After the Black Medicine Powder incident, Nangong Jian, accused of treason, was stripped of his position and investigated. The Nangong Residence was raided, and the Nangong couple was sentenced to beheading. All men in the Nangong Residence were conscripted, and the women were reduced to court prostitutes.
The corpse of Nangong Qinglin had been left in the Imperial Hospital, exposed for several days, and astonishingly no one had claimed it.
None of her close companions showed up.
Hong Yuying, who had fallen out with Nangong Qinglin during the flower viewing festival, was secretly pleased on hearing the news.
"That ignorant Nangong Qinglin thought she was all that after joining the Imperial Hospital, only to die there unclaimed," Hong Yuying had just finished a set of Fist Technique in the training room, drenched in sweat.
Hearing about these gossips from the maids, Hong Yuying remarked sarcastically.
