The Evil Emperor's Favorite: The Sickly and Poisonous Concubine Goes Crazy

After Su Jingning left the city, he went to Wushao Town, a subordinate city of the imperial capital, which was twenty miles away from the imperial capital.

Wushao Town is the nearest town to the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Many people who come to Beijing will stay overnight in Wushao Town if they cannot enter the city on the same day. Therefore, Wushao Town is bustling with people, and its development in recent years has been better than that of many border states and counties.

More importantly, Wushao Town has the largest underground dark market in Da Zhou. Wushao Town is closest to the Imperial Capital and is a must-pass place for going to and from the Capital. It has a mixed crowd of people, and many businesses that cannot be done in the Imperial Capital are sent to the Wushao dark market.

Everything is sold in the dark market, slaves, raptors, beasts, drugs, poison pills, anything you want can be found in the Wushao dark market. But Su Jingning didn't come to Wushao for these.

She was going to the Wushao underground casino, which was different from other casinos. They used living people as bets and set up a life and death arena every half month, where the thugs of lowly origin in the casino would fight against the ferocious beasts for the entertainment of the nobles in the casino.

In his previous life, in order to please Mu Ling, Su Jingning came to the Wushao dark market once to buy a famous calligraphy work by a great calligrapher of the previous dynasty. He entered this casino by mistake and witnessed the bloodiness and terror in this casino. Every time there was a ring, the casino would send a thug to fight against the tigers, black bears or other ferocious beasts that were specially raised in the casino and had been hungry for a long time. Putting a living person in front of a hungry and ferocious beast was undoubtedly a death sentence, and few people could defeat the beast.

She had seen a casino thug being bitten to death by a tiger and then swallowed. But it was also during this opportunity that she recruited a genius for Mu Ling - Lu Zhifan.

He had no hope of defeating the Tiger King, but he held his breath and designed a plan to kill the Tiger King. He was tough and ruthless, and Mu Ling was in need of such a person, so Su Jingning bought him and gave him to Mu Ling.

Lu Zhifan's strategy and scheming are not inferior to his own, but he is more ruthless than himself. If he had not been grateful for saving his life and loyal to Mu Ling, he would have been on guard against such a powerful person. Later, he became Mu Ling's right-hand man, loyally doing a lot for Mu Ling. When Mu Ling ascended the throne, he appointed him as the prime minister of a country, the most powerful minister, and unparalleled honor and favor. Mu Ling even praised him as "a genius with black tails, an unparalleled national scholar".

Su Jingning had always thought that Lu Zhifan, who was called a "genius" by the world, was a man full of power and greed. However, she did not expect that when Mu Ling wanted to kill her entire Su family, no one in the court would argue for the Su family, and only he would risk his life to plead for the Su family. He secretly searched for evidence to redress the Su family, and it was he who saved her life when he was being hunted down after the Su family was wiped out. Only then did she realize that he had no intention of power, and his loyalty to Mu Ling was just to repay her for saving his life.

She received Lu Zhifan's kindness in her previous life, so in this life she rescued him from the casino and gave him freedom, which was considered as repaying his kindness to her in her previous life.

Su Jingning came all the way to Wushao Casino. There were two doormen standing at the entrance of the casino. They looked a bit ferocious and stopped Su Jingning when they saw her trying to go in.

Su Jingning was wearing a cloak, and her figure was slender and thin. The hood covered half of her face, leaving only her delicate and beautiful chin and red lips exposed. She didn't look like someone who would come to a casino.

"Hey, hey, hey, little girl, do you know where this is? Don't go to the wrong place." The doorman saw that she was dressed elegantly and did not dare to offend her, so he just reminded her.

"Casino, who are the thugs in today's life and death fight?" Su Jingning asked the doorman in a cold and calm voice.

As soon as the man heard this, he knew that this girl was knowledgeable, and he quickly made way for her to come in.

"I'm sorry to bother you. Please come in, young lady." The doorman bowed and invited her in.

Su Jingning followed him into the casino.

The huge hall was filled with smoke and noise, and there were many gambling tables in the hall. Su Jingning came to a gambling table and took a look.

"Please place your bets now! The more you buy, the more you win! Everyone, please place your bets, red or blue!" the dealer called out.

Su Jingning saw that many people bet on the red side, but almost no one bet on the blue side.

She took out a bag of change, bet on the blue side, and prepared to leave.

"Hey! Girl, did you bet on the wrong number? This is the blue side! It's the thug!" The man who bet on red pulled her aside and reminded her, thinking she bet on the wrong number.

"I know, I bet on the thug to win." Su Jingning glanced at the man and said coldly. Then he turned and went upstairs, went to the viewing platform, and found a secluded corner to sit down.

The arena was built in a huge pit and covered by iron. The viewing platform was high up so that one could have a full view of the fighting situation below the arena at any time.

At this time, the first life-and-death contest had already begun. A black bear as tall as two adult men had already torn two people to pieces. Now the fighter on the stage had also exhausted his strength. He tightly grasped the blunt dagger in his hand, his hand was shaking so much that he could not make a move. The huge black bear approached him step by step.

"Aohou——" The black bear pounced on the thug and tore his head off.

Su Jingning watched coldly, and the people around him were even more indifferent. Some were cheering and excited because they bought the beast to win, and this time they could make a lot of money.

The black bear had eaten three people in a row and was now full. He lay in the cage and didn't want to move. He was soon driven into the cage by the casino staff.

The first life and death contest is over, and the second one is about to begin.

A thin, tall, ragged man was pushed in. He was thrown to the ground, and it was obvious that he could not defeat the beast.

Everyone laughed and said, "Is there no one in the Wushao Casino? They pushed such a skinny guy in. Isn't this just giving us money?"

"I heard that he was just sold in. Those who are leading the charge are all so thin. The master of Wushao is behind!" said a man who looked to have some experience.

Su Jingning looked at the man in the cage. Although he was in rags, he stood tall and showed no fear. He slowly walked to the dagger that the man had dropped, bent down to pick it up, and held it in his hand.

Waiting for the ferocious beast to come out.

"Roar—" The tiger's roar filled the entire casino. Everyone was immediately excited.

"It's Tiger King! Looks like we can make some money today!"

"This Tiger King has never lost since the beginning of the competition, so he must have won today."

"Yeah yeah."

Su Jingning listened to the words in his ear, and sneered in his heart. "Let's not talk about the fact that she knows that Lu Zhifan beat Tiger King. Even if he didn't win, the casino would not let Tiger King win today. They will send a weak one to feed Tiger King first, and after Tiger King's guard is lowered, they will send a master to kill Tiger King."

Su Jingning looked at Lu Zhifan in the cage with cold eyes. Today, he defeated the tiger king, but the price was a leg. In his previous life, Lu Zhifan had to be wheelchair-bound for the rest of his life because of this. Today, she wanted to keep him intact.

The tightly closed iron gate was slowly opened, and a fat, tall, and majestic tiger was released. Its body was twice as big as an ordinary tiger.

It had been starved for two days by the people in the casino, and now it was so hungry that its eyes turned red, and it wanted to eat any living thing it saw.

Lu Zhifan faced the tiger king cautiously, bent his body slightly, spread his legs, and was ready to avoid the tiger king's attack at any time.

"Roar——" The tiger king leaped up and pounced on him.

Lu Zhifan quickly bent down and rolled out, avoiding the Tiger King. The Tiger King couldn't stop himself and crashed straight into the iron cage and fell to the ground.

But he quickly turned over and stood up, as if he was angered. He watched Lu Zhifan pacing left and right, ready to attack again.

This time, Lu Zhifan did not wait for the Tiger King to attack, but instead took the blunt knife and attacked the Tiger King from the side.

But the knife was too blunt, and only scratched a little skin on the left side of Tiger King. Tiger King also threw him to the ground. Tiger King accidentally slapped him on the back, and his skin was torn and blood was dripping.

Su Jingning watched as his hands in his sleeves slowly tightened the two extremely thin silver needles. He glanced at the man in black clothes holding a sword not far to his left. He was the security guard who was monitoring the every move of the people in the casino to prevent anyone from disrupting the fight on the ring.

He stood there for a long time. While he was turning around, Su Jingning took the opportunity to gather strength with the silver needle in his hand and shot it at the neck and skull of the tiger king in the cage.

This silver needle is quenched with extremely concentrated curare tree sap. Once it touches a wound, it will enter the body through the blood, causing the blood to coagulate and the person to suffocate to death.

The tiger king was stabbed by the needle and his body trembled. Lu Zhifan seized the opportunity, leaped onto the tiger's back, and used all his strength to pierce the tiger king's skull with the blunt knife.

"Roar——" The Tiger King let out a painful roar, and the people on the viewing stand stood up nervously.

"Bang——" The tiger king suddenly fell to the ground and stopped moving. Lu Zhifan was thrown out by the tiger king and fainted.

"Is this...dead?"

"How could the Tiger King die?!"

"Is he cheating?!"

"I don't believe it!! I bet all my money on Tiger King!?"

The people who bet on Tiger King to win looked disappointed, angry, and even desperate, because they had bet all their fortunes on Tiger King, and now they were afraid that they would lose everything. But gambling is like this, the situation is unpredictable, and you can lose everything in an instant.

Su Jingning stood up and left the viewing platform. No one noticed what she had just done.

As Su Jingning walked out of the viewing platform, he ran into a casino lobby, who reached out to stop him.

"Take me to see your owner."

The man in the hall was stunned for a moment, looked Su Jingning up and down, thinking that she had lost the bet and wanted to make trouble.

"We, the owners of the field, are not people that everyone can see. If you lose, just leave and don't make trouble here." The voice was filled with disdain.

"Can this be used to see your owner?" Su Jingning took out a jade token engraved with a complex totem and handed it to the waiter.

The man didn't recognize the jade token, but felt that it looked familiar. This time he was more polite and said, "It's unfortunate. The owner is not here today. If you don't have anything urgent, come back next time."

"Then invite someone who can manage your casino. Such a big casino can't be without even one person in charge." Su Jingning was covered with a cloak, so her expression couldn't be seen clearly, but her cold voice made people feel that she was a little angry at the moment.

"You..." The man walking in the hall didn't expect the girl to be so tough and wanted to find a way to make her leave.

"Miss, what do you want to do with the owner?" A middle-aged man followed by two servants walked towards them, looking polite.

"Mr. Xie." The waiter bowed respectfully when he saw him. Mr. Xie gave him a look and let him go.

"Sir, can you make the decision?" Su Jingning glanced at Mr. Xie.

"My name is Xie Dong, I'm the boss of the casino, so I can make some decisions. Please come this way, young lady." Xie Dong bowed lightly to Su Jingning. Although he didn't know the young lady, he recognized the jade token. It was the jade token of the owner of Fengting Tower, the richest man in Jiangnan. He couldn't offend this young lady.