"I repaid kindness with enmity and kicked you when you were down!" Bai Lu laughed angrily, pointing at Lin Shuang and shouting, "Because of you, because I valued our sisterly bond, I even helped you hide the princess's identity and became a disloyal and unjust person, hoping you would have a chance to turn back, but you say I repaid kindness with enmity?"

"White Dew..." Xi Que frowned.

"It's alright, let her continue," Ji Fengyao glanced at Xique, signaling her to calm down.

Bai Lu's eyes reddened, and she turned around and knelt down in front of Ji Fengyao, kowtowing heavily. She said, "I'm sorry, Your Highness. There are some things I haven't told you. I beg Your Highness to strip me of my cultivation and let me return to the mortal world to live a mundane life as punishment!"

She's such a silly girl!

Ji Fengyao said softly, "Bai Lu, please speak properly. Don't act like this. If I didn't trust you, I wouldn't have taken you to the Northwest."

“Thank you, Your Highness, wow…” Bai Lu heard Ji Fengyao refer to herself as “I” instead of “this palace”.

Knowing that Ji Fengyao only referred to herself this way in front of her closest people, such as relatives, the prince, or Xique, it was clear that she regarded her as one of her closest people as well. She was so moved that she burst into tears, and felt regret and fear.

"That was the first time we came back from the Northwest. One night, I woke up and found that Lin Shuang was not there. I went to the backyard and found her having a secret meeting with a mysterious man in black."

I saw the man in black then, and he knocked me unconscious. Before I passed out, I clearly heard Lin Shuang tell the man not to hurt me.

At that time, I thought that applying the frost might not be appropriate.

But I still held onto a sliver of hope and didn't tell anyone, because I felt she had no reason to betray us..."

Bai Lu choked back tears and sobbed as she revealed all the things she had been hiding.

Lin Shuang collapsed to the ground, filled with regret:

What a waste that she came from the palace!

It's really unacceptable that they revealed so many clues so early on!

Seeing that Bai Lu was crying so hard, Xi Que quickly stepped forward to help her up at Ji Fengyao's prompting, patting her back and comforting her, "Bai Lu, this is not your fault. Our young lady said that there is nothing wrong with being kind. It is she who did not know how to cherish what she had and let you down, and also let down our young lady."

"I have let you down, hehe." Seeing that things had come to this point, Lin Shuang decided to throw caution to the wind and coldly questioned, "Did I come here with the intention of betrayal from the very beginning? Did I not initially intend to be of one mind and collude with you bandits?"

It's you, Ji Fengyao!

You favored Xique first. No matter what Bailu and I do, even if we risk our lives, we are not even a fraction as important as Xique in your heart!

It's you, Ji Fengyao!

You're the one who's eating from one bowl while hogging another. You're not satisfied with just having the prince, and you're secretly having an affair with Brother Xiao Chen. If I hadn't seen you two embracing and making out together with my own eyes..."

"Slap!" Ji Fengyao raised her hand and slapped Lin Shuang across the face, interrupting her foul language. She said angrily, "You must be blind. You can't see that Brother Xiao Chen almost lost his life because of you!"

You can't see that Brother Xiao Chen almost went berserk because he was trying to suppress the poison you personally put into his mouth!

In your eyes, you can only see your own gains and losses, but you cannot see the life, death and suffering of others!

Even if you cause someone's death, it's their accident, not your fault!

"Even if I was wrong about Brother Xiao Chen being poisoned, what makes you think we can never be as good as Xi Que? What makes you so biased!"