After her luck was taken away, she fell in love with the woman who traveled through time.

Liang Tan thought that her illness had not yet fully recovered, so after asking a few simple questions, he punished both of them.

Her punishment was still too light for Cui Ling, but he did not open his mouth to refute. He just memorized the faces of the two people and planned to make the decision himself in a few days.

Ah Cui looked up and when she saw Cui Ling's eyes, her heart suddenly sank. She realized that even if she survived today, she would not survive tomorrow.

Seeing that the matter had been dealt with, Cui Ling left first. When he reached the door, he turned back subconsciously and suddenly met Ah Cui's gaze. Ah Cui was staring at him intently, and when she met his gaze, she panicked and lowered her head quickly.

Cui Ling frowned and didn't think much about it. He turned around and walked out, but the more he walked, the weirder he felt.

The two palace maids were still kneeling on the ground. Liang Tan was about to ask someone to take them out when Ah Cui, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke up: "Madam!"

"What?" Liang Tan asked back.

Ah Cui swallowed her saliva and did not dare to look up: "This servant, this servant, has something else to say to the queen alone."

Liang Tan frowned.

"It's about the former queen," Ah Cui explained quickly when she saw that she didn't say anything, "It's a serious matter and can't be heard by others."

Liang Tan's expression changed slightly, and seeing her serious expression, he asked the others to leave first.

"What do you want to say?" Liang Tan asked.

Ah Cui stood up tremblingly and walked towards her step by step: "My queen, don't you find it strange that I fell ill as soon as the former queen died?"

Liang Tan felt uneasy when he saw her approaching, but her words attracted his attention: "You mean, your illness is related to the former queen?"

"That's right." A Cui walked up to her with a grim expression.

Liang Tan was silent for a moment: "What does it matter?"

"Of course it's because I am her."

She spoke softly, and Liang Tan was stunned for a moment. When he came to his senses, he saw her grabbing the dagger on the table with a ferocious expression.

"go to hell!"

Liang Tan stood up suddenly, but it was too late. The dagger pierced straight into her heart, and bright red blood gushed out instantly.

A Cui no longer concealed her hatred and joy, and pulled out the dagger and stabbed Liang Tan again.

The intense pain made Liang Tan unable to fight back, and she could only slide to the ground with her eyes wide open. But Ah Cui did not stop and continued to stab her again and again.

"You colluded with Cui Ling to kill me, and you still want to sit back and relax as the queen?"

"You're dreaming! God told me to start over again so that I can take revenge! If I can't get well, you can forget about it!"

"Go to hell! Go to hell..."

The crazy voice repeated over and over in her ears, Liang Tan opened her mouth slightly but couldn't say a word. Her hearing disappeared first, followed by her vision.

Before she fell into complete darkness, she saw Cui Ling break out of the door and rush towards her with red eyes.

...She worked hard for five or six years, and just had to start over like this?

196. Chapter 196: Long Away

Dizziness, nausea, vomiting... waves of uncomfortable feelings came over Liang Tan, forcing him to open his eyes again.

Although the room in front of her was unfamiliar, she recognized at a glance that the furnishings and details in the room were in the palace style. She stood in the corner, with a dozen girls in pink clothes in front of her, who seemed to be queuing up to do something.

The scene of being pricked like a hedgehog was still vivid in Liang Tan's mind. He didn't care about anything else and quickly touched his body.

She's fine, there are no wounds, so she's... refreshed and restarted?

Liang Tan suddenly had a headache, and then he felt something was wrong——

When she first came to this world, she appeared in the master bedroom of Chenshi Palace. If she refreshed and started over, she should still start in the master bedroom. Why did she appear in such a room? What were these people doing?

When Liang Tan was puzzled, he accidentally caught a glimpse of the bronze mirror in the room and was so frightened that he exclaimed.

She saw her own features and eyebrows in the mirror, but overall she looked dozens of years younger, even younger than her actual age.

The huge room was originally as quiet as an empty space. Although her exclamation was not loud, it broke the silence in an instant, and the girls in the front of the line all looked over here.

Liang Tan smiled awkwardly when he met their gaze, and then found that he was wearing the same light pink clothes as them.

"Don't make loud noises!" The nanny at the front of the house shouted, and the room suddenly became quieter.

Liang Tan was anxious to know what had happened. After silently waiting in line for a long time, he quietly pulled the sleeve of the girl next to him.

The little girl had a round face and looked easy to talk to. Seeing this, she lowered her voice and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I want to ask," Liang Tan said, trying to speak as softly as possible, "What are we doing?"

The little girl's expression suddenly became subtle, and after a while she answered: "Of course it's a talent show selection. Don't you know what you are here for?"

Selection? Liang Tan remembered that there seemed to be such a procedure before the selection. The maids would first check the bodies of the girls, and only if there were no problems would they have the opportunity to meet the emperor and the queen.

…Then the question is, why did she participate in the selection when she was already the queen? More precisely, why did she suddenly become several decades younger and come to participate in the selection?

Countless possibilities flashed through Liang Tan's mind. Seeing that she didn't say anything, the little girl couldn't help but show sympathy: "You were also forced to enter the palace by your family, right?"

"Hmm?" Liang Tan looked at her.

The little girl sighed, her eyes reddened: "Me too, the emperor is older than my grandfather, I don't want to be his woman at all."

Liang Tan paused: "How old is he?"

"You don't even know this?" The little girl was shocked. "The emperor just celebrated his 70th birthday a few days ago!"

"What!" Liang Tan exclaimed again, and only then realized that his voice was too loud, so he quickly covered his mouth.

"The person behind, do you know the rules?" A eunuch immediately stood up and shouted.

Liang Tan lowered her head, feeling confused. She was just wondering if she had been refreshed this time and might have returned to the time before Concubine Chen entered the palace. She was also thinking that she would have to wait for more than ten or twenty years from her teenage years before the male lead was born, but the next second she heard the emperor's age.

In the original text, the emperor was only about ten years older than Concubine Chen. If the emperor was seventy years old now, she would not look this young. Liang Tan mechanically followed the team forward, and suddenly thought of a possibility while walking... Could it be that she was not refreshed at all, but reborn?

Thinking of this, her mind buzzed, and she quickly pulled the girl next to her to ask, "How many years has Concubine Chen been gone?"

The little girl had just been scolded for talking to her, and she didn't want to pay attention to her, but she looked anxious, so she had to answer: "What Empress Chen? You mean the former queen, she's been gone for nine years."

As she thought... Nine years later, Cui Ling is now 27 years old. In a few months, he will be assassinated. Liang Tan licked his dry lips and suddenly felt relieved.

Fortunately, this is a rebirth story, and everyone has the possibility of triggering this mechanism. She doesn't have to start over again. She is also fortunate that she did not go back to when Concubine Chen was a teenager, otherwise she would have to wait for twenty or thirty years just for Cui Ling to appear in the palace. She is even more fortunate that she came back before Cui Ling was assassinated, so maybe she could complete the task directly.

When I think about it this way, my rebirth is really a perfect thing!

Liang Tan was filled with excitement as he followed the team forward step by step, and finally arrived in front of the nanny who was examining him.

"What's your name?" Mammy asked without looking up.

Liang Tan hesitated for a moment, not knowing whether he should give his real name.

"Speak!" Mammy said impatiently.

Every time she traveled through time, no matter what her identity was, she had the same name. If she made up a story at this time, she would probably be discovered easily. Liang Tan hesitated for a moment, but still answered with a stiff upper lip: "Liang Tan."

The nanny's face turned black as expected: "How dare you have the same name as the late queen? You must be tired of living..."

Before she could finish her words, the nanny saw Liang Tan's face. Her expression suddenly changed and she stood up abruptly, accidentally overturning the table, making a loud noise.

Now everyone looked over. The younger ones were confused, while the older ones were stunned at first and then frowned when they saw Liang Tan.

Liang Tan swallowed silently and was about to say something when Nanny suddenly sneered, "With so many precedents, there are still people who are not afraid of death."

"...What do you mean?" Liang Tan didn't understand.

The nanny's face was gloomy. "If you did it unintentionally, I would have let you leave the palace. Unfortunately, from your name to your face, it's obvious that you came prepared. I'm sorry!"

Before he could finish his words, several guards rushed in, grabbed Liang Tan and took away.

Liang Tan was in a daze the whole time, and when she came to her senses, she had been thrown into a dilapidated courtyard. She couldn't help but groan in pain when she fell to the ground, and when she stood up with the help of the ground, she found that there were already several women locked up in the small courtyard.

She had only taken a casual look at first, but only after she had finished did she realize something was wrong——

Why do these women look so familiar?

Liang Tan looked over again and realized that these people either had manners like her, expressions like her, or makeup and clothes like her.

No, to be more precise, it's like the role of Chen Fei before her.

Unfortunately, although most people look somewhat similar, their behaviors and subconscious habits are obviously the result of long-term training.

Liang Tan frowned and was about to ask what was going on when a woman suddenly rushed to the door like crazy, banging on it and wailing in pain: "I know I was wrong! I will never imitate the former queen again, let me out! I really know I was wrong!"

Liang Tan looked at her in a daze, feeling that something was not right.

"Why are you crying? Since you chose to take the risk, you should have expected this outcome." A woman with eyes like hers spoke coldly.

Liang Tan swallowed his saliva and leaned over to ask, "What will happen?"

"It's a dead end." The woman had no expression on her face, but her pale face still revealed her panic.

Liang Tan was stunned: "Why?"

"Because this is the rule set by the Master Seal. Anyone who imitates the late queen to deceive the emperor will be poisoned to death," the woman said, looking at her mockingly, "You have been locked up here, and you dare to say that you don't know this rule?"

Liang Tan knew that the palm print she was talking about was Cui Ling's. Thinking that he was still thinking about him after he had been dead for nine years, he was immediately moved. Then he became more puzzled: "Since you knew it, why did you still imitate it?"

"Of course it's because the emperor likes me. The last person who escaped the screening of the Master of Seals and saw the emperor is now a concubine. Who would be willing to give up such an opportunity to rise to the top in one step?" The woman said, gritting her teeth and looking at the high wall. "As long as I can escape from here, as long as I can see the emperor, I will be the next concubine. No... I want to be the queen. I want to tell the emperor that I am the reincarnation of Concubine Chen..."

Seeing her crazy eyes, Liang Tan quickly took a few steps back and looked at the closed courtyard with a complicated expression.

A quarter of an hour ago, she was still thinking about meeting Cui Ling as soon as possible and explaining to him her rebirth, but now... forget it. She has been "dead" for nine years and there are still so many fakes. There must have been more in the previous years. Cui Ling has seen so many copies of Chen Fei that he must have established a defense mechanism long ago. If she appears in front of him now, she will probably die faster.

What's more important now is to escape from this yard.

Liang Tan pursed his lips and walked around the yard, but found in despair that there was nowhere to escape.

On the other side, the Supervisor of Ceremonies.

Cui Ling sat at the table and read quietly, and did not turn to the next page for a long time.

After a while, a palace servant came outside the door and handed over a list respectfully: "Sir, this is the list of people who pretended to be the queen in this selection. They have all been locked up in the courtyard and are waiting for your disposal."

"Follow the rules." Cui Ling lowered his eyes and turned the page of the book in his hand.

The palace maid responded and turned to leave, and the room became quiet again.

Cui Ling stared at the page for a long time, and finally glanced at the list next to it, only to see the three words "Liang Tan" written on the last line.

In the nine years since she left, there have been countless imitators and imposters, but no one has ever dared to be so blatant and use her name directly.

It was completely dark. After crying and making a fuss, the women in the courtyard all huddled together with pale faces, until the sound of the locked door rang, and then they ran around in fear.

Liang Tan was affected by the crowd and started to panic. When he heard the door open, he looked around and finally ran to the door and stood against the wall. After the door was pushed inward, he took the opportunity to block himself with the door panel.

She looked through the crack in the door and saw twenty or thirty palace servants coming in. More than a dozen of them were holding medicine in their hands, while the others were responsible for catching the women running around.

The scene was extremely chaotic for a moment. Liang Tan knew that if she continued to hide, she would be discovered soon. If she wanted to survive, she had to take a chance now, otherwise, once the situation was under control, she would not be able to escape.

Thinking of this, she took a deep breath, and relying on her thin body, she slipped out from behind the door. When she was about to run out, a sharp-eyed eunuch saw her and immediately shouted, "Stop."

Liang Tan certainly wouldn't stand still, and immediately ran away after hearing that, and the eunuchs immediately came out to chase her. Liang Tan's heart was almost frightened, and she ran forward with all her might, and her pink gauze skirt fluttered like butterfly wings.

She had lived in the palace for five years and was very familiar with every path here, and soon left those people behind. But she was still worried, and looked back while running forward. The last time she looked back, she was too serious, and ended up running into a wall of people.

When her forehead hit the other person's chest, she immediately fell to the ground due to inertia, and her eyes were filled with physiological tears.

Liang Tan groaned, covered his forehead and looked up, but was completely stunned when he met a pair of black eyes.

She... encountered a wolf right after leaving its den?

Cui Ling hated those who imitated Concubine Chen so much. What would he do if he saw her now? Kill her? Torture her? Or destroy her appearance and break her neck?