Chapter 2: Kill her if you want to. Why do you say she is ugly?
Song Tangning never expected that Xiao Yan would turn against her so suddenly. He was smiling and talking to her one moment, and wanted to kill her the next.
When he was pulled up by the arm, Song Tangning felt that disaster was about to happen and tried his best to calm down.
She couldn't die yet. She hadn't made the Song family get what they deserved and hadn't asked them why they treated her like that.
She clutched the shaft tightly, her whole body torn with pain:
"Master Xiao, I didn't lie to you. I really just recognized you. I've only seen you once before in the palace and I'm not familiar with you, so I didn't recognize you for a moment."
"I'm not a bad person. I'm really lost. Today is my mother's birthday, and everyone in Lingyun Temple has seen me..."
The girl was dragged away, grabbing the ground and begging for mercy.
At first she was able to calmly argue, yelling at him to go and verify it, but later, perhaps seeing his cold temper, she gradually broke down and cried.
The rain and fog were eye-catching, splashing up mud.
Xiao Yan raised his eyes and looked at him indifferently, with a cold and lazy expression.
The dark fox fur covered his cold white chin, and his eyes were filled with a faint frosty color.
Until Canglang dragged the girl to the edge of the cliff and was about to throw her down, the girl's fur cloak covered with mud fell off, and a piece of red rope suddenly fell out from around her neck.
"Wait."
Song Tangning clutched the broken branch in her hand tightly and cried inconsolably.
Xiao Yan walked to the edge of the cliff with his eyes narrowed and holding an umbrella. He squatted down, pinched the red rope around her neck and pulled hard, then he held the rope and the half of the broken jade hanging below in his hand.
The jade was grayish green in color, not as transparent as bright jade, and its shape was even stranger, like a snake's tail cut off.
The jade body is covered with dark lines of varying densities, occasionally interspersed with hidden coiled snake patterns.
"Where did you get this jade?"
Xiao Yan's eyes dropped, and the corners of his eyes were sharp and piercing.
Tang Ning's eyes were blurred with tears: "I... I have been wearing it since I was a child..."
Xiao Yan narrowed his eyes: "Since childhood?"
Tang Ning cried until her nose and eyes were red. After seeing the cruelty of men, she dared not lie:
"I've worn this jade around my neck since I was a child. My mother said it was given to me by an aunt who was very kind to me. She said it was her most precious relic and told me to wear it close to my body. She also told me not to give it to anyone else."
The broken branch in her hand swayed in the rain, and she cried bitterly.
"I...I didn't lie to you, I really didn't lie to you, please believe me...I..."
ah! !
The broken wood could no longer support the ground and suddenly fell down. Song Tangning fell down screaming.
Just when she thought she was dead, a big hand grabbed her arm and lifted her up.
She fell into frosty arms and someone pinched her chin.
Xiao Yan looked carefully at the face in his hand that was covered in mud and blood, but his mind was filled with the image of a child who followed behind him a long time ago, round and chubby, as delicate and soft as a glutinous rice dumpling.
"Why, so ugly?"
Song Tangning's face was pinched so hard that it hurt, and she was choked by the mud and blood all over her body, making it hard for her to breathe.
The person in front of her had black hair like clouds, and even the edges of his fox fur coat were not wet. However, she looked so disheveled that she looked like a drowned chicken who had been pushed into the water and rolled around several times.
The terror of escaping death, the panic of not being able to celebrate after being reborn, and the unwillingness and fear of being hanged after suffering injustice in the previous life, could no longer be suppressed after Xiao Yan said the word "ugly" with disgust.
Just die, why do you say she is ugly?!
Her eyes were completely red, and she pushed Xiao Yan away.
"What's wrong with me being ugly? I'm so ugly that I eat your rice and food. Do I want to be an eyesore to you because of my ugliness?"
Tang Ning roared, "I just stumbled into this place by mistake. I just took the wrong road..."
"You are so powerful that you kill people for fun. You can easily decide life and death, but I have never offended you. If you didn't want to save me, you could just let me fall and die. Why did you save me and then push me down again? Why do you keep teasing me..."
“What did I do wrong…”
“What did I do wrong?!!”
Fear and anxiety made her almost forget who was in front of her, and Song Tangning's tears rolled down.
She was the second daughter of the Song family, and her mother was the eldest daughter of the late Taifu Rong Qian'an.
Taifu Rong had two daughters. The eldest daughter married Song Xi, the second son of Duke Song, and the second daughter married Prince Cheng.
Song Xi and his wife died early, leaving behind only one daughter, Song Tangning. Although she had no biological parents to protect her, as the only descendant of the second branch of the Song family, she had a very protective aunt, Princess Cheng, and the influence left by Taifu Rong. Even the emperor felt pity for her, a child who lost her father at a young age. Tangning's status in the capital was extremely noble.
She had been engaged to Lu Zhinian, the nephew of the Queen's mother's family and the eldest son of the Lu family, since she was young. She was also protected by her eldest brother Song Jinxiu from the first house of the mansion and her cousin Xie Yin from the Prince Cheng's mansion. She lived a happy life, but the appearance of Song Shulan broke all this.
Half a year ago, my third uncle Song Qin went out on a business trip and brought back a pitiful girl from Anzhou.
At first, Song Tangning thought that the girl was just a cousin from the mansion who was very kind to her, but a few days later, her third uncle said that the girl was the result of a romantic affair between her father Song Xi and her husband when he was young.
How could Song Tangning accept that her father, who was so loving to her mother, would have someone else?
But the eldest uncle admitted it, and the third uncle also said that he had seen his father and the woman in love with each other. Even the grandmother, under the tears of Song Shulan, persuaded her that she was after all her father's flesh and blood, and her blood sister.
Old Madam Song advised her to just keep the girl in the mansion and give her food.
Her brother also told her that she was his only sister and he would never let Song Shulan surpass her.
The young Song Tangning was as innocent as paper. He listened to them and kept the person. He also helped Song Shulan conceal her identity according to the instructions of Old Lady Song and others. He only told the outside world that Song Shulan's biological mother was a slave by her mother's side. She was taken in by her father in her early years and left her bloodline, but was left outside the capital to be raised because of her weak health.
A concubine's daughter was made a concubine's daughter, and she also became the Second Miss Song.
Song Tangning originally thought that there was just one more person she disliked in the mansion, but who would have thought that Song Shulan had snatched away her brother's love, her cousin's attention, and her childhood sweetheart and fiancé.
But her face was ruined, her legs were crippled, and she was trapped in that dark and deserted courtyard, struggling to survive like a maggot, and was eventually strangled to death.
"Why do you all want to bully me? Why?"
"What did I do wrong to make you treat me like this..."
Song Tangning's heart, which had been holding on for a long time, collapsed. Tears rolled down her face, and the blood on her face could not hide her eyes full of despair.
She is obviously Song Jinxiu's sister.
She is obviously Lu Zhinian's childhood sweetheart.
It is obvious that Xie Yin is her cousin who has loved her since childhood.
She'd done it all, and she'd never hurt anybody.
But why do they always protect Song Shulan and scold her?
They said she was ignorant, that she was not tolerant enough, that Song Shulan had a miserable life and had lived a hard life in the past, and blamed her for enjoying all the wealth and not knowing how to sympathize with Song Shulan's suffering.
But it was not she who made Song Shulan a concubine. Those things she coveted originally belonged to her.
It was Song Shulan who took away everything from her and ruined her life.
They protected her as gentle and considerate, but accused her of being vicious.
But what did she do wrong? !
The girl's voice sounded like she was drinking blood and she was in a desperate situation with no escape. She started crying at the top of her lungs and ended up sobbing in despair. She slowly squatted on the ground and put her arms around herself.
"I just want to live well... I just want to live..."
"Why, why do you all want to bully me..."
The piercing pain made her gasp for breath, she seemed to have fallen into a nightmare and cried and begged,
"Brother, it hurts..."
"Mother... please save me..."
Xiao Yan's breathing stagnated slightly, as if someone was pinching his heart.
He leaned over and wanted to put out his hand, but his touch made Song Tangning, who was already tense to the extreme, feel like a broken string. As soon as her crying stopped, she fell straight to the side.
Xiao Yan used his long arms to pull the person into his arms, and the fox fur coat was covered with mud.
Seeing that she had fainted with her eyelashes tightly closed, Xiao Yan held her and said to Cang Lang:
"Go back to the villa!"
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