Keep your voice down. Are you trying to look glamorous dressed as a forced lover?

Is she taking Chinese medicine again?

Li Qingyan was so angry that he laughed. As expected of this little lousy novel, it has been only been a few days and it has already started using Chinese medicine again. Is it going to use Chinese medicine throughout the entire book?

Or is this the third challenge?

"Your Highness, do you need any help?"

Qiu Nanzhu, who should have been imprisoned, actually returned, appearing before her like an antidote to a poison.

Seeing the wariness in Li Qingyan's eyes, he stopped and leaned against the screen, watching her calmly, as if he was certain she would approach.

Li Qingyan did want to get closer, but as she felt her body getting hotter and hotter and more uncomfortable, it was as if a voice was telling her to get closer to him, and that as long as she got closer to him, she would feel better.

Li Qingyan bit her tongue to stay awake and glared fiercely at Qiu Nanzhu.

They actually resorted to such underhanded tactics!

She could keep her face pale and sickly, and for her mother's safety, she could even ask Wen Sheng for help like before, but she couldn't bring herself to do anything reckless in front of her sickbed.

Not to mention that the other party is Qiu Nanzhu.

Moreover, Qiu Nanzhu certainly didn't just want her to lose her composure, nor did he just want to have a relationship with her. As expected, upon hearing that important officials were coming to visit, he deliberately drugged her to make her lose her composure, so that they would witness this scene and let people know how despicable she was, thus destroying the good reputation she had painstakingly built up over the past few days.

No, it's not just about favorability. If she really were to have an affair with Qiu Nanzhu here today, even if she were the only princess, she would completely lose her right to inherit the throne.

Knowing that the opportunity was rare, he was even willing to risk his own life for it.

This is why she had always been wary of Qiu Nanzhu. Qiu Nanzhu was a madman who would do anything for his sister.

She removed the hairpin from her hair and cut herself to stay conscious: "Qiu Nanzhu, it seems you can't wait for the previous castration punishment and want me to do it for you personally."

Her eyes were blazing with fury. She had come this far with great difficulty, and she was determined not to let it all go to waste, nor to let him succeed in his scheme.

She can now be certain that this is the third level.

She guessed that the third challenge would be more demanding than the last one, but she didn't expect it to be like this.

Perhaps this is the world's way of fixing the plot, forcing her to get back together with Qiu Nanzhu and return to the right track.

She refused; she absolutely refused.

"Help! Help! Wen Sheng! Are you still there?"

She spoke, her voice growing louder and louder, but no one answered.

She glared at Qiu Nanzhu, who had deliberately attacked her while she was clearing out and controlling the people nearby.

Because her legs were so weak, Li Qingyan was the first to pick up a bottle from the side and smash it.

The ruthless hatred in her eyes made Qiu Nanzhu's Adam's apple bob. She was so violent, yet so alluring.

"Your Highness, there is no cure for this medicine. The more you resist it, the stronger it becomes. Calling for help will only make you lose control more."

"Why struggle?" Qiu Nanzhu said, her voice full of seduction. "Doesn't Your Highness like me? Wouldn't it be better to be with me and live a life of wealth and leisure?"

At that moment, Qiu Nanzhu was truly moved.

The more hatred Li Qingyan showed in her eyes, the more moved he became.

He wasn't afraid of her hating him; isn't it more interesting when love and hate are intertwined? He would make her completely lose her right to inherit the throne, and she could take revenge on him for the rest of her life—he would accept it all.

Li Qingyan's words still affected her somewhat, and she felt a little distant from Qiu Nanxing. However, she was used to being good to her younger sister, and most importantly, today's opportunity was too rare for her to miss, nor could she afford to miss it.

But this was the last thing he did for Qiu Nanxing, and after that he stopped scheming against Li Qingyan.

Li Qingyan felt a burning sensation all over her body, a burning sensation that almost swallowed her reason, and her body became increasingly weak and powerless.

He was even so crazy and irrational that he thought he could use him first and then castrate him afterward.

When she read novels before, she always thought those drugs were exaggerated, especially after experiencing the poison of the love incense, she thought it was nothing special.

Now she realized that it was truly terrifying, and could really drive a person to the brink of collapse and madness.

Even self-harm with a hairpin couldn't keep her rationality.

"Your Highness, don't hurt yourself. Pain won't keep you awake for long."

Qiu Nanzhu frowned and moved closer as he watched her hurt herself.

Li Qingyan pretended to be powerless to stab Qiu Nanzhu, but when he came to take her hairpin away, she bit her lip tightly, using the pain to wake herself up, and stabbed him in the heart with all her might.

The sharp hairpin pierced deeply into Qiu Nanzhu's chest.

The hairpins of the Li Kingdom are different from ordinary hairpins. They are exquisite yet sharp. The one that Li Qingyan is wearing today is even designed in the shape of a sword. It is not a simple hair ornament, but can be transformed into a weapon at any time.

The previous dynasty was incompetent. After the defeat, the emperor and royal ministers were captured by the Northern Shuo. They not only surrendered, but also sent princesses, concubines, palace maids, and women collected from the common people to the enemy country, signed unequal treaties, became vassals of the Northern Shuo, and paid huge annual tributes.

The people suffered terribly, especially women, who were subjected to unprecedented persecution.

Ironically, men who wield power are like spineless cowards, only knowing how to endure, since women are the first to suffer.

Finally, the founding emperor led a large group of women in rebellion, drove away the Northern Shuo, and thus the Li Kingdom was established.

When the woman first resisted, she didn't even have any decent weapons. Her only weapons were scissors, a kitchen knife, and the hairpins and ornaments on her head.

The hairpins were worn sharper and sharper, eventually even taking the form of swords, becoming their important weapons.

Wearing a sharp hat, yet possessing both gentleness and strength.

As Li Qingyan pondered these historical events, when the hairpin came into play again, it felt as if she had traveled back to that arduous yet magnificent era.

Why has the hairpin weapon been passed down even though the war in the Li Kingdom has ended? Because it is not an ordinary hairpin; it represents the bottom line for all women to rise up again.

That was also her bottom line for rising up.

At this point, she no longer cared whether she could kill the male supporting character; all she wanted to do was kill him.

She would rather die than become a tool of the wise king and Qiu Nanxing, and she would rather die than touch someone she didn't want to touch, and in the end she died like in the book.

Qiu Nanzhu looked down at the hairpin on her chest, her eyes filled with disbelief.

"Li Qingyan, how could you..."

When he was drugging him, he only thought that Li Qingyan would hate him afterwards, and might even have murderous intentions, but he was not afraid.

But he didn't expect that Li Qingyan would kill him at this time.

Clearly... she should like him, she should be reluctant to let go, but she wouldn't dare to.

"What? You think I wouldn't dare kill you?"

Li Qingyan laughed, but because she bit her tongue too hard, her mouth was filled with the taste of blood. As she laughed, blood slowly flowed down the corner of her mouth.

Despite trembling in pain from the effects of the medicine, she twisted the hairpin to shatter his heart and end his suffering.

Seeing Qiu Nanzhu's pained and contorted face, Li Qingyan felt extremely satisfied.

She forcefully pulled out the hairpin, blood splattering onto her face, and a satisfied, vengeful smile appeared on her face.

"I'll teach you to scheme against me!"

"No one can outsmart me!"

Qiu Nanzhu's vision blurred, and the image of Li Qingyan, with blood on his face and laughing maniacally, was deeply imprinted in his memory... or perhaps in his soul.

Even though it felt like his heart had been pierced, he inexplicably felt his heart beating very fast.

He clutched his chest and fell to the ground, but his eyes remained fixed on Li Qingyan.

It seems he was killed by Li Qingyan.

However, it seems he has fallen for Li Qingyan.

He couldn't help but smile; dying at Li Qingyan's hands didn't seem so bad.