Chapter 346 The Last Regret
The Guangping Marquis and his wife did not irritate Shen Ruoying. On the contrary, they were furious with their own daughter.
He was helped out by the jailer.
"You evil girl, you will die a miserable death!"
Marquis Guangping said this when he left.
Shen Ruoying looked at her parents' gradually receding backs, and the corners of her mouth slowly curled up.
The Guangping Marquis Mansion has no future.
My parents are so foolish, they probably won't be able to raise any good heirs.
"I will die a miserable death? But your Guangping Marquis Mansion will also be finished sooner or later!"
Although she said this, after falling silent, Shen Ruoying hugged her knees and tears fell down.
She has always envied her elder brother since she was a child because he had everything he wanted.
She had no choice but to study music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and perfect herself to become a model of noble ladies in the capital.
Later, she got engaged to the prince of Duke Qin as she wished, but who could have thought that so many things would happen afterwards.
She just made some mistakes, why did her family give up on her?
Even though my brother Shen Qi kept making mistakes, some of them even resulted in deaths, my parents chose to cover them up for him.
"Fate is so unfair to me!"
"Is fate unfair to you?"
Lin Qingning, wearing a black rabbit fur cloak, slowly walked over from the darkness.
"Cousin, except for the fact that you were born in Guangping Marquis's Mansion, which was not your choice, weren't all other things yours?"
"You are the one who controls your own destiny. How can you blame fate for treating you unfairly?"
Shen Ruoying's face slowly twisted, "Lin Qingning, what are you doing here? Get out of here, I don't want to see you!"
Lin Qingning: "Cousin, are you sure you don't want to see me, or am I the one you can't let go of the most in your heart?"
Shen Ruoying's nails scratched her palm and blood flowed out.
But the whole person reacted calmly.
"Lime, you know, I actually felt sorry for you at first."
"You poor little creature living under someone else's roof. Later, Hangzhi got engaged to you just to piss me off."
"You're just my substitute."
"Later, when we were going to exchange marriages, I felt sorry for you. You were an orphan without any family, and you ended up getting married holding a tablet, without even a husband or children."
"I really pity you."
But pitiful, pitiful, the person who was pitied turned out to be her, Shen Ruoying!
Lin Qingning: "I never thought I was pitiful, because I always knew what I wanted."
"But when we were in Guangping Marquis' Mansion, among all the sisters in the mansion, I envied you the most."
"You were the most dazzling and the most beloved of all the sisters at that time."
“Shen Ruoying, you are actually very lucky.”
"Even if Guangping Hou and his men were devoted to training Shen Qi, you were already beyond the reach of many women when you were born."
The cells next to them were all empty, and a ray of moonlight shone in from the bars, making Shen Ruoying, who was dressed in prison clothes, look even more desolate.
But the candle behind Lin Qingning was burning very brightly.
The two seemed to be standing between ice and fire.
Shen Ruoying suddenly laughed, "What's the point of saying this now? It's just that the winners are the kings and the losers are the bandits. I just made the wrong choice."
Lin Qingning also laughed, "You finally admitted that you made the wrong choice, and more than once."
Shen Ruoying stared at her sinisterly, "Did you come here today to deliberately laugh at me?"
Lin Qingning: "No, I just came to see you."
Shen Ruoying: "Look at me? Ha."
Lin Qingning: "Cousin, among so many things, which one do you regret the most?"
The thing you regret most?
In fact, Shen Ruoying regretted many things, but among all things, the one she regretted the most was the marriage exchange!
She raised her head, her eyes were bloodshot, her nails were broken, and her fingers were covered in blood.
"Lin Qingning, the thing I regret most is that I shouldn't have exchanged my marriage with you in the first place!"
"I'm supposed to be the Crown Princess!"
Lin Qingning shook her head, "No, this shouldn't be the thing you regret the most."
"Because you know clearly that Jing Yu will not like you who is so cruel and merciless. You cannot be the Crown Princess."
"The thing you should regret most is killing Lu Hangzhi."
"Because of all people, he is the one who loves you without reservation."
Although Lu Hangzhi has many flaws, he truly loves Shen Ruoying.
If Shen Ruoying had chosen Lu Hangzhi at the beginning, she would have focused on assisting and supervising him.
The two of them lived a peaceful life.
Lin Qingning: "You two can support the Duke Qin's Mansion. You have the final say in the Duke Qin's Mansion."
"But cousin, you killed the person who loved you the most."
"You know how cold it was that day, and how helpless Hangzhi felt when he was struggling in the mud."
Shen Ruoying opened her mouth, and recalled in her mind the years when Lu Hangzhi had been trying to please her in various ways.
His eyes were bright, filled with her reflection.
The day he learned that she was engaged to his brother, he got drunk and ran to her window and cried.
He would also put all the things she liked in front of her to make her smile.
Tears fell down.
She shook her head, and some tears fell to the floor of the cell and sank into the straw.
"That's impossible. He only cares about love affairs and is indecisive. How can he support the Duke's Mansion?"
"He has no ability. He is much worse than Qin Jingyu."
Lin Qingning: "But he cares about you and loves you more than anyone else."
"You shouldn't have killed him."
"I just don't know if you were the person he was thinking about before he died in the cold mud."
Shen Ruoying: “Stop talking!”
Lin Qingning: "Do you know that when the fire broke out in Cuiwei Pavilion, he rushed to the house where you lived first?"
"When he later found out that Qin Tingfang was you, he was so happy."
"It was as if he had found a treasure that he had lost."
Shen Ruoying covered her ears, “Lin Qingning, shut up!”
Lin Qingning ignored her and continued, "You have been making different choices, giving up this and that."
"But Lu Hangzhi has always been steadfast in choosing you."
"Even though he has let down so many women, he has never fallen in love with anyone else. You are the only one in his heart."
"But you killed him!"
Shen Ruoying completely collapsed. She suddenly picked up something next to her and threw it at the railing.
The object was stopped by the railing and fell to the ground, making a tinkling sound.
She said painfully, "I didn't mean to kill him, he forced me to do it!"
"I finally became the county lady, but he wants to turn me back to my original form!"
"If he has no ability, he shouldn't drag me down anymore. I want to move up, and there's nothing wrong with that."
"Since you also said that he likes me and loves me, then he will forgive me, right?"
At the end of the conversation, Shen Ruoying suddenly calmed down.
She raised her head and gave Lin Qingning a smug smile.
"Yes, he loves me, so even if I want him to die, he will never be angry!"
Lin Qingning: "You finally admitted that you killed Lu Hangzhi."
The smug smile on Shen Ruoying’s face froze in an instant.
Everyone from the Dali Temple immediately came out from the sidelines, and Si Zhi wrote down the testimony directly.
Shen Ruoying's scarlet eyes looked straight at Lin Qingning.
Her voice seemed to be laced with poison.
"Lin Qingning, do you really have to kill me before you're satisfied?"
Lin Qingning: "No, cousin, you are the one who has committed so many evil deeds that you must pay with your life."
"I think Lu Hangzhi must be missing you in the underworld and hopes to be reunited with you."
Shen Ruoying: “You!”
She suddenly rushed to the railing and stretched out her hand to grab Lin Qingning.
Qin Jingyu walked over quickly and pulled Lin Qingning behind him.
Lin Qingning patted his hands and said, "I'm fine."
And watching them interact, Shen Ruoying felt as if she was pierced by thousands of silver needles. She said unwillingly:
"Your Highness, if I had not exchanged my marriage with Lin Qingning, would you protect me behind you now?"
Qin Jingyu half-lowered his eyes and spoke indifferently.
“No ifs.”
Qin Jingyu didn't start liking Lin Qingning overnight. At first, he felt sympathy and pity for her.
Later, I gradually discovered that this seemingly delicate woman was never humble or arrogant at all times.
She has a clear distinction between love and hate, and she cares about her family.
That kind of feeling accumulates slowly over time and goes deep into the bone marrow.
I don’t know when this love started, but it’s so deep and lasting.
So for Qin Jingyu, there is no such thing as if.
He only loves Lin Qingning.
Shen Ruoying completely lost all desire to live.
She lay on the cold straw, looking at the sky outside the palm-sized window, which was like inky brocade.
"The thing I regret most is that I didn't think clearly about the fortune stick I drew at Kaifu Temple."
It seemed like a road to wealth and fame, but in the blink of an eye it became nothing.
A tear rolled down her cheek.
In fact, God was really good to her and gave her many opportunities for wealth and glory.
It's just a pity that she perfectly avoided the most correct path.
Finally, there is no return...
In the carriage leaving the Dali Temple, Qin Jingyu was still holding Lin Qingning's hand, and the two did not speak for a long time.
When the carriage drove into Yongxing Street, it passed by the former Qin Duke Mansion.
Lin Qingning lifted the curtain and looked at the familiar door lintel, which was now desolate and dilapidated.
"I still remember that day, it was the ninth day of the third lunar month, the sun was shining brightly, and it was a good day for getting married."
"Two sedan chairs came out of Guangping Marquis's Mansion, one in front and one behind, and were carried into Qin Guogong's Mansion."
I can still vaguely hear the sound of firecrackers and the hustle and bustle.
Qin Jingyu held Lin Qingning's hand tightly.
Lin Qingning smiled faintly and looked at him, "When my cousin got off the bridal sedan that day, she was carried in by Lu Hangzhi."
"That day, as soon as I got off the bridal sedan, a tablet was stuffed into my hand."
Cuiwei Pavilion was bustling with laughter at that time.
Songtao Pavilion was extremely silent, and it didn't look like a wedding at all.
In fact, more than three years have passed, but it still feels like yesterday.
Qin Jingyu hugged her.
"Lime, I still owe you a wedding."
Lin Qingning leaned in his arms.
"That's perfect. Let's use the enthronement ceremony for the Crown Prince and Crown Princess to make up for the fact that we don't have a complete wedding, right?"
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