Jiang Yue was stunned, tears streaming down her face as she shook her head. After not seeing him for several years, she couldn't believe that the gentle and refined Huai Lang of yesteryear was now speaking to her with a face as cold as frost.
"When I first met you sisters, I treated you all equally. You were gentle and virtuous and extremely skilled in music. It is true that I enjoyed listening to you play the zither and sing, but that was not romantic love. Marriage is a matter of parental arrangement and matchmaker's word. How could I dare to have an affair with you sisters and give others something to talk about and ruin your reputation? However, Ying'er is wild and clever. We can chat about anything and everything, so I naturally talk to her more often."
"Yet you plotted to ruin her reputation. Don't you know that the Fourth Young Master Zhang is weak and incompetent, and born out of wedlock? If Ying'er marries him, her life will be ruined. As Ying'er's elder sister, instead of thinking of her younger sister, you plotted to harm her. When you failed to harm her, you caused her to fall ill from worry and eventually pass away. Even on her deathbed, she begged me not to take my anger out on you."
"I don't want to hear what you're saying! I don't want to hear it!" she screamed frantically, her anger burning ever brighter as she desperately needed an outlet.
She didn't hear what Prince Yong said; all she knew was that her former lover and her sister had betrayed her, and that all the suffering she had endured over the years was caused by the man before her.
All she knew was that all those years of trying to remain chaste had been a joke. She regretted it so much. She should have let Jiang Ying live a good life and watched her husband have a harem of wives and concubines, and watched her husband live a dissolute life.
She stretched out her hand, pointing at Prince Yong, "You betrayed me, you betrayed me! I will make you pay the price, I will definitely not let you get away with this!"
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