After conquering seven male favorites, the vicious heroine wants to run away

Chapter 266 The Stage is Like a Play
Behind the Meiluo Manor, two people sat in a pavilion playing chess. Scattered pear blossoms fell on the bluestone slabs, and pear blossoms hung on the green grass and trees. A gentle breeze blew the petals down.

Yu Changfeng sat with an air of nonchalance, leaning lazily against a low chair.

"The Imperial Advisor is as cunning as a demon. He has been playing the Eastern Chen royal family for fools from afar. The Second Prince of Eastern Chen has killed all his brothers and sisters and is just short of slitting the throat of the King."

His ruthless methods are even more ruthless than his. I wonder how many spies he has planted in Dongchen, and how many of his men are in Beilin.
Qinghe placed the black chess piece down, his gentle face devoid of any smile.

"Your Highness is ruthless. Didn't you also eliminate my spies in Beilin? Now, most of Beilin is in Your Highness's hands, isn't that right?"

He was determined to win over Dong Chen, but he had to be wary of the person in front of him.

They used to be allies, but putting their problems out in the open makes them enemies, and both of them are well aware of this.

Yu Changfeng picked up a white chess piece and casually tossed it onto the chessboard, his icy blue eyes growing increasingly murderous.

"Thanks to the Grand Preceptor's meddling, the Second Prince of Dongchen was able to come up with the idea of ​​allying with the incompetent Beilin. The two 'seconds' together make up the word 'stupid'."

Thinking of his foolish second brother, he couldn't help but sneer, realizing that he actually wanted to use the maternal clan to pressure him.

He focused his mind and placed a white piece, blocking the path of the black pieces.

"We'll have to fight sooner or later, so let's see whose strategy is better today."

Qinghe understood immediately and picked up the black pieces to forge a path.

"Those five people are really an eyesore."

Yu Changfeng raised an eyebrow sarcastically, a fleeting excitement in his eyes, as the white piece landed on a path to survival.

"Even my own brother is not spared. I am completely outmatched by the Imperial Advisor's methods. If we join forces to eliminate the five people, and then fight to the death, the only one who can stand shoulder to shoulder with Nuan Nuan is me."

He wants both the empire and the woman.

Qinghe's eyes flashed, and he gracefully raised his teacup to drink.

"His Highness the Crown Prince desires chaos throughout the land, and therefore cannot touch Nanyue."

"nature."

With the tether gone, who would want to stay put?

Why is it so hard to live a peaceful and stable life?
In her dream, Shi Nuanyu was being chased by seven fierce snakes. She fled for a way to survive, but each time she was about to succeed, she was entangled and swallowed by the snakes.

"No."

Startled awake from her dream, Shi Nuanyu rubbed her throbbing head, trying to stay awake.

She remembered exposing Shan Baiyu and Tao Huiyan's treacherous scheme, and then fainting.

In her dazed state, she heard a series of incoherent noises. She tried to see where she was going, but it was pitch black all around her and she couldn't make out anything.

What's that noisy, babbling sound?

When Shi Nuanyu raised her hand, the icy touch on her wrist startled her. Following her wrist, she felt a thumb-sized iron chain tightly locking her hand.

Was she locked up?
who is it?

The faces of Tao Huiyan and Shan Baiyu flashed through her mind. It couldn't be them. They had escaped the darkest ending in the book. They wouldn't do such a thing, would they?

Shi Nuanyu silently gripped the iron chain; no matter who it was, she would not accept her fate.

He groped his way up, only to find a large hand gripping his waist, followed by a deep, oppressive voice.

"The play hasn't even started yet, where is Your Highness headed?"

"who is it?"

The voice was kept very low, and Shi Nuanyu couldn't hear it clearly. She groped to get closer and see clearly, but the iron chain on her wrist was pulled up, and her hands were forced to rise.

She suppressed her panic and threatened, "Whoever you are, if you dare to be disrespectful to me, you will be punished."

The breath and voice were completely wrong; her hands were bound, and she couldn't clearly sense the other person.

“I am willing to accept punishment, but Your Highness is in my arms now, and your life or death is in my hands.”

The man grabbed her chin, forcing her to look straight ahead.

Could there be a spy infiltrated at Merlo Manor? But she was knocked unconscious by Shan Baiyu, so why wasn't he there?

"Release me, and I might spare your life."

Shi Nuanyu made a show of bravado and roared, but her earlobe was bitten, and she froze, unable to move.

"Your subordinates are not afraid of death. The show is about to begin." The clanging and banging sounds were terrifying. A sliver of light shone on the stage, where six or seven people in theatrical costumes and holding weapons came out.

Shi Nuanyu then realized that she was in a theater.

Several people strolled around the stage with measured steps, while a man holding a long spear sang opera.

"You grasshoppers, you dare to run wild on my homeland! I will cut you down with my spear to avenge the invasion and hatred of my homeland."

As the opera ended, a long sword pierced his abdomen, and he collapsed to the ground, unable to get up.

The man with the longsword picked up the spear with a smug look on his face.

"The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind; you are the master of the world."

One by one, the people on the stage died, until only two remained facing each other, guns and swords clashing, weapons drawn, and in the final moment, they both stabbed each other in the abdomen.

In the short time it takes for two incense sticks to burn, a group of people lay dead on the stage, each with a gruesome death.

Shi Nuanyu was terrified and held her breath, not daring to make a sound. She had a premonition that the person on the stage was referring to the seven of them.

Why tell her the ending in this way?

In that case, their fate would be the same as in the book, with them all dying tragically.

"Why, why did you have to make me see this?"

She screamed at the top of her lungs, "Who are you?"

An invisible fate, like a giant net, bound her tightly.

"Who am I?"

The person behind her lay on her back, repeating her words sadly, and reluctantly leaned down to gently bite her neck.

"Don't you recognize Ah Ling, sister?"

His deep voice softened into a sweet tone, and Shi Nuanyu turned around in disbelief to touch his face, feeling the familiar touch under her fingers.

"Ah Ling, are you Ah Ling?"

"How could it be you?" she managed to say the rest of her sentence. "Why did you tie me up? Why is it you?"

Ah Ling is usually so cute and innocent, how could she be tied up?

Shi Nuanyu considered many candidates, but he was the only one she didn't consider.

Hua Lingyan growled in resentment and pinned her to the chair.

"Why can't it be me? My sister said she would take care of me for the rest of her life, she said she loved me, why did she abandon me?"

The younger sister has found a lover, leaving him all alone in the world, like a lonely soul drifting aimlessly.

Why did the warmth he had finally managed to grasp slip away from him?

Under a beam of light, Shi Nuanyu could see the expression on his face: resentment, helplessness, and grief. She trembled and hugged his head.

"Ah Ling, I'm sorry."

The other six people could not survive without her, but she was worried about Ah Ling the only one.

Hua Lingyan buried her face in the crook of her neck, and two lines of clear tears fell.

"Don't apologize, Ah Ling. Your Highness, Ah Ling wants you to cherish Ah Ling and never leave Ah Ling."

He would die for her, but he couldn't accept that she didn't want him.

“A-Ling is not an ugly beggar. A-Ling can protect Your Highness, my sister.”

Ugly beggar!
Shi Nuanyu felt a sharp pain in her head, and a scene flashed before her eyes.

Outside the city walls, a girl who looked like a delicate porcelain doll sat in a carriage, watching with amusement the wild boy fighting with stray dogs for food in the distance.

She counted with a smile, and when she reached ten, the wild boy snatched the food. The wild dog pounced fiercely and bit his arm, causing blood to flow freely from his arm, but he ignored it and stuffed the food into his mouth.

The little girl laughed heartily, "That wild boy is so funny, Nuan Nuan likes him. Grandpa Nuan Nuan wants him to be Nuan Nuan's male concubine so he can play with Nuan Nuan."

Are these her memories?
Shi Nuanyu hugged Hua Lingyan tightly, trying to comfort her despite her fear.

"Ah Ling, get up and let me go first, then we can talk things over properly."

"I won't let go," Hua Lingyan stubbornly picked her up and kissed her lips greedily, the iron chains on his wrists clanging.