"Correct. The former number-one beauty of Cloud Province did indeed fall by this old man's hand." Feng Liang's voice was filled with smugness, as if he did not feel in the least that destroying a delicate flower with a ruthless hand was like burning a qin and boiling a crane—an utter, scenery-ruining outrage.
"What happened after that? After Senior killed Fairy Rubing, you escaped from Wang Tinglou's hands?" Tian Xiaojian swallowed and spoke cautiously.
"Hmph, of course not. If I had run then, how could I have ended up trapped here?" Feng Liang's voice turned shrill, then he gave a faint, lingering sigh. "Although my divine abilities were slightly superior to Wang Tinglou's, against the two of them together I was already no match. In order to cut Fairy Rubing down beneath my sword, I had no choice but to fight as if staking my life, and took one of Wang Tinglou's blows."
"I was gravely injured on the spot and coughed blood, my strength greatly diminished. In the end, I was captured by him..."
"Senior once fell into Wang Tinglou's hands?" Hearing this, Tian Xiaojian's face filled with astonishment. After all, according to common sense, Tinglou's beloved had been slaughtered by him, so he should have hated him to the bone. Why had he not taken revenge immediately?
At least, if it had been Tian Xiaojian, he would definitely have drawn out the other party's soul and refined his spirit, making him taste every suffering under heaven.
"Hmph, do you take Wang Tinglou for some softhearted sort?" Seeing the expression on Tian Xiaojian's face, Feng Liang had already guessed his thoughts. "The reason Tinglou did this was precisely because he hated me to the bone. That was why he refused to kill me easily and instead trapped me inside