First annul the engagement, then sever ties with the empress; the empress reigns supreme.

Qingyanzi's gaze lingered on Su Li's face, neither refusing nor agreeing.

Despite it being something everyone else avoids, Su Li once again spoke up to fight for it.

“Master, don’t you think my face is prettier than Qingmiao’s? I look exactly like Gu Junxi. I am Su Li and I am Gu Junxi. Don’t you want to get revenge?”

Qingyanzi didn't care about beauty or ugliness, but the words "also Gu Junxi" made his scarlet eyes suddenly light up.

Qingyanzi suddenly let go, throwing Qingmiao away like trash, and then grabbed Gu Junxi and pulled her into his arms.

"Senior Sister!" Qingmiao collapsed to the ground, crying out to Su Li with heartbreaking grief.

Su Li was led into the room by Qing Yanzi. Her expression was calm, and she did not struggle or resist. When she heard Qing Miao's worried voice, she turned around reassuringly and said, "Don't be afraid. With Senior Sister here, nothing will happen to you."

"Bah."

As soon as Su Li finished speaking, Qing Yanzi forcefully flung the door open.

"Sister!"

Seeing that the situation was getting worse, Qingmiao got up from the ground and banged on the door.

Qingyan, who had been stunned just now, finally came to her senses and joined in knocking on the door.

Mu Lingxuan, who had arrived long ago but had been standing quietly to the side, observing without participating, approached silently: "Aren't you afraid that by banging on the door like this, you'll really anger Qingyanzi? He might kill you all."

Qingmiao raised her head, her delicate face showing no concern: "So what if I killed him? If it weren't for Senior Sister, I would have died a thousand times over."

Qingyan nodded in agreement: "If anything happens to our senior sister, we will never live on alone."

Mu Lingxuan clapped his hands, but his words were more sarcastic than complimentary: "What a fine sisterly bond! Why didn't you stop Qingyanzi from taking Suli into the room? Why did you wait until she was inside to stop her? Are you just putting on an act? Besides, she has already sacrificed herself. You only think of knocking on the door now? Doesn't that make her sacrifice in vain?"

"Bullshit." Qingyan turned around angrily and glared at Mu Lingxuan, who was standing there talking without any sense of responsibility. Heaven knows, they weren't putting on an act. They had watched helplessly as Su Li was taken away by Qingyanzi. It wasn't that they didn't want to stop him, but Qingyanzi's influence was still strong, and they were instinctively afraid of him. So their reaction was a beat slow.

No sooner had Qingyan finished cursing than she suddenly remembered something, turned around and ran to Mu Lingxuan, pleadingly grabbing his sleeve.

“Prince Xuan, you’ve fallen to this state because of Qingyanzi and Wei Ming. Qingyanzi is clearly suffering from the backlash of the Gu worms. Let’s join forces and kill him. The opportunity is right in front of us; we’ll miss it if we don’t.”

Mu Lingxuan stood with his arms crossed, motionless.

He seemed uninterested in the suggestion: "What's done is done. Kill him, and we can go back in time and start over."

Qingyan was stumped by the question.

She had never heard of the myth that things could be done again after they happened.

The longer Su Li stayed inside with Qing Yanzi, the more dangerous it became. Qing Yan was extremely anxious. Seeing that she couldn't rely on Mu Lingxuan, she turned around and rushed back, wanting to knock on the door with Qing Miao. But Mu Lingxuan grabbed her wrist at that moment.

In the room, Su Li was thrown hard onto the bed by Qing Yanzi, leaving her dizzy and disoriented, her waist almost broken, and two tears rolled down her cheeks.

Before the pain had subsided, Qingyanzi had already closed in.

What burned in Qingyanzi's eyes was not desire for love, but simply a desire to vent.

He was like a bottle that was about to burst due to excessive heat, urgently needing to be injected with cold air to balance and neutralize it.

Su Li suppressed her nausea and, just as Qing Yanzi was about to press down on her completely, she lightly lifted her feet and deliberately pressed them against Qing Yanzi's chest.

"Master, why are you in such a hurry? I've already come in with you, do you think I'd run away?"

A beauty in bed, radiant and captivating, such a stunning beauty as Su Li is probably rare even in the four kingdoms. Anyone, under the gaze of such a beauty with such alluring eyes, would likely feel half their body go numb.

But Qingyanzi did not; he had clearly been controlled by the Gu worms and lost his reason.

He showed no mercy or tenderness, his expression was cold, and he grabbed Su Li's feet with both hands at the same time, squeezing them hard with a crisp "crack".

Su Li's toes were broken several times, and she was thrown off the bed to the ground.

My back feels like it's going to break; the pain now is far greater than before.

Su Li now understood that her honey trap against Qing Yanzi was no longer working. She had obtained the book detailing the method to remove the curse, and according to her plan, she should have already taken Qing Yan and Qing Miao and prepared to leave the island.

Plans can't keep up with changes. Qingmiao was discovered by Qingyanzi, who had completely gone mad and was about to harm her. She couldn't abandon Qingmiao.

If she hadn't insisted on staying by Qingyanzi's side in an attempt to find a way to cure the curse, Qingmiao wouldn't have come along. Now that they're all here, it's her responsibility to take them all with her.

Knowing that Qingyanzi was a womanizer, she was determined to use her beauty to seduce him, but the situation she was in was clearly beyond her expectations once again.

Thrown to the ground, feeling as if her entire body was about to shatter, Su Li gritted her teeth and endured the pain, glancing at her sleeves as she dug her fingernails into her flesh to keep herself calm.

Qingyanzi also mistook Su Li on the ground for Gu Junxi in a daze.

He chuckled and approached again, step by step: "You wretch, it's all your fault that I lost everything, it's all your fault that you killed my brother. You wretch, pay with your life."

Qingyanzi stomped hard on Su Li's palm and ground it with his heel.

"Ah!" Su Li couldn't help but cry out in pain.

Su Li's loud shout pleased Qing Yanzi.

He seemed to thoroughly enjoy this torture and killing.

Then, he bent down, lifted Su Li up again, threw her back onto the bed, and began tearing at her clothes without stopping.

Su Li's outer robe was torn to shreds, exposing her shoulders, while her snow-white bodice covered her two private parts.

When Qingyanzi saw Su Li's radiant appearance, his once-mad eyes finally turned into normal lust.

He began to immerse himself in the moment, his breathing becoming heavy. He reached out with both hands to touch her bare shoulders, and just as his hands completely covered her shoulders, Su Li's dagger, hidden in her sleeve, slid out.

She gripped the dagger in her hand and swiftly, ruthlessly, and accurately plunged it into Qingyanzi's chest.

"Ouch..." A painful groan escaped Qingyanzi's lips. He clutched his stabbed chest in pain, glared angrily at Su Li, and then slapped her against the wall with a "smack".

"Bitch."

Su Li slid down onto the bed, her vision beginning to blur.

She waited until Qingyanzi was most relaxed before letting go of him, because Qingyanzi not only had higher martial arts skills than her, but could also control the Gu worms in her body. Faced with this disadvantageous situation, the only thing she could do was to try her best to kill Qingyanzi with one strike.

In retrospect, her stab was still a tiny bit off from her heart.

However, at this point, she no longer needed to humble herself before Qingyanzi.

Since death is inevitable anyway, why suffer a miserable death?

Su Li no longer concealed her hatred and stared at Qing Yanzi as if she wished he would die on the spot.

"Haha, you old thief, you got your comeuppance and were devoured by the Gu worms! Who told you to do so many bad things? You deserve it. Let me think, what does it look like to die from a backlash? Probably when poisonous insects crawl all over your body and your pets gnaw away at you until there's not even a bone left."

"You wretch, how dare you mock your teacher?" Su Li's words struck at Qing Yanzi's deepest fear. People who are not afraid of death are always a minority, and shameless people like Qing Yanzi are especially afraid of death.

Qingyanzi was truly determined to kill. To punish Su Li, he shamelessly grabbed her neck and said, "I'll kill you first, and then I'll have Qingmiao and Qingyan serve me. When I'm done playing with them, I'll send them to hell to keep you company."

That's truly shameless.

As Su Li's neck was being choked, her breathing became increasingly difficult, and she grew to hate herself more and more for not being able to kill Qing Yanzi.