AWB Chapter 204 Dragnet
Chapter 204 Dragnet
Upon hearing the message from her informant, Wen Yitong immediately stood up.
For Wen Yitong, nothing was more important than killing Wen Shuyao at that moment.
Wen Shuyao is the shadow of her life, her enemy in this life, and everything she is doing now is to kill Wen Shuyao.
Therefore, she acted extremely quickly, immediately shouting to Ruyi beside her, "Hurry up and do it!"
Today, she will make Wen Shuyao lose her life here!
With a sharp shout from Wen Yitong, Ruyi also made a move.
The five hundred guards she was accompanied by were all given to her by Prince Xin, and she was quite familiar with them.
With a mere wave of his hand, a guard quickly approached.
"Have all the ambushes I instructed you to set up been completed?" Ruyi asked coldly.
The guard immediately nodded: "Don't worry, there are twenty tripwires set up, and men are also lying in ambush nearby. At your command, a volley of arrows will be fired at the troops."
Because of this ambush, not only Wen Yitong was worried every day, but Ruyi was also thinking about how to minimize their losses.
Whether it's tripwires or pre-prepared archers, these are all methods she uses to reduce losses on this side.
Listening to their conversation, Wen Yitong's eyes lit up.
"If that's the case, what are we waiting for?" she snapped. "Take action now!"
She couldn't wait to see Wen Shuyao's head fall to the ground.
Ruyi nodded quickly, but a sense of unease lingered in her heart.
Wen Yitong spoke lightly, but dealing with the people of the Prince Jing's mansion was not something that could be easily resolved with just these two methods. Her eyelids twitched wildly, and her heart pounded in her chest.
……
The procession from Prince Jing's residence suddenly stopped halfway through its journey.
Wen Yitong, who was secretly observing them, frowned and asked anxiously, "What's going on?"
Ruyi's heart tightened at her question: "This servant..."
She didn't know what was going on either!
Just then, she watched as the guard in front of her, who should have been tripped by the tripwire, stopped only half a foot away from it.
This half-foot barrier was like an insurmountable chasm, and the mounted guards could not advance any further.
Ruyi felt as if her heart was being gripped by a pair of large hands; her intuition told her that something was wrong.
Wen Yitong's heart pounded wildly at this moment. Her face was pale as she stared fixedly at the carriage in the middle of the procession.
Why is it not moving?
Did they find out...?
Once this thought arises, it is difficult to suppress.
Wen Yitong and Ruyi exchanged a glance at each other, and both saw fear in each other's eyes.
At that moment, as if waking from a dream, Ruyi shouted to her trusted confidants, "Quickly, take the young lady away from here!"
She recalled her previous concerns—the guards of Prince Jing's mansion were all veterans of war.
If that's the case, what kind of moves haven't they seen?
Can these tripwires really escape their sharp eyes?
Before Wen Yitong could react, she heard Ruyi's order. She roared in fury, "Leave? I won't leave! I want to see it with my own eyes..."
"Miss, if we don't leave now, it might be too late to leave later!" Ruyi said earnestly. "You can't act like a child now! Our plan might be discovered!"
The teams that have stopped progressing are the best proof!
However, Wen Yitong shook her head: "They only have two hundred men, how can they compare to our force of over five hundred? Besides, we also have archers hidden in the forest..."
No sooner had Wen Yitong finished speaking than she witnessed a person fall from above. If Ruyi hadn't pulled her back in time, she would have been seriously injured by the falling person.
The person who fell to the ground can no longer be called a human being—it is a corpse.
Immediately afterwards, dozens of corpses fell from above their heads, and the same happened in the woods opposite.
—Before they knew it, all the archers they had buried in the trees had become corpses.
Wen Yitong opened her eyes wide in horror; only then did she realize the danger that was approaching.
"Take me away!" she said decisively, ready to leave.
"Trying to leave?" a woman's voice rang out in a sinister tone. "I'm afraid it's too late."
Upon hearing this voice, Wen Yitong's fear became even more pronounced, and she stared blankly at the person who appeared before her.
This was the person she knew best when she was a princess in the Jing Prince's mansion.
“Granny Qi…”
Even though she thought the dream was fake, Wen Yitong's heart still tightened when she saw Granny Qi.
She unconsciously swallowed, instinctively wanting to back away, but as she did so, she bumped into the cold corpse, which terrified her so much that the hairs on her body stood on end.
What terrified her even more was the person who appeared behind Granny Qi.
"Wen Shuyao!"
She uttered the name through gritted teeth, her resentment surging forth, almost to the point of wanting to skin Wen Shuyao alive.
Wen Shuyao only gave a faint smile: "Second sister, it's been a long time. How have you been doing at the Chen family? I heard that you were trying your best to urge your husband to take the imperial examination, but unfortunately, he is useless and has failed to live up to your expectations. He failed the exam twice."
Upon hearing this, Wen Yitong said angrily, "It's all your fault! You knew everything! You know what kind of person Chen Che is! You had that dream just like me!"
"A dream?" Wen Shuyao raised an eyebrow and scoffed. "I haven't had any dreams. All I know is that you stole this marriage with Chen Che from me."
"If it weren't for that dream, how could I have been deceived?" She looked at Wen Shuyao's still stunningly beautiful face, jealousy and hatred almost overwhelming her. "Everything you have now should have been mine!"
She is the Princess Consort of Jing!
All of Wen Shuyao's glory was stolen from her!
Granny Qi, who had been protecting Wen Shuyao, was displeased: "What do you mean by 'stolen'? The news of your scheme to fall into the water with Chen Che has already spread throughout the capital. Wasn't this marriage something you begged for?"
“My princess is nothing more than a pawn used by you and your mother. When you realized the truth couldn’t be hidden any longer, you sent her away to take the blame!” Granny Qi said unhappily. “Fortunately, the princess and the prince are very much in love, and things didn’t turn out as you wished.”
Wen Yitong was almost completely out of her mind, and Qi Mama's words were the last straw that broke her back.
"Are you saying that all these differences are because I'm not Wen Shuyao?" Her eyes were bloodshot as she stared intently at Wen Shuyao. "Chen Che was able to become the third-ranked scholar because his wife is Wen Shuyao!"
"Is the reason why Prince Jing and Princess Jing can be so loving and harmonious is because Princess Jing is Wen Shuyao?"
She shouted these words through gritted teeth and with heart-wrenching force, and before she knew it, tears of pain streamed down her face.