Duke Jing's younger sister

Chapter 237 Involved in a Nightmare

The rim of the wheel rotated, making a rumbling sound as it pressed against the stone slabs.

It was broad daylight, but there were very few pedestrians on the street.

Jiang Li kept her eyes down and no longer had any communication with Luo Cheng.

Luo Cheng also remained silent, staring at her for a long time.

There seemed to be thousands of words hidden in those narrow and beautiful eyes, but she didn't know where to start.

Like the surging waves, it can only return to calm in the end.

After Jiang Li entered the palace, the first person she met was not Crown Prince Xiao Wenhao, but Han Yunning.

She stood gracefully on the steps outside the hall, and it seemed that she had been waiting for a long time.

Han Yunning looked at Jiang Li and smiled at her from the bottom of his heart for the first time, "Sister, how are you?"

The prince is stupid and cannot figure out King Rui's thoughts, but Han Yunning knows what's going on.

The reason why she stopped Xiao Wenhao from killing Emperor Hongyang was because she understood that after Emperor Hongyang passed away, the next person to suffer would be the crown prince.

She was powerless to change it, and she knew what was waiting for her.

Since you are going to die anyway, why not find a close friend to be buried with you?

She had been fighting with Jiang Li for a long time, and she actually developed a sense of mutual sympathy between them.

If I could die with her, it wouldn't be in vain that I have fought for so long.

Jiang Li didn't even glance at her, nor did he intend to pay any attention to her.

She and Han Yunning have come to this point today, and it is hard to say who is right or wrong.

She thought Han Yunning was wrong, but Han Yunning also thought she was wrong first.

Jiang Li brushed past Han Yunning without stopping and went straight into the hall.

Han Yunning had a meaningful smile on his lips, which never disappeared.

Luo Cheng settled Jiang Li in a small courtyard. Although this place was in the palace, it was very far away from Chongming Palace.

He had already sent someone to clean up the yard, and all the necessary items were available.

Outside the gate of the courtyard stood a dozen royal guards wearing black armor and red clothes.

Jiang Li glanced at it indifferently and sneered in his heart.

Looking at the situation, even a fly would find it difficult to fly out of this iron wall.

Jiang Li neither cried nor made a noise. Every day at mealtime, a little palace maid would bring in meals.

Occasionally she would talk to the little palace maid, asking her name and how old she was.

Her response is always silence.

Sometimes when she felt bored, she would open the window and admire the birds flying freely in the sky.

The afternoon sun was shining brightly, and the warmth shone on her palm-sized face, making it difficult for her to open her eyes.

Counting it up, today is her fifth day in the palace.

Just as she was stunned, Luo Cheng came in from the courtyard gate. The two looked at each other through the window for a moment, then she turned her head and closed the window.

The young man stood under the dead tree, clenched his fists at his sides, and then slowly unclenched them.

"Master Luo!"

A royal guard in armor bowed and said, "Your Highness, please come over immediately."

"understood."

Luo Cheng responded, raised his head again, glanced deeply at the tightly closed window, and turned away.

It suddenly started raining that night.

The cold wind carried raindrops, which lashed the window frames like a whip, making crackling sounds.

The air was filled with the biting chill of winter. Jiang Li wrapped herself tightly in the quilt, watching the dim candle flames on the table dancing in the wind.

"Bam—"

There was a loud bang.

The cold wind rushed in and extinguished the only candle in the room, and the scene was suddenly plunged into darkness.

Jiang Li was startled and sat up instantly.

He looked towards the door with a pale face.

Of the two lanterns on the corridor outside the door, one had been blown out by the wind, while the other had been picked up by the wind and was flying in the air in disarray.

With the help of the faint, swaying light, she saw the person clearly. Her pupils suddenly contracted and cold sweat oozed from her back.

——It was actually Xiao Wenhao!

He stepped into the house, his eyes emitting a faint light as if a hungry wolf saw its prey, staring at her intently.

Along with the strong wind that rushed into the house, there was also a strong smell of alcohol.

Jiang Li's fingers became increasingly colder, and her limbs were trembling with fear.

She got off the couch in a hurry, not even having time to put on her shoes, and stepped on the cold floor barefoot.

She picked up the vase closest to her, held it in her hand, and pointed it at the man who was approaching her, "Don't come over here, or I'll die in front of you!"

The royal guards outside the courtyard did not leave. Someone looked into the dark courtyard through the door frame and thought to himself that something was wrong.

The man lied that he had a stomachache and needed to go to the toilet, and left in a hurry, hunched over and holding his stomach.

Xiao Wenhao was not afraid of her threats at all, "You want to die?"

His tone was full of sneer, as if he was listening to a huge joke.

He approached step by step, each step carrying a breathtaking thriller, "Okay, go ahead."

Jiang Li was extremely desperate, and her hands holding the vase were shaking violently.

She had no chance of winning against him.

Since the moment she entered the palace, Jiang Li never thought that she could get out alive.

I just didn't expect that this day would come so soon.

She thought that if she waited a little longer, perhaps Shen Beiqi would come back.

But...this is just an unrealistic dream.

She smashed the vase with all her might, quickly bent down, and reached out to grab a piece of the fragments to cut her throat with.

As soon as her fingertips touched the cold and sharp porcelain pieces, someone grabbed her hair tightly from behind, as if trying to tear her scalp off, and dragged her backwards violently.

Xiao Wenhao lifted her up easily as if she was a chicken that had no power to resist, and then threw her to the ground mercilessly.

Her body was like broken porcelain, making a dull thud.

She felt waves of piercing pain in her back and arms, as if her bones were being torn apart, and the pain was so severe that she could hardly breathe.

She ignored the severe pain in her body and crawled towards the door with all her strength.

In her eyes, that door was like the dawn of life and her only hope.

Just as her fingers were about to touch the threshold, the door was slammed shut.

The only ray of light was isolated outside the cold door.

"You are originally my Crown Princess. It is not difficult for you to serve me."

Xiao Wenhao laughed grimly, and that laugh made her scalp tingle.

He grabbed her ankles tightly, dragging her like a lifeless object, and pressed her hard onto the food table.

The teapot and teacups fell to the ground, leaving a mess on the ground.

Jiang Li struggled desperately, but the power disparity between the two sides was so great that she couldn't even end her own life.

"let me go--"

"Help--"

She cried out at the top of her lungs, as if she was caught in an endless nightmare and was sinking deeper and deeper.