Her smile on her face, yet her blood on it looks particularly terrifying, as if she had climbed out of hell as a fierce ghost.
She looked down at the pale faces of the crowd with cold eyes and said, "You all keep saying that there is no Xiao family, no Lingjiang, but you must not forget that it was I who brought an end to the war between the two countries through marriage, and it was I who caused the internal strife between Chu Yu and his father, risking my life to deliver the Xiliang defense map, allowing Xiao Rhen to conquer Xiliang!"
She said, looking at Lou Yao and Xiao Rhen and the others, her eyes cold enough to scare people: "I killed Lou Yao's child to avenge her designing my forced marriage and being tortured for ten years by Chu Yu."
"Cutting off the hand of Xiao Loushi was her disrespectful act of defying my authority first. Wounding Xiao Rén was his betrayal of me first; he plotted with Lou Yao to arrange my marriage, subjecting me to endless humiliation. What wrong have I done?"
The people in the hall did not speak. They all knew what Lou Si had said, but...
Lou Yao had already been frightened and had not thought of refuting Lou Si. She only felt that she was too terrible.
Xiao Rén's face turned ugly upon hearing what Lou Si said, and his hand in his sleeve tightened involuntarily, tugging at the wound on his shoulder.
However, for some reason, the pain in her chest and heart was greater than the pain from the wound, especially when she mentioned being humiliated.
Lou Zheng and Xu Jingxuan also had unpleasant expressions when they heard this. The former felt heartache and self-reproach, self-reproaching himself for not being strong enough to protect her at that time.
The latter felt regret, regretting that he hadn't chosen to take Lou Si away and had caused her to suffer through ten years of pain.
Pei Yàn was calmly listening to these, with no change in his face, but his fist clenched tightly in his sleeve betrayed him.
Lou Si showed no concern whether they would listen or not, and she continued, "As for Lady Xiao, why I beat her half to death, that should be the most clear to Marquis Pei."
The crowd looked at Pei Yàn together upon hearing this.
Pei Yàn's face had returned to its usual expression. He looked at Lou Si for a moment, then told the whole story of what had happened at the temple of Li in detail.
Lou Si gave them no chance to speak, smiling as she said, "As for the Minister of Rites, he constantly mouths that I will lead Lingjiang to follow in Xiliang's footsteps. He doesn't want to see it; isn't it my right to send him on his way?"
One of the old officials related to the Left Minister hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help but say, "The Left Minister is only worried...the Princess shouldn't be so fierce."
"Not supposed to do so?" Lou Si sneered coldly: "This Lingjiang was spared from war thanks to the forced marriage of this Princess, and Xiliang was conquered thanks to this Princess. What shouldn't this Princess do?"
The crowd fell into deep thought after hearing this.
Lou Zheng walked down from the steps and came to Lou Si's side, using a handkerchief to clean the blood on her face. His voice was cold enough to scare people.
"Today's affair ends here. If anyone brings it up again, I will exterminate your nine families."
With those words, the people in the hall dared not breathe a single breath.
Lou Si took the handkerchief from Lou Zheng's hand and smiled at him, saying, "Zheng'er, I feel a bit unwell. Now that the matter has been dealt with, I will go back to rest first."
After speaking, she didn't give Lou Zheng a chance to speak, and turned to go out.
As she passed by Lou Yao, she stopped and said in an extremely gentle voice, "Sister-in-law, we will meet again soon."
From beginning to end, she never looked at Wei Fuchar at all, as if she had never known her at all.
Lou Yao's face turned pale, and she suddenly realized a problem. Now, Lou Si was no longer on the same level as her.
To her, all the in-house struggles were just child's play, and upon realizing this, her whole body trembled involuntarily.
Lou Zheng really wanted to chase after Lou Si and keep her in the palace, but in the end, he still didn't move.
Lou Si didn't like fools, he couldn't go mad.
Thinking that, Lou Zheng turned his gaze back to the crowd kneeling in the hall, deciding to deal with them first.
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Lou Si looked at the Worry-free blocking her way out of the palace, a beautiful arc curling at the corners of her mouth.
"Master Guoshi, it's only been a month since we last met, but you seem to have aged so much. It truly is heart-wrenching to see."
Wu Youshi looked at Lou Si with a shocked expression, asking unconsciously, "Are you injured?"
Hearing this, Lou Si was startled for a moment, and then, after thinking of something, she couldn't help but laugh out loud: "I'm not injured."
"You mean to say, then, where did the blood on you come from?" Wu Youshi asked, regretting it as soon as the words left his mouth. He had come today to confront her about something, but now it seemed as if he had ended up caring for her instead.
"Speaking of which, I should thank you for the blood on me." Lou Si said as she walked to him, a cold smile on her face. "It was because of your words that I was born with bad luck, otherwise the country would have been destroyed. Only then would the Left Minister have used it to force Zheng to kill me, and only then would I have killed him and his blood would have splattered on me. In the end, it was all thanks to you."
After hearing this, Wu Youshi's face turned pale as if he had been slapped. He unconsciously took a step back, distancing himself from her, and his hand in his sleeve couldn't help but tremble.
Lou Si's face showed a cold sneer: "Did Master Guoshi not foresee such a result when he said those words?"
As Wu Youshi's eyes flashed a hint of pain, he closed his eyes and said, "I was wrong in the past. You didn't deserve to hurt those innocent people at Jinglong Temple."
He had always thought that Lou Si would be able to put aside her hatred, even if she killed him to vent her anger, he was willing to do so. However, Lou Si never thought of killing him, and instead used a burning method with heavy killing sin to torment him.
"I didn't want to either," Lou Si shrugged, her expression one of helplessness. "It was Master Guoshi who forced me into this. I gave you a choice; you wanted to be the hero who saves the beauty."
After speaking, she took a few steps forward and stopped in front of him, smiling especially gently, but the words she spoke were truly killing.
"In the end, they all died because of you, Master Guoshi. Don't forget to perform the oblations for them and let them quickly attain Nirvana."
Wu Youshi's face turned as white as a ghost, and the Buddhist beads in his hand suddenly snapped and fell to the ground.
Lou Si looked at the Buddhist beads on the ground, smiling as she stepped on them: "Such a good set of Buddhist beads is really a waste."
Saying that, she no longer looked at him, and took steps towards the palace exit.
She had said that she would wait for Wu Youshi to come and ask for herself, thus eliminating any chances for him to make another choice.
Wu Youshi covered his chest in pain and asked in an extremely agonizing way: "What do you want? How can you spare the innocent people."
Lou Si stopped in her tracks without turning back, her voice extremely cold: "What I want is simple; it was given to you long ago, and all you need to do is open your mouth."
Thinking of the note in his arms that wrote something, Wu Youshi's eyes flashed a hint of pain: "I have missed one chance already, I cannot make a second mistake."
Her answer was within Lou Si's expectation, and she smiled, "Since that's the case, there's nothing left to say between us. We can only wish Master Guoshi good luck."
