Chapter 13: Smashing the Scumbag's Head
Su Tan withdrew his hand and put the cup on the table.
"Song Tingchen, I don't care how you and Song Xiaoai protect Liu Qingyin, but if you want to throw dirty water on me, don't blame me for being rude."
A hint of sneer escaped from her lips. "Since you know I'm heartless and ungrateful, you should also know that I have some skills in fortune-telling and catching ghosts. If you keep disgusting me, I wouldn't mind giving you a few evil spirits as gifts."
She asked herself that she had done her best for Song Xiao and had done everything she should have done for him, but who could blame her for the shallow mother-son relationship with Song Xiao? Her four years of careful care could not compare to a few smiles from Liu Qingyin.
But this does not mean that Song Tingchen can put the blame on her at will.
Song Tingchen stared at the plum blossom on her head with a serious look, his eyes becoming colder and colder. When he thought that she gave the jade pendant that should have been given to Xiaoxiao to someone else, he felt an indescribable feeling of suffocation in his heart.
"Su Tan, you're trying your best to please other people's daughters. Are you naively thinking that if Xiaoxiao were a daughter, she wouldn't like Qingyin and would be devoted to you?"
A sneer played on his lips. "However, how is this possible? No one would like someone as cruel and extreme as you, not even children!"
A cold light flashed in Su Tan's eyes. He exerted force with his hands, suddenly picked up the teacup in front of him, and smashed it squarely on Song Tingchen's forehead.
"Song Xiao will never be my daughter in this life, he doesn't deserve it!"
Her only daughter is Changle.
As for Song Xiao, he was just a parasite growing up in her belly. Although he was called a child, he was actually more like a blood-sucking worm that could speak human language.
A hint of sarcasm flashed in her eyes. "Today at Prince Chen's Mansion, General Song heard everything he should have heard. Princess Yu's eldest son was murdered at birth. As a result, the child was filled with resentment and became a night-crying ghost."
"But even if that child becomes a ghost, he will still remember the injustice his mother suffered and the bullying his sister suffered in Prince Yu's mansion."
Even a ghost would feel sorry for his mother who carried him for ten months and gave birth to him.
Where is Song Xiao?
Su Tan frowned and looked at Song Tingchen indifferently, "You said I was cruel to Song Xiao, General Song. In the past, I had never seen other children. I only thought that all children in the world were the ones who gave them milk."
But Changle is not like that.
Even the night-crying ghost we saw today was not like this.
"Song Xiao is not even as good as a night-crying ghost."
She sneered briefly, looked coldly at the blood oozing from Song Tingchen's forehead, stood up and left without any expression, "So, Song Tingchen, not only is Song Xiao disappointed in me, I am the same way towards him."
"The bond between him and me as mother and son has ended in this life. Just treat him as if he doesn't have me as a mother, and I as if I don't have this child."
Blood dripped down his forehead and condensed in Song Tingchen's palm. His eyes suddenly turned dark and he stared at Su Tan's thin back without blinking, his finger bones crackling from being pinched. "Su Tan, don't regret it!"
Su Tan did not stop nor look back.
He left the teahouse in front of Song Tingchen and got on the carriage back to Duke Dingguo's Mansion.
The wound on Song Tingchen's forehead was covered with white snow. The winter wind blew on his face, and the wound was filled with fine and dense pain due to the cold wind.
He pursed his lips and stared at the carriage going away. The wheels left traces of snow on the snow.
…
After Su Tan got off the carriage, he did not rush back to his yard, but went to find Cui Wan who was practicing sword.
Cui Wan's swordsmanship has now reached perfection. Seeing Su Tan, she put her sword behind her and asked, "Is the matter resolved?"
Su Tan's eyes were filled with emotion. She nodded slightly, but then slowly shook her head. She told Cui Wan about the experience of Princess Yu and her son, "I plan to go to Prince Yu's Mansion."
Cui Wan's expression changed. She knew Su Tan had remembered something, and a trace of sadness flashed across her eyes. "I'm worried about you going alone. I'll go with you."
She took out two invisibility charms from the sachet and said, "This thing can only last for an hour at most. We need to go and come back quickly."
"No need." Su Tan shook his head, holding Cui Wan's hand, his brows lowered, "Senior Sister, I came to you to tell you that if Second Sister-in-law asks about what happened after our divorce——"
After all the men of the Su family died in the battlefield, only the elderly, the weak, women and children were left to guard the huge Duke Dingguo Mansion. Hong'er, the eldest sister-in-law's son, is only seven years old now. Although the emperor has retained the title, Hong'er will be able to inherit the title when he turns seventeen.
But in the eyes of the world, young children are prone to death, and whether they can grow up is an unknown.
When she divorced, the Su family was unable to support themselves and had no time to take care of themselves.
Knowing Su Tan's concern, Cui Wan's eyes reddened slightly. "Don't worry, I won't say a word about Changle."
After divorcing Song Tingchen, Su Tan found out that she was already one month pregnant. She carefully protected the child, and the day of delivery was extremely smooth, not as painful as giving birth to Song Xiao.
Little Changle is very well behaved and doesn't like to make trouble.
She was fair and pretty when she was born, unlike Song Xiao, who was wrinkled like a monkey.
But the obedient and beautiful girl grew up and only stayed with Su Tan for three days.
On the day when her little body gradually grew cold and stiff in Su Tan's arms, Su Tan cried so hard that she fainted. When she woke up, she told Cui Wan that she had had a long nightmare.
Cui Wan felt bitter. In the past two years, Su Tan seemed fine, as if he had forgotten the sad thing.
However, Cui Wan knew that the three words "Xiao Changle" were a scar in Su Tan's heart that would never be erased.
She didn't insist any more, but just fixed the plum blossom hairpin that was crooked on Su Tan's temples. "Okay, I'll wait for you at the Su family, but I won't wait for you for more than an hour. If you don't come back after an hour, I will go and massacre Prince Yu's mansion."
Su Tan nodded seriously, jumped on his toes, and flipped out of the yard.
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Prince Yu's Mansion.
Princess Yu was confined to a remote part of the palace. It was a harsh winter, and the snow reflected a vast expanse of white outside the courtyard.
“Ahem…”
"Mother..."
The two-year-old princess' face was flushed with fever. She curled up in her mother's arms in a daze, and even stretched out her hand to touch Princess Yu's head.
"Don't cry, mother. An An is not in pain..."
Princess Yu wiped away her tears, carried the little princess to the bed, and covered her with a blanket.
"Don't be afraid, An'an. Mother will go get a doctor for you."
Princess Yu gritted her teeth and supported her frail body. As soon as she walked out of the yard, she shivered with cold. The guards at the gate drew their long swords and stopped her.
"Princess, you cannot leave without the order of the prince and Concubine Bai."
Princess Yu has been under house arrest here for two years and has long lost the so-called honor and dignity of a princess.
Princess Yu dug her fingers deep into her palms. An An was seriously ill at the moment, and she couldn't retreat for a moment. "The princess has a high fever and won't go away. I need to go get a doctor. Get out of the way!"
The guard remained motionless. "Concubine Bai said that no one is allowed to leave this courtyard without her approval."
Everyone knows that the princess is an ominous thing. If the prince had not taken into account the love between husband and wife, the princess would not be alive today.
"Hey, sister, why are you in the mood to go out today?"
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