Gan Qiongying kept a close eye on Kou Ning'an's reaction, further provoking her.
"I had people go through many twists and turns, using only cash to set up the hidden agents. And the reason these books are divided into two volumes is because if you read them separately, they are just ordinary stories. Only when they are put together do they reveal your dramatic and wonderful adventures, hahahahaha..."
“These people didn’t even know each other. They just took the money and delivered the books to a designated storage location. They didn’t even know what that place was.”
"Over the years, I have been truly exhausted from doing all this. You have no idea how much money I have spent. My entire princess residence is now empty, to the point that I have to marry a merchant in order to make ends meet."
"With large sums of money being distributed, some people might take the money but not do the work, but most people still want to continue to collect money because they can get a fixed amount every year. So they are very diligent in updating the stories and reprinting and copying the books on time."
"Then they will wait for instructions from above. Once the order is given, these people will combine the two books and distribute them to Nanzhao and even every place in the surrounding countries as if they were free!"
"Every single place!"
“And I gave these people an instruction that once the instructions they received disappeared, they would no longer need to update the story.”
"They will also spread these books far and wide, like a shower of flowers, so that the entire Nanzhao and the whole world can see for themselves that you, Kou Ning'an, betrayed the emperor, gave birth to an illegitimate son, and even tried to promote him to the throne, poisoned the late emperor, imprisoned the current emperor, and murdered General Sima's entire clan!"
"Every single detail is incredibly thorough!"
"In other words, if I die in the palace tonight, it won't be long... you're finished! Like fireworks, boom! They'll explode all over the sky!"
"I'm very curious how you're going to silence all the gossip in the world."
"You..." The Empress Dowager took two steps back, pressed her hand to her chest, her face turned from white to green, and her eyes were bloodshot.
"Did I fart?" Gan Qiongying asked herself, afraid that the atmosphere would become awkward.
"Of course I don't know how you murdered General Sima's entire clan, and I don't know whether your lover is a eunuch or a guard. It doesn't matter, I can make it up."
"My version is much more exciting than your experience. You probably don't know that my favorite thing to do is read storybooks, discarding the dross and keeping the essence. Don't worry, you are definitely a very charming woman in the book. I even had an illustrator draw illustrations for the most important scenes."
Gan Qiongying said, "But you know, do people in this world really care whether a story is true or false? They have no way of verifying it!"
"You've held a high position for many years, you should know what people love most in this world, right?"
Gan Qiongying sighed and said, "They love pilgrimage the most... They all admire the strong, as if whatever the strong do is right."
Gan Qiongying chuckled softly, then her voice suddenly sharpened as she glared at the swaying Kou Ning'an: "But what the world loves even more is watching saints and immortals, those high and mighty figures they can usually only see but never touch, fall hard from the clouds! Shattered into pieces! Rolling in the mud like them! And never to rise again—"
Gan Qiongying's chest heaved violently, and she breathed heavily. After all, acting is tiring, especially acting with such dedication.
She finally said softly, "Then it will be recorded in history as infamy, written into books, plays, jokes, nursery rhymes, and jingles, becoming the subject of conversation for countless peddlers and laborers, and for those lowly people you despise the most."
Kou Ning'an's vision blurred for a moment, and the taste of blood welled up in her throat, which she swallowed hard. Aunt Hu quickly supported her beside her, but she could already feel that Kou Ning'an was about to collapse.
"Empress Dowager... don't listen to her nonsense anymore..."
"Kou Ning'an!" Gan Qiongying interrupted Aunt Hu, knowing that the mood and atmosphere absolutely could not be disrupted at this moment.
"You should know that you won't survive when that time comes."
"Because you can't silence the gossip of the world. Your beloved son will see you as a disgrace, and your family will be ashamed of you. Even if you manage to survive, the Kou family will not allow you to live in the world in order to save face for their clan."
"You'll experience what it's like to be killed and despised by your own loved ones. It's not the same as how I feel now, watching my loved ones being poisoned by others. But I think that feeling will be more memorable for you."
"Your entire life... from birth to death, will only become a shameful joke!"
"You still want to put your son on the throne and continue to live out your days as Empress Dowager? Yinian Palace, haha... What a nice name! Dream on!"
Gan Qiongying watched as Kou Ning'an pressed her hand to her chest and finally bent over.
Pressing forward again, he continued, "The people will only believe what they want to believe and are willing to believe. At that time, a few people claiming to be insiders from back then will appear on the street, making the story even more real."
"You should know what the people most want to believe, right?"
"They don't want to believe that those in power are innocent. A bastard born of adultery, a harlot who didn't uphold her virtues, committed adultery, and murdered her husband... Do you two pieces of rotten flesh infested with maggots think you can rightfully ascend to the throne?"
Hahahaha—
"Hahahahahahahaha..."
"Hahahahahahaha... Hahahahaha—"
Gan Qiongying laughed so wildly that her voice became hoarse and even trembled with sobs; she had lost control of herself once again.
Her heart was probably aching even more than Kou Ning'an's.
It is Princess Duanrong who is in pain.
She gave her all her strength and sacrificed everything in her life, but she couldn't change anything. She even made her immortal slave drink poison for her for a long time. However, the one who drove her to this point was someone like Kou Ning'an.
How could Princess Duanrong possibly accept this?
"Didn't you want to kill me?" Gan Qiongying laughed and cried at the same time, pushing aside the dumbfounded servants, rushing to Kou Ning'an, and shouting at her hoarsely, "Kill me! Kill me now!"
"You killed me... let's die together!"
"Go ahead and kill me, hahaha—"
Aunt Hu tried to step forward to stop her, but Gan Qiongying slapped her across the face, knocking her to the ground.
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