"I... before I breathed my last, I heard thunder rumbling in the sky outside... When I woke up, I was back two years ago, before I got married."
After Zeng Ling finished speaking, she looked at Su Xuerong with great fear.
Su Xuerong looked thoughtful, tilting her head and staring at her: "So, you are a monster who has been resurrected from the dead!"
Zeng Ling's cheeks twitched violently: "I...I...I didn't..."
"Then you are a ghost who has been resurrected in another's body!"
Zeng Ling's face turned green.
What did she want to say to herself?
Su Xuerong laughed: "But you know that Your Highness will become Emperor in the future, so you think I stole your Empress position?"
Zeng Ling became honest and hurriedly denied it: "I, I, I didn't mean that, I just..."
"But what?" Su Xuerong explained for her, "You think that because you've been reborn, you have an advantage in getting the prince to marry you?"
Zeng Ling did indeed have such thoughts before.
However, when she was in Hangzhou, the Ge family kept a close watch on her, and she was unable to meet with Xiao Yuan alone. How could she persuade him to marry her?
Later, after discovering that Su Xuerong had become Xiao Yuan's sweetheart, she knew she had no chance.
In terms of beauty alone, ten of hers couldn't compare to Su Xuerong.
But at the time she thought, so what?
She is a person who has lived a second life, and she can tell Xiao Yuan some things that she can foresee the future, making Xiao Yuan feel that she is of great importance, so that he will find a way to let her into the palace.
But to her surprise, Ge Yin also wanted to marry into the royal family, which made her anxious.
So many people want to be the future empress, what does she have to offer to compete?
That's why he took advantage of Su Xuerong's kindness to gain her sympathy, and then deliberately showed weakness to get her to help him leave the Ge family.
After being rescued by Xiao Yuan's men and taken to a villa in Hangzhou, she felt that Su Xuerong was both stupid and foolish, so she thought of staying there for a long time in order to find an opportunity to get close to Xiao Yuan.
Unexpectedly, Su Xuerong discovered her intentions and wanted to send her back to the Ge family, which is why she had the idea of killing her.
At the time, she was blinded by her momentary success and thought that Xiao Yuan sending someone to rescue her meant that he still had some feelings for her.
After all, Xiao Yuan is a pervert; he likes married women.
She was also a married woman, but she was still a virgin, much better than Su Xuerong, that widow.
Unexpectedly, Su Xuerong dodged quickly and was not killed on the spot, but she herself became the unlucky one.
When Ge Huai'an tortured her, he still showed mercy, and she had no choice but to reveal that she had been reborn, but she concealed the key parts.
Just now, Su Xuerong used her beautiful face to do the most terrifying thing, which completely frightened her, and she told her everything.
"Who else knows about your second life?" Su Xuerong asked coldly again.
“Ge Huai’an and the Prince, and you…” Zeng Ling saw the dagger in her hand dangling at her neck, and her breath almost stopped.
"Did you die when the prince ascended the throne or afterward?"
"Then... for three days..." Zeng Ling said with a mournful face.
Su Xuerong nodded slightly and put away the dagger: "I will come to interrogate you again in a few days. If there are any discrepancies in what you say, I will slowly gouge out your nose, ears, and eyes... but I will definitely not let you die so easily."
Zeng Ling trembled all over and her face was pale.
Nothing is more poisonous than a woman's heart, and she has learned her lesson.
Su Xuerong slowly got up, looked at the pants that Zeng Ling had urinated on, covered her nose and opened the door: "Someone, bring her... Your Highness? When did you arrive?"
She looked at Xiao Yuan, who was standing outside the door, seemingly unconcerned and completely uninhibited, with surprise, and couldn't help but glance at Granny Cheng and Xiuchun and the others not far away.
They all cast helpless glances at her.
Su Xuerong's eyes darted around, and she suddenly said angrily, "This woman is the murderer who almost killed me. Not only did you not punish her, but you also secretly brought her to the capital. What exactly are you trying to do?"
Seeing the obvious guilt on her face yet feigned righteousness, Xiao Yuan cooperated perfectly and asked, "Then how does the Princess intend to punish her?"
Zeng Lingcai, who was inside the room, breathed a sigh of relief, but upon hearing this, his hair stood on end again.
She's already so frightened, how can we punish her now?
"I don't know..." Su Xuerong muttered, "Anyway, we can't let her get away with this!"
Zeng Ling: "..."
Poisonous woman!
Xiao Yuan smiled indulgently and said, "Alright, I'll do whatever the Princess Consort says."
As he spoke, he put his arm around Su Xuerong's waist and walked out: "I just heard from Granny Cheng that the Princess Consort wants to go boating. May I have the honor of accompanying you?"
Su Xuerong glanced at him: "You have nothing else to say?"
Xiao Yuan nodded: "Not for now, but I can still spare some time to go boating with you."
Su Xuerong beamed with joy: "Great!"
Zeng Ling's expression gradually became dejected as he sat inside the room.
Even if she were to be reborn, what good would it do without Su Xuerong's beauty and cunning? Even if she had the ability to predict the future, she could never defeat her.
In the following days, Su Xuerong would go to the dungeon every few days to "interrogate" him thoroughly.
Zeng Ling was so frightened each time that she lost her mind and kept repeating the same old story about her rebirth.
Su Xuerong summarized everything Zeng Ling had said and wrote it down on several large sheets of paper, which she discussed with Xiao Yuan in the study.
"Does Your Highness think those old scholars in the Imperial Observatory would believe this if they knew about it?"
What Su Xuerong actually wanted to know was Xiao Yuan's attitude towards rebirth.
Xiao Yuan smiled slightly as he looked at the nervousness that inadvertently appeared on her face: "She should believe it, after all, such strange things should have existed since ancient times."
The Imperial Observatory is already working diligently to gather all relevant information from the public, so she shouldn't have to worry anymore.
Su Xuerong secretly breathed a sigh of relief, pondering how to find a suitable opportunity to tell him the truth.
“Actually, what Zeng said may not be true,” Xiao Yuan suddenly said.
Su Xuerong's heart, which had just settled, jumped again: "Why?"
"What if it was just a dream she had?" Xiao Yuan gently pinched a pearl on Su Xuerong's earring and twirled it lightly.
Su Xuerong's cheek twitched slightly: "Why do you say it's a dream?"
“Has Arong read Zhuangzi? Isn’t Zhuangzi’s dream of becoming a butterfly a similar situation?” Xiao Yuan laughed. “Even Zhuangzi himself didn’t know whether he became a butterfly in his dream or the butterfly became him. This shows that sometimes everything that happens in our minds is not necessarily real, but just a vague dream.”
Su Xuerong was stunned, but quickly shook her head in denial: "No! The pain of death is definitely not an illusion, nor can it be described in words; only you can experience it yourself..."
The pain of losing a loved one and the pain of death cannot be explained in a few words; that kind of unforgettable feeling cannot be a dream.
Xiao Yuan felt a pang of pain in his heart when he saw her resolute expression.
In his previous life, Ah Rong suffered so much because of a single wrong decision on his part.
He deserves to die!
He couldn't help but pull her into his arms: "I will never let Arong get hurt again..."
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