She looked at the displeased Prime Minister Song with a half-smile and slowly said, "The Prince of Wei already knows that when the Empress Dowager was assassinated, Song Wan'er pushed me, trying to kill me! Since she wants me dead, why can't I settle accounts with her?"

"Wan'er told me about this. She was just too scared, afraid of getting hurt, so she pushed you," Prime Minister Song said in a deep voice.

"Am I not afraid?"

"You even received rewards from His Majesty and the Empress Dowager for this, could it be..."

"This is my achievement, but I cannot forgive those who tried to kill me." Did she have to thank Song Wan'er? Shen Wangshu suddenly chuckled softly, raised her hand, and two silver-armored guards pinned Song Wan'er down.

A cold glint flashed in her eyes as she looked at Prime Minister Song's angry gaze and said, "She did the first thing, so I'll do the fifteenth. It's a matter of reciprocity. I'm just too angry. Please understand my feelings, Father, just as you understand hers."

She finished speaking slowly, then her face darkened as she pointed at Song Wan'er and ordered, "Beat her according to the rules!" She stopped Prime Minister Song from speaking and said with a smile, "Now I am a Lady of the Township, a title bestowed by the Emperor. I still have the right to beat a lowly concubine's daughter. If Father feels sorry for her, just go to the palace to report me."

"you!"

“If Father makes a big fuss about it, I will naturally be seen as an arrogant and domineering villain, but you, as a concubine’s daughter, will also be seen as a poisonous woman who plots against the legitimate daughter,” Shen Wangshu said softly.

Prime Minister Song didn't care about her reputation, but the thought of implicating Song Wan'er made him hesitate.

While she hesitated, the guards left behind by the King of Wei had already picked up a board and started beating Song Wan'er.

Song Wan'er was originally the most delicate girl, and she was pampered and tender. When she was hit with several strong blows, her back and legs were torn open and bleeding profusely, and she let out a sharp cry.

Concerned about her own "unconsciousness," Aunt Rou rushed to Prime Minister Song's side, crying out, "Master, save me!"

"stop!"

However, these guards were all subordinates of the King of Wei, so they ignored Prime Minister Song's angry shouts and beat Song Wan'er until she was silent after only a dozen or so strokes.

"Are you trying to kill your sister?" Prime Minister Song turned to Shen Wangshu and roared.

"She wants to kill me, so I have no choice but to kill her first." Song Wan'er was not the one who was wronged back then, but when she thought about everything that Song Lan had gone through, she still felt hatred for Song Lan.

What wrong had Song Lan done? She should have married a good man. Perhaps there would still have been rivalries between wives and concubines, but it wouldn't have been so tragic, with her own child being taken away by her husband. She watched as Song Wan'er bled profusely beneath her, barely clinging to life, and smiled as she watched, only to see Prime Minister Song suddenly rush to Song Wan'er's side.

"If you're going to fight, fight me too!" Prime Minister Song said sternly.

If he hit her, it would be considered disobedience. Shen Wangshu had no intention of letting Song Wan'er die so easily. He nodded slightly and told the guards to stop.

Aunt Rou threw herself onto Song Wan'er and burst into tears.

"How cruel you are!" Prime Minister Song looked at Song Wan'er with concern and saw that she had fainted and that her back was covered in white bones. He gasped and turned back to accuse her.

Aunt Rou also looked at Shen Wangshu with resentment, but fearing the threat from the Prince of Wei, she could only lower her head and silently shed tears.

"This is just to teach her a lesson. If she dares to harm me again, don't blame me for skinning her alive!" Shen Wangshu felt a dull pain in her lower abdomen and knew that her injuries had not yet healed.

She pondered to herself, seeing that Prime Minister Song showed no concern for her, only focusing on Song Wan'er's safety. Unconcerned, she looked up at him and slowly said, "There's one more thing." Seeing Prime Minister Song glance at her, her face was warm, showing no sign of the fear in Song Wan'er's blood-soaked body. She said gently, "When my mother passed away, she left me a list of her dowry. I remember that my father had these dowry items, saying he was keeping them for me?"

Her smile turned sarcastic.

When Song Lan got married, her mother's dowry was nowhere to be seen. On the contrary, when Song Wan'er became a concubine, her dowry was magnificent, with a ten-mile-long procession of red bridal procession.

Because of her impressive dowry, she was given special status in the Marquis's mansion, even though she was only a concubine.

Prime Minister Song's face stiffened for a moment.

“I am already a Lady of the Township, and I also have His Majesty's fiefdom. Now I can manage both, so Father need not trouble himself.” Shen Wangshu seemed oblivious to Prime Minister Song's expression and said amiably, “What's in the dowry is clearly listed on the dowry list. Father need not worry about not being able to distinguish the dowry from the public property in the household. However…”

With a smile, she lifted the Empress Dowager's coattails and said without a hint of shame, "If anything is missing from the dowry list... I will have no choice but to... swallow my pride and go to the palace to beg the Empress Dowager to make a decision for me."