A peaceful, serene smile still lingered on Tuoba Yue's face. The crude Western Xia commander slowly collapsed to the floor, never to rise again. She simply looked calmly at Fang Tianba, who stood before her, fully awake and entirely alone.
The man's eyes were bloodshot, crisscrossed with scarlet veins against the stark white and black. The proud woman he had held so spotlessly pure in his heart, the precious treasure he had cherished in the very core of his being, was actually a spy sent by the enemy state of Western Xia!
A dense, numbing pain pierced the depths of his heart. With a nearly ferocious intensity, his gaze locked onto the woman before him—a woman who had suddenly become utterly unfamiliar. He murmured, "Why?"
Chapter 28