CHAPTER 1085: 1162: INCOHERENT

His brow creased into a knot, "How could I have been so blind back then to fall for a woman like you? Full of lies! You say you’ve changed your ways, yet you push my benefactor to his doom? You knew full well how much he meant to me, yet you still treated him like that!"

The Seventh Princess propped herself up and looked at Yi Ran.

Her mind was in turmoil, and she knew that due to her intense emotions, her words were disjointed, defensively trying to justify and cover up.

He had indeed changed, and his change was because of her. In the past, no matter what she said, he would believe her. Even if she lied, he would never question or doubt her sincerity.

She gave a bitter smile, "I am ruthless in my actions, forcing him that much was just to find out from him where you were. I discovered he had been in contact with you, and I couldn’t find you, almost as if you’d vanished from the earth, I..." Before she could finish, there was a loud bang.

Yi Ran kicked the door!

"You haven’t repented at all! No matter how silver-tongued you are, you can’t change that fact. You’re inherently selfish. If you really wanted to learn my whereabouts, why not deal sincerely? Why resort to such extreme measures? You knew he was my benefactor, yet you put him in mortal danger multiple times, even using gu on him, casting subterfuge! Ji Liuli, ask yourself, what is it you truly want? What are your true intentions!?"

"I..." For a moment, she was speechless.

Lowering her gaze in disappointment, "Do you think I didn’t want to? I wished I could sit down calmly to talk with him, but your benefactor was so guarded. If it weren’t for his refusal to disclose, and my overwhelming worry for your safety after hearing of your suffering in prison, how could I have done those things?"

Yi Ran found he couldn’t truly understand her. She always believed she had a valid point.

The Seventh Princess continued, "I didn’t even know if you were alive or dead. I’ve been persistent for all these years just to find out if you were still alive! You say I nearly killed him, but I never took his life. Otherwise, I would have had many means to kill him back then. How could he have escaped Jiangnan alive? I merely wished to capture him alive and extract the information I wanted from him!"

"You targeted his people, was what happened with Chris also your doing? You had someone put gu on him. With your rank, how could you not know the side effects of the Mind-Bewitching Gu? You claim you never intended to harm him, pretending everything was for my sake, but in truth, you were just pushing your sins onto me, making me bear all this, turning me into this hated Slaughterer!"

Yi Ran turned his back, closing his eyes tightly, "I’m the root cause, the origin of disaster. Everything you did was for my sake, relentless and disregarding of lives. But I don’t understand, why be so persistent? In your heart, I’m insignificant."

After a long silence, the Seventh Princess slowly clenched her fist, "Then, if I tell you that after you escaped from prison, I awoke from my coma, and you were gone, I regretted it. So what if I helped Lao Ba rise to power? I’m a cripple, and for the rest of this life, it will be like this. Royal power is too distant for me, and in the end, all I have left is you, only the Ah Ran who was once sincere to me, but that sincerity was destroyed by my own hands, and the Ah Ran from back then was lost by me. So I am persistent, I want you to come back!!"