Chapter 618: Reborn Girl vs. Book-Traveling Girl 39
Now, the royal family and the Xuanping Marquisate did not deliberately conceal the news that the antidote failed and she passed away.
Not long after the Marquis' wife brought "Zheng Xingyao's body" back to her dowry house, the news spread quickly among the powerful and influential people.
Zheng Yuejin naturally also got the news.
When the servant reported the news to her, a smile gradually appeared on her face.
However, the smile grew bigger and bigger, from a low laugh to an almost crazy laugh in the end.
The laughter was sharp and piercing, echoing in the room, but there was no joy in her expression, only hot tears flowing freely down her cheeks.
Her appearance really scared the maids around her.
They had never seen their master lose his composure like this. They were all at a loss, not knowing what to do. They could only stand there blankly, their eyes filled with fear and worry.
Zheng Yuejin gradually stopped laughing and told all the servants in the room to leave in a hoarse voice.
Silence returned to the room. She sat blankly on the beauty bed, her eyes empty, as if her soul had been taken away.
He muttered to himself, his voice as weak as a leaf in the wind.
"I thought if you died, I would be happy and laugh heartily.
But now that you are really dead, I am not as happy as I thought.
I didn't expect that in this life, after you died, only your protective mother would think of collecting your body.
Your grandmother, your father, and the prince who never gave up on you, all abandoned you like a piece of trash.
Haha, how ironic.
It turns out that in the face of life and death, feelings are so fragile that they can be taken back at any time.
Identity is so illusory that it can be taken away at any time.
Once a person is gone, they are nothing.”
Zheng Yuejin slowly turned her head and looked out the window. Through the carved window lattice, she seemed to be able to see Zheng Xingyao's short and bumpy life.
"It turns out we are all the same. In this prosperous yet cold world, we all need to be valuable and have bargaining chips.
Once you have nothing left, everything will be discarded like a worn-out shoe and no one will care about it.
I have avenged the grudge from my previous life in this life, and we are even now.
If there is an afterlife, I only hope that you and I will never meet again, and that we can both have our own lives, without being involved in endless disputes and calculations.
Having said that, Zheng Yuejin's words stopped abruptly. She paused slightly, her eyes a little blurry, as if she was lost in some memories.
Suddenly, the corners of her mouth turned up, and she let out a sarcastic and bitter sneer.
"Yeah, how could I have forgotten."
She spoke slowly, her voice tinged with self-mockery, "You have no memories of your past life, so how could you know that I am an evil ghost that crawled out of the abyss of hell.
I came into this life filled with hatred and resentment to pay off my debts from my past life."
Her eyes gradually became firm and her tone became more resolute.
"If you could start over like me and want revenge, just come at me.
I will continue to take responsibility for all the evil I have done, and wait for your revenge."
She sighed softly and looked at the blue sky outside the window, as if she saw all the possibilities of the future.
“Only by living longer can we witness all kinds of unexpected things in this world.
Life is like a chess game full of variables. You never know the outcome until the very end."
The emperor had secretly ordered people to drug Zheng Yuejin a long time ago. However, Zheng Yuejin was a cultivator after all, and the ordinary dosage had little effect on her, only making her mood slightly unstable.
It was only after the emperor drugged Zheng Yuejin that he realized there was a second person in the Zheng family who could practice cultivation.
This was really beyond his expectation, and after investigation, he found that Zheng Yuejin did not have a master to teach her, and he could not even find out where she got the cultivation method from.
The emperor secretly observed her for a while and found that she had no involvement with other practitioners.
So, he decisively took out some medicinal herbs specifically for those with cultivation, and also dispatched people who were practicing to carefully prepare medicine with stronger medicinal power, and attacked Zheng Yuejin again.
Zheng Yuejin didn't notice anything unusual at first, but she always felt an indescribable sense of stagnation when practicing.
Because she had no master to guide her, she could only figure it out on her own.
She naively thought that this was just a bottleneck that was bound to be encountered on the road of cultivation, and that as long as her cultivation level improved, this situation would naturally be resolved.
But things were not as simple as she thought.
The medicine the emperor gave her was specifically designed to damage her meridians.
Over time, her meridians will slowly become blocked.
If one practices forcibly, within a month, he will definitely go astray and die from a burst blood vessel.
Zheng Yuejin didn't find anything unusual, she just felt that her cultivation speed had dropped significantly.
Zheng Xingyao has passed away, and Zheng Yuejin's life has lost its purpose.
She was the only master in the mansion. She had nothing to do every day, so she devoted all her energy to cultivation, trying to break through the so-called "bottleneck".
However, her efforts resulted in her going insane, bleeding from all seven orifices, and she fell to the ground in pain, her life gradually fading away.
The period of time she practiced lasted only half a month.
It’s not that the emperor’s medicine is so powerful, but that the marquis’s wife also took action.
She was extremely cruel. She drugged everything she could get her hands on, from eating utensils to clothes and jewelry.
It's not the kind of medicine that will kill you, it's all some kind of torturous thing.
Combined with the medicine given by the emperor and Zheng Yuejin's daily practice, these medicines slowly penetrated into Zheng Yuejin's meridians, which is why Zheng Yuejin left so quickly.
The servants in the mansion were immediately panicked when they saw Zheng Yuejin's miserable appearance.
They did not dare to delay for even a moment and immediately sent someone to report to the palace and the Xuanping Marquis' Mansion.
At the same time, he sent people to Jiangnan as quickly as possible to deliver the message to the second prince.
When the emperor received the news of Zheng Yuejin's death, he was really surprised, but he quickly attributed it to the miraculous effect of the medicine he had given him and did not think much about it.
However, for the old lady and the Marquis of Xuanping, it seemed as if the sky was falling.
It’s not that they have deep feelings for Zheng Yuejin and Zheng Xingyao, but their plan has failed again.
The Marquis and the old lady had already discussed it before.
Although the Crown Prince's fate with the Xuanping Marquis's Mansion has ended, there is still a granddaughter in their mansion who is married to the Second Prince.
The position of the crown prince is not static; its establishment or abolition is merely the result of a power struggle.
Who says the second prince will always have to take a back seat?
As long as he has enough supporters behind him, he may be able to replace the prince and ascend to the supreme throne.
In this way, the Xuanping Marquisate still has a chance to become a royal family.
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