Chapter 363 Xie Ling'er Goes Mad

Looking at all this, Madam Su said calmly, "So the fate of my Su family was already decided long ago. Everything was within the Crown Princess's calculations. The Crown Princess truly has some impressive skills!"

The Crown Princess's demeanor is even more imposing than the Empress's! She handles cases with such skill and efficiency; anyone who didn't know better would think she was a judge in the underworld, deciding life and death entirely for her. In all my years, I've truly never seen such a formidable young girl.

Jiang Fenghua had long been dissatisfied with this old woman who relied on her age and status to act arrogantly for decades. She had been swaggering around because of the military merits left to her by the Su family and because she was a first-rank imperial consort.

She received offerings from the world, yet she did not know how to advise her descendants to do good deeds. Instead, she turned a blind eye and allowed the Su family descendants to do evil. She was disrespectful as an elder and did not deserve to sit in the position of a general's wife.

The evil deeds committed by the Su family should be proclaimed to the world so that all people may know and despise them.

However, she could not say these things, because these were things she had discovered over the years, and the Emperor and Xie Shang knew them, so how could a woman in the deep palace possibly know them?

"Whether I am a judge or not is none of Madam Su's concern. Since Ye Susu has entered the gates of my Eastern Palace, she has made a mistake and committed adultery. Punishing her is in accordance with palace rules." Madam Su said this to sow discord between the Crown Princess and the Empress. However, Jiang Fenghua easily resolved the estrangement between herself and the Empress. These matters were originally the affairs of the Eastern Palace. Her Majesty the Empress was in charge of the six palaces, so there was no need for the Empress to deal with the affairs of the Eastern Palace.

Jiang Fenghua smiled slightly and said, "Whether the fate of the Su family was predetermined or not, I believe we should speak with evidence. Didn't the old lady want His Highness the Crown Prince to die in your Su family? You murdered the Crown Prince and plotted to seize the throne. You have been the matriarch of the Su family your whole life, and now you want to be the Empress Dowager. You are so insatiable. It's just a pity that your Su family is destined to be without the throne."

When Madam Su heard the last sentence, she was so angry that she almost died. She was even thinking about whether Xuan'er had escaped, whether he had fled back to the border to start a rebellion and seize the Xie family's empire. She wondered if the Su family would have any chance of getting the throne.

Just then, Xie Shang rushed over, saying, "Your subject greets Your Majesty and Your Majesty."

"Get up quickly," the emperor said.

Empress Cheng quickly asked, "Is the Crown Prince injured?"

Xie Shang said in a deep voice, "Reporting to Mother, I am fine."

"I only let Su Xuan escape; I couldn't catch him." Xie Shang hadn't expected that all the preparations he had made for so long, just to capture Su Xuan, would still result in his escape.

When Madam Su heard that Su Xuan had escaped, she suddenly laughed. "As expected of my Su family's grandson. It's just a pity he wasn't born into the royal family, otherwise he wouldn't have had the chance to let others reap the benefits." Anyway, she was just an old woman with no use, and she would die sooner or later.

Xie Shang was also furious and said coldly, "The old lady knows, but unfortunately, she doesn't know that the ancestors of the Su family know that the descendants of the Su family have been raised by an ignorant old woman to be traitors and usurpers, thus tarnishing their reputation. I wonder if they will climb up to the old lady's bedside in the middle of the night to cause you trouble."

"If I were to send the old lady to a prison cart and parade her through the streets, would she still dare to say such things?" He could tell from the old lady's attitude that she still thought she was a veteran of three reigns. No wonder the emperor would personally go to the palace gate to greet her every time he saw her, as if welcoming the Empress Dowager back to the palace.

That's how her temper was spoiled by her father.

Just then, Old Madam Su pulled out her hairpin and stabbed it into her neck. A bloody hole appeared in her neck instantly, and she even tightly gripped Xie Ling'er's hand, saying, "Revenge...revenge."

Xie Ling'er was completely terrified, tears streaming down her face. "Grandmother, don't die, sob sob...Grandmother."

The next moment, Xie Ling'er pointed at Xie Shang and said angrily, "You forced my grandmother to her death, I hate you."

Xie Shang never expected that his beloved younger sister would say such things to him. He said, "Ling'er, look carefully, I am your fifth brother. She is trying to harm our Xie family."

"It's all your fault! You're the ones who forced the Su family to rebel!" Xie Ling'er said angrily, pointing at Jiang Fenghua. "And you, you orchestrated all of this! You're the culprit!"

Jiang Fenghua was speechless. "How did your maternal grandmother brainwash you? She made you stupid. Su Xuan wanted to kill your father, and they also wanted to kill your fifth brother."

"Sister Wan said it's all because of you. You stole Fifth Brother away, which is why we've ended up like this."

At this moment, Xie Ling'er, holding a dagger, suddenly attacked Jiang Fenghua.

Xie Shang shielded Jiang Fenghua behind him, then struck Xie Ling'er with a palm, knocking her to the ground. "Xie Ling'er, you've gone too far."

Xie Ling'er's dagger was knocked from her hand. She stared at Xie Shang and cried, "Fifth Brother hit me for her, an outsider. Do you know that Sister Wan said she wasn't yours at all..."

Immediately afterwards, Xie Shang slapped Xie Ling'er across the face, causing blood to trickle from the corner of her mouth and leaving a prominent five-finger mark on her cheek, demonstrating just how hard Xie Shang's slap had hit her.

"Lin Feng, take the Ninth Princess away and lock her up. No one is allowed to visit her," Xie Shang ordered coldly.

Lin Feng had a palace maid come in to help the Ninth Princess, but the Ninth Princess glared at the maid and said coldly, "I will walk by myself."

Before leaving, she said directly to Xie Shang, "Give my mother back. I only want my mother. I hate you all."

She already knew that Su Qingqing was thousands of miles away.

Only then did Jiang Fenghua ask Commander Gao, "Where is Su Tingwan's body?" She had been stabbed by Xie Shang, so she should be dead! At the time, she was lying in a pool of blood, and Jiang Fenghua thought she was definitely going to die.

Commander Gao was too busy; "I did not see her body."

Xie Shang frowned. "Hurry up and go find her. I need to see her dead or alive." He had some questions for Su Tingwan; what on earth was she rambling on about?

However, after searching through all the bodies, Commander Gao reported in a deep voice, "It was my dereliction of duty that I failed to find Su Tingwan's body."

At this moment, Commander Gao knelt on the ground again, "Please forgive me, Your Highness. I couldn't even find the body of that man who called himself a prince. I killed him with my own hands. In such a chaotic situation, those traitors were too busy to even look after themselves. How could they possibly have rescued a corpse?"

"Go find them. Turn the palace upside down. Find them no matter what," Xie Shang said coldly.

Jiang Fenghua stared at Xie Shang, feeling that he seemed too concerned about whether Su Tingwan was alive. Su Tingwan was so badly injured, how could she possibly be alive?

But if she died, where did her body go?