"Don't!"
Ning Yuqin wailed. Fear filled her eyes, erasing the usual charm. "Father, I don't want to be handed over to the authorities!"
But Ning Fengnian hardened his heart. This time, Ning Yuqin had angered Yuan Qingrong away and tried to harm him.
If he let this trouble remain, in the future, if she harmed Yuan Qingrong and Ning Yuwan again, he would surely regret it.
"In the past, your mother and I spoiled you too much, which has raised you into a person who repays kindness with enmity. From now on, you should reflect on your actions in prison."
He still showed a bit of mercy. "If there's a chance in the future, your mother and I will come to visit you."
"Father?"
Ning Yuqin shook her head, unable to believe her father's "cruelty".
Just thinking about the misery after being handed over to the authorities and imprisoned, she would rather smash her head against the wall and die.
Closing her eyes firmly, Ning Yuqin suddenly rushed towards the wall.
The incident happened so suddenly that if it weren't for Lianzi's incredible speed, she might have succeeded in killing herself.
Ning Yuwan frowned. "She almost died in the Yongning Marquis Mansion. How unlucky!"
"Want to die?"
Lianzi sneered. "You're full of countless sins. Death would be too good for you."
Ning Yuqin was intimidated by her. She gasped for breath and then fainted.
Once she closed her eyes, she had a strange nightmare!
The dream was the same as reality.
She was also the adopted daughter of Marquis Yongning Ning Fengnian and his wife Yuan Qingrong.
Although she was an adopted daughter, she had lived in luxury and been cherished since childhood.
But when the biological daughter Ning Yuwan returned, Ning Yuqin was jealous and worried that the Nings would dote on their biological daughter more and neglect her.
She openly and secretly provoked Ning Yuwan. The latter was weak - willed and timid. Even if she occasionally understood the implications, she didn't dare to resist or complain.
She even pretended to remind Ning Yuwan that it was because of her inauspicious birth that she had been deliberately abandoned.
If she wanted to stay in the mansion for a long time, she should be more cautious and obedient.
In just a month, Ning Yuwan's personality became even more cowardly and submissive. In the eyes of the Nings, they thought she didn't like her current home.
Yuan Qingrong even privately pulled Ning Yuqin aside and sighed, not knowing that it was actually the adopted daughter's small actions that had caused the estrangement between mother and daughter.
Just then, the emperor bestowed a marriage. A girl from the Yongning Marquis Mansion was to marry into the Crown Prince's Mansion.
If it weren't for Ning Yuwan's return, this honor would have fallen on Ning Yuqin.
Ning Yuqin naturally wanted to be the noble Crown Prince's Consort. She deliberately mentioned Yan Zhao's scandal and guided the timid Ning Yuwan to run away from the marriage.
She pushed a hooligan to defile Ning Yuwan and trapped her in the countryside, never to return.
Instead, she married Yan Zhao. Although Yan Zhao had a sudden onset of poison on their wedding night and was unable to consummate the marriage.
He also had no ability to visit her bedroom in the future, but Ning Yuqin didn't care.
The identity of the Crown Prince's Consort was what she wanted most.
Her natal family was the protective Yongning Marquis Mansion. As long as she didn't make any major mistakes in the future, Yan Zhao wouldn't divorce her without reason.
In the Yongning Marquis Mansion, the Nings searched everywhere for their daughter but couldn't find her. They were angry that she had run away from the marriage without saying goodbye and worried about her well - being.
It wasn't until half a year later that they "accidentally" learned of Ning Yuwan's whereabouts from Ning Yuqin.
It turned out that she had been raised in the countryside since childhood and didn't want to return to the glory and intrigue of the capital. She would rather marry a rural man.
Their biological daughter had no ambitions, but the Nings felt extremely guilty towards Ning Yuwan.
She had been wandering outside for more than a decade, and it was never her fault that she had developed such a personality.
But Ning Yuqin was afraid that they would eventually take Ning Yuwan back.
She spent a lot of money to force the hooligan to abuse Ning Yuwan and then threw her into the river to drown.
She watched as Ning Yuwan fell into the lake, and the original rapid bubbles slowly disappeared without a trace.
Ning Yuqin laughed softly. "Idiot!"
A voice came into her ears from far to near, filled with resentment, anger, and blood - curdling cries. There was also a dragon's roar that seemed to pour into her mind.
"If there really is a dragon in the world!"
"Please help me!"
"I'm willing to have my soul imprisoned for generations if only these evil people can be cut into a thousand pieces and never have a good end!"
Who was speaking?
Ning Yuqin shook her head desperately. She wanted to wake up from the nightmare.
But somehow, there seemed to be an inexplicable force firmly grasping her soul.
At the end of the nightmare was boundless darkness.
Ning Yuqin groped and crawled forward, with endless resentment chasing after her.
"Don't come near!"
She didn't know how long she had crawled in the darkness. When she was exhausted, a woman bathed in white light slowly approached.
Ning Yuqin looked up. It was a face exactly like Ning Yuwan's, but the overall temperament was completely different.
Ning Yuwan was weak, timid, and afraid of causing trouble, but this woman was proud and cold.
"You're not Ning Yuwan!"
Ning Yuqin frowned and examined her carefully. "You're not her. Who are you?"
The woman in front of her didn't say a word, but Ning Yuqin saw a hint of indifference in her eyes, as if she regarded her as an ant.
She seemed to have seen this woman somewhere before.
The same arrogance, the same coldness, as noble as a fairy.
"Ning Yuwan!"
Darkness surrounded Ning Yuqin, and the cold air seeped into her whole body.
She stumbled to her feet, her pupils dilated. She raised her trembling hand. "You're Ning Yuwan!"
Not the weak Ning Yuwan in her nightmare.
It was the Ning Yuwan who had dragged her into this nightmare.
Ning Yuqin's body swayed violently and she fell again. "You're not the same as before. Who on earth are you?"
The answer was a majestic roar hidden in the darkness, like the legendary dragon's roar.
"Ah!"
Opening her eyes again with a pale face, Ning Yuqin gasped for breath. When her heart calmed down, she looked around.
She was lying in a carved brocade bed, and there was a familiar faint fragrance of flowers in her nose.
It was her former boudoir.
It seemed that Ning Fengnian hadn't handed her over to the authorities.
Maybe seeing her faint, as a father, he had felt a bit more pity.
Before Ning Yuqin could show surprise, a cold voice suddenly came from her ear. "Since you're awake, drink the anti - miscarriage medicine."
It was Ning Yuwan!
Ning Yuqin's pupils shrank suddenly. She suddenly remembered the nightmare just now.
The scene was so real that if she hadn't woken up, she might have thought it wasn't a nightmare at all.
But something that was actually happening.
In the early days, when Ning Yuwan was first brought back to the Yongning Marquis Mansion, she had indeed had the same thoughts as in the dream.
But... she had always failed.
Wait!
Ning Yuqin seemed to have grasped a thought. What if she hadn't failed?
Would Ning Yuwan have ended up like in the nightmare, marrying a hooligan and then being arranged by her to die miserably?
By the same token.
Now, Ning Yuwan had perfectly avoided all her schemes. Was it because she had known her plans in advance!
Was the sudden change in her personality because she wasn't the same Ning Yuwan as before!
She must have some connection with the dragon's roar in the darkness. She had come into the world just to take revenge!
The cold and aloof woman in the dream suddenly overlapped with the Ning Yuwan in front of her.
Ning Yuqin shrank back sharply. She watched as Ning Yuwan showed a sinister smile. "What's wrong?"
"Who are you?"
Hearing Ning Yuqin's question, a glint flashed in Ning Yuwan's eyes. The smile on her lips widened, and her tone was deep. "What do you think?"
Ning Yuwan deliberately led Ning Yuqin into the nightmare just to let her know the serious sins she had committed in the past.
However, Ning Yuqin wasn't stupid after all.
She had actually guessed that Ning Yuwan wasn't the original person.
"Ning Yuqin, how do you want to die?"