Reborn to Become A Queen: The Real Heiress's Comeback
Chapter 551: Unfortunately, It’s Already Too Late!

Chapter 551: Chapter 551: Unfortunately, It’s Already Too Late!

"At ease!" Zhan Lan gently raised his hand.

The officers, soldiers, and civilians all rose from the ground.

Inside the prisoner cart, Wang looked disheveled and haggard. She glanced up and saw that, although Zhan Lan wasn’t wearing luxurious clothes today, his noble and untouchable demeanor as Empress made her fearful. She had intended to curse Zhan Lan, but seeing him that moment made her swallow her words.

Wang lowered her head to look at her red and swollen fingers, clamped by bamboo boards in the prison. She had figured some things out during these days; Zhan Lan had been scheming against their second branch since the Poisonous Insect Witch.

No! Maybe even earlier!

Their second branch and Zhan Lan were simply not on the same level. Zhan Lan had become Empress, and now cursing him would only lead to a worse death!

She regretted deeply that back then she had not noticed Zhan Lan’s Phoenix Destiny, which enabled him to become Empress. If she had known earlier...

Unfortunately, it’s too late.

Zhang and Zhan Xincheng’s two concubines were kept in the same prisoner cart.

Zhang was Zhan Xincheng’s legitimate wife, and since Zhan Xincheng was conspiring, she couldn’t escape, and the two beautiful concubines were far from their former glory, their faces and bodies covered with scratches from Zhang.

The two kept sobbing, looking toward Zhan Lan for mercy.

"Empress, spare our lives!"

Zhang wasn’t much better off, with disheveled hair and a vacant look in her eyes, trembling in fear upon seeing Zhan Lan.

Zhang’s gaze turned to the rear cart, where her daughter Zhan Liluo, who had lost both legs, looked at Zhan Lan, frightened and helpless.

Zhan Liluo gazed at Zhan Lan, the woman who had become the most noble in Nanjin, no! In Dayu!

And she had become a captive, soon to be executed at the market as the daughter of a traitor.

Just four years ago, they all lived in the spacious courtyard of the General Mansion.

Life’s circumstances change unpredictably; Zhan Lan ultimately won, reaching the peak of life!

Not only did he gain the love of the man he admired, but he also won the kingdom.

While she was left with a broken body and an incompetent husband.

Suddenly, beside her, a person cried and pleaded, "Please, Empress, spare my life. I, Li Changlong, have done nothing wrong, spare me!"

Zhan Liluo looked at her incompetent husband in the prison cart, crying so hard that he had nasal mucus, egg liquid flowing down his face, and he wet his pants, kneeling in the cart, always begging for mercy.

He originally wasn’t smart, and now he seemed even more like a fool sometimes crying sometimes laughing.

"Empress, look at me, I am your cousin... Ah!"

Smack!

An officer struck Li Changlong down across the bars, scolded, "Madman, shut up! How could the Empress have such a foolish cousin? Your cousin is Zhan Xuerou!"

Li Changlong’s father Li Youshui and wife were kept in the next prisoner cart, looking painfully at their foolish son; their family was in the cart due to Zhan Xincheng’s involvement, and also because Li Youshui bullied the villagers, with that year’s case having now been brought forward.

The civilians pointed at Li Youshui.

"That’s him!"

"What crime did he commit?"

"This person called Li Youshui was the County Magistrate of Phoenix City. Inside the previous cart is his foolish son, Li Changlong. Back then, Li Changlong abused a mute girl, who, unable to bear the humiliation, drowned herself. The parents of the mute girl complained repeatedly, and ultimately Li Youshui killed their entire family to cover up the crime. This incident caused an uproar locally, and the Empress thoroughly investigated, finally dealing with it along with the second branch of the Zhan Family."

"Despicable! How is such a person fit to be a parental official?"

Someone spat at Li Youshui and his wife, Li Youshui bowed his head, and Li Wanniang covered her face and cried.

Li Changlong was also spat upon, and he angrily spat back, enraging the onlookers, and even Zhan Liluo was spat on several times.

Zhan Liluo cursed Li Changlong, "You wretched thing, it’s all your fault!"

Li Changlong yanked Zhan Liluo’s hair, cursed, "You filthy woman, how dare you curse me!"

The two grappled with each other, prompting laughter from the civilians.

Zhan Liluo, without legs and weaker in strength, was quickly overwhelmed by Li Changlong.

Zhang, watching her daughter being bullied, cursed, "Li Changlong, you’ll die badly!"

Li Changlong, with his foolishness acting up occasionally, pointed with his shackled hand at Zhang, "What are you saying, stupid woman. Young master here sees you as the one who’ll die badly!"

Zhang trembled with anger, but if it weren’t for the current Emperor Mu Yan’s coercion, she would never have married her daughter to the stupid Li Changlong!

Zhan Xincheng listened to his family’s farce, feeling extremely angry and remorseful. What sin had he committed!

Why was everything smooth for the Zhan family’s main branch, rising step by step, and even producing an Empress, while his daughter could only marry a fool like Li Changlong!

Wang couldn’t bear to watch either, her hair white from the day she was imprisoned, having thoroughly lost.

The parade of the prisoners was chaotic; Zhan Xincheng saw that Zhan Lan did not look at him again, so he did not further plead.

Zhan Lan watched the prisoner cart procession continue to the market.

In a previous life, her father, Huang Gun, Li Sui, and Xiao Chen were hanged on the city wall; she had avenged them!

The prisoner cart arrived at the market, and Zhan Xincheng and others were escorted to the execution platform.

An officer knelt on one knee, "Report to Sir, it is already 11:45 AM."

Xiao Chen dismounted, facing the enemies of the previous life, he said sternly, "After executing them by lingchi, hang the corpses at the market for seven days and nights."

Zhan Xincheng’s gaze instantly shrank; Zhan Lan’s heart was so ruthless, Zhan Lan wasn’t directly beheading them but rather executing them by lingchi, and further humiliating them by hanging their corpses at the market for seven days and nights!

Wang was so frightened that her legs went weak; she hadn’t anticipated Zhan Lan’s hatred toward the second branch of the Zhan Family had reached this level.

Zhang screamed madly, and Zhan Xincheng’s two concubines fainted immediately in fear.

"No, I don’t want to die like this!" Zhan Liluo broke down in tears, while the Li family of three howled continuously like mad dogs in fright.

Li Wanniang raised her voice cursing, "Ah, you are not human! Why treat us like this!"

"No, no, I don’t want to die, I am Li Changlong! The eldest young master of the Li family!"

Li Youshui’s face flushed red, loudly begging for mercy, "Let me die quickly! I beg you!"

"Shut up!" The officers held their swords toward them.

One by one, they looked toward the executioner Xiao Chen, pleading.

"Mr. Xiao, give us a quick death!"

"Sir, please help plead with the Empress, I don’t want to die like this!"

"Mr. Xiao, we beg you!"

Xiao Chen looked at them coldly and mercilessly, "The second branch of the Zhan Family committed treason and colluded with the enemy! Stop dreaming, no one can save you!"