"Mr. Teng Yuande, will you keep the promise you made to me?" Zhiyun asked again calmly.

Teng Yuande shook his head at her: "I'm sorry, Miss Zhiyun, I won't do that anymore. Because you no longer have any need to exist."

There is no need to exist...?

What on earth happened!!

Zhiyun knew nothing, she was kept in the dark. Han Qingrang disappeared just as he said he would. She came here from afar just to find out if he was safe.

But she kept falling into the traps set for her, and was surrounded by layers of fog.

Teng Yuande said, "Before this, I would definitely send you to the Patriarch safely, and I would even gain his great trust because of it."

"What about now?" Zhiyun asked calmly.

"It's not necessary now, and there's no need for you to exist. I'm sorry, Miss Zhiyun, don't blame me, blame yourself for having a face so similar to Queen Simantu's."

The last sentence is the key point!

"Why is it my fault that I look like her? What's the logic behind this?" she asked over and over again.

Teng Yuande stared at Zhiyun's face and answered her in the same calm voice: "Because you are her substitute. Even if we don't deal with you, if the patriarch is still alive, he will destroy you."

Alternatives, alternatives.

Why is it a substitute again?

Han Qingrang will destroy her.

How to destroy it? Make her disappear from this world, never having existed, right?!

"Stop talking. I won't believe it. I have my own judgment. I won't believe a word you say." Zhiyun firmly believed in her judgment.

No matter how much they said, she still stuck to her own judgment.

Teng Yuande did not distort her ideas, but just told her the facts.

"It seems Miss Zhiyun is also a pitiful person. Your pity lies in falling in love with someone you shouldn't have, and this person has always treated you as just the shadow of a deceased person. The head of the family is such a sacred person, revered by the entire Water City, but he sacrificed himself in order to resurrect the queen."

Speaking of this, Teng Yuande took out a photo from time to time.

Showing the photo in front of Zhiyun, "Teng Mansion is no longer the same as it used to be half a month ago. We can enter and exit that cold palace freely, which never happened before. Can you guess where the master of the family went? You can't guess, because the master of the family is dead. From now on, there is no master of Teng Mansion."

In the photo, Queen Usuda was sitting on a high-backed chair, dressed in casual clothes, with her long coral hair draped behind her. She had a beautiful face, and the man standing beside her...wasn't he Han Qingrang...

He really treated himself as a substitute. The person he loved was Queen Usuda, the woman named Riori.

He deceived himself.

Zhiyun's eyes were filled with tears, but she managed to hold them back in the end.

He died...

The man who cheated on her feelings is dead...

"Miss Zhiyun, I tell you this because I hope you won't have any regrets. The Lord of Teng Mansion no longer exists. In order to erase all traces of your presence here, I had no choice but to sacrifice you. If you had stayed where you were supposed to be, you would still be safe. Your mistake was that you shouldn't have come here."

Finally, Zhiyun was tied up with ropes.

Late at night, he was quietly sent out of the mansion.

The water city is surrounded by water on all sides, stretching as far as the eye can see.

Zhiyun was tied up and thrown into the sea.

Plop——

The water splashed and Zhiyun fell into the water, unable to even struggle, and slowly sank into the water.

Zhiyun never thought that if she were to live again, she would end her young life in this way.

It’s because of that man!!

The sea water was very cold, and the biting cold enveloped her. She sank deeper and deeper, and the remaining air in her chest became thinner and thinner. She clearly felt that she could not hold on any longer.

In an instant, scenes of her death in her previous life flashed through her mind.

She predicted that she was going to die.

In order to breathe the last breath of fresh air before dying, she unplugged the oxygen mask herself, wanting to die without any regrets. The moment her consciousness disappeared, she could clearly feel her soul shedding its shell.

Well, he finally passed away.

“Cough cough cough… cough cough cough…”

She coughed violently and continuously, coughing up a lot of sea water, and the sea water in her nasal cavity also flowed out. She felt uncomfortable, extremely uncomfortable, and her mouth was filled with the smell of the sea.

"woke up?"

A familiar voice came to my ears, a woman's voice.

Zhiyun slowly opened her eyes, her vision was a little blurry. She wanted to raise her hand to wipe her eyes, but found that her hand had no strength and she could hardly lift it.

Then, a wet tissue was brought closer to her, "Close your eyes."

Zhiyun subconsciously closed her eyes.

Wipe her eyes with wet tissue to remove the mist from her eyelashes.

"Open it now."

Zhiyun slowly opened her eyes and blinked several times before her vision slowly returned to normal, though it felt a little sore because she had been soaked in sea water for too long.

She glanced up and saw a familiar face.

The boss lady...

The proprietress of that hotel...

"old……"

When making a sound, my throat is sore and hoarse, like the sound made by an old lady.

Zhiyun stared at the proprietress blankly and said nothing more.

"Poor little thing, tsk tsk tsk." The proprietress brought a bath towel and bathrobe and threw them next to her: "Can you get up? If you can, go take a shower yourself. I've never served anyone before."

"Yes." She said in a hoarse voice.

Zhiyun supported herself on the ground with her hands and slowly sat up. It took her a lot of effort to sit up. After sitting down, she took a long time to recover. Then she slowly stood up, took a bath towel and bathrobe, and went to take a shower.

This room is not unfamiliar.

It was the same room she had stayed in before, which cost her 50,000 yuan and she had stayed in for several days.

I didn't expect that he would come back now.

Zhiyun supported her tired body. In the mirror, her face was too pale and bloodless, like a seriously ill patient. She looked as pitiful as she could be.

There were still marks on her body from being tied up, but they weren't particularly deep, just because the ropes had tied her too tightly.

Even though I washed my face twice, the smell of sea water was still lingering in my nose.

After taking a shower, Zhiyun slowly wiped her hair. She was very tired. Taking a shower had made her almost exhausted, and now wiping her hair was even more difficult.

"come over."

The proprietress waved at her.

Zhiyun walked over.

"Sit down." said the proprietress.

Zhiyun didn't ask anything and just sat down.

The proprietress took the dry towel from her hand and wiped her hair until it was half dry. Then she took out a hair dryer and blew her hair dry.

Zhiyun lay down and rested her head on the proprietress's thigh. "Lean on for a while, thank you."