"You! You unfilial daughter! How could you do such a thing? I'll beat you to death!"
After speaking, the man was not angry at Shen Qingying and the group of women who had been deceived by Shen Qinghua, but at Shen Youji.
He was absolutely furious. He had lived a life of integrity and had loved a woman deeply, yet he couldn't bear to take her away. He never expected that he would lose his honor in his later years and have such a rebellious daughter.
"Father, why are you so angry? Isn't this just like protesting too much? If you weren't so promiscuous, how could we daughters have been born? You brought us into this world, but then ignored our lives and our wishes. You even secretly revealed that our brother is a descendant of the previous dynasty, leaving us disappointed. And now you still have the nerve to question me? Father, you are truly a good father! Your daughter admires you."
Shen Qinghua was going all out today. Anyway, she didn't want to live. Being able to give this shameless man a good scolding would be very satisfying for her.
"You... if your mother hadn't looked so much like Yu Hua, do you think you wouldn't have had the chance to be born? I'm already being virtuous by not shooing you away like flies. Now you're asking for more? Have you no shame?"
Shen Youji was so angry that the veins on her forehead throbbed. In a flash, she appeared in front of Shen Qinghua and slapped her hard across the face, as if she wanted to kill the woman with one blow.
Shen Qinghua was not about to let him die so easily. In her eyes, the best way to die was suicide, and she was not about to let these people insult her.
So Shen Youji struck out with his palm, only lightly touching her face before she dodged. After she dodged, he stood aside, a mocking smile playing on his lips, every word he uttered endlessly taunting his father:
"Ha! Who cares about the honor you gave me? You manage the inner quarters, but you don't even give my mother a proper title, leaving it for that woman. But is that woman yours? Do you think I wanted you to give birth to me? I, Shen Qinghua, am ashamed to have such a shameless father. Hearing you say that, the little bit of poison I gave you today was too good for you. Fine! So you're quite the troublemaker. I'll add some more later, so you'll die a worthy death."
"You...you rebellious daughter! You always pretend to be weak and weak, saying you don't know martial arts. You've fooled many of my guards, but it turns out you're just trying to build your own power to plot a rebellion. Fine! Very well, I'll beat you to death today."
Shen Youji was clearly furious at this moment. He never thought that his most obedient daughter would be like this, and that she was also highly skilled in martial arts and had a deep mind.
He's raised a thankless wretch, so even if it means death, he's determined to get rid of this rebellious daughter.
Shen Qinghua was never one to back down, so she couldn't accept being beaten. Therefore, she drew her unsharpened soft sword and charged forward.
Today is the day she has to go all in. What does it matter if she gets hurt? As long as everyone who deserves to die dies, then her wish will be fulfilled.
"No! I want to live, I want to live. Brother, elder brother! Why are you alright? Please save me."
While Shen Youji and his daughter Shen Qinghua were locked in a tense standoff in the courtyard, Shen Qingying suddenly crawled up to Shen Jinchen, questioning and pleading, her red eyes directly expressing her deepest desires.
She wanted to live. Although she was the one who came up with the plan in the first place, she only wanted to harm one person: Cen Xi.
Who knew Shen Qinghua would be so vicious, insisting on tying them all up together.
"Here are the antidote pills. I've already given them to the other sisters, and they've had some effect, but I'm afraid the chances of success are slim. Just use them for now. I'll immediately send a message by carrier pigeon to request the Great General King."
Shen Jinchen glanced at Cen Xi, who was watching the battle, and tossed a bottle of antidote to Shen Qingying. Then he gave Feng Qin a wink.
Feng Qin understood and used her light-footed skill to leave the princess's residence.
Shen Qingying took the antidote, and quickly poured the medicine from the bottle into her own mouth, her hands trembling, before giving it to others.
She wanted to live, and she would fight for even the slightest hope.
Seeing that no one was bothering Shen Jinchen anymore, Shen Jinchen turned around and went to Cen Xi's side.
Are you alright?
"I'm fine. How about you? I remember you're immune to all poisons too."
Cen Xi let the other person hold her hand and replied with a hint of concern.
"It's nothing. I didn't expect Shen Qinghua to be such a shrewd woman."
Shen Jinchen's expression was indifferent, revealing neither joy nor anger, but as his closest person, Cen Xi still sensed a trace of disappointment from him.
“I remember she didn’t know martial arts last time, but now it seems she’s completely different. If it weren’t for me, you would have been plotted against and killed by this woman sooner or later if you had ascended the throne. You shattered her dream of becoming empress. I have to say, her current madness is also caused by you. I wonder if she knows that we are both immune to all poisons. If she does know, we may have been poisoned by her. Now we should check if there is anything wrong with us.”
Cen Xi glanced at the father and daughter who seemed to want to kill each other immediately, and then rationally analyzed the current situation.
Today, when she left the princess's residence, she originally thought that the girls in the Shen family would give Shen Jinchen an aphrodisiac and try to force him into marriage.
It seems she was being too naive. Shen Qinghua, this woman was never love-struck from the start; all she wanted was the Empress's throne.
Moreover, he has a very crazy personality; if he can't have something, he'll destroy everything.
Fortunately, she and Shen Jinchen were both immune to all poisons by chance, otherwise they would have been in real trouble.
Seriously, who exactly is Heaven asking for help? I feel like she's not quite worthy of the title of Heaven's favorite daughter.
"Come! Let me take your pulse!"
Upon hearing her words, Shen Jinchen disregarded her teasing and wanted to check if there was anything unusual about her body.
Cen Xi also felt that today's events couldn't be that simple, so she let him pull her into a room, and then the two of them took each other's pulses.
Is there a problem?
"Something's wrong!"
"What's the problem?"
Cen Xi originally thought that even a very potent poison couldn't harm her, but Shen Jinchen actually found some problems when he took her pulse.
"There are signs of being poisoned by a Gu, but I don't know anything about these things and I don't know what kind of Gu it is."
Shen Jinchen looked at her with a very serious expression.
"Then quickly go and tell Father not to kill Shen Qinghua on the spot. We must find out what kind of Gu this is."
After it was confirmed, Cen Xi had a feeling that it was indeed true. No wonder Shen Qinghua had been looking at her intentionally or unintentionally all afternoon.
It turns out they set a trap for her from the very beginning. If she wasn't mistaken, it was when she sat down as soon as she entered the room and was being helped by their legs. At that time, she had even used her internal energy, which was the perfect moment to use the Gu poison.
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