"The prince once gave Shi Wuqing a zither. Once, I saw her from outside the window. She was holding the zither, looking as if she was missing someone, and she kept murmuring 'sister'..."
When Lian Yi was afraid, Shu Ling got angry. After she finished speaking, she immediately added, "Miss, I don't know if I saw it wrong!"
"...Continue." Shi Shuling clenched his fingers.
"Yes. Two months ago, Shi Wuqing went to the temple to pray and disappeared for half an hour. When she returned, she had changed her clothes. I went to the prince and complained that Shi Wuqing had gone on a tryst with a man... Later, the prince chose to believe Shi Wuqing, and Shi Wuqing only gave me a verbal reprimand without punishing me."
No punishment...
Lian Yi used to be Shi Shuling's maid. Even after such a thing happened, Shi Wuqing didn't punish Lian Yi?
Why?
"continue."
"Also, that night when you came to the palace as Xue Ling, Shi Wuqing said to me inexplicably, 'Xue Ling will be fine, you don't have to feel guilty.' I tried to understand why she said that, and she said, 'I've already told the prince that he won't touch her.'"
At that time, Lian Yi thought that Shi Wuqing was deliberately showing off her status in front of Qi Luan to her. It was okay to slander Xue Ling and it was also okay to ask the prince not to touch Xue Ling.
But then I thought about it, it seemed a bit far-fetched.
Why did Shi Wuqing need to prevent Qi Luan from hurting Xue Ling?
So Lian Yi also said this.
"And one last thing. I remember it clearly. The night Shi Wuqing returned from the restaurant, she murmured, 'It's a good thing you lied to me'..."
Following Lian Yi's narration, Shi Shuling no longer wanted to believe it and had to look at Shi Wuqing with a completely new perspective.
She tried to put herself in her brother's shoes...
I play the qin and call my sister because... I miss her;
She didn't punish Lian Yi because she was her maid;
He told Lian Yi that Xue Ling was fine because he was afraid that Lian Yi would feel guilty about the false testimony she gave during the day.
He falsely accused her of knocking over the teacup because he didn't want her to take his pulse and find out the cause was Lian Yi!
Maybe... Shi Wuqing had realized that she was poisoned a long time ago, and knew that it was Lian Yi's doing, but since she had deceived the whole world, she would die sooner or later, so she didn't care.
At the palace banquet, she endured the pain and strange looks as she watched herself sever ties with the Shi family;
In the restaurant, she was afraid that her impersonation would implicate the Shi family, so she simply pretended to hate the Shi family and deliberately put herself and the Shi family in opposition.
The sentence "Fortunately you lied to me" refers to her disfigurement as described by Xiao Chi!
Shi Wuqing thought Xiao Chi was cheating on her!
“…” Fear gradually filled Shi Shuling’s eyes.
She discovered that she could actually connect a whole set of logic together.
What does this... mean?
Shi Shuling's fingertips began to tremble uncontrollably. She suddenly felt as if she was in a world of ice and snow, so cold that she lost consciousness.
"Miss? Miss? What's wrong with you?" Lian Yi called out worriedly.
Shi Shuling came back to her senses. Without stopping, she immediately turned around and asked the people on the other side, "You...just now, what was Shi Wuqing's reaction...? Tell me everything!"
The men obeyed and described:
"When Xiaoyi said he came to kill her on your orders, she was very surprised and seemed to want to say something, but no sound came out."
"Later, for some reason, the drug became even stronger, and she couldn't even move a finger! But at this time, she was very calm, not afraid, as if she had calmly accepted it..."
"When her eyes were stabbed blind, she kept them open and saw with her own eyes the dagger getting closer and closer to her eyes..."
"When I cut off the first piece of her flesh, her lips started bleeding. Her throat felt a little better, and she screamed softly, almost inaudibly. But because of that scream, she choked on the blood..."
"After the fiftieth cut, she begged us to kill her quickly..."
"After the ninetieth blow, she was like a dead person, without any reaction at all..."
These people were all hypnotized by Shi Wuqing, so in their descriptions, Shi Wuqing's misery was unprecedented and unparalleled. It was recorded in words, and anyone who read it would feel phantom pain.
Shi Shuling's face turned pale when he heard this. This shouldn't have happened. If Shi Wuqing had really harmed her, why would she react like this...
Xiao Chi, who had been watching from the sidelines, had already noticed something was wrong with her. After hearing this and looking at Shi Shuling's reaction, he immediately had a bad guess:
"Xiao Ling, Shi Wuqing..."
Shi Shuling looked back at him, his eyes already misty.
Her voice was hoarse:
"Master, I seem to have killed... my sister with my own hands."
On Xiao Chi's jade-like face, the pupils trembled violently.
Before he could think about it, the next second, Shi Shuling's neck was strangled by someone.
That person's phoenix eyes were red and dripping with blood:
"What did you say?"
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