The butler had a bad feeling.

Madam Su stretched out her arms to block the carriage. "Prime Minister, when I agreed to go to the temple, you promised to protect the Su family."

However, apart from the uncle who committed suicide in prison, the entire Su family was exiled.

I heard that her mother and sister were dragged into a grove by the escorting constables not long after leaving the capital. Fortunately, they were rescued by the Crown Prince's men and were not violated.

Li Heng did not protect them at all.

He broke his promise; he lied to her and even tried to poison her.

"You clearly promised me, a dignified prime minister, yet you break your promise and become greedy. Then I no longer need to be a fig leaf for your prime minister's mansion."

Su shouted, "Li Chenghai is completely incapable of having children. His refusal to take a concubine is not because he is deeply in love with me, but because he is afraid that if there are too many women in the inner quarters, his infertility will become impossible to hide."

Because of what happened at Fahua Temple today, there were many pedestrians on the road, either coming out of Fahua Temple or going to Fahua Temple to see the excitement.

Upon hearing Su's words, they all stamped their feet.

Li Heng's temples throbbed. He glanced at the steward, who hurriedly said, "Su has gone mad. Send her back to the nunnery to recuperate."

Su stepped back, saying, "I'm not crazy, and I don't want to go to the nunnery. If I go, you will poison me."

But she was no match for the guards of the Prime Minister's residence. Just as she was about to be caught, Xie Tingzhou and Marquis Zhongyong arrived. Su knelt down in front of Xie Tingzhou with a thud.

"Your Highness, save me! They're going to kill me!"

Xie Tingzhou glanced at Li Heng, who was pretending to be dead in the carriage, and said calmly, "Why would they want to kill you?"

Su immediately replied, "Because I know the truth about the scandal in the Prime Minister's mansion."

Yes, I did have an affair with Ye Zhengqing, but Ye Zhengqing was pushed into my life by Li Chenghai. He couldn't have children himself, so he wanted to use Ye Zhengqing's seed.

But I dare not get pregnant. I'm afraid that if I do, I'll be forced to have the baby instead of the mother, because Li Chenghai only loves men, and he can no longer tolerate me.

She wasn't smart, but she wasn't stupid either. She had long realized that Ye Zhengqing was someone Li Chenghai had pushed in front of her, but she was afraid of dying, which was why she secretly drank contraceptive pills after each encounter.

That way, at least she can live a little longer.

In her heart, she felt that she had been living a life of widowhood for many years, and her entanglement with Ye Zhengqing was a way of making up for those years. She even deliberately clung to Ye Zhengqing so that Li Chenghai would taste the bitterness of jealousy.

She hated Li Chenghai, hated that he married her to save face even though he didn't like her. He and Xie Yunzhou were birds of a feather.

However, she was not as lucky as Ye Zhen, or rather, she was not as brave as Ye Zhen. Therefore, she was jealous of Ye Zhen, but at the same time, she admired her.

Therefore, when they met on the road last time, and Xiao asked her to target Ye Zhen, she chose to let him go.

The fault lies not with women, but with the world and with men who do not treat women as human beings, especially men like Li Heng and his son.

"Ye Zhengqing, who is weak and powerless, can still visit my room every night to meet with me in secret. Even if Li Chenghai is pushing him along, how could he possibly hide it from the head of the family, Prime Minister Li?"

He already knew everything; Li Chenghai was infertile, yet he allowed Xie Jinyao to feign pregnancy because he wanted to use Xie Jinyao's womb.

Under the cover of the Xiao family, they committed incest and had an affair. Xie Jinyao eventually became pregnant. In order for the child to have a good identity, he used the Su family to force me to leave my home and enter a nunnery, so as to make room for Xie Jinyao.

It sounds ridiculous to make the concubine the legitimate wife of the bastard son, but I have no choice but to cooperate. The Su family used me as a pawn, but they did give me my life and a comfortable life. I can't just abandon them.

But Li Heng did not keep his promise. After I entered the nunnery, every meal I ate contained a slow-acting poison.

If Ye Zhen's people hadn't overheard Xiao Shi's instructions to the nunnery and secretly told her, and hadn't occasionally brought her some non-poisonous food, she probably wouldn't even be able to get out of bed right now.

Naturally, she also knew that given her past grievances with Ye Zhen, he wouldn't help her for no reason.

She pointed at Li Heng and said, "This person is nothing but a hypocrite."

No, he's not even as good as a hypocrite. At least a hypocrite is a person, but he's not even a person.

He didn't care about his eldest son, and while he outwardly doted on his second son, he let him become a spoiled brat. He allowed the two wives to fight over him, but he only cared about himself.

These days, Madam Su thought a lot in the nunnery. She realized that Li Heng was the worst one, but she couldn't understand why he didn't care about either of his two sons.

Right now, however, in order to have more children, he is willing to have an affair with Xie Jinyao.

If you don't want the two older ones, do you think you can raise a younger one at this age?

She couldn't understand, but Xie Tingzhou's expression changed slightly upon hearing this, and he immediately looked at Li Heng.

Even though Li Heng was dissatisfied with the Crown Prince, he could only pretend to be seriously ill. He was helped off the carriage by his steward and knelt down to pay his respects to the Crown Prince.

After hearing Su's words, he hated Xiao to the core and specially ordered Xiao to personally escort Su to the nunnery, so that she could use her position as the Prime Minister's wife to give orders to the nunnery to kill Su.

Yet he couldn't even handle this small matter properly, while simultaneously trying to come up with a solution.

"Your Highness, it is my fault for failing to properly educate my son, but I do not accept the other baseless accusations."

If what Lady Su said were true, and the old minister wanted her dead, how could she still be standing here today?

If this old minister has done anything inappropriate, I hope Your Highness will speak frankly. Why use such sordid matters to drag this old minister into the mire?

After saying this, he tore off his undergarment, bit his finger, and wrote his resignation with trembling hands.

"I am not capable of holding the position of Prime Minister. Please ask Your Highness to convey this letter of resignation to His Majesty. I take my leave."

Just as Marquis Zhongyong had expected, he used a strategy of retreat to advance, adopting the posture of a victim, and submitted his resignation first.

If the royal family accepts his resignation now, it will truly be seen as oppressing a meritorious official. At that time, people will likely sympathize with Li Heng and even believe that these things are all fabricated by the royal family to smear Li Heng.

Moreover, given his resignation, the royal family could not easily punish Li Heng.

What a cunning old fox!

Marquis Zhongyong was at a loss for what to do, so he looked at Xie Tingzhou.