Princess Menglang is hard to change, the whole capital is embarrassed for her

Great Zhou, the fourteenth year of Zhaode, spring.

The outskirts of Michigan.

Shen Li knelt in front of her mother's mourning hall for a long time, so long that she almost forgot that there was someone waiting outside to ask her to break off the engagement.

My mother went crazy for so many years, and finally she slipped and fell into the river, and finally she no longer had to suffer.

Ever since they were driven to the farm by their grandmother and father, the mother and daughter have been in Mizhou for ten years.

At the beginning, everyone said that my mother was unfaithful and was caught in bed with an adulterer. They said that my grandmother and father were kind and generous, and did not drown her, but gave her a place to settle down. They also praised my father highly.

Shen Li added a few pieces of paper money into the brazier and spat fiercely on the ground.

Generous and kind?

Are they worthy?

What happened that year, six-year-old Shen Li was hiding under the bed playing hide-and-seek with the girl, and heard it all.

The daughter of the Prime Minister's mansion, who had just left her family, fell in love with her father, who coveted the Prime Minister's mansion's immense power and the promise it would provide for his official career. To avoid being accused of clinging to the powerful, her grandmother conspired with her father to drug her mother and the groom, thereby framing her.

It is such a great irony that such a person is praised for his righteousness.

Outside, the maid Zi Su hurried in and leaned over to Shen Li's ear and whispered, "Miss, Master Yuan is urging you again."

Shen Li narrowed her eyes.

Yuan Zhilin, the youngest son of the Duke of Wei, was saved from a horse's hoof by his mother who risked her life eleven years ago. However, her own knee was broken by the horse's hoof, and she became a lame woman who was laughed at by everyone in the capital.

Because of this favor, Duke Wei arranged a marriage for Shen Li and Yuan Zhilin, and my father successfully became related by marriage to the Duke of Wei's mansion.

Taking advantage of this momentum, my father began to emerge in the officialdom.

Thanks to this engagement, my grandmother would regularly send someone to deliver Shen Li's monthly allowance.

Apart from that, no one cared about the life or death of the mother and daughter, including Yuan Zhilin, who was saved by their mother.

I never expected that the first time he appeared here was on the seventh day after his mother's death, and he came to ask her to break off the engagement.

Shen Li knelt in front of her mother's spirit, staring at the coffin for a while. Just when Zi Su thought she was sad and angry and wanted to refuse, she heard Shen Li say, "Let him in."

"Miss, he said that the master told him to stay away from evil spirits to avoid affecting his luck." Zi Su lowered his head, feeling sorry for the lady.

If I had known I would save such an ungrateful guy, I would rather let the horse kick him to death.

"Go tell him that if he wants to cancel the engagement, he can come in and burn incense for my mother, otherwise he won't be able to cancel it easily. If he thinks the yin energy here is too strong, he can get out now."

Zi Su was stunned for a moment, then quickly agreed and went down.

The girl's temper changed drastically from the day the lady fell into the water. She suddenly became a backbone, and her words and actions became firm, which made the maids straighten their backs as well.

The girl went downstairs and Shen Li started burning paper again.

When Yuan Zhilin came in, he was choked by the smoke from the paper money and started coughing.

Looking around, Yuan Zhilin sighed and said, "I didn't expect the Shen family to be so generous and to hold a funeral for someone with such a bad reputation like your mother. It's rare, really rare."

Shen Li didn't look up and threw a few more pieces of paper into the brazier.

Yuan Zhilin's face fell, and he pretended to light a stick of incense, then covered his nose and said, "Logically, the Duke of Wei's Mansion should have come to cancel the engagement the day your mother was caught cheating, but considering her kindness to me, I have used this engagement to protect you two for so many years. I have done my utmost."

"Now that he's dead and gone, I happen to be in Mizhou on business, and I'm here to cancel the engagement. You won't refuse, will you?"

Seeing that Shen Li didn't respond, he sneered and said, "It's useless to object. Your mother is restless and a lunatic. How could the legitimate son of our Duke's Mansion marry someone like you as his legitimate wife?"

"Even if I want to marry into your family, it should be your legitimate sister who has a prime minister's grandfather who is worthy of it. As for you..." He looked Shen Li up and down and said disdainfully: "I have heard that you are stupid, and today it seems to be true."

Shen Li paused while burning paper, and the flame climbed up her sleeves.

She reached out and extinguished the flame in her palm, using the pain of the burn to suppress her restless heart.

He lowered his eyes and saw Yuan Zhilin's fiery red brocade robe flash by out of the corner of his eye.

Today is the seventh day after birth, which is believed to be the day when the mother is reincarnated in the secular world. The strong red color hurts and traps the deceased soul, preventing it from reincarnation and eventually turning it into a wandering ghost.

Yuan Zhilin, you are looking for death.

Shen Li clenched her palms, her eyes cold.

Yuan Zhilin took out an envelope from his arms, threw it in front of Shen Li, and said: "This is my marriage certificate. Old Madam Shen has returned your share to me. If it weren't for the engagement token that you have and need me to take it back, I wouldn't have to come here in person to give it to you."

Shen Li picked up the envelope, took out the marriage certificate, looked at it, and threw it into the brazier.

The flames suddenly rose, which scared Yuan Zhilin. Just as he was about to lose his temper, Shen Li quickly took off the jade pendant from her waist, threw it over, and then reached into her sleeve pocket to feel something.

The jade pendant spun a few times on the ground with clangs, and a few pieces of debris fell off.

Perhaps he didn't expect Shen Li to be so straightforward and not beg as he had expected. When Yuan Zhilin picked up the broken jade pendant, his face looked as ugly as the bottom of a pot.

Shouldn't a wild girl who was driven to a farm since she was young, lacking education and upbringing, dream of returning to the capital?

The engagement with the Duke's Mansion was the only straw she could grasp, but she didn't cry bitterly and agreed to cancel the engagement without saying a word!

Shen Li ignored him. She touched something in her sleeve pocket: a box of silver needles, the thing she trusted most in the world.

He twisted out the silver needles one by one and heard Yuan Zhilin talking in a sarcastic tone.

"You and I are from two different worlds. Over the years, I feel ashamed when I think of the kindness I have received from your mother. Now that I am finally free, we at the Duke of Wei's Mansion don't want to be accused of being ungrateful. This time, I am breaking off the engagement and leaving you two shops as a reward for your mother saving me."

Shen Li took his hand out of his sleeve pocket, pinched the silver needle between his fingers, and tested the strength.

Yuan Zhilin's voice was getting closer and closer. "Why aren't you talking? Are you mute? Or do you think the things I gave you are not enough? Like mother, like daughter. Neither of them is a good person..."

Shen Li suddenly raised her hand, and several silver needles shot out quickly, without any movement, flying past Yuan Zhilin's temple and neck.

Outside the mourning hall, the maids sent by the Shen family to pretend were busy with their own things, some distributing incense and some burning paper money. No one noticed anything unusual inside.

Even Yuan Zhilin himself didn't notice it.

I just felt a few slight pains in my body, as if I was bitten by something.

Looking at the mourning hall filled with cold wind, Yuan Zhilin shuddered.

"Shen Li, from today on, there will be no connection between you and me. If you dare to bring up what happened back then after returning to Beijing, you will be in trouble."

After saying that, he turned around and walked away, as if there was a ghost chasing him. Even the servants of the Shen family who followed him out to see him off could not catch up with him.

Shen Li didn't look up and continued to kneel there adding paper to the brazier.

The few silver needles just now pierced Yuan Zhilin's skin and shot into the wall at a rapid speed. The silver needles were coated with a poison that could cause severe pain all over the body and incontinence.

The poison takes effect slowly and will take effect after twelve hours.

When Yuan Zhilin rolled over in pain, no one could have imagined that it was her masterpiece.

This was the first person she dealt with after she came here.

As a top spy in the 21st century, her soul traveled to the body of Shen Li, who drowned while saving her mother. Instead of complaining about the fate, she was more concerned about how to survive.

Fortunately, although the original owner was only sixteen years old, she had grown up in the wilds of the village and had a relatively good physical foundation. In just a few days, through training in the dead of night, she had already regained the feeling of explosive power.

There was also a space that she traveled through. The space was not big, like a small warehouse. She found the silver needles in the space and used them for self-defense.

I tried it out today and it was quite successful.

If it weren't for the fact that killing is prohibited on the seventh day, she would have killed him long ago.

The paper money in the basin gradually turned into ashes. A gust of wind blew, and the paper money swirled around the brazier and went out again.