The wind in the cold palace carries the smell of decay.
Shen Qingli huddled on the damp brick floor, her wrists bruised with blood from the rough hemp rope. The bowl of poisonous wine three days ago did not kill her immediately, but it made her suffer in severe pain to this day. What made her even more heartbroken was that her two children were also locked up next door, and their childish cries could be heard intermittently.
"Does my sister still recognize this?"
A skirt embroidered with golden phoenixes came into view. Shen Qinghuan leaned over and picked up a blood-stained jade pendant with her fingertips. It was a relic left to her by her mother before she died, but now she was playing with it in her eldest sister's hands.
"You..." Shen Qingli raised her head with difficulty, only to see Xiao Jamming standing behind Shen Qinghuan. He was dressed in a black brocade robe, and his eyebrows were still as cold and picturesque as ever, but he was no longer the young man who gently called her "Li'er" in her memory.
"What His Highness never wants is your sincerity." Shen Qinghuan chuckled, "What he wants is the military power of the Shen family and the black iron token that his father left for you."
Shen Qingli's pupils shrank suddenly. That token... Was a token given to her by her father before he died. It could mobilize a hundred thousand troops in Northern Xinjiang. She had been keeping it close to her, but Jamel Xiao coaxed it away three days ago.
"Why do you think His Highness married you?" Shen Qinghuan knelt down and ran his fingertips across her pale face, "With your face, are you worthy of being the Crown Princess?"
Severe pain struck again, and Shen Qingli vomited out a mouthful of black blood. She finally understood why Xiao Jamming asked her to drink the cup of Hexin wine on their wedding day, and why he always added a hint of styrax to her incense after the wedding...
Shen Qingli endured the severe pain in her body, looked at Shen Qinghuan in front of her with tears on her face, and asked in a trembling voice: "Sister,
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