1 Chapter 1: The Past

In a ruined courtyard, a skeleton-like woman stood. She raised her face and stared at the Pear Blossom tree in front of her blankly.

Suddenly a cold wind blew in, but she seemed to be totally unaware of it. The wind blew her sleeves, it was empty! Only a part of the gory- hideous wrist was left with broken bones.

She had no hands.

At that time, the door outside opened with a squeak, and then a woman in a beautiful flowery dress came over. Her lips were smiling, but her eyes were cold, and even on the bright red lips, there was a touch of evil.

"Sister Qing Ci, I came to see you." Lou Zi Yin smiled, "How are you all these years?" She smiled, and this smile became more and more beautiful.

Shen Qing Ci caught a piece of pear blossom with her broken wrist, but behind her long eyelashes, a dull look was hidden.

"Hehe..." Lou Zi Yin smiled again, covering her mouth.

"Sister, I'm just here to tell you one thing. Haven't you always wanted to know what happened to your elder sister?"

"No matter what since we are sisters, I want to tell you."

Lou Zi Yin's lips hooked up again.

"Sister Qing Ci, do you know? Today your only relative is dead, your sister is dead! Do you know how she died? She was burned alive! She was like a ball of black carbon; her body was curled up like a ball. Do you know, in the past few years, she sent a lot of money, but it was a pity that you didn't use a single penny. Now she is also dead. The Shen family are finally dead, but when will you go and accompany them?"

She laughed till her face hurt, but Shen Qing Ci seemed to have no expression at all. She just lowered her head and looked at her broken wrist. It was both palms that had been cut. She didn't know how much more painful it would be if her heart was torn apart.

Lou Zi Yin stretched out her hand, and slapped Shen Qing Ci's face. "Shen Qing Ci, you are really cold-blooded. When your father died, you didn't cry. When your brother was dismembered by five horses, you didn't cry. When your eldest sister was married to the dirtiest man in the capital, you did not cry. Now she is dead, her limbs were broken, and she was burned to death. Why do you still have no tears?"

Shen Qing Ci raised her pale face. Only a pair of cold pupils stared at the woman in front of her silently. Luo Zi Yin was stunned for a while, but it passed quickly, and then she sneered.

"Your hands have been chopped off. Do you still want to kill me? How? With your broken wrist?" And she raised her hand again, but Shen Qing Ci didn't even try to escape. There were only those cold eyes, maybe it's just like as she said, she had no heart, she was cold-blooded, she didn't even have any emotions.

This time, Lou Zi Yin did not slap her. Instead, she gently patted Shen Qing Ci's pale face. "Why are you so stubborn? As long as you are more obedient and hand over the Perfume recipe of our Lou family, I can tell husband to let you go, or make husband take you in as a concubine. Don't you think this is good?"

"Younger sister, don't fail to appreciate my kindness. Look at how many people were killed by your ignorance." She slapped Shen Qing Si again, but she felt that the touch was so cold that it was bone-chilling.

How could a person's body temperature be so cold? Shen Qing Ci who stood in front of her was like this, her body didn't have the slightest body temperature, as if without blood.

"Sister, I advise you to give the Perfume recipe to me, so that I, as your sister can prepare a thin coffin for your elder sister, so that she can be at least buried safely, and rest in peace in her afterlife."

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

It was flat, cold, and emotionless.

Lou Zi Yin was taken aback and suddenly laughed again. "Is sister willing to say my name? It's been a long time since I heard you call your elder sister by name. Don't you sisters love each other the most?" The corner of her lips lifted slightly and her tone was slightly ironic.

"Say, why should you have it? If you didn't have it, husband would not cut your wrist, and you would not die."

"Lou Zi Yin...." With this sound again, some light finally gathered in Shen Qing Ci 's cold pupils, but what was reflected was a kind of hollowness.

She lifted her broken wrist and put it on Lou Zi Yin's face. "Do you mean that one can no longer kill people if they don't have hands?"

"You should ask yourself that, why do you ask others?"

Lou Zi Yin stroked her hair again, then stepped forward. She placed her slender fingers on the pear blossom tree, "This tree is quite long and the flowers bloom really well, but..." She lifted her face, and the expressions on her face were countless, "Younger Sister, you should also know that this older sister hates Pear Blossom the most, so this older sister will let someone cut it off tomorrow. Younger Sister, do you think it's good?"

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, colorless and transparent

She lifted her broken wrist and placed the pear blossom in her mouth. No one knew where the fragrance came from, and everyone outside the courtyard could not help but stop.

It was a nice smell. It really was quite a nice smell.

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

"Lou Zi Yin...." This was the third time Shen Qing Ci has called this name. What she must remember, even if she became a ghost she would never forget.

"Do you really think I can't kill you without a hand?" Her voice was faint, but no one knew that at this time, she raised another arm. This arm also had no wrist, but there was half a pair of scissors in her wrist.

This half of the scissors was attached to her broken wrist. It was as if it was alive in flesh, as if it grew with the flesh, joined with the bones.

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

As a result, the pain came even before her words fell.

Lou Zi Yin screamed, and also tried to push the thin 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 can't kill? She doesn't know if Lou Zi Yin could become a queen, but she was sure that she could kill her.