Chen Qingqing and Chu Jiuqing walked towards the cell where Chen Ruolan was imprisoned.
Miao Hong knew he was going to die; he was already deathly pale with fright, hiding in a corner, hugging himself and trembling.
He looked up and saw Chen Qingqing standing in front of the cell door, and a glimmer of hope for survival ignited in his heart.
He scrambled to the door in a panic, clinging to the wooden fence with both hands.
"Miss Chen, I know you're beautiful and kind-hearted. Please, I beg you, please put in a good word for me. Just don't kill me, and I'll give you Huichuntang for free. I don't even want all the money in my house. Just let me live, I'll give you anything..."
Chen Qingqing didn't even glance at him.
He was consumed by jealousy and, for his own selfish reasons, harmed the lives of others; he deserved to die.
She went straight to the cell where Chen Ruolan was being held.
Chen Ruolan huddled in the corner, hugging her knees, her head bowed, her eyes staring blankly ahead.
She finally became the magistrate's wife, was she really going to die like this?
She was unwilling to accept it, biting her lip tightly, unaware that all of this was the result of her own actions.
The cell door creaked open, and Chen Ruolan slowly raised her head. Seeing Chen Qingqing, her eyes flashed with overwhelming hatred.
"Chen Qingqing, what are you doing here? Do you want to laugh at me and ridicule me?"
Chen Qingqing remained calm and smiled, "Chen Ruolan, we have no grudges against each other. Logically speaking, a young girl's mind should be innocent and romantic, and we should be very good sisters. But you are petty and calculating, always making trouble for me and going against me. Just because your father is a scholar, do you think you are superior to others!"
"Yes, I am superior to you. I have never been able to stand seeing you do well since I was a child. When we were young, I was clearly smarter and prettier than you, but the peasants in the village always said that you had a lucky face and I had a cold face."
From that moment on, I hated you, hated you so much that my teeth itched. So when you weren't looking, I pushed you off the rocky cliff. You were so scared that you had a high fever for seven days. When you woke up, your brain was damaged, and you became stupid and dull. Everyone thought that you were sick and your brain was damaged, but only I knew that you were stupid because of the fall.
I thought you'd stay mentally impaired forever, but who knew you'd become so clever? Not only did you break off the engagement with Butcher Li, but you also learned medicine and sugar making...
You should live in my shadow, in the dust, and deserve to be abused and beaten to death by Butcher Li.
Why is it that you're doing better and better, while I've suffered countless hardships...?
As she spoke, Chen Ruolan let out a series of maniacal laughs, screaming at the top of her lungs.
"If it weren't for you, how could I have married Fan Tong? Do you know how much suffering I endured and how much hardship I went through in the Fan family?"
Every day I have to get up early to empty the chamber pot for that wretched woman Fan Tong, and I also have to wash clothes for their whole family. I live worse than a servant.
None of that matters. Fan Tong, that pervert, is impotent himself, yet he blames everything on me. He's the epitome of a pervert...
Do you know that Fan Tong, in order to find pleasure, sent me to more than a dozen servants to play with? Do you know how desperate I was at that time?
All of this is thanks to you. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have married Fan Tong, and I wouldn't have suffered those inhuman tortures...
So I hate you, I hate you so much I could tear you to pieces and still not be satisfied, I hate you so much I could drink your blood, eat your flesh, and torture you to death…”
Chen Qingqing's eyes grew increasingly somber. No wonder the original owner of this body was so foolish and dazed; it was all Chen Ruolan's doing.
If she hadn't transmigrated, even if the original owner hadn't married Butcher Li, with a despicable person like Chen Ruolan around, she probably wouldn't have had a good ending.
Even if it's to avenge the original owner, she still wants to kill her with her own hands.
Chen Qingqing interrupted Chen Ruolan's accusation sharply, "Shut up! You still don't know how to repent and blame everything on me. If you hadn't been scheming against me, how could I have schemed against you? You deserve to die now."
Hearing this, Chen Ruolan snapped back to her senses. She knew Chen Qingqing could decide her life or death, and she scrambled to her side, pleading, "Sister Qingqing, I don't want to die! Please spare me, please spare me..."
"Spare you? Your crimes are heinous, even cutting you into a thousand pieces wouldn't be excessive."
However, as your older sister, I can't bear to see you beheaded. Out of consideration for our past sisterhood, I'll allow you to have a complete corpse!
Chen Qingqing sneered, stepped forward, grabbed Chen Ruolan's jawbone with one hand, and stuffed the poison she had prepared beforehand into her mouth with the other.
Chen Ruolan clutched her neck, her face filled with terror. "What...what did you give me to eat?"
Chen Qingqing smiled, "Of course it's poison. Did you think it was candy?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Ruolan stared intently at Chen Qingqing with resentment and hatred, gritting her teeth.
"Chen Qingqing, I hate you! Why wasn't it you who died? Why were you always better than me, luckier than me, just because you're pretty? You bitch, I'll haunt you even as a ghost, I..."
Before she could finish her insults, Chen Ruolan rolled her eyes and died.
Chu Jiuqing hadn't expected Chen Qingqing to be so audacious as to personally end Chen Ruolan's life.
Her courage is truly extraordinary. I hope I haven't misjudged her and that she can save the Emperor and live safely in the capital.
Seeing that the wicked had all received their due punishment, Chen Qingqing had no desire to linger in this place any longer. She bowed to Chu Jiuqing.
"Thank you for saving me, Prince Ning. There's nothing more for me here, so I'll head back now."
"Miss Chen, please wait." Chu Jiuqing knew the Emperor's condition was not optimistic and that Chen Qingqing needed to be brought back to the capital as soon as possible to prevent any accidents. He quickly stood up to stop Chen Qingqing.
"It's getting late. Why don't you stay at the county office for the night and go home tomorrow?"
Hearing him say that, Chen Qingqing frowned slightly, then smiled and politely declined.
"Thank you for your hospitality, Prince Ning. However, my elder brother and the others are still waiting for us in the grove outside the city. I need to go and find them so they won't worry."
"My benefactor, please don't worry. I saw Da Bao when I arrived just now, and I have already ordered people to settle them in the county government office." Chu Jiuqing was not lying. He had indeed encountered Chen Feng and Da Bao before entering the city, and then ordered people to take them to the county government office, and also to arrest Qin Shousheng and Shen Yuanze's family members and imprison them.
Chen Qingqing always felt that Chu Jiuqing had ulterior motives.
What does he want to do?
Did he also have his eye on my sugar shop, or did he need something from me?
Forget it, let's just wait and see what he's really up to.
Thinking it over, Chen Qingqing nodded, "Alright, since Prince Ning has already made the arrangements, I will respectfully comply."
After saying that, she followed the guards toward the Anyang County Government Office.
Chu Jiuqing smiled with satisfaction, then led his men out of the prison...
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