This villain has become a ghost

late at night.

A strange fragrance wafted by.

The guards at the gate of Shuhua Palace fell to the ground one after another.

Ye Zhaoxi walked in.

Luo Tong was dressed in white, kneeling in front of the mourning hall, her face pale, her beautiful eyes filled with the darkness of the night, her tears drifting in the wind, wetting the cold stone slabs.

Luo Tong murmured, "You killed him."

"I sent someone to do it," Ye Zhaoxi said calmly, "...You can hate me."

Luo Tong wiped the tears from her face and said bitterly:

"...Since I've already decided to walk this path with you, I won't blame you."

"I'm too cowardly."

"It's just... he treats me sincerely, but I always feel pain."

Ye Zhaoxi patted her shoulder gently and sighed:

"You are just too soft-hearted."

Otherwise, the last attempt to poison Qiu Shuangwan would have succeeded. With drugs as a control, Qiu Shuangwan would have been obedient and made the firearms they wanted for them, and many things would have become much easier.

Luo Tong closed his red eyes and kowtowed solemnly in front of the coffin.

After a long time, she slowly stood up, took a deep breath, and said:

"The Grand Marshal didn't attend court a few days ago, and it was obvious that he was going against King Xuan. Now that he's dead, and considering what happened before, most people will think it was King Xuan who did it."

What happened in the past few days was just a prelude, and the death of the general was the fuse.

...the fuse that made the entire East even more chaotic.

"What's your plan next? Do you need my help?" Luo Tong asked.

Ye Zhaoxi replied:

"The security of Shuhua Palace will only become more and more strict. I won't come to see you openly. You just need to stay here peacefully."

"If you don't get involved in these things, Nangong Qianshang won't kill you, and you will be safe."

Luo Tong said:

"Thank you."

"No, remember to take your medicine on time." Ye Zhaoxi said softly.

Luo Tong asked again: "What about you?"

"As for me..." Ye Zhaoxi estimated the duration of the incense outside and said calmly, "Dongdu is in such chaos right now... Is there a better, more appropriate time to kill someone than now?"

-

The bamboo shadows swayed, the stone benches in the pavilion were covered with soft cushions, the moonlight shone through the tiles of the pavilion, and the lanterns swayed gently in the night breeze.

The lanterns on the small bridge also lit up, and were reflected in the stream below the bridge like pearls.

Ling Chaomian sat in the pavilion, quietly gazing at the starry sky.

He was dressed in white, looking like an immortal with aloof and elegant temperament.

“…Now that you’re here, show yourself.” He said slowly.

The person who came was dressed in old-fashioned and luxurious black and gold clothes. She had graceful manners, but she was a young girl with eyes like stars, almost blending into the night.

Ye Zhaoxi looked at the empty seat opposite him, smiled slightly, and said:

"Can I sit down?"

Ling Chaomian said, "Your Majesty the Queen Mother, please come in."

Ye Zhaoxi took a seat and said, "...I heard that the Imperial Master has been in the Tianji Pavilion recently. I'm very curious, has the Imperial Master discovered anything?"

"Yes." Ling Chaomian answered decisively.

In the moonlight, one could see his pale face and complicated expression.

Ye Zhaoxi narrowed her eyes, gave an innocent smile, and waited for him to continue.

His voice was slightly weak and hoarse:

"It's okay to tell the Empress Dowager. I have deduced three things in total."

"The first thing... is that a lot of people will die."

Ye Zhaoxi pretended to be surprised and asked:

"Touto?"

"No, it's the whole world." Ling Chaomian raised his eyes and looked at Ye Zhaoxi, as if he had just met her for the first time. His expression was extremely unfamiliar. "...I think the Empress Dowager knows this matter best."

Ye Zhaoxi stared at him quietly, his expression flickering.

After a while, she suddenly smiled.

"What do you mean, Imperial Master? I don't understand."

Ling Chaomian sighed and said, "The second matter...is about you, Your Majesty."

Ye Zhaoxi said nonchalantly, "Is it related to Ai's family?"

"Yes."

Ling Chaomian's pupils were hidden in the darkness. He slowly raised his head and stared at a star in the night sky that was about to go out.

After a moment, he turned his gaze back to Ye Zhaoxi and said seriously:

"If you choose to stop now... your life star may be restored to life."

Ye Zhaoxi stood there in a daze.

She covered her face and laughed as if she had heard a huge joke, and tears came out of her eyes.

"Are you kind people truly kind, or are you hopelessly hypocritical?"

"Close hand?"

"You clearly knew everything, yet you didn't plot to kill me. Was your goal to make me stop?"

Ling Chaomian just shook his head slightly, then asked an inexplicable question:

"Empress Dowager, do you believe in destiny?"

Ye Zhaoxi seemed to have not expected him to ask this suddenly, and didn't know what his intention was.

She sneered, her eyes suddenly turned cold, her voice was very light, with a ridiculous smile:

"Destiny?"

"...If the purpose of Heaven's Mandate is to allow hypocritical and licentious superiors to live on the corpses of innocents, and to keep those trapped in the mire forever unable to rise...then it should be destroyed along with this filthy world."

Destroyed...

Destiny is the rule of this world.

If the rules don't make sense, destroy them and rewrite them.

Ling Chaomian was silent for a long time.

After a moment, he actually nodded in agreement and said:

"On this point, I think the Empress Dowager is quite right."

Ye Zhaoxi suddenly felt that Ling Chaomian was very strange, and stared at him with inquiring eyes.

Ling Chaomian continued to speak to himself:

"All the luck in the world... was desperately placed on these two people. This was the last contribution made by someone with humanity to this world... and the final gamble."

"And the old-fashioned and cold destiny, which lacks humanity, places its 'eyes' in the human world in another form."

"However, Tianming himself might not have anticipated that, although the 'Eyes' inherited its old-fashioned and dull nature... they were gradually acquiring human qualities."

Ye Zhaoxi's eyebrows were throbbing, and she pressed him down, saying word by word:

"What do you... mean?"

"...What I mean is," Ling Chaomian chuckled, "...since Your Majesty has created this chaos, someone will naturally come to quell it."

"And you also know that this unreasonable rule of destiny will always drag this world down."

"But I cannot let this get in the way of my friends."

"so……"

"If I destroy those 'eyes' directly, I will indirectly destroy destiny."

Ling Chaomian stroked the cold object in his sleeve.

"Empress Dowager, I know you intend to kill me tonight."

"But... you may not be needed. I can do it myself."

"I have already informed His Royal Highness King Xuan of your situation. This chess game will eventually come to light. You can consider what I have just said."