Prince Rui's Palace.

Su Xu grabbed Lin Mengli's arm and threw her to the ground.

"Get out!"

The servants were so frightened that they scattered in all directions, closed the door and dared not come any closer.

Su Xu approached Lin Mengli, glaring at her from above with an icy voice.

"While I can still control myself, I'll give you a chance to explain yourself."

Lin Mengli's tears almost dried up along the way. She looked at Su Xu with red and swollen eyes, her eyes full of grievance and fear.

"It was Ning Xihua! She was the one who had someone drug me! I didn't do it on purpose! I never thought of betraying you! I was forced to do it!"

Lin Mengli argued while crying, her body trembling slightly, but she still looked pitiful.

But at this moment, Su Xu no longer bought into her tricks.

"Then you were forced to get me drunk and pretend to lose your virginity to me?"

"You were forced to hide the truth from me and tell Su Han the news you got from me?"

"You pushed the princess down and caused her miscarriage, but you lied to me that she fell down by herself and was forced to do so?"

Su Xu questioned him word by word about the reality that he had never seen clearly before.

"Lin Mengli, you have such a cruel heart."

Looking at her familiar and beautiful face, seeing her crying in such a touching way.

He closed his eyes sadly, and when he opened them again he was filled with disappointment, without any trace of warmth.

"I was blind all these years. I shouldn't have given you my whole heart."

Lin Mengli seemed to have been touched by Su Xu's words. She suddenly laughed with a crazy look on her face.

"Hahahaha...with all my sincerity...hahahaha..."

She laughed so hard that tears came out of her eyes, but she slowly reached out and wiped the corners of her eyes.

She looked at the man she had loved for so many years, her attitude no longer gentle, but tougher than ever before.

"Su Xu, who was it that saved me, approached me, treated me well, and told me that he would always be there for me and I didn't have to be afraid anymore?"

"Who said that they admired my tenacity for not feeling inferior despite being a concubine's daughter, and for not giving in despite adversity?"

"Who made a promise to me, promising to love me forever and marry me?"

She laughed sarcastically and pointed her finger at his nose. "What have you done now?"

Su Xu couldn't believe it and thought she was unreasonable.

"Although I have never married you as my principal wife, I have finally asked my father to make you my concubine. Am I not good enough to you?"

Lin Mengli laughed wildly again, "Be good to me?"

"You told me not to feel sorry for my status, and built up the hope that you would marry me in a formal way. Then you easily destroyed this hope with just one word, 'I'm sorry.'"

She tried so hard to become his wife, and even framed Ning Xihua many times, ending up like this. But after Ning Xihua got engaged to the prince, he turned around and married Qin Songya.

"You said I pushed Qin Songya down and caused her to have a miscarriage? Yes! I did it on purpose! That child will be the eldest son after he is born. Will there be a place for me and my child in the Rui Palace in the future?"

"You admired my resilience, didn't you? Why don't you admire it now?"

"What? I deserve to die just because I was insulted! On what grounds?"

Lin Mengli's face was full of stubbornness, and there was a cruelty in her eyes that he had never seen before.

"I want to live, to get everything I want while I live! To trample all those who have bullied me under my feet while I live!"

When Su Xu heard these words, he covered his face in pain.

"You could have told me... that you didn't have to go through so much alone..."

"Tell you?"

Lin Mengli raised her head and stared at him, her light tone full of sarcasm.

"Ask yourself, if I told you that I was insulted, would you still marry me? Not to mention marrying me, you probably wouldn't even want to give me a position as a concubine, right?"

She knows Su Xu too well.

He seems generous, but in fact he is very selfish. Even though they have been friends for many years, once she has a flaw, he will definitely abandon her like a worn-out shoe.

Su Xu's back was hunched miserably, as if someone had pulled out his spine.

She was right, he might actually do that.

"But this is not a reason for you to deceive and betray me, right?"

Lin Mengli looked at him and smiled maliciously.

"Su Xu, I deceived and betrayed you because you are incompetent! You couldn't protect me, so I was bullied! You didn't care about me, so I was threatened!"

"Do you know that I suffer from poisoning every month? Do you know that Su Han often sends messages to the palace asking me to provide him with information? You don't know! You can't even protect your own woman! You can't even take care of your own Rui Palace!"

Lin Mengli laughed happily again.

"What did I do wrong? From the beginning to the end, I just wanted to marry you."

She asked in a daze, her voice light and floating.

All she had done over the years was just for this one wish, for which she paid a terrible price, but still failed to achieve her wish.

She looked at Su Xu's painful expression and felt unprecedented pleasure in her heart.

"Does it hurt? Is it uncomfortable? I feel the same as you, and I have been experiencing this pain for a long time."

Su Xu raised his head and looked at the strange yet familiar woman in front of him, his eyes filled with bloodshot.

"You know what? If you say these words today, you may never live again."

If she had been gentle and begged him, he might have let her go. But she exposed the ugly truth, leaving no room for maneuver between the two.

Lin Mengli looked as if she had expected this, and even said with a smile, "You want to kill me?"

She stroked her belly and chuckled, "But your child is in here, are you going to kill me too?"

She had planned to tell him after the imperial physician confirmed the diagnosis. He had hoped so much that he would let her bear him a child. But now, this child had ironically become her life-saving talisman.

Su Xu was surprised. Child?

"How do I know if this is my child?" he sneered.

Although Lin Mengli was prepared, she still felt a chill in her heart when she heard his question.

"Whether it's your child or not, you have to acknowledge it. Princess Duan was only three months pregnant and His Majesty was impressed by Prince Duan. I guess the month of my pregnancy is not much different from Princess Duan's."

She knew Su Xu's ambition, looked into his eyes, and said sarcastically, "Regardless of whether he is legitimate or illegitimate, don't you want to share in the glory of being the eldest grandson of the emperor?"

She smiled confidently, "Besides, if I die in Prince Rui's mansion today, the rumors about you being cuckolded will only be confirmed tomorrow. Then neither you nor Prince Duan will be pleased, and in the end, the Crown Prince will only benefit."

Su Xu knew that what she said was true. After thinking it over again and again, he finally decided that future benefits outweighed current hatred.

He took a deep breath and gathered all his emotions.

"Come here, Concubine Lin needs to rest due to illness. From today on, no one is allowed to disturb Concubine Lin's recovery."

This is a disguised form of house arrest.

Lin Mengli had a sneer on her face and didn't ask for mercy or refute, seeming to not care at all.

But only she knows how she feels.

Main courtyard.

After Qin Songya came back, she was as usual, except for asking about the whereabouts of Su Xu and Lin Mengli.

After washing up with the help of the maid, she prepared to go to bed.

"Princess, the prince has been standing outside the door for a long time."

She said calmly, "Turn off the lights."

The maid wanted to say something but hesitated, but still obediently turned off the light and left the room.

Qin Songya turned over in bed, expressionless.

If he likes to stand, let him stand, just don't disturb her sleep.