The Useless Miracle Doctor Consort Is Spoiled Rotten by the Prince!-Chapter 1377 - 1372: As Long As You Are Ruthless Enough

Chapter 1377: Chapter 1372: As Long As You Are Ruthless Enough

The moment before he set the fire, Chen Ruobai’s eyes were still open, “Mu Ronghuan, you wait…”

She couldn’t die!

She couldn’t die so pathetically and wretchedly!

She wanted to kill Mu Ronghuan, kill the old Emperor, kill all the soldiers of Lian Hai Kingdom who had insulted her!

They all… deserved to die!

When the blaze started, Chen Ruobai didn’t know where she found the strength to get up, driven only by a single-minded desire for revenge, supporting her body. She seemed like a walking corpse, propelled only by the power of hatred, crawling out of the thatched cottage like a worm.

The thatched cottage burned down and collapsed, turning into a pile of ashes in no time.

Chen Ruobai still kept crawling outward, incessantly muttering, “I can’t die, I can’t die, I absolutely cannot die…”

The witch clan cannot be annihilated!

She absolutely couldn’t be as weak as her mother.

Her mother had screamed before dying, “The witch clan must not be destroyed! You must survive!”

Her mother had died unable to withstand the humiliation, followed by her aunts and sisters, one after another.

She had been the youngest in the clan, the weakest, yet she had protected the Gu King.

If she died, the lineage of the witch clan would be severed.

She hadn’t yet avenged her clan and her mother.

How could she die!

Chen Ruobai didn’t know how far she had crawled, her wounds reminding her of their presence like death tokens.

In her hallucinations, she could already see a place as dark as hell.

Yet, her strong will struggled on.

The downfall of the witch clan, the humiliating torture of her mother and sisters, were all still before her eyes.

“Save me…” Chen Ruobai pleaded into the void.

Despite her desperation, she still thought of Mu Rongche, wishing for Mu Rongche to rescue her, to take her back to the prince’s mansion, to let her step on his face without holding a grudge, to smile and embrace her, saying he wanted to marry her.

To cherish her for a lifetime.

Mu Rongche, save me.

Chen Ruobai didn’t know how she had awakened, but she was covered with a black mantle, and a person, wrapped head to toe in a black cloak without revealing even a glimpse of an eye, sat opposite her.

They were in a cave in the mountains.

The aura emanating from this person made Chen Ruobai realize he was a tall man; she instinctively clenched her fist, protecting the Gu King nestled in her wrist.

The man’s hoarse voice, as if burned by scalding water, stated, “Relax, I have no interest in you. I’m just curious about what your Gu poison does.”

“I won’t tell you,” replied Chen Ruobai, now too weak to activate the Gu King for an attack.

But as a descendant of the witch clan, she must protect the Gu King.

“If you don’t tell me, I’ll kill you.”

The man sneered.

Chen Ruobai gritted her teeth, ultimately capitulating.

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To survive, she could do anything.

And it was that acquiescence Wu Dao was counting on, that even in such desperate circumstances, he took a moment to save this woman’s life.

He helped Chen Ruobai recover, let her train in the arts of Gu, watched her cast Gu, and watched her dispel Gu.

After understanding the whole process, Wu Dao asked her for a Gu insect.

Originally, he wanted the Gu King, but the Gu King must reside within the body of a witch. It feeds on their flesh and blood and cannot survive otherwise. Chen Ruobai asked him to give her time, and she refined a special Gu insect just for him.

Wu Dao had learned a lot from Chen Ruobai about the art of Gu insects.

As a trade, he showed Chen Ruobai some books on modern medicine and taught her roughly. Chen Ruobai, with her exceptional talent, learned quickly and even picked up the modern concepts he brought with him.

Chen Ruobai yearned for this kind of living environment and incessantly pestered Wu Dao to tell her many things about the modern world.

Wu Dao told her, “Modern women have the ability to become Emperors, study medicine, engage in commerce, go to war—everything a man can do, a woman can do. Women don’t need to rely on anyone; they can be the ones in control.”

“Women can become Emperors?” Chen Ruobai’s eyes widened in shock.

Her disposition was already quite assertive. She looked down on men who insulted her, yet she was aware that the defense of home and country rested on them, and that a woman eventually needed her family to depend on in the latter part of her life.

But Wu Dao was telling her that a woman could be Emperor, lead armies into battle, hold office, do business, do everything a man could do.

Even more, she could… choose the man she liked without being bound to him for life in blind devotion.

Wu Dao said, “Yes, as long as you’re ruthless enough.”

Before leaving, he also told her a saying from a female emperor, “If a woman wishes to accomplish something great, she must be ready to kill even her closest kin.”

Ready to kill her closest kin?

Chen Ruobai scoffed. What close kin did she have left?

Her tribe was wiped out, her mother died tragically, and she was already all alone.

No!

Chen Ruobai’s eyes, clear in their black and white, widened as the image of a man flashed through her mind.

Didn’t she still have a father who was extremely lustful and hypocritically virtuous?

It was him!

He brought the calamity that annihilated their witch tribe.

It was he who let her mother and aunts die miserably, abandoned her in the palace since she was little to watch her sisters live a life of luxury, while she lived worse than a pig or a dog, subjected to people’s random humiliations.

How could she let him go?

When Mu Rongche came to, aware that Chen Ruobai had been beheaded by his father, he fell into a profound depression, although he managed to contain it when he was awake.

But at night, sleepwalking, he had once gone to his father’s palace with a sword.

He hated his father!

He bullied his Xiao Bai and failed to protect his mother.

How incapable he was!

Yet the look his father gave him was one of such helplessness, as if, no matter how he lashed out, his father would never blame him.

In the end, Mu Rongche couldn’t harden his heart further.

His decisiveness on the battlefield, he couldn’t apply to his own kin.

But he wouldn’t be foolish enough not to seek out the truth of the matter.

Xiao Bai would not have killed his mother without reason, his father wouldn’t be so thoughtless to well know Xiao Bai was the woman he loved, yet still coerce her.

The maidservant by his mother’s side initially insisted that Xiao Bai had deliberately killed his mother, refusing to reveal the truth.

But after his persistent interrogation and threats to her family, she finally broke down and cried out, “It was… the Third Prince. The Third Prince presented that calamity to the Emperor, who at that time had no idea of her status and merely kept her for her beauty.”

“How did Xiao Bai fall into my brother’s hands? Tell me!” Mu Rongche demanded coldly.

Reluctantly, the maidservant revealed that Queen Qiya wanted to kill Chen Ruobai, but she had managed to escape.

To protect the reputation of Queen Qiya, the maidservant even made a point of saying, “That woman could use Gu. Initially, the queen did not want to torture her, just wanted to let her pick a way to die, to leave her corpse intact, fearing future trouble for Your Highness. But she was defiant, and she cursed people with Gu insects. Several people around the queen were killed by her Gu.”