Zhao You looked shocked after hearing Zhao Ning's false accusation. His face twitched as he looked at Su Xuerong and quickly knelt down: "Your Majesty, please calm down. My sister has been naughty since she was a child. She must have made a mistake first!"
Upon hearing this, Zhao Ning immediately retorted angrily, "Zhao You, you coward! I'm your sister! Why didn't you help me when I was being bullied?"
Not daring to directly confront Su Xuerong, she pointed at Su Shirong and Cui Yun'er and said, "It's obvious that these two are in cahoots, deliberately trying to smear me. They've teamed up to harm me in order to cover up their affair!"
Everyone present: "..."
This Zhao Niangzi really knows how to lie without batting an eye!
Zhao You's forehead was covered in cold sweat, and he quickly covered Zhao Ning's mouth: "I think you've lost your mind!"
Xiuchun had already arranged for chairs and canopies to be brought over, so Su Xuerong sat down under the tree with Su Jian, coldly observing the scene before them.
"Zhao You, release her!" she sneered. "I want to see just how much she can do to cause trouble!"
Zhao Ning grew increasingly frantic, shoving Zhao You aside and shouting, "Brother! You're a trusted confidant of His Majesty the Emperor! What are you afraid of?"
"I'm not some unwanted widow, and I didn't use any underhanded means to get into the Emperor's bed. I'm completely innocent..."
Zhao You lunged forward and covered Zhao Ning's mouth tightly again, kowtowing to Su Xuerong with a face full of cold sweat: "Your Majesty, please calm down. She must be crazy to say such treasonous words."
I never expected things to turn out like this; he wouldn't have enough heads to lose!
Everyone present gasped, and no one dared to utter a sound.
Su Xuerong remained completely calm, looking at Zhao Ning with a hint of mockery, raising her eyebrows: "Oh, so you're one of those who's not convinced either!"
"Since you consider yourself arrogant, why don't I give you a chance?"
Su Xuerong looked at Zhao Ning, who was full of resentment, with a half-smile: "Since you also want to be the Emperor's woman, why don't you wait until the Emperor returns? As long as you can persuade him to take you in, I will forgive everything you did today, including your great disrespect to me."
Zhao Ning was immediately overjoyed.
She was always incredibly confident, believing that no other woman around her was more beautiful than herself.
Even if the empress in front of me is beautiful, she is still a widow who is no longer clean and is old. How could she compare to me?
"But if the Emperor has no interest in you at all, I will not let you off lightly! I will deal with the crime you committed today in accordance with the law!" Su Xue Rong did not wait for her to be happy for a moment before her face slowly darkened and she said sternly.
Zhao You's body went limp, and he collapsed to the ground.
He was filled with regret. If he hadn't listened to his mother's advice and wanted to marry Zhao Ning to Su Shirong, none of this would have happened.
Originally, the intention was to make Su Shirong back down on his own, but how did it turn into such an uncontrollable situation?
Zhao You turned to look at her sister, whose face was full of excitement, and felt utterly hopeless.
How could he have such a stupid and wicked sister?
He wished that this idiot in front of him had no blood relation whatsoever!
To prevent Zhao Ning from screaming like a pig being slaughtered again, Su Xuerong immediately ordered the imperial physician to come and set her dislocated wrist.
Zhao Ning felt utterly ashamed and embarrassed, and shamelessly asked to go back and wash up again.
Everyone thought she was crazy, daring to make demands of the Empress at this time.
Unexpectedly, Su Xuerong agreed and even generously asked Xiuchun to send her a set of jewelry and a palace dress to change into.
Zhao Ning, however, felt that Su Xuerong was afraid. She was afraid that people would say she was jealous and forbade the emperor from taking in more concubines, so she became smug instead.
The palace maids and nannies serving her all secretly rolled their eyes.
This foolish woman, doesn't she know she's about to be in big trouble?
Despite being the Empress, Su Xuerong was kind and gentle to her servants. The palace servants had been serving her for nearly a year and had never seen her blush.
But today everyone could clearly feel the Empress's suppressed anger.
The Emperor's affection for the Empress was evident to all.
How could the Emperor possibly look favorably upon this arrogant and foolish young lady before him?
So what if she's young? In terms of looks and temperament, a hundred of hers can't compare to the Empress.
Does she really think she has the victory in her grasp?
Angering the Empress might only result in severe punishment, but it would enrage the Emperor. She should just pray for the best!
Zhao Ning, however, was completely oblivious to all this. Seeing the palace servants obediently helping her change and wash, she became even more enthusiastic: "I will soon be going to the palace with the Emperor. If you serve me well then, I will definitely take you all to my palace..."
A palace maid suddenly laughed: "My lady, you should think about how to get through this ordeal tonight!"
Zhao Ning glared fiercely at the palace maid: "You lowly thing, who do you think you are to lecture me?"
"Even your empress treats me with deference, and you dare to lecture me?"
The palace maid rolled her eyes at her and turned to leave.
Zhao Ning felt it was fine for Su Xuerong to humiliate her, but why did this lowly palace maid under her dare to look down on her?
She immediately grabbed a hairpin from the dressing table and slashed it fiercely across the palace maid's face—
"ah……"
Su Xuerong listened to Xiuchun's account with a cold face, then flew into a rage: "Crazy woman! Put handcuffs and shackles on her and tie her to the stable!"
Unexpectedly, her momentary indulgence actually harmed that palace maid.
"Fortunately, the wound wasn't deep, and the imperial physician arrived in time to apply medicine..." Xiuchun felt sorry for that palace maid.
"Give her all the best medicines I have given her, then let her rest for half a month, and then give her three hundred taels of silver from my private treasury as compensation."
Xiuchun quickly agreed and went downstairs.
Zhao Ning was handcuffed and shackled, and firmly chained to the stables behind the palace. A smelly rag was stuffed into his mouth, leaving him helpless and unable to call for help.
Alright, when she sees the Emperor later, she'll definitely give Su Xuerong a good dressing down!
No, she still needed to think of some crimes against Su Xuerong, preferably heinous ones, so that the Emperor would never like her again...
Just then, a figure slowly crept into the stable.
Zhao Ning saw a man with evil eyes walking towards her, and her almond-shaped eyes widened in surprise, while she mumbled something indistinctly.
The man looked around to make sure all the guards were outside before walking up to her and pulling the smelly rag out of her mouth.
Just as Zhao Ning was about to unleash a torrent of curses, he heard the man sneer: "You'd better curse even louder, and attract those guards so they can cut your tongue out!"
Zhao Ning's cheek twitched violently as she stared intently at him: "Who are you?"
The man, with a wicked grin, lifted her chin: "Don't worry about who I am. You just need to answer me: do you want to kill the Su family and become Xiao Yuan's woman?"
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