When Darkness Falls, Light the Lamp
Chapter 405

Flower shadows

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"": "Hu Jin was struck by Numbness, hit by wave after wave of dizziness and suffocation.

His heart hardened in an instant. He wanted to fight Shangguan Xingyue to the death.

Then another chill swept through him.

The moment before, he had wanted to fight, only to find himself immobilized, choking as an invisible force gripped his throat.

He was no match for Shangguan Xingyue...

His instincts told him that killing him would be as easy for Shangguan Xingyue as crushing an ant.

Nothing was gripping his throat now. That suffocating feeling came from deep within.

Shangguan Xingyue's smile was beautiful, radiant, utterly captivating.

Hu Jin felt terrible, oppressed, utterly hopeless.

"Still not leaving?"

"Do you want me to break both your legs and drag you inside?"

"You might have a hard time surviving that," Shangguan Xingyue murmured.

His misery and despair reached their peak.

Hu Jin could only struggle forward.

The woods were close to the river.

As he reached the edge of the woods, Hu Jin still harbored a little hope.

They had escaped by a very unusual route.

Now, this was no longer the same path.

How could getting back be so easy?

Yet as he stepped into the woods, he seemed to hear Shangguan Xingyue murmur something. A hard shove struck his shoulder, as though something had stabbed into it!

The pain drew a muffled groan from Hu Jin.

He stumbled forward several steps.

When he raised his head again, his mind buzzed!

The leaves in the woods before him were so green they looked black.

The sky was so dark that almost no daylight remained. Only leaden clouds hung overhead, ready to fall at any moment.

"Ah!" Hu Jin screamed, breaking down.

He whipped his head around. Thick fog lay behind

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