Yang Chen focused his gaze and saw only a disheveled woman standing there in a daze, like a walking corpse.
"Big Sister!" At that moment, Gu Mingyue, who had been hiding in the distance, suddenly rushed out. The instant she saw the disheveled woman, she pounced on her and burst into loud sobs.
Yang Chen was somewhat surprised. He had not expected the sole surviving woman to be Gu Mingyue's elder sister.
"Let's go take a look," Yang Chen said with a furrowed brow.
"Mm." Yang Wu nodded.
Gu Mingyue clutched her elder sister, Gu Sisi, and wept bitterly. Tears pattered down her face, pear blossoms drenched in rain, delicate and heartbreaking. "Big Sister, it's all right now. I'll take you home. I'll take you home."
"Home... is there still a home?" Gu Sisi gave a miserable laugh. "Mingyue, you met a good man. Yang Chen, I truly envy you. Even if you only married him as a concubine, that would still be a blessing bestowed by Heaven. Unlike your sister."
At this point, tears streamed from Gu Sisi's eyes. "Home is gone, and I've been defiled. What meaning is there left in living?"
After saying this, Gu Sisi seized the saber the bandits had left behind and plunged it into her own body.
"Big Sister!" Gu Mingyue's eyes flew wide open.
Gu Sisi collapsed into Gu Mingyue's embrace, the expression of pain still frozen upon her face.
"Big Sister!" Gu Mingyue could not believe what she was seeing and began to wail.
Yang Chen and Yang Wu had just arrived. Seeing this scene, they stood rooted to the spot.
They had never imagined Gu Mingyue's elder sister would be so fiercely chaste, choosing suicide the moment after she had been violated.
"Damn it!" Yang Wu ground his teeth.
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