Forgotten Legend of the Bloodied Flower

Thud!

While Nan Hou Xiang was still able to think calmly, Qu Fei Jiao was the complete opposite. She was dumbfounded when she saw Nan Shu Cheng's head rolled not far from her. If not because she was gagged with cloth, she would have long screamed out loudly.

The warmth from the blood reached her hand, causing her to shiver to no end.

She might have never thought that when she killed so many people in the past, there would be a day when she had to see her own husband being killed right in front of her.

Even though Qu Fei Jiao had schemed with the help of her servants in the past, she had never actually seen anyone die in front of her eyes. After all, there was never any need for her to be the one to personally preside when there was someone who was sentenced to death.

She's the young miss in Qu Family and also the madam in Nan Family.

There were a lot of servants who would follow her words and all she had to do was to give words upon whom she wanted to punish and kill. The power was in her hand and no one would be able to refute her.

Her father and brother would let her do what she wanted from time to time as long as she still had her usefulness.

There were many ladies in Qu Family.

But Qu Fei Jiao was one of the best among them in terms of performance. She had a good talent for arts and naturally did her best so that she could maintain this position amongst her sisters and cousins.

The competition was somewhat brutal.

They were all competing with each other because they wanted their own family members to be the head of the family. And if they could support either their father, their brother or someone close to them to be the family head, it meant that the Qu Family would be in their hand.

Qu Fei Jiao's brother was an ambitious person.

The two of them were not that close and Master Qu only wanted her to help him by performing the arts better than the others. That way, he could at least make sure that he could secure a good husband for her.

After all, a woman's worth was usually only their skills.

The skills that were necessary for them to please their man.

Qu Fei Jiao worked hard. She was not that smart in terms of schemes, but there was still her brother who protected her. Under his protection, she managed to win against the others and made sure that among the women, she had the best result.

And the reason her brother protected her because he wanted to make a good use of her marriage. It was something that Qu Fei Jiao herself knew very well.

Back then, the power was in her hand and Qu Fei Jiao could do anything that she wanted.

Things changed.

Back then, she could run away easily.

With the power behind Nan Family and Qu Family, how hard would it be to transport one person out of the city wall? They didn't need much effort and Qu Fei Jiao took it for granted that she would always be in this position.

The honorable madam of the Nan Family, the good daughter of the Qu Family.

She could hold her head high and face other people's words easily. Even if Qu Family was not comparable to Nan Family, it was still a noble family nevertheless, and a lot of people who honored her.

But facing the soldiers in front of her and the blood that washed over her hand, reality struck hard.

Qu Fei Jiao is no longer the honorable madam of the Nan Family.

She had become the traitor of the Fei Yang Kingdom, a person despised by everyone in the Fei Yang Kingdom.

Her body turned cold.

She used to be able to run away from anything that she didn't like.

But now, she couldn't.

Everything was turning against her and Qu Fei Jiao's body trembled badly. The warm blood from her husband seemed to be a loud reminder inside her mind that everything she used to have was now gone.

There was nothing that she could do anymore.

Being a helpless woman in this battle of power… she could only follow her husband's fate. And her husband's fate right now was to die a miserable and dishonorable death.

She felt scared.

She felt helpless.

Who would have thought that the previously honorable madam would end up in such a situation? She could see the officials who used to be laughing and talking with her husband were now looking at her with disgust and coldness in their eyes.

It was as if they had treated Nan Shu Cheng as nothing more than trash.

Even interacting with him and his family members were considered an action that would disgust them greatly. Thus, they didn't even bother to hide the expression on their face when they looked at Nan Shu Cheng and the others.

Their gazes fell on Qu Fei Jiao's eyes.

She felt so humiliated and angry.

All those feelings were accumulated inside her body, making her expression disturbed in both fear, anger, and humiliation. In the end, Qu Fei Jiao could only think that the only possible way for her to avoid this was to escape.

Escape…

Is it possible?

Qu Fei Jiao struggled to escape the guard's grip, but the soldier naturally would never let her off.

Emperor Yang Zhou furrowed his eyebrows when he saw this. "Finish her and send the rest in accordance with the rules."

He felt that this farce should come to an end soon. These officials were all called to the main hall in order to watch this for two reasons.

The first was to expose these despicable people's crimes that had piled up. Even Emperor Yang Zhou felt that the family was so disgusting and didn't want to be in contact with them because of it.

The second was to warn these officials so that they would not repeat the same mistake. If they dared to do the same as what Nan Shu Cheng and other officials who had been executed before, Emperor Yang Zhou didn't mind giving the same punishment.

These officials naturally knew Emperor Yang Zhou's intention, so they all stayed quiet at the side, acting as if they fully understood.

At the very least, no one would dare to act up in the next few years.

If they ever thought of doing it, the example placed right in front of their eyes was enough to make their thoughts falter.

No one wanted to be in the same state as these families.

Humiliated in front of others, exposed all their wrongdoings, and then executed cruelly.

They were all afraid.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Qu Fei Jiao felt her entire body turn weak when she saw the soldier walk towards her. The sword was reaching towards her, cutting off her neck from her body.

In that split second before the sword reached her, Qu Fei Jiao could remember many things.

She could remember begging her brother to allow her to marry the Nan Family because she was infatuated with the young master. Nan Shu Cheng was young, handsome, and promising, which was the target of many young ladies.

However, Old Master Nan was the one who was in charge of his marriage back then and he chose to assign Madam Nan to Nan Shu Cheng.

The other ladies could only shake their heads in regret.

But no one would actually be stupid enough to confront Old Master Nan frankly because they knew that his title as the Great General and also his nobility title as the Grand Duke was not for a joke.

No one wanted to die from offending him.

After all, he had enough qualifications to stand above them all.

So, Qu Fei Jiao could only aim for the position as the concubine in Nan Shu Cheng's residence. Her family was headed by the elders, but her older brother was the next successor at that time.

She had helped him to secure his position.

So this time, she wanted him to help her to win the marriage for her future.

She kept begging him to let her get close to Nan Shu Cheng and become his concubine. The position might be low, but Qu Fei Jiao believed that as long as she could get close to him, her brother could help her to become Nan Shu Cheng's main wife.

At first, he disagreed, but in the end, he relented and allowed her to do so.

Master Qu is an ambitious person.

He should have seen that Nan Shu Cheng was conceited, and pulling this kind of person into the trap was easier. That was why he let his sister make a move and slowly bid his time so that he could gain control and access to Nan Family Residence.