Chapter 1: The Past

In the ruined courtyard, a beautiful woman standing like a skeleton raised her face and gazed at the pear blossom tree in front of her.

All of a sudden, a gust of cold wind blew over, but she seemed to be completely unaware of it. The wind blew up her sleeves, and it was empty, with only an unsightly broken wrist bone left.

She has no hands.

Suddenly the outside door creaked open, and a woman in a beautiful flowery dress came over, her lips smiling, but her eyes were cold. Upon seeing the appearance of her sister, her red lips curved into a vicious smile.

"I've come to see you, my sister."

"How have you been these years?" Lou Ziying said while her smile became more and more beautiful.

Shen Qingci caught a piece of pear blossom with her broken wrist, but her eyes under her long eyelashes had a blank look.

"Ha Ha..." Lou Ziying covers her mouth and smiles.

"Sister Qingci, I've just come to tell you one thing. I'm sure you've been wondering about your eldest sister, haven't you?"

"We are sisters anyway so I will tell you." Again, Lou Ziying lifted up her red lips.

"Sister Qingci, did you know? Today your last remaining relative died, your poor eldest sister. Do you know how she died? She was burned alive.. she was burnt into charcoal. You know, over the years, she has sent a lot of silver. It's a pity you didn't get to use any money, but she died...she died with regret. Your Shen family is dead at last but when will you accompany them? "

Lou Ziying laughed so hard until her face hurt, but Shen Qingci didn't seem to have any expression or feel anything at all. She just lowered her head and looked at her broken wrist , both hands had been cut. She didn't know how much more painful it would be if her heart was torn apart.

Lou Ziying reached out and slapped Shen Qingci's face.

"Shen Qingci, you are cold-blooded indeed. When your father died, you did not cry, nor did you when your brother was dismembered by five horses. You did not cry when your elder sister was married to the nastiest man in the Capital . Now she is dead, she was beaten and burned alive. How can you still not shed a drop tears?"

Shen Qingci raised her face, and on her pale face, only a pair of cold eyes gazed so quietly at the gorgeous woman in front of her, they stunned the gorgeous woman for a while, but soon afterwards, Lou Ziying raised her charming red lips again.

"Your hands been cut off by me and you still want to kill me? With what? Your broken wrist?" Lou Ziying raised her hand again, but Shen Qingci did not even flinch, only looked at her with those cold eyes, perhaps as someone else said, she had no heart, she was cold-blooded, she didn't even have any emotions.

This time, instead of slapping her, Lou Ziying gently patted Shen Qingci's pale face. Why are you so stubborn! As long as you are obedient and hand over our Lou Family's Incense Manual, I can let you live and make Xianggong accept you as a concubine. Do you think it's not a good offer?

"Sister, don't fail to appreciate my kindness . Look at how many people are killed by your ignorance." The gorgeous woman slapped her face again, but she felt that her hands were freezing cold as ice.

How can a person's body temperature be so cold, but this is the case with Shen Qingci in front of her. Her body didn't have the slightest body temperature, as if without blood.

"Sister, I advise you to still give me the Incense Manual, if you do I can help your elder sister, I will prepare a coffin for her so she can be buried in peace, so that she can be reincarnated and will not become a lonely ghost after she dies."

"Lou Ziyin..."

There was almost no trace of sorrow in that voice as if the person had experienced all the sorrows in the world.

The words were flat, cold and emotionless.

Hearing that, Lou Ziying was stunned for a while and then burst into laughter all of a sudden. Would you like to tell me? I haven't heard you call this sister's name for a long time. Don't you sisters love each other the most?" ? That's right. She raised the corners of her mouth and said in a sarcastic tone.

If you had told him earlier, his lordship wouldn't have cut off your wrist and your sister wouldn't have died.

"Lou Ziyin..."

With this sound, some light finally gathered in Shen Qingci's cold pupil, but what was reflected was a kind of void.

She raised her broken wrist and put it on Lou Ziying's cheek. "Do you think you can no longer kill people without your hands?"

"You should ask yourself that, why do you ask others?" Lou Ziying stroked her ink coloured hair again, then stepped forward, she stepped forward and put her white, slender fingers on the pear blossom tree. "This tree is quite long and the flowers are blooming very well, but..." she raised her head and her facial expressions were all gone. "Sister, you should know that I hate pear blossoms the most, so tomorrow I will get someone to cut it down, Sister, what do you think?

As the white blossoms of the tree started to fall in front of her, Shen Qing Ci stretched out her broken hand, and there was a perfect pear blossom that landed on her broken wrist.

She suddenly smiled, just like that white flower, it was pure, colourless and transparent. She lifted her broken wrist and placed the pear blossom in her mouth.

No one knew where the fragrance came from but it made everyone outside the yard stop.

It smells good. Yes, it smells so good.

They didn't know what kind of fragrance it was. It was sometimes like Pear blossom but sometimes not. It was also like a lotus in the snow and was actually a bit cold.

"Do you really think you can't kill people without your hands?" Her voice was low, but no one knew. At this time, she raised the other arm, which also had no wrist, but there was half a scissor in it.

"Lou Zi Ying..." This is the third time Shen Qingci called this name. She would remember it, even if she became a ghost, it will not be forgotten.

"Do you really think you can't really kill without a hand?" Her voice was quiet, but no one knew it. At this time, she lifted another arm, which had no wrist, but contained half a pair of scissors.

This half of the scissor was pointed out of the flesh, growing together with the skin and flesh, connecting with the root and bone, and fusing with the flesh and blood.

Lou Ziying was unhurriedly admiring her own clothes, "If you can kill people, I, Lou Zi Yin, can become a quee...."

However, before she could finish her words, she felt a pain in her back.

Lou Ziying screamed and tried to push the skinny woman behind her. But Shen Qing Ci's thin body was like a ghost. She was very fast as she stepped back. And on her broken wrist of her right hand, there were half a pair of scissors.

Who said that people without hands couldn't kill? She didn't know if Lou Ziying could become a queen but she would kill her.

"Guards, guards..."