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Chapter 275 How have you been all these years?

Princess Ling is like a tireless machine.

After personally executing several people by slow slicing, she then hacked the remaining people to death with her knife.

During this time, no one stepped forward to stop or help.

Everyone could sense the immense hatred in the heart of the Queen Consort Ling.

They knew that only by letting her kill these people herself could they alleviate her suffering.

When she finished killing the last person, she was completely exhausted, but she still stood there stubbornly!

Dropping the knife in her hand, the Queen Consort took out a dagger inlaid with gemstones from her person.

The dagger was small; it was clearly meant for a child.

Princess Ling stroked the dagger, tears streaming silently down her face, utterly heartbroken.

She stroked the dagger for a moment, then suddenly pulled it out.

Seeing this, Zhou Wei was startled and started moving to stop him.

She had already realized that the Queen Consort of Ling was determined to die!

Sometimes, hatred is the driving force for people to live.

The emptiness that follows the triumph of revenge can instantly rob one of the will to live.

But Zhou Wei was pulled by a hand. She looked down and saw that it was the eldest princess.

Jiang Yueli shook her head at Zhou Wei, signaling her to calm down!

Because there were other people who moved even faster than Zhou Wei.

The eldest prince knelt on the ground, wrapped his arms around the waist of Princess Ling, and called to her in an almost pleading tone.

"Ruiyao, please, please."

Princess Ling looked down and saw that the eldest prince's face was covered in tears.

"Ruiyao, have pity on me, don't abandon me, please..."

“I only have you, only you. If it weren’t for you, I would have gone with the child that day.”

Princess Ling had cried all her tears.

Looking at the eldest prince, she reached out and gently stroked his face.

The eldest prince's sobs gradually grew louder, turning from sobs into wailing, as he kept repeating the same words.

"Ruiyao, we are free. From now on, we will leave this place and never come back."

"I'll go with you wherever you want to go. If you want to watch the tide in the East China Sea, we'll go there."

"Please, Ruiyao, I'm begging you! I can't live without you."

The eldest prince knelt on the ground, hugging the waist of Princess Ling, and his crying made Zhou Wei unable to hold back her tears.

Jiang Yueli remained seated in her chair, seemingly unmoved by the scene before her.

But her fingernails were embedded in her palms, drawing blood.

After the eldest prince cried out, the Princess Consort of Ling finally put down the dagger.

But as soon as she put the dagger down, her energy vanished instantly, and she fainted.

Zhou Wei immediately stepped forward and grasped the wrist of the Princess Ling.

After a long pause, he said, "Your Highness, the Queen Consort is simply exhausted. Please take her to rest."

The eldest prince nodded gratefully to Zhou Wei, then picked up Princess Ling and left.

After the eldest prince left, Jiang Yueli gradually calmed down.

He then ordered, "Men, collect the bodies of those who have died here, and order the Nanguang Army to arrest their relatives and family members."

"Remember, leave no one alive, including premature infants."

The princess's words sent a chill down everyone's spine.

Some people already understand what Jiang Yueli is planning to do.

Then the eldest princess continued to give instructions: "After Man Yi enters the city, order him to lead a thousand iron cavalry to raid Jiaozhou Prefecture overnight, capture all the officials and servants of Prince Nie's mansion, and escort them all to Ningzhou."

After speaking, he glanced at the officials, both high and low, still alive in the Prince's mansion.

"These people will be imprisoned for the time being, and will be dealt with after the people from Prince Nie's Mansion arrest them."

Upon hearing this, the officials breathed a sigh of relief.

Many people began to feel lucky, thinking that the princess wouldn't be so ruthless and that they might still have a chance to save their lives.

Only Zhou Wei and Tan Lin glanced at Jiang Yueli with concern.

Both of them understood that the princess did not intend to let these people go, but rather to remain silent.

What awaits these people is likely even more terrifying methods!

After the Nan Guang army took the people away and cleaned up the courtyard, Tan Lin couldn't help but say, "Your Highness wants to wait for the people from Jiaozhou Prefecture to arrive before dealing with them all at once. Could it be that you intend to..."

Jiang Yueli said in a cold voice, "Sir, please feel free to say whatever you wish to say."

"I wanted to ask, does Your Highness intend to build a mound of skulls?"

Jingguan, commonly known as the human head tower.

They piled up the heads of prisoners of war into a tower shape to intimidate and retaliate against the enemy.

Tan Lin felt that although the princess did not show it on her face, she was suppressing a great deal of hatred in her heart.

They are very likely to retaliate using extreme measures.

But the princess suddenly laughed: "Build a mound of corpses? They don't deserve it. You think too highly of these beasts, sir."

Upon hearing this, Tan Lin became even more worried.

The eldest princess did not intend to discuss the topic further and got up to visit the Princess Consort of Ling.

Inside the room, Princess Ling lay quietly, but even in her sleep, her brows were furrowed, indicating great unease.

The eldest princess sat down to talk with the first and second princes, while Zhou Wei took a handkerchief to wipe the sweat from the princess's brow.

"Brother, how have you been all these years?"

At this moment, Jiang Yueli was finally able to ask the question.

The eldest prince's gaze never left Princess Ling.

He said in a low voice, "It's not much different from what you guessed. If it is different, it's because our lives are more difficult than you imagine."

According to the eldest prince, after being sent to their fiefdoms, they were still young and were subjected to all-round surveillance and torment by people sent by the Great Zhou Emperor.

Over the past ten years or so, the torment they have suffered, both the unspeakable and the unspeakable, is simply too much!

"If it weren't for Ruiyao, I would have died long ago. What's the point of living like this, neither human nor ghost?"

As the eldest prince spoke, tears streamed down his face again.

"I was willing to do anything to save Ruiyao and the baby."

“I would kneel down completely and let them humiliate me, but even so, they still wouldn’t let Ruiyao go.”

The eldest prince turned to look at the eldest princess.

"Yue Li, Rui Yao and I are no longer able to have children."

Jiang Yueli was shocked and could hardly believe it.

How could this happen?

The eldest prince chuckled self-deprecatingly: "Actually, your second brother is the same. Over the years, our bodies have been worn down long ago."

"Your second brother's eyesight is blurry, and he can only recognize people by their voices when they are talking to him."

"So, he hasn't been able to study for a long time."

Jiang Yueli's body began to tremble slightly as she turned to look at the Second Prince.

The second prince smiled and comforted the eldest princess: "It's alright, Yue Li. Becoming blind is good. Blindness poses no threat."

"Actually, it's better not to be able to have children, so that you don't have to..."

As he spoke, his smile faded, and perhaps thinking of the eldest prince's child, his voice choked with emotion.

"But now that you're here, everything is over. You killed Elder Xun, and without him, the others in the Prince's Mansion will be easier to deal with."

Zhou Wei listened silently from the side, and couldn't help but sigh.

The power of Elder Xun is so great that it inspires despair!

If it weren't for her special abilities, killing Elder Xun would have been as difficult as ascending to heaven.

It was because of this person guarding the two states that the eldest prince and the second prince could not turn the tide no matter what they tried.

Only then did the officials of the Prince's Mansion dare to subject the two to inhuman humiliation without restraint!

Thinking about it this way, it's really too good for him that Old Xun died so quickly!