Chapter 47 You are nothing but my dog!
Song Xuerou looked up at Shen Ruoli.
She choked back tears, her eyes brimming with tears, and the swollen handprint on her face made her look even more pitiful, like a delicate flower in the rain.
"Ruoli, I know you're angry, take it out on me! Hit me, yell at me, whatever you want! But I finally married the prince, I can't just be kicked out like this!"
Song Xuerou grabbed Shen Ruoli's hand and frantically slapped her own face, "If the prince divorces me, I'll have nothing left!"
"Ruoli, please help me, sob sob sob..."
Shen Ruoli's gaze was calm.
Over the years, Song Xuerou has been shamelessly following behind her like this.
To outsiders, she was gentle and kind, even reluctant to step on an ant.
But in front of Shen Ruoli, she felt inferior, she was sensitive, she was crazy, and she would stop at nothing to achieve her goals!
She is ruthless and heartless to others, but she is even more ruthless to herself!
Shen Ruoli used to be kind-hearted, but as long as Song Xuerou used a self-inflicted injury scheme or knelt in front of her crying, she couldn't bring herself to be ruthless.
Now, watching Song Xuerou act, Shen Ruoli didn't even lift his eyelids.
"You also know that if you lose your status as the Princess Consort of Chu, you will be useless?"
Shen Ruoli withdrew her hand.
Song Xuerou's expression stiffened slightly, "Ruoli..."
"Xue Rou."
Shen Ruoli leaned down slightly and grasped her chin.
Her gaze was deep and unfathomable, like a bottomless black hole, almost sucking Song Xuerou in completely!
"You should know that I have never been a kind-hearted person."
She applied slight pressure with her fingers, and Song Xuerou gritted her teeth in pain, but only dared to look pitifully at Shen Ruoli.
"The reason I gave Qingying to you was already out of consideration for our past relationship. If you hadn't followed me like a dog all these years, would you be where you are today?"
In her previous life, she took Song Xuerou's sensitive nature into consideration and never spoke harshly to her.
Right now, Shen Ruoli has spoken her mind!
"If you're a dog, you should have the awareness of a dog! Unfortunately, you don't."
Seeing Song Xuerou's expression change, she felt even more pleased. "If it weren't for your connection with me, you'd probably still be rotting and decaying in the Prime Minister's mansion, or perhaps your stepmother would have already betrothed you to some old man as his second wife?"
A few months before Song Xuerou married into the Chu Prince's mansion, she came to Shen Ruoli crying one night, saying that her stepmother had found a husband for her.
He was an old man in his sixties, and even his grandson was older than her.
She married him and became that old man's fourth second wife!
If it weren't for Shen Ruoli's secret intervention, would she have been able to enter the Chu Prince's residence?
"Song Xuerou, I'm helping you out of pity! Not so that you'll reach into my pocket and steal what belongs to me!"
She withdrew her hand, took the handkerchief handed to her by Runyue, and wiped her hands, as if she disliked having any contact with Song Xuerou.
These words were like a sharp blade, piercing deeply into Song Xuerou's heart!
"Ruoli, I know I wronged you first! You can punish me however you want! You were born into a noble family, and everyone revolved around you! I'm not like you, I have nothing!"
Suppressing her hatred, Song Xuerou cried and said, "But what's done is done, and time can't be turned back. I can only do my best to make it up to you!"
"Make amends? How do you intend to make amends to me?"
"I'll do whatever you say!"
Song Xuerou made up her mind.
Before Shen Ruoli could speak, she hurriedly added, "Ruoli, it's not entirely my fault! The Prince also bears responsibility for this! If he hadn't taken my innocence, would I have been seeing him behind your back, and would I have stolen the position of Princess Consort of Chu that belonged to you?"
She tried to shift the blame to Xie Xuansong.
"Besides, didn't I come to see you immediately afterward to beg for your forgiveness? But you just wouldn't see me, so I couldn't do anything about it!"
Song Xuerou cried with a sense of grievance.
Upon hearing this, Shen Ruoli laughed in anger, "So you blame me for this? Blame me for injuring your knife with my back?"
Song Xuerou paused in her sobs, then guiltily looked away, "That's not what I meant..."
After all, it was she and Xie Xuansong who betrayed Shen Ruoli!
Shen Ruoli leaned back in her chair. "Runyue, go and see how Qingying is doing."
Liu Xin had been gone for so long without bringing Qingying back, which inevitably aroused Shen Ruoli's suspicions.
She didn't actually come to settle old scores with Song Xuerou today.
Just seeing Song Xuerou kneeling and crying in front of her, begging for forgiveness, even if it was insincere, Shen Ruoli felt a sense of satisfaction.
She won't punish Song Xuerou immediately, nor will she forgive her.
She wanted to hang this "knife" over Song Xuerou's head, making her unable to eat or sleep, and constantly fearing that the knife would fall!
A short while later, Runyue returned with a solemn expression.
"Princess."
She whispered in Shen Ruoli's ear, "When I left, Qingying was barely clinging to life! But now..."
Shen Ruoli understood: Qingying was dead.
As soon as the intercalary month was mentioned, Liu Xin entered anxiously.
Upon entering, she exchanged a glance with Song Xuerou before kneeling before Shen Ruoli, trembling, "Your Highness, spare me! Qingying was too badly injured; she's already... she's already dead!"
Song Xuerou, who was kneeling to the side, quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Qingying is dead?"
Shen Ruoli sneered, "Song Xuerou, what were my instructions to you when I handed her over?"
"Ruoli! I never knew that little bitch would be so fragile!"
Song Xuerou looked completely innocent.
“Fragile? She only suffered a miscarriage after falling off the cliff. You know better than I do whether she is fragile or not.”
Shen Ruoli reminded Song Xuerou once again of the fact that Qingying had been pregnant with Xie Xuansong's child!
Sure enough, Song Xuerou could no longer suppress the hatred in her eyes!
She clenched her hands tightly. "Ruoli, now that we've laid this out, just admit it: don't you hate that little bitch too? She actually dared to dream of having the prince's child!"
"She's just a lowly servant girl, what right does she have?!"
"Regardless of her status, you are the Princess Consort of Chu. Is this your vision and perspective as the Princess Consort of Chu?"
Shen Ruoli shook her head. "You should know that Xie Xuansong can't possibly have only one woman. If you can't tolerate other women, your position as the Princess Consort of Chu will probably come to an end."
These were words she genuinely wanted to advise Song Xuerou.
After all, if Xie Xuansong were to have another woman by his side, Song Xuerou would rack her brains to kill that woman.
How will she continue to provide Xie Xuansong with women in the future?
How could she possibly watch their infighting go on?
Shen Ruoli smiled slightly, "But she was just a maid, so let her die! But I still have to give you a piece of advice! In front of Xie Xuansong, you'd better not mention anything, and don't mention Qingying or Hongying either."
"Because in Xie Xuansong's eyes, Qingying is already dead! Do you understand?"
From now on, the person who will be going back to the capital with Xie Xuansong will no longer be Qingying, but Ziyan!
Shen Ruoli has completely succeeded in his trick of substituting one beam for another!
She used Song Xuerou to completely eliminate Qingying without Xie Xuansong noticing!
Even if the truth comes out in the future, Xie Xuansong will only hold Song Xuerou accountable, and it will have nothing to do with her!
Now that Qingying is dead and her brother has taken the ledger, Shen Ruoli doesn't want to waste words with Song Xuerou.
She had barely left when Song Xuerou struggled to her feet, supporting herself on the chair.
My legs were stiff from kneeling for so long.
Liu Xin quickly stepped forward to help him up.
Before she could even touch her, Song Xuerou slapped her to the ground. "You lowly servant! Who gave you the right to act on your own! Do you know that the Prince is about to return to the capital? Now that Qingying is dead, how am I, the Princess Consort, supposed to explain this to the Prince?!"
Liu Xin lay on the ground, completely stunned!
So, Song Xuerou's heartfelt crying in front of Shen Ruoli was all an act?
Wasn't Xie Xuansong left in Fuzhou by the Crown Prince and unable to return to the capital for the time being?
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