Lita's perspective, I can completely understand why he did this. Do you think he was stupid enough to push all the problems onto his sister? I don't think so. He just didn't want to admit it, and couldn't admit his mistakes. He refused to face his own incompetence, his own failures, his own stupidity, and couldn't openly admit it. He needed someone to help him take the blame, otherwise, even if Tianxing City was saved, he would completely become a marginal character, a useless city lord who was sidelined by the people.

So from the beginning, I guessed that this would be the ending.

But I didn't expect that he would beat Fang Shisan, who had worked hard for Tianxing City, so miserably. Perhaps he had endured it for too long that day, and by pushing his own sins onto Fang Shisan, he was relieved.

It finally started raining in the gloomy sky.

I lay on the roof of a house in the City Lord's Mansion, resting my arms on my head and looking at the sky. I could feel the cold rain hitting my face. When the cold wind blew, I exhaled and looked at Tianxing City outside the City Lord's Mansion.

The rain wet Fang Shisan's hair, washed away the blood on her face, and slowly eroded her last bit of life.

It's really suitable weather, don't you think? Fang Shisan.

I stretched lazily, stepped on the white mist, and walked towards Fang Shisan.

30. Can someone hear you crying?

A pitch-black world.

If a person's life is recorded in the form of a documentary, there must be a shot of her when she was young, held in her mother's arms, looking at the world with curious eyes. Although this shot will not appear in that person's memory, for everyone, it is the most important part of integrating into the world.

It’s a pity that this scene has never appeared in Fang Shisan’s life.

This is the most inconspicuous side room in Lord Zhaochen's mansion. No one cleans it on weekdays. The room is even a little damp and cold. Young Fang Shisan lies on the hard bed with her eyes closed, as peaceful as a sleeping beauty. Outside the house, several children of her age are playing and fighting, chasing butterflies, catching sparrows, flying kites, walking barefoot in the yard full of flowers, sitting under a tree and arguing loudly about who is the strongest swordsman among the generations of swordsmen in the kingdom, and they are having a great time.

Fang Shisan could only lie in the room and listen silently.

Sometimes she really wanted to say a few words, but no one listened to her thoughts, so she could only swallow her desire to speak.

No one wanted to play with her. It wasn't that people discriminated against her, but because she couldn't walk and couldn't see, so she couldn't play with others. When someone said, "The flowers are so beautiful today," everyone echoed, "Really, really," but Fang Shisan couldn't make any comments. When playing football together, Fang Shisan could only wait in a wheelchair. Instead, a friend had to be assigned to take care of her.

Over time, no one wanted to bring such a burden to play.

Fang Shisan could only stay alone in the room, imagining what color the flowers outside were, imagining how majestic it would be for the great swordsman to flatten mountains and fill the sea with one sword, imagining that one day he would be able to open his eyes, stand up, and run hand in hand with them in the sunshine.

It was when she was most sad that she met Fang Lita.

The childish one was the only one who was willing to play with her. Fang Lita would often bring a book to Fang Shisan and sit at her bedside to read. He didn't read very well, without intonation or vividness. He even read a lot of times with words he didn't know, and couldn't even read fluently.

But even so, it added a little light to Fang Shisan's gloomy life.

At that time, Fang Lita closed the book and said with great passion that he wanted to be the Lord of Zhaochen, and in the future he would unify the Kingdom of Yongtian and sit on the throne of the king. At that time, Fang Shisan and Fang Lita were just children, and Fang Shisan kept in mind what Fang Lita said without thinking.

Maybe it's to repay a favor, maybe it's to pamper someone, or maybe it's just to give a little return for the only tenderness you've shown.

Maybe, he just wanted to continue to maintain the warmth from the outside world, and he just didn't want to lose the only brother who didn't despise him.

Fang Shisan is trying hard to become "useful".

And in the process, she slowly became a tool.

He Yue had also worked as a dog for Bai Feng, but he had grown up in the Tiancheng Lord's Mansion and had seen a lot of separations and deaths, as well as the ugliness of human nature. So when Li De offered him an olive branch, He Yue chose to leave without hesitation, rather than staying in the brothel stubbornly, fantasizing that one day Yunhai Bai Feng would be able to redeem her.

Fang Shisan is not like Fileta, who has been treated unfairly since childhood and lived in scolding and beatings, so when she sees someone being nice to her, she will desperately respond. Fang Shisan is really simple. She can mobilize the army to deploy a myriad of ever-changing formations on the battlefield, but in terms of feelings, she is just an ordinary little girl. I will be nice to whoever is nice to me, it's that simple. And this kind of kindness is not the kind of kindness that you give me a candy and I will give you a candy, but if you give me a piece of cake when I need it most, I will give you everything I can give you when you need it.

She felt that this was the only way to repay her gratitude.

Fang Lita was the first person to show kindness to her, and Fang Shisan gave him back everything he had.

According to convention, Fang Shisan would have become a city lord, but she voluntarily gave up her fiefdom and followed Fang Lita to Tianxing City. When Tianxing City was still an isolated city, she worked hard and came up with many strategies to slowly expand Fang Lita's power outward and slowly planned a perfect formation. It can attack when advancing and defend when retreating, and it is almost invincible. As long as it continues to expand outward, it can slowly erode the surrounding areas and continuously accumulate strength to further seek the world.

It’s a pity that her beautiful expectations could not be realized because problems had already occurred internally.

Having tasted the sweetness, Fang Lita is no longer willing to hand over power to his sister, and becomes increasingly distrustful of her.

Except for the military affairs that were always in the charge of Fang Shisan, Fang Shisan stayed in the city lord's mansion as if he was under house arrest. Fang Lita was always on guard, guarding against his sister's rebellion with the army, guarding against someone outside contacting his sister, guarding against this and that, and he had been guarding for so many years. Because he was a selfish person, he didn't believe in the world that there were truly selfless people.

——Therefore, following Fang Lita, I will probably end up with a not-so-perfect ending.

Fang Shisan had thought about this a long time ago.

But on the battlefield, she is the ruthless and cold-hearted strategist, but off the battlefield, she is the soft-hearted little girl.

Maybe it's an imperfect ending, but it's possible that one day in the future, Fang Lita will wake up and return to her innocent self, and she can lie on the bed and call me sister and read a book for me, right? What a happy future that would be.

Even though she knew the possibility was small, she still believed it.

So stupid.

The cold rain washed away the blood on her body, but it could not erase the scars. What was even more difficult to calm down was the pain that surged into her brain, swallowing her mind like a flood. The beauty and innocence of the past, those unbearable memories, are now gone. Now she fell in front of the city lord's mansion, she could hear the sound of the rain, and she could hear her heartbeat slowly fading.

Somehow, that person's words flashed through my mind again.

——"Fang Shisan, you live like a dog."

The cold rain fell on her body, and Fang Shisan burst into tears for the first time.

In the eyes that could never be opened, the tear glands began to work as if they were reviving, and tears flowed out along with the rain. Or maybe it was because she had gotten used to being strong over the years, and to maintaining a certain degree of rationality no matter what happened. Now that she had unloaded all the baggage and all the burdens, she could finally cry without worry or fear.

The crying was covered by the sound of rain and no one could hear it.

31. Someone has held an umbrella for you in the rain

There were no lights or candles during those nights; only the quiet sound of writing could be heard.

There was no laughter in those years, only a white handkerchief stained with blood.

Everyone treated her as a savior, as if there would be a way out as long as she was there. Fang Lita had gotten used to it over the years, and so had the people of Tianxing City. Fang Shisan, who ate coarse food, did not need guards, and only needed a maid to serve him, could command the three armies. Fang Shisan, who had worked hard and saved countless times, was always so calm, always smiling and encouraging everyone, "It's okay, it's okay", always hiding all her sorrows and pains behind her, and putting on a reassuring smile.

But she is a human being after all, not a god.

After all... she couldn't save the city, nor could she save Fang Lita.

Then bury him here.

When the sky is clear, the sun will shine on me, sparrows will land on my shoulders, and perhaps ants will take away a part of my body. The only regret is that I cannot melt with the rain, cannot turn into the long wind, and cannot be stored forever somewhere in this world.

After that, I won’t feel as cold and unbearable as I do now.

Fang Shisan was in a trance for a moment. When the last drop of rain on her black hair fell to the ground, she felt like the rain had stopped.

But then she realized that the rain was still falling, hitting the ground and splashing water in front of her.

But the only place where no rain fell was my head.

The only sound left was the sound of rain falling on the oil-paper umbrella.

Someone was standing beside her, holding an oil-paper umbrella, with most of the umbrella covering Fang Shisan's head.

In the pouring rain, everything seemed like a dream.

Fang Shisan opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, he heard a familiar voice:

"I thought this thing must be in good condition, why would it be thrown away just like that? If no one wants it, I'll pick it up and maybe it can be used after some tidying up."

Fang Shisan said softly:

"Jade..."

The other party did not respond, but just said:

"Fang Shisan, remember? I used to say that you lived like a dog. Do you know what you are like now?"

He paused and said:

"Like a dog without a home."

Not a funny joke.

But Fang Shisan still laughed, and as she laughed, she suddenly asked:

"Jia De... this name is also fake. Who are you..."

After the fall of Jiangxing City, Fang Shisan spent countless nights thinking about this question with a numb look on his face.

Later, she gradually discovered that when all possibilities were denied one by one, the only possibility left was the one she had never wanted to believe. Everything started to go wrong after that person came. She had selfish motives, and Fang Lita became even more distrustful of her. The two of them had quarreled several times in a row. The letter that still made no sense to her, the formation that had just been completed and was beaten up by the other party because of its weak link, all the mysteries now pointed to a person who had left at that time.

The man was silent for a while, then changed back to a younger voice and asked:

"What about now? Can you guess it?"

Fang Shisan's heart skipped a beat. She remembered the voice almost instantly, because she was blind and was always particularly sensitive to sounds. That day when she was at the gates of Yuxi City, the young man standing on the top of the city spoke and behaved with confidence. She would never forget this voice.

Fang Shisan opened his mouth and said in a lost voice:

“Lid…!! Someone… hurry, someone—”

Before he could finish his words, he started coughing violently.

The other side smiled and said:

"I advise you not to shout. You don't have the strength to shout anymore. Maybe in your opinion, catching me now can achieve the final turnaround, but now your voice can't be transmitted to anyone, your lungs are damaged, and your body is covered with wounds. It takes all your strength just to barely talk to me. That city lord kicked you with the mentality of kicking you to death, without holding back at all."

Fang Shisan smiled bitterly and asked softly: