Mei Xiyuan admitted that she hated that there was someone in this world who made her so miserable.
But she really couldn't bring herself to kill her. After all, that was the only bloodline left in the world by her stepmother, and she just wanted her to never threaten anything she possessed.
At this moment, Lu Tianjiao stared at her face in surprise upon hearing the voice, and asked in confusion, "What, you don't want her to die?"
“I…” Mei Xiyuan said hesitantly, looking embarrassed.
Lu Tianjiao said indignantly, "Even now, don't you understand the situation? As long as that slut lives, His Highness will never give you a second glance. How will you rise in status because of your child then? Even if you abandon your princess pride and strip naked to fawn over him, His Highness will never touch you. You know perfectly well that His Highness's decision to offer a reward throughout the entire Lingkong Continent in the name of the Qin Prince's Mansion proves how much he cares about that bitch. Do you really have to wait until she rises in status because of her child before you finally wake up!"
These words, spoken so bluntly, finally touched Mei Xiyuan's sensitive nerves and pride, igniting all the anger suppressed in her heart and shattering the last shred of reason in her mind.
As she listened, her brows furrowed, her teeth clenched, and her eyes burned with fury. Then, her two embroidered fists, hidden deep within her sleeves, suddenly shot up, violently overturning all the utensils on the table, shattering them on the floor. She roared hoarsely, "I don't want it! I don't want it! I don't want it!"
Immediately, all the maids inside and outside Shaohua Pavilion were so frightened that they knelt down on the ground.
Seeing this, Lu Tianjiao finally breathed a long sigh of relief, a wicked smile creeping onto his lips.
After a long silence, Mei Xiyuan suddenly cast a cold and chilling glance at Lu Tianjiao's face and asked in a deep voice, "What do you plan to do?"
Lu Tianjiao chuckled and said casually, "Hmph... I already have my own plans, so you don't need to worry. As part of our deal, I will do everything in my power to help you and remove all obstacles. I refuse to believe that I, Lu Tianjiao, can't defeat a notorious, useless, ugly woman. Just wait and see! This time, I'll make sure she suffers eternal damnation, crying out in vain, and dying without a burial place!"
After Lu Tianjiao left, Mei Xiyuan remained motionless, sitting there in a daze. She ordered all the servants who tried to clean up the mess to leave.
For some reason, a trace of sadness mixed with fear gradually seeped out from her heart, flowing through her entire body inch by inch, as if slowly devouring her strength.
Suddenly, she felt incredibly tired, as if she had never been so tired before. She tried to get up and lie down for a while, but found that she couldn't stand up at all. After struggling for a long time, she only managed to stagger two steps before falling heavily to the ground.
So, she instinctively buried her head in her hands and pressed her lap, biting her soft red lips. She felt tears welling up in her eyes, but she forced them back.
As she was deep in thought, she suddenly heard a particularly concerned and surprised voice above her head say, "Your Highness, what's wrong? Why are you still trembling?"
However, she did not look up. She only felt that the person squatted down again and helped her up. She was like a wandering soul, light and unknowingly helped to sit up on the soft couch.
After a short while of silence, I realized that everything around me was in complete chaos, with the sounds of shattered porcelain colliding and shouts of reprimands and insults all mixed together in a jumbled mess...
A moment later, the person who had helped her up walked back to her. Seemingly sensing something was wrong, they quickly reached out and gently lifted her head. Their face immediately showed surprise, and they asked loudly, "Your Highness, why did you bite your lip until it bled? What happened?"
So the man quickly took out a handkerchief and sat down beside her, carefully wiping her face while sobbing with anxiety and worry. He said, "Your Highness, please say something! Holding it in like this will ruin your health!"
Finally, Mei Xiyuan gradually saw the person in front of her with a worried expression. She slowly came back to her senses, but her heart was filled with complicated feelings. She stared at her for a while, then suddenly raised her hand and hugged her neck, burying her face in her shoulder and bursting into tears.
The man gently patted her back tenderly and said, "Cry, cry, it'll make you feel better!"
After an unknown amount of time, all the bystanders in the room gradually left.
Mei Xiyuan seemed to have calmed down a bit, and said in a choked voice, "Granny Zhao, she didn't die, she's still alive, she's really still alive!"
"Your Highness, are you referring to the girl the Third Prince mentioned?" Upon hearing this, Granny Zhao's heart skipped a beat, as if she couldn't believe her ears.
Mei Xiyuan finally released her grip slowly, sniffed, and while wiping away her tears, sat up and nodded, saying, "Lu Tianjiao said she is in Peach Blossom Village, and His Highness Prince Qin... has already gone to look for her."
Upon seeing this, Granny Zhao was taken aback for a moment, then remained silent for a while before asking, "So what does the Princess intend to do? In this case, will she continue to cooperate with Miss Lu? Or... should she send someone to inform the Third Prince of this news so that he can make a decision?"
Lu Tianjiao is no pushover. The master and servant finally managed to find a handle on her and planned to use it to get rid of her completely. But at this critical moment, how did the dead come back to life?
However, the near-breakdown between Mei Xiyuan and Mei Zhixuan at the City God Temple in the south of the city not long ago was still vivid in her mind. At this moment, Granny Zhao wondered what choice Mei Xiyuan would make.
Mei Xiyuan took a breath and said, "Lu Tianjiao just said that she has a way to make her disappear completely this time, so that she will never be an obstacle for us again..."
Before she could finish speaking, Granny Zhao's eyes widened in confusion as she looked at Mei Xiyuan's face. She lowered her voice and interrupted her, exclaiming in shock, "Completely disappear? Does she mean...death?"
Mei Xiyuan nodded blankly at him, as if she was still shaken by what had just happened.
"Then Your Highness, you agree?" Granny Zhao had watched Mei Xiyuan grow up and knew that she was not a bad person at heart.
But which pampered daughter of a noble family would willingly endure such humiliation of being looked down upon or even ignored by her husband's family?
“I…” Mei Xiyuan stammered, and finally nodded weakly in response.
Lu Tianjiao was indeed ruthless in his actions. Seeing this, Granny Zhao was stunned for a long time before slowly closing her eyes.
Looking at Zhao Mama's face, filled with melancholy and disappointment, Mei Xiyuan quickly took her hand and explained, "Zhao Mama, between the two of us, only one of us can live. It's either her or me. Lu Tianjiao is right, I am the true mistress of the Qin Prince's Mansion. Now that His Highness can search for her all over the world in the name of the Qin Prince's Mansion, what wouldn't he do in the future? There's no turning back now. I absolutely cannot lose my status as the Qin Prince's principal wife, nor can I let a useless, ugly woman overshadow my brilliance. How can I let the Empress Dowager be disappointed in me? No, I can't..."
As soon as she finished speaking, she buried her face in the table beside her and began to sob.
Zhao Mama knew perfectly well the inner turmoil Mei Xiyuan was going through. Only now did she understand why Mei Xiyuan had been so distraught, a state she had never experienced before.
After a while, she opened her eyes, got up, and sadly and tenderly stroked Mei Xiyuan's back again and again. Poor Mei Xiyuan, she was ultimately tricked by fate and forced to become the very thing she once hated.
Watching her heartbreaking figure recede into the distance, Granny Zhao asked in a low voice, "And what about the Third Prince? He already gave you a stern warning at the City God Temple last time. This time, he won't be so easily fooled! If he really gets angry and reports this to the Emperor, I'm afraid..."
Upon hearing this, Mei Xiyuan was startled. She sat up with tears still in her eyes, remained silent for a while, and then looked at Zhao Mama's face. She said, "Then let someone truthfully inform the Third Prince about her whereabouts in Peach Blossom Village. Consider this my last act of helping them. Whether she finds her first or not, whether she lives or dies, is all up to fate!"
After a brief silence, Granny Zhao asked, "What about the Sihai Tea House..."
Mei Xiyuan composed herself and thought for a moment before saying, "Keep an eye on Sihai Tea House, just in case she pulls another stunt."
That night, in a quiet house near the eastern outskirts of Butterfly Valley of Xiqin Academy, the lights were on.
Mei Zhixuan, dressed in a long white brocade robe, with his black hair half-tied up, exuding an air of nobility, stood gracefully beside his desk with his hands behind his back. By the light of the candle, he stared blankly at several divine butterflies dancing in a glass bottle, their wings fluttering in the night, emitting twinkling lights that changed from deep blue to azure to light blue.
He seemed to be muttering something intermittently: "Who exactly is he? How does he know so many secrets of my Dongning Kingdom?...Is the Guardian of Western Qin still alive?"
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew in through the window, knocking the two pieces of calligraphy he had hastily written as soon as he returned from the City God Temple to the ground. One of them read, "The true dragon emerges from the sea, the spiritual sky is unified, the phoenix is reborn from the ashes, life is death, and death is life."
The other piece of paper reads, "Peach blossoms adorn the small shop, their pink petals gleaming; willows line the street, their green branches trailing behind."
At this moment, a guard walked in and saw the two pieces of writing that had been blown to the ground. He hurriedly went forward to pick them up and approached Mei Zhixuan, saying, "Your Highness still hasn't figured out these words?"
Hearing this, Mei Zhixuan finally came to his senses, slowly walked to the desk and sat down. He stared silently at the two pieces of calligraphy on the desk for a while, then said...
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