By this time, the sky was gradually darkening.
The sun sets behind the horizon, and the new moon rises.
The vigorous maid, acting on Gu Mu's orders, knocked on Chen Ling's door. Standing at the door, she respectfully conveyed the Regent's decree: "Your Highness, His Highness seems to have caught a cold. He requests that you prepare some medicine for him."
Youyou looked at Chen Ling nervously. The assassination attempt had just occurred, and it was getting dark. His Highness had actually asked the Princess to go out. What was His Highness thinking? She stepped forward first and said, "Let me go in the Princess's place."
"The Regent said he will only drink the medicine prescribed by the Princess, and nothing else." The fierce maid looked troubled, pointing to her chest and frowning.
It means that the regent may have lost his mind again.
"Your Highness, please go. I think His Highness's symptoms are relatively mild today. Normally, he might have already wanted to kill someone." At this point, the lively maid blurted out a line that's all too common in romance novels: "Your Highness, ever since you married His Highness, the Regent's madness has improved quite a bit. You're simply His Highness's cure!"
As she said this, the fierce maidservant adopted an expression of adoration.
Like the most common plot in female-oriented novels, Shen Ling also revealed a slight smile: "Since Your Highness wants to take the medicine I prepared, then I will go. After all, Your Highness is not feeling well, and I cannot keep him waiting."
It was as if pink bubbles were floating in the air.
The fierce maid secretly thought to herself: His Highness and the Princess have such a good relationship. With the Princess by his side, even the most skilled doctors couldn't cure his madness, but he's almost recovered.
Your Highness, it truly is His Highness's medicine!
And the princess lived up to everyone's expectations, acting just like a loving couple, and said to Youyou, "Let's go now."
The fierce maid once again felt a surge of girlish affection. She clasped her hands together and thought sweetly, "The princess is so good to His Highness."
These two are a perfect match, a handsome man and a beautiful woman.
When will I be able to have such a sweet love?
Walking on the bluestone road.
Shen Ling's expression was distant.
Youyou, who was behind her, was almost in tears: "Your Highness, why did His Highness send you out to buy medicine for him? What if we run into assassins?"
"He deliberately wanted us to run into an assassination attempt." Perhaps due to the butterfly effect, many things have changed from the previous life.
Disaster relief, for example, never occurred in the previous life.
But no matter how things change, Shen Ling knows that His Highness has no feelings for her at all. He only married her because he values her family's power.
Once her family has had their fill of using her, His Highness will abandon them without mercy and exterminate their entire clan.
Then she too will meet a tragic end.
Take her brother, Shen Ci, for example... Hasn't His Highness already started targeting her family?
"Why? Aren't you his queen?"
Youyou felt indignant.
"Princess?" Shen Ling sneered: "I am nothing more than an ornament. Would you care about the life or death of an ornament? You might even think it takes up too much space and want to throw it away and replace it with another ornament."
"You mean, His Highness wants you dead?" Youyou covered her mouth in surprise.
His Highness's main courtyard and the Princess's Snowfall Courtyard are very separate. Ordinary servants are not allowed to inquire about the affairs between their masters, nor are they allowed to gossip about their masters behind their backs.
They were not clear about the specific way the princess and the prince interacted.
But as the princess's personal maid, Youyou knew that His Highness had never visited Xueluo Courtyard or favored the princess.
Since marrying into the royal family, the princess has become an abandoned concubine.
Therefore, the princess's words carried some weight.
"Yes, let us die in the assassination attempt by the men in black, while Your Highness remains completely innocent..." A mocking smile appeared on Shen Ling's lips.
Thinking about things from my past life still makes me sad.
I thought she had hardened her heart to the core.
Shen Ling looked up at the crescent moon in the sky, and remained there for a long time, somewhat dazed.
She will probably never forget the moon she saw before she died.
That was the only beautiful thing in the world she saw before she died—pure white and flawless.
It allowed her to... endure the agony of being torn apart by five horses.
The lack of a dramatic breakdown and screaming only made the enemy more smug.
...She would rather the cup that His Highness and Ma Shishi handed her was actually poison.
But how could that bitch Ma Shishi let her die so easily?
Ma Shishi, behind the prince's back, replaced the poisoned wine with sleeping pills, threw her into a mass grave as if she were a corpse, and then, behind the prince's back, tore her apart with five horses.
Before she died, the last thing she saw was the moon.
After death...
Her soul wandered for a long time.
Seeing His Highness's head cut off by the enemy and hung on the city wall, and seeing Ma Shishi strip naked, trying to seduce the enemy, only to be mercilessly cut in half with a single stroke.
But that's far from enough.
They all died too easily.
A soft voice interrupted Chen Ling's reverie: "Your Highness, why did you still go?"
Shen Ling curled the corners of her lips into a smile, but her beautiful eyes held a broken despair.
—Because he did nothing to me in this life, I want him to finish all the torment he inflicted on me, and then repay him a thousandfold, so that he will regret ever treating me that way.
—In this life, all that remains is revenge. Apart from the moon, she can no longer feel the beauty of this world.
Even the beautiful moon is accompanied by a pain that penetrates to the bone.
But she only said softly to Youyou, "I cannot disobey the emperor's command."
The emperor's command is difficult to disobey.
But she insisted on challenging this imperial power.
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