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In the dark, damp cellar, heart-wrenching screams rang out one after another. Xiyue's hands and feet were tied up and her body was covered in blood. She powerlessly leaned against the wooden pillar.

It was dark inside the cellar, and only a few strands of light could be seen coming from the top of his head. The whole cellar was filled with a ghastly, rotten smell.

"You, who exactly are you? "Why do you want to harm me!" Xiyue's face was deathly pale, and her lips were completely bloodless. She forcefully lifted her head and stared at the dark, blurry corner.

"Haha, who am I?" At the corner, the emerald green palace robe was quivering slightly, as if there was still a sense of pleasure after laughing out loud.

"Just what are you planning to do!?" Xiyue gritted her teeth, then spat out from between them.

"Aren't you a loyal dog? I would like to see if your master is willing to use his life to save you. " The figure in the dark slowly curled her lips and said with a proud smile.

"Don't even think about harming your majesty!" Xiyue clenched her fists tightly and shouted in a stern voice.

"You can't even protect yourself, and you still have to care about others. You are indeed a loyal dog. I would like to see if she is worth it for you to work so hard for her!" The shadow of the person in the dark coldly snorted and then slowly walked toward Xiyue.

When Xiyue saw her face clearly again and again, she opened her mouth in shock.

No, impossible, absolutely impossible!

"What is it? After seeing my face clearly, elder sister, do you have anything you want to say? "

It was the same face as Yingyue, but she didn't believe it. She definitely didn't believe that the person who harmed her was her own sister.

"Who are you? You are not Yingyue, definitely not!" Xiyue roared at this person.

"It seems that you are not stupid. I am indeed not Yingyue. I am only borrowing her skin. Hahahaha!" The man laughed out loud and covered his face with his finger. With a light rip, a human skin mask fell to the ground.

"You, just who are you!" Xiyue called out viciously.

"I can see that you're not far from death. I don't mind letting you know that I'm Flower, White, and Ning!" Hua Bai opened his mouth, walked up to Xiyue, and said each word.

"Hua Bai Ning?" Xiyue thought back. She was the one who had caused the Emperor to nearly die from poison!

"What did you do to Yingyue?" Xiyue remembered that when the palace maid came to find her, she was holding Yingyue's token. If it wasn't for the palace maid saying that something had happened to Yingyue, she wouldn't have left with her. She was tricked. It seemed that Yingyue couldn't escape.

"I won't do anything to her. On the contrary, I have to thank her properly. Without her help, it wouldn't be that easy for me to sneak into the palace and find such a good place to entertain you." "Even this personal item was given to me by her. She also told me that if I were to take her things to find you, you would definitely come with me."

"No, no, she won't harm me!" At this moment, Xiyue's face was covered in tears. She didn't believe that Yingyue would harm her. She didn't believe it!

"Haha, it doesn't matter if you don't believe me. After all, your life is what she wants, and what I want is Qiao Qiao's life. Both of us taking what we need and giving advice to each other, isn't that also within reason?" Hua Bai Ning let out another round of laughter and then once again put Yingyue's human skin mask on her face. She proudly curled her lips, "Say, if I go out like this, will Qiao still be on guard against me?"

"You're shameless! I will tell the Emperor all your evidence! " Xiyue cursed with a face full of hatred.

"I'm afraid you won't have the chance to see Qiao once again, but … You can tell her my evidence in the Underworld, hahahahaha. " Hua Bai Ning laughed loudly and turned to leave.

Ah!" Right now, she was trapped in the cellar and was unable to escape. She couldn't tell the emperor of their scheme and couldn't protect the emperor by his side. She was really blaming herself endlessly.

"Open the door." A familiar voice pulled Xiyue back from her self-reproach.

It was Ying Yue, Ying Yue's voice!

Xiyue looked at the light with a look of anticipation. She saw that Yingyue was also wearing jade-green clothes and had a cute, peaceful expression. She didn't have any different intentions compared to before.

"Yingyue, I'm here. I'm here!" Xiyue's mind was completely blank. She no longer had the time to ponder over how Yingyue had safely come here. This was because she didn't want to believe that Yingyue had harmed her.

"Of course I know that my sister is here." Yingyue pursed her lips into a smile and leisurely approached.

"Yingyue, you, what do you mean by this?" Xiyue's joyous face slowly stiffened. Could it be that everything Hua BaiNing said was true?

"What do I mean, didn't Sister Hua tell you?" Yingyue pursed her lips and smiled.

"I don't understand, I don't understand, I don't understand!" Xiyue shook her head. She didn't understand. She really didn't understand why Yingyue did this.

"Then let me let you understand, because elder sister Hua can give me what I want, and you will only deprive me of what I want." Yingyue's eyes lit up as she stared hatefully at Xiyue. Unlike her usual pure and cute appearance, she looked bloodthirsty and cruel.

"Why, why?" Xiyue shook her head in disbelief as she mumbled. She only had Yingyue, and she didn't want her to delve too deeply into the world. She only wanted to protect her and make her forever innocent and cute. Was she wrong?

"You still don't understand?" Yingyue coldly snorted, "It seems that you are really stupid!"

"Pa ~!" With a crisp sound, Yingyue's hand was still raised. She stared at the corner of Xiyue's mouth until it began to bleed. She was very happy. "This slap was given to me by me the day I returned it to you at the palace." She moved closer to Xiyue and whispered each word into her ear.

Xiyue tilted her head, not caring about the blood flowing from the corner of her mouth. Right now, she could no longer feel any pain.

It's you! It's you, you sneaked me in to find His Majesty, not allowing me to learn martial arts, you've allowed me to live under your protection since I was young, blocking my path at all times! You're just afraid that I'll be stronger than you, are you not jealous that I'll surpass you in the future? So you don't forget to suppress me all the time,

In the past, the Emperor would order me to do everything he wanted me to do. But last time, it was clearly you who failed to protect the Emperor and caused his death. Not only did the Emperor not punish you, he even treated you as a trusted aide.

When I returned to the palace that day, I personally heard from you and the emperor that you didn't want me to get involved in your important affairs. What was good for me, it was all an excuse, the emperor was once again tricked by you, he actually sent me to the imperial harem after believing your words, he kept everything important hidden from me, my identity is still the imperial palace's first aunt? I am clearly a mama in charge of chores in the harem! " Ying Yue was filled with hatred as she shouted at Xi Yue.

Xiyue tightly bit her lips as tears streamed down her cheeks and her thin lips trembled. She never thought that her wishful thinking would actually be so unbearable in her eyes.

"It looks like you still don't know. Right now, you and Qingwu are the only ones left out of the eight that the Emperor found. But very soon, there will only be Qingwu left. Hahaha, what about the others?" They were all killed by me in secret. " Yingyue narrowed her eyes and looked at Xiyue fiercely as she said, "Are you trying to ask how I am able to do this?"

Yingyue slowly stood up and stood before Xiyue, filled with pride.

"That's because when the late emperor found someone to teach you martial arts, I was already secretly learning on the side. I was even more hardworking than those cripples, so it was very easy for me to kill them." Yingyue laughed out loud, "There's one more thing that you wouldn't think of. When I left the palace to find someone, the Emperor was assassinated …"

"The Emperor was assassinated because of you!" When she mentioned the emperor's predicament, Xiyue finally reacted. She shouted at Yingyue, "How can you do this? The emperor views you as his blood sister. How can you do something that would harm the emperor?!"

Yingyue clenched her teeth and slapped Xiyue's swollen face again.

"It's you who harmed the emperor, not me!" Yingyue shouted, "If that time, the Emperor could punish you for not protecting you well. Everything would not be what it is now."

"For the sake of getting rid of me, you actually dared to take the risk of killing a monarch!? You're crazy! You're really crazy!" Xiyue shouted in a stern voice.

"Yes, I am crazy, so what? "I'm crazy, but I'm alive and well. You're not crazy, but now you have to beg me like an ant." Yingyue smiled slowly.

"You …" Xiyue tightly clenched her fists. She didn't think that everything that had happened in the palace was all done by Yingyue, and that she had misunderstood the Regent.

"What's wrong with me? "Oh, that's right. I forgot to tell you one thing. I was the one who killed Vice Minister Han, and I was the one who caused Consort Ning's death. Haha, you didn't think of that, did you?" Yingyue laughed.

"You, your heart is actually so vicious, what kind of thing is there that you can't do!" Xiyue let out a heart-wrenching howl.

"You haven't finished listening, why are you saying that I have a malicious heart?" "I've already found someone to spread the news about Qingwu returning to the palace to report to the emperor about the rumors and the Regent's life. Right now, it should have caused a storm and everyone knows about it, so do you think the Regent will forgive the salt thrown on his wounds?"

"You … "You're despicable!" Xiyue gritted her teeth.

My dear elder sister, if the people from the Demon Palace were to find out that there was still another survivor from the Yan Clan's trial that year, do you think they would let this matter rest? "Look, in a short while, the Demon Palace will raze the palace to the ground." Yingyue's face was full of pride. She laughed again as if everything was under her control. It seemed that her many years of planning had not been in vain.

"You … You will harm the entire Qiao Country if you do this, why did you do this! " Xiyue bitterly looked at Yingyue. She really couldn't be saved anymore.

"Because I want to destroy everything you care about, because I hate the way you pretend to be loyal in front of the emperor, because I disgust you, I want you to die a thousand times over and over, I want everyone in the world to hate you!" Ying Yue gritted her teeth and said.

"So all of this is because of your hatred for me." Xiyue lowered her eyes, then said calmly, "Then if I die, will you be able to protect the Emperor?"

"Haha, if it was in the past, I'm afraid it would have been possible. But now, since Big Sister Hua helped me, I naturally have to help her as well." Yingyue smiled.

"She's using you, don't trust Hua BaiNing too much!" Xiyue urged.

"Pa ~!" He once more viciously slapped Xiyue's face, which could no longer be seen.

"I don't need you to teach me how to do things. Even if Sister Hua is using me, she can give me what I want. I'm willing to be used by her!" Yingyue said fiercely.