The prison was damp and dark, with blood stains everywhere and rats appearing from time to time. Zhong Xiu collapsed when he first arrived here.

There were no more high beds, soft pillows and slaves for her to command.

Since being locked up in the cell, Jong-su has been locked in a corner, motionless and crying silently.

There were no windows in the prison, so Zhong Xiu had no way of telling how long he had been waiting here, nor did he know how long he would have to stay there in the future. When he looked up, he realized that he had no way out.

While in a trance, there was finally some movement behind the tightly closed prison door. Zhong Xiu looked up hurriedly and was stunned. It was Chu Rui.

Chu Rui walked in slowly with a pot of wine and a glass in his hands. He stood in front of Zhong Xiu and looked at him for a long time before he lifted his clothes and sat on the ground opposite Zhong Xiu.

"A Xiu, are you okay tonight?"

Chu Rui's tone was full of affection, and calling her "A Xiu" made it seem as if time had gone back five years.

Zhong Xiu was a little confused for a moment.

Then Chu Rui carefully poured the wine from the pot into the cup, and then looked up at Zhong Xiu: "I will leave Beijing tomorrow. After thinking about it, I think I should come to see you again and send you off, just to complete the love we had five years ago."

Zhong Xiu's original hope was suddenly dashed. He gave her a ride, but Chu Rui actually came to kill her!

"No, you can't do this to me, Chu Rui, you loved me so much before, you did love me, how could you do this to me!"

Chu Rui laughed at himself when he heard this: "Yes, I love you, but it's a pity that my deep love was misplaced after all."

"No! I love you, Chu Rui, I really love you. Marrying Chu Xuan is just a temporary solution. You have been imprisoned for five years, and I must find a way to save you. I am begging Chu Xuan to save you..."

"Enough!" Chu Rui shouted angrily. Zhong Xiu's shamelessness completely refreshed his three views. He had never known that the person whom he held in his heart and missed day and night was actually a two-faced person who said one thing and said another.

Chu Rui slowly picked up the wine glass on the ground, looked at it back and forth, and suddenly he was no longer annoyed: "A Xiu, since that day I have often thought about a question. Tell me, what exactly did we do wrong to get to this point today?"

Zhong Xiu stared at the wine glass in Chu Rui's hand and kept shrinking himself back, wishing he could disappear in front of Chu Rui immediately so that he could not hear what he said.

Chu Rui simply asked casually, not expecting any answer from Zhong Xiu, and said to himself: "After thinking about it, I feel that maybe our meeting was wrong from the beginning. If we had never met, maybe I would still be the free and easy prince, and you might have been able to marry your ideal husband earlier."

Chu Rui sighed a little sadly and looked at Zhong Xiu: "But now that things have come to this, it's useless to say any more. Nothing can be changed. So before I leave, I will come here in person to put an end to this seemingly false relationship between you and me."

Zhong Xiu raised his head desperately and refused: "No! I love you, Chu Rui, I love you!"

Zhong Xiu kept telling Chu Rui that he loved her, but Chu Rui no longer believed a word she said. He took the cup filled with poisoned wine and handed it to Zhong Xiu.

"Drink it. After drinking it, we will have nothing to do with each other from now on. We are even now."

"No, I don't want it!" Zhong Xiu raised his hand and tried to knock over the wine glass in Chu Rui's hand.

But Chu Rui was prepared. He raised his hand to avoid the attack, then grabbed Zhong Xiu's hand, pulled her over, and poured the poisoned wine into her mouth regardless of her struggle.

In less than a moment, Zhong Xiu began to feel unbearable abdominal pain. He covered his stomach and cursed, "Chu Rui, you are so cruel! I curse you to die a miserable death! A miserable... death!"

After drinking a cup of Hedinghong, the Princess Showa, who had been proud all her life, died in a few breaths.

"Ah Xiu." Chu Rui's eyes were filled with tears. He slowly stroked Zhong Xiu's face and said softly, "I only hope that in the next life, you and I will not meet again..."

Before leaving, Chu Rui took out a handkerchief embroidered with mandarin ducks playing in the water from his arms and covered Zhong Xiu's face with his eyes open.

This was the token of love embroidered by Zhong Xiu herself. Now things have changed and they can no longer see each other.

In order to cover up the scandal, the emperor finally buried Zhong Xiu with the ceremony of the Night King's concubine, and only announced to the outside world that she had died of illness. However, few people knew that there was nothing in the concubine's coffin, and the real body had long been thrown into a mass grave and buried in the belly of a crow.

But that’s all in the past.

At this time, the news of Zhong Xiu's death reached the palace, and Concubine Lin was furious.

The maids and eunuchs in Zhaoren Palace were so frightened that they dared not make a sound.

Concubine Lin had smashed everything that could be smashed in the room, and the floor was a mess.

"This Lu Yanluo! I really underestimated her. She actually had the nerve to ask the King of Chang'an to come to her defense! This time, not only did it fail to destroy her relationship with Chu Xuan, but it also dragged Zhaohe into it. Everything I did before was in vain! How abominable!"

Then, as if she didn't know what she was thinking of, Concubine Lin stood up and walked quickly into the room. After a moment, she took out a jade token and handed it to her personal maid.

"You must take my order and go to the Lin family to look for my father. Lu Yanluo will definitely leave the palace and return home today. Tell my order to have the assassins in the family ambush me in advance and make sure to kill Lu Yanluo for me! I will not be able to sleep or eat well if I don't get rid of her!"

On the other hand, without Zhong Xiu's conspiracy, Lu Yanluo stayed in the palace for one night. After lunch the next day, she went to bid farewell to the emperor and left the palace to return home.

The carriage of Prince Ye's palace was also waiting outside the palace gate. After Lu Yanluo got on the carriage, she drove straight to the palace.

As the carriage was moving, it suddenly stopped. Lu Yanluo had a feeling that something was wrong. Sure enough, the driver said tremblingly, "Madam, there are a lot of men in black ahead!"

"Don't panic." Lu Yanluo lifted the curtain and took a look. There were about twenty people here, and she was afraid they came here with bad intentions.

She knew that Chu Xuan had left a team of secret guards around her to protect her safety at all times, but now the other side had more people, and the secret guards were afraid that they could not fight against four hands with two fists.

When the man in black saw the carriage stopped, he didn't wait any longer. He drew his knife and walked straight towards Lu Yanluo.

Seeing this, the secret guards in the dark quickly appeared and surrounded Lu Yanluo's carriage, and the two sides started fighting instantly.

The other side was already large in numbers and powerful in strength, and the secret guards had to both fight the enemy and protect Lu Yanluo's safety. After a few rounds, they were all injured.

Just when Lu Yanluo was about to get off the car to fight the enemy together with the secret guards, a group of people arrived with great momentum.

In Lu Yanluo's eyes, Chu Xuan was like a divine soldier descending from the sky. He instantly defeated the men in black, defeated them one by one, and captured them all.

It turned out that Chu Xuan was back!