The woman, Liu, Huo Minglang's only concubine, stood before the candlestick, slowly and methodically trimming the candle flame with scissors, and said calmly:
"What do you know? What am I in front of Princess Duanyang? Her Highness hasn't visited for many years; her arrival tonight must be for something important. If I go with her now and incur her wrath, do you think the General can do anything about it even if she wants to kill me?"
The maid didn't understand: "But if Your Highness really had a way to deal with the General, you wouldn't have let him marry the Second Madam and then take you as a concubine."
Doesn't everyone know that Princess Duanyang can't do anything to General Huo?
Otherwise, how could the second wife have such a prestigious position?
"That was before. Do you think the General can still act as recklessly as before? Besides, he would dare to offend His Highness for the sake of the Second Madam, but do you think he would do that for a concubine like me?"
Liu turned her head and smiled, her eyes revealing clarity, detachment, and indifference.
Living in this world is not easy enough, so isn't it better to live well?
Why would someone be so stubborn as to go and die, becoming cannon fodder?
"this……"
"Alright, you can go now. Remember not to say things like that again."
"yes."
After the maid left, Madam Liu removed her hair ornaments and jewelry, letting her long black hair fall freely. Then she changed into a comfortable single garment, went to bed, covered herself with a quilt, and went to sleep.
——
"...Huo Chenyi has left the capital..."
"Huo Chenyi has left the capital?"
Upon hearing this, Huo Minglang knew the purpose of Princess Duanyang's visit.
He smiled dismissively and strode to the Yingchun Pavilion.
"I'm here for only one thing: if you dare send someone to assassinate Chen Yi again, I will kill all your children!"
Princess Duanyang threatened bluntly.
His tone was very calm, and his eyes didn't show much murderous intent.
Huo Minglang didn't take it to heart at all, and instead burst into laughter: "You think you can?"
His tone was very disdainful.
He risked his life for over a decade. If he could still let anyone harm his child so easily, then what was he doing all those years?
"Yes, I can't kill your whole family. But I can commit suicide. Do you think the Emperor will hold a grudge against you if I die?"
Princess Chang of Duanyang laughed wildly, her eyebrows and eyes distant and arrogant, carrying a kind of desperate madness.
Originally, their marriage was a contest between imperial power and military power.
She compromised back then because military power was superior to imperial power.
Over the course of these six years, Emperor Huiwu had gradually taken back military power and firmly suppressed it.
This was the most important reason why Emperor Huiwu was able to promise Princess Duanyang a divorce.
"If I die, you will inevitably face a frenzied attack from the royalists, and the Emperor will be eager to kill you! Do you think that if I die, the Emperor will slowly kill your entire family to be buried with me?"
Princess Duanyang had no other skills.
The only thing she can threaten now is her own life.
"I think you're a madman!" Huo Minglang's face gradually darkened.
But he didn't completely believe it.
Who would want to die if they could live?
But no sooner had he finished speaking than Princess Duanyang abruptly pulled out the gold hairpin from her hair and, without hesitation, forcefully stabbed it into her thin neck...
In a flash, Huo Minglang swiftly moved, tightly gripping Princess Duanyang's wrist, barely managing to block the deadly attack!
But the gold hairpin still pierced the flesh on her neck.
Fresh blood gushed out!
"Snap!"
It was the sound of Huo Minglang smashing the gold hairpin on the ground.
Seeing the small blood hole on the woman's neck, the blood blurring her front, Huo Minglang felt a chill run down his spine.
He had fought for over a decade and had seen such scenes before.
But he never imagined that Princess Duanyang would have such a resolute side.
"Are you crazy?!"
Huo Minglang shouted and pulled the handkerchief from Princess Duanyang's waist, tied it around her neck, and at the same time pinched the wound on her neck tightly to prevent more blood from flowing out.
The pain screamed wildly.
Princess Duanyang was trembling with pain, tears welling in her eyes, filled with fear, lingering dread, and pain, but she felt no regret whatsoever!
The woman stubbornly raised her chin, looking arrogantly at the man who had caused her countless pains, and sneered: "Huo Minglang, don't underestimate a mother's love for her child. For Chenyi, let alone suicide, I'd even kill someone if you asked me to!"
"Do you like that bastard that much? Or do you like the bastard's father? Hmm?" Huo Minglang's hand gradually tightened its grip.
His dark pupils flashed with a frenzied rage.
He gradually lost control of his strength.
Huo Minglang roared and demanded, "Tell me! Who did you have that bastard child with? Which man could make a princess like you do such a shameless thing?"
Why?
Why humiliate him like this?
"Is it any of your business?" Princess Duanyang sneered at him. "You'll never be as good as him in this lifetime! And you'll never know who he is!"
explain?
Didn't we explain enough back then?
If she doesn't believe it at all, why does she bother explaining?
"you!"
Huo Minglang was furious and became increasingly reckless in his attacks. Blood had already soaked his handkerchief, and Princess Duanyang was pale with pain.
Wang Yufei, who rushed over, was so shocked by the scene that her legs went weak. She hurriedly shouted, "General! General, you mustn't!"
This is Her Highness the Eldest Princess!
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