Tears blurred her vision, and for the first time she felt so desperate.
"Your Highness..."
She called out to Li Lingge silently, both looking forward to and fearing the coming night.
…
"Your Highness, the Goddess Nangong of Taiqing Palace requests an audience."
The old butler stood outside the study with his back bent, his voice very low.
The ink spread out into a black flower on the rice paper, and a playful arc appeared at the corner of Li Lingge's lips.
"Oh? You're a rare visitor."
He casually placed the wolf-hair brush on the jade brush mountain, and then spoke.
"please."
Not long after, Nangong Qingxue walked into the study. Before coming, she had specially changed into a moonlit silver-patterned Liuxian dress.
As the skirt swayed, the embroidered ice phoenix pattern could be vaguely seen flowing with her steps.
"I haven't seen you for a long time. Your Highness is more handsome than ever."
She smiled faintly, and her usually cold voice now had a hint of tenderness.
She raised her slender jade fingers and placed a food box carved with twin lotus flowers on the table.
"I brought some snacks from Taiqing Palace. Would you like to try some, Your Highness?"
Li Lingge's eyes moved slightly.
"The goddess seems to be in a good mood today." He deliberately did not touch the food box, but asked knowingly, "I wonder what brings the goddess here?"
A barely perceptible annoyance flashed across Nangong Qingxue's eyes, but it quickly turned into a beaming look.
"If nothing happens, can't I come to see His Highness?"
Then, she hesitated to speak, and a faint blush appeared on her snow-white cheeks.
"Back then, His Highness even took my personal jade pendant—"
Li Lingge looked at the goddess with superb acting skills with a half-smile and interrupted.
"Goddess, you have a good memory, but I do remember that you took the jade pendant back with your own hands."
Nangong Qingxue's expression froze, then she covered her lips and chuckled.
"Your Highness still holds a grudge?"
She suddenly stood up, walked around behind Li Lingge with a cold fragrance of plum blossoms, and gently placed her white hands on his shoulders.
"In fact, these years——"
Her words came to an abrupt end, because a wisp of chaotic energy suddenly rose from Li Lingge's shoulder and gently flicked her fingers away.
"Goddess Nangong."
Li Lingge finally turned around, and there seemed to be stars spinning in his black eyes.
"Why don't you just tell me what kind of pill you want?"
The indoor temperature dropped sharply.
Nangong Qingxue clenched her hands tightly in her sleeves. She didn't expect that her beauty trick would be completely ineffective!
"Your Highness is indeed straightforward."
She forced a smile and returned to her seat, her voice returning to its usual coldness.
"I would like you to help me refine a Nine-Transformation Ice Heart Pill."
Nangong Qingxue suddenly leaned forward with her collar slightly open.
"Your Highness will not refuse."
Snap!
A gilded brocade box was casually thrown on the agarwood table.
"Open it and take a look."
Li Lingge leaned back in a rosewood carved chair, the wide sleeves of his black royal robe drooping, casting a shadow on the table, just covering the brocade box.
Nangong Qingxue had a hint of pride on her lips, and her slender fingertips casually opened the gilded lock.
He wanted to help her make the elixir and even gave her a gift.
As the goddess of Taiqing Palace, what rare treasures has she not seen?
The moment the lid of the box was opened, her fingertips suddenly trembled.
A thin silver chain lay quietly in the brocade box, with a star-like luster flowing on the chain.
On one end was a collar carved with intricate runes, and on the other was an exquisite leash.
Crash!
Nangong Qingxue stood up suddenly, and the spiritual tea cup on the table was swept down by her sleeve and shattered to the ground.
Her usually pale cheeks flushed red instantly, and she squeezed out these three words from between her teeth.
"Li! Ling! Ge!"
The secret icy energy of Taiqing Palace leaked out uncontrollably, and the entire study was instantly covered with a layer of frost.
"What do you mean?!"
Li Lingge didn't even raise his eyebrows.
"Forged from ten thousand year old cold iron, mixed with a coin of Chaos Gold Essence, even a Divine Emperor cannot break it."
"You—" Nangong Qingxue's chest heaved violently, "How dare you humiliate me?!"
She suddenly put her fingers together to form a sword, and a sharp icy sword energy went straight for Li Lingge's throat!
The sword was swung out in anger, and even the air condensed into tiny ice crystals wherever the sword energy passed.
bite--
Li Lingge didn't even raise his head, but casually stretched out two fingers, and the sword energy that was strong enough to freeze the rivers was easily clamped by him.
As the chaotic energy flowed, the Bingpo sword energy turned into a wisp of green smoke and dissipated.
"Goddess, you misunderstood. This isn't a humiliation, it's a transaction."
He suddenly raised his eyes and looked at Nangong Qingxue's neck.
"Put it on and I'll make an elixir for you."
The last two words were like a heavy hammer, and Nangong Qingxue's half-condensed sword technique suddenly scattered.
She staggered back half a step, her embroidered shoes making a harsh sound as they stepped on the broken porcelain pieces.
Li Lingge suddenly stood up and approached Nangong Qingxue step by step.
He stopped when he was only half a step away from Nangong Qingxue, looking down at her condescendingly.
"The goddess of Taiqing Palace is not willing to pay even this little price?"
Nangong Qingxue bit her lower lip tightly, and a trickle of blood slid down the corner of her lips.
Of course she understood what this chain meant. The runes on it were clearly an ancient contract spell. Once put on, life and death would be controlled by others!
"I am the goddess of Taiqing Palace!"
"The Goddess Ceremony hasn't been held yet, so you are not one yet." Li Lingge directly hit Nangong Qingxue's soft spot.
The icy hairpin that Nangong Qingxue used to tie her hair broke, and her long black hair flowed down like a waterfall, making her beautiful face look even more hideous.
"Li Lingge! Don't go too far!"
Li Lingge suddenly sneered. He had too many handles on Nangong Qingxue.
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