NFBE Chapter 361 Princess's Skirt 07
Chapter 361 Princess's Skirt 07
Gu Li, who hadn't even stood up yet, shouted towards the shore: "Don't come over! There's an ambush! Father, leave now!"
Shen Qingzhou's knife strike was slightly off-center, and Gu Li was only dizzy for a while, but did not faint. Putting aside her mission objectives, she could not let Shen Qingzhou succeed just for the sake of the country's stability.
At this moment, Gu Li was even thinking that as long as Shen Qingzhou's assassination failed, everything before her could still be changed.
Little did they know that Shen Qingzhou had already set up a death trap.
Gu Li stood on the deck and waved her hands vigorously, shouting, "Father, please leave! There is an ambush. Please leave!"
The next second, the vigilant guards drew their swords and surrounded the emperor, escorting him back along the road.
The elderly emperor was surrounded by guards and quickly evacuated before he could hear Gu Li'er's first cry.
Before leaving, he still reminded the chief steward who was squeezed to the back, "Gu Li'er is still there, hurry up and get someone over."
He is the ruler of a country. If an assassination attempt is encountered, even though Gu Li'er is his most beloved daughter, the first thing he has to protect is himself.
Before the emperor could finish his words, a dozen masked men in black clothes suddenly jumped out from the originally calm water surface and chased after the emperor.
The leader was Shen Qingzhou.
Gu Li fell exhausted on the deck, watching the two groups of people entangled with each other on the shore, and the emperor was protected and away from the encirclement.
"Sanliang, what's going on? Shouldn't Shen Qingzhou make a comeback after five years?" How come he broke into the palace with only a few dozen people?
Sanliang had no idea what was going on, so he could only answer, "Maybe something you did after you came here caused the butterfly effect?"
Seeing the battle on the shore gradually come to a conclusion and the emperor having safely left, Gu Li breathed a sigh of relief.
"This assassination attempt will not succeed. The emperor is safe."
Sanliang: "But it's hard to say whether you are safe or not."
The small sailboat shook, and Gu Li looked up and saw Shen Qingzhou standing on the shore, looking at her from afar. He was standing there, tall and slender.
He was alone, with an expressionless face.
Looking from afar, he raised his left hand high.
"What is he going to do?"
As if to respond to Gu Li's doubts, Shen Qingzhou suddenly pressed down his raised left hand. In an instant, several arrows flew through the air towards Gu Li.
Gu Li, who realized it later, hurriedly hid in the boat's awning.
In the bushes closest to the small boat, Shen Qingzhou's men were still ambushing. The arrows that were originally intended for the emperor who had fallen into the trap flew towards the shaky boat like meteors.
The emperor escaped early because of Gu Li's reminder, so these things should not be wasted and should be used on the emperor's most beloved princess.
Shen Qingzhou thought viciously, but when he saw Gu Li fall down after being hit by an arrow in the back, his hand holding the hilt of the sword shook violently, and he couldn't even hold the sword that had been with him for seven or eight years.
He hated her, there was no doubt about it.
But even so, he still loved her.
The whizzing sounds of aircraft breaking through the air seemed to be a death-threatening sound, not only trying to kill Li Wanchao, but also wanting to take his life.
Now he has no way out.
Gu Li covered her bleeding abdomen and tried to hide in the black tent. She was holding her breath and murmured in disbelief: "Shen Qingzhou wants to kill me!"
She wanted to save him, but he wanted to kill her!
The powerful arrows pierced through the bamboo awning, and the sharp arrowheads whizzed through the narrow awning. Soon, the awning was leaking like a sieve. Gu Li tried to lower her body as much as possible and hide herself with the hull.
But the wobbly little boat didn't seem to be able to hold on for much longer.
It looks like this time it's really going to be a failure.
Is she going to fail?
An arrow shot through the awning, narrowly glancing at Gu Li's face, and left a string of snow beads that were fixed on the awning on the opposite side.
"Ah!" Gu Li couldn't help but scream out because of the pain on her face, and tears instantly flowed out.
At this time, the rain of arrows outside stopped.
The boat began to shake again. Shen Qingzhou stepped onto the boat and when he bent down, he saw Gu Li covering her face with her hands and screaming.
He held Gu Li in his arms, and neither of them said another word.
Shen Qingzhou held Gu Li with his back facing the direction of the arrows. No matter how unwilling he was, it was useless. All the people he brought were killed. Facing the large number of imperial troops, he didn't want to escape.
He returned to his wife, the princess, and threw the scabbard of his sword over the awning.
It's like a signal.
The next moment, an even denser rain of arrows came like thunder, as if it was going to pierce through the wupeng boat and tear it apart.
Almost instantly, Shen Qingzhou's back was stabbed like a hedgehog. He did not wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth with his hands, but let it flow onto Gu Li's delicate neck, blending with the blood on her original wound.
He spat out a large mouthful of blood and said, "Princess, I can't kill you myself, so I have to die with you."
"Your Highness, if you want my life, I will give it to you without hesitation, but why did you hurt my family? That's more than 200 lives!"
Gu Li closed her eyes and endured the pain without saying a word. More and more blood flowed from Shen Qingzhou's mouth, soaking her clothes.
Shen Qingzhou hugged Gu Li tighter, their two bodies pressed tightly together, as if no one could separate them.
It also made it easier for the special black iron arrows provided by the army to pierce Shen Qingzhou's vest, pass through Shen Qingzhou's body and pierce into Gu Li's heart.
Gu Li groaned and coughed due to the blood stuck in her throat, "Ugh, it hurts!"
Gu Li's words "it hurts" were like a sharp knife, piercing Shen Qingzhou's heart, and her hateful face revealed a hidden reluctance.
But he still held her close to him and didn't let go.
The arrows continued.
There were small boats coming out of the lake, and guards were swimming in like dumplings, but the two people in the black-sailed boat could not hear them.
"Princess, Shen, Shen Qingzhou only regrets in this life that I fell in love with Your Highness and harmed my Shen family!" Shen Qingzhou said while panting.
Gu Li opened her eyes and stopped crying.
This is good too. She dragged him to death with her, which means she killed him with her own hands.
She stared at the blood on her skirt, swallowed the blood rushing up her throat, and said coldly: "You, the Shen family, are collaborating with the enemy, and there is irrefutable evidence that you will commit treason in the future. You deserve to die, and it has nothing to do with me!"
She had never known that someone who acted on emotion could be so unreasonable and hateful.
Shen Qingzhou seemed not to have heard Gu Li's words and continued to speak intermittently.
"You and I have finished this life. I hope we won't meet again in the next life!"
The rain of arrows outside had stopped at some point, and Gu Li heard his words clearly. Her eyes, which had stopped shedding tears, became wet again.
All she got in return for all her efforts in saving him was a reply of "We'll never meet again in the next life".
Shen Qingzhou was on the verge of collapse. In the last moment before he lost consciousness, the only thing in his world was Li Wanchao's painful cry and the suppressed "OK" in response.