Ex-Wife is a Big Villainess
Chapter 380 - 216: Jiang Wan Awakens! (Two-in-One Mega - )

Chapter 380: Chapter 216: Jiang Wan Awakens! (Two-in-One Mega Chapter)

"Life has always had too many missed opportunities and regrets. At first, you think what you missed was just a love affair. But then, after a few years of walking and stopping, you’ll realize what you missed was the love of your life..."

The young girl’s sincere words tried to persuade her sister by her side to cherish her feelings, and not to become a second her.

Ran Qingchen looked puzzled.

Just a moment ago, they were enemies on guard against each other, and the next moment, they were talking like sisters?

However, she could indeed feel that the other party was sincere.

It seemed that this Demon Clan girl had indeed suffered a great emotional injury, which was why she reacted so strongly.

"Alright, alright, my situation is more complicated than you think," Ran Qingchen said helplessly, interrupting her with a soft voice, "Life is never perfect, and besides, he doesn’t like me, plans to marry another woman, so being friends is the best choice."

"Ah?"

Qu Hongling’s eyes widened, her intended words stuck in her throat.

The faint luminescent powder on the stone wall cast its glow upon the woman’s cheeks—pure as the first snowfall, yet tinged with a touch of melancholy.

Qu Hongling sighed, "I’m just afraid that even though you say you don’t care, you’ll still fall in love with him in your heart."

"That’s difficult."

Ran Qingchen smiled faintly, "I have already attained the ’Love-void’ Realm. In matters of love between a man and a woman, I won’t be easily moved. My mother gave up on the ’Love-void’ Realm once and failed. I will correct this path for her and help her continue on it."

Qu Hongling furrowed her fine brows, "There’s such a realm?"

She shook her head gently, "I don’t believe it. Emotions come from the heart, and the heart cannot be blocked or changed by external secret techniques. The so-called ’Love-void’ Realm is just self-deception."

Ran Qingchen smiled and did not argue.

About the Love-void Realm, she naturally had her doubts.

Yet she could truly feel her own state of mind in a very mysterious condition. Whenever her emotions stirred, she would promptly suppress them, like fallen leaves on the ground, gently swept away.

Including that time at Famous Sword Villa.

When she found herself in despair within the Sword Cave, the moment the man suddenly appeared, her heart stirred greatly.

But that flicker of emotion was quickly suppressed, turning into ripples that quietly dispersed.

That was the Love-void Realm.

All the deepest emotions in the world amount to nothing.

"Let’s talk about you. Why did you leave him in the first place?" Ran Qingchen asked curiously.

Qu Hongling wrapped her arms around her knees, speaking softly, "I must have been kicked in the head by a donkey, listening to others’ words, thinking that staying by his side would harm him given the great disparity in our status, so I left. But when I thought to return, there was nothing left, not even a corpse to be found..."

"Perhaps you were right at the time, it’s just... fate played a joke on you."

Ran Qingchen looked at the girl’s fragmented and sorrowful eyes with compassion.

Qu Hongling said with self-mockery, "The joke fate played isn’t funny at all."

Ran Qingchen fell silent.

She thought of herself—is she too being played by fate, yet completely unaware?

Crack!

While the two of them were conversing, a crisp cracking sound abruptly arose.

The two women were startled and turned to look.

But they saw that at the other end of the passage, the stone door that had been sealed was now open.

Behind the door, in the midst of deathly silence, stood a skeleton, eerily maintaining its upright posture, with ghostly green flames flickering within the depths of its eye sockets, coldly and fixedly staring at them.

This skeleton was the same one that had been sitting in the chair before.

The two women quickly rose to their feet, on guard.

"How did this thing come back to life?" Sensing the overwhelming cold death aura emanating from the skeleton, Qu Hongling swallowed hard.

Ran Qingchen glanced at the looted treasure chest and guessed, "Perhaps its former master left behind a trace of consciousness through a secret technique, thinking we were coveting the treasure, so it followed us?"

"But we didn’t get anything," Qu Hongling said, feeling utterly dejected.

Suddenly, her eyes sharpened as she looked at the skeleton’s abdomen and whispered, "Sister, look carefully, is there a key in that skeleton’s abdomen?"

Ran Qingchen started, focusing her gaze.

Indeed, amidst the intricately interwoven ribs of the skeleton, a copper-green ancient key was conspicuously hanging.

She suddenly remembered, when the two of them were inspecting the chair earlier, there was a small hole on it that went unnoticed at the time. Could this key be the solution to unlocking the exit?

The two exchanged glances, thinking the same thing.

"Shall we try to snatch it?"

Qu Hongling suggested softly, with the Phoenix Slaying Sword circling her fair, jade-like wrists.

Ran Qingchen drew her longsword, her body’s energy circulating, "We have no choice but to snatch it, since it has come after us."

The sword’s cold light shimmered, like the first gleam of dawn breaking through darkness, dispelling the gloom around her.

Her green dress fluttered gently as if rippling waves.

"Let’s break out first!"

Ran Qingchen, holding her sword, led the charge towards the skeleton.

The skeleton remained motionless.

Just as the sword light was about to touch the skeleton, it slowly raised a seemingly fragile bone arm.

In an instant, an invisible but powerful force erupted, like a raging torrent, immobilizing Ran Qingchen in midair, bringing her attack to an abrupt halt.

Ran Qingchen was startled.

The skeleton’s strength was unexpectedly formidable?

Whoosh!

At that moment, the petite Phoenix Slaying Sword with a trail of crystalline white tail pierced through the bone arm.

The skeleton’s frame shook.

Regaining the momentum to attack, Ran Qingchen’s figure soared like a swift swallow, her movements exceptionally light.

"Sword Lotus!"

She lightly tapped her toes against the wall to borrow strength, her whole body lifting into the air, spinning as her garments billowed around her, blossoming like a sudden bloom of an azure lotus, conjuring an irresistible whirlwind of force.