The queen is crazy and spoiled, and the tyrant bows to her

The excruciating pain had made Nangong Lie unable to distinguish whether what he saw was an illusion or reality?

However, Jiang Wantang just looked at him calmly.

She knew that the "young lady" Nangong Lie was referring to was not her, but the Empress Dowager Wende of the past...

Now he may be the only survivor who knows what happened back then.

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Nangong Lie realized something.

He shook his head violently, his eyes regaining some clarity: "It's you..."

Then Nangong Lie grinned and said mockingly: “I almost forgot that you are also a descendant of the Nangong family.”

"Why, did the dog tyrant send you here again?"

"Bah, you heartless little bastard!"

Nangong Lie spat a mouthful of blood foam at Jiang Wantang, but was blocked by Xie Zhiyan's outstretched sleeves.

Jiang Wantang smiled, but the coldness in her eyes grew stronger.

She raised the dagger in her hand and cut off five fingers of his other hand with one stroke.

The shrill screams resounded throughout the prison again.

Nangong Lie glared at Jiang Wantang in front of him with scarlet eyes and roared, "Was I wrong?"

"That tyrant annihilated all nine members of the Nangong clan and even killed your brother. It would be fine if you didn't help us with our revenge, but you're actually helping the genocidal enemy to deal with your own people. If that's not wolfish and heartless, what is it?!"

Blood was flowing from the corners of his lips and between his teeth. He stared at Jiang Wantang's face with a sinister smile.

"I just wonder if the Queen can still sleep peacefully in the middle of the night, stepping on the flesh and blood of her clansmen and her brother, lying on the same couch with her enemy?"

Jiang Wantang looked at him with a cold smile. Her smile was as frosty as ice, devoid of any emotion. "You're using this excuse of blood relationship to coerce my brother into your hands and seek revenge for yourselves, right?"

"May I ask, when my brother and I were young and helpless, how were you, the Nangong clan, laughing and drinking happily?

"From what I've heard, the Nangong clan was at its peak of glory and prestige at that time. Why didn't you think of the two of us, the descendants of the Nangong clan, who were stranded outside while you were enjoying the wine and feasting?"

"What are you talking about blood ties with me now? Do you want me to sacrifice everything I have to avenge you?"

"Why?!"

"To put it bluntly, if the Nangong family hadn't fallen, and I were just an ordinary woman in the harem, would you still recognize me as a descendant of your proud Nangong family?"

Nangong Lie stopped talking.

Jiang Wantang smiled sarcastically and said, "You won't!"

"You'll just pretend I don't exist."

Nangong Lie looked at the dazzling smile on Jiang Wantang's face and said viciously, "You are just like her back then, a heartless person!"

"So what if I climbed to a high position? Staying with that bastard named Ji will not end well...Ahhh!"

Before he could finish his words, Jiang Wantang stabbed his arm with a knife. Then, he turned around, admiring his twisted expression, and said coldly, "Tell me what happened back then."

Nangong Lie's face was filled with pain and he gritted his teeth and said, "Don't...even think about it!"

"is it?"

Jiang Wantang's eyes were frost-covered, a cold blur spreading across them. She said, "Don't you like to use poison?"

"Then I will return the favor and let you taste the poison..."

"What do you want to do?" Nangong Lie looked at her with shrinking pupils, and immediately had a bad premonition.

Jiang Wantang smiled, didn't answer, and took out a white jade porcelain bottle from her sleeve.

Nangong Lie suddenly struggled violently upon seeing this, and the chains rattled.

Jiang Wantang opened the porcelain bottle and sprinkled the powder onto the wounds on his body bit by bit.

Soon, Nangong Lie's tragic and inhuman wails were heard in the torture room, echoing throughout the Dali Temple prison.

"Ah ah ah..."

"Kill me!" Nangong Lie's eyes were red: "Kill me if you dare!"

Jiang Wantang just looked at him coldly.

When this poison powder is sprinkled on the open wound, people can clearly feel the excruciating pain of thousands of ants eating away at their flesh and bones.

Soon, the bloody wounds revealed the bones...

Zhang Long and Zhao Hu, who were guarding outside the torture room, felt their pupils tremble and the hairs on their bodies stood up.

It really is......

Women have the most vicious hearts!

The outside world says that the Dali Temple is cruel, but this... I really have to admit defeat!

However, Xie Zhiyan just stood aside the whole time, without any extra expression on his face.

The veins on Nangong Lie's neck and forehead bulged, and his eyeballs almost popped out of their sockets. He twisted his body frantically, and the chains bounding him cut deeply into his flesh, but he could not escape the piercing pain.

Jiang Wantang looked at him coldly: "Speak or not?"

After saying that, he opened the porcelain bottle and added poison powder to his wound.

"Wait!"

"I'll tell you! I'll tell you..." Nangong Lie couldn't hold on any longer, his face and lips turned pale with pain.

Even after Jiang Wantang gave him the antidote, his whole body was still shaking violently from the pain.

Nangong Lie's scattered gaze gradually focused, and he said in a hoarse voice: "You...you want to know...what?"

"Everything about Empress Dowager Wende back then." Jiang Wantang said coldly.

Nangong Lie was about to speak when Jiang Wantang spoke again, "If you tell even a single lie, not only you, but all your subordinates will be tortured by this poison powder every day from now on."

Nangong Lie's pupils trembled when he heard this.

He was silent for a moment before he slowly spoke, "The Nangong family is a century-old aristocratic clan, and I am only one of the branches of the Nangong family left behind in our ancestral home in Qinan. Due to the distance, and the fact that the family was exterminated that year, I and several other branches happened to be out on a long journey escorting goods, and luckily escaped the disaster."

"I don't know much about the affairs of the imperial court in Beijing. Every year at the end of the year, I represent my branch to visit the Nangong Mansion in Beijing, give New Year gifts, and attend the New Year banquet."

"I was fortunate enough to see Miss Nangong from afar several times in the backyard of the Nangong Mansion..."