The change of power halfway through her reign shattered her dream of becoming empress!
She glanced at the dark figure on the roof, her eyes filled with hatred.
Xiao Renyue was in a daze, thinking he had misheard.
He stared at the back of Ji Xueyan's head in disbelief, taking a long time to process what was going on.
He roared angrily, "Ji Xueyan! You shameless woman, how dare you betray me!"
Ji Xueyan acted as if she hadn't heard anything.
He pleaded with Xiao Shiye on his own.
"Your Highness, I am a close friend of the Crown Prince's concubine. Your Highness has a deep affection for her and would certainly not be willing to punish Xueyan, would you?"
"Your Highness, please spare Xueyan's life for the sake of the concubine!"
Her eyes were filled with tears, as if she were weeping and lamenting.
She firmly believed that in her past life, even a cold-blooded person like Night Owl looked at her differently, so she would definitely be favored by the Crown Prince.
Even a mediocre concubine can monopolize the Eastern Palace.
Why shouldn't she?
Moreover, the position of Crown Princess is still vacant; perhaps it's reserved for her by Heaven.
"So you're Ji Xueyan?" Xiao Shiye sat on his tall horse, looking at her coldly.
Ji Xueyan was overjoyed.
"Does Your Highness recognize me?"
Xiao Shiye's voice suddenly turned cold, "Was it you who instigated the concubine's maid to poison me?"
Ji Xueyan's smile froze at the corner of her mouth.
"You wicked woman! Come in here!" Xiao Renyue grabbed her hair and dragged her into the hall, saying viciously, "Even if I die here today, I will make you pay with your life!"
He waved his hand.
All the candles inside the hall fell out.
Flames shot into the air, instantly engulfing the curtains and spreading rapidly.
Flames raged and thick smoke billowed.
"Fire!" shouted soldiers outside the palace. "Protect the Emperor! Quickly, protect the Emperor!"
"Protect His Highness the Crown Prince!"
They stepped back, supporting Xiao Shiye.
Ji Xueyan screamed in terror, "Xiao Renyue! You're a madman! Let me go!"
"Help!" she cried out, coughing and gasping for breath from the thick smoke. "Someone, please save me..."
Through her teary eyes, she saw Duan Xingzhi standing on the eaves.
She reached out her hand to him.
"Night Owl! Save me..."
Xiao Renyue suddenly grabbed her, sneering disdainfully, "You still expect that killing god to save you?"
"Don't forget, it was you who informed me to take his life!"
"He's already being kind by not killing you, why would he save you?"
Ji Xueyan recalled the scene of Duan Xingzhi saving her in her previous life, frame by frame, grabbed Xiao Renyue's wrist and bit down!
"Ah—!" Xiao Renyue screamed, flung his wrist away, and threw Ji Xueyan aside.
"What do you know?" Ji Xueyan laughed maniacally, her lips and teeth stained with blood. "He will save me, he will definitely save me!"
"This matter is not up to him at all!"
From her past life, she knew that something in the dark seemed to control Night Owl, making him willing to pay any price, even risk his own life, to protect her.
She believed that he would do the same for her in this lifetime.
She crawled out of the palace amidst the flames.
"Night Owl...save me..."
A beam suddenly fell down, blocking her path.
Xiao Renyue held up her skirt.
"Trying to run?" His face was sinister. "If I die, you won't live either!"
"Traitors...traitors all deserve to die!"
Flames licked at the corners of their clothes.
Painful howls and desperate cries echoed from inside the hall.
Duan Xingzhi simply stood there.
He watched coldly.
Until the flames extinguished everything, burying all his dark past.
He watched as Xiao Shiye ordered his men to put out the fire, watched as the two charred corpses were carried out, and looked up at the cold moonlight.
I suddenly miss Ayi so much.
He lightly touched the ground with his toes and flew towards the place he had been longing for.
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