After being reborn in the Mass Grave, she overturned her predecessor's power

With the arrival of spring, the plum blossoms in the plum forest are about to bloom and fade. Every morning, Jiang Xue Ning would practice swordplay deep in the plum forest.

After practicing swordsmanship that day, I was walking back. I ran into a woman in green clothes, with black hair like clouds, thin face and slender waist. She had a graceful temperament and was beautiful and elegant.

She couldn't help but take a few more glances, but quickly looked away. As they passed by, a clear voice rang in her ears, "Is it the Princess of Qingzhou?"

She stopped and it seemed that the beauty was coming for her.

"Yes."

The beauty smiled at her, "I am Linglong from the Xiao family."

Jiang Xue Ning looked at her slowly. It turned out to be Xiao Jia Linglong, a famous beauty in the capital. However, she was kept in seclusion and unknown to the public. She was very mysterious.

She is also the youngest legitimate daughter of the Xiao family. It is said that Madam Xiao dotes on this daughter very much.

"It turned out to be Miss Xiao."

Xiao Linglong smiled faintly and said dignifiedly, "I have heard of your great name for a long time. I would like to ask you for a cup of tea."

"Beauty is as charming as flowers. I will definitely serve the best tea to Miss Xiao." Jiang Xue Ning said happily, "Please come this way."

Xiao Linglong went to Huajiantang with her. His eyes swept across the sword in her hand and her neat dress, with a hint of admiration and melancholy in his eyes.

Jiang Xue Ning brought people to the pavilion of Huajian Hall. Qinghe and Caiyue quickly arranged everything and they sat around the stove to make tea.

Xiao Linglong is proficient in tea art, and said very politely, "I am sorry for disturbing you. Please try my tea art, Princess."

Soon, a cup of fragrant and elegant tea was handed to her. She took a sip and found that the taste was not bad. But she was more curious about why Xiao Linglong appeared here.

But she was not prepared to speak, so after drinking her tea, she leaned back in her chair and casually admired the flowers.

Xiao Linglong put down her teacup and asked, "I'm curious, what does the princess think of the Xiao family?"

"Why are you curious?"

"In some people's eyes, the Xiao family is a perfect counterattack story. They were once the mother's family of the queen, and they are a newly noble and prosperous family." Xiao Linglong looked at her with burning eyes. "I have heard too much about the good and the bad since I was a child. But I am most curious about what the Xiao family is like in the eyes of the princess."

That’s a really good question.

Jiang Xue Ning chuckled and said, "Although this is not a pleasant question, I always respond to requests from beauties."

"The Xiao family is a treacherous family that will do anything to climb up the social ladder."

Xiao Linglong didn't get angry but smiled and said seriously, "This evaluation is milder than I thought."

"It's okay to want to climb up, but it's wrong to climb up by stepping on others in a despicable way." She said in a cold voice, especially stepping on the Gu family.

Xiao Linglong opened her palm, inside which lay an amber iris bracelet.

She was distracted for a moment, thinking of the name she had never asked since returning to Beijing - Xiao Xilan.

A weak but smart and insightful girl. If nothing happened to the Gu family, she would marry his second brother and become his second sister-in-law.

This bracelet was a coming-of-age gift given to her by her second brother.

She was her close friend, the second daughter-in-law of the Gu family, and also the daughter of the Xiao family.

She was afraid that she was living a good life, but even more afraid that she was not living a good life. She didn't know how much she had participated in the events of the past and whether she knew about it.

After years of companionship, and falling in love at first sight with her second brother at the lantern festival, was it accidental or deliberate?

Does she treat her as a tool like Xiao Shujin, or does she really treat her as a sister?

She is the daughter of the Gu family, she is the daughter of the Xiao family. When they come back, there is a blood feud between them, and not mentioning it is her last kindness.

Xiao Linglong sighed softly, "She held this bracelet in her hand until her death. When I took it from her, I promised to return it to the right person."

Because it was a gift from the Gu family, Xiao's mother thought it was unlucky and had it thrown away. She bribed the maid with silver and secretly kept it.

She was still young when the accident happened, but she still remembered Xiao Xilan's dying words on the bed, "Erlang never betrayed me, so I won't betray him either. We will always be together, in life and death."

She remembered Xiao Xilan's mother's abuse, her red eyes and her resolute expression for a long time. As she grew up, she understood why everything happened.

Jiang Xue Ning touched the cold bracelet and asked with a complicated expression, "How did she die?"

"After the incident at the Gu family, she had a fierce argument with her father and slapped Xiao Shujin. She was forcibly locked up and gradually became sick and weak."

Xiao Linglong lowered her eyes. No one knew whether she died because she couldn't accept the blow or because she was disobedient and knew things she shouldn't have known.

The older she got, the more she realized what a cruel and terrible family she lived in.

Jiang Xue Ning felt bitter in her heart, she couldn't tell what she felt. The young men and women who had played and frolicked in the past were now displaced in the disintegration.

The dead, the alive... who is better off than who, and who is the final winner.

She put the bracelet away and said calmly, "Thank you for bringing the bracelet."

Her emotions were too calm and reserved, and Xiao Linglong could hardly see through them. She held the teacup in her hand and spoke slowly.

"In the glory of the Xiao family, they not only stepped on the flesh and blood of others, but also stepped on the flesh and blood of their own people. From Empress Xiao, to Sister Xilan, to others, it has never stopped."

After a long time, it was almost her turn.

She was the youngest daughter of the family, and when she grew up, the Xiao family was at its peak. She naturally received the best education for a noble lady and was enrolled in the most famous women's college in Shangjing.

The more she learned, the colder she felt, and the more she understood the despicable nature of the Xiao family and her own situation.

She is a smart and insightful woman, but unfortunately she is from the Xiao family. Jiang Xue Ning was not touched at all, but just said lightly, "You seem to be very dissatisfied with the Xiao family."

Xiao Linglong laughed at herself, "I was raised in luxury, and the Xiao family never treated me unfairly. But I am just something to be sold, and I cannot decide my own destiny."

She is not reconciled.

Jiang Xue Ning smiled and said meaningfully, "Miss Xiao told me this, do you still want to betray the Xiao family?"

No matter how you look at it, she is not a good person to confide in. She doesn't believe that such a smart girl like her would not be unaware that she and the Xiao family are irreconcilable.

But he still came to see her and said so many things that he shouldn't have said. She felt that this Miss Xiao was a bit interesting.

Xiao Linglong smiled bitterly and said, "It's indeed strange for me to do this, but I just don't want to become a stepping stone for others."

She enjoyed the wealth, splendor and delicious food brought by the Xiao family. If the family required her to marry or make sacrifices, she would not be unable to accept it.

But she watched from the sidelines and felt that this was not the case. The entire Xiao family had fallen into a strange madness, obsessed with the pursuit of the Mandate of Heaven and the imperial power.

She said, "Is the princess investigating a woman named Xiao Qiluo?"

Jiang Xue Ning's eyes flickered slightly, and she sat up straight, showing some interest.