Proofread by Prof Zhu Yuan
She stretches out her hand to the jade monkey, and the poisonous bracelet on her wrist sparkles slightly, which shows that the jade monkey is also poisonous, and that the poison is a deadly poison among deadly poisons. In other words, a person who touches the poison will die instantly. However, she remembers that one area of the jade monkey is safe and non-toxic.
She taps the monkey's nose with the tip of her finger.
This jade monkey's nose is not big enough to be easily overlooked, so it is hard to imagine that it is the button that opens the door of the secret room. As soon as her nail touches the monkey's nose, she hears a little noise and her eyes light up. But then, suddenly, she hears another little noise, and she looks round doubtfully and thinks, should this mechanism be opened twice?
In fact, she doesn't remember very well. She had only been here when she was a child, so even though she's trying to recall her memory now, she can't remember the details.
Behind her is a wall, but now she looks back and sees that the wall is gone, and a door has taken its place. The area behind this door is the real reason why An Hall is so important. She enters, and the door closes noiselessly.
Behind the door is a long corridor. Nangong Ning takes a match from her sleeve, strikes it, and lights the candlesticks on either side of the corridor according to her vague memory. The corridor lights up. She blinks, adjusting to the brightness of the room and lifting her feet forward. The candlesticks are one every five meters, and she lights them all. Three candlesticks are lit before she reaches the end of the corridor.
At the end of the corridor is a stone chamber.
The room is empty except for a stone table in the middle. Nangong Ning goes over and looks at the stone table. The surface of the table is smooth, and there is no word or pattern on it. It looks very ordinary, and there seems to be no place to hide things. But Nangong Ning remembers that the phoenix bracelet is locked inside the stone table.
She lifts her right wrist and looks at the bracelet carefully.
In order to avoid the occurrence of other people to see the special part of the bracelet, she specially makes its appearance into an ordinary jade bracelet. But in fact, it is only covered with a thin layer of green jade, the interior of it is a kind of advanced intelligence chip which can accurately detect poison and also emit a kind of sound wave that can detoxify and avoid poison. But the function of transferring poison is beyond her imagination, and she cannot understand its principle.
But now she thinks that if something like time travel can happen, what is impossible?
She pulls a hairpin from her hair and points it at her fingertips. With a sudden thrust, her blood runs out and falls on the stone table, melting as if in water. The whole desktop suddenly turns into red with only one drop of blood. Her eyes light up as she watches the scene.
Soon, the originally dim stone table turns into a reddish transparent one, just as jade. The table top that does not have any pattern originally, has grain to appear slowly, and after a while, in the middle part of the stone table, a small area begins to rise slowly. Soon a black stone box appears before her eyes.
Nangong Ning picks the box up and unlocks it.
As soon as she opens the box, a light bursts out of it. Her vision becomes very blurred at that moment, and then she dimly sees that there is an image of a bracelet in the box, which flies to her wrist and then merges with the bracelet on her wrist, completely disappearing.
Nangong Ning stares at the empty box and at the unchanged bracelets on her wrist, wondering if she has been dazzled.
She has only suspected that her poison bracelet and the Nangongs' phoenix bracelet has become one, but now she is quite sure that her poison bracelet is the phoenix bracelet. These two bracelets originally existed in two worlds, but they magically merged into one when she came to this world.
She stares at the bracelet, feeling only a slight tremor in her heart. She is a little excited.
In her previous world, the poison bracelet was one of her companions. Now in this world, she has a new life and an old friend, which gives her an instant sense of security. She bows her head and gives her bracelet a nasty kiss.
She puts the stone box back, and the stone table soon becomes plain again. She turns and walks out of the room and into the corridor. When she looks down, she sees two people lying in front of the corridor. They are none other than Nangong Luo and Madam Yang.
She knows they will follow her, so when she lights the candlesticks, she puts poison in them. When the candles burn, the poison will be released. If they dare to follow her in, they will be poisoned and faint.
It now appears that the couple also make the strange sound she hears earlier.
She goes over and kicks Nangong Luo twice, and then she squats down and searches him. She finds a stack of bank notes, which she collects in her sleeve without counting. She searches again and finds something strange, which a thin cylinder, a little like a piccolo. She soon discovers that there is a button on the cylinder, and when she presses it, a small poisonous arrow will be shot from it.
According to the detection poison bracelet given, this is a hallucinogenic drug. The victim will be controlled consciousness. If she is controlled, Nangong Luo can make her to do anything. For example, if Nangong Luo tells her to go east, she would never go west. That is to say, in a certain period of time, she is Nangong Luo's puppet.
Of course, the period does not last long, only about half an hour. But that's enough time for Nangong Luo to achieve his goal.
Nangong Ning still calmly tucks it into her sleeve.
Then she turns to search Madam Yang. There is nothing special on Madam Yang's body but only an embroidered purse, which contains some gold leaves. She counts roughly and finds there are twenty or thirty. Gold leaf is small and very easy to carry, so she ties them around her waist.
She gets up, kicks Nangong Luo again, and begins to search the corridor. There should be another mechanism here, which is hidden. Though she knows the existence of it, she has never opened it, and she does not know what it looks like.
This time, she returns to the Nangong’s Mansion to not only avenge for the original Nangong Ning, but also achieve a more important thing: to find......the Nangong Token.
Nangong Token is a token that only belongs to Nangong family. Those who hold it can mobilize all assets of Nangong family, but in general, nobody would enable to do it, because as long as Nangong Luo, the current leader of Nangong family, stays in the Nangong’s Mansion, confirming the annual industry profits of Nangong family, there will be no problem.
Nangong Token will only be used when there is a big change in Nangong family, which can overturn the whole family. It can be said that the people who have the token, is the Nangong family's real leader.
In Nangong family, only the descendant with the phoenix bracelet can use it, but the family also has an ancestral instruction: not to use Nangong Token unless absolutely necessary.
Now, she has no psychological barriers. The Nangong family not only broke her engagement but also want to take her life. In this case, she has to use the token.
As the current head of Nangong family, Nangong Luo certainly knows about Nangong Token. She thinks that, in fact, the reason why Nangong Luo agreed to bring her back is that he wants to get Nangong Token.
He may want to grab the token because he is afraid that she will attack them if she gets it. Only after he gets the token does he become head of Nangong family once and for all. It will be easier for him to deal with her than to kill an ant!
Her face darkens at the thought, and a cold light comes into her eyes. She looks at Nangong Luo on the ground and realizes that there is another possibility: Jun Zixuan wants the token.
If it is not so, Nangong Qingyao would not stay in Nangong’s Mansion and not back to the East Palace. She is acting as an intermediary between Jun Zixuan and Nangong Luo, and that is why she is back to the Nangong’s Mansion.
Jun Zixuan wants to get all the money accumulated by Nangong family, and that is why he wants Nangong Token.
Great wealth has a fatal attraction for people of any rank. Although Jun Zixuan is the crown prince, he cannot resist the attraction. Moreover, it is because he is the crown prince, he needs the wealth even more.
Everyone wants the Nangong Token, so we can only compete who has more means.
Finally, Nangong Ning finds a difference in a wall. In fact, if you don't look closely, you simply can't find it. The walls of the corridor are all stone gray, but she finds that the wall in front of her is a heavier color. It is the same color as the top of the stone table she has seen in the stone room.
She recalls the way she has opened the stone table with pleasure. The way to open the table is to use her blood. This is because the best blood of Nangong family flows in her veins. This mechanism was set up decades ago, only after Nangong family had the phoenix bracelet and the Nangong Token. As to the mechanism, she does not know how it works. Just as she does not know why the phoenix bracelet can attract poison, she only knows it is magical.
Nangong Ning takes the hairpins and punctures her fingertip decisively, throwing the bleeding against the wall. However...... she fails, and instead of falling on the wall, the blood flows away.
Nangong Ning is stunned for a while and has to keep pricking her finger and tries again and again, but, unlike the stone table, she fails every time.
"Miss, you might lose too much blood and die here." Suddenly a cold voice comes from behind her. She is so scared that she runs forward a few steps and then turns around.
Although the candles are still burning in the corridor, the light is dim.
A slender figure comes out of the darkness and comes right up to her, and then she can see his face.
Proofread by Prof Zhu Yuan
She stretches out her hand to the jade monkey, and the poisonous bracelet on her wrist sparkles slightly, which shows that the jade monkey is also poisonous, and that the poison is a deadly poison among deadly poisons. In other words, a person who touches the poison will die instantly. However, she remembers that one area of the jade monkey is safe and non-toxic.
She taps the monkey's nose with the tip of her finger.
This jade monkey's nose is not big enough to be easily overlooked, so it is hard to imagine that it is the button that opens the door of the secret room. As soon as her nail touches the monkey's nose, she hears a little noise and her eyes light up. But then, suddenly, she hears another little noise, and she looks round doubtfully and thinks, should this mechanism be opened twice?
In fact, she doesn't remember very well. She had only been here when she was a child, so even though she's trying to recall her memory now, she can't remember the details.
Behind her is a wall, but now she looks back and sees that the wall is gone, and a door has taken its place. The area behind this door is the real reason why An Hall is so important. She enters, and the door closes noiselessly.
Behind the door is a long corridor. Nangong Ning takes a match from her sleeve, strikes it, and lights the candlesticks on either side of the corridor according to her vague memory. The corridor lights up. She blinks, adjusting to the brightness of the room and lifting her feet forward. The candlesticks are one every five meters, and she lights them all. Three candlesticks are lit before she reaches the end of the corridor.
At the end of the corridor is a stone chamber.
The room is empty except for a stone table in the middle. Nangong Ning goes over and looks at the stone table. The surface of the table is smooth, and there is no word or pattern on it. It looks very ordinary, and there seems to be no place to hide things. But Nangong Ning remembers that the phoenix bracelet is locked inside the stone table.
She lifts her right wrist and looks at the bracelet carefully.
In order to avoid the occurrence of other people to see the special part of the bracelet, she specially makes its appearance into an ordinary jade bracelet. But in fact, it is only covered with a thin layer of green jade, the interior of it is a kind of advanced intelligence chip which can accurately detect poison and also emit a kind of sound wave that can detoxify and avoid poison. But the function of transferring poison is beyond her imagination, and she cannot understand its principle.
But now she thinks that if something like time travel can happen, what is impossible?
She pulls a hairpin from her hair and points it at her fingertips. With a sudden thrust, her blood runs out and falls on the stone table, melting as if in water. The whole desktop suddenly turns into red with only one drop of blood. Her eyes light up as she watches the scene.
Soon, the originally dim stone table turns into a reddish transparent one, just as jade. The table top that does not have any pattern originally, has grain to appear slowly, and after a while, in the middle part of the stone table, a small area begins to rise slowly. Soon a black stone box appears before her eyes.
Nangong Ning picks the box up and unlocks it.
As soon as she opens the box, a light bursts out of it. Her vision becomes very blurred at that moment, and then she dimly sees that there is an image of a bracelet in the box, which flies to her wrist and then merges with the bracelet on her wrist, completely disappearing.
Nangong Ning stares at the empty box and at the unchanged bracelets on her wrist, wondering if she has been dazzled.
She has only suspected that her poison bracelet and the Nangongs' phoenix bracelet has become one, but now she is quite sure that her poison bracelet is the phoenix bracelet. These two bracelets originally existed in two worlds, but they magically merged into one when she came to this world.
She stares at the bracelet, feeling only a slight tremor in her heart. She is a little excited.
In her previous world, the poison bracelet was one of her companions. Now in this world, she has a new life and an old friend, which gives her an instant sense of security. She bows her head and gives her bracelet a nasty kiss.
She puts the stone box back, and the stone table soon becomes plain again. She turns and walks out of the room and into the corridor. When she looks down, she sees two people lying in front of the corridor. They are none other than Nangong Luo and Madam Yang.
She knows they will follow her, so when she lights the candlesticks, she puts poison in them. When the candles burn, the poison will be released. If they dare to follow her in, they will be poisoned and faint.
It now appears that the couple also make the strange sound she hears earlier.
She goes over and kicks Nangong Luo twice, and then she squats down and searches him. She finds a stack of bank notes, which she collects in her sleeve without counting. She searches again and finds something strange, which a thin cylinder, a little like a piccolo. She soon discovers that there is a button on the cylinder, and when she presses it, a small poisonous arrow will be shot from it.
According to the detection poison bracelet given, this is a hallucinogenic drug. The victim will be controlled consciousness. If she is controlled, Nangong Luo can make her to do anything. For example, if Nangong Luo tells her to go east, she would never go west. That is to say, in a certain period of time, she is Nangong Luo's puppet.
Of course, the period does not last long, only about half an hour. But that's enough time for Nangong Luo to achieve his goal.
Nangong Ning still calmly tucks it into her sleeve.
Then she turns to search Madam Yang. There is nothing special on Madam Yang's body but only an embroidered purse, which contains some gold leaves. She counts roughly and finds there are twenty or thirty. Gold leaf is small and very easy to carry, so she ties them around her waist.
She gets up, kicks Nangong Luo again, and begins to search the corridor. There should be another mechanism here, which is hidden. Though she knows the existence of it, she has never opened it, and she does not know what it looks like.
This time, she returns to the Nangong’s Mansion to not only avenge for the original Nangong Ning, but also achieve a more important thing: to find......the Nangong Token.
Nangong Token is a token that only belongs to Nangong family. Those who hold it can mobilize all assets of Nangong family, but in general, nobody would enable to do it, because as long as Nangong Luo, the current leader of Nangong family, stays in the Nangong’s Mansion, confirming the annual industry profits of Nangong family, there will be no problem.
Nangong Token will only be used when there is a big change in Nangong family, which can overturn the whole family. It can be said that the people who have the token, is the Nangong family's real leader.
In Nangong family, only the descendant with the phoenix bracelet can use it, but the family also has an ancestral instruction: not to use Nangong Token unless absolutely necessary.
Now, she has no psychological barriers. The Nangong family not only broke her engagement but also want to take her life. In this case, she has to use the token.
As the current head of Nangong family, Nangong Luo certainly knows about Nangong Token. She thinks that, in fact, the reason why Nangong Luo agreed to bring her back is that he wants to get Nangong Token.
He may want to grab the token because he is afraid that she will attack them if she gets it. Only after he gets the token does he become head of Nangong family once and for all. It will be easier for him to deal with her than to kill an ant!
Her face darkens at the thought, and a cold light comes into her eyes. She looks at Nangong Luo on the ground and realizes that there is another possibility: Jun Zixuan wants the token.
If it is not so, Nangong Qingyao would not stay in Nangong’s Mansion and not back to the East Palace. She is acting as an intermediary between Jun Zixuan and Nangong Luo, and that is why she is back to the Nangong’s Mansion.
Jun Zixuan wants to get all the money accumulated by Nangong family, and that is why he wants Nangong Token.
Great wealth has a fatal attraction for people of any rank. Although Jun Zixuan is the crown prince, he cannot resist the attraction. Moreover, it is because he is the crown prince, he needs the wealth even more.
Everyone wants the Nangong Token, so we can only compete who has more means.
Finally, Nangong Ning finds a difference in a wall. In fact, if you don't look closely, you simply can't find it. The walls of the corridor are all stone gray, but she finds that the wall in front of her is a heavier color. It is the same color as the top of the stone table she has seen in the stone room.
She recalls the way she has opened the stone table with pleasure. The way to open the table is to use her blood. This is because the best blood of Nangong family flows in her veins. This mechanism was set up decades ago, only after Nangong family had the phoenix bracelet and the Nangong Token. As to the mechanism, she does not know how it works. Just as she does not know why the phoenix bracelet can attract poison, she only knows it is magical.
Nangong Ning takes the hairpins and punctures her fingertip decisively, throwing the bleeding against the wall. However...... she fails, and instead of falling on the wall, the blood flows away.
Nangong Ning is stunned for a while and has to keep pricking her finger and tries again and again, but, unlike the stone table, she fails every time.
"Miss, you might lose too much blood and die here." Suddenly a cold voice comes from behind her. She is so scared that she runs forward a few steps and then turns around.
Although the candles are still burning in the corridor, the light is dim.
A slender figure comes out of the darkness and comes right up to her, and then she can see his face.
