After being forced to marry as a substitute, I became famous in the limbo

Thinking of this, Jiang Ning gathered the cloak on his body and left the side hall.

Jiang Ning was thinking absent-mindedly as he walked towards the gate of the palace.

In fact, the relationship between her and Mu Jingzhao is just two people who were forced to stand side by side because of a mischievous encounter between Shen Tong and a prankster.

If there is any direct relationship, it is probably the casual promise about assassination.

If there is anything unresolved in Jiang Ning, this is probably the only one.

Jiang Ning thought about it, and felt that this matter should be clarified with Mu Jingzhao.

She has never been one to break her word.

Thinking of this, she had already reached the gate of the palace, Jiang Ning paused, turned around and walked towards the side hall.

Unexpectedly, she only took two steps when she met Shen Tong.

She paused, and Shi Shiran saluted Shen Tong.

I haven't seen him for a long time, Shen Tong's originally fat body has gained weight again, his face is flushed, and he is wearing a snow-white fox fur that is open, looking like a fur ball from a distance.

"Your Majesty is auspicious." Shen Tong said, and nodded slightly to her, but his knees did not bend down a bit.

Jiang Ning was silent for a moment. Although she didn't want to communicate with Shen Tong, her family education made her unwilling to be so rude.

She twitched the corners of her mouth, and a not-so-real smile appeared on her face, "Congratulations, my lord." However, she couldn't continue with the congratulatory message that followed.

"Empress and congratulations." Shen Tong said, cupping his hands at Jiang Ning.

Before Jiang Ning could ask about congratulations, the other party continued, "It's really a great luck for the empress to take advantage of the situation to save the rest of the family."

He still had a smile on his face, but his words were full of sarcasm.

The little anger that had been suppressed in Jiang Ning's heart rose up again.

Shen Tong's greasy face, together with Jiang Ning, and the deep-rooted hatred of all the salt merchant families were bloody exposed in front of her.

Jiang Ning suddenly felt a little unable to breathe.

Even Jiang Ning himself didn't realize that the hatred on his face was almost soaring at this moment.

From childhood to adulthood, Jiang Ning has hardly hated anyone, no matter what kind of contempt and beating she has encountered, she can still continue to live.

But now, she knew everything and saw the miserable ending of those compatriots.

She couldn't help complaining, couldn't help hating.

Seeing her like this, the smile on Shen Tong's face didn't decrease but increased, as if he was looking at an ant that could be trampled to death anytime and anywhere with disdain, "Your Majesty, don't look at the old minister like that, the Yantie official camp The policy is issued by the emperor, even if the old officials don't do that, he will use other methods to eradicate these families, the old officials are just following orders and have no choice."

Jiang Ning felt panicked in his heart.

When they were young, he and Pei Yu often liked to play a game. They looked for the burrows of ants on the ground, teased the ants out with the crumbs of steamed buns, and then caught all the ants that were attracted, put them on leaves and placed them on the stream. Let them float with the current.

Famously called, the adventure of the ant family.

At that time, Jiang Ning and Pei Yu just thought it was funny to see those ants being stupid.

But they never realized that the inadvertent actions of the two of them would cause the catastrophe of that group of ants.

As time passed, she realized that she and Pei Yu had also become ants, just as stupid and ridiculous, and also being manipulated by others.

"Niang Niang." The moment Jiang Ning was distracted, Shen Tong said earnestly, "You should also understand what kind of family background and identity you should be, and now you are not expected to complete the task. If you are sensible, you should leave by yourself This position does not belong to you."

He slammed closer to Jiang Ning, opening and closing his mouth to breathe out some foul-smelling warm air, "You should understand the principle that the higher you stand, the harder you fall. You are a smart person, so I don't need to say more."

After finishing speaking, Shen Tong sneered, turned around, and walked away slowly.

Jiang Ning stood where she was, and she seemed to see her soul coming out of her body in a trance. She quietly followed behind Shen Tong, and stabbed a dagger into the other's heart.

The night wind picked up suddenly, and a snowflake was blown by the wind and landed on the tip of her nose.

The sudden coldness made him shiver subconsciously, and when he came back to his senses, it snowed again at night, and the numerous snowflakes fluttered down on her eyes and brows.

She only drank two cups of hot tea and a piece of roasted corn at night, and now her body was covered with wind and snow, making her bone-chillingly cold.

Jiang Ning finally came to her senses, the reality was that she was standing where she was, her loneliness scattered all over the place.

After a while, the wind and snow above Jiang Ning's head gradually stopped, she was startled, looked up, and saw Mu Jingzhao standing beside her.

"Why are you standing in the snow? You don't seem like the kind of person who would risk life and death for so-called romance."

Jiang Ning looked up at him, Mu Jingzhao's brows were gentle, but his face was strange like never before.

Seeing that Jiang Ning didn't answer, Mu Jingzhao continued to speak.

"Come back to the house with me to avoid the wind and snow."

Jiang Ning did not refuse, and silently followed Mu Jingzhao into the hall.

She had just sat down in the palace, and Mu Jingzhao took a towel and handed it to her. She took it, wiped off the wet hair due to the melting ice and snow, and took a sip of the hot tea handed over by the other party. , Only then did I feel my body temperature rise slightly.

Mu Jingzhao saw that her face was pale, and her hand trembling while holding the teacup, quickly took a piece of fur to cover her, and stretched out his hand to touch the back of her hand, it was still cold.

Just as he was probing, Jiang Ning shrank back with trembling hands.

Such an insignificant position seemed to have awakened Mu Jingzhao instantly. He sat down next to Jiang Ning, spoke upright, and his face became indifferent as usual.

"You came to see me today, what's the matter?"

Jiang Ning seemed to have not recovered from the deep-rooted coldness. She looked up at Mu Jingzhao, with the ignorance and dullness unique to girls on her face.

"I'm here, I'm here." She said it very hard, and after a while, she was a little confused and said, "Discuss the agreement with the emperor."

Mu Jingzhao was taken aback, as if he didn't understand what the other party's agreement was.

"A promise to assassinate." Jiang Ning reminded him softly.

This time, Mu Jingzhao was stunned.

He looked at Jiang Ning in disbelief for a while, and then said slowly, "You mean—"

The laxity in Jiang Ning's eyes gradually receded, the tremor in her voice dissipated, and her tone was firm, "Now that the truth has been revealed, the emperor no longer needs this method to find out who is the real culprit and confuse the enemy."

Mu Jingzhao seemed to finally understand something, with a hurt look on his face, he exhaled slowly, his voice trembling for a moment, "You mean, you are leaving here?" (End of this chapter)