"The King's mind reeled as the words hit him like a bolt of lightning. It couldn't be true, his downfall couldn't be the doing of her, the very same commoner who had once dared to ensnare the Crown Prince. He had made sure to rid himself of her years ago, with the aid of his trusted henchman.
But now, as he lay on his deathbed, she stood before him, a specter from his past, the harbinger of his doom. No longer was she just a girl, for in this moment, she had transformed into the very embodiment of death itself."
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Zhang Dong's narrowed his eyes and a frown appeared between his brows as his brain registered what Lu Zhi had just told him. He could not believe what he had just heard. There was no way, absolutely no way that that Xiao Xi and Lu Zhi are one and the same person.
