The Glamorous Comeback of the Ousted Heiress novel Chapter 358

Chapter 358: 137 Meeting Yama in White (Part 2)_2

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“Just one table,” Xu En glanced at her.

Just one table?

So few people?

Xu Shujie was a bit surprised.

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Ji Heng and the others were visiting the private museum of the Chen Family, with a scheduled entry time of two o’clock in the afternoon.

Xu Wenyao parked the car in a nearby parking lot before leading the group to the museum.

The museum is located on the very western edge of Xingjiang District, bordering Shimen District.

The entire museum is designed in a garden style, with a wide gatehouse at the entrance. They limit the number of daily visitors, and there weren’t many people queuing for the reserved slots at that time.

The private museum of the Chen Family is quite large and it’s widely known that it houses mostly items belonging to the Bai Family. It’s open to the public for free, yet it only admits just over a thousand visitors each day.

Xu Wenyao and the others queued up and entered the spacious museum grounds. Walking along the corridor, they soon saw the first exhibition hall in the center.

Right there in the center, within a glass cabinet, lay the preserved armor.

You could hear the voice of the museum’s tour guide drifting through the microphone: “Everyone, look, this is General Bai Li’s armor, weighing 112 jin. Imagine carrying such heavy armor while lunging at the enemy with a spear to strike at their heads…”

Past the iron armor, everyday utensils were displayed in glass cabinets on both sides, with stairs leading to the upper floors.

The museum had two more floors above.

“The third floor holds letters from members of the Bai Family,” Xu Wenyao, no stranger to this place, explained to Ji Heng and the others, “Let’s visit the second floor first…”

“Go to the backyard first,” Ji Heng shook his head, striding with his pipe straight through the first floor and down a concrete path to the backyard.

Xu Wenyao was taken aback, but he followed Ji Heng.

The entire backyard was a one-hectare garden. The concrete path was narrow, flanked by ancient trees with a long history. There were not many pedestrians and no other attractions on the path.

After walking four hundred meters, they finally reached a tomb.

Incense and candles were placed on both sides of the tomb.

Jiang He, very familiar with the routine, picked up a stick of incense from the left side.

However, due to his short stature, no one noticed him at that moment, their gazes fixed on the stone tomb in front of them. The tomb had nine steps leading up to it, atop which sat a nearly dilapidated stele.

Even Xu Wenyao was aware of this part of history.

He looked up at the stele.

Even though it wasn’t his first visit, Xu Wenyao was still subdued by the inscription on the stele, the unrestrained and bloody aura enveloping him.

Before the last battle, the tomb’s owner had engraved their own epitaph believing they would not return. The epitaph comprised only ten characters—

Bai Yi

Yi Sheng

Jian Jin

Yan Fan

Luo Gu

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A life in defiance,

In white, facing Yama.

This was the epitaph Bai Xiangjun left for herself. It was only after Chen Ye later returned to Jiangjing that it was brought back. _{freёweɓnovel.com}

Xu Wenyao couldn’t quite imagine what those people were like back then, to have left behind such words.

Just looking at the stele, he could envision the figure in white, standing against the wind with a spear in hand, inscribing the characters with gallant determination.

Many offerings had been laid on the stele and the steps: lollipops, candied haws, pretty butterfly hair clips, one after another of fresh flowers, and stacks upon stacks of photos from around the world…