Chapter 198 Sarcasm

"Master, Concubine Duan wants to see you." The housekeeper hurried over to report.

"The second young lady of the Duan family?" Ling Chenyi raised his eyebrows. "What is she doing here? Isn't the second prince under house arrest?"

"Let her in." Xiao Yuan said calmly.

After a while, a woman in black clothes and a black hat followed the butler into the study.

"Greetings to the Fourth Prince." She bowed politely, her face hidden in the hood unable to be seen clearly.

"What's up?"

Duan Yingying lifted her black clothes and knelt down, "I beg the Fourth Prince to show mercy and allow me to visit my husband and sister in prison."

Xiao Yuan narrowed his eyes and said nothing.

"Now is a sensitive period, the emperor is keeping a very strict watch, how can we help you go to the clan house." Ling Chenyi said lazily, "Besides, why should we help you?"

Duan Yingying slowly raised her head, the scar on her face looked particularly terrifying under the candlelight.

"Because we have a common goal. I can do what you can't do. I don't care about life or death."

Xiao Yuan frowned.

When An An left, she told him about Duan Yingying.

"I never bother to kick a man when he's down!"

"But the Fourth Prince's wife likes it." Her eyes curved, but there was no trace of smile in them, only coldness.

"The Fourth Prince's wife has been waiting to give the fallen dog a beating. Will the Fourth Prince not help her get what she wants?"

Xiao Yuan recalled the Second Prince’s banquet that day, when An An was imprisoned by Xiao Ze!

How could An An not take revenge for that night?

"Ling Chenyi, send her in."

Duan Yingying raised the corners of her lips, slowly stood up and bowed, "Thank you, Fourth Prince."

Ling Chenyi personally sent the person to the clan house and spoke a few words to the jailer who was guarding the place. Then Duan Yingying was led in unhindered.

The dark and damp cell was filled with unpleasant odors, a mixture of mildew and filth. The further one went inside, the more nauseating it became.

The jailer stopped in front of a cell door and said, "This is it. Please hurry up, Concubine. The guards there are strict."

"Don't worry." Duan Yingying gave the prison boss a smile, "You will be free soon."

A low voice came from the cell, and it was unclear whether it was a murmur or a whisper of self-comfort.

"I will not lose, I will not lose. The girl of destiny is my woman, and it is heaven's will that I sit on the throne."

"There must be a chance of a turnaround. Father will never abandon me. I cannot lose heart. I cannot lose heart."

"Mengmeng."

Sparse friction sounds were heard, as if something was crawling back and forth on the ground.

"Meng Meng, aren't you the girl of destiny? You must have a way to solve our predicament, right? Quick, cast a spell to get us out."

"I want you to be my principal wife, no, the queen, the most honorable woman in the world, hurry up."

In the darkness, a disheveled man was pushing a woman who was huddled in a corner with her head down and not moving.

"Why are you in a daze? Stop pretending to be dead and think of a solution!"

He roared, which seemed to scare the woman. She shrank back and shrank back into the corner.

“Puff—”

A mocking laugh suddenly rang out.

"Who, who is there? Who is laughing?" Xiao Ze turned around suddenly.

"Second Prince, my husband, it's me, my concubine, I'm here to see you." Duan Yingying stood under the candlelight, looking at the scene in the prison from afar.

"Concubine Duan," Xiao Ze's eyes lit up instantly, and he dragged his broken leg and moved desperately, "It's you, you are here to rescue this prince, right?"

Duan Mengmeng, who was huddled in the corner, slowly turned her head and looked towards the door. A hint of life seemed to appear in her dark and desperate eyes.

"My dear husband, have you forgotten that I am just a useless piece of trash, a chess piece that you use to get close to your third sister and please her? How can I have the ability to save you?"

"No, that's not it." Xiao Ze tried to smile at her, "What I said was all nonsense. The fact that you were able to sneak out of the Second Prince's mansion means that you have a way to save me."

"As long as you rescue me, I will anoint you as queen."

"Didn't my husband just say that he wanted my third sister to be the queen? How come he promised her to someone else so soon? My third sister must be very sad."

"You do it, you do it." Xiao Ze lay at the door of the cell, staring at Duan Yingying, as if he was staring at his only chance of survival.

"I was wrong in the past and didn't treat you well, so you were tortured by that vicious woman Zhou. Don't worry, as long as you rescue me, you can do whatever you want with that vicious woman Zhou."

"Really?" Duan Yingying looked down at him.

"Yes, yes, this prince's words are absolutely trustworthy."

"But my husband has a broken leg. A disabled person has no chance of becoming emperor."

She slowly squatted down, admiring Xiao Ze's instantly pale face, and slowly stretched out her fingertips.

"I thought my husband was blind and deaf, but you saw it all. You saw Zhou humiliating me, but you said nothing and took advantage of me."

"On the wedding night, just because I was slapped by Zhou and my cheek was red and swollen, you went to Xu Liang's concubine's room and said that I was disgusting and ugly."

"Ms. Zhou is indeed hateful, but she pushes the limit time and time again. Isn't it you, my husband, who condones this? It's because you don't treat me as a human being that she is so unscrupulous!"

Xiao Ze is not a fool. He can read the crazy hatred in Duan Yingying's eyes.

"You, what do you want to do?" He stepped back, and his broken leg rubbed against the ground with a dull sound.

"Bitch, if this prince hadn't taken you in out of pity, I don't know where you would have been sold to by the Duan family. How dare you harbor resentment against this prince?"

Duan Yingying looked at him coldly, "Second Prince doesn't want to go out?"

"I wonder if you have any solution?"

His eyes immediately lit up. Duan Yingying looked at Xiao Ze's expression changing like a dog, being toyed with by her, and laughed with pleasure.

"Think of it? Go ask my third sister for help. You tried so hard to please her that you even humiliated me for her."

"Go and ask the girl of destiny to come and rescue you."

As Xiao Ze stared at Duan Yingying, a cloud of gloom slowly appeared in his eyes.

"Duan Yingying, are you playing tricks on me?"

He was not a fool and could not hear the sarcasm in her words at this moment.

"I'm telling the truth. The Second Prince dotes on her and worships her because she is the daughter of destiny and can help you. Now that you are in prison, isn't it time for her to play a role?"

Xiao Ze frowned and said nothing.

He thought so too, but Duan Mengmeng seemed to be frightened these days, curled up in the corner, not moving or talking.

Duan Mengmeng finally lost her composure at this moment and glared at Duan Yingying with resentment.

"Why are you staring at me, Third Sister? Is what I said wrong?"

Xiao Ze also turned around and looked at Duan Mengmeng.

"Or is it because the timing is not right and you can't use your magic?"

As she spoke, she couldn't help laughing, and her low laugh turned into a loud laugh with her head held high, and tears came out from her eyes.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, this is really interesting, so interesting, you two wild couple, you are really going to make me die of laughter."

Xiao Ze's eyes moved back and forth between the two sisters, and he felt that his brain was not enough.

"Husband." Duan Yingying suddenly called softly, "Come here, I will tell you a secret."

Xiao Ze looked at her smile and got goosebumps all over his body, but he still moved over slowly.

"Let me tell you, Third Sister's claim of being the girl of destiny is actually... a fake."

"It was the Fourth Prince who set up the trap because he didn't want to marry her. The golden nugget you tried so hard to marry is actually the old slut that your Fourth Brother didn't want."

Xiao Ze's pupils suddenly shrank, and a violent rage rose up rapidly. He stared at Duan Yingying.

"Why are you looking at me like that? She knows it, too. How come? Didn't the girl of destiny that you've been thinking about tell you?"

"Tsk, tsk, that's a bit pitiful."

"Impossible," Xiao Ze's eyes were about to burst, "Bitch, you are talking nonsense!!"

"Don't believe it? Then go ask her." Duan Yingying spread her hands.

The only string left in Xiao Ze's heart was slowly being pulled, and there were signs of it breaking.

"Mengmeng, my beloved, tell me, what she said is all false, right?"

Duan Mengmeng didn't say anything. He moved towards her anxiously. She was so scared that she jumped up and hid aside with a scream.

Xiao Ze's body froze and he understood everything immediately.

Duan Yingying's sarcastic laughter sounded behind her.

"You think you are the emperor, but you don't know that in the eyes of the Fourth Prince, you are just a clown. Tsk tsk tsk, he must be looking at you with contempt and laughter in his heart."

"Shut up." Xiao Ze roared, "You...you knew it a long time ago, but you didn't tell me that you and Xiao Yuan were in the same group, bitch, you betrayed me?"

"Betrayal? Didn't you trample me into the dust time and time again for Duan Mengmeng? If you had stood up for me once, I would have softened my heart and told you the truth."