Night, the Yellow Springs Mountain Range, a gloomy forest.
"Why are you still alive? Are you all dead? Can't even kill a good-for-nothing!"
A slim woman dressed in exquisite clothing, wielding a chilly sword, kicked away the underling in front of her. Her lovely face revealed a sinister smile that didn't quite match her image.
"You shameless wench, I'll kill you with my own hands today, so you won't waste your time seducing my prince brother every day. Take a look at your face, it's so ugly it makes people want to vomit."
She pointed the cold sword at the girl on the ground.
The girl was thin and weak, her body covered with wounds, her clothes stained with blood. Her eyes were closed tightly, breathing barely noticeable just like a broken willow twig.
"Second Miss, please kill this stinky girl quickly, so no one will compete with you for the prince in the future!”
"Hah, compete with me? With her zero talent, she even dares to think she's worthy?" Gu Ruoqian initially wanted to pierce the girl in front of her with a sword, but thinking about her actions every day, she felt disgusted. "Since she's bound to die anyway, might as well...give her to you guys to have some fun."
She showed her thugs a wicked smile, “Just remember not to play her to death. Leave her a breath of life so she knows how filthy she is.”
The goons exchanged glances, and they all saw the desire in each other's eyes.
After all, for them, although this girl lying on the ground was from the Gu family, she was delicate and privileged. Her skin and figure were undoubtedly superior to ordinary people.
"Hehehe."
The goons eagerly approached the girl on the ground.
A cold light flashed in Gu Ruoqian's eyes. “Gu Quan, Gu Quan, when you become a cheap good-for-nothing in everyone's eyes, you will wish you were dead, right?”
Thump, thump, thump!!
The men near the damsel crumpled one after the other, unconscious.
The sudden turn of events had Gu Ruoqian rather baffled, for she had no idea what had happened.
"What on earth is going on?"
No sooner had Gu Ruoqian finished speaking than the frail damsel, who was sprawled on the ground a moment ago, managed to get up. She brandished a dagger, her gaze cold and piercing as she stared at Gu Ruoqian.
Upon meeting Gu Xun's gaze, Gu Ruoqian paused and then squinted warily.
How could this wretch possess such a gaze? And wasn't she practically a goner? How did she even manage to get up?
Soon after, Gu Ruoqian got her bearings and mockingly chuckled, "Well played Gu Xun, playing dead right before me. This time I won't let you get away so easily."
With that, she lunged forward, her cold blade aimed straight at the damsel's heart.
"Gu Xun! Die!!"
Cling—
Rather than piercing through the young girl's heart, her icy sword was obstructed by the dagger.
"How...how is it possible?"
As Gu Ruoqian stood there stunned, the damsel swiftly circled to her back, the frosty dagger threateningly situated against her throat.
The entire event unfolded in less than five seconds, eliciting a look of disbelief from Gu Ruoqian.
How could it happen so quickly?
"Isn't she a good-for-nothing?"
Gu Chun curled her dry lips, her face impassive as she stood there. Due to her professional instincts, as soon as she regained consciousness, she could sense danger in the air.
Her body was wounded, pain gnawing deep into her bones as she moves, yet as someone who was used to living on the edge, she would resist and fight back fiercely as long as she still had a shred of strength left.
Once dead in the modern world, she managed to come back to life, and countless unfamiliar memories flooded her mind like a tide.
This place was the Netherworld Continent, a world where martial power was revered.
And she was the sixth young miss of the General's mansion, a good-for-nothing who couldn't cultivate, whose arranged marriage with the crown prince had become a laughing stock.
Everyone on the Netherworld Continent knew that the future crown princess was incompetent, but due to the Emperor's phrase hard to retract, even though Gu Chun was of low birth, she had managed to survive so far thanks to her future status as the Crown Prince's wife!
Because of the royal family! They didn't want her to meet with an accident, otherwise, it would be said outside that the royal family killed a good-for-nothing to save face!
But this time was different, this place was the dark forest of the Huangquan Mountain Range. If Gu Ruoqian killed her here, she could easily say upon her return that she was attacked by a demon beast.
Coming back to her senses.
"Gu Chun, do you dare to kill me?"
Gu Ruoqian asked angrily, her life in Gu Chun's hands, she dared not move freely and could only threaten, "If you so much as touch a single hair of mine, Daddy and Crown Prince Brother will never let you off!"
"Heh."
Gu Chun responded with a cold laugh, too lazy to even retort.
She would never forgive those who wished to kill her!