Chapter 2 She is not the daughter of the Shu family
Push it down? In the lotus pond?
Shu Yu immediately took a step to the side, frowning. "Wait, are you trying to kill me? Why?"
Her gaze swept over the people present, including her father and siblings, but no one stepped forward to speak.
The old lady didn't even want to look at her. It was her steward who spoke up, coldly saying, "Third Miss... oh, no, you're no longer the Third Miss of the Shu family. You're just a bastard adopted from who-knows-where. Back then, Aunt Xue bribed the doctor to pretend to be pregnant. On the day of her delivery, she bought a baby from outside to impersonate the Third Miss of the Shu family. That baby was you."
Shu Yu's brows furrowed tightly, and a rare look of surprise flashed across her face.
She wasn't actually a daughter of the Shu family?! How could the book not mention this at all?
Could it be that her arrival caused a butterfly effect?
Shu Yu was puzzled when the old lady's maid spoke up again, "You've enjoyed fourteen years of pampered life in the Shu family. Now that things have been exposed, it's only natural that things must be set right."
Shu Yu suddenly raised her head. "Your so-called rectification of wrongs? You mean pushing me into the lotus pond to drown me?"
The old lady finally spoke, "The Shu family cannot tolerate such a stain on your reputation."
Shu Yu, "..." had a string of curses in her mind that she didn't know whether to say or not.
"So, the snake in my room just now was also one of your methods?"
The eldest daughter of the Shu family snorted coldly, "Actually, if you were bitten to death by a snake, you wouldn't suffer as much pain."
Shu Yu looked at the others, and everyone felt that the old lady's decision was right; the Shu family's reputation was more important than anything else. Besides, she was just an illegitimate child adopted from who-knows-where; if she died, so be it, and no one would care.
Shu Yu now understands why the Shu family ended up being exiled as a whole. It's likely that the female supporting character will also be aided and abetted by them on her path to self-destruction.
Two old women came over, carrying two ropes, and were about to tie Shu Yu's hands.
Shu Yu instinctively wanted to make a move, but then she thought about it and didn't.
She can't change the outcome now; the Shu family will all live peacefully until they are exiled in three months, so there's no need for her to waste her energy.
Three months later... then it's time to settle scores and settle grievances.
But she couldn't just calmly face her death.
Shu Yu suddenly laughed, her gaze sweeping over everyone present. "You want to kill me? Fine. But before you die, can you let me say a few words?"
"You have any last words?" Miss Shu sneered. "I'll give you a chance to see what you can say."
Shu Yu's hands were tied behind her back, but the way she used to hang her head like a transparent person was completely gone. Everyone even felt that her figure had become inexplicably tall.
Shu Yu's gaze lingered on the person on the far left. "Uncle Shu, isn't Jin Tai Lane's mistress a beauty? She's recently become pregnant again. Come to think of it, she was sold off by the First Madam, but you brought her back right after. You really are in love."
The eldest patriarch of the Shu family stared wide-eyed at his wife's incredulous gaze and was about to explain.
However, Shu Yu immediately followed up, "Madam, your nephew has killed his second wife. You've been discussing with your maternal aunt about marrying your second sister, who is also a concubine's daughter, to him, right? This would both eliminate a potential threat and give your family an explanation."
"Second Master Shu, the old lady helped you pay the debt to the gambling den, right? Although it was paid with her personal savings. But if you continue gambling, the public funds will have to be used."
"Second Madam, you drugged Aunt Liu and caused her to miscarry. This has hurt Master Shu's feelings. No wonder he drowned his sorrows in alcohol and went to the gambling den to gamble."
"Big sister, you..."
"Shut up, shut up, I told you to shut up!" The old woman slammed her cane down hard. Seeing that the expressions of the people she had mentioned had changed, she immediately gave a wink to the two old women behind her, "Aren't you going to do it?"
Shu Yu said regretfully, "Wasn't I supposed to make my last words clear?" When the Shu family was exiled, more than just these things were discovered. These things were all written in the book.
"You're talking complete nonsense! I really underestimated you. You've always been so quiet, but even on your deathbed you're still trying to sow discord and disrupt the harmony of my Shu family. You're utterly despicable!" The old lady was so angry that she could no longer maintain her composure and angrily pounded the ground.
The rest of the Shu family echoed her sentiments, and the two old women dared not delay any longer. They tied a large stone to Shu Yu's ankle and hurriedly pushed her into the lotus pond.
The old lady only breathed a sigh of relief after she saw Shu Yu's body sink to the bottom of the pool.
However, what she didn't know was that Shu Yu had already untied the rope around her wrists when she started to sink, and when she reached the bottom of the pool, she had also broken free of the ropes and stones around her ankles.
She swam forward and silently poked half her head out from under a lotus leaf.
The people on the shore hadn't left yet, seemingly to make sure she wouldn't surface.
The old lady instructed the two women who had done the work, "If you pull her out again tomorrow night, say that the Third Miss went out to cool off at night, accidentally fell into the water, and lost her life."
"Yes," the two old women hurriedly replied.
The old lady then said to the eldest master of the Shu family, "Afterwards, deal with Aunt Xue and announce to the outside world that Aunt Xue could not bear the pain of losing her daughter and died in depression."
The master agreed without any objection.
However, Shu Yu remembered that Aunt Xue did not die in the book; she was also on the list of those to be exiled. She wondered how she managed to escape this disaster this time.
This made Shu Yu understand why Aunt Xue had been so cruel to her own daughter.
Xiao Shuyu not only endured hunger and fought with dogs for food, but also suffered from a persistent high fever and was left to fend for herself in her room. She knelt in the yard under the scorching sun to admit her mistakes until she fainted, and was almost beaten to death by Aunt Xue.
Everyone in the Shu family thought that Aunt Xue was unhappy because Shu Yu was a girl, so she was resentful and not very close to her.
(End of this chapter)
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