Bright red bloodstains spread across the water's surface, and the blood-stained hairpin was still stuck in Chu Yuning's heart. Xiao Yunyan narrowed her eyes as she watched this scene.
"Guards! Seize this vile slave who seduced the prince consort!"
At Xiao Yunyan's command, the guards behind her immediately rushed towards Shen Yuan and pulled her up from the ground.
Shen Yuan did not struggle.
It was the fifth watch of the night; there was no moon, no stars.
Shen Yuan was bound hand and foot by the guards and thrown by the tranquil lake in the princess's residence.
Pig cages for slaughtering pigs were already prepared on the shore. The old women stuffed Shen Yuan into the pig cages and pushed her towards the lake.
Xiao Yunyan, draped in a white fox fur robe, looked at Shen Yuan with a cold gaze.
"You say I'm inferior to you? How laughable! How can you, a mere criminal slave, compare to me? You even dare to covet my consort!"
"If I grant you life, you will live; if I grant you death, you will not even live for a second longer!"
After saying that, Xiao Yunyan gently raised her hand.
The old nanny immediately kicked the pig cage containing the deep wormwood into the water.
After the winter solstice, the lake water became as cold as if it had frozen solid. The icy water rushed towards us like a ferocious beast with its fangs bared, swallowing Shen Yuan whole.
It's cold, so cold...
Her body struggled uncontrollably, but the more she struggled, the more lake water she swallowed. Shen Yuan tried to open her eyes, but the world in front of her was a blur.
All she could hear was Xiao Yunyan's laughter from the shore.
"Husband, look at her! Doesn't she look like a drowned rat struggling in the water? Oh, she's so pitiful! Won't it break your heart to see her like this?"
"Your Highness is wise and insightful. Such a vile woman who dares to bewitch the emperor should be drowned alive! Your Highness need not pity her!"
Since entering the princess's residence, Shen Yuan knew that she would die in this dark and gloomy mansion sooner or later. The only thing that kept her alive was killing Chu Yuning with her own hands.
It's a pity that the hairpin wasn't a sharp blade and couldn't kill with one blow!
She was unwilling to accept it!
In her final, hazy moments, Shen Yuan thought that if there were an afterlife, she would definitely kill Chu Yuning and Xiao Yunyan with her own hands! She hated them! She hated this world!
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