The Regent's Concubine is Crazy

Chapter 404

Shangguan Ziling sat in the pavilion and looked at the middle-aged man opposite her - King Lingxiao.

After calming down, Shangguan Ziling said: "Actually, I'm very curious and have a few questions to ask you."

King Lingxiao was wearing a heavy cloak, his face was stern, and his eyes seemed to be filled with endless sorrow. He looked at Shangguan Ziling quietly, and was silent for a long time. He took a deep breath and said, "Ask me, I will try my best to answer you."

Shangguan Ziling took a deep breath of the cold air, trying to calm the waves in her heart.

"Which year did you travel from?" she asked softly.

King Lingxiao frowned slightly, as if recalling something. "2045," he said lightly.

Shangguan Ziling's heart trembled after hearing this. She was in 2046, and they were clearly one year apart, but King Lingxiao had been here for thirty-five years.

The snow continued to fall, and the conversation between the two continued in the cold wind.

In the pavilion, the incense burner was rising, and the curling green smoke was swaying in the cold wind.

Suddenly, King Lingxiao's body went limp, his eyes revealing confusion and anger. He looked at the incense burner on the stone table, his eyes narrowed slightly, and asked in a cold voice: "You drugged me?"

Shangguan Ziling sat opposite, nodded lightly, and said frankly: "Yes." Her voice was calm and firm, as if she had already expected this moment to come.

King Lingxiao was furious and roared, "Why?" His voice was particularly harsh in the wind and snow.

Shangguan Ziling looked at him coldly, with a mocking smile on her lips: "Because of you, my mother has suffered for more than ten years and almost lost her life. As a daughter, of course I have to avenge her."

King Ling Xiao gnashed his teeth and said, "You and I are from the same place. Are you really so cruel? You just talked about the modern times with me just to make me let down my guard?"

Shangguan Ziling nodded and said softly, "Yes, that's right. First, I want you to relax your guard, and second, I'm curious whether you really traveled from another world like me."

King Ling Xiao was shocked when he heard this. He was careless. He finally met someone who had traveled from another world like himself. He felt familiar with her and let his guard down for a while. He didn't expect that she would use this to deal with him. He stared at Shangguan Ziling fiercely.

Shangguan Ziling didn't seem to care about his gaze, and continued calmly: "That day, I also stole the treasure in your storehouse."

King Lingxiao had already guessed this when Shangguan Ziling said that she was also from the modern era, because no one could empty his warehouse overnight. Only storage space could do it, because he had one himself.

King Ling Xiao couldn't help but ask, "Is your storage space that big? Can it hold so much?"

Shangguan Ziling heard this, but she did not answer King Lingxiao's question, but just looked at him coldly.

King Ling Xiao was even more furious when he saw this. He threatened, "Aren't you afraid that I will tell them that you are a soul from another world, not this body?"

Shangguan Ziling heard this and smiled disdainfully. She propped up her chin and said nonchalantly, "I am an expert in both medicine and poison, so it is easy for me to deal with one person. But you have controlled the court and your power has been overwhelming over the years, making my uncle, the emperor, tolerate you. What do you think has been the fate of such powerful officials since ancient times?"

King Lingxiao was speechless, but even more angry in his heart. He laughed out loud: "So it was the Emperor who wanted to deal with me! I should have kicked him off the throne long ago and let my son be the Emperor! I am slowly trying to find opportunities to return to the modern era."

Shangguan Ziling looked at him coldly and said calmly: "You have no chance now."

King Lingxiao said with a glimmer of hope: "You, do you have a way to go back to modern times? Help me go back, and I will give you everything here."

Shangguan Ziling shook her head and said, "No." She really had no other options, and there was no need to lie to him.

Upon hearing this, King Lingxiao collapsed to the ground in despair.

The snow was falling heavily, and the atmosphere in the pavilion became more and more solemn. Shangguan Ziling looked at King Lingxiao who had fallen to the ground, but there was no ripple in her heart.

Shangguan Ziling took out a porcelain bottle from the space, stood up, walked over, pinched King Lingxiao's chin, opened the bottle, and poured the liquid into her.

King Lingxiao struggled in fear, but he had no strength left.

After Shangguan Ziling finished drinking the medicine in the bottle, she threw the bottle away, looked at the ring on King Lingxiao's left thumb, took it off and threw it into the space.

She turned and left the pavilion, leaving King Lingxiao struggling alone in the wind and snow.

“Don’t go, come back... tell me about the modern times... for a long time... for a long time... I miss home so much... I miss everything in the modern times…” King Lingxiao’s voice became smaller and smaller.

The wind and snow on New Year's Eve became more and more violent. Shangguan Ziling walked out of the pavilion and looked up at the sky. Snowflakes fluttered down on her face, cold and biting.

She closed her eyes and felt the chill brought by the snowflakes.

She took a deep breath. In fact, when King Lingxiao said that he had no intention of the throne and was only hunting down his mother to help Ye Feng, her murderous intent towards her faded. But her mother and Uncle Ye, and her mother's sect were all destroyed by him, so she could not forgive him.

In the heavy snow, Shangguan Ziling's figure gradually disappeared in the night. She would not let herself and her mother suffer any more harm, nor would she let the people she cared about suffer any harm, even potential threats. She was selfish, but she would be the villain.

And King Lingxiao, the once powerful official, fell in the snow. His eyes were filled with resentment and anger, but he was powerless to save the situation. His life, like this heavy snow, was destined to end on this New Year's Eve.