Shen Qingyuan was filled with anxiety in the meditation room.
The outside area has been sealed off by Yan Zhuoxu's secret guards, and Lianxing has been taken away.
Ye Jinghong has disappeared without a trace.
Could it be...?
The scheme has been exposed?!
No! Impossible!
Those men in black are dead; the dead can't speak!
They have no evidence. As long as she insists that Ye Jinghong did it, she will definitely escape this predicament!
As long as Lianxing doesn't speak...
She is safe.
A dark light flashed in Shen Qingyuan's eyes.
She swallowed nervously, bit her nails, and looked around.
She remembered that in her previous life, Yan Zhuoxu had imprisoned her in the underground palace of a Buddhist temple, which was the most suitable place to torture people.
Lianxing must be locked up there by them!
What they didn't know was that when the Buddhist temple was first built, in order to provide refuge at any time and protect the safety of the emperor, the emperor ordered that a secret passage leading to the underground palace be set up in every meditation room.
Only Yan Zhuoxu knew about this.
But he never expected that he would be given a second chance at life!
I know most of his secrets!
Thinking of this, Shen Qingyuan hurriedly ran to the Buddha statue in the room.
She touched it all over.
Sure enough, the mechanism was found behind the Buddha statue!
The secret passage door opened.
She slipped inside silently...
The underground palace was illuminated by flickering firelight.
The murals depict flying apsaras, while the Buddha statues glare angrily.
Lianxing was locked in a dimly lit cell, her clothes tattered, and she was barely breathing.
In her dazed state, she saw a figure outside the cell, and her eyes lit up with hope.
"Miss...Miss!"
She excitedly sat up, braced herself on her arms, and crawled over.
Shen Qingyuan bent down, looking at Lianxing's blood-stained cheek, and said in a low voice, "Good Lianxing, tell me, did you betray me?"
Lianxing shook her head frantically.
No! No!
"How could I possibly have implicated you, Miss?"
She reached her hand out from behind the iron gate. "Miss, are you here to rescue me?"
A dark light flashed in Shen Qingyuan's eyes, and she nodded.
“I knew it, you are the most loyal servant.”
She pulled a pill from her pocket and handed it to Lianxing, saying, "Take this, and I'll take you out."
Lianxing hesitated.
"Miss, what is this?"
Shen Qingyuan was getting impatient.
He looked around and whispered, "To stop the bleeding."
“Your injuries are so severe, this will make you feel better, and I can take you out.”
Lianxing, without suspicion, took the pill and swallowed it.
"Thank you, miss."
After she finished speaking, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her abdomen, and a metallic taste rose in her throat.
"Miss..."
She stared at Shen Qingyuan in disbelief before slowly collapsing.
Shen Qingyuan looked at her unseeing face, those eyes staring at her with a look of confusion and questioning.
Her legs gave way and she fell to the ground.
"Don't blame me..."
She turned away, but reached her hand into the cage and closed her eyes.
Shen Qingyuan turned around and saw that she had closed her eyes, and breathed a sigh of relief.
He reached out to check Lianxing's breath.
Dead...
Everything in this world is illusory, but death is the only real thing.
She calmed herself down.
She lowered her head to look at the maid who had been with her for decades.
"Lianxing, you are a good servant. Only with your death can I live," she murmured. "You should understand me from the afterlife..."
To die for one's master is such a great honor.
She should be able to die without regrets.
Hearing faint footsteps outside, Shen Qingyuan was startled and immediately got up and ran into the secret passage.
She used a secret passage unknown to others to evade many guards, but was spotted by Ye Jinghong during her escape.
"Shen Qingyuan!"
He let out a soft cry.
Shen Qingyuan was startled and quickly went over to cover his mouth.
"What are you shouting for?" She looked around. "If anyone hears you, you won't survive either!"
Ye Jinghong was tied to a pillar, looking even worse off than Lianxing.
His body was covered in bloodstains.
"Get me out of here!" His lips were pale, and he was in pain all over his body. All he wanted was to escape this place as soon as possible.
Shen Qingyuan slowly let go of her hand.
Looking at him, she sneered, "If you had agreed to marry me, I wouldn't have gone to such lengths."
"Now, you have only yourself to blame!"
Ye Jinghong asked urgently, "So, you really did it?"
"You've really ruined my life!"
He knew that the Prime Minister was highly respected in the court, so even though he suspected that Shen Qingyuan was the culprit, he did not implicate her.
He hoped that the Prime Minister's family would value the marriage between the Ye and Chen families and would be willing to marry their daughters off to him.
This shows how much the Prime Minister values him!
Therefore, as long as he protects Shen Qingyuan, the Prime Minister will definitely find a way to rescue him!
On the contrary, even if he implicates Shen Qingyuan, the Crown Prince will not let him off the hook once he knows that he will not save Shen Zhiyi!
He gritted his teeth and said, "Shen Qingyuan, I can keep this a secret for you, but once you get out, you must get the Prime Minister to save me!"
In the future.
He still needs the Shen family to pave the way for him.
Shen Qingyuan gave him a mocking look and said, "Since you like Shen Zhiyi so much, why don't you ask her to save you?"
"Let me tell you, whoever I, Shen Qingyuan, choose, will be the one who laughs last in this world."
"Unfortunately, you don't deserve it!"
How could she possibly save him?
If you save him, who will take the blame for you?
She turned to leave, and Ye Jinghong's face turned pale as he finally realized what was happening.
"You want to pin all of this on me?!"
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