The wind and snow outside were gradually subsided, and the hall was very quiet. There was only the faint sound of candlelight popping in the chilly air.

When Ling Ling heard the name A Jing, she couldn't help but feel confused in her eyes, "Who is A Jing?"

Sun Fuzhi put away the fire certificate, turned his back to her, and said softly: "Didn't you take Ah Jing's jade pendant? How could you not know who she is?"

At first, he thought Ling Ling was his long-lost sister, but in the end Fu Mingjue denied this result.

The only jade pendant that can prove A Jing's identity also fell into Ling Ling's hands. It was difficult to find A Jing in the huge crowd, so he could only start with Ling Ling.

Ling Ling looked at him confused and said, "I don't know Ah Jing, that jade pendant was given to me by my mother."

Sun Fuzhi turned around slowly, with a sneer on his lips: "I forgot, if your mother hadn't been greedy for wealth, she wouldn't have harmed A Jing."

"What on earth are you talking about?"

"Haha." Sun Fuzhi was shrouded in shadow, his expression dark and unclear, "Aren't you curious why the Queen Mother killed you after seeing that jade pendant?"

Hearing what he said, Ling Ling was suddenly stunned.

Yes, Ling Youyao clearly said that she was the daughter of Duke Yuguo. If so, why did the Queen Mother kill her?

Seeing her look like this, Sun Fuzhi understood clearly and continued: "It is precisely because you may be the daughter of Duke Yu that the Queen Mother will get rid of you."

"Why?" Ling Ling stared at him, eyes seeming to pop out.

She once envied everything about Su Lingxi, thinking that she could get the same thing as Su Lingxi with a jade pendant, but the reality hit her hard in the face.

She couldn't understand why the Queen Mother was so cruel to her.

Later, Sun Fuzhi gave her the answer: "Because she hates the Yan family so much, she hates my mother even more. From the moment she knew that you might be the young lady of the Yan family, she had murderous intentions towards you, but you look like

Like a fool, he held up the jade pendant and moved it up."

His tone was calm, as if he was describing an extremely ordinary thing.

"Do you think having that jade pendant can guarantee your prosperity and wealth in this life?"

In the same words, Ling Ling asked himself in his mind, the answer is - no.

After traveling thousands of miles from Huaizhou to the capital, she always thought that the jade pendant would be her guarantee for embarking on the road to prosperity. Who would have thought that in the end, it would become her life-saving talisman!

The dim candle flame flickered in the darkness, the charcoal fire in the stove only had the last trace of warmth, and the biting cold spread silently.

Sun Fuzhi walked to the table, opened the medicine box, took out a small porcelain bottle, and murmured in a low voice: "Actually, I know I won't get the answer I want from you."

Ling Ling stared at him warily and said tremblingly: "What do you want to do?"

"You shouldn't have taken that jade pendant," Sun Fuzhi said as he poured out a pill from the small porcelain bottle. "Some things don't belong to you. Even if you work hard to get them, they still don't belong to you."

Sun Fuzhi approached her step by step, with no fluctuation in his dark eyes. At this moment, Ling Ling seemed to be a corpse in his eyes.

"I originally thought that if you could tell me the news about A Jing, I would let you die more happily, but now it seems that this is not necessary."

Ling Ling's eyes showed extreme fear, and she shrank back with difficulty, "You, what do you want to do? I am His Majesty's personal concubine. If you dare to attack me, aren't you afraid that His Majesty will kill you?!"

Hearing this, Sun Fuzhi couldn't help but laugh: "It seems that you are still immersed in false fantasies."

Fu Xiuyun took Ling Ling as his concubine as a last resort, but now that something like this happened, how could the emperor, who is the most powerful emperor in the world, admit that he had favored his biological cousin?

From the moment Ling Ling stepped into the capital, her tragic ending was destined.

"No, don't! Cough, cough, cough."

Ling Ling opened her eyes wide and looked at Sun Fuzhi's heartless and indifferent eyes. She suddenly remembered the way the Queen Mother looked at her - as if she were looking at a lifeless thing.

Shen Xuhuai once looked at her with the same look, but at that time, she didn't know what it meant.

The hard pill mixed with cold water slid down Ling Ling's throat, and a touch of bitterness quietly bloomed on the tip of her tongue. This was the bitterest medicine she had ever taken, so bitter that she forgot to struggle.

Sun Fuzhi walked away calmly, as calmly as if nothing had happened.

Ling Ling watched his back gradually disappear into the wind and snow, her eyes filled with desolation. The bitterness rising in her throat almost swallowed her up. Her body seemed to be crawling with tens of millions of insects, and dense stings spread across every inch of her skin.

"Why do you all do this to me?"

As the night progressed, the sound of wind outside gradually died down, and the snow on the branches slowly slid down and fell to the ground with a muffled sound.

The window of Xie Fang Hall was opened at some point, and the north wind blew a few snowflakes into the dark room, falling on Ling Ling's stiff hand, and after a short period of time, they turned into a piece of crystal.

The pain in her knees was getting worse and worse, and it felt like countless insects were crawling around, gnawing at her bone marrow bit by bit.

Ling Ling stared steadily at the falling snowflakes outside the window, her eyes empty and lifeless, like stagnant water in a dry well.

At this moment, she suddenly felt homesick.

Although Huaizhou is not as prosperous as the capital, it is more stable and comfortable. It does not have the intrigues and intrigues of the capital. If she had not listened to her mother and not gone to Beijing, would the outcome have been different?

There was a heartbreaking pain in his chest. Ling Ling tried his best to suppress the pain, and his thin fingers twisted and trembled due to the pain.

She cried out in despair: "Why, why?"

Master Jiuyun clearly said that she was a born phoenix! But how could a phoenix fall into such a desperate situation?

She sobbed, letting tears blur her vision. Suddenly, she saw her father's gentle smile, Shen Xuhuai's calm eyes, and Ling Youyao's slightly smiling eyes.

When did all this gradually turn into an unbreakable deadlock?

And who is it that lures her into the game step by step?

In the silent snowy night, Ling Ling watched the last snowflake melt on the window sill and finally closed her eyes reluctantly.

There is no such thing as a born phoenix, it's just a disaster.

After a night of wind and snow, the entire capital city was wrapped in a layer of plain white silver, and the red walls were covered with snow, giving it a unique flavor.

In the early morning, the maid in charge of cleaning yawned and pushed open the door of Xiefang Palace. Although His Majesty did not issue an order to depose Ling Ling, they had already acquiesced in their hearts that Ling Ling was relegated to the cold palace, and coming here to clean was just a replacement. It's just a lazy place.

As usual, the palace maid threw the broom into the corner, opened the palace door and walked in.

But not long after entering, a scream suddenly came from inside, and the palace maid was seen kneeling and crawling out of the Xiefang Palace as if she had seen a ghost, shouting loudly: "It's not good! The person is dead, the concubine is dead——"

The Ling Ling chapter ends here~Guess who will open the next chapter?
Chapter completed!