Upon hearing Su Xuening's words, Su Muyao instantly seemed to recall the pain of having her tongue cut out. Her fists clenched tightly as if she wanted to crush them, and hatred and resentment surged from her eyes.
Su Xuening, you have suffered the humiliation of being abandoned. I will repay you in every way possible in the future!
Startled by Su Xuening's words, Zhong Shi immediately stopped gossiping and changed her tune, crying out again, "She's missing too! We raised you and your brother! Now that your second uncle is in trouble, you can't just stand by and watch him die!"
Zhong's sob story actually evoked sympathy from quite a few passersby.
"To stand by and watch someone die is truly outrageous."
"Yes, they're family no matter what!"
Hearing these people taking sides without distinguishing right from wrong, Su Xuening could no longer suppress her anger.
"I have truly witnessed Madam Su's ability to distort the truth today."
Su Xuening raised her eyes and swept them over the passersby: "Do you think the people of the capital are so forgetful? It's only been a few days. Do you think they've forgotten how you and Su Renyi usurped the Grand General's Mansion, which the Emperor bestowed upon my father, and forcibly seized the Yong'an Marquis title that should have belonged to my brother? Even after you got everything, you still wouldn't let my brother and me go. For two days in a row, you burned down my brother's Lingxiao Pavilion and my Jingxue Pavilion. If my brother and I hadn't been so lucky, we would have died in the fire long ago."
Even now that I've married into the Holy Prince's mansion, Su Renyi still harbors treacherous intentions, repeatedly hiring assassins to kill me and the Prince. Do you think I'm a saint? Su Renyi wants me dead so badly, and I'm supposed to save him? Or are you all saints here, gratefully saving others no matter how much they want you dead?
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