A woman with long black silky hair, soft features and white clothing sat behind bars in a dungeon as her feet tapped anxiously on the concrete floor.
Hearing footsteps heading her way, the woman immediately got up and headed towards the gates of her prison.
"Big Sister, big sister!" said a woman with even more dainty and frail features compared to the woman in jail.
"The Emperor has revoked your title, stripped you of your status and has ordered for you to be executed by noon." the woman said to the other woman in jail.
"Impossible!" said the woman in jail.
"The emperor dotes on me. I have brought peace to the court numerous times, how can he suddenly treat me like this?!" the woman in jail said in panic.
"Its because of those ghastly rumors!" the little sister said in outrage.
"Rumors?" said the older sister as she clung to the bars of her cell.
"What rumours?" the woman in jail asked desperately.
"There are rumors that you served poisoned tea to the Emperor and the Empress and the Empress has fallen gravely ill due to that accident." the little sister said to her older sister.
"Impossible!" the older sister exclaimed.
"How can I possibly harm them when they are to be my in-laws!" The older sister said as she cried desperately.
"The rumors seem credible because everyone in the palace saw you personally prepare the tea for the Emperor and Empress." the little sister cried in distress.
"You yourself said it was an act of filial piety to them and few hours after you served them the tea the Empress collapsed from poison." the little sister said and the older sister gasped in shock.
"Mom and dad have also had their titles revoked because of this, the whole family is in trouble!" the little sister cried bitterly.
"I didn't do it! I didn't do it!" the older sister cried in frustration as she clung to the bars.
"Someone must have messed with the tea leaves to frame me." the older sister said in panic.
"Yes, someone must have done this to frame me!" the older sister said in a moment of clarity.
"Take this to Crown Prince Li Xuanlong-" the older sister said as she brought out a tiny piece of paper that she had used to wrap the tea leaves she had served to the Emperor and Empress days prior.
"And ask him to investigate." the older sister said as she handed over the little paper containing the tea leaves to her little sister
"He will surely get justice for me." the older sister said with confidence.
"To frame you, the culprit must have been in close contact with you before the banquet. Can you think of anyone you were in close contact with?" The little sister said as she clung to the bars with renewed hope.
"I talked to a lot of people during the banquet but the people I stayed close to were you and the Crown Prince." The older sister said and the little sister grinned in a sadistic way.
"For someone who has brought peace to the court numerous times, how could you be so short sighted to matters involving yourself?" the little sister said with a grin that morphed her angelic face into something else entirely.
"What?" The older sister asked, as her mind travelled at the speed of light.
Grabbing her elder's sister's hand at the speed of light, the younger sister put a knife in her older's sister's hand and stabbed herself in the stomach.
"Big sister no matter what you do, I will not finish the emperor off because you want to avoid punishment and ascend the throne with Crown Prince Li Xuanlong by force!" the little sister shouted in a distressed tone with blood dripping from her lips but her eyes held a glint of amusement.
"Cruel to the end!" the Crown Prince said, as he came into view and grabbed the little sister who became unsteady on her feet.
"Did you lack anything?" the crown Prince asked the woman in the cell as she dropped the knife in shock.
"Jewelry, money, properties and fabrics of the finest linen I gave them all to you!" The crown Prince said and the woman began to shake her head in pain as she tried to explain.
"The Emperor and Emperess approved of you, the court approved of you, we would have ruled the nation eventually but your greed wouldn't let you wait!" The crown Prince said in agony.
"It wasn't me." The girl yelled in agony as she stamped her feet in pain.
"I love your parents, I loved my sister why would I try to harm them?" the girl asked as she tried to reason with him
"Silence!" yelled the Crown Prince.
"All these things have happened and you still claim not to be responsible!" the Crown Prince yelled and the older sister shook her head in agony as tears fell down her face in waves.
"Don't blame her!" the younger sister said as she weakly grabbed the crown Prince's arm.
"She was blinded by love." the little sister said and the elder sister grabbed her neck through the bars in fury.
"All of this is your fault!" The elder sister said as she tried to strangle her
"Enough!" the crown Prince said as he flung the older's sister's hand from the little sister's neck.
"I can't believe I almost married the woman who would try to strangle her sister in her last moments over the one that repeatedly pleads for her!" the Crown Prince said in sorrow before hardening his features.
"Anyone there." The crown Prince said and two guards came out.
"Drag away this woman who is nothing short of vicious to the execution grounds." The crown Prince said in a cold tone and the guards marched into the cell to take the elder sister.
"No!" The woman in prison cried in agony.
"I didn't do it!" the woman said but the Crown Prince didn't listen to her.
Seeing the satisfied look in her younger sister's eye, the older sister began to scream in pain.
"Don't think you have won!" the elder sister said to her little sister as she was dragged away.
"Don't think you have won!" The elder sister screamed as she thrashed.
"In all life times, in all generations for as long as your line will be, I will make sure that your children's children and their children's children, suffer this injustice I have faced today. I will muddy their luck so bad that they will wonder what kind of bad karma they must have accumulated to meet a calamity like me!" The woman screamed as she was dragged out of the dungeons to be executed.