Whenever the events of that year are mentioned, Su Xun feels a surge of hatred and helplessness.

He had thought about it more than once.

If he had been strong enough to protect Mu Ge when she was most helpless, would things have turned out differently?

Unfortunately, there was no turning back for him to choose from.

"Heh, Su Qing, you're still determined to force me to make a definitive statement, aren't you?"

With a wave of his hand, Su Xun brought out a child. One of the clansmen recognized the child at a glance as the one from a while ago.

The neighbor of the clansman who had the accident.

When Su Qing saw the child, she felt a sense of panic. Wasn't the child already dead?

How, how could he still be alive?!

"Su Qing, are you wondering why this child is still alive? Do you think I'm so easily killed by you?"

Su Xun walked down the steps.

"From the moment you first stabbed me, I had men watching you to see just how twisted you could become."

The child knelt on the ground. His parents had both died in battle, leaving him as the only son in the family.

The woman from the Qilin tribe took pity on him and took him under her wing, teaching him to read and write.

The boy was stubborn and refused to move to the Qilin woman's house, saying he wanted to protect his own home.

That way, maybe one day his parents will come home, and when they do, they won't see him anymore.

The woman who had her abdomen forcibly cut open was kind-hearted, and she couldn't bear to shatter the child's illusions.

She continued to deliver meals to the boy, despite her large pregnant belly.

She probably never imagined that one day, such terrible news would befall her.

She couldn't even hold her own child.

The boy witnessed the woman's murder and secretly followed the demonic cultivator.

Only then did they realize that the demonic cultivator, after killing people, did not return to the demon realm, but instead reported to the princess's maid.

Before long, the princess arrived, carrying a pill which she gave to the demonic cultivator.

The demonic cultivator thanked him profusely and ate it.

In an instant, the soul leaves the body.

He wanted to tell the adults, but he accidentally stepped on a branch, making a noise that alerted the bad guys.

He was pinned to the ground and heard with his own ears that the princess, who was usually gentle and respected by her people, glanced at him and then ordered him to be taken away and killed.

"Uncle." The child ran to the husband of the deceased Qilin woman.

She was crying so hard she could barely breathe.

"Uncle, you must go quickly and avenge Auntie. It was her, she killed Auntie and even had that person cut open Auntie's stomach."

"Really?" The husband of the deceased tribesman was incredulous. Their respected princess had so cruelly killed their own people.

They even killed a child who was about to be born.

"Princess, why, why is it my family who are dying?"

The clansman whose wife had died raised his knife in grief, intending to kill Su Qing.

But how could Su Qing possibly admit it?

She cowered in fear beside the Empress, weeping as she spoke of her innocence.

Empress Feng still couldn't believe that her daughter could be so cruel.

She used her magic to directly subdue the angry tribesmen.

"Fellow clansmen, you'd better calm down. Everyone knows that my good son has always had a good relationship with Li Muge."

"Being bewitched by that female demon Li Muge, Qing'er is kind-hearted by nature. How could she do such a thing?"

"Besides, have you all forgotten? The reason my daughter turned out this way was also because of Li Muge."

"Li Muge is so ruthless and kills without blinking an eye. Su Xun might be covering for her."

After all these years, the Phoenix Queen still has some confidants in the Phoenix Clan, as well as some clansmen who support the deceased Phoenix King. Now, even they are starting to waver.

“Your Majesty, I also feel that you have only just taken office, and Su Qing is, after all, your only daughter.”

"Moreover, she is usually a kind person, which doesn't seem like what she would do. For the sake of the deceased Phoenix King, we shouldn't just listen to the child's side of the story."

"One-sided story." Su Xun sneered: "You guys were really stupid as pigs just now, which is why you were manipulated by a fool like Su Qing."

"Guards, bring that demonic cultivator out to me."

"How is this possible? Aren't you already dead?" The husband of the deceased pregnant woman was even more incredulous upon seeing his enemy.

"You beast, how are you still alive?" He stepped forward and kicked the demonic cultivator hard to the ground.

The demonic cultivator knelt on the ground, trembling, and said, "Spare me, Phoenix King, none of this has anything to do with me."

"It was your princess who asked me to do it, and she said that if this succeeds, she will give me an inner core that will give me five hundred years of cultivation."

"Just by killing one person, I can gain five hundred years of cultivation, and she will also help me find a new body. I was greedy for a moment, so I agreed to your princess."

"Nonsense! You demon, how dare you frame me, the princess? I am the princess of the Phoenix Clan, how could I harm my own people?"

Su Qing wanted to step forward, but damn it, hadn't she already sent someone to kill this demonic cultivator?

What? Both of them are still alive.

Upon hearing Su Qing's words, the demonic cultivator glared hatefully at the woman who wanted to kill him to silence him.

“Princess, it is true that we demons are bad, but we are bad in an honorable way, unlike you.”

“Those who are righteous are more vicious than anyone else. They are princesses, yet they don’t even spare your own people in order to frame Li Muge, the protector of the Demon Realm.”

"Nonsense, I know, it must be you, and you too..."

Su Qing, looking deranged, pointed at the child, then at the demonic cultivator, and suddenly started laughing.

"I understand now. You, and you, and you, Su Xun, you all conspired with Li Muge to set a trap for this princess."

"Even now, Su Qing, you still show no remorse."

The demonic cultivator also hated Su Qing, and because he was paid to do it, he helped Su Qing commit this evil deed.

Su Qing actually turned her back on her.

If he hadn't been saved by the newly appointed Phoenix King, he would probably be a pile of bones by now.

"I've wronged you." The demonic cultivator stood up and took out a mirror from his hand.

Recite a few incantations.

The mirror suddenly changed, revealing how Su Qing and her maid contacted the demonic cultivator and plotted.

She explained all the reasons why Su Qing chose that pregnant woman.

"What, what's going on?!"

"How could this be? It's really hard to believe that the Phoenix King, who was benevolent and righteous his whole life and even sacrificed his life for our Phoenix Clan, would have such a daughter."

The matter is now settled.

Empress Feng was also incredulous; she couldn't believe that a few words from the person in the mirror could lead to the decision to kill her own people.

They even prey on unborn children.

"You scoundrel!" Empress Feng was so angry that she slapped Su Qing across the face.

The blow made Su Qing turn her head to the side. She covered her face where she had been hit, her expression contorted with rage.

"Mother, you hit me! You're hitting me now for these insignificant people. You never used to hit me."