Lin Yun'er fell from the rack. Ming Li steadied her, then took a whip from the table filled with torture instruments and handed it to Lin Yun'er, her tone flat but commanding, "Hit back."
Lin Yun'er held the whip Ming Li had given her, feeling a little flustered. But when she met those calm, unruffled eyes, she inexplicably felt reassured. The whip felt steady in her hand. She walked step by step toward Su Ziyuan, who was slumped against the wall.
At this moment, Su Ziyuan, leaning against the wall, wiped the blood from her mouth, raised her head, and glared venomously at Ming Li. "Why! In my past life, you loved me so much. Why in this life, the person you love has become you!" She then pointed at Lin Yun'er, who was holding the whip. "And you, if you hadn't caused my death in the last life, how could I have been reborn! How could Ah Jin no longer love me! In this life, I should be Ah Jin's Empress! It's all because of you!"
Lin Yun'er, standing before Su Ziyuan, heard her words and was stunned. But remembering what Ming Li had just said, she brought the whip down on Su Ziyuan's body.
Ming Li looked at Su Ziyuan and, after a moment's thought, said to the system, "System, when the original host died in the original plot, transmit the plot concerning Lin Yun'er to me."
System: ......?! What?!
Meeting Ming Li's gaze, the system reacted quickly and transmitted the plot to its host.
...
On a dark and windy night, Ming Li left the palace with Lin Yun'er.
Arriving at the bustling and prosperous Vermilion Bird Street, Lin Yun'er's mood improved. She took Ming Li's hand and squeezed into the lively crowd.
Meanwhile, the system in the space was not feeling good. It was too terrifying. Its host was simply too ferocious, sob! It would never dare to anger its host again; it was too scary! The scene just now had given even a system psychological trauma.
Looking at Lin Yun'er, who was now smiling brightly while holding a rabbit mask, the system wondered in its heart, if its host's cruel methods had been seen by Lin Yun'er, would she still be smiling so happily now?
Ming Li ignored the system in the space. After playing with Lin Yun'er on the street for a while, she sent her back to the Lin Mansion.
After seeing Lin Yun'er back, Ming Li returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion herself.
...
At this moment, in the palace.
Nangong Jin was in the process of reviewing memorial reports. Halfway through, he saw a frantic嬷嬷 (nanny) from Consort Su's side rush into the imperial study.
Manager Zhang, standing beside Nangong Jin, was about to scold her when the嬷嬷 suddenly knelt on the ground and announced that Consort Su was in trouble.
Nangong Jin frowned, very displeased. Ever since Su Ziyuan had bumped her head and woken up, she had been appearing before him from time to time, saying strange things, which gave him a headache.
Nangong Jin said coldly to the嬷嬷 kneeling on the ground, "What is it now with Consort Su?"
The嬷嬷 kneeling on the ground trembled and replied, "Replying... replying to Your Majesty, Noble Consort... is dying."
When Nangong Jin followed the嬷嬷 to the secret chamber of Wan Ning Palace, he saw Su Ziyuan, covered in wounds and blood, on the verge of death. Her limbs were nailed to a rack in a spread-eagle position, and blood dripped drop by drop from her slender wrists onto the ground. Even the purple robe Su Ziyuan was wearing had been stained red with blood.
Nangong Jin was shocked by this sight and immediately ordered someone to fetch an imperial physician from the Imperial Hospital.
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