Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

Chapter 1643 Substitute Bride 47
In fact, Ding's ability is suitable for secretly accumulating energy and using it at crucial moments, just like in the original world and Li San Niang's world. She secretly harms people without anyone noticing, and then achieves her goal.

Now, everyone knows that she has that special ability, but she is forced to use up all her energy for one reason or another, so its effectiveness is greatly reduced and it is not very useful.

Linlang's idea was good. After the Third Prince acquired Ding Shi, he soon discovered that Ding Shi's abilities were not very useful.

It's not that her special ability is weak, but rather that it's not very useful when she hasn't accumulated enough energy.

However, he was currently being forced to retreat by the factions of the First Prince and the Second Prince, and did not have time to wait for her to accumulate enough power. Therefore, he immediately asked Ding how much power she had and whether she could handle the current situation.

Since Lady Ding intended to support the Third Prince's ascension to the throne, she no longer held back and stated, "Although killing the leaders of those two factions isn't enough, we can brainwash them so that their own people kill the leaders. Once the leaders are gone, even if the remaining people elect their own, they will definitely be inferior to the current leaders. After all, if they were better, why didn't they become leaders before? With the opponents becoming weaker, Your Highness might not be able to defeat either of them. Moreover, if their own people kill the leaders, the others will probably worry that there are people within their ranks who have been brainwashed by me and might suddenly turn on them and kill. If they become suspicious of each other, they might not even be able to hold a meeting to discuss the next steps."

This suggestion was obviously good, and the Third Prince was overjoyed upon hearing it, saying, "Let's do as Madam Ding says."

Whether it works or not, give it a try first and see.

Besides, Ding's words made a lot of sense, and the Third Prince thought her method should be useful.

Are Ding's methods useful?
Well, Ding's idea was good; she felt her plan was foolproof.

But she forgot one thing: many people already knew that she was being fought over, and many people already knew that she was very capable, so they had long since summarized some experience in guarding against her.

Although the factions of the First Prince and the Second Prince did not know that she had been taken away by the Third Prince, it did not prevent them from taking precautions against it.

The most basic point is that they will arrange for a lot of people to protect them.

They knew Ding's capabilities, but they also knew that she didn't have much power. Even if she brainwashed some people around her, she couldn't brainwash too many people. Moreover, the people they chose came from different places, so they didn't believe that Ding had been to many places and met all these people, and that she could brainwash them.

As long as less than half of the people have been brainwashed, there is no need to worry about the remaining half being unable to protect themselves.

In addition, they would search people during meetings and not allow attendees to bring any weapons, so that even if someone was brainwashed, they wouldn't be able to kill them quickly with just fists.

Therefore, Ding's arrangements had no effect. On the contrary, seeing that his trusted confidant suddenly attacked and injured someone, they instantly realized that this person had been brainwashed by Ding.

And who is their opponent? The Third Prince.

Therefore, this matter must have been arranged by the Third Prince, which means that Lady Ding has fallen into the hands of the Third Prince.

Knowing the answer, the two factions temporarily refrained from sending assassins to kill the Third Prince, and instead began searching for Ding Shi, who was in the Third Prince's possession. If they wanted to find her, they certainly could; soon, the Second Prince's faction located Ding Shi and abducted her.

The Second Prince's faction did not treat Lady Ding as well.

They were suspicious and paranoid, always wondering if the Second Prince, who was so healthy back then, had died so quickly, and if the deaths of the young emperor and his younger brother were all the work of the Ding family.

Although some deaths were found to be normal after investigation, Ding's power is too great. Who knows if she orchestrated them to pretend everything was normal? For example, the Second Prince was such a normal person before he ascended the throne, but after ascending the throne, he suddenly became so fond of women that he died because of them. Was he really fond of women, or was he brainwashed by Ding?

After all, their trusted confidants suddenly turned on them and tried to kill them. According to the surface investigation, wasn't that normal? But in fact, it was obvious that this was the result of Ding's brainwashing.

The thought that their lineage clearly had three members (the Second Prince, the Young Emperor, and the Young Emperor's younger brother) made it clear that their lineage shouldn't have died out. Now that the throne was gone, and their lineage was even extinct, they had no hope left. Moreover, Ding had previously brainwashed those around them, telling them to kill them—they had already learned the content of Ding's brainwashing from the person who attacked them—this meant that Ding was the one who was harming them. So, what good could Ding possibly gain from falling into the hands of the Second Prince's lineage? First, they beat her up, saying they wanted to test whether she was truly powerless or unwilling to help them.

Actually, Ding's family had run out of power; they had used it all to help the Third Prince.

But who would believe that? Even if they did, they would still beat her. After all, it didn't matter if Ding didn't admit that she killed the Second Prince and others; it was a fact that she had brainwashed the people around her into killing them, so they hadn't done anything wrong in beating her.

Although Ding was kidnapped by many people, she was generally treated with courtesy, because they were afraid that if she was injured or killed, she would be unable to help them.

But for the Second Prince's faction, they had no hope of ascending the throne. Whether the Ding family helped them or not was irrelevant. In any case, even if the Ding family didn't help them, they would still bite the person who took the throne like mad dogs.

Therefore, unlike the previous families who needed something from the Ding family, their hatred for the Ding family outweighed any desire for them.

They were convinced that the Ding family must have played a role in their downfall, since they were still in power. They believed that if the Ding family hadn't intervened, their people wouldn't have died, and their wealth and status would still be intact.

Ding had indeed caused trouble inside, so even if she wanted to deny it, she couldn't, and was beaten half to death by this group of people.

Those people ordered her to do things, and if she didn't, they would beat her. Clearly, they didn't care about her life or death, which terrified Ding.

Since her rebirth and the acquisition of this special ability, she has harmed countless innocent people, but she has never been beaten before. To be brutally beaten like this is torture for someone who has always lived a life of luxury; it is a living hell.

Seeing her like this, Linlang thought that it was a good thing for the original owner. She should have been beaten up a long time ago. After all, she had killed the original owner and probably killed others as well. Given her personality, it was highly likely that she had such a special ability.

Of course, under the pressure from the Second Prince's faction, Ding had no choice but to obey their orders and could not keep anything to herself, because if she did not give them the power she needed, they would beat her up. Ding did not want to be beaten, so she could only obediently listen to them.