Death Is Her Destiny

Ying slept with one wolf head on her chest, and another wolf slept with its head on her stomach, just like docile puppies. She just woke up when the sun shone on her face. As soon as she woke up, the two wolves also woke up and immediately ran away.

The other two girls woke up, unaware of what happened that night. "Why didn't you sleep inside?" asked Zheng Dan to Ying.

"I was worried and unable to sleep. So I just stayed outside," said Ying. She didn't mention the wolves as she didn't want the other two girls to be worried. She was even not sure if what happened that night was real or was just a dream. Only after she found some furs on her clothes that she realized it wasn't a dream.

They continued their journey back to Yue. Although it wasn't as stressful as the day before, it was still pretty stressful for them. They're not safe until they meet Yue troops.

They didn't know which direction to go. The girls only knew the Yue Kingdom located in the southeast. Therefore they're heading to the southeastern direction.

They met their luck! After around one hour, they saw some Yue troops led by Fan Li from another direction.

Fan Li was so excited when he saw the chariot, and the three girls were safe. Some of the Yue troops were looking for the chariot in another direction. There were only fifty troops with Fan Li. Therefore he decided to bring these girls home first. After they make proper preparation, they would send the girls to Wu as previously planned.

Fan Li and Shi Yiguang felt happy to be able to see each other again. Fan Li, as if forgot that there were another two girls who came along with Shi Yiguang.

The bandits were not satisfied with the booty that they got the previous day. Moreover, the chariot with the three beauties was missing, and the bandit leader's son was found dead strangled and stranded on the roadside. Therefore the bandit leader was so furious and ordered his men to get the three beauties as ransoms to deal with Yue.

As soon as Fan Li and his troops passed a mountainous area, around two hundred bandits showed up and surrounded them. With only fifty soldiers, they fought to the death to defend themselves and the girls.

Ying, Shi Yiguang, and Zheng Dan could only curl inside their chariot. This time the bandit attack was more intense than before

Not long, some bandits came to check the chariot and dragged the girls out of their chariot. They planned to bring the girls to ride in their horses rather than to take them away in the chariot.

As soon as Fan Li saw the bandits went to the chariot, he and his men fought the bandits to protect the girls.

Zheng Dan was lucky that she knew some swordplay, and she used the sword the girls managed to confiscate from the bandit yesterday to protect herself. Meanwhile, Fan Li was too busy to defend and get Shi Yiguang back from the bandits' hands.

Poor Ying didn't have any adequate support. The bandits captured her, and they managed to escape with Ying in their hands.

Fan Li's men tried to chase the bandits, but with only eight of them, they dare not to take a risk. They should go back and make a plan to get Ying back.

Ying tried to resist, and the horse rider who captured her slapped her so hard on her face that she bled on her nose and mouth.

Knowing that there were no longer any Yue troops chasing after to save her, Ying knew that she's in deep trouble. She became desperate. She knew the chance for the Yue troops to deliver her was close to zero.

She was afraid that the bandits would humiliate her. She decided that she would rather die rather than be disgraced. After all, she had no relatives or anyone in this world anymore. Nobody would care if she died. Not Goujian, his wife, or Fan Li would care for her anyway. Shi Yiguang was safe, and Fan Li wouldn't risk his troops only to rescue her.

Thinking about that, Ying became sad and determined to die. She threw herself down from a fast, galloping horse.

Her body rolled on the ground and almost toppled by another horse. Luckily the horse rider was agile. He restrained his horse just in time.

"Stupid girl, do you want to die?" asked the horse rider. Meanwhile, the bandit who previously carried Ying turned back his horse to see Ying, who fell on the ground.

Ying's nose and mouth already had some bloodstain. Now she landed on the ground from a fast galloping horse. Her clothes were torn apart by friction from the sand and rocks on the road. The Yue beauty looked so miserable.

Ying was still lying on the ground. She felt the unbearable pain from her head, which was previously slapped by the bandit, and now her whole body felt sore and had her nose and mouth bleeding after she fell from the horse.

The bandit said, "You're a beautiful girl. Just be good, and follow us to meet our leader. If you keep on resisting, you may no longer be called beauty. You will destroy your pretty face if you do that again!" He extended his hand to help Ying to get up.

Ying didn't respond to him. Now some bandits already stopped and circled her. She regretted that she had not been trampled to death by horses.

The bandit got off from his horse and took her hand and dragged her. Ying resisted with all her might. The bandit was angry and slapped her face and pulled her hair, and made her stood up. Ying screamed and pulled the bandit's hand to reduce the pain on her head. Once the bandit's hand was within her reach, she bit the bandit's hand. Unexpectedly, her teeth were very sharp. Perhaps because she was raised by wolves?

The bandit screamed in pain and pulled his hand that was bitten by Ying. Some meat from his hand was pulled off as a result.

Another bandit got off from his horse and said, "This girl is hard to deal with. She's as wild as a wild horse. Let's see how she's going to resist after I strip her off!" With that, he moved forward and tried to strip her clothes off.

Ying knew that no matter what, she wouldn't be able to escape. She would rather die than be humiliated. She saw a sword hung on the waist of the bandit who pulled her hair. She drew the sword wanted to stab the man. The man dodged, and her sword only slashed the man's waist. The man screamed, but he's not dead. Ying was too weak. That slash only hurt him, but couldn't kill him.

The man knocked her head hard while, and at the same time, the other bandit who wanted to strip her clothes stabbed Ying with his sword.

Ying felt a great pain - a sword stabbed on her stomach.

The bandit was a bit taken aback. He didn't mean to kill her. It was just a spontaneous reaction to her resistance.

As the bandit pulled off his sword, Ying could feel how her intestine was pulled out from her stomach. Her gut was pulled out from her stomach, and blood like a fountain spurted from her open wound. She could even hear the blood spurted and her intestine spilling off her stomach.

Ying fell on the ground. She's dead.

The once a beauty of Yue, now with blood and dust on her face, disheveled hair and ragged clothes with blood spurting, and her intestine spilled out from her stomach. She looked miserable.

The man looked at her and felt pity for her. "What a waste, what a waste!" said the man. "She was very beautiful when she's alive!"

The bandits left the girl's dead body on the ground. One bandit whose hand was slashed by Ying angrily kicked her lifeless body on her head.