"What did you say? What does this sinkhole have to do with you?" The woman's words reminded Rong Chengxuan of the inexplicable sinkhole. They also made him think that the woman in front of him was either related to the previous dynasty or Lingyue Valley. He gritted his teeth and said word by word, "Hurry up and tell me! Or I will kill you!"
"You want to know, right?" the woman laughed. "Do you think I'm stupid? If I tell you now, you'll regret it later and kill me. I know that Prince An of Mingdong Capital is no good. Otherwise, how could you possibly sit firmly on the regent throne and hold such power?"
"I can promise you..."
Before Rong Chengxuan finished speaking, the woman was so focused on Rong Chengxuan and Yun Wanwan that she didn't notice the snakes approaching her. She was caught off guard and bitten on the hand.
The woman's hand quickly turned purple. She acted decisively and immediately chopped off her own hand with a knife. Blood splattered several feet away as she screamed, "Stop! Stop now! I'm your master, and now you're going to listen to that bitch and kill me!?"
Yun Wanwan watched the woman chop off her hand without batting an eyelid. Even so, she still refused to harm the snakes. She wondered if the woman's decision to let the snakes harm her rather than harm them was the right one.
The city gate is also called Chengwu Gate—it was here that our ancestors beheaded the last emperor of the previous dynasty, establishing a new one. The third emperor ascended the throne by killing his half-brother, the second emperor, here.
During the reign of the late Emperor, General Gu Ming was suspected of treason and his own power. He was lured here, where the late Emperor tricked him into being a traitor. He and his troops, branded traitors and rebels, were then murdered by a barrage of arrows dispatched by the imperial court. Despite being struck by several arrows, Gu Ming marched forward a dozen or so steps, crying out, "A foolish ruler is ruining the country, and it will perish."
Rong Chengxuan had also ascended to the throne of Regent, second only to the emperor, stepping on the blood of others. The woman was right; he had never been a kind person. If he had been, he would have been eaten alive by the Rong family after being thrown into Lingyue Valley.
He came from Lingyue Valley bathed in blood, eating human blood and gnawing on human bones. He never considered himself a good person. On the contrary, he was an evil ghost, an evil ghost that crawled out step by step from hell.
The 981 bluestone slabs they were standing on were stained with blood in every crevice, reminding Rong Chengxuan that if he wanted to accomplish great things, he would inevitably have to shed blood.
The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. This is a truth that everyone understands.
How many dynasties changed while the people were still asleep?
In the end, the woman chose to kill the snakes that kept entangled her again and again. The blood of the snakes was all over the ground. She knew that she had no way to retreat. She watched the child she raised bit by bit die in her hands. In the end, even if she was the only one left, she would not be able to defeat Rong Chengxuan and the others.
Just when she thought she was going to die here today, Rong Chengxuan opened his eyes again. This woman couldn't die yet! What he couldn't pry out from the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion might be something he could pry out from her mouth.
“Wanwan…” Rong Chengxuan was about to ask Yun Wanwan to stop the snakes, but Yun Wanwan blew the whistle before he could. “Stop.”
The snakes immediately stopped attacking the woman, who froze in place. She hadn't thought Rong Chengxuan and Yun Wanwan would ever let her live. Then she watched as the blood-soaked man walked toward her, looking down at her and gently reaching out to pull down her veil.
Rong Chengxuan said, "I never thought I would have the honor of seeing the remnants of the previous dynasty here."
The woman laughed shrilly and opened her mouth to speak, but Rong Chengxuan caught her off guard and grabbed her by the neck. Her shrill laughter died away in vain. Gradually, her eyes began to bulge out of their sockets, her bright face turning a bluish purple. Her legs twitched and struggled, and a gurgling sound came from her throat.
"Jiang Wanwan, the most famous singing girl in the capital, has always sold her art but not her body." Rong Chengxuan's grip remained firm, ignoring Jiang Wanwan's struggles, and he simply smiled faintly, "I didn't expect Miss Jiang to have such an identity. She truly hides her true identity."
"You can... kill me... or chop me up... It's all up to you..." Jiang Wanwan, whose identity was exposed by Rong Chengxuan, spoke with difficulty, "You ask me... I won't tell you anything..."
Rong Chengxuan sneered and threw Jiang Wanwan to the ground like trash, then stepped hard on her only remaining hand. "That's such a pity! I've had the pleasure of hearing Miss Jiang's singing voice. It's no exaggeration to say that a song is worth a thousand gold. But Miss Jiang's hand is broken. I'm afraid it will be difficult for her to play the piano or sing for the rest of her life, right?"
When Jiang Wanwan was thrown to the ground by Rong Chengxuan, the hand that was pinching her neck loosened. Before she could take a few breaths of fresh air, she struggled to stand up from the ground, but was pushed back down by Rong Chengxuan. The snake blood on the ground brushed against her face, and the fishy smell made her want to vomit. "Playing the piano and singing is just a livelihood for me. If I can't do it, then I can't do it. It doesn't mean anything to me."
"It's just that I feel regretful." Rong Chengxuan squatted down, pinched Jiang Wanwan's face and lifted her up from the ground, forcing her to look at him at eye level. "It's a pity that I will never hear a singer as beautiful as Miss Jiang again."
Yun Wanwan watched from the side as Rong Chengxuan and the so-called singing girl Jiang Wanwan were being "sweet and sweet" in front of her, his wife who had not yet married him.
At the beginning, Yun Wanwan could still comfort herself that this was Rong Chengxuan's method of interrogation. Later, Rong Chengxuan's words became more and more ambiguous, which clearly showed that he did not take her, his wife-to-be, seriously.
As expected, men are all fickle. Once they get a woman, they won't cherish her. Before he caught up with her, he was still sweet-talking her, saying he'd give her the stars and the moon, and would pick anything she wanted. After he caught up with her and they were engaged, he dared to flirt with other women in front of her. In the end, it all came true: domestic flowers are not as fragrant as wild flowers.
While Rong Chengxuan was reminiscing about the past with Jiang Wanwan, Yun Wanwan on the other side had already imagined that Rong Chengxuan was going to break up with her for that woman named Wan.
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