Jiang Ning and Li Zinian hurriedly walked across the long street one after the other.

The two of them went one after the other, maintaining a just right distance from each other.

Silent all the way, neither of them seemed to feel the slightest bit wrong about it. The relationship between people is always changing between these silent and unnoticed, but sometimes a casual look can make people shudder.

She and Mu Jingzhao are the same, thinking about it carefully, maybe the relationship between her and Mu Jingzhao has changed a long, long time ago.

Maybe it was when she returned to Qingshui County, maybe it was the day she died, maybe it was when she assassinated him for the first time, maybe it was even earlier.

It's just that at that time, they didn't know about it.

It was only today, when all these problems and estrangements were rediscovered, that they realized that all this had already reached the point of no return.

Black clouds overwhelmed the city, and overlapping dark clouds covered the entire sky, forming countless patches of leaden gray in different shades.

There was a thick, sticky vapor floating in the air, enveloping the person so tightly that he could barely breathe.

Jiang Ning had only taken two steps before he felt that his clothes and hair were filled with moisture, and the wet and sticky pulled the whole person down.

A muffled thunder rolled over the sky, as if to herald the arrival of this downpour.

It hasn't rained in Kyoto for a long time.

The downpour on the day of the palace change gave hope to all the people in Kyoto, and everyone thought that it was the beginning, and the future would be smooth, but they didn't expect that it was actually the end.

Since that day, the dark clouds on the horizon of Kyoto have never dissipated, but not a drop of rain has fallen.

The people have long recognized the facts in the waiting day after day, and they have gradually despaired of all this.

"Mother, the slave will send you here." Li Zinian sent Jiang Ning outside the Heart Cultivation Hall and said goodbye.

"There is labor." Jiang Ning nodded, watched Li Zinian leave, and walked into the Heart Nourishing Hall alone.

In the Heart Cultivation Palace, Mu Jingzhao was at the table, raising a pen and not knowing what was written on the paper, and the round table in the center of the room was full of all kinds of wine and delicacies.

The moment Jiang Ning pushed the door, Mu Jingzhao looked up at her with a look of surprise on his face.

"You're here." Mu Jingzhao hurriedly put down his pen and walked quickly in front of her.

"I specially prepared delicious food and wine to apologize to you."

Jiang Ning didn't care about the table full of wine and food, just stood stunned and stared at him.

"Alright, let's eat." Mu Jingzhao reached out to help her shoulder and led her to the table.

Jiang Ning shuddered a little uncomfortably.

She seemed to have accepted Mu Jingzhao's ugly and sinister face in her heart, and she felt a little creepy when he was kind to her at all.

Feeling Jiang Ning's dodge, Mu Jingzhao withdrew his hand a little sneeringly and took two steps back to the side.

"I was not good before, and I shouldn't ignore your feelings."

Jiang Ning turned her head in some shock, but saw Mu Jingzhao's sincere expression, she was complicated in her heart, and she didn't know how to react.

She is really a little incompetent to accept this style of behavior of the other party.

In fact, she can completely understand Mu Jingzhao's compulsion as an emperor, and she can also accept that he can't tell her some plans.

But she couldn't accept it no matter what, everyone knew his plan and knew his plan, but only herself, she was deceived in the dark.

But she couldn't accept it no matter what, everyone knew his plan and knew his plan, but only herself, she was deceived in the dark.

She was the one who was deceived, she was the one who was tricked, and she was the one who was sacrificed, but in the end, the other party wanted to erase all this with an understatement of apology.

She couldn't accept it, not in any way.

Jiang Ning was a little cramped and smiled awkwardly.

"As a monarch, the emperor will naturally not be wrong." Jiang Ning walked to the table in two steps and sat down, looking at the table full of delicacies.

There are a variety of dishes, but they are not complicated.

Most of them are just the ones she likes the most of the things she eats in the cold palace every day.

Mu Jingzhao was extremely silent after being choked by her, he quietly walked to the side and sat down, took Jiang Ning's bowl and filled her with a bowl of soup, and his movements were natural in one go.

"I have already prepared an edict to dispose of the Shen family."

Jiang Ning's action of holding the bowl was slightly paused.

"All the property of the Shen family was confiscated, men over the age of sixteen were beheaded, those under the age of sixteen were sent to the frontier, and female dependents were reduced to commoners. As for the Queen—" he took a sip from his glass, bringing it to his lips, "and entering the cold palace." ”

Jiang Ning's movements as he held the bowl trembled.

"Now, these things have also come to an end, and my agreement with you is completed, and tomorrow I will ask Li Zinian to give you the agreed money." He took a deep breath, and his gloomy phoenix eyes were full of helplessness and shame, "Are you willing to stay?" ”

Jiang Ning felt her breathing pause, the temperature of the glass bowl in her hand was losing little by little, she moved stiffly, picked up the bowl, and poured it violently, barely pouring the discomfort in her throat.

"Stay, be my queen."

The half-left soup in the bowl shook violently, and it was almost spilled.

"I can give you whatever you want, you want silver, everything I have is yours, you want a clean harem, I will give Liu Guifei freedom. There won't be anyone else in the harem but you. ”

Jiang Ning's throat was sour, her lips moved slightly, but she didn't make any sound, her hand holding the glass bowl tightened, but tears dripped down the corners of her eyes and fell into the soup bowl in front of her, causing ripples in circles.

She didn't know why she was crying, but at this moment, she was just so pure that she wanted to cry happily.

I don't know if it's for myself or for this fate that plays tricks on people.

"I have one more surprise for you."

Her tears were dripping in countless nested circles in the soup bowl, and her ears were ringing, barely audible what the other was saying.

Mu Jingzhao snapped his fingers, followed by a sound of footsteps.

"Niangniang-" Zheliu's voice seemed to have crossed a long time, Jiang Ning was stunned, and even thought that he had an illusion, "Niangniang, it's a slave." ”

She jerked her head up, and with tears in her eyes, she saw Ori Liu standing not far in front of her.

She rubbed her eyes sharply, and then she saw clearly.

The other party is still the same as before, but his body is a little thinner, but he is indeed a willow.

Joy mixed with shock and anger, countless emotions surged up in an instant, so much so that Jiang Ning forgot how to react.

"Ning'er, I didn't mean to hide it from you, I learned that Shen Tong wanted to poison you that day, so I found Zheliu and asked her to play this scene with me, only in this way will Shen Tong let down his vigilance and think that we have really broken up."

Jiang Ning's ears were buzzing, she looked at Mu Jingzhao in front of her, and then at Zheliu, feeling that everything about her was extremely unfamiliar.

(End of chapter)