The old woman's words were too sarcastic. Lin frowned and just as she was about to get up, she felt a pain in her abdomen.
She cried out in pain and half opened her eyes to look at the old women in front of her. Drops of water dripped from her cheeks, icy cold, and the entire bed was soaked.
"You...what do you mean?!"
She gritted her teeth and endured the pain. Even she could clearly feel that the current situation was very different, and her heart was pounding.
Could it be that my fake pregnancy was discovered?
Holding the quilt tightly, pulling out a wrinkle from it, tightly pursing my lips, I still hold on to the last glimmer of hope.
"You, you are so bold! I..."
"Okay, okay."
The old woman picked her up. After all, she was a worker from the farm and was very strong. She pulled Lin up as if she was pulling a chicken.
"You are still the princess, you are still the princess."
"Don't tell the rest to lowly people like us. If you have anything to say, save it for the front hall and tell the master."
She was even escorted to the front hall while still wearing her underwear. It was the twelfth month of winter, and Lin's lower body, which had just bled, was still trembling.
Drops of blood dripped out from under her body, and the frozen blood was even about to solidify. Lin was dragged all the way through the plum blossom forest, and the bloodstains mixed with the fallen plum blossoms.
Along the way, Lin had no strength to struggle and could only keep roaring. After arriving at the front hall, she was thrown in front of Prince Duan.
The floor was cold and she fell to the ground, feeling powerless. Her hands and body were covered in blood. After coughing up blood, Lin raised her head and saw a pair of embroidered cloud boots inlaid with blue cat's eye gems.
This pair of boots was too familiar. As if seeing a savior, Lin grabbed the robe of the owner of the boots.
"My Lord, my Lord! My Lord! Please save me! Please save me!"
"Your Majesty!!!"
"They, they threw water on me! They did that to me! They threw water on me! These bitches, these bitches!"
"Your Majesty! Execute them! Execute them!"
"Your Majesty!"
She was crying like a pear blossom in the rain, but she didn't look lovable at all.
Looking at Lin's current appearance, Prince Duan's face was full of indifference. He looked at her, then suddenly lowered his body, grabbed her face, and looked at her with his eyes slightly narrowed.
"Tell me, is your pregnancy this time fake?"
"Is the child in your belly real?"
Lin's heart was shaken, and she slowly raised her head to look at Prince Duan, her voice trembling.
"I...I...Prince...that child...is real..."
“It’s true…”
"You're lying!"
Seeing her like this, Prince Duan immediately had an idea in his mind and slapped her to the ground.
Lin's body was already covered with wounds, and after being hit so hard, he even felt dizzy and collapsed to the ground without any strength left.
She spat out a mouthful of blood and dared not look into Prince Duan's eyes again.
"Mrs. Lin looks so miserable. If she had known this would happen, she wouldn't have done it in the first place."
"Even if Auntie had never gotten pregnant, Father wouldn't blame you. But you chose to do something like this, and it made Father very sad."
Gu Qingsheng, who was standing aside, covered her face and looked at Lin. Her brows were full of sympathy, like a thorn that kept piercing Lin's heart.
Something in her heart suddenly broke open. Lin's hands slowly tightened, and she gritted her teeth as she looked at Gu Qingsheng, her tone vicious as if she wanted to cut her into pieces.
"Is it you who did this? Is it you who did this?!"
"It's all because of you...it's all because of you..."
Because of Lin's words, Gu Qingsheng's eyes, which were originally smiling, gradually calmed down.
"If it weren't for me, Auntie, what you did was all your own fault."
"The big tree above has fallen, where are the ants below?"
These words struck Lin's head like thunder.
When she looked at Gu Qingsheng, her eyes were suddenly filled with fear.
It was a look of extreme fear. In front of her, Gu Qingsheng seemed no longer an ordinary person.
What this sentence means is not.
What I and Chu Zhiyao had done.
The woman in front of me.
Do you know everything?
From the beginning...
Cold sweat dripped from Lin's head. Before she could say anything, a palace maid hurried in from outside and handed a letter to Prince Duan.
After receiving the letter, Prince Duan looked at the contents of the letter and slowly smiled as if he was not surprised at all.
His smile was extremely cold, and he spoke in front of everyone
"Lin Shuangyi, formerly known as Caiying, was a maid who swept the fields in a rural village."
"Because of a mistake, she was driven out of the village. Later, she colluded with criminals and killed Lin Shuangyi on her way to find her relatives. She then impersonated Lin Shuangyi and married into the Duke of Duan's mansion."
"Then, he fed the princess from that time a slow-acting poison, killing her..."
"Lin Shuangyi... Oh, that's not right..."
Although the words were so plain, they sounded like evil spirits crawling out of hell, giving her goose bumps all over her body.
Lin swallowed her saliva and didn't dare to look back at Prince Duan's eyes.
"Now, should I call you Caiying?"
Gu Qingsheng also looked at Prince Duan with slightly wide eyes. She didn't expect that these were the results of Prince Duan's own investigation.
In her previous life, she knew some things about the Lin family. The Lin family colluded with Chu Zhiyao and brought great harm to their Prince Duan's Mansion and the entire dynasty. However, as for her affairs, Gu Qingsheng only knew that she was the one who harmed his mother and impersonated Lin Shuangyi.
But she didn't know what happened before.
Now, she couldn't help but hesitate.
If Prince Duan had already started investigating these matters, then could it be that the things that made me and him uncomfortable at that time were done intentionally by him?
Yes.
Prince Duan has never been a stupid person.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"
Lin suddenly became anxious and turned around and knelt down to kowtow to Prince Duan.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Please forgive me this time!"
"I was forced! I was forced!"
Her body was still very sticky, with the icy feeling of cold water and some fishy smell of blood.
But now I don’t care about anything.
Being splashed with water is a small matter, bleeding and getting injured are also small matters, but now is a matter of life and death.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me this time..."
"Shut up!"
Not wanting to even give the last look to Lin on the ground, Prince Duan took a deep breath and closed his eyes.
"Considering that you and I have been married for many years, I will spare your death sentence. I will lock her up in the woodshed and let her die."
"Don't send her food or water. Just lock her up and see how she survives."
Lin's eyes suddenly became dull and he collapsed heavily to the ground.
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