Xiao Yuan's eyes were icy cold, his gaze like a dagger fixed on the disheveled and filthy woman before him.
Zeng Ling never expected that she would see the man she wanted to marry again here.
Ever since she stabbed Su Xuerong that day, she has been taken to the dungeon of the Prince's mansion.
Ge Huai'an tortured her, and she could not bear the indescribable pain any longer, so she told him everything.
Ge Huai'an was shocked and handed her confession to Xiao Yuan.
Xiao Yuan realized that Zeng Ling in front of him was actually a woman who had been reborn.
Zeng Ling gazed at the handsome man before her with a look of infatuation.
She was just one step away from being able to completely replace Su Xuerong as his woman...
Once she becomes his woman, she will be an empress unmatched in the world.
But we were just one step away!
A frenzied rage flashed in Zeng Ling's eyes.
In his previous life, Xiao Yuan was not by Su Xuerong's side. Why did she appear in front of Xiao Yuan in this life, causing him to lose such a good opportunity?
"Your Highness, are you here to rescue me?" Zeng Ling hurriedly tried to comb her messy hair, but unexpectedly, her fingers pulled the tangled hair painfully. She quickly put her hand down and smoothed the hair on both sides of her face.
She felt that she must look pitiful at this moment, otherwise why would Xiao Yuan come to see her in the middle of the night?
Xiao Yuan frowned, especially after having just tasted the most delicious flavor. Seeing the ragged and dirty woman in front of him made him feel nauseous.
He suppressed his discomfort and said coldly, "Tell me again what happened before you died last time!"
Zeng Ling was slightly taken aback. Looking at the cold light in the man's eyes, the fawning smile on her face gradually froze. She said timidly, "Your Highness, I...I haven't had a proper meal or slept in a bed for more than two months..."
She didn't know where she was, but a few days ago she had been blindfolded and bumped around, and now she had been stuffed into another dungeon.
Xiao Yuan sneered: "You still dare to negotiate with me?"
After saying that, he turned and left.
Seeing that her trick had failed, Zeng Ling hurriedly called out, "Your Highness!"
Xiao Yuan stopped in his tracks, and without turning his head, said, "I'll only give you one chance!"
Zeng Ling could only say, "I... I was bedridden for a long time at the time, and on the night I died, I only heard a strange loud noise coming from the sky outside. I thought it was thunder..."
In fact, she was already terminally ill and her mind was very confused. She only heard the maids serving her in the room screaming that the emperor had ascended the throne and the true dragon had appeared.
Xiao Yuan listened to her story with a blank expression, his brows furrowing deeply.
The "true dragon" she referred to was herself.
But at that time he ascended the throne and declared himself king in the Southern Zhou Dynasty, not in the capital.
After Zeng Ling finished speaking, she pleaded, "Your Highness, I will tell you anything you want to know, just please let me out. I only want to live a good life in this lifetime..."
Xiao Yuan sneered: "You've been given a second chance at life, you have plenty of ways to live a good life, why did you have to take A Rong's life?"
Unfortunately, Ah Rong was blinded by her own perspective and felt sorry for her, so she begged him to save her.
Unexpectedly, this woman is a vicious snake, repaying kindness with enmity and trying to kill Arong.
Zeng Ling hurriedly explained, "I... I didn't intend to harm Lady Su. I just wanted to take this opportunity to stay by Your Highness's side. Someone in the Ge family secretly gave me poison to injure Lady Su. I'm innocent..."
Xiao Yuan stopped listening to her excuses and strode out without stopping for a moment.
Behind me came Zeng Ling's sorrowful cries.
Xiao Yuan left the dungeon, and the heavy iron door behind him slammed shut.
Zeng Ling collapsed into the darkness, letting out a piercing scream.
Xiao Yuan said to Ming Shu outside, "Go to the Imperial Observatory tomorrow and find out the details of the strange phenomena that have appeared in the sky in the past ten years, including the strange events that have occurred among the people."
Akira was completely confused: "About which aspect?"
This is too broad a topic, what exactly do we need to investigate?
Xiao Yuan glared at him irritably, then glanced at the iron gate behind him: "Like that!"
Ming Shu's cheek twitched slightly as he realized what his master meant.
It is a strange story about a person who died and came back to life, returning to the past.
"Alright, I'll go to the Imperial Observatory first thing tomorrow morning!"
Xiao Yuan then returned to Lingyu Pavilion, where he and Su Xuerong were temporarily staying.
Before returning to his inner chamber, he made a point of smelling himself and then fumigated his entire body with incense to make sure he wasn't tainted by the dungeon's stench before changing his clothes and getting into the canopy bed.
Su Xuerong was still asleep. When he lifted the blanket, he saw the red marks left on her neck and shoulders. His eyes darkened instantly, and he couldn't help but reach out and pull her soft body into his arms.
Su Xuerong woke up again while sleeping, and there was a hot body next to her. It took her a while to realize who it was, and she couldn't help but mutter, "Aren't you tired...?"
She was already so exhausted from all the commotion that she could barely keep her eyes open, and now she's been woken up again in the middle of the night.
"You go to sleep..." Xiao Yuan turned her over, pressing his chest tightly against her back.
Su Xuerong was exhausted, but she had no choice but to cooperate with him. When she got really annoyed, she just gave up...
When she woke up the next day, it was already bright daylight, but the position of the light and shadow was a little wrong. Why was it pointing to the west?
As Su Xuerong was about to get up, she felt an excruciating pain in her bones all over her body.
Xiuchun rushed over: "The Princess Consort is awake?"
Su Xuerong grimaced and asked, "What time is it?"
It's three-quarters past noon!
Xiuchun looked at the red mark on the fair skin below her neck and felt heartbroken: "Your Highness really has no sense of restraint. What if you had hurt her?"
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