Chapter 1 Martyrdom
"Miss, miss, something happened, something happened—"

The servant girl's hasty footsteps broke the deathly silence in the Chang family's temple.In the past three years, this Chang's family temple has been neglected, and no one knows that Mrs. Chang Shining, Marquis of Changchun, has been imprisoned here.

In the Buddhist hall, Mrs. Hou, Ning Wanzhu, was silently looking at a cup of brown-black medicinal soup in her hand.In front of her was a statue of Avalokitesvara in the Buddhist hall. The master Avalokitesvara in the image seemed to be looking at the world with infinite compassion.

"Miss, the Ning family, the Ning family's house was confiscated three days ago!" The servant girl ran over, knelt in front of Ning Wanzhu, grabbed Ning Wanzhu's skirt with both hands, and said sadly: "Miss, everyone outside is here. Said, what does my uncle have... because of his support, so he is in charge of the power right now. Put down your figure and beg my uncle, maybe..."

"Begging him?" Ning Wanzhu had a sad smile on his lips.She raised her neck and drank the remaining medicinal soup in the cup.

She had long expected that the Ning family would have this day.Two months ago, the husband Chang Shining specially sent someone to send news to the family temple, saying that the late emperor had passed away. He helped the king of Han sneak into the imperial city and ascended the throne first, while the crown prince committed suicide in the east palace.As the backbone of the prince's party in the past, the Ning family's end today is not beyond Ning Wanzhu's expectations.

Seeing Ning Wanzhu being so dumb, the servant girl had no choice but to bend down in front of Ning Wanzhu and burst into tears: "Miss, please go and beg..."

"Begging him? Just a imprisoned Mrs. Hou like me?" Ning Wanzhu smiled wryly again.

Ning Wanzhu has a half-sister, Ning Luozi, who had an affair with Chang Shining earlier.Although Ning Wanzhu had heard about this for a long time, she only said it was a rumor, and she didn't want to believe it was true.However, three years ago, Ning Luozi's own husband discovered the affair between the two of them. He missed and beat Ning Luozi to death.At that time, Ning Wanzhu got the news, and with the purpose of saving someone's life, she also sent a message to Chang Shining, but in the end it was still a step too late.However, because of Ning Luozi's death, Chang Shining was furious, and turned his anger on Ning Wanzhu, and locked her in this temple for three years.

Ning Wanzhu couldn't help thinking, if this Ning Luozi was still alive, wondered whether Chang Shining would be willing to spare the Ning family network.

"Everybody else go down, I want to talk to Wanzhu!" A deep and melodious man's voice suddenly rang out.The door of the family temple, which was closed all day long, slowly opened, and a handsome man in a brocade robe and jade belt slowly walked in from the outside, until he was three feet away from Ning Wanzhu, and stood there leisurely.

When Ning Wanzhu heard that person's voice, she knew that it was Chang Shining who was coming, and turned around slowly.I haven't seen him for three years, but I saw that Chang Shining was still handsome and handsome, but there was a bit of coldness and murder in his expression, he really looked like he had just taken power.

Her servant girl had turned her head away at this time, walked a few steps on her knees, came to Chang Shining, reached out to grab the hem of his clothes, and wanted to plead for the Ning family, but she never thought that Chang Shining would suddenly stretch out her feet and kick straight at the maid's leg pit of heart.The maid let out a muffled grunt, fell to one side, and passed out.

"You poor servant girl, you don't listen to your master." Chang Shining shouted unceremoniously.

"Master Hou, this is my girl from the Ning family, I have to beat or kill her, how can you bully me too much!" Ning Wanzhu stood up while leaning on the arm of the chair, and said loudly.Seeing her husband kicking her maid, she suddenly felt a surge of resentment rushing up, gurgling and filling her chest.

"Hey, are you finally getting a little angry?" Chang Shining laughed in a low voice, but the laughter was full of mockery.He turned around slowly, kicked the fallen body with his toes, and said: "This lowly servant girl, if I know the news that all the servants and servants in the Ning family have been dispatched to the army, I don't know if I will be so anxious To be the maid of the Ning family."

Ning Wanzhu's eyes finally showed a trace of anxiety. If what Chang Shining said was true, if all the servants and maidservants of the Ning family were all married, then the master of the Ning family, his own father, grandparents, mother and brother, and the whole family would all be in distress. Escape to death.

"Haha, do you want to know the exact news about Ning's family?" Chang Shining was very happy to see Ning Wanzhu's expression, "The Ning's family is in rebellion, and the Ministry of Punishment has cut off the three tribes of barbarians, and the execution was carried out yesterday."

Ning Wanzhu's chest felt hot, and a fishy and salty liquid rushed into his mouth. "The Yi tribe...Chang Shining, I didn't expect you to be so ruthless..." She murmured, her eyes couldn't help revealing a look of pain and resentment.

Chang Shining strode forward, stretched out his hand to pinch Ning Wanzhu's chin, lifted her face up forcefully, with an excited and eager look in his eyes, and said, "Why, you finally started to hate me?"

Ning Wanzhu stared closely at Chang Shining's face, there was no fear in her eyes, and naturally there was no tenderness in her eyes. "Chang Shining, for your own power and wealth, you took so many people's lives as stepping stones, you... aren't you afraid of retribution?"

Chang Shining smiled slightly, and said, "Your own power and wealth? Do you really think that I do this for power and wealth?" He turned his head and said to the entourage who followed him far behind, "Go and bring Madam." The entourage responded went.

"Ma'am?" Ning Wanzhu smiled miserably, but was not surprised.I have been imprisoned in this temple for three years, if it is said that there is no woman around Chang Shining, that would be really surprising.

After a while, there was only a crunching sound, someone pushed a wheelchair over, and a woman covered with a tulle sat on the chair.When Ning Wanzhu saw it, she couldn't help breaking away from Chang Shining's hands.She was pale, covered her heart with one hand, her body was on the verge of falling, but her eyes were fixed on the woman in the wheelchair. After a long time, she slowly squeezed out a few words - "This is... Luo Zi? You Ma'am..."

The woman in the wheelchair was very similar to Ning Wanzhu in appearance, but she was a little foolish. At this moment, she just stared blankly into the distance, unable to gather her gaze.

"Yes, this is your good sister Ning Luozi. Three years ago, she didn't die, but was maimed by her incompetent husband, and she became like this. The doctor said it was a mental illness, Already unconscious, he is a living dead."

When Chang Shining saw Ning Wanzhu's appearance of not keeping his house, he suddenly stepped forward, wrapping one arm around Ning Wanzhu's waist, while still pressing Ning Wanzhu's chin tightly with the other hand.The faces and bodies of the two were very close, and their breathing could be heard.Chang Shining's eyes were both excited and focused, as if looking at Ning Wanzhu's expression with great interest.

"But, don't you think it's just right for her to be my puppet wife?" Chang Shining laughed softly, "You two look alike, and she can't speak or move, so she is what I say she is. If not, how could I hide it from my shrewd father-in-law in the past three years? But I really want to thank Lord Ning, the identity of the son-in-law of the prince's party is my best disguise, otherwise How could I have helped the King of Han achieve great things, and how could I have gained such power as it is now?"

Ning Wanzhu's fingers dug into her palm, bleeding from the pinch.It turns out that the body of my concubine's younger sister can also replace herself as Mrs. Hou in front of others.In front of the Ning family, Chang Shining pretended to be a good husband who cared about his sick wife, and externally he pretended to be a good son-in-law of the Ning family who protected the crown prince.In this way, his father lost his guard against Chang Shining.Neither the Ning family nor the other ministers loyal to the prince could detect the various plots secretly led by Chang Shining.

"Why?" Ning Wanzhu's voice was full of despair and pain. She seemed to be deeply insulted, and finally asked Chang Shining, "Why did you do this? It was indeed Luo Zi who knew you first. Zi is in love with each other, why did he come to ask to marry the daughter of the Ning family? If it wasn't for this, I wouldn't marry you..."

"Shut up!" Chang Shining seemed to have been poked in a sore spot, and suddenly became furious, and shouted: "Shut up again... When we met for the first time, Luo Zi was obsessed with everything, begging for nothing, and posted it upside down. You can do whatever you want her to do, but you remain indifferent and treat me as nothing. If I hadn't played tricks and threatened the reputation and status of the Ning family, how could you have been willing to marry me!"

"Ning Luozi has always been just a prop. Now it is, and it was in the past. I moved her just to make you jealous. But you, you only know that you are blindly begging me to save your lowly sister. Ning Wanzhu, hello Generous, you..."

Chang Shining squeezed Ning Wanzhu's face closer, gritted his teeth and said, "Do you know, I did these things against the Ning family, and I deliberately had an affair with Ning Luozi, from the beginning to the end just to get Make you hate me. Since I can't make you fall in love, I will tie you by my side for the rest of my life, and then hate me day and night..." At this point, Chang Shining seemed to have achieved his wish, and laughed out loud without restraint.

With a "poof", Ning Wanzhu spit out a burst of blood mist, spraying all of it on Chang Shining's face, and Chang Shining's laughter stopped abruptly.

There was a moment of silence in the hall, Chang Shining seemed to be in a daze, as soon as he let go of his hand, Ning Wanzhu couldn't stand still, and fell limply to the ground.

Ning Luozi in the wheelchair is still just an unconscious limb, and the joy, anger, sorrow and joy around her have nothing to do with her.

"Wanzhu, Wanzhu, you... what did you take before?" Chang Shining couldn't laugh anymore, and suddenly grabbed Ning Wanzhu's neckline roughly, and pulled her body up from the ground with all her strength—— "Where did you get this dead medicine?" He called out Ning Wanzhu's name in a sad voice, "I insist on destroying the Ning family, not to make you die, but to make you die for the rest of your life. Stay with me!"

Ning Wanzhu's body went limp for a moment, but suddenly became lighter again, gradually floating in the air.

She gradually could no longer hear Chang Shining's mournful voice.Among the portraits enshrined in front of her, the white-clothed gentleman still quietly looked down on all living beings in the world, with a trace of pity in his eyes, as if he was sighing about the past, which should always be empty, but he was always remembered so dignified.

The past events flashed through Ning Wanzhu's mind like lightning one scene after another - the so-called "virtuous and virtuous" in her life ended so dismal.She had never understood Chang Shining's thoughts, which made her and the entire Ning family pay such a painful price.But even if she understands it, so what, how can she change her heart easily.

In the darkness, a little fire was lit, and a faint voice said, if there is a chance, start over, I, Ning Wanzhu, beg God to give me a chance to change people's hearts.

(End of this chapter)

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