The villain's daily corpse collection

Du Ximiao sat in front of her dressing table in the room while Niyun, the most skillful female official in the Tianwang Palace in Yangyue City, dressed her up.

Today, I am wearing a phoenix bun. First, I gather all my hair on top of my head, tie them with golden threads, and then bend them into a bun, like a phoenix spreading its wings. Although this bun is named "Phoenix", it is not as solemn as the palace buns, but still has a lively feeling.

"Your Highness, something terrible is happening!"

Du Ximiao heard the noise outside the door and was about to frown and stop them, but he saw that the female official looked rather helpless - she wanted to avoid him, but her fingers were still entangled in her hair, leaving her in a dilemma.

Unexpectedly, the princess changed her expression, curved her eyebrows, gently stroked Niyun's hand, and motioned her to continue. Then, she smiled and teased the messenger at the door, "Why are you so flustered? Was it that my concubine Si Jun in Yunmengchun in the east of the city was kidnapped? This is not a big deal. It would be better to replace her with the concubine Shu Guan. I like him too."

The young man dressed as a guard at the door wanted to keep silent for a moment after hearing her words, but he still opened his mouth and said, "Master Si Jun was parading in the flower street yesterday and accidentally fell off his horse. Yun Mengchun blocked the news, and his life or death is currently unknown."

The country where the human race in the mortal world lived was called Zhongyue Dynasty, which had two capitals and eight cities. Zhongyue Dynasty was one country, but the throne and territory were divided into two, with the imperial capital divided into Yin and Yang, and the two emperors respectively managing the eight major cities in the area.

Yangyue City is located in the northwest center of Yangdu. It is known as the Little Capital of Yangdu and is also the largest and most prosperous city in the world. It has developed commerce and a prosperous economy. There is a saying that "all the gold and silver in the world comes from the moon."

There is only one Yunmengchun in the whole Yangyue City, and Yunmengchun has only one meaning, which is a prostitute's house. And Yunmengchun's top prostitute, Si Jun Gongzi, was the one that the seventh emperor's daughter Du Ximiao had her eyes on when she was in the carriage on the day she went to the temporary palace.

It caused quite a stir and became a joke on the street at the time, and everyone knew about it.

"How pitiful! Then let the beautiful lady Shu Guan come to see me instead."

The female official Niyun carefully observed Du Ximiao's reaction and found that she did not seem to be shocked or worried at all.

Niyun came here to serve this Buddha not because of her heart's desire, but because she was eliminated in the game of grabbing the week. Why does she always get the turn of such a troublesome person! Who would take the initiative to serve an emperor's daughter with an unpredictable personality and no sense of propriety and shame?

Now that we have met, it is true as the rumors say that she is indeed the most absurd among all the emperor's sons and daughters.

Niyun didn't know if it was better for her to not pay much attention to etiquette and hierarchy. But the shameless nature of the Seventh Emperor's Daughter made her unable to accept it for a while. She had served many noble ladies, but she had never met one like her, who played too much in public.

"Your Highness the Seventh Prince, the makeup is ready." Ni Yun reported respectfully.

"Niyun, your hands are truly the most skillful in Yangyue City!"

"Thank you for your praise, Your Highness. It is only my duty."

Du Ximiao stood in front of the bronze mirror, which reflected the girl's pretty and bright face. She had white teeth and clear eyes, and her temperament was extraordinary. Her every move was so graceful and elegant that the precious flowers in the Tianwang Palace lost their color. Although Niyun couldn't say that she liked her, she had to admit that the Seventh Emperor's Daughter was indeed extremely beautiful.

"I will reward you handsomely! Brother Yuan Xiang, please help me get the jade bracelet that my brother the emperor gave me last time." The young guard raised his eyes with a look of surprise, not knowing whether he was surprised by the address or the gift.

Ni Yun, who was standing by, was also very surprised. She declined politely: "Seventh Prince, I cannot afford such a precious reward! Besides, these are all my responsibilities, so I am not worthy of your generous reward!"

Yuan Xiang brought in a gift box, inside of which was the precious jade bracelet, which was inlaid with gold-rimmed patterns and resembled a picture of fish swimming in the water.

Du Ximiao took it out casually, shone it in front of the candle, and said to himself like a professional jade appraiser, "This is definitely top-grade. I heard that this jade material comes from the Xianshan jade of the Shi family in Fangqiu City, the world's jade capital. Of course, it is worthy of your skillful hands, Niyun. The fish on it is really lifelike."

Without saying anything, she pulled Niyun's hand and put the jade bracelet on Niyun's wrist.

"Look, it fits so well! It looks better on me!" Du Ximiao looked at the pretty female official with joy, "Niyun, I have only been in this palace for a few days, and I will have to rely on you for care in the future. This jade bracelet is only worthy of being a meeting gift."

She changed the subject and looked outside, "The weather is nice today, let's go out for a walk together." Since the Seventh Emperor's daughter personally invited her, Ni Yun dared not refuse.

Tianwang Palace is the most magnificent of the four palaces in Yangdu. Because it is located in Yangyue City, it naturally carries the unique magnificence of this city.

"This palace is beautiful, but these little fish can only play in such a small pond. Do you think they will feel bored?"

"In reply to His Highness the Seventh Prince, I am not a fish, so I don't know what they would think. But the palace can provide them with a place to live, and there are people to feed them every day. This is much better than the dry riverbed outside." Ni Yun replied after thinking seriously.

Du Ximiao didn't expect Niyun to tell her so much. Seeing that the Seventh Princess didn't respond, Niyun was panicked for a moment: "It was my fault."

"What if the world outside is not just dry riverbeds, but also oceans?" Du Ximiao continued to ask.

"I am an ignorant servant, and I don't know what the ocean is."

"The ocean is a place with lots of water, as big as countless ponds, boundless and endless, just like... the sky." Du Ximiao gestured with her hands and looked up at the sky. "But, I have never seen it. I only read about it in books. Also, I have heard a story..."

She cleared her throat, walked backwards leisurely, and looked at Niyun behind her.

"Legend has it that there is a river whose water is extremely turbid and unsuitable for fish to survive. However, there is a kind of fish that survives because it can tolerate the pollution and has golden scales." She looked down at the pond. "Oh, it's almost like the koi in this pond... There is always a time every year when these fish swim upstream. Can you guess why?"

"I don't know." Niyun shook her head.

"Because there is a huge dragon gate in the upper reaches of the river, magnificent and dazzling. The dragon gate is suspended above the waterfall. Oh... the waterfall is a huge water curtain." She did not forget to explain, "Only by jumping out of the turbulent water curtain can you fly over the dragon gate, and the fish can become a real dragon, and from then on, it will roam between heaven and earth, no longer bound by any stream."

Du Ximiao's eyes were as sharp as a torch, and she patiently persuaded him: "The carp leaps over the dragon gate and soars into the sky." She took Niyun's hand with the jade bracelet, "Niyun, do you want to be the carp that leaps over the dragon gate?"

Ni Yun didn't know what the Seventh Princess meant, nor did she know whether she had violated a taboo. She wanted to kneel down and admit her mistake, but Du Ximiao held her wrist so tightly that she could not bend down and kneel.

"Seventh Prince, I am a stupid servant. I wonder what you want me to do? I was born to serve my master. I don't want to be a flying fish."

"Niyun, do you know? You and I are both fish in that river. There is only one way, which is to jump over that waterfall and pass through that door... Whether we can become dragons or gods, I don't know... But at least we can wash off the mud on our bodies and feel a little more relaxed."

"I am stupid and don't understand your highness's profound meaning." Ni Yun didn't dare to look up at Du Ximiao.

"Why is it that you always have to serve the difficult people?"

"W-what?"

Du Ximiao pulled Niyun's hand and put the thing in her palm into Niyun's palm. Niyun opened her palm and found some slips of paper. These slips were exactly the content of the lot she and other female officials drew. The content on the slips was exactly the same.

Niyun understood instantly.

Every time the one-year-old was chosen, she was always given priority because of her age. However, when she met a difficult noble person, she would be chosen for no reason. In fact, she was manipulated by them.

"There are not many people in this palace who like me, so naturally they are unwilling to serve me. I understand." Du Ximiao said calmly, as if she had already gotten used to it. "I just think this is very unfair to Niyun."

Ni Yun's face turned pale instantly, and she knelt down immediately: "This servant, this servant is not unwilling to come, this servant has no intention of being disrespectful to Your Highness."

"Niyun!" Du Ximiao's voice was unhappy, but this unhappiness was mixed with a hint of coquettishness, "You misunderstood. I am not blaming you, I pity you. You have been doing the heaviest work all the time, aren't you sad and upset? Whether at home or in the palace, you have always been like this...Are you willing?"

Home? Niyun's heart was in a knot. She was the eldest sister at home, so she naturally had to take care of her younger brothers and sisters and her father. If her mother had not passed away early, how could she have been sold to the Tianwang Palace as a slave after so many twists and turns?

Home! Niyun looked at Du Ximiao. How could she know what was going on at home?

"While talking to Niyun, we ended up here. Is this where you lived before?" Unconsciously, the two of them walked to a slightly inferior palace gate. This was the residence of the palace maids - the Ye Ting Palace.

"It is where I lived before. Now that I am serving Your Highness, I will stay in the side room of the Leyang Palace where Your Highness lives, so that it will be convenient for me to serve you."

"Very good. I am actually very easy to talk to. It doesn't matter if you don't want to continue now. I can arrange for you to do something else, or... send you away from here." Du Ximiao said bluntly.

"Thank you, Seventh Prince, for your consideration. But I am willing to serve Your Highness without any objection." During the conversation, Ni Yun felt that the legendary Seventh Princess seemed to be different from the rumors.

"Your Highness," Yuan Xiang appeared from nowhere, "It's done."

"Let's go take a look." Du Ximiao took Niyun's hand and walked towards the Ye Ting Palace, followed closely by Yuan Xiang. Niyun felt that the Seventh Princess's hand was as cold as if it had been dipped in ice water in winter.

After passing through several palace gates and several courtyards, they finally arrived at the place where Niyun had lived before. But what caught their eyes were... the corpses of a group of female officials.

Blood splattered everywhere, accumulating at the bottom of the dried-up pond, and still flowing out from the corpse. Due to the uneven terrain, it eventually converged and flowed into the small pond in the courtyard.

Everything in front of her made Ni Yun feel extremely terrified. The emotion of fear engulfed her consciousness several times, but Ni Yun pinched her thigh hard and tried to resist the feeling of fainting.

Du Ximiao was not happy to see the corpses everywhere: "Yuan Xiang! Are you stupid? You made it so dirty. You killed all the people. Who will clean it up? You?"

Yuan Xiang: “…”

He forgot.

Originally, he was not happy to do this job, he did not want to kill anyone, but Du Ximiao was his master. This killing was not easy, so naturally there were many mistakes.

Yuan Xiang: "I'll do it..." Before he could finish his words, Ni Yun interrupted him, "Your Highness, let me take care of it!"

"Let him do it!" Du Ximiao scolded, but she was not angry, instead she showed the quirky look of a young girl, "Guard Yuan, you are killing people like this, aren't you afraid that the guards in the palace will find out?"

After a while, he changed to three different names. Ni Yun realized that his relationship with the Seventh Princess seemed unusual.

She ignored the joke of the Seventh Princess, rolled up her sleeves and started to work, cleaning up the mess. Although the place was devastated, bloodstained and disgusting, Niyun could not help but imitate Du Ximiao.

This prince is said to be only sixteen or seventeen years old, three or four years younger than myself, but he is not afraid at all. I need to be stronger.

Yuan Xiang said: "The guards have been replaced. They are all Prince Xian's men. Your Highness, don't worry."

Du Ximiao understood and said, "Then I am really relieved. I am tired, you can ask the guards to deal with the body." She turned and left, ignoring Ni Yun who was dragging the body behind her and wanted to vomit at the same time.

Niyun knew that the Seventh Princess treated her as one of their own. What about the others...

"Guard Yuan, I have something I want to ask you."

"What's the matter?"

"Your Highness, why did you choose me? Why didn't you leave any of the others behind?"

"It's better not to ask too many questions about some things." Yuan Xiang became serious, and Ni Yun nodded and pursed her lips in understanding.

"However," he changed the subject, "Your Highness guessed you would ask, so she asked me to tell you. She is not a person who kills for fun. Those people purely have conflicts of interest with the King of Xian, and she just helped to clean them up. Among that group of people, only you have a clean background and a pitiful family background, so she wanted to teach you. Fortunately, you have understanding. If you were stupid, you would not let you know these things and would drive you away."

Ni Yun suddenly realized the purpose of the story Du Ximiao had just told her.

She had been immersed in the quagmire of power for a long time without realizing it. Although she was distressed every time she was cheated by others, she was lucky enough to survive until now because she had never been caught up in the intrigue and they wanted her to work hard.

Now they have become victims of the power struggle. She escaped, but she has already stepped into another camp. She chose the Seventh Imperial Daughter, and behind the Seventh Imperial Daughter is the Great Emperor Zixian Wang, who is most likely to become the heir to the throne.

Niyun was surprised. She thought she would be very repulsive and panic. But for some reason she was not scared. Instead, she felt a little happy.

At the beginning, the group of female officials relied on their masters to order her around like a slave. They often played "jokes" on her, mixed ashes into her food, and poured cold water on her bedding on winter nights... many, many things made her miserable.

Now, she has someone behind her.

Niyun looked at the pool of corpses. She listened to Du Ximiao's words and wanted to be the fish that leaped over the dragon gate. She wanted to do her best to escape from everything dirty, including that home.

She looked down at the blood-stained jade bracelet and couldn't hold back her tears.

Back in the bedroom, Du Ximiao took out the letter that Yuan Xiang had stuffed into her pocket earlier. This was exactly what he meant by "something is really wrong."

The letter only reads:

"An has met with disaster, and there is no prospect of marriage."

The signature is the word “游”.

Du Ximiao always thought that her luck was extremely bad. With just these eight words, her engagement with the future heir of the Yangyue An family was over.