That was a really vicious cut. Ruan Jiaojiao is so frail. Now, let alone the child, it's questionable whether she can even save herself!
"You're insane!"
Fusu was furious.
Ruan Jiaojiao enjoyed seeing him panic.
Even at a time like this, she still has the mind to joke.
"Young Master Fusu, have you fallen in love with me?"
"You love me more than you love Li Qing?"
She fainted from the pain after saying those two sentences.
And so they didn't hear Fusu's reply—
"The one I love has always been Jiaojiao."
Ruan Jiaojiao felt like she had one foot in the grave.
They had already seen the figures of the Black and White Impermanence, but were awakened by Xianxian.
"Your Highness, Your Highness, waaaah, you've finally woken up!"
……princess?
Ruan Jiaojiao frowned: "Didn't I say that I don't want to be Fusu's woman, and don't call me a princess?"
"But, but..."
"No buts, I'm very thirsty, go heat me up a cup of tea!"
"Okay, okay!"
After drinking the tea to soothe her throat, Ruan Jiaojiao finally regained some strength.
She looked up and surveyed her surroundings.
They discovered that this was not Fusu's residence.
"We are..."
"Young master, now that we've come out, we're in Lingnan, and no one will bother us anymore. He also told the Emperor that you have passed away..."
"I see……"
Fusu spared her, making everyone believe she was dead, and then sent her to this safe place.
For some reason, Ruan Jiaojiao always felt a tightness in her chest.
She felt incredibly strange; she had desperately wanted to escape that cage, yet in the end, she couldn't bear to leave...
Is she sick...?
Ruan Jiaojiao closed her eyes tightly and said nothing more.
She was carefree and free.
From then on, no one restrained her anymore.
A few days later, Ruan Jiaojiao finally couldn't help but ask about Xianxian Fusu's recent situation.
She just wanted to ask if Fusu had made things difficult for her family, that's all...
Unexpectedly, Xianxian's eyes reddened, and she said, "Young Master... he has already been executed..."
"..."
Dead? Oh, good thing he's dead. A scoundrel like him deserved to die.
She still found it unbelievable. They say evil people live for a thousand years, so why did he die? Shouldn't he have lived to be a hundred?
At this moment, Xianxian suddenly knelt down and said to her, "Miss, actually, actually..."
Ruan Jiaojiao frowned slightly and said, "Speak."
"Actually, that Chu Zhi is the real villain! He wasn't Zhao Gao's retainer at all, but rather a child he left behind in the countryside before he became a eunuch!"
"Zhao Gao and Lord Wang Jian are at odds, so he sent Chu Zhi to get close to you, hoping to use you to ruin our lord..."
"Young Master knew about this matter and killed Chuzhi to help you. But we were blinded by greed at the time and didn't know that Chuzhi was the villain. We didn't believe you, so you didn't bother to explain. You thought you could tell us the whole story once you calmed down..."
Ruan Jiaojiao closed her eyes tightly.
How could this be...
Brother Zhi, how could you be that kind of person?
He clearly...
"Oh, by the way, before the young master saw us off, he asked me to give this to the young lady."
Xianxian took out a sachet containing the strip of cloth.
The poem written for Li Qing reads, "Flowers bloom on the path, you may slowly return home."
At the very bottom corner of the cloth strip, there was a bloodstain...
The cloth strip did belong to Li Qing, but at the time, young Ruan Jiaojiao had an argument with Li Qing and accidentally fell into the pool, hitting her wrist on a nearby stone and bleeding.
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