Rebirth of the Phoenix Princess novel Chapter 411

Emperor Ning and Yun Shang boarded the carriage together. Emperor Ning looked at Yun Shang, who was unusually silent, and asked, "what are you thinking about right now?"

Yun Shang froze for a moment before she came to her senses. She smiled with a little bitterness and said to him. "Father, I believe that you always wanted sister and I can live in peace. However, she and I have finally come to a deadlock. Now she dies, I don't have any feelings about that."

Emperor Ning said with a sneer, "girls like you are all asking for trouble yourselves. You can hate each other for a lifetime for such a little thing. You grew up together. How could you have so many grudges with each other?"

Yun Shang let out a sigh and said, "my father is the emperor of a country. What he cares about is naturally the world's big things. Of course he doesn't know what happened in the imperial household. Yun Shang was brought up by the empress. Without mother's care, the empress could be good to me on the surface, but in order to earn a good reputation, she tolerated the servants to bully me and let Hua Jing bully me behind my back. Hua Jing had always been smart since her childhood, and father had always praised her. I'm the one who set off princess sister. I don't like doing girls' things and don't like reading and writing. Your majesty only saw that I don't like these things, but you have no idea why is that."

"Then tell me why." Emperor Ning frowned after hearing her words and was confused. Yun Shang smiled bitterly at his words, "You want to know why? Because sister Hua Jing kept on telling me that my teacher was so strict that he would hit the student whenever there was something wrong with her, and all the servants said to me was that Princess Hua Jing was hit by his ferule by him and she couldn't get out of bed for three days straight. Therefore, in my eyes, my teacher is an extremely terrible person. And then the empress will tell me gently and virtuously that I don't need to study and write, because I am the most honorable princess in the world."

"The empress has also taught me how to beat and curse other people in the palace. The empress said that I'm a princess. If anyone dares to upset me, just kill that person. As a result, I become more violent." Yun Shang closed her eyes slowly and continued saying. "I was hurt a lot when I was young. It was due to the bad service of maids or sister's carelessness."

Yun Shang gave a bitter smile and said, "father, you might still remember that I fell and hurt myself when I was eight years old. The empress had hired the Taoist priest to perform an exorcism, but the Taoist priest wanted to kill me instead. Luckily, I'm on my guard and dodged it. I was taken to the Ningguo Temple all of a sudden. It was not a punishment from the God. It was because that I was poisoned by her majesty... In the end, they took advantage of my kindness to attract the attention that should be on Hua Jing. Later on, my mother heard of my illness and brought madam Zheng to visit me in secret. Only then did madam Zheng find out that I was poisoned. Grandpa was a friend of Master Wu Na, so my mother wrote a letter to him secretly and asked him to beg Master Wu Na to take me out of the palace. It's because the antidote is too slow, and my body has been damaged to the root as well. So I always get sick."

Emperor Ning couldn't help but frown. He found it hard to believe. "Why didn't you tell me before?" Yun Shang smiled bitterly, "the emperor is the emperor of the world, and the empress is the master of the imperial household, and Li Jingyan is the grand councilor who has rights in the court. My mother is just a lady in the cold palace. Compared with the empress and Li Jingyan, I know which is more important."

Emperor Ning fell into silence after hearing her words.

When they arrived at Prince Jing's mansion, Emperor Ning got off the carriage and walked into the mansion. Yun Shang led emperor Ning into the secret passage. Emperor Ning followed Yun Shang silently all the way with his eyebrows frowned. After turning several corners, Yun Shang saw a stone gate. She twisted a switch beside the gate, opened it and walked into the gate. Behind the stone gate was a dark room.

Yun Shang took out the flint and took a torch from the wall and lit it. Then, the others on the wall were lit up as well. Li Jingyan and the seventh Prince of the state of Xia were locked in the stone chamber by chains. They were not used to the sudden light of fire, so they raised their hands to cover their eyes. After a while, they slowly put down their hands and looked at emperor Ning and Yun Shang.

"Hahaha, your majesty, I can't believe that we will meet again." Seeing emperor Ning here, Li Jingyan started laughing. But after a short moment, he slowed down and couldn't laugh out anymore. "I didn't expect that I would be like this when we met again. I always thought that you would be the king of a dead country when I see you again. I had been kneeling to you for so many years, and one day I would have you kneeling to me back."

"Unfortunately, that day will never come." Emperor Ning said calmly to him. He glanced at Li Jingyan's pale face. Having not seen the sun for a long time, he looked morbid pale. "Do you know that Hua Jing was killed by Cangjue Qingsu?"