Quick-wear flirting system: being spoiled by gods in the plane

Chapter 130 The Cold Knight of the Western Noble Family (25)

The pungent smell of blood assaulted my nostrils, yet the woman on the cross only had a slightly dirty hem of her skirt and no visible injuries.

It is clear that these three days were merely imprisonment, without any torture.

Yu Ci slowly approached the figure.

"Ha..." A hoarse female voice said softly. The blonde, blue-eyed woman looked up, laughing wildly and mockingly, "You're not dead yet."

"If there's suspicion about the pastries, poisoning the Duke is a grave taboo. Tanasa was arrested, the kitchen staff were arrested, I was arrested, but you, the one who made the pastries, weren't arrested."

"I thought you wouldn't even have a chance to come to the private prison and would just die in the Duke's mansion."

It was not a greeting at all, but a huge hostility came rushing in, yet it seemed futile, easily passing over Yu Ci's heart.

“Rui En”.

Yu Ci said softly, "Do you remember what I said the night I came back from the Spring Banquet?"

[You don't want to hurt Lancelot, right?]
We're on the same path. Believe it or not...
We're on the same path.
……

Rui En's eyes darkened, and she shook her head with a smile: "I don't understand what you're saying."

Yu Ci frowned and lowered her voice: "Have you considered what would have happened if those pastries hadn't been discovered in time, what if Lancelot had actually eaten them by mistake! What if he had been poisoned! And died!?"

"You care about him, don't you? If you care, why would he do something like this?!"

The girl's voice trembled slightly, a mixture of anger, confusion, and bewilderment.

Rui En watched her quietly the whole time, her emerald green eyes lingering on the girl's face.

After a long while, he suddenly laughed.

"He won't," the woman's voice said confidently.

"How could such a clever adult not notice such a little trick?"

Rui En murmured, "I will never... hurt him again."

Yu Ci looked at her, her eyes surging with emotion.

"I... I just simply dislike you."

Rui En's eyes suddenly turned vicious, and she laughed loudly. Her throat, which hadn't had water for several days, was dry and her voice cracked, but she couldn't stop her vicious words.

"Although I have been a spy for the Ryukyu Kingdom for more than ten years, I have served Lord Lancelot for so many years, and he has never given me a second glance."

"Why...why are you special?"

Rui En laughed through her tears, her bloodshot eyes fixed on the girl's moist face, clearly showing signs of virginity, the chains clanking loudly.
"Why!!"

"I just wanted to kill you, to frame you, so what?" Rui En tilted her head, tears falling.

"Just because you're a princess, just because I'm a spy, does that mean I deserve to watch the master I respect and admire be with you?!"

The heart-wrenching cries of despair made Yu Ci stare at her blankly, trying to catch the message the woman was trying to convey in her words.

Rui En thought her identity as a spy had not been exposed and wanted to confirm her status as a princess.

Rui En wanted to protect her.

Yu Ci frowned and stepped forward to explain the situation.

"Get away!!!"

Rui En screamed angrily, her eyes filled with disgust and hatred.

"I don't want to see you, I don't want to see you!!!"

With a choked sob, blood trickled from the corner of her pale lips, and in an instant, the color in her emerald green eyes began to fade.

Yu Ci, disregarding everything else, stepped forward, grabbed the woman's hand, and began to transfer her magical power.

The magical power that can be transferred is far less than the rate at which a woman's life is lost.

Yu Ci suddenly realized something and looked at the woman in surprise.

“I… took poison… a slow one, haha… cough, cough cough…” Rui En lowered her eyes and smiled slightly.

The male protagonist's antidote, the side effects of the emperor's poison, and the poison she herself ingested—three poisons that, by sheer bad luck, all took effect at the same time!

Yu Ci's face was horribly dark. He reached out and snapped the shackles binding him, pulling the fallen woman into his arms. "Madam!" Mel, who had witnessed him break the chains with his bare hands, was also horribly astonished. Dozens of knights behind him drew their swords in unison.

Seeing that the girl still wanted to save her, Rui En half-covered her eyes, forcibly swallowed the blood rising in her throat, and tremblingly grasped the girl's hand.

"...Didn't you always want to ask me something...?"

She laughed, tears streaming down her face: "...The year I first came to the Duke's mansion, I was fifteen, and Lord Lancelot was five... Haha... The cold little child... would rely on me and call me 'sister'... I was a clean freak... very young... Ha, haha..."

"Back then, my senior and I entered the manor together. My swordsmanship... was taught by my senior... we... ha... were inseparable every day..."

“I…have a very good relationship with the Duke and Duchess, they treat me…very well…every night I go to their room…to say goodnight, and I also…have a very good relationship with Lord Lancelot…telling…bedtime stories…”

Rui En smiled, tears welling in her eyes, her vision blurring: "...I thought it would always be like this. But...the mission came."

The voice trembled as it repeated, "But, the mission... has come..."

His unfocused eyes glazed over, flashing back to fragmented memories—

"Assassinate...the Duke and Duchess?"

Under the long corridor, the beautiful woman looked on in shock. After surveying her surroundings, she leaned closer to the woman in front of her and asked in a trembling voice, "Why?"

“There’s no reason.” The woman burned the note and whispered, “We just need to follow orders. We’ll do it while you’re saying goodnight to the Duke and Duchess.”

"After tonight, the Duke's mansion will be in chaos, and we'll take the opportunity to escape."

The woman pursed her lips and shook her head: "This mission is wrong. It's too abrupt, something's not right..."

She wanted to say something more, but the woman stopped her from speaking.

“Little Rui’en, nothing is more important than your life and your country.”

"Someone as proud and suicidal as you should know what the consequences of failing a mission are."

"After tonight, either the Duke and Duchess will die, or the poison in our bodies will take effect, and we'll be thrown out like lumps of mud! Our bodies will rot in the dirty streets, in the stinking ditches, and in countless garbage dumps!"

The woman sighed, "You choose one."

……

Yu Ci lowered her eyes and reached out to wipe away the woman's tears.

Rui En's lips trembled, and blood began to trickle from the corner of her mouth again: "...That night, I..."

"I didn't...but..."

Memory flashback—

At night, two figures lay dead in a pool of blood. Rui En stared blankly as the woman cleaned up the scene.

"Rui'en! Come quick and help!"

The woman called softly, and Rui En snapped out of her daze, stepping forward with a complicated expression to help move the body.

Unexpectedly, the Duchess, who had been motionless in her hands, slightly opened her eyes. The moment she met Ruien's gaze, Ruien's fear and guilt reached their peak. She couldn't even breathe, her hand went limp, and she fell straight backward.

A stool was knocked over with a loud thud, followed by the sound of the Duchess slamming her fist to the ground.

Ruien collapsed to the ground, her eyes wide open, and met the gaze of the Duchess on the ground once more.

The woman frowned and stepped forward to check: "She's not breathing."

He died with his eyes wide open in disbelief.

"What happened inside, sir? Madam?"

The knight guarding the door asked anxiously.

Rui En stood frozen in place. The woman looked at her, and the latter was stunned, completely losing her composure.

The shouts outside grew louder and louder. Hearing more and more footsteps, the woman quickly glanced out the window.

This is the ninth floor; it's impossible for them, being mere mortals, to jump down unharmed and escape.

The only way to escape was to walk out of the room normally and flee at night before the knight noticed.

but now……

The woman turned around, the blood-stained blade in her hand slightly twirling, and slowly walked towards Rui En on the ground.