In the movie, Cinderella must return to the manor before the clock strikes twelve at midnight, because the magic will wear off and she will reveal her true form. Qin Rong, on the other hand, tries to leave Yuan Feng's side and bypass the guards to return home by carriage as midnight approaches, because she fears her stepmother and stepchildren will discover her.
Since the ball was going to go on until almost midnight, the three of them didn't discover Qin Rong's secret until the prince came to their home with the crystal shoes that Qin Rong had deliberately left behind, and asked the unmarried girl to try them on.
The original owner and her sister both wanted to marry the prince, but when trying on shoes, their feet were a little too big. Qin Rong deliberately said that once they became prince consorts, they wouldn't have to walk anymore. The two sisters foolishly believed her and used a knife to scrape the skin off their heels before putting them on. Crystal shoes are transparent; who wouldn't notice the bleeding feet? As a result, the prince, accusing them of deceiving the royal family, imprisoned the two sisters in a death row, while the original owner's mother, for failing to properly raise her daughters, was exiled to a remote area and ultimately raped and killed by refugees.
The original owner was in prison, not understanding why such a thing had happened, and even begged Qin Rong to rescue them. Qin Rong would also visit the two sisters from time to time, telling them about her helplessness, making the two sisters compete to please her, until the day she married the prince, she stood outside the prison gate wearing a long wedding dress, coldly watching the original owner and her sister.
"You're getting married?" Even now, the original owner was still foolishly waiting for Qin Rong to rescue her. "Then can you let us out now?"
"Hmph! Get out?" Qin Rong looked at the original owner with disdain and said, "Do you think you can still get out?"
"Wh...what?" The original owner was a little incredulous. "We're such good friends, we even share clothes and jewelry. You're getting married, aren't you going to invite us?"
"Hahaha, Xiang Wan, you really are just as despicable as your vile mother."
"Qin Rong, what do you mean?" The original owner was somewhat incredulous.
"Do you think that just because you've joined the Qin family, you're one of us? That's ridiculous."
Seeing the original owner's disbelieving and stunned expression, Qin Rong's contempt deepened. She dismissed her attendants, approached the cell, and whispered to the original owner what had happened. Her voice was soft and pleasant, but her words chilled the original owner to the bone.
“In my eyes, you are nothing but tools to please my father. My mother is the true mistress of the Qin family. Even though she is gone, she should not be replaced by a lowly woman. I'm telling you the truth out of kindness, so you can die knowing the truth.”
As she spoke, ignoring the original owner's shock, she pulled up a chair and sat down, continuing, "Our family was so happy. If it weren't for your mother, that despicable mother, she wouldn't have died."
Everyone thought my mother died of a brain disease, but only I knew that it was your lewd mother who seduced my father, making my mother realize it. But she didn't want to destroy the family, so she couldn't sleep well every day and took sedatives every day, which damaged her nerves. She lived in fear every day, but she still had to pretend to be harmonious with my father.
"Hmph, what happiness can a marriage with someone else interfering in it possibly have? I watched helplessly as my mother grew thinner and thinner, and I was powerless to do anything about it. Do you know what that feels like? Do you know how much I hate you? Even skinning you alive and tearing your flesh out wouldn't be enough to quell the hatred in my heart."
"You're lying! My mother would never do such a thing!" The original owner retorted angrily. In her mind, her mother had always been gentle, strong, and well-educated; she would never do anything to seduce someone.
"You're her daughter, how could she possibly let you see her lewd side? Don't you think so, Xiang Xia?" Qin Rong leisurely rested her chin on her hand, looking at the original owner's sister, who hadn't said a word since she came in, with a half-smile on her face.
Xiang Xia glanced at the original owner of the body subconsciously, then pursed her lips and turned her head to the side.
The original owner believed her sister truly knew the truth, never expecting that her trusted elder sister would keep it from her. Unable to believe her mother was the kind of person Qin Rong described, and unwilling to believe her sister wouldn't explain, she grabbed her sister's arm and shook it frantically, failing to notice Xiang Xia's increasingly grim expression. In her anger, the original owner shoved Xiang Xia into the weeds of the prison cell. By the time she realized something was wrong, it was too late for anything to be done.
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