Zeng Ling looked at her with a wronged expression, her voice extremely weak: "Sister, what do you mean by this?"

Su Xuerong laughed: "You deliberately jumped into the lotus pond just to blackmail the prince, didn't you?"

Zeng Ling said innocently, "Why would I threaten the prince? He is my savior, and I am grateful to him."

"Then why did you jump into the lotus pond?"

Zeng Ling's tears fell like pearls from a broken string again: "Sister, do you know that after you and the Prince left the villa that day, Aunt Cheng ordered her people to forcibly take off my peacock robe, saying that someone like me was not worthy of wearing that dress, and said many humiliating things to me..."

She cried until she almost fainted: "I...I really don't have the courage to live anymore..."

Su Xuerong looked at her coldly, completely unconcerned about her heartbroken crying: "Fine, I'll send you back to the Ge family today. If you're going to die, die in your husband's family. Don't implicate the prince."

Whether she really wanted to die or was deliberately causing trouble, this matter would be detrimental to Xiao Yuan in every way if it got out.

Zeng Ling's cheeks twitched a few times, but she still looked at Su Xuerong with a pitiful expression: "Sister, are you going to abandon me?"

Su Xuerong let out a long sigh: "I must have had my brain caught in a door that night to meddle and ask the prince to rescue you."

If she had known she had so many thoughts, she would have just let Xiao Yuan force Ge Huai'an to divorce her. Why did she have to meddle in so many other things?

Zeng Ling cried even more bitterly.

Su Xuerong suddenly frowned.

How did she die in her previous life?

Although the Ge family claims that he died of illness, could there be some hidden story behind it?

If Zeng Ling really harbored lustful thoughts towards Xiao Yuan, would Xiao Yuan just sit idly by and do nothing?

Won't!

Neither the Ge family nor Xiao Yuan would tolerate Zeng Ling's attempt to climb the social ladder; it would be a great disgrace to both sides.

Therefore, Zeng Ling was probably dealt with after her secrets were discovered...

While crying, Zeng Ling secretly observed Su Xuerong's expression.

Her thoughts, however, were churning like a raging storm.

In his previous life, Xiao Yuan clearly did not have a woman named Su by his side.

How come everything has changed in this life?

She didn't want to be assassinated like in her previous life, so in this life she had to get on Xiao Yuan's ship.

When she died, Xiao Yuan had already become emperor.

The Ge family, however, could not tolerate her repeated attempts to seduce Xiao Yuan, so on the night Xiao Yuan ascended the throne, they ordered her to be secretly drowned in the pond...

Having been given a second chance at life, she cannot allow the Ge family to decide her fate, so she must attract Xiao Yuan's attention as soon as possible.

But she never expected that her plan to get close to Xiao Yuan by taking advantage of Ge Huai'an bringing back that songstress would be completely disrupted by Su Xuerong.

Moreover, Su Xuerong seemed to have attracted Xiao Yuan's attention even earlier than she had.

She couldn't understand why such a beautiful, almost bewitching woman had appeared in this life, captivating Xiao Yuan completely!

"Sister, you can't abandon me..." Zeng Ling knelt on the ground again, desperately kowtowing to Su Xuerong, and red marks appeared on her forehead from the kowtow.

Su Xuerong, who was about to help her up, paused and silently looked at her.

Zeng Ling gritted her teeth and slammed her head against the ground hard. Blood appeared on her forehead after only a few blows.

But Su Xuerong did not stop her, but coldly said, "Are you trying to coerce me?"

Zeng Ling stopped moving and stared at her in disbelief.

She never expected that Su Xuerong, who used to show her sympathy whenever she saw her, would be so heartless now.

Su Xuerong calmly observed the changes on her face, feeling that something was very wrong.

For some reason, she saw a strange hostility in the woman's eyes this time.

hostility?

Why?

Did she try to seduce Ge Huai'an?

Could it be...?

Suppressing her many doubts, Su Xuerong said coldly, "If you've made enough of a scene, go back to the Ge residence today."

After saying that, he stood up and called out, "Someone come here!"

Cheng immediately brought in several maids and servants.

"Aunt Cheng, please find someone to treat her injuries first, and then send someone to take her back to the Ge residence."

Cheng said, "Madam Su need not worry. This old servant has already sent someone to invite Young Master Ge. He will arrive shortly."

Upon hearing this, Zeng Ling's face instantly turned extremely ugly.

She looked up at Su Xuerong, a cold smile suddenly appearing on her lips: "So you've been playing me all along!"

Su Xuerong frowned: "What did you say?"

Zeng Ling slowly stood up from the ground and took a few steps closer to Su Xuerong.

"You used me to become the prince's woman, you're a shameless slut!"

Zeng Ling suddenly screamed at the top of her lungs, then pulled out the hairpin from her hair and stabbed it viciously into Su Xuerong's cheek—

If it weren't for her alluring face, how could Xiao Yuan have been so captivated by her?

Having been reborn, she could have seized the opportunity to become Xiao Yuan's woman during this visit to the villa, and in the future, she would be the Empress of the Southern Zhou Dynasty.

But now, her chance to be reborn has been completely ruined by that bitch Su Xuerong.

Since that's the case, she's going to ruin that vixen face of hers!

"ah--"

The maids and servants in the room immediately gasped in surprise.

Zhou rushed in and saw Zeng Ling, whose face was covered in blood and whose expression was extremely ferocious. Several old women held her hands down, but she was letting out a series of sharp screams.

"Arong—" Zhou was shocked to see the blood on her daughter's arm.

Su Xuerong looked at the deep bloodstains on her arm, where the hairpin had cut deep, and felt a pang of fear.

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