Quick Wear: I am a good female supporting role

All the ministers involved in this matter were liquidated, including General Zhao who made the greatest contribution.

Assisting Prince Jing in rebellion is an unforgivable crime.

The Zhao family was implicated by General Zhao and Zhao Yusong, and all of them were executed and beheaded in the autumn.

Zuo Lingruo was not surprised to hear the news, but Zhao Yusong wanted to see her.

Zuo Lingruo readily agreed. She loved the scene of giving a helpless person a beating.

Inside the prison.

Zhao Yusong, who was wearing a white prison uniform and looked disheveled, glanced at the glamorous Zuo Lingruo, and his heart was filled with bitterness.

"Lingruo, I'm a prisoner now. I know that I approached you with malicious intent because of Xuanhe. Can you forgive me?" His eyes were full of guilt and love.

It was because he really fell in love with Zuo Lingruo that he began to reflect on what he had wanted to do before.

It is said that when a person is about to die, his words are good. If it were someone else with a soft heart, they might even agree.

But Zuo Lingruo was as hard as iron, "No."

The original owner was badly harmed by the love web and so-called malice he had woven, and Zuo Lingruo would never be able to forgive him.

Zhao Yusong paused, "I mean, if I hadn't done those things, would you have chosen me? I know that you actually have feelings for me in your heart, right?"

Zuo Lingruo was amused by him, but her words were extremely heartless, "I already knew about your and Zuo Xuanhe's plan, and I just played along. Who knew that you would be so easy to deceive and really fall in love with me."

He covered his chest with his hands, feeling completely devastated. Zuo Lingruo's words were like a lingchi knife, cutting his body and his heart one by one.

"People like you don't deserve love at all. You don't think Zuo Xuanhe loves you, do you? As soon as she heard the news about the Zhao family, she immediately cut off ties with you. After all, she is still a concubine and has not entered your general's mansion yet, so she can't be punished."

Even so, Zuo Lingruo would not let her go, but there was no need to tell Zhao Yusong.

"You really never loved me?" Zhao Yusong was like a traveler who was about to die of desiccation in the desert, hoping that a real oasis would appear before him.

"Never." Zuo Lingruo had a heartless smile on her face, her skirt swaying, and she didn't even glance at Zhao Yusong.

He was about to be executed, but Zuo Lingruo was unwilling to even lie to him. For a moment, he felt hopeless and his whole body seemed to have been drained of all its energy.

The Shangshu Mansion was also secretly involved in Prince Jing's rebellion, but the extent of its involvement was not as serious as that of the General's Mansion, so it was just exiled to a cold and remote area, where spring was not seen all year round.

Minister Zuo was still a little dissatisfied, "My daughter is the empress, why doesn't the emperor show some leniency?"

Others laughed at him, "Haven't you already severed your relationship with the Empress? Have you been removed from the Shangshu Mansion?"

Minister Zuo was speechless. If Zuo Lingruo was still in the palace, even if he was involved in the rebellion, he would at most be stripped of his official position. Why would he need to go to a remote and desolate place?

He regretted it so much. He was actually wrong. Everything was lost. The future of Shangshu Mansion was ruined in his own hands.

In the imperial palace, Zuo Lingruo, who had already moved into Kunning Palace, felt a little sleepy.

She fell asleep on the big bed in Kunning Palace. When she woke up, Si Linxuan was already sitting beside the bed looking at her.

"Why didn't you wake me up?" Zuo Lingruo rubbed her sleepy eyes. Tonight she was going to the Zhaixing Pavilion with Si Linxuan to watch the fireworks.

"It's still early, and you seem to be sleeping soundly, so I don't want to wake you up." He was wearing a dark-colored robe, and looked extremely lazy. When facing Zuo Lingruo, he was not as cold as he was outside.

"Let's go." Zuo Lingruo held his hand.

The night was as dark as water, the palace lanterns were lit, and the wind chimes hanging under the eaves of the Zhaixing Pavilion were swaying, making crisp sounds.

Looking outside the palace from the Zhaixing Pavilion, the people outside were busy celebrating the New Year. The vendors selling candied haws, the children wearing tiger-head hats, the men and women walking hand in hand, everyone's face was filled with joy.

The sky was lit up by fireworks. Zuo Lingruo looked up, her heart full of expectations for the next year.

Si Linxuan hugged her tightly from behind, and the heat from his gentle breathing entangled between their necks.

"Si Linxuan, you're hugging me so tight." she called him.

"Yeah." He hugged me even tighter.

The remaining flames of the fireworks disappeared. Zuo Lingruo felt that the wind seemed a little strong. Afraid of catching a cold, she called Si Linxuan to go back.

"Let's go back to the palace." She patted Si Linxuan.

Si Linxuan picked her up and carried her sideways. Zuo Lingruo struggled in vain. "Put me down. I can walk by myself. If I am not allowed to, the palace servants will see me."

Even so, her hands tightened around his neck.

The palace was warm as spring, but the Zuo family in the Shangshu Mansion was as cold as winter.

Zuo Xuanhe had finally escaped from the general's mansion and had finally cleared up the matter of taking a concubine, but he learned that the Shangshu Mansion was also involved in the rebellion, which was quite a bolt from the blue.

She returned to the Shangshu Mansion to prepare to become the eldest daughter and to re-plan her marriage.

Although her deeds have become somewhat notorious, she can still rely on Minister Zuo to find young talents who are easy to control.

She didn't want to follow the Shangshu Mansion to a remote place. That place was very poor and there was no future at all there.

Madam Zuo was also somewhat shocked at this time. She learned that Zuo Lingruo, who had been abandoned by the Shangshu Mansion, was now favored by the Emperor and was even the Empress. For some reason, she felt somewhat relieved.

Even if Zuo Lingruo no longer recognized her.

"I won't go there with you." Zuo Xuanhe packed his package.

"Xuan He, what do you mean? Wouldn't it be good for our family of four to go there and start over?" Mrs. Zuo lost some weight because of these things.

"I'm not the daughter of the Zuo family, and you're not my parents. Why should I suffer with you?" At this point, Zuo Xuanhe stopped pretending and completely exposed her true selfish and cold face.

Madam Zuo was completely shaky. She couldn't believe that the daughter she had loved for so many years was like this. "Xuan He... I have never let you down. Even when Ling Ruo came back, I stood by your side."

Zuo Xuanhe's eyes were filled with disgust. "If you really love me, you wouldn't let Zuo Lingruo come back."

It was at this time that Mrs. Zuo truly got to know Zuo Xuanhe.

Zuo Cangming sneered, stepped forward and slapped Zuo Xuanhe hard, "You really are worthy of being the offspring of that bitch couple. As expected, like fathers, like daughters, like sons, and like daughters, like bamboo shoots, good bamboo shoots cannot be produced."

"Mother, just let her go. Without our Shangshu Mansion, she won't be much better off." It was their Shangshu Mansion that was blind. For so many years, they had been pampering a fake.

It's their own fault that they ended up like this.

Thinking of his sister who was the queen in the palace and his grandmother who was conferred the title of first-rank lady, Zuo Cangming felt a pang of regret.

If so, if they had been nicer to Lingruo, would the ending have been different?