On a snowy night, a river of blood flowed like a river in the Phoenix's Phoenix's Phoenix's Palace. Blood qi pervaded the air.
The fierce wind rolled up the blood-stained snow and slammed on Gu Qingmei's face. Her limbs were all broken and she couldn't move at all. The blood in the pool condensed into ice, freezing her. She felt like she was on fire and couldn't control the pain.
Creak, creak...
Someone stepped on the snow and came, but it was a pair of eunuchs. They were by each other's side, laughing and whispering.
Gu Qingmei struggled to open her swollen eyes and looked at the figures getting closer and closer.
The man wore a bright yellow robe and had a handsome face. He was her beloved husband, the new emperor of Daning, Ye Ziyuan.
The woman was dressed in a red court dress and charming. She was the daughter of her second uncle, Gu Ningyu. She was also the cousin, Gu Shuzhen, whom she had loved and protected since she was a child.
Of these two people, one was her most beloved and the other was her closest kin.
Now, they stood hand in hand in front of her and looked down at her as if they were looking at a pig or a dead dog.
"Why did you do this to me?" Gu Qingmei thought of the humiliation she had suffered last night, and the blood and tears in her eyes rolled.
It was a feast in the palace last night.
That was the second palace banquet she attended after she entered the Phoenix Phoenix Palace.
Although she was the empress of the Great Ning Dynasty, she had spent four and a half years outside in the following five years to fight for the newly established Great Ning Dynasty.
Five years later, Ye Ziyuan's foundation gradually stabilized, and his strength had grown. She had also fought for him until the beginning of the Four Seas. Finally, she returned to her phoenix position, shed her armor, relaxed her body and mind, and began to fight with her beloved man.
She had been in the army for a long time, so her drinking capacity had always been amazing.
But she was drunk after drinking only three or four cups of wine last night.
When she woke up again, she was lying on the soft couch of the Phoenix's Phoenix's Palace. The person lying next to her was actually her and Ye Ziyuan's strong enemy, the Northern King of the Great Ning Empire, Ye Chonglou!
Ye Chonglou was the lord of the Great Ning Empire and his fame was illustrious. He was given the title of Northern King by the late emperor and was in charge of the eleven northern Cloud states.
After so many years, all sides were at peace. Only he had always been in a stalemate with them, standing there without falling.
The moment she woke up, she found herself in the arms of the thief. The first thought that came to her mind was that she had been tricked by him.
This person was sinister and cunning. He must have come up with such a sinister scheme in order to sow discord between him and Zi Yuan!
It wasn't until she saw Ye Chonglou die in order to save her that she realized that Ye Ziyuan's long sword had stabbed her in the chest. It was only then that she realized that this plot had come from the person beside her pillow!
Her world had been turned upside down overnight!
Her beloved man, whom she had protected with her life, had slaughtered her like a pig or a dog!
However, the enemy she had been scheming and scheming against ended up losing her life for her because she was in a critical situation...
"Why?" Gu Qingmei asked with tears of blood. "Ye Ziyuan, after so many years, I have lived for you, died for you, fought for you, and my father and brother are even more loyal to you. Why do you have to treat me like this?"
Ye Ziyuan snorted and lowered his head to size her up. After a moment, he turned his head in disgust.
"I've seen enough of this ugly face! Zhen'er, do you know what to do?"
He left her words behind and turned to leave. He didn't even spare her another glance.
Gu Qingmei looked at his back, and the humiliation and pain in her heart were indescribable.
"Idiot!" Gu Shuzhen covered her mouth and chuckled. "You still don't understand? Yuanlang has never really liked you!"
"You're just a tool for him to get the position!"
"Look at the scar on your face. It's like a black centipede lying on your face. I said that every time I stay with you, I'm so disgusted that I can't eat anything!"
"We've been married for so many years. Sister, you should still be a virgin, right?"
Gu Qingmei trembled slightly, and her face was as red as blood.
Gu Shuzhen laughed so hard that he leaned over and said, "Stupid! Anyway, you are going to die soon. Before you go on your way, I will be kind to you and let you die a clear death!"
"There is a scar on your face because I changed your ointment. That's why the wound hasn't healed for a long time..."
"Your brother didn't die on the battlefield. My father and brother worked together to kill him..."
"Your mother and sister-in-law had a miscarriage. That's the work of my big sister and my mother..."
"What's more, there is the most exciting thing. You must listen carefully!" Gu Shuzhen's delicate and charming face bent down in a low voice. Her phoenix-shaped eyes seemed to be poisoned at this time.
"The dungeon you were in was designed by our grandmother when you were fourteen. It was carefully built for you by me and Yuanlang!"
Gu Qingmei's pupils shrank slightly, and she began to tremble violently!
"Sister, it's very exciting and surprising, isn't it?" Gu Shuzhen laughed happily. "You must have never thought that we would plot against you from that time on! The Gu family is frivolous and famous at a young age. They are amazing. Everyone says that you will become a star in the world and gain the world. The princes fight for favor, so you naturally don't like Yuan Lang. Grandma said that if I can destroy your face and save your life, you can only be our dog!"
"For so many years, my sister and my family have been enslaved by us. We have enjoyed ourselves in the palace, but you have worked so hard to earn merits for the royal family and our Gu family! Think about it, you have lived a miserable life in the past five years! The great country and endless wealth you have fought for, but in the end, I will enjoy them!"
"Oh, by the way, I almost forgot. Today is the day of Shangyuan Festival. I have to send my sister's family to reunite with you!"
After that, she clapped her hands twice.
A Yulin Royal Guards came in one by one. Each of them held a food box in their hands. They surrounded Gu Qingmei and opened the box at the same time.
One bloody human head after another suddenly enlarged in front of Gu Qingmei.
Gu Qingmei let out a blood-curdling scream as tears welled up in her eyes!
"Sister, don't be sad! Grandma said that the most important thing for a family is to be neat and tidy! She told me that your father, mother, elder brother, sister-in-law, and a pair of nieces couldn't be missing!" Gu Shuzhen laughed. "So, I sent them all here!"
"Nonsense!" Gu Qingmei cried in disbelief. "How could my grandma do this? My father is her son!"
"A son?" Gu Shuzhen laughed wildly. "A family of martial artists, a family of idiots! They didn't even know how they died! How can you be our relatives when you're so stupid? Bah!"
She raised her foot with a grim smile and stepped on those heads. The hatred was so strong that it was about to flow out!
"No! No!" Gu Qingmei cried and tried to cover her relatives' heads in her arms.
She was the famous War Phoenix of the Great Ning Dynasty. She was highly skilled in martial arts, and she was resourceful. She once went deep into the enemy's back and burned the enemy's camp. She was the head of the enemy's army.
However, right now, the arm that had been cut off from the roots didn't even have the strength to raise it. They could only watch helplessly as their enemies insulted their loved ones' bodies. They couldn't do anything!
With a pu sound, several lines of blood spurted out of her mouth, and her internal organs seemed to have been twisted into a mass of blood.
Gu Shuzhen really appreciated her pain and sadness, and his eyes were filled with extreme joy.
"Sister, you like red robes. Before you die, I'll give you a red robe made of human flesh, okay?"
She chuckled and raised the long whip in her hand. The tip of the whip was like a blood-thirsty viper, swallowing Gu Qingmei's flesh and blood bit by bit.
Soon, her skin and flesh were torn open, and her whole body was stained with blood. The pain was piercing to the bones.
However, the intense hatred that filled his body was more burning than the pain.
Every pore, hair, and drop of blood was filled with venom of hatred that was spreading and boiling.
"Ye Ziyuan, Gu Shuzhen, I, Gu Qingmei, swear with blood that I'm willing to turn into a malicious ghost and not enter the cycle of reincarnation. I'll never rest until I'm dead!"
"With the pain and humiliation you suffered from me, I will pay you back thousands of times over!"
"You, everyone! Every one of you will die a terrible death! You will die a terrible death!"
The sound of the whip was tight, and the bright red pieces of flesh flew wildly on the snow.
Gu Qingmei's roar was louder and sharper than the sound of the whip. The shrill curse made everyone who heard it feel cold and creepy.
Fresh blood constantly spurted out, like dense flowers blooming rapidly on the snowy ground, gradually producing winding branches. The branches rose into the air and went straight up to the nine-night stands. The whole Imperial City was instantly shrouded in a vast bloody mist...
