Chapter 58 Chapter 58 Former accomplices turned enemies
The moment he said that, Jiang Wuru clenched his palms as if frozen in place, and his pupils shrank suddenly as if struck by lightning.
Is the man in front of me really my husband?
If he were her husband, he would never say such words, but if he is not her husband, who could it be?
Jiang Wu suddenly thought of what he had said before: the person living in Changle's body was not Changle. So, at this moment, could it be him who was living in his body?
Shen Tingxue's smug voice continued, "Everything Master said was for the good of Master's Wife. Master's Wife's background is relatively low. If she can't even learn the so-called rules, the only one who will be laughed at by others will be Master."
"Marry a virtuous woman, and a virtuous woman will be a good match for your family."
Jiang Wu quickly collected his thoughts, a subtle hint of sarcasm curling up the corner of his lips. "If you want to tell a joke, who here can compare to the princess?"
"My Lady, before you criticize me, you should first consider whether you have lived a righteous life. As for my humble origins, is there anyone in the world whose ancestors haven't been farmers? Or were they born into a royal family, unattainable?"
"Changle said that for your own good. If you hadn't behaved inappropriately, why would Changle have tried to persuade you?" Xie Ji stood up and looked at her with cold and disgusted eyes, as if she were some kind of filthy thing.
"Husband, have you forgotten that I am your wife?" Although she had guessed, Jiang Wu still felt a blockage in her heart and a sour nose. She pointed her finger at Shen Tingxue and said angrily, "Husband, you are now accusing me, your wife, for an outsider. I want to ask you, who is your wife?"
Xie Ji, with his imposing aura, sneered coldly, his brows furrowed in hatred. "If you hadn't been asking for a favor, how could I have married an illiterate village woman like you? How can you compare to Changle?"
"Jiang Wu, people should know their own limitations. Do you think that just because I marry you, you can use the name of Madam Xie to bully Changle?"
"May I ask my husband, how have I bullied the princess? It was clearly the princess who first maliciously speculated about the relationship between me and Prince Ji." If it was just a suspicion before, Jiang Wu was now 100% sure that the person in front of her was not Xie Ji.
So where did the real Xie Ji go? Would he ever come back? Jiang Wu's heart suddenly felt tight and anxious.
When the atmosphere was tense, Shen Tingxue took Xie Ji's arm and said with a considerate smile: "Okay, Master, don't be angry with irrelevant people because of me, otherwise it's not worth it to get hurt."
Her peripheral vision swept over Jiang Wu, who was looking grim. All the melancholy and irritability she had felt in the past few days disappeared at that moment. Her red lips curled up slightly with pride, "Didn't Master's wife say she was full and stayed? Did she want to see us finish eating before leaving?"
Although she didn't understand why her master suddenly changed his attitude towards her, she was flattered and overjoyed.
Xie Ji patted her arm and shouted sternly towards the door, "Take the Madam back. From now on, she is not allowed to step out of Hengwu Garden without my permission."
Before, she was just not allowed to go out, but now she is not allowed to step out of the yard.
The next step would be her death from illness.
After stepping out of the main hall, Jiang Wu, who was shivering in the cold wind, recalled with a grim expression.
Xie Ji's attitude towards her in the dream was exactly the same as his previous attitude. Thinking of this possibility, Jiang Wu's breathing became rapid and cold.
The cold raindrops falling on her body were no different from the snowflakes falling on her cold body in the dilapidated temple.
That's impossible. She shouldn't scare herself. At worst, she could just run away with the money she had saved.
After she left, Ji Xiao in Taibai Tower remained standing there as if frozen.
Only after his legs became sore from standing for so long did he squat down, covering his head in pain.
All that echoed in his mind were her words about breaking up with him and the dream he had been having for the past few days.
She said that she had the same dream as herself, and that it was not a dream at all, but her previous life in which she was killed.
Impossible, how could it be their previous life? He tried to convince himself that it was just an ordinary dream. But another voice in his heart kept saying, was it really just an ordinary dream?
Can ordinary dreams really be so realistic?
Changji, who had just been sent away, heard the sound and hurriedly pushed the door open and walked in.
As soon as I came in, I was almost vomited by the strong smell of alcohol in the room. I pinched my nose with my hand and walked in.
When he saw the table full of wine bottles, his brows trembled violently, and he disappeared for a while, wondering how there was so much wine in the room. Then he found the man among the pile of wine bottles who was constantly pouring wine into his mouth, wishing he could drink himself to death. He rushed over anxiously, panicked and fearfully to snatch the wine jar from the man's hand.
"Prince, what's wrong with you?"
"Even if something terrible happened, you can't drink so much. What if you ruin your health?" The master and his mistress would definitely have to take action against him first.
And he was only out for a while, so how could the prince become like this? Could something have happened that he didn't know about?
"Get out of here!" Ji Xiao, who was drunkenly dreaming while holding a jar of wine, suddenly saw someone coming in. After burping, he asked in a daze, "Do you believe in rebirth in this world?"
Although Changji didn't understand why the prince asked this, he nodded and said, "Of course I believe it. If I had suffered a great injustice in my previous life, I would definitely hope to be able to live a good life again and kill my enemies with my own hands."
After hearing this, Ji Xiao covered his face and burst into laughter. The laughter was sad and shrill, with a strong sense of self-mockery.
If the dream was really their previous life, no wonder she, who loved him so much, wanted to break up with him, because he was an absolute beast in the dream.
He couldn't even forgive himself for doing that, let alone her.
After figuring it out, Ji Xiao smashed the wine bottle in his hand, staggered to his feet, and walked out. Changji hurried forward to support him. After hesitating for a moment, he decided to tell him the news he had heard, "Your Highness, I heard that not long ago, Prime Minister Xie personally invited Princess Changle to return to her mansion. He also clarified to the public that those poems were sent out after someone stole the princess's manuscripts."
"My Lord, why would Prime Minister Xie say such self-destructive words? Does he think all the scholars in the world are blind, or does he treat everyone like fools?"
When Ji Xiao heard the name Changle, he felt a stabbing pain in his head, and then the pain finally felt like someone was hitting his forehead with a small hammer again and again.
In the dream, they had initially made a bet to see who could make Jiang Wu and Xie Ji divorce because they didn't want to upset Changle. They had only wanted them to divorce and hadn't thought of taking her life, so why had things escalated to such an uncontrollable level later on?
They are hateful and extremely evil murderers. Can Shen Tingxue really be called innocent among them?
Every time he felt like he couldn't bear it, she would appear before him, looking pitiful and forbearing, as if she had been wronged. She used vague words to guide him, making him believe that it was Jiang Wu who bullied her, and without even checking the truth, he concluded that Jiang Wu was a vicious woman.
Perhaps, Changle is not as simple and perfect as he thought.
If she was really a good person, why would she fall in love with the master who raised her since she was a child, and after the master got married, she encouraged this idiot to destroy the marriage, and finally cruelly took Jiang Wu's life.
Ji Xiao was breathing rapidly and his teeth were chattering. Whenever he thought of the stupid things he had done in his dream, he wanted to punch himself to death.
I deserve to die, and the others deserve to die too!
Ever since Song Jin failed the imperial examination and was criticized by Xie Ji as disloyal, unfilial, and immoral, not only did all those who had previously courted him flee in disarray, but even his father, who already had a lot of complaints about him, abandoned him under the influence of his stepmother. If he hadn't had a conscience, he would have been expelled from the Song family by now.
How could he accept his fall from being a favored child of heaven to being in the mud on the roadside where anyone could step on him?
And all of this is the fault of that bitch Jiang Wu. If it weren't for her, how could I have fallen to this point today!
He wanted to take revenge on her, but he couldn't even get close to the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Song Jin, who was drinking and using alcohol to numb himself, also heard the knock on the door and said impatiently, "Who is it?"
Ji Xiao, holding a stick, kicked the door open with a gloomy face and said, "It's me."
Song Jin, who was lying on the table, drunkenly clutching a jar of wine, struggled to open his drooping eyelids and frowned, "What are you doing here?"
"What am I here for? To kill you, of course!"
"Ah, puff." Jiang Wu rubbed the tip of her nose with her hand. It seemed that she had run out in the rain today and caught a cold from the wind.
She counted the little piggy bank she had saved again and found that the money she had saved was obviously enough for her to live a rich life in the next life.
However, thinking that the person occupying Xie Ji's body might be a wandering ghost, and that he was very kind to her, if she really left, she would inevitably feel guilty.
Or, should we invite a Taoist priest or monk to exorcise the evil spirit?
"Madam, do you know what I saw when I came back?" Yu Su's angry and anxious voice came from afar, showing her rage.
Jiang Wu, who had hidden the small treasury, turned around and said, "What did you see that's worth making a fuss about?"
Although Yu Shu was a bit more lively, she wouldn't get easily startled unless she saw something that really shocked her.
Yu Shu recalled the scene she had seen before, and for a moment she didn't know how to start speaking. She also blamed herself for saying those words.
If the lady knew about this, she would definitely be very sad and might even go to the adults to make trouble.
Jiang Wu saw her embarrassment and comforted her, "Just tell me what you saw."
Yu Shu regretted her words and said, "I didn't see anything, but I felt that the rain was really heavy today."
Jiang Wu's face darkened and his tone became serious, "Yu Shu, you should know that I don't like people lying to me."
Yu Shu knew it, but she met Madam's cold eyes, dug her nails into her palms and quickly made a decision, "Madam, before I speak, can you please prepare yourself mentally?"
Jiang Wu thought her words were incomprehensible, but still agreed, "Well, go ahead."
He was even more curious about what she was going to say, which was why he said something that made her ready.
Yu Shu hesitated for a moment, then finally chose to close her eyes and said, "I saw Princess Changle and the Lord kissing."
"What!"
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