Holding a lantern, guiding souls across, Lady Hou comes from the underworld.

"I know that after what happened, Miss can't do anything but feel sad inside..."

"There's absolutely no way they'd go to the Crown Prince to ask him anything, to find out the truth..."

"She wouldn't even say anything to me..."

As the eldest daughter of the Duke of Junguo, Tang Yuelang has been pampered and adored since childhood.

She was proud and never bowed down or admitted defeat.

Even if you're internally vomiting blood, you have to appear completely indifferent on the surface.

Outsiders might say she's generous.

But Linglong knew that her young mistress's heart was already filled with sorrow and despair.

So, she secretly made a decision.

She requested to see the Crown Prince to ask him for clarification on behalf of her young mistress.

That night, after receiving news of the Crown Prince's return to the palace, Linglong quietly went to Weiyang Palace. She clearly remembered that there were no eunuchs guarding the palace gate at that time.

Unable to find anyone to inform her, she had no choice but to go in by herself.

In the past, my young mistress would occasionally make some fruit herself and ask me to deliver it to Yongqingzhai or Weiyangdian.

His Highness the Crown Prince, out of affection for her, treated her with great affability.

Often, she would simply walk in with her food box without needing to announce herself.

The Crown Prince wouldn't blame her for being rude; he even exempted her from the formal greetings.

Now, as she enters the empty palace, Linglong inexplicably begins to miss the former Crown Prince.

She also had a lot of grievances and wanted to speak out on behalf of her mistress.

However, no matter how far they walked, they could not find anyone at the desk where the Crown Prince usually sat.

Linglong instinctively called out, "Your Highness the Crown Prince?"

The palace was deep and secluded, and no one answered.

The next second, she heard the scroll on the table fall to the ground with a "thud".

Then, a strange wind suddenly arose from the ground, making the papers on the table rustle.

The scene was so eerie that Linglong felt a little lost and scared for a moment.

She instinctively tried to leave, but then there was another crisp sound, as if something had rolled to her feet.

Looking down, it turned out to be a bright pearl the size of a pigeon's egg.

The bead appeared unusually bright in the dimly lit palace.

Suddenly, as if driven by a strange force, she picked up the bead from the ground.

Then she turned around and saw the Crown Prince standing motionless behind her.

Crown Prince Zhao Li looked at her with a half-smile and asked, "Do you like it?"

Linglong felt that the voice had a strange, bewitching quality.

She dared not answer, and hurriedly placed the beads on the desk, then was about to kneel down.

Just then, a hand gently supported her.

But it wasn't the hands that were being supported, but the waist.

The excessive intimacy startled Linglong, who instinctively tried to distance herself, but the Crown Prince held her in his arms.

For a moment, her mind went blank, but she quickly came to her senses and tried to break free.

The crown prince, however, hugged her even tighter from behind.

"If you like it, I can give it to you."

He held the bead in his palm and handed it to her, his eyes shining just like the bead.

Linglong quickly shook her head: "No, Your Highness, this servant doesn't want to!"

"don't want?"

The crown prince smiled, but said, "Then what are you doing here?"

Linglong explained, "This servant... came for the Crown Princess!"

"The Crown Princess..."

Upon hearing the mention of his legal wife, the crown prince scoffed, "Did she send you?"

"No, I asked to come myself!"

She mustered her courage and continued, "His Highness the Crown Prince has not visited Chenghua Palace for quite some time, and His Highness the Crown Princess misses him very much."

"Your Highness has forgotten? You used to go there every day to dine with the Crown Princess and stroll in the garden together..."

"And now why...?"

Before she could finish speaking, the Crown Prince suddenly picked her up and carried her into the inner palace.

Linglong was terrified. As she struggled, she vaguely saw a familiar figure appearing and disappearing at the doorway.

"Your Highness, no!"

She screamed desperately, and her clothes began to tear.

The crown prince seemed not to hear her and threw her onto the wide canopy bed in the inner palace.

As he pressed down on her, Linglong felt a wave of despair.

Then, she saw more clearly a figure standing in the shadows, coldly observing everything.

It's our young lady...

She is coming!

Linglong shouted, "Miss! Miss!"

Those in the shadows turned a deaf ear.

Linglong burst into tears. She felt a chill in front of her and realized that she had lost all her clothes and was completely naked.

This humiliation spurred her to fight even harder.

Then, the pressure on his body disappeared.

The prince released her.

Linglong practically tumbled out of bed, stumbling around the palace searching for her mistress.

Suddenly, they saw a gleaming dagger.

"Miss…"

The person holding the dagger was none other than Tang Yuelang.

She was expressionless, her eyes blank, and she approached him step by step.

Before Linglong could even utter a single word, the sharp blade pierced her chest.

Blood splattered on Tang Yuelang's face, but she remained unmoved, even repeatedly stabbing the blade in with lightning speed and ruthlessness.

Linglong could hardly believe what she was seeing.

As she fell to the ground, she saw a strange shadow appear behind her young mistress.

"I clearly saw that shadow; she controlled the young lady..."

Recalling her past life, even as a ghost, Linglong couldn't help but tremble.

It was that shadow and those unspoken words that made her die with her eyes wide open in disbelief.

On the way to Qianqiu Garden for burial, the body was exposed due to the negligence of a young eunuch, and a hairpin fell out.

Her resentment then attached itself to the hairpin, becoming a wisp of vengeful spirit.

Driven by her obsession from her previous life, Linglong returned to Chenghua Palace, hoping to find an opportunity to tell her mistress the truth.

Unfortunately, they are separated by life and death, and the other party can't see her at all.

Unwilling to accept this, she began to linger in Chenghua Palace, only to discover that a malevolent aura belonging solely to evil spirits had appeared within the palace.

After searching for a long time, Linglong finally found something unusual in front of Tang Yuelang's dressing table.

A bead.

It's exactly the same as the one in Weiyang Palace.

Linglong knew that there must be some evil thing hidden in this bead, trying to harm her young lady!

Sure enough, one night, Tang Yuelang, who was fast asleep, suddenly sat up.

Like a ghost, she quietly left the palace and headed straight for the Thousand Autumns Garden.

Seeing this, Linglong quickly followed behind. When they crossed the Moon Bridge, she was shocked to find that there was another shadow behind her mistress, exactly the same one she had seen before she died.

Driven by that shadow, Tang Yuelang killed a palace maid in Qianqiu Garden.

But this time, he used his own hand, not a dagger.

Linglong witnessed her young mistress, like a demon, pierce the palace maid's chest with her hand.

Blood from the heart splattered out, making the shadow's aura even more intense.

Linglong then realized that this ghost was clearly using her!

People died one after another in the Eastern Palace.

Many people are spreading rumors that it is Linglong's ghost causing the trouble.

Linglong, however, knew exactly why those people had died.

Of course, Tang Yuelang gradually realized that something was wrong with herself.

She began to hear whispers in her ear, and occasionally, while doing her makeup in front of the mirror, she would even catch a glimpse of a figure standing behind her.

Something was bothering her…

At first, she thought it was Linglong's ghost seeking revenge.

She woke up one night to find a shadow pressing down on her, close to her body.

The cold touch roamed over my limbs and tried to penetrate my muscles and bones.

This bizarre scene made her immediately realize that her body was being targeted!

At that moment, Tang Yuelang saw another dark figure behind the shadow, struggling to stop the ghost from intruding.