Outside the door, the servant's voice penetrated the silence, with a bit of deliberate sharpness: "Daughter of the Zhang family, the lady has a question. May I ask you, whose concubine are you?" Zhang Chunru knew clearly in her heart that the sinister woman had used the poisonous bat as bait to force her to submit and rewrite her words. She was furious, her whole body trembling slightly with anger, but her voice was unusually firm: "You want to intimidate me with this? Don't think of making me surrender. I am Mu Yihan's concubine. No matter who I face, my answer is always the same."

"Please wait a moment. I will report to the lady." The servant's footsteps gradually faded away, and in the silence, something suddenly flew in from the window frame, accompanied by a crisp sound. It was a large bat. It landed on the couch silently, and then slowly approached Zhang Chunru at its heart-pounding speed. The bat walked like a ghost in the night, silently, and in an instant it was beside Zhang Chunru.

Fear surged like a tide. She screamed and jumped up, running to the table with all her might. In a panic, she swept the tea set and fruit plate off the table. Her voice was sharp and desperate: "Let me out! How can you be a hero if you use a bat as a weapon? If you really have the guts, just take my life!"

However, the servant's voice outside the door sounded again, nagging like a nightmare: "Daughter of the Zhang family, Madam asks again, whose concubine are you?" Zhang Chunru's anger reached its peak, and she almost roared in response: "I am Mu Yihan's concubine! Go and tell that evil woman quickly, if she really has the means, just come and take my life!"

"Madam has no intention of hurting you, so please rest assured." There was a hint of cold comfort in the servant's words.

But Zhang Chunru had no time to care, because the bat had quietly flown onto the table and was approaching her.

She was terrified, grabbed a bench as a shield, and warned in a trembling voice: "Don't come over! If you take another step, I will die with you!"

At this moment, there was another subtle sound from the window. Zhang Chunru looked in horror and saw more bats pouring in from the window, one, two, three... Their eyes were as big as bells and looked like human faces, which was frightening. The air in the room seemed to be filled with suffocating fear. Zhang Chunru felt dizzy, his legs were weak, and he could hardly stand.

She watched as the bats quickly took over the room, each one moving closer to her.

She cried out loudly, "Go away! Go away!" The whole room was filled with the disgusting smell of bats, and her crying and retching sounds mixed together, sounding particularly miserable.

However, surprisingly, these black pythons did not attack her, but kept a certain distance and flew in circles around her.

The servant's voice sounded again outside the door: "Daughter of the Zhang family, Madam asks again, whose concubine are you?"

Zhang Chunru's voice was so weak that it was almost inaudible, but she still answered with all her strength: "I am... Zhao Songyan's concubine... from the very beginning... I am..." Before she finished her words, she fainted on the ground due to excessive fear, and her body was wet.

Yun Xi and Princess Linglong witnessed all this in the next room.

Yun Xi was extremely shocked. She could not imagine that these bats were actually raised by the wife of Marquis Bei Ming.

Princess Linglong seemed unusually calm. She said calmly, "I thought she could hold on for a while longer, but I didn't expect her to collapse so quickly."

Yun Xi looked at her in surprise: "Madam, do you always treat those who are disrespectful like this?"

"It's only for those who don't know what's good for them and refuse to change despite repeated admonitions." Princess Linglong explained, "For example, those women who always covet my father's throne and refuse to give up despite repeated admonitions."

(End of this chapter)

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