Chapter 224 Su Tingwan is permanently placed under house arrest
After Xie Shang came out, he kicked Su Tingwan and then ordered his men to tie her up and secretly send her to the Prince Heng's mansion.
Jiang Fenghua went in herself to clean up for Ye Susu. Although she was unwilling, her conscience told her that this was the respect that Ye Susu deserved.
Regardless of Ye Susu's intentions today, she only had this one chance. If Ye Susu dared to cause trouble again, she would not hesitate to act without any restraint.
She took clean clothes and a cloak and dressed her in them.
When she saw the stain of blood that Ye Susu had left on the bed sheet, she felt a glare. There would be many more of these things presented to her for her to examine in the future, and she had to get used to it.
Xie Shang was a bit heavy-handed, even rough. Ye Susu's body was covered in bruises, as if she had been pinched. It seemed she had suffered a lot. A woman's first time is very painful, especially when a man doesn't know how to cherish her.
"Can you still walk? Do you need someone to help you?" Jiang Fenghua asked.
"No need, thank you for your concern, Your Highness." Even if she was in pain, she could endure it, because she had finally achieved her wish of marrying Prince Heng.
They returned to the Prince Heng's residence overnight, and the events that occurred in the side hall were not leaked out.
Su Tingwan lay on the ground, her clothes disheveled. She hated Jiang Fenghua to the core, and even now she still felt that everything she had suffered was caused by Jiang Fenghua.
She said, "Jiang Fenghua, why do you make things difficult for me and harm me at every turn? I met Xie Shang first, and he likes me. Why did you seduce him and steal everything I have?"
"What do you possess? Tonight you drugged the Prince. Do you know that your actions will harm him? Is this how you show your love for the Prince? Is your love so full of calculation?" Jiang Fenghua said angrily. "How could a woman like you have such potent aphrodisiacs? And how did you bring the Prince to the side hall? Who was helping you?"
Xie Shang also guessed that someone was helping Su Tingwan, and he also guessed who it was. But if he was going to help Su Tingwan, why was Ye Susu also in the side hall? He asked Ye Susu, and she said that she had secretly followed her there.
"Your Highness, believe me, I wouldn't harm you. I only drugged you because I love you, and I had no other choice. The drug won't affect your health. I just love you so much, and I just want to have a child with you." Su Tingwan said, tears streaming down her face.
He said coldly, "From today onwards, you are no longer my concubine. Guards, beat her until she tells the truth."
Even as the paddle struck Su Tingwan, she didn't implicate Su Xuan. She only said, "I love you so much that I came up with this plan. No one helped me; I made it all myself. I brought the medicine back from the bandit's den, but I never had the chance. I just wanted to be with the prince; I didn't want to harm him." The Su family was her last resort, and she definitely couldn't implicate Su Xuan.
Su Tingwan was beaten until her skin was torn and blood was spurting from her mouth, but she still didn't admit it. Jiang Fenghua didn't expect her to be so stubborn and really didn't bring up Su Xuan.
Su Tingwan has completely lost Xie Shang's heart. I didn't expect to get rid of Su Tingwan so quickly. Jiang Fenghua said, "If you hit her again, you'll kill her. No matter what, she is still General Su's daughter."
She knew Xie Shang needed a way out, and she didn't want Su Tingwan to die so easily. In her previous life, Su Tingwan had done all sorts of bad things and was very arrogant.
Xie Shang didn't want to kill her either. Although he was so angry that he wanted to kill her, his father hadn't killed Consort Su, and he couldn't kill Su Tingwan either, otherwise it would create a rift with the Su family.
He said coldly, "Stop."
Su Tingwan vaguely heard what Jiang Fenghua said. Just now, she even had a hallucination, as if she saw Jiang Fenghua wearing the Empress's phoenix robe, looking high and mighty. She thought Jiang Fenghua had trampled Jiang Fenghua underfoot and tortured her for twenty years. Could all of this have really happened? Why did it feel so real?
"Jiang Fenghua... I will not lose, I am the Empress." She was still calling her name, but she was too weak and no one could hear her clearly.
"Your Highness, what should we do with Su Tingwan?" Jiang Fenghua asked him.
"Lock her in the Sandalwood Courtyard and never let her out," Xie Shang ordered. The Su family dared to scheme against him, and he would deal with them slowly. He also intended to keep Su Tingwan under house arrest forever.
Once everyone had taken Su Tingwan away, Xie Shang grasped Jiang Fenghua's hand and said, "Ruan Ruan, I'm sorry, it was my carelessness."
"His Highness was forced into this situation..." Jiang Fenghua hesitated, "What should we do with Physician Ye? After all, she is now His Highness's woman. In the heat of the moment, I took the liberty of promising to bring her into the manor in a grand manner and give her a proper status."
Xie Shang was filled with guilt. The person he loved was Jiang Fenghua, but he had disobeyed his will and favored another woman. Ye Susu happened to be there as well, and he couldn't rule out Ye Susu's ulterior motives. He hugged Jiang Fenghua and sincerely apologized, "I'm sorry. No matter who is in this palace, I will always love only you. I swear."
Jiang Fenghua just listened, after all, he had made many vows to Su Tingwan back then.
“I believe in Your Highness.” Jiang Fenghua hugged him affectionately. “I know that favoring Ye Susu was not Your Highness’s intention. As long as Your Highness is healthy, that’s more important than anything else. As long as Your Highness has Ruan Ruan in your heart, that’s enough. I don’t ask for a lifetime of monogamy.”
Xie Shang knew in his heart that his position made it impossible for him to make such a promise to her, so he could only treat her even better.
Lin Feng was also implicated by Su Tingwan. When they found him, he was found dead drunk under the table. This was the first time he had been negligent in his duties, and Lin Feng was given thirty lashes.
Not long after the guards carried Lin Feng into the room, Lianye also came in with the medicine. She was also very angry. Despite all the precautions, she hadn't expected Su Tingwan to drug the prince, and even let Ye Susu benefit from it.
Lin Feng already knew what had happened. He said, "I don't know how I got drunk. With my alcohol tolerance, how could I possibly get drunk from such a small amount of alcohol?"
"It's obvious that you and the prince have been framed. How could you be so stupid?" Lianye slapped him on his sore spot.
"Lianye, hit me, hit me hard! Why did I go drinking? It's all my fault for not protecting the prince. I was wrong."
Lianye felt sorry for him after seeing him get thirty lashes. "It's alright, it's not your fault. If the enemy wants to harm you, they will have a thousand ways to do so. It's impossible to guard against them all. I just feel sorry for the princess, who is heavily pregnant and tearfully helping the prince take a concubine into the mansion." She secretly shed tears.
Seeing her cry, Lin Feng quickly said, "It's not your fault, why are you crying! Although thirty strokes of the cane hurt like hell, thankfully the brothers went easy on you and didn't really hurt you anywhere."
"Who cried for you?" Lianye wiped away her tears. "Since you weren't hurt, I'm leaving."
Lin Feng pretended, "Although I wasn't seriously injured, it really hurts! The prince ordered me to be beaten without even asking what happened. It hurts so much, it hurts like hell..."
"I brought you some medicine. Apply it yourself. I'm leaving now."
"My injury is on my back. If you don't apply it for me, I can't apply it myself. I don't have eyes on my back," Lin Feng cried again. "It really hurts. I'm afraid I might not be able to get up tomorrow morning."
"I'll go get some help for you."
"It's so late, everyone's asleep, so let's not trouble you. The prince has already given orders that no one is allowed to help me."
Lianye now hates Xie Shang. "It's clearly his fault, but he blames you alone. How can the prince be like this? What a waste of a handsome face. He's just a good-looking but useless good-for-nothing."
Lin Feng let her rant. Once she was happy, she stopped being angry. How could the prince have fallen for Su Tingwan's trick? He was clearly on high alert on the way.
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