Aunt Zhao stood up and saw Shangguan Wanning out the door. She looked at her leaving back and spat in hatred.
"Bah, what a thing, you dare to pretend to be a miracle doctor when you have not learned the skills well. You are just lucky to be reborn. Just wait and see how I deal with you in the future."
In the evening, Shangguan Wanning was helping her mother take medicine in her room when the door was kicked open.
The loud noise scared Mrs. Shangguan.
"master?"
Mrs. Shangguan saw that her husband had a gloomy face and a strong sense of anger on his face.
She rarely saw her husband like this.
"Master, what happened?"
Shangguan Yue did not answer his wife's words. He looked straight at Shangguan Wanning and snorted heavily.
"What is it? Ask your good daughter."
Madam Shangguan didn't understand what was going on, so she held Shangguan Wanning's hand and asked softly, "Ning'er, did you get into trouble outside again? Look how angry your father is. Go and admit your mistake and apologize."
"Mom..." Shangguan Wanning didn't know what to say. She opened her mouth and seemed to be hesitant to speak. She simply looked away.
Shangguan Yue was so angry that he began to tremble all over and glared at his wife fiercely.
"Look at what a good daughter you have taught her."
"Master, what happened? If you have something to say, please speak nicely. You will scare Ning'er."
Shangguan Yue tried his best to hold back, looking down at Shangguan Wan Ning, and questioned, "I'm here to ask you, your aunt has a rash all over her body now, is it you who did it? I've asked the maids and nannies who serve her, and they all said that the rash started to appear after she drank the medicine you sent her."
Shangguan Wanning took a deep breath, turned her head and looked into her father's eyes, and said softly, "Dad, from the moment I came in until now, you have only been fiercely questioning me, have you ever cared about Mom's health?"
Shangguan Yue's body stiffened. He looked at his pale-faced wife, a trace of guilt flashing in his eyes.
"These are two different things." Shangguan Yue felt a dull pain in his heart when he thought of Aunt Zhao rolling around in pain and itchiness because of the rash. "Hand over the antidote."
"Ning'er, did you do this?" Madam Shangguan pulled her daughter's sleeve, looking somewhat resentful, and said softly, "Be good, we can't do things that harm others secretly. OK?"
"Mother, even you think it's me?" Shangguan Wan Ning was a little sad. "I really hate Aunt Zhao. If I were to do something to her, it wouldn't just be a rash. I would definitely poison her to death...ah..."
Before Shangguan Wanning could finish her words, Shangguan Yue raised his hand and slapped her hard in the face.
She was caught off guard and fell off the edge of the bed. Her wrist was twisted as she fell to the ground, and the pain made her face pale.
“Ning’er…”
When Mrs. Shangguan saw her daughter being beaten, she got out of bed in a hurry and wanted to help her daughter up.
Shangguan Wanning felt a burning pain on her face. In order not to worry her mother, she clenched her teeth to hold back her tears and looked up at her father stubbornly.
"Master, how could you do this to Ning'er?" Mrs. Shangguan looked at the five clear finger marks on her daughter's face, and she felt so distressed that she burst into tears. "Don't you understand her character? She has always been arrogant. If she says no, then it's no."
"It's your unprincipled and unscrupulous pampering that has spoiled her. Aunt Zhao is her elder after all, and she's so jealous at such a young age, and her methods are so cruel. If you don't teach her a lesson, what will happen in the future?"
Shangguan Yue glared at Shangguan Wanning, with a strong fire burning in his eyes.
"Master, you..." Madam Shangguan had followed him for so many years and had rarely seen him like this.
She protected Shangguan Wan Ning behind her and said in a trembling voice: "You also said that Ning'er is still young and she doesn't understand... Let me persuade her. If she really did it, I will ask her to take out the antidote and I will personally deliver it to my sister."
"Mom!" Shangguan Wanning didn't want her mother to compromise for her.
Shangguan Yue said nothing, but looked at Shangguan Wanning with a fierce look in his eyes.
"You don't have to look at me like that. I don't have the antidote."
Shangguan Wanning's words completely angered Shangguan Yue. He pushed Mrs. Shangguan away and pulled Shangguan Wanning up.
"It seems that you will not compromise unless you are taught a lesson. I have spoiled you since you were little, and it is I, as a father, who has failed to fulfill my responsibility of educating you." Shangguan Yue roared, "Come here, take the young lady out and give her twenty lashes."
Mrs. Shangguan's face changed suddenly, and Shangguan Wanning also found it unbelievable.
Since when did her father become like this?
Two elderly maids came in and took Shangguan Wanning out.
“Don’t…” Madam Shangguan got up from the ground and tried to stop him, but was pushed by Shangguan Yue and fell back to the ground.
As the sound of the whip rang out, Mrs. Shangguan felt a heart-wrenching pain all over her body.
But Shangguan Wanning had a stubborn personality and didn't even utter a single cry.
"Master, please... please let Ning'er go..." Madam Shangguan knelt in front of her husband crying, "You know, Ning'er is weak. If you really whip her twenty times, you will beat her to death... Master..."
Mrs. Shangguan burst into tears and begged desperately while grabbing Shangguan Yue's clothes.
"Sir, the young lady has been whipped thirteen times, but she has fainted." The nanny came in to report.
Madam Shangguan stopped crying, stood up, took a few steps back, and shouted sternly, "Stop hitting me."
Then she looked at Shangguan Yue again, full of disappointment and helplessness.
"Ning'er was born after ten months of hard work. If anything happens to her, the love between you and me will cease to exist. Not only will I not let it go, but my father and my three brothers will also not stand idly by. You decide."
After saying that, Madam Shangguan turned around and walked out.
She saw Shangguan Wanning being pressed on a stool by the nanny, with her clothes on the back stained with blood.
Shangguan Wanning's eyes were closed, her face was pale, her long eyelashes covered her eyelids, and she had lost all her vitality.
In an instant, Mrs. Shangguan felt as if her heart was being cut by a knife.
"Quick, go get the doctor."
The two maids looked at each other. They were usually treated well by Madam Shangguan, so they immediately helped Shangguan Wanning down from the stool. One of them carried her to the room, while the other hurriedly ran to find the court doctor.
At this time Shangguan Yue also walked out of the room. Mrs. Shangguan looked into her eyes and tears flowed down her cheeks.
"I have been married to you for many years. I can tolerate you taking a concubine, and even... I can not interfere with your favoring of the concubine. However, Ning'er is my only daughter, and she is my last bottom line. If you hurt her again... then..."
Madam Shangguan took a deep breath and said firmly, "Give me a divorce letter, and I will take Ning'er back to my parents' home and never have any contact with you again."
After saying that, he turned away.
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