Kyoto is colder this year than in previous years. It was snowing in early November.

The wind was cold and biting, and the howling north wind mixed with snowflakes passed through the trees, making bursts of wild beast-like screams, which was creepy.

In a secluded courtyard north of the Prince's Mansion, there was a dog cage half a person's height, in which was imprisoned a woman in a single layer of clothing and with disheveled hair.

The woman's neck was tied with an iron chain, and her eyes had been gouged out, leaving two black holes in her eye sockets, with blood oozing out from time to time. She seemed to have been frozen numb and lay motionless in the cage.

At this moment, the courtyard door was suddenly pushed open, and a gorgeously dressed woman walked in, supported by a maid, followed by an old woman holding an umbrella.

She was wearing a white fox cloak and a gold hairpin inlaid with rubies on her head, looking extremely luxurious.

The woman pushed aside the maid beside her, walked to the cage with a smile on her face, looked at the woman in the cage with interest, and said lazily, "Sister, sister is here to see you."

When the woman in the cage heard the familiar voice, she moved her body but did not react, as if she did not hear it. She continued to lie in the cage without saying a word.

Seeing this, the woman winked at the maid beside her. The maid nodded in understanding and then said, "Miss Qingye, you may not know yet, but the Sixth Prince passed away yesterday."

Before the maid finished her words, Lin Qing, who was locked in the cage, suddenly jumped up and shouted in a hoarse voice, "Impossible! You lied to me! This is impossible!"

Seeing this, Lin Qingyao smiled with satisfaction and then slowly said, "Lin Qingye, you may not know yet, the Sixth Prince has colluded with the enemy and betrayed the country, and his entire family has been confiscated and executed. The Queen has also been deposed and will probably die in the cold palace soon. This is all thanks to your good grandfather. It was he who reported the Sixth Prince!"

Lin Qing in the cage was also filled with grief and anger, and tears of blood fell from her eyes. She murmured to herself, "Impossible, this can't be true."

Lin Qingyao seemed very satisfied with Lin Qingye's reaction. She smiled and continued, "You must be aware that your grandmother was already pregnant with your mother when she was brought back from the Western Regions by your grandfather. Your mother is not the daughter of the old Duke Zhenguo. Your grandmother, your mother, and you are all from the Western Regions. You all deserve to die! The Sixth Prince who loves you deserves to die even more!"

Lin Qing also leaned against the cage and slowly squatted down, still muttering to herself, "Impossible, this is not true, you lied to me."

At this moment, Lin Qing suddenly understood why his grandfather had never liked him and his mother. After his grandmother died, she secretly left a large sum of money and shops to his mother. His mother had been giving money and land to his grandfather's family to please them, but she never won his grandfather's favor. This was the reason.

Lin Qingyao stepped forward and grabbed Lin Qingye's neck, staring at her face and said, "Your grandmother, your mother, and you all have vixen faces, especially your eyes, which are particularly disgusting to me! However, the old King of the Western Regions may not know that the lover he has been searching for in vain is your grandmother, hahahahahaha!"

Lin Qingye was born beautiful and sharp, with facial features that looked like they were carved out, especially her exotic eyes, which would captivate you with just one look.

It's not that no one has doubted her identity, but everyone knows that her grandmother was from the Western Regions. The old Duke Zhenguo brought her back when he was guarding the border in his early years. He just said that she was picked up on the roadside and kept her by his side to serve her until she gave birth to Lin Qingye's mother, Nan Mingyu. Then she was promoted to a concubine and then passed away before Lin Qingye's mother, Nan Mingyu, got married.

Nan Mingyu was never liked by the old Duke Zhenguo, and because of the death of her aunt, although she was a daughter of the Duke Zhenguo's Mansion, she ended up marrying into the Marquis Pingnan's Mansion as a concubine.

Lin Qingyao waved to the old woman beside her, and the old woman immediately understood her hint and picked up a bucket of cold water and poured it over Lin Qingye. Lin Qingye was already wearing thin clothes, and the bucket of cold water made her feel like she was falling into an ice cellar. The rapid loss of temperature made her heart ache suddenly.

She hugged her knees, curled up in the cage, and made a weak sound, "Where is the prince? I want to see the prince."

The biological mother of Crown Prince Ye Tinghua was just a palace maid with an ordinary appearance. Once, she was favored by a drunk emperor and gave birth to a prince. The emperor disliked this palace maid very much, and also disliked Ye Tinghua. Although she gave birth to a prince, she was only given the title of Yu Yingying.

Fortunately, Ye Tinghua was ambitious and talented. He wrote a good poem at a palace banquet and finally caught the emperor's attention. However, because of his mother's humble background, no matter how outstanding he was, he was not qualified to sit on the throne of crown prince.

Lin Qingye's mother had long since handed over the real estate and shops under her name to Lin Qingye to manage. Ye Tinghua designed an acquaintance with Lin Qingye, and then tricked Lin Qingye into entering the mansion as a concubine. After that, Lin Qingye used all his financial resources to help the Crown Prince Ye Tinghua, who was then the third prince, to win over the hearts of the people, secretly raise private soldiers, and give advice everywhere, eventually making the third prince stand out from the crowd of princes and be named the crown prince by the emperor.

Lin Qingyao chuckled, "Oh, will the prince still see you in your current state? From the moment you handed over your shop, your value was gone. Otherwise, how could you enter the prince's mansion with your status? You are not even worthy of being a concubine. And your lowly aunt was beaten to death by my father last night along with the servant Stone.

Now the only one missing is you. You should have died long ago, but how can I bear to let my sister die as your elder sister? I want to keep your worthless life alive. I want you to stay in this dog cage and watch the prince ascend the throne and watch me, the crown princess, rule the country. Hahahahahaha."

At this time, Lin Qing in the dog cage had been tortured to the point of being on the verge of death. When she learned of her mother's death, she was so angry that she vomited blood. Her empty eye sockets were like two abysses. She stared in the direction where Lin Qingyao's voice came from, and she howled like a trapped beast.

"Lin Qingyao! Ye Tinghua! I swear on my soul! If there is an afterlife, I will eat your flesh and drink your blood. I want you to die miserably! Even if I become a ghost, I will not let you go!"

After hearing this, Lin Qingyao smiled contemptuously, "I wanted to be kind enough to spare my sister's life, but since you are so ungrateful, I might as well let you go, and it can be considered a sisterly love.

You can't beat me when you're alive, and I'm even less afraid of you when you die. Even if you live again, I'll still control you, because you were born a slut born to a concubine."

After saying that, he pulled out the golden fork on his head and stabbed Lin Qingye's neck fiercely. Blood gushed out immediately, and Lin Qingye died without any resistance, with a hint of smile on his face.

Lin Qingyao took off her white fox cloak, wiped the blood off her hands with a sneer, and threw it on the ground. She said to the old woman beside her, "Find a Taoist priest to perform a ritual and feed her to the dogs."

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