Chapter 4

Chapter 4

After a flurry of panic, several guards dragged over a shifty-eyed old servant woman. They reported that she was the one who had delivered the nuptial wine today, and someone had seen her acting suspiciously while handling the wine, looking as though she harbored ill intentions.

Jiang Yi kicked the woman over and forced a single word through his teeth, brimming with murderous intent: “Speak!”

The servant woman scrambled to her feet, crying out, “It was Princess Zhaohui who ordered me to do it! Please, Heir, spare my life! Spare my life!”

Me: “…”

Xu Qingqing was gloating. “Be angry, my little darling. The time for my revenge has come.”

However, Jiang Yi, who had been fuming and looking ready to kill at any moment, suddenly calmed down with a strange expression.

A cruel smile played at the corners of his lips.

“Oh? Then tell me, when and where did Princess Zhaohui say this to you?”

“A… a month ago… This servant, this servant can’t remember clearly.”

“Can’t remember clearly? Hahahaha, can’t remember clearly? Then let this Heir help you recall.”

Jiang Yi laughed maniacally. He suddenly drew a longsword from the wall and severed the servant’s arm in one stroke.

“Do you all think this Heir is blind? Zhaohua has been dead for three months! How could she have given you orders a month ago?

“You all think that because she’s dead, you can push everything onto her? You power-tripping, sycophantic dogs!

“Go to the underworld and ask her yourself whether she ever told you to harm anyone!”

He swung the blade toward the woman’s neck. Terrified, she fainted, her body slumped, and she narrowly avoided the lethal blow.

Xu Qingqing was stunned.

“System, Song Zhaohua is dead?”

The System panicked as well.

“That’s impossible. She had a long lifespan; she should have lived to at least sixty. Let me check…”

I felt a small, triumphant joy from my successful scheme.

Unexpected, isn’t it?

Because I, the Princess, had long since lost the will to live.

In life, I could not be free.

In death, could I not at least choose for myself?

I’m taking all that Fortune with me!

Let’s see if you and your System can still have smooth sailing once that Fortune is gone.

The System spent some effort and finally confirmed my death.

It apologized dejectedly.

Xu Qingqing let out a sharp, frantic scream.

“What’s the use of apologizing?! I’ve shifted the blame onto Song Zhaohua several times over the past few months. If they knew she was dead all along, they’d definitely realize something is wrong with me. You’ve ruined me!”

Yes.

They had indeed realized.

Jiang Yi stumbled to Xu Qingqing’s bedside. His fingers brushed against her still-soft cheek as he whispered:

“What kind of thing are you exactly? Why do you frame Zhaohua time and time again…

“Before you came, she was the apple of our eyes. Once you arrived, we loathed her so much. Why was that?

“Qingqing, you are my wife. You committed wrongs while alive, so even in death, you must repay those debts.

“Between husband and wife, we share in glory and in ruin. What you cannot do, I will help you with.”

A ruthless light flickered in his eyes. He pulled out a dagger and began stabbing Xu Qingqing’s body, over and over…

“Aaaah!”

Xu Qingqing let out one shrill scream after another.

“System, my soul hurts so much! Quickly, help me completely unbind from this body! Hurry…”

However, the System was also preoccupied.

“Host, the Affection Points are dropping…

“Warning! Affection Points have dropped to 50…

“Affection Points at 10…

“No, he’s about to go berserk.

“Host, I’m going to use Points to restart the Instance…”

Xu Qingqing screamed in agony, “Stop wasting time, do it now!”

They were quite busy over there.

I watched without blinking. I saw a dazzling white light shine upon Xu Qingqing. She opened her eyes in relief, but at the moment she was completely enveloped by the white light, she suddenly looked up and saw me. Her pretty face instantly turned deathly pale.

“Song Zhaohua…”

I smiled and raised my hand to mime slapping her twice from afar.

Hello, you little bitch!

She was swallowed by time and space.

And I was pulled by a dark, murky light, arriving in the underworld in the blink of an eye.