She accidentally flirted with the villain and was fiercely criticized as the regent for forcibly mar

But everyone understood one thing: Princess Fu Ning was the apple of the Jiang family's eye and the Regent's darling; she was someone they absolutely could not afford to offend!

Jiang Huai was fairly satisfied: "It's getting late, let's set off! Don't be late!"

The Jiang residence and the Regent's residence were only two streets apart.

To show off his marriage to his beloved wife, the regent had the wedding procession make a huge spectacle of itself, circling the city.

Jiang Ruining, who was so excited that she couldn't sleep well the night before, fell asleep while being jostled around in the sedan chair!

Wait until she wakes up.

They found themselves in a place devoid of rituals, music, guests, and the usual festivities of red silk and candles.

"Who did she think she was? She's nothing but a piece of trash!"

Jiang Ruining felt dizzy, weak, and in pain. She was lying in a relatively clean corner, probably injured when she was drugged, kidnapped, and thrown to the ground.

Upon hearing the voice of a "familiar face," she retorted, "When it comes to being useless, who in the entire capital can compare to you, Cui Baihui! Plenty of resources are poured into you, but you can't even make a sound. You're not even as good as one of your elder brother's fingers!"

"Besides using your father to bully others, what else can you do, you piece of trash?"

Cui Baihui flew into a rage, her delicate face contorted in anger: "You're asking for it!"

Jiang Ruining leaned against the wall, facing the murderous intent head-on, remaining calm and composed: "The second good-for-nothing of the Cui family! You probably don't know me well enough. I'm not only vindictive, but also vain, petty, and like to drag people down with me!"

"I still have residual poison in my body, and I don't have long to live. If you dare to touch me and hurt my pride and dignity, I won't live anymore. Then you can see how Xiao Che will react!"

"You don't really think he's fighting you for some kind of empire, do you?"

Cui Baihui drew her sword and sneered, "I have no interest in knowing what that mad dog cares about, but I do know that the Regent, blinded by love, will definitely not stand by and watch you die!"

Jiang Ruining glanced at the sword tip that was almost piercing her eye socket. Its sharp, cold light flashed, and a timid person would probably cry on the spot.

"I called you trash, and you actually put on a show for it in public! You think you're so cunning? Do you think I don't have a backup plan?"

Choi Baek-hye was taken aback.

Grand Tutor Cui, who had just stepped in, also paused.

He stopped in his tracks, waiting for his second son to continue asking questions.

Choi Baek-hye gripped the sword hilt tightly: "You knew all along?"

Jiang Ruining leaned against the wall, struggled to her feet, and followed the wall to the armchair.

Because of weakness, his bent legs gave way and he collapsed onto the armchair.

But at least hold on tight!

"Take hostages? I can do that too. I've planted landmines around your birth mother, your wife and children, your siblings, and your maternal grandparents' families."

Cui Baihui was terrified: "You deserve to die!"

Jiang Ruining raised her hand, admiring her beautiful hands.

He then touched his beautifully contoured earlobe.

It brushed against my beautiful eyes.

"Let me guess how you worthless fools plan to force the Regent to submit. Will you cut off my fingers? Shave off my ears? Or gouge out my eyes and send me to the Regent for a look? Or perhaps tie me up, put me to a sword, and take me to the scene with you?"

"Whatever it takes! If any of my people see any part of my remains, or witness me injured, all your loved ones will experience twice as much as I have!"

"Consider this: will you sheathe your sword and show me some courtesy, or wait for them to bleed to their deaths?"

A surge of cold and heat coursed through Cui Baihui's spine, two extreme temperatures that ultimately burst and shattered within her spine, causing her hand gripping the sword hilt to tremble violently!

Those who achieve great things will not be threatened by others!

Jiang Ruining tilted her head and exclaimed in surprise, "Oh~" "You little beast, you're ruthless!"

"I forgot to tell you, before I left the capital last year, I had someone give you a drug that would prevent you from having children. Your two children are your only offspring! I wonder if the two little ones were missing an ear or a sight, would they bleed to death?"

"I'm really... curious!"

There was no need to tell such an easily debunked lie, so Cui Baihui immediately believed her and became furious. Unable to kill her, she could only randomly chop at the surrounding furniture and objects!

"You bitch!"

Jiang Ruining clicked her tongue lightly.

She's a selfish and worthless piece of trash. She can abandon her own mother and the wife who bore her child. The only person she cares about is herself.

"I'm fine, your children are fine. It's a great deal, isn't it?"

Cui Baihui's eyes were bloodshot: "You just wait! I'll kill you sooner or later!"

Jiang Ruining smiled: "You're useless, always ready to surrender! But now, bring me the antidote for the muscle-relaxing powder, and prepare some fine food and fruit. I want to eat!"

……

Zichen Palace.

The Empress Dowager, cradling the newborn prince, said with a sorrowful expression, "It was the Regent who poisoned His Majesty! His Majesty was seriously ill, hadn't eaten or drunk anything for days, and suddenly ate today before dying. It couldn't have been anyone else but him!"

Grand Tutor Cui: "You have wasted His Majesty's trust and specially left a will to pass the throne to you! Yet you poisoned His Majesty, your treachery and ruthlessness are beyond measure, you deserve to die!"

He waved his hand.

Suddenly, the sounds of killing erupted outside, and within moments, the biting wind was filled with the stench of blood.

Tatata!

The sound of orderly and hurried footsteps burst in; it was archers, their bows drawn taut, the poisoned glint of their arrows aimed directly at the Regent!

Jiang Ruining, who had a long knife held to his neck, also entered.

Choi Baek-hye enters the palace.

Seeing that they had the absolute advantage, the suppressed hatred and killing intent in their chests instantly transformed into a surge of triumph.

As long as the Cui family takes complete control, it won't be difficult for him, as the eldest son, to be granted the title of Prince!

But when his gaze fell upon his eldest brother standing beside his father, half of the smugness in his eyes was extinguished.

The regent, the only one sitting present, already had a cold expression. When he saw the knife against his wife's neck, the blade cutting her delicate skin and drawing blood, his chill surged like a tsunami, and he jumped to his feet.

Jiang Ruining remained calm, gave him a reassuring look, and then said with schadenfreude, "Look, even your father thinks you're a good-for-nothing."

Enraged and humiliated, Cui Baihui's eyes flashed like knives as she grabbed her hair and yelled, "Shut up!"

Jiang Ruining tilted her head back slightly, her scalp throbbing, and frowned impatiently: "If I were you, I would obediently swallow this insult. Otherwise, what if the Regent kills you or cripples you before he loses, given his anger?"

"If Grand Tutor Cui were to casually pick one of his grandsons to be adopted into your family and inherit everything from you, wouldn't all your efforts in this life have been in vain? And who knows, it might even be Cui Qianque's son who inherits everything for nothing—wouldn't that be incredibly disheartening?"

Before Cui Baihui could even pull her hair back, she was stunned by her words.

The refined scholar's face changed repeatedly, but finally, under the Regent's sinister gaze, he withdrew his hand, and in that instant, swish!

The hidden weapon shot from the left front, hitting the base of the palm.

The pain was like a sharp needle piercing straight to the top of my skull!

Choi Baek-hye's right palm, all the way down to her shoulder blade, was shattered!

His terrified screams echoed throughout the hall.

Jiang Ruining glanced at the person writhing on the ground in pain and gave a disdainful smirk: "You really are a piece of trash!"

Grand Tutor Cui frowned in displeasure.

Jiang Ruining's laughter was soft, like a spring breeze, but her words were like thunderclaps shattering the heavens and earth: "After being absolutely suppressed for two years, the Grand Tutor finally dares to be unhappy. It seems he is very confident that he can use his own grandson to successfully usurp the throne today!"