Tingyu smiled, neither agreeing nor disagreeing.
She had always been a spy for the Kingdom of Yu.
But Jiang Xinwei was blind and insisted on considering her one of her own. What could she do but comply?
Linghu Lan smiled and said to Tingyu, "If I reward you with a hundred taels of gold and a thousand taels of silver, what else would you like?"
Tingyu was overjoyed, knowing that this meant he was about to be promoted and given a higher rank. He hurriedly said, "My hometown is Jiyuan. I have been hiding in the Wushui Kingdom for many years and I miss my hometown very much. I really want to go home and visit."
"Returning home in glory is indeed fitting. I hereby appoint you as the Assistant Magistrate of Jiyuan County, making you the local official. If you do well, I will naturally see it; if you do poorly, I will punish you accordingly." Linghu Lan's tone was full of trust, which pleased Tingyu greatly.
"Thank you for your grace, Regent!"
"You may leave!"
"Your Majesty, I take my leave!"
Tingyu left happily, all her hard work over the years had been worthwhile, all for this one day.
Xiao Ling gave a cold laugh and remained silent.
Linghu Lan understood what it meant: to win people's hearts.
“You’re wrong. This is a combination of kindness and severity. If you see all normal official appointments as buying people’s hearts, then you’ve lowered your standards. But you’ve already died once, so why would you care about these things? It means that you died in vain.”
Xiao Ling's face turned pale.
He suddenly realized that Jiang Yun was right. He had already died once, so why should he care about these worldly things?
That day.
He was ordered by the seventh prince to be sunk into the center of the lake.
His heart was cold.
He understood the Third Princess's eyes; she knew he was being framed, yet she still gave up on herself.
He's been touched by other women; he's not clean anymore.
The Third Princess did not want unclean things.
There is no greater sorrow than a broken heart.
In the lake, he even gave up struggling.
It's better that he's dead!
Later, feeling too suffocated, he rubbed against the cage so hard that it shook.
It was Tingyu who dived into the water, released him, and then led him out through a secret passage that had been dug a long time ago.
Afterwards, the two evaded numerous inspections along the way, and after many twists and turns, finally returned to the capital.
On the way, he also heard about the peace talks between the two countries, and the dissatisfaction of the people of Wushui Kingdom with the Third Princess, who wanted to exchange the Third Princess for the generals.
They also heard that the Seventh Prince had threatened to kill himself to protect the Third Princess.
only……
These things are none of his concern anymore.
He's just a dead man, nothing more.
He thought he had thought things through, but when facing Jiang Yun, he still felt that he hadn't died completely enough.
"Your Majesty may kill or torture me as you see fit."
Linghu Lan smiled, picked up her teacup, and took a sip.
"What's the point of killing you? It would only be doing you a favor. Don't you want revenge?"
revenge?
Xiao Ling's eyes lit up instantly. He didn't say anything; he didn't believe Jiang Yun would be so kind.
"You guessed right. I did not have good intentions. The Wushui Kingdom wanted to form a marriage alliance with my Dayu Kingdom, which I originally refused. However, now that you have come to the capital, I am considering changing my mind."
Xiao Ling's heart fluttered, and his voice became somewhat hoarse.
"You want me to be sent as a political bride, to marry the king?"
"Not bad, are you interested? Marrying the Seventh Prince's mother and becoming her elder?"
Xiao Ling glanced at Linghu Lan, and being as clever as he was, he instantly guessed what Linghu Lan was thinking, but still asked:
"Why?"
Linghu Lan's face was full of malice.
"Happy!"
I just want to see you and the female lead have a fight, that's all!
"Aren't you afraid that I will submit to the Third Princess?"
"I'm not afraid!"
"Why?"
"Because then you would really die."
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