Chapter 67 You're shameless!
"After the assassin ran away with the hostage, Madam Hou and Liu Ruolan immediately said that he didn't dare to let them verify the person's identity, that it must be a fake!"
Shen Qingci chuckled: "It doesn't matter. Things have come to this point, whether it's true or false is no longer important."
As long as Huo Yunzhan doesn't dare to confront these rumors and appear in his true identity, she has won.
Even if Huo Yunzhan pulls this stunt again in the future, it won't affect her at all.
By then, she had already become the Regent's wife.
Little did she know, he was not dead.
She observed the proper mourning period for him for a hundred days.
As long as Huo Yunzhan remains Huo Yunting, it has nothing to do with her. Besides, she has already left the Yongning Marquis's residence; he's just a former brother-in-law, so he won't have any impact on her.
Shen Qingci thought so, but the Huo family didn't seem to think so.
The next morning, Madam Hou and Liu Ruolan came to the door.
Upon receiving the news, Shen Qingci instructed the housekeeper to arrange for them to stay in the front hall of the courtyard she had furnished next door before heading over.
As soon as Shen Qingci arrived at the front hall, she saw the old Madam Hou, who looked furious, and Liu Ruolan, who was looking at her courtyard with disdain.
"Why have the old lady and the lady of the Marquis come?"
The old lady of the Marquis's mansion frowned: "Once you leave the manor, you won't even call me 'Mother' anymore?"
Shen Qingci lifted her eyelids and sneered, "Old Madam, you have a bad memory. Before, Marquis Yongning disregarded my recent husband's death and my period of mourning, and directly ignored my wishes, drugged me, and wanted to send me to His Majesty. Instead of speaking up for me, Old Madam blamed me for not sleeping in my own bed and failing to be sent to the palace by Marquis Yongning, and even tried to send me to the palace again."
"Didn't I already say that back then? I have severed all ties with the Marquis's mansion and have no further connection with them?"
"What brings you here today, Madam? I don't think I've left anything at the Marquis's residence."
The old lady Hou's forehead veins bulged, as if she were furious, but she still took a deep breath to suppress her irritation: "Did you do what happened to Yun Ting yesterday?"
"Did you have someone kidnap him, take him to the roof of the Zhuangyuan Tower, and say those things in front of everyone?"
She narrowed her slightly cloudy eyes, her gaze turning cold and sharp: "Do you know... something?"
"What?" Shen Qingci knew exactly what the old lady was talking about. She sneered inwardly but pretended to be clueless: "What is it?"
Old Madam Hou slammed her hand on the armrest of her chair: "Don't play dumb! Dare you say you know nothing about what happened yesterday?"
“Ah…” Shen Qingci seemed to suddenly realize: “What the old lady said is true. Yesterday, the prison caught fire and the people in the prison were burned beyond recognition. Then the old lady and the lady of the Marquis ran over to the corpse of an old man in his sixties and cried, insisting that it was the Marquis.”
"Not long after, the Marquis was kidnapped by the Prime Minister's men and taken to the roof of the Zhuangyuan Tower. When the truth was revealed, the Marquis's wife and the Prime Minister's mansion wanted to send him to the border to replace the deceased Yun Zhan and bring him back."
After Shen Qingci said that, the old lady Hou's gaze grew even colder.
Shen Qingci remained unhurried, looking completely bewildered: "The old lady asked if I did it? What did she ask?"
"Is it the burning of the imperial prison?"
"Or did they kidnap the Marquis, take him to the rooftop of the Scholar's Pavilion, and expose his conspiracy?"
"Madam, which one do you think I am capable of doing, given my current status and abilities?"
The old lady's eyelashes trembled slightly; Shen Qingci's words made sense.
If the Shen family were still at its peak, perhaps they could still have done it.
But now the Shen family is gone, leaving her with at most a few guards to protect herself, none of which she can accomplish.
She scoffed, "And if the Marquis were to fall into my hands, based on his attempt to drug me and send me to the Emperor's bed, I would kill him outright!"
"Although I, Shen Qingci, have lost my maternal family to rely on and my husband has died, I am still a legitimate daughter of a prominent family raised by the Shen family. I still have the integrity and temperament that should be there."
"I absolutely cannot let him humiliate me like that!"
"Even if he is Huo Yunzhan's older brother, it's still not acceptable!"
"How dare you!" Old Madam Hou slammed her hand on the table and stood up.
Shen Qingci glanced at her: "What do I have to be afraid of? Speaking of which, I think the reason why the old lady is in such a hurry to come here to frame me is because what the assassin who kidnapped the Marquis said yesterday is true, right?"
She smiled enigmatically: "After all, the Marquis and Yun Zhan are twins, so it is indeed difficult to tell them apart."
"Moreover, the Marquis's reputation has been completely ruined. Everyone in the capital knows that he is incapable of having children and continuing the lineage of the Marquis's family."
"In this situation, faking death and then returning in place of Yun Zhan is indeed the best course of action."
“But…do you really think this plan is foolproof? First of all, as Huo Yunzhan’s wife, I would never admit to him. I will expose his identity immediately.”
"After all, I feel disgusted."
"What if he comes back in place of Yun Zhan, pretends to be Yun Zhan, and tries to be all lovey-dovey with me, even doing intimate things that couples do... How disgusting..."
"Sister-in-law, don't you find this disgusting? The Marquis is your husband. What if he comes back in place of Yun Zhan and sleeps with me? As someone who knows the truth, can you tolerate it? Don't you find it disgusting? Are you really that magnanimous?"
Liu Ruolan's eyelids twitched suddenly, and she felt that Shen Qingci was making veiled criticisms.
Shen Qingci didn't really want to wait for her answer, and continued, "Maybe my sister-in-law is generous, but if it were me, in this kind of situation, whether I was in my sister-in-law's position or in my own, I would feel disgusted."
After Shen Qingci finished speaking, she raised the corners of her mouth and looked at the old lady of the Marquis, whose face was already extremely ugly, with a look of sudden realization: "Oh! I almost forgot, the Marquis... is not good."
"Even if I pretend to be Yun Zhan and come back, I can change my identity, but I can't change Xin'er. It won't work, it just won't work."
Old Madam Hou, unable to bear it any longer, jumped up and down in anger: "Shen Qingci, you shameless person!"
Shen Qingci couldn't help but laugh out loud: "I'm shameless? Who's the shameless one here?"
“I have already left the Marquis’s mansion, and I have made it clear that I have no connection with your mansion whatsoever. Although my husband is your son, he is dead.”
"My relationship with you and the Marquis's mansion only began because I married your son."
"Now that your son is dead, I naturally have nothing to do with you anymore."
"I don't know why you came here today, but whatever it is, I advise you..."
She paused, looked at Liu Ruolan, and curled the corners of her lips into a half-smile: "I also advise Madam Hou not to provoke me anymore."
"Although I have no power or influence, I have lived in the Marquis's mansion for almost a year. I know more about the secrets of the Marquis's mansion than you can imagine."
"If you insist on forcing me, then I'll abandon all pretense of dignity and fight you to the death. Then you'll probably be unhappy!"
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