Xiao Qingrong looked at Xiao Qingyin, trying to glean more information from her expression.
But Xiao Qingyin smiled slightly at her and then turned and left.
Xiao Qingrong's mind was immediately filled with doubt.
So much so that she had no appetite after the banquet started, and kept thinking about this matter, her eyes unconsciously glancing in Xiao Qingyin's direction.
That glance led her to discover something utterly terrifying.
Xiao Qingyin kept staring at her earlobe.
After she noticed, she turned her head away and pretended to talk to the person next to her.
Xiao Qingrong immediately realized one thing: there must be something wrong with these earrings.
She absolutely cannot continue wearing them.
Otherwise, who knows what trap Xiao Qingyin set for her?
Xiao Qingrong raised her hand, about to remove the earrings, but suddenly realized what she was doing, put her hand down, and instead instructed the maid beside her, "Remove these earrings from me."
The maid respectfully helped her remove her earring.
Throughout this time, Xiao Qingrong kept her eyes fixed on Xiao Qingyin, noticing a hint of disappointment flash across the other's eyes after the earring was removed.
This greatly relieved her.
As her tense nerves relaxed and her senses returned to her body, Xiao Qingrong realized that she was very thirsty.
She felt better after drinking two cups of tea and a bowl of bird's nest soup.
Looking up, she saw that Xiao Qingyin seemed dejected, and a sense of smugness rose in her heart.
Things are different now. Xiao Qingrong is no longer an arrogant and frivolous person, and Xiao Qingyin can forget about plotting against her again.
Overjoyed, she drank several more cups of tea.
Soon he had to leave his seat and go to the clean room.
After urinating, she tidied herself up in front of the mirror in the bathroom and suddenly noticed that there was another person in the mirror.
Someone she had just been wary of for half a day.
Xiao Qingrong was startled and opened her mouth to call for help, but before she could make a sound, she lost consciousness.
...
Xiao Qingyin extracted information from Xiao Qingrong.
As she expected, Xiao Qingrong was indeed reborn.
After her rebirth, she approached the Third Prince and used the earthquake in the western suburbs to gain his trust, helping him escape the rebellion of the Wise Prince and sending the Crown Prince to his doom.
It was her idea to lead her to Beian City that led the Third Prince there. In the previous life, the entire city of Beian City was overrun, and no one escaped the clutches of the plague.
But as Yi Shuihan had predicted, Xiao Qingrong did not live long in her previous life.
The end of this year would have been the day she died in her previous life.
After Xiao Qingyin had thoroughly investigated everything Xiao Qingrong knew about what would happen in the next six months, she gave Xiao Qingrong an order and then left.
After Xiao Qingrong woke up from her coma, she found herself back in her bedroom in the East Palace.
Just as he was about to ask the maid how she got back, Situ Rui strode in with her head held high.
"Rongrong, did you need something from me?"
Xiao Qingrong immediately wanted to tell the story of what happened at the banquet, but to her surprise, she found that her mouth uttered different sentences.
"Can't I come to you for no reason? Your Highness, I miss you."
Xiao Qingrong nearly lost her soul.
Why is her body no longer under her control?
What exactly did Xiao Qingyin do to her?!
She was terrified and tried to regain control of her body, but all her efforts failed.
She could only watch helplessly as she coaxed Situ Rui onto the bed, and while he was intoxicated, she pulled out the hairpin from his hair and stabbed it into Situ Rui's neck.
It's over, everything is over.
Situ Rui has always been a cautious person; no matter how much he trusts a woman, he will always keep a watchful eye on her.
He noticed the attack as soon as the person beneath him launched it, and without hesitation, he grabbed Xiao Qingrong's wrist and stabbed the hairpin into her own body.
A sharp pain struck, and Xiao Qingrong finally regained control of her body.
But it was too late.
The hairpin was coated with a deadly poison, which penetrated her heart meridian in a very short time, stopping her heartbeat.
After Situ Rui counterattacked, he immediately distanced himself from Xiao Qingrong and summoned his bodyguards.
He looked at the woman on the bed with lingering fear and said to the guards, "Arrest her."
The guard stepped forward and saw that Xiao Qingrong was bleeding from all seven orifices. He checked her pulse and replied, "Your Highness, she is dead."
"Dead?"
Situ Rui felt a wave of fear wash over him.
If he hadn't been careful and had been stabbed by that hairpin, he would have been the one who died.
Xiao Qingrong actually dared to assassinate him!
Has she gone mad?!
What good would it do her to kill him?
Didn't she say that she was sent by God to help him ascend to the throne?
He promised her that once she gave birth to a son, he would make her empress. Who else could offer her better terms to make her betray him?
After his initial shock and anger subsided, Situ Rui gradually calmed down and summoned the two maids who had accompanied Xiao Qingrong to the banquet that evening.
After questioning him, he found something amiss.
Xiao Qingyin took the initiative to greet Xiao Qingrong. Xiao Qingrong went to the purification room in the middle of the journey and did not say a word when he came back. Later, as soon as he returned to the East Palace, he asked someone to call him over.
Then the assassination attempt happened.
"Did anyone else look for her while she was in the washroom?"
He asked the two maids.
The maids all shook their heads: "Your Highness, no."
"You stood guard at the entrance to the purification room the whole time?"
"Yes, Your Highness."
It sounded impeccable, but Situ Rui was certain that something must have happened in between.
Perhaps someone was hiding in the clean room all along, waiting for Xiao Qingrong to go in, and then, through coercion or some other means, gave her poison and threatened her to kill him.
Situ Rui was certain that this person was definitely related to Xiao Qingyin or Yi Shuihan.
He wanted to kill them, and they wanted to kill him too.
If he hadn't been lucky, they would have succeeded.
Situ Rui's face was extremely ugly.
He walked into the corridor, looked in the direction of the Yong'an Marquis's residence, and said in a gloomy voice, "It seems that some things need to be accelerated."
...
Although Xiao Qingyin gave Xiao Qingrong the order, she was not very confident in killing Situ Rui.
The next day, when she received news of the sudden death of Consort Xiao of the Eastern Palace, she knew that Xiao Qingrong had failed.
Yi Shuihan came to find her, and she said with a regretful look, "It's a pity that I couldn't kill two birds with one stone."
"Having one eagle is not bad either."
Yi Shuihan smiled.
"Don't be too greedy."
Xiao Qingyin frowned: "I don't like being targeted by thieves."
“I will take care of him as soon as possible,” Yi Shuihan replied. “Leave it to me.”
"good."
Xiao Qingyin shared the information she obtained from Xiao Qingrong with Yi Shuihan.
"...This year's weather will be very bad, with floods in the south and droughts in the north, resulting in reduced grain harvests. We need to prepare as early as possible."
Yi Shuihan nodded: "Yes, I will push this forward as soon as possible."
After ending that topic, he asked Xiao Qingyin, "Are you free the day after tomorrow? Would you like to come over for dinner?"
"I should be free," Xiao Qingyin replied. "Did the village send over pigs again?"
"No," Yi Shuihan smiled slightly, "The day after tomorrow is my birthday."
Xiao Qingyin's eyes lit up.
"Is it your birthday?"
"Um."
"Okay, I'll definitely go."
Xiao Qingyin immediately began to think about what birthday gift she should give him.
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