For some reason, Zuan felt that something was extremely strange, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.
Just as Zuan was about to confront the paper bride, a father and son barged in.
The father and son looked menacing and seemed to be surnamed Zhang. They were local bullies who, seeing that the Cai family had no male members, set their sights on the two women.
Unable to endure it any longer, Granny Cai gave herself to Old Man Zhang.
The paper bride was quite strong-willed, and she never yielded to Zhang Xiaoge.
She was clever and resourceful, and now that Granny Cai had become Zhang Xiaoge's stepmother, she made full use of this status to protect herself.
The young man surnamed Zhang was furious, and then he had a wicked idea. He secretly found some poison. One day, Granny Cai was sick and wanted to eat pork rib soup. The paper bride made it for her, but the young man surnamed Zhang put the poison in it halfway through.
His original plan was for the paper bride to poison Granny Cai, so that he would have leverage over her. Without Granny Cai's protection, she would be all alone and at his mercy.
But despite all his calculations, he never expected that Old Zhang would drink the soup by mistake, and Old Zhang died on the spot from the poison.
The matter quickly escalated. Fearing that he would be found out, Zhang framed the paper bride for poisoning his father.
Zhang Xiaoge bribed the county magistrate to force the paper bride to confess under torture, and then quickly escorted her to the execution ground.
The paper bride suffered endless injustice, so she swore an oath to the heavens, and sure enough, after her death, snow fell in June and a three-year drought ensued...
Seeing these scenes, Zu An pondered, how could it be so similar to "The Tragedy of Dou E"? He seemed to have heard someone call her "Madam Dou" at the wedding before, could this paper bride be Dou E?
Just then, his vision blurred, and a paper bride dressed in prison clothes and shackles appeared before him, looking at him with pitiful eyes: "Young master, do you think that young man Zhang deserves to die?"
“Of course it is…” Although the paper bride is an enemy, anyone would feel sympathy after seeing her past. Zuan was about to answer when a sudden alarm bell rang.
From the very beginning, he felt that something was wrong, and now he finally realized it.
That is, there were no mirrors in their home, or even in the courtroom behind it, from beginning to end!
A normal family can't be without this, no wonder I felt something was off.
A terrible thought suddenly arose in his mind. He hurriedly took out the Qin King's Mirror that he had obtained in the secret realm and looked at himself in the mirror. He found that his appearance was exactly the same as that of Brother Zhang!
He immediately understood and sneered at the woman before him, "This is your plan, isn't it? To reveal your past, to exploit people's sympathy and pity, and to make them indignant and help you kill that Zhang Xiaoge. But the people you brought into this place don't know that they have unknowingly become Zhang Xiaoge's identity. Once we say that Zhang Xiaoge deserves to die, we should be fulfilling some rule of this world, and in the end, you will easily eliminate us."
No wonder the villagers tried to stop him at the wedding; they all knew that Zhang was after the bride's beauty and thought he was there to lift the veil.
After he finished speaking, the surrounding scene shattered and returned to the ice cave.
The frail Dou family lady was gone, and the alluring and ruthless paper bride reappeared before him, her face pale and blood trickling from the corner of her mouth, clearly suffering a backlash.
"Over the years, you are the only one who can see through the illusion." The paper bride stared at him with resentment. "Countless people with higher cultivation than me have ultimately met their demise here. How did you see through the problem?"
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