Chapter 7 It's Too Late
Seeing that Jing Han seemed doubtful, Jing Chengji gave Zhuge Ming a wink.
Zhuge Ming immediately jumped up.
"Your Majesty, I am fine. Nothing happened."
"Second Princess, are you okay too?!"
Jingzhi said subconsciously.
"No...I'm just retching a little from hunger."
Although Jing Zhi was puzzled, she saw Zhuge Ming staring at her, and her heartache stopped, so she lied casually.
Jing Chengji nodded and thought to himself, yes, Zhier was smart this time.
[I told you so. Even the best of health can't handle going to court for most of the day, or even the whole day, without eating!]
Jing Chengji breathed a sigh of relief, but when he thought of what Jing Han had just said, his face suddenly turned ugly again.
But she had to suppress her inner fear and calmly guide Jinghan to explain the matter of the country's demise.
"Han'er, I believe my daughter would not commit treason! If you have any difficulties, please tell me and I will take care of it for you."
"Your Majesty, my daughter..."
Jinghan suddenly couldn't say why he felt sad.
She didn't expect motherly or fatherly love, but now, she felt a little uncomfortable.
[If possible, I don’t want Jingguo to perish...]
[Host, you forgot what I told you. The fall of Jing Kingdom is the original timeline, but if you survive, then you may be able to change the future!]
[Huh? When did you say that?]
【It was last night.】
Jinghan was silent for a moment. She seemed to have fallen asleep while listening last night.
Isn't this her fault?!
Upon hearing this, Jing Chengji's expression immediately brightened up.
I told you that there is still a chance of saving Jingguo.
Wait, the system just mentioned the original timeline. Does that mean that in the original timeline, her Han'er died?!
This is impossible. Han'er's martial arts were taught by her personally. How could it be possible...
Jing Chengji looked at Jing Han's broken legs and fell silent.
If Han'er can't move, then what the system said is something that is very likely to happen, right?
Fortunately, fortunately, my Han'er came back alive.
Seeing that His Majesty was accustomed to it and did not think it was surprising that the Crown Princess revealed her true feelings, the entire court knew that His Majesty had known about this for a long time.
[System, the original timeline, how did Jingguo fall? Can you deduce it?]
[No big deal, host, wait a moment, I'll deduce it!]
The entire court was filled with fear and a hint of curiosity. Could this so-called system be some kind of deity sent down to earth specifically to help Her Highness save the Kingdom of Jing?!
Then Her Highness is still the same Her Highness, and she's not possessed by some ghost, right?!
All the civil and military officials in the court were thinking uncertainly.
[Host, in the original timeline, you fell off a cliff. Although you were picked up by Liu Zhaonan, your bones were broken and you died in one day!]
Jing Chengji felt unbearable heartache just by hearing what the system said.
Not to mention how desperate Han'er must have been at that time. He died in a foreign land with a false accusation against him.
[After your death, Emperor Jing was devastated and his health wasn't very good. When Emperor Jing wasn't very good, the wolves and tigers around him naturally became restless!]
All civil and military officials were silent as a cicada, not daring to breathe.
The kind of rage emanating from Jing Chengji, which seemed to be able to destroy the world, seemed to compress the air in the court at a rapid rate.
A depressing atmosphere permeated the entire court.
[Originally, Emperor Jing only had two daughters, you and Jingzhi. Now that you're gone, he had no choice but to pass the throne to Jingzhi. But Jingzhi doesn't look like your other sisters or you at all. She's like an alien. Let me think of how to describe her!]
[Yes, pure stupidity! An incompetent monarch naturally can't control his subjects. If Zhuge Ming were still around, the Jing Kingdom wouldn't have fallen so quickly. However, Jing Zhi listened to the slander of treacherous people and not only dismissed Zhuge Ming from his position as Prime Minister, but also drove the Zhuge family to the border town!]
Jingzhi's legs went weak and she collapsed to the ground. She couldn't believe it. Was she really that stupid?
Are you so stupid as to drive Prime Minister Zhuge away?!
She looked at Jing Chengji, and Jing Chengji looked at her with disappointed eyes, like a knife, pulling back and forth on Jingzhi's heart.
Jingzhi opened her mouth and wanted to say, Mother Queen, she can't.
But she also had a vague feeling in her heart that if her elder sister had not returned to the capital, the future of Jingguo would indeed have developed like that.
But she really wanted Jingguo to be well.
Jingzhi looked at some of the ministers who often surrounded her, and those people did not dare to look her in the eyes.
Jingzhi opened his mouth silently and smiled.
Her tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes, her eyeballs turned red, her cheeks were clenched tightly, and her lips were bleeding from where she had bitten herself, as if she had no feeling.
[And so, the court was in chaos. Jing Zhi was in a position of power, but he lacked the corresponding virtue. He knew nothing, yet he thought he was so powerful!]
Later, when the Jing Kingdom was on the brink of death, Jing Zhi suddenly had an idea. She wanted to call Zhuge Ming back. If she could call the Zhuge family back, the Jing Kingdom could continue. However, Zhuge Ming's family was in a border town. The nomads had long heard of the Zhuge family's intelligence and wisdom, so they approached Zhuge Ming and asked her to work for them. Zhuge Ming refused to betray the Jing Kingdom, so they killed the Zhuge family!
[After that, the Kingdom of Jing became a purgatory, with countless lives lost and the people suffering unbearably. The Kingdom of Jing, which had lasted for a thousand years, disappeared into the long river of history!]
Zhuge Ming's legs also went weak when he heard that his entire family had been wiped out.
Zhuge Ming's face turned pale, his lips trembled uncontrollably, and his eyes turned red.
She didn't know who to hate. If she hated Jing Zhi, Jing Zhi just drove them to the border town. But if Jing Zhi trusted her a little more, the misery of the Zhuge family and even the Jing Kingdom might not have happened.
Jing Chengji was extremely heartbroken. Her loyal ministers were all wiped out because of a stupid daughter.
She originally thought that although Jingzhi was a little stupid, he had a simple mind.
How can simplicity not be considered a good virtue?
But everything the system said about what happened in the original timeline made her realize that being too naive is stupid. A fool cannot be an emperor, or even give any command.
Jing Chengji wished she could cut Jing Zhi into pieces right now, even though she was her daughter.
At this moment, no minister mentioned Jinghan's crime of treason again.
"So I didn't commit treason? Did Jingzhi frame me?"
Jing Zhi quickly looked at Jing Chengji, she shook her head frantically, she didn't.
Although she wanted the position of Crown Princess, she would not frame her elder sister in this way.
However, Jing Chengji might no longer believe her at this moment.
She turned her gaze towards Jinghan, hoping that the one called the system could clear her name.
[No, Jingzhi was deceived by the people below! ]
[The traitor was someone else. Because you led the soldiers in the border town and won every battle, that person had no place to rise, so he plotted to harm you! Later, when the news reached Jingzhi, Jingzhi believed it without verifying it!]
Jing Zhi seemed to be laughing and crying. The system did restore her "innocence", but she was indeed eager to find Jing Han's fault, so she believed it without investigation and made the matter known to everyone.
Jing Chengji shook his head silently and sighed deeply. No wonder some ministers wanted to push Jing Zhi to the throne. This person is not only stupid, but also vicious.
In order to get to the top, she ignored the sisterhood she had with Jinghan since childhood, and did not even consider the future of Jingguo.
If she had the ability to lead the Jing Kingdom forward, it would be fine, but she didn't have the ability. If the Jing Kingdom was destroyed, what good would she get?!
I have no ability and I can't see myself clearly.
This child is probably useless.
[And your two sisters, your younger brother, your father, and the other concubines and servants in the harem, because they could not bear the humiliation, they swallowed gold and committed suicide!]
Jing Zhi knew she was wrong, but it was too late. She hanged herself at the palace gate and left a letter in blood, which roughly meant that she was willing to die, asking Youmu to spare the people of Jing State!
【Alas, she realized it too late! 】
Yes, it's too late, everything is too late.
No, it's not too late now.
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