Forgotten Legend of the Bloodied Flower

"Your Highness, I enter the venue earlier than Second Sister and didn't try to stay close with her at all. How could I know what fragrance pouch she picked when I enter first and then leave the area because Young Master Long come to find me?"

When these sentences were uttered, the young ladies all nodded to each other.

It couldn't be helped.

Nan Hua was too eye catching!

When she entered the venue with her beautiful dress and elegant movement, many pairs of eyes were looking in her direction. Not to mention, they all also remembered that right after Nan Hua walked in, Long Qian Xing came to find her.

She was directly brought to that small viewing pavilion on the water.

How could she have the time to care what her second sister picked?

Nan Xin's lips trembled when she heard Nan Hua's words. Was this truly the same person who didn't even bother to answer more than a few words when she talked with the other party? Hearing the clear reasoning and explanation, Nan Xin didn't know what to refute.

"Is that so?"

Empress Dowager Mei looked at the pouch on Nan Hua's hips and then at Nan Xin's hips. It was indeed the same, but these pouches were actually numbered. When Empress Dowager Yan prepared them, she asked them to embroider a number at the back to make sure that each of them was different.

At first, Empress Dowager Mei felt that Empress Dowager Yan's instruction was useless. But now that she recalled that, she felt that Empress Dowager Yan might have thought that these girls might try to scheme against each other using these pouches.

Empress Dowager Yan was simply trying to make sure that they would not switch with each other and tried to scheme.

"Call the servant who's assigned to distribute the fragrance pouch." Empress Dowager Yan waved her hand. She looked at Nan Xin with profound gaze, a type of gaze that seemed to be able to see through any layer of deception.

Under that kind of gaze, Nan Xin felt her body trembled.

Will they find out?

"Your Highness, this servant is here."

"Which number of pouch did First Young Miss Nan and Second Young Miss Nan take?" Empress Dowager Yan asked directly.

The servant took out the bamboo scroll that was already prepared and then looked at the list. "Replying to Her Highness, First Young Miss Nan took the third snowdrop fragrance pouch while Second Young Miss Nan took the fourth snowdrop fragrance pouch."

The number itself had already told them who took the fragrance pouch first. Those with the smaller number naturally was the first to take the fragrance pouch compared to the one with the larger number.

It meant that Nan Hua was saying the truth.

She took the fragrance pouch first and didn't even pay attention to the one picked by Nan Xin.

Empress Dowager Yan nodded then looked at the servants around Nan Xin. "Look at the number of the fragrance pouch she wore."

Nan Xin was being held by the servants, so they could easily take the fragrance pouch from her. Opening the fragrance pouch, the servant frowned.

Thunk!

As the content was poured on the ground, everyone could see that there was an additional cloth ball inside. It was not emitting any strange fragrance when it was combined with the snowdrop smell. But now that it was outside, it started to be clear that the smell was different from the others.

Some of the girls gasped while others looked at each other and whispered among themselves. They all knew that someone had tampered with the fragrance pouch that Nan Xin wore.

The maidservant didn't dare to delay and looked at the number that was embroidered within the fragrance pouch's inner side. Since it was inside, these young ladies would never know unless they break open the fragrance pouch.

"Replying to Her Highness, the number inside is four."

At this moment, Nan Xin's eyes widened. "That's not possible!"

She had switched the fragrance pouch with the one that Nan Hua wore. How could it be possible for Nan Hua to switch it back when they didn't even get close to each other at all?

That's not possible!

Empress Dowager Mei snorted. "Since it's the case, it seems that you're the one who tampered with your own fragrance pouch, Second Young Miss Nan."

"No, that's…"

"From now on, Nan Xin from Nan Family will be banished from the palace. She's not allowed to enter the palace for her entire life." Empress Dowager Mei snorted once more. She looked in Nan Hua's direction but didn't continue her words.

She actually wanted to banish all of Nan Xin's family. But if she said that, it would naturally include Nan Hua and Long Qian Xing would definitely interfere.

She didn't want to argue with that person again.

The incident with that Shangguan Mi was already more than enough to tell her that messing with Long Qian Xing was not a good idea. He's not a girl and naturally didn't have to strictly follow the women's etiquette. With him being a talented and promising commander, there were a lot of people who would side with him compared to her, whose power had been reduced lately.

Thus, Empress Dowager Mei ended her order to Nan Xin.

It was already more than enough to punish the one who harmed her sweety cat.

"No…mPh!"

The maidservant stuffed Nan Xin's mouth with handkerchief before dragging her away. They were all very professional at dragging people away because there was always some idiotic servant who didn't know how to conduct herself from time to time. Thanks to that, they were used to this practice.

The other girls watched without any intention to help.

However, they were silently holding their fragrance pouch tightly. They realized that if this fragrance pouch fell in some unwanted place… it could definitely be traced back to them.

At that time, uncountable number of problems would be piled on their head.