Forgotten Legend of the Bloodied Flower

*Warning: the scene below is bloody, cruel, and contain a lot of depressive words. It's recommended for the readers to be above 13 years old to continue. Readers' discretion is required. Proceed with your own caution.*

*cough* *cough* *cough*

Shangguan Mi coughed several times.

She felt that her throat was really itchy as if something was stuck there. This made her feel very uncomfortable. Not to mention, her head hurt so much that it was hard for her to keep her consciousness intact.

"What…cough… what happened to cough me?" Shangguan Mi asked, panting as she laid on the ground.

She looked at the trees and grass around her, feeling extremely unwilling.

In order to escape, she sold that man everything that she knew. But after coming out of the Capital City, her body broke down instead.

Even if she knew that she had been weakened due to her experience over the years, Shangguan Mi didn't think that she was that weak. She should be able to walk and continue doing what she wanted to do.

So why?

Why did this happen to her?

*cough* *cough*

Hatred and unwillingness flashed in Shangguan Mi's eyes.

She stretched her hand, trying to get up, but she found out that the strength in her limbs were disappearing bit by bit until there was not even the slightest bit of trace. She was so weak and there was nothing that she could do.

"A…"

"Mang Mi." a male servant was watching Shangguan Mi, or she would be called as Mang Mi if she followed her biological father's surname, from the side. His expression was completely indifferent even when he saw Shangguan Mi coughed up blood.

The blood around Shangguan Mi had created a pool, but he was calm.

"Who?" Shangguan Mi struggled to turn her head. She saw a servant and recognized that his clothes were the clothes that servants from Shangguan Family will wear. Every noble family had their servants dressed somewhat differently even if they looked similar. Shangguan Family had unique design for their servants' clothes, which differentiate them from the other servants. *cough* *cough*

The servant looked at Shangguan Mi and followed the order from Shangguan Yu. If Shangguan Mi escaped, tell her a few sentences.

"From the moment you're kept in that room, there's no escape for you. The poison had long seeped into your bones and will destroy you from the inside. Without the conditioning in your room, you will die slowly but surely."

Shangguan Mi's eyes widened.

She wanted to curse but what came out was only bloody cough. *cough* *cough*

The servant watched Shangguan Mi's miserable situation indifferently as if he had no relationship with Shangguan Mi in the slightest bit. The blood didn't scare him either as he had seen worse with Shangguan Yu.

Shangguan Mi's eyes were filled with hatred.

B$%^&*(!

She wanted to curse against Shangguan Yu and greeted his eighteenth generation one by one, cursing them with all the vocabulary she had learned in her life. She wished that she had escaped back then.

But how could she know what Shangguan Yu was planning?

And how could she know that Shangguan Yu was such a treacherous man who will treat his enemies to the point that they would wish that they were dead?

Shangguan Mi at this moment only felt that it would have been better for her to kill herself so many years earlier. If she knew that she was only prolonging her suffering, why should she keep on working hard to sustain this miserable life?

Shangguan Mi wanted to yell.

She wanted to tell the past her that it would have been better for her to die.

But even if she knew that it was only prolonging her misery, she wanted to take revenge against Shangguan Yu.

What she did to him was not even a fraction of the suffering that she had experienced over the years. She felt that his revenge is excessive.

But only the person himself would know how much he had suffered and could decide it.

The servant looked at Shangguan Mi calmly and continued, "Master asked, 'How do you feel having your life controlled by others? How does it feel to be humiliated by the gaze of everyone around you?'"

Shangguan Mi raised her head.

"Wha…cough."

In Shangguan Mi's eyes, she had only made Shangguan Yu a cripple and make him feel inconvenienced.

But in Shangguan Yu's eyes, Shangguan Mi destroyed his life.

He could have become the next successor but because of his legs, his father didn't value him that much anymore. The inconvenience brought by his disability caused his life to be controlled by others around him, turning him into a waste. And even if the people around him and the servants tried to maintain a polite and respectful appearance, Shangguan Yu knew how much they mocked him inside.

Shangguan Mi took what he valued the most.

And she wanted to say that it was just a child mistake?

Sorry, for Shangguan Yu, whose life has been destroyed because of her action, he could never forgive her.

So he simply did the same to her and destroyed what she valued the most and made her experience something similar to him just like what he had experienced over the years.

*cough* *cough*

Shangguan Mi looked at the servant hatefully as if she could see Shangguan Yu standing in front of her.

She didn't like Shangguan Yu when she was young.

And when she grew up, she hated him.

As her body grew weaker and the blood had completely dyed her upper clothes in red color, Shangguan Mi cursed again.

She hated everything that had happened.

If there was any chance to change the past… she wished that she had killed Shangguan Yu when there was a chance to do so.

This way, there was no need for her to suffer so much right now.

*cough*

With that in mind, Shangguan Mi breathed her last breath.

The servant watched as Shangguan Mi passed away and then walked away without paying attention to the body on the ground.