Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 527: Peace in the World

The next morning, Kang Xiaorong opened his eyes and found that Tianning was not beside him. He straightened up his upper body in a daze, sat on the bed, and saw a figure in the middle of the room. After hearing the sound of Kang Xiaorong getting up, the figure turned around and gently called "Brother Xiaorong". Kang Xiaorong, who had just woken up and was not quite clear-headed, realized that the figure was Tianning. Perhaps Tianning had just gotten up not long ago, so she didn't put on makeup, her hair was scattered on her shoulders, and her face looked a little haggard.

"Brother Xiaorong, the maid just brought breakfast, a bowl of lotus seed porridge." Tianning said with her back to Kang Xiaorong, her tone was unbelievably calm. She seemed to be stirring the powdered sugar in the porridge with a spoon, so there was a crisp porcelain sound.

For a moment, the only sound in the room was the "clang clang" sound of the spoon hitting the porridge bowl, and the atmosphere was indescribably weird.

"Leave it there. I'll eat it later." Kang Xiaorong responded casually, covering his aching forehead.

"Let me feed you." After saying these four words, Tian Ning turned around and walked towards the bed with the bowl of porridge. She sat on the edge of the bed, scooped a spoonful with a spoon, and put it to Kang Xiaorong's lips. Seeing Kang Xiaorong was about to open his mouth, he suddenly retracted his hand.

"What are you doing? Are you teasing me?" Kang Xiaorong looked at her with amusement.

Tian Ning smiled, a pale smile without any warmth. Then she slowly closed her eyes, put her cold lips to Kang Xiaorong's lips and kissed him, and said softly, "Brother Xiaorong, I love you."

"I know, I love you too." Kang Xiaorong held Tianning's face and leaned over to kiss her.

After a moment of silence, Tian Ning once again put the spoon in her hand to Kang Xiaorong's lips. But her movements were very slow, and there was a bit of trembling in her slowness. Kang Xiaorong couldn't wait any longer, so he grabbed her wrist, pulled it to his lips, swallowed the porridge in the spoon in one gulp, and said, "Look, you are still teasing me."

The moment Tianning took a bite of the porridge, tears suddenly rolled down without any warning.

Kang Xiaorong was startled and asked blankly, "Why are you crying?"

"I feel a little sad." Tian Ning wiped away her tears quickly with the back of her hand. She put the spoon back into the bowl of porridge, stirred it, and scooped another spoonful. This time her movements were much calmer, and she fed Kang Xiaorong porridge spoonful by spoonful. In the blink of an eye, only half a bowl of porridge was left.

As the amount of porridge decreased, Tianning couldn't stop crying more and more.

Kang Xiaorong touched her head distressedly and said, "Don't worry, as long as you leave the capital and go to Xidu, everything will be over. You have become my wife, and I will definitely make you happy for the rest of your life. We will have many children, boys like me and girls like you. We will teach them to ride horses and martial arts, and teach them to play chess, calligraphy and painting. Leave all the unpleasant memories here, and after going to Xidu, everything will be a brand new beginning. Tianning, smile."

However, instead of laughing, Tianning cried even more painfully.

"What's wrong with you, Tianning?" Kang Xiaorong finally realized that Tianning was not normal today and asked worriedly.

Tian Ning wiped her tears and said in a hoarse voice: "Brother Xiaorong, our life is not that long anymore..."

"How can there be no such thing? Believe me, I can do it." Kang Xiaorong grabbed Tianning's trembling hand.

Tian Ning cried so hard that she could hardly breathe. She finally managed to speak and sobbed, "Brother Xiaorong, if you do one wrong thing, you have to make up for it with countless wrong things... You want to get out of it, but you can't get out of it. I know you must be in great pain... Don't be afraid, you will be free soon..."

"What are you talking about?" Kang Xiaorong suddenly became alert, staring at the bowl of porridge in Tianning's hand, and then he remembered the "clang clang" sound of stirring just now, and suddenly understood. He waved his hand violently, and "snap" broke the porridge bowl. The porridge bowl broke into pieces after falling to the ground, and the unfinished porridge was scattered all over the floor.

At the same time, Kang Xiaorong suddenly felt a sharp pain in his stomach, followed by convulsions in his limbs.

"Tianning, you, you, you poisoned me..." He covered his throat in pain, almost unable to make a sound.

Tian Ning rushed over and hugged him, letting him lean his head on her shoulder. "Brother Xiao Rong, don't be afraid, it will be over soon, it will be over soon..." He repeated these words over and over again, tears rolling down his face, soaking his entire neck and front.

Kang Xiaorong struggled at first, but soon calmed down and finally stopped moving.

Tian Ning seemed unaware that the other person was already dead, and kept saying over and over again, "It will be over soon, it will be over soon..." After a long time, she came to her senses and realized that the other person would no longer be able to respond or make any move.

It was only then that Tian Ning finally stopped talking. Instead, he took a deep breath, buried his face in Kang Xiaorong's arms and burst into tears.

The crying sound echoed in the silent morning breeze, lonely and desolate.

Even she herself couldn't believe that she had killed the man she loved most with her own hands.

I once tried every means to marry him, but he refused; later, I decided not to marry him, and instead I got his true love.

I once thought that I could give everything for him; I once thought that I could sacrifice everything as long as I could be with him; I once thought that he was the sky, the earth, the entire world, and everything in life. However, I never expected that the end of his life would be a period that I drew for him with my own hands.

"Hyoyoung, you can't keep making the same mistake over and over again... People who do bad things will be punished, and I don't want to see you suffer the consequences..."

If there is another life, I hope we can be reborn into an ordinary family and live an ordinary life. Then we can meet and fall in love...

Love back everything that is owed to you in this life.

Tian Ning closed Kang Xiaorong's eyes, let him lie quietly on the bed, and then wiped the blood from the corner of his lips with a handkerchief.

He looked so peaceful, as if he was asleep.

Tian Ning once fantasized that if she married him, she would get up earlier than him every day and just quietly look at his peaceful sleeping face.

Now this wish has finally come true, for the first and last time.

Tian Ning sat quietly beside the bed for a while, and when her tears had run dry and could not flow any more, she wiped the tears from her face and rummaged through the boxes and cabinets in the room. She searched every corner but could not find what she wanted, and finally found the military token she wanted on Kang Xiaorong's body.

Tian Ning washed his face, put on his clothes, slipped out of Kang Mansion with the military token, and went straight to find Shui Furong along the way he took yesterday.

It was still early and the inn where Shui Furong and her friends were staying had just opened.

When Tian Ning went to knock on Shui Furong's door, Shui Furong's dazed voice clearly showed that she had not gotten up yet.

Tian Ning handed the military token to Shui Furong and said, "Take this and go retreat."

Shui Furong was startled and suddenly lost all her sleepiness. She rubbed her eyes and checked the military token over and over again. She asked in surprise, "Kang Xiaorong gave you the military token. Is he willing to surrender?"

Tian Ning turned away and choked up as he said, "I stole it."

"Didn't Kang Xiaorong notice?" Shui Furong found that Tian Ning's expression was a little strange.

After a brief silence, Tian Ning said softly: "He is dead..."

In just one day, the Qingzhou army replaced the Kang family's army and entered the capital. The people of the capital hid at home and dared not go out, for fear of being involved in the fighting. However, the whole process was done without a drop of bloodshed, and the crisis in the capital was resolved in a very peaceful atmosphere.

The next day, Shui Furong brought Tian Ning back to the palace which had been blocked for nearly five days.

The palace was desolate, no longer as prosperous as it once was. Walking slowly along the Qinglan River, I didn't see a single person along the way. Looking around, I saw burnt bare trees everywhere, black ruins, collapsed walls, and a scene of desolation and misery.

Those who had survived the catastrophe gathered in Xian Palace. This was the place least affected by the fire in the entire palace, because when the mountain ghosts set the fire, they deliberately avoided this ominous place where the ghost king and the thousand-year-old fox demon lived.

After the palace was sealed off, there was a shortage of food and necessities. If the Qingzhou Army had not arrived in time, I'm afraid people would have starved to death. The survivors were no longer afraid of monsters, and were willing to gather in the Xian Palace, which could protect them and give them a sense of security.

Shui Furong brought Tian Ning to Xian Palace. Ji Anni, Yizhen and Huarong had been waiting for a long time.

Yizhen chased Prince Ming, who was unwilling to leave the palace with Long Mohan, to Xian Palace that day and saved her life; Huarong knew that no one would notify Ji Anni when the fire just started, so she did not take refuge in Renhe Hall, but immediately risked her life to rush to Xian Palace to report the news.

Prince Ming was alive, An Youchen was alive, but Concubine An was killed.

An Youchen was controlled by the magic that day and lost his mind, but he was a skilled martial artist and no one could kill him. Later, after the rainstorm washed away the magic, he finally returned to normal. In addition, there were less than a hundred imperial guards alive. They were all elites among the imperial guards, so they saved their lives in the chaotic fight.

When Ji Anni saw Shui Furong wearing men's clothes, she almost didn't recognize her.

Shui Furong said to her, "Fortunately, I left the palace a long time ago, otherwise there would be chaos in the palace this time. Who would come to save you?"

Ji Anni asked: "I heard that you were able to retreat without losing a single soldier this time. How did you do it?"

Shui Furong glanced at Tian Ning and said, "Thanks to the princess."

At this time, everyone's eyes were focused on Tian Ning. Tian Ning lowered his head, with an undying haze between his brows, and his face was lifeless.

"Tianning." Ji Anni looked at her worriedly.

Tianning seemed not to hear anything and did not respond at all.

Seeing this, Shui Furong had to tell the whole story for Tianning, starting from the day when Kang Xiaorong rescued Tianning during the fire in the palace, all the way to when Tianning poisoned Kang Xiaorong and stole the military token and gave it to her to withdraw the troops.

The more complete the story is, the heavier the atmosphere becomes. Everyone knows what Kang Xiaorong's death means to Tian Ning, not to mention that it was done by Tian Ning himself.

Later, Tianning said she wanted to visit the Princess's Mansion and the Empress Dowager's Palace, so Shui Furong sent someone to escort her.

When Tian Ning was about to leave, Ji Anni suddenly chased after him and asked, "Tian Ning, do you still have poison on you?"

Tianning didn't answer and continued walking forward.

Ji Anni grabbed her and kept saying, "Leave it to me, leave it to me."

However, Tian Ning shook his head gently, looked up at Ji Anni and said, "I just want to take one last look at the palace where I grew up..."

After hearing this, Ji Anni cried sadly. However, Tian Ning had already gone away.

Yizhen stopped Ji Anni, looked at Tianning's back, and said softly: "Didn't you see the look in her eyes? In fact, she has already died. No one can stop her..."

After hearing what Yizhen said, Ji Anni was even more sad. She just watched Tianning leave, knowing that there would be no chance to meet again.

It seemed that in the not too distant past, she was still a savage, willful, spoiled, and flattered enemy who always embarrassed and made her suffer. However, in the blink of an eye, the girl suddenly grew up and became mature to a strange degree. Now, even though I know she wants to commit suicide for love, I can't stop her.

I thought the reunion after surviving a disaster was a happy event, but behind the reunion was a tragic separation.