Chapter 2 The Unlucky Star

The spacious lobby on the first floor was as quiet as death. The madam of the brothel and many girls knelt on the ground trembling with fear, not daring to breathe.

Inside and outside the building, the guards in black Qilin robes stood imposingly, with swords on their waists and their bodies straight, which made people afraid.

After a hysterical roar, Xiao Jinghan was escorted down from the second floor by the Qilin Guards in a panic, his face full of gloomy resentment.

No one spoke.

Until the eldest princess walked out of the lobby and took away all the Qilin Guards belonging to the eldest princess's mansion, until the voice of the maid outside came "Go back to the mansion", the madam was still kneeling on the ground, sweating all over.

The eldest princess was a star of misfortune, and no one in the dynasty dared to offend her.

Even if the emperor didn't like her and the whole court was alienated from her, the eldest princess's strength was so strong that no one dared to despise her.

How dare she, a small madam of a brothel, offend the evil-like eldest princess?

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Star of misfortune?

Yan Qing sat in a luxurious sedan chair carried by eight people, tilting her head slightly, her beautiful eyes closed slightly, and a hint of indifference and ridicule passed through the corner of her lips.

She once wanted to be a good person.

However, since the day she was born, the four words "the star of evil" have surrounded her, like a maggot attached to her bones, making her unable to escape the curse of these four words for a moment.

Everyone avoided her like a snake and scorpion.

Even her father and mother avoided her, and even exiled her to Zhuque City, six thousand miles away.

She tried hard to break the curse of the star of evil. She wanted to tell her closest people that she was not a demon, not a devil, and those prophecies were nonsense.

She did good deeds and was willing to benefit the world with her own body. She opened a clinic, a private school, helped the poor people, saved her seriously ill widowed mother, and paid for the support of poor children...

However, no matter how hard she tried, it was useless.

When she was eighteen, her father saw her only a few times, and every time he saw her, he was unwilling to hide the murderous intent in his eyes - a father was so afraid of his daughter that he wanted to get rid of her as soon as possible, just because of a prophecy...

Heh, just because of a prophecy.

And those poor children who were supported by her, after passing the imperial examinations, also clamored that she was a star of doom and would not be tolerated by the world.

Yan Qing quietly recalled the scenes she had experienced in her previous life.

She had done nothing bad, but became a wicked woman that everyone wanted to beat.

Now recalling it, it seems only pathetic.

In her previous life, she had no feelings for Xiao Jinghan. The decree to marry him was issued by her father, and it was also her father's instruction to let Xiao Jinghan put chronic poison in her diet. After seven years of marriage, they lived in separate courtyards and were fake husband and wife for seven years, but Xiao Jinghan never minded killing her step by step.

To her, Xiao Jinghan was just an enemy, nothing else.

She passed away at the age of 25, without even a grand funeral, just like a concubine who had fallen out of favor and was banished to the cold palace, wrapped in a straw mat and thrown into the wilderness.

The reason why she was allowed to live to the age of 25 was because her father, who had already passed away, wanted to use her to contain the regent.

Yan Qing closed her eyes gently, with a cold and sarcastic arc at the corner of her lips.

And that gentle nobleman who had spent all her efforts and cultivated carefully, had a smooth career and was a high-ranking official, but at the end of his life he turned against his master and killed him, giving her a fatal blow.

Yan Qing curled his lips sarcastically.

Since she was born with a star of misfortune, she should naturally do what a star of misfortune should do, otherwise it would be a waste of the opportunity God gave her to be reborn.

"Your Highness." Qilin Guard Commander Shen Mo said respectfully, "We're here."

The luxurious sedan slowly landed, and Yan Qing came back to her senses from her distant thoughts. She stood up and got off the sedan without saying a word. Her long skirt made her figure slender and straight, and her noble and arrogant demeanor lingered between her eyebrows.

Walking towards the gate of the princess's mansion, she said indifferently: "Take Xiao Jinghan to where he should go, and give him eighty lashes to loosen his skin first."

"Yes." Shen Mo agreed without any hesitation, obviously not thinking that the son of a first-rank general was locked up in a dungeon and whipped.

However, although it didn't seem serious to him, it didn't mean that the matter was really not serious.

The fact that Xiao Jinghan was "caught cheating" by the eldest princess in the brothel soon fermented in the imperial city and became a hot topic.

The eldest princess ordered people to kill Qiao Yue and took Xiao Jinghan back to the princess's mansion in public. Countless people watched along the way.

Xiao Jinghan was stared at by those pointing and criticizing eyes, and he was almost embarrassed to death. His reputation was ruined in an instant. He wanted to find a hole to crawl into, and he had a strong hatred for Yan Qing in his heart.

Today's shame is all caused by Yan Qing!

He will definitely make her regret it, absolutely make her regret it.