Her eyes reddened as she spoke, and she looked extremely aggrieved. She lowered her head slightly and said, "They have never treated me like a human being."
"Originally, Lin Xiuyan was supposed to marry the City Lord of Yucheng, but she hooked up with the young master and looked down on the City Lord of Yucheng."
"She...she wanted to marry the prince, but she was too embarrassed to break off the engagement, so..."
She began to sob softly as she said this: "She devised a vicious scheme to put me in the bed of Zhou Chengyang, the city lord of Yucheng, and then planned to catch me in the act of adultery."
"Because of this incident, I was disgraced and had no choice but to marry the city lord of Yucheng."
She said these things without any pressure at all; Zhou Shuyi can check.
Although this is not the root cause of the matter, the events do match.
Zhou Shuyi had been disciplined by Lin Xiuyan, so he now believed Jiang Xinrou's words without a doubt.
The key point is that she seems unwilling to marry the city lord of Yucheng, which means he can gain some advantage.
His attitude immediately improved considerably, and he cursed, "The entire Lin family is heartless and insane! How could they do such a disgusting thing?"
Jiang Xinrou wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and said sweetly, "Thank you for speaking up for justice, Young Master Zhou."
“The Lin family raised me, so it’s perfectly reasonable for me to marry the city lord of Yucheng in place of Lin Xiuyan.”
"But they went too far, especially after they found out I had been tricked into getting pregnant..."
She paused briefly, then said in a pitiful voice, "They plotted to cause my miscarriage and also rendered the Lord of Yucheng infertile."
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