Fierce Love: Bringing Wife Home
Chapter 829: Love Above All - 188

Chapter 829: Love Above All Chapter 188

Love Above All, Chapter 188

The day of the grand wedding.

From the Queen Mother of the West’s palace to the path leading to the Imperial Authority Realm, the way was adorned with colorful ribbons.

The bride wore a Phoenix Crown and Rosy Cloud Cape, breathtakingly beautiful.

Everyone who saw her couldn’t help but praise her beauty.

Right on the wedding altar in the Imperial Authority Realm.

Quan Shaoqing stood on the altar in a red robe, his expression as cold as ever.

Even as the graceful bride stepped towards him, he acted as if he didn’t see her.

Cui Luo wore a shy smile; she finally married her beloved, even forsaking her mother for him.

This moment, she had waited for thousands of years.

From the first time she saw Quan Shaoqing, she had adored him deeply.

Cui Luo walked up to Quan Shaoqing.

The two stood side by side.

The elder of the Imperial Authority Realm announced loudly, "Let the wedding begin!"

As his words fell, drums and gongs sounded, and the scene erupted with congratulations from their elders and kin.

The bride took the groom’s hand, and amid the joyous laughter, they walked onto the altar together.

Just as they were about to bow to Heaven and Earth, Mi Xi suddenly appeared in everyone’s view.

With his arrival, a longsword pressed against Quan Shaoqing’s chest.

Quan Shaoqing’s brows slightly furrowed, his face still cold, unclear of Mi Xi’s intent.

"Even if you don’t like her, you shouldn’t treat her this way." Mi Xi’s face was full of anger, his tone increasingly sharp.

Quan Shaoqing couldn’t understand his meaning. He felt ambiguous about his words.

"What exactly do you want to do?"

"Aren’t you seeing what I want to do? Lan Xi trusts you the most, yet how have you treated her? What good does it do you to kill her?" Mi Xi’s voice was bitter.

He tightly gripped the longsword in his hand, fiercely for a moment. "You depleted her trust simply because she likes you, so you can keep hurting her without leaving any room for her?"

Quan Shaoqing’s face turned pale, still not understanding Mi Xi’s meaning, "What exactly are you trying to say?"

"Lan Xi was pierced through the heart by the Heavenly Sword. The Seven-Colored Immortal Soil was stolen, and she’s dying. Quan Shaoqing, do you dare say this wasn’t your doing?" Mi Xi’s words fell mercilessly.

He raised his sword, launching an attack on Quan Shaoqing.

His strikes were ruthless, leaving no mercy.

Quan Shaoqing hadn’t yet reacted to his words, and could only use the Heavenly Sword to defend.

"This wasn’t my doing?" Once he finally reacted, he immediately explained.

These days he’s been at the shrine, never leaving the Imperial Authority Realm.

How could he possibly harm Lan Xi?

"Stop your arguing! The wound on Lan Xi is from the Heavenly Sword, because she couldn’t get treatment, her blood has already run dry. She’s dead, who else besides you could have done this? Could others wield your Heavenly Sword?" Mi Xi roared in anger.

His words rendered Quan Shaoqing dumbfounded.

Yet Mi Xi wouldn’t relent, the longsword directly pressed against Quan Shaoqing’s throat, "She is the strongest in the world, no one could harm her. Only you could approach her without her guard. Now you pretend, thinking you can escape responsibility? Today I come to avenge Lan Xi."

As Mi Xi’s words fell, Quan Shaoqing turned to look at Cui Luo beside him, his gaze suddenly becoming as cold as a venomous snake.

"These past days, only you have entered the shrine, and if I recall correctly, you moved my Heavenly Sword."

Cui Luo was terrified, her expression changed, and she quickly knelt down to explain, "Ah Qing, it wasn’t me. I don’t know what’s going on."

"You don’t know?" Quan Shaoqing grabbed Cui Luo’s neck, even as Mi Xi’s sword cut his throat.

He seemed unfazed, excited beyond restraint.

"Yesterday at dusk, during the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, I wasn’t at the shrine, yet you happened to be there. The Heavenly Sword was placed on the altar. At that time I smelled the fragrance on you, thought you merely moved it out of curiosity, and didn’t mind."

As Mi Xi talked about Lan Xi being wounded.

The only person he could be certain of was Cui Luo.

These days he’s been at the shrine, never leaving, only going back for bathing and changing during that incense time.

"Majesty... I don’t know... It’s not my affair." Cui Luo struggled to defend.

Mi Xi, combining the previous theft of the Rainbow Tree and Seven-Colored Immortal Soil, now harbored doubts but didn’t exclude the possibility of Quan Shaoqing shifting blame onto Cui Luo to evade responsibility.

"You think you have no part? Then what about the Rainbow Tree transplanted to the back mountain? You say it’s part of your dowry?" Quan Shaoqing assumed Cui Luo was merely the fruit of the Rainbow Tree.

She was meant only as a wife, nothing more.

He didn’t anticipate she’d take his Heavenly Sword and kill the woman he loved most.

At this moment, Cui Luo still sought to defend, but Quan Shaoqing’s grip on her neck filled her heart with terror. "I... I..."

She thought her plan flawless; didn’t expect Mi Xi’s arrival would expose her.

Indeed, these past days only she’d visited the shrine, interacting with Quan Shaoqing.

He had first suspected her for good reason.

"Why do this?" Quan Shaoqing asked furiously.

Seeing there was no way to explain, Cui Luo gasped desperately, a maniacal smile appearing at the corner of her mouth, "I knew you liked her so much. So I’m dissatisfied, clearly it’s me you wanted to marry. Yet you loved her. But now, it’s too late to kill me, she should already be dead by now."

"You..." Quan Shaoqing wanted to tear the woman before him to pieces.

Mi Xi, equally furious, pointed the sword at Cui Luo, "How could you do this? Cui Luo, do you know, your life was granted by her. She gave you the hairpin she wore growing up. Yet you repay this kindness with betrayal! Today, I’ll kill you to avenge my junior sister."

Quan Shaoqing’s gaze fell coldly on the hairpin on Cui Luo’s head.

He’d always thought it was hers.

Never expected it was actually given to her by Lan Xi.

How could he have been so foolish; if he were Shaoqing reborn.

The person in the dream must have been Lan Xi, he went so far as to mistake her, even lying to his own heart, just to marry her.

Without hesitation, Mi Xi’s sword thrust towards Cui Luo.

He intended to kill her.

The guests at the wedding were at a loss, baffled by this sudden turn of events.

The elders grasped the situation; Cui Luo had wielded the Heavenly Sword to kill the Emperor’s most beloved woman.

Mi Xi had come seeking revenge for his junior sister.

The connection was complex but could be inferred; the other party was Lan Xi.

"Is Lan Xi still alive?"

...

Quan Shaoqing tore off the wedding robe and vanished in the blink of an eye.

As Mi Xi’s sword was about to pierce Cui Luo, he changed his mind again. "Letting you die so easily would be too merciful. Attempting to kill Lan Xi and framing the Emperor. I will take you to the Heavens for judgment."

Especially since Lan Xi was gravely injured, Ya was also in critical condition; the Heavenly Emperor surely wouldn’t spare her.

...

And so, a grand wedding ended in dissolution.

Quan Shaoqing, outside the Goddess Palace seeking to see Lan Xi, was refused entry.