"Let me go! I need to see the Prince. I have something very important to tell him..."
Suddenly, a voice rang out. Su Xuerong turned around and looked back, and saw a woman being held by several eunuchs.
The woman had disheveled hair, wore tattered clothes, and looked like a madwoman.
Granny Cheng immediately shouted sternly, "What kind of behavior is this!"
Several eunuchs hurriedly said, "Granny, there's a fire in the dungeon, and we were just about to move this female prisoner elsewhere..."
"A female prisoner?" Su Xuerong stepped forward, took a closer look, and was stunned.
Zeng Ling also saw Su Xuerong at that moment.
She was dressed in a magnificent robe embroidered with gold coins, and wore a dazzling hair ornament on her head. She exuded an air of elegance and nobility, surrounded by several maids and followed by several servants.
Zeng Ling's eyes instantly filled with blood, and she shouted at Su Xuerong without restraint, "Su Shi, you are shameless! I should have been the one by the Prince's side, but you stole everything from me..."
Granny Cheng's face changed drastically, and she hurriedly said to the eunuchs, "Quickly gag her!"
Zeng Ling's mouth was gagged, but her eyes were fixed on Su Xuerong with a fierce look, as if knives were flying out of her eyes.
Su Xuerong narrowed her eyes and sneered, "No need, let her go!"
I never expected that Xiao Yuan would secretly bring Zeng Ling to the capital without telling her. What is he going to do?
Judging from Zeng Ling's current state, Xiao Yuan did not treat her well, let alone anything else.
But she was somewhat curious.
The eunuchs released Zeng Ling's mouth, but they held her hands tightly behind her back, preventing her from moving.
Zeng Ling stared intently at Su Xuerong with bloodshot eyes as she walked towards her with graceful, lotus-like steps.
The woman before me, adorned in magnificent attire, possessed an ethereal beauty.
Instead of feeling ashamed, Zeng Ling harbored malicious thoughts.
"What did you just say? What do you mean you were the one who was originally by the Prince's side?" Su Xuerong asked casually, but stared intently into Zeng Ling's eyes.
After being stabbed by Zeng Ling with a poisoned hairpin, she kept pondering Zeng Ling's motives.
Zeng Ling is different from Chen Siyi, Liu Qiaoer and others. She did not know Xiao Yuan before, and probably had never even seen his face. So why is she so obsessed with him?
She just said that she should have been the one by his side, so...
Could there really be such a coincidence in the world?
Su Xuerong narrowed her eyes and stared at her.
Zeng Ling glared at her with intense resentment and said angrily, "If it weren't for you, I would have been his woman, I would be his queen, and I would definitely have become his empress in the future..."
Granny Cheng was horrified and stepped forward to slap her across the face, then had someone cover her mouth.
She bowed to Su Xuerong and said, "Your Highness, it was the servants who failed to control her. Please punish them."
Su Xuerong remained outwardly calm, but inwardly she was terrified.
As expected, Zeng Ling was also a reborn person!
She actually knew that Xiao Yuan would become emperor in the future!
Su Xuerong said coldly to Granny Cheng, "Tie her up and bring her to the room. I have questions for her!"
Helpless, Granny Cheng had no choice but to have the eunuchs tie Zeng Ling up with iron chains, then forcefully stuff a piece of wood into her mouth before dragging her away.
They walked towards a side room next door.
Su Xuerong sat down on the bed in the side room and watched as Zeng Ling was dragged in like a dead fish and thrown to the ground.
Looking into Zeng Ling's venomous eyes, she said to Granny Cheng, "Bring me a dagger."
Granny Cheng was slightly taken aback, and hurriedly had someone bring over a dagger that could cut through iron like mud.
Su Xuerong glanced at the tightly locked shackles and handcuffs, then waved to Granny Cheng and the others, saying, "You all go out. No one is allowed to come in without my permission."
Granny Cheng couldn't help but glance at a certain spot, and then dismissed everyone.
There are guards inside the house, so the princess will not be in danger.
Su Xuerong bent down, but instead of untying the wooden block from Zeng Ling's mouth, she used a dagger to make a few cuts on Zeng Ling's filthy face. With just a little force, blood seeped from her face.
Zeng Ling was immediately terrified.
Her face must not be harmed!
"What? Scared?" Su Xuerong said coldly, slowly prying open the wood along her lips with a dagger.
Whether it was due to her lack of skill with the dagger or intentional, Zeng Ling's mouth was also cut after the wood was removed.
Su Xuerong immediately smiled: "It really is a fine dagger!"
Zeng Ling froze, a chill running down her spine as she looked at the cold glint in the eyes fixed on her: "W-what are you going to do?"
"Weren't you very arrogant just now?" Su Xuerong sneered. "Now you know you're scared?"
"Do you think I wouldn't hurt you with a knife?" Su Xuerong asked sarcastically. "Or do you think I'm some kind of kind-hearted, foolish woman?"
That's exactly what Zeng Ling was thinking.
She almost killed Su Xuerong in Hangzhou, yet Su Xuerong didn't retaliate against her at all.
Seeing the surprise on Su Xuerong's face, she guessed that Su Xuerong didn't know about her existence.
So she wanted to provoke her with the most vicious language, hoping to make her misunderstand her relationship with Xiao Yuan.
Once a man and woman conceal things from each other, cracks can appear, giving her an opportunity.
Su Xuerong stared at her expressionlessly, the sharp edge of the dagger pressed against her throat: "I'm a very timid person. If I hear something frightening, my hand might tremble and I might lose control, and I might just slit your throat..."
Zeng Ling felt a chill run down her spine.
"You, you, you mustn't do anything rash! Your Highness, you spared me because... because..." Zeng Ling tried to save herself, but her tongue was too sore to speak.
"Oh, you mean the Prince wants to keep you here?" Su Xuerong smiled, narrowing her eyes, and gently pushed you forward. "Why would he keep you here? Do you really think you can get into his bed in your current state? Do you think the Prince has such a disgusting fetish?"
Zeng Lingdong didn't dare to move, only feeling the skin on her throat being pierced by a sharp knife tip, and a stream of blood slowly flowing down.
"Please, please let me go..."
She was so frightened that her body trembled, and her pants immediately became wet.
Su Xuerong smelled an unpleasant odor of urine and looked disgusted: "Tell me, how did you know that the prince would become the emperor in the future?"
Zeng Ling hurriedly cried out, "I...I dreamt it..."
Su Xuerong covered her nose with a handkerchief, but pushed the dagger forward again, her voice soft and melodious: "Oh? Still not telling the truth?"
Zeng Ling stared at the beautiful woman before her, who was doing the most terrifying thing, and stammered in fear, "I...I...I died once before, so I know these things..."
Su Xuerong suppressed her excitement and remained calm: "Tell me about your past."
Zeng Ling suddenly felt that Su Xuerong was a perverted woman, who remained unmoved when she heard Su Xuerong say that she had died once.
"I...I...I was in my previous life..."
Intermittent sobbing and terrified sounds came from inside the house, while Xiao Yuan's expression outside the door was somewhat complicated.
It turns out that Ah Rong wasn't as weak as he thought.
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