Chapter 728 Neither of them are good people
The Fourth Prince's Mansion.
When Zhang Yurou returned home and saw her daughter covered in injuries, her eyes filled with heartache. "How did you get hurt like this?"
Xie Ruoyi complained to her mother, "Yi'er doesn't like Father, he hit Yi'er, boohoo..."
The wet nurse and maidservant knelt down and hurriedly explained, "We don't know what the prince was thinking at the time. He took the ruler and started hitting the princess. We didn't dare to stop him. The emperor and the third prince were both there."
The wet nurse recounted what had happened in the palace to Zhang Yurou, whose eyes were filled with anger. "They just watched Yi'er get beaten."
Zhang Yurou wanted to confront Xie Yang and demand an explanation. If her daughter couldn't memorize her lessons, she couldn't memorize them; what right did he have to hit her?
She had just reached the door when she turned back and sat blankly on the soft chair, her face turning pale. She couldn't utter a single word. Her mind was filled with images of Shu Xue after her death. She hadn't expected Xie Yang to be so ruthless. Would he treat her the same way?
Yi'er is his daughter! How could he bear to hit such a young child?
She couldn't go to Xie Yang; he was just too terrifying.
Xie Ruoyi was still crying, "Mother, it hurts, sob sob... I don't want Father anymore, can we get a different Father? Can we let my uncle be my father? Sob sob..."
Zhang Yurou covered her daughter's mouth, "Who taught you to say that, Yi'er? You can't say things like that."
Xie Yang walked in just then and said calmly, "Besides her mother, who else would teach her to disown her own father?"
When Zhang Yurou saw Xie Yang enter, she trembled with fear. "Your Highness."
Xie Yang walked up to Xie Ruoyi, who was so frightened that she quickly hid behind her mother and stopped crying instantly.
Zhang Yurou said, "Children don't know any better. She's just talking nonsense. Your Highness, please don't take it to heart. Yi'er is usually very well-behaved. She must be upset because she was beaten today, which is why she's talking nonsense."
Xie Yang glared coldly at the maid and the wet nurse, "Take the little princess out of here, and all of you get out of here."
The two of them didn't dare to delay for a moment and quickly carried Xie Ruoyi away.
When only Xie Yang and Zhang Yurou were in the room, Xie Yang said coldly, "Back then, you begged Xie Shang to marry you. In the past few years, have you been dreaming that he is the father of your child?"
"I did not," Zhang Yurou denied.
Xie Yang simply couldn't believe it. He had personally witnessed Zhang Yurou being rejected when she proposed to him. Back then, the Zhang family still held considerable prestige, yet Xie Shang refused to marry a daughter of the Zhang family, instead getting very close to Su Qingqing's niece. He said, "Do you know why you lost to Su Tingwan back then, and then to Jiang Fenghua?"
Zhang Yurou didn't say a word; she had no idea what Xie Yang meant by saying all this.
Xie Yang said in a deep voice, "If you had had an aunt like Consort Su back then to help you with your plans, you might have married him. The reason you lost to Jiang Fenghua later was because you were always fake. You were clearly a good-for-nothing but pretended to be a noble and talented woman. So your daughter is just like you, completely useless."
Seeing him belittle his daughter, Zhang Yurou couldn't help but retort, "For so many years, Your Highness has never shown your true face. Your Highness is also very fake."
Xie Yang grabbed her neck and said coldly, "After Xie Shang rejected you, you married me because you valued my status as a prince, didn't you? You look down on me, but you value my status. I admire your decisiveness in this respect. Knowing that there was no hope of marrying him, you immediately turned around and married me."
"So you already knew what happened back then, and you didn't really like me. Then why did you go to the Zhang family to propose marriage? If you hadn't proposed, I wouldn't have married you."
Xie Yang said, "I will get married sooner or later. You have successfully pretended to be a talented woman who is famous throughout Shengjing. I also need to rely on the prestige of Duke Zhang to gain a foothold step by step. Who knew that you are just a fake good-for-nothing? All your articles and poems were helped by Zhang Yumo, weren't they!"
Zhang Yurou clenched her fingers, her eyes flickered, and her body trembled involuntarily.
Seeing that her face had turned pale with fright, Xie Yang released her neck and said gently, "Don't worry, you will always be my queen. We are a loving couple, happy and fulfilled. The fourth queen is still as aloof and noble as ever. No one knows that you are completely incompetent, unless the person who helped you cheat actively spreads your secrets."
Zhang Yurou's pupils widened in shock, "You mean Zhang Yumo will tell everyone..."
"Can you still control her now? She's the Marquis's wife now. If she reveals your secrets, do you think you'll still be considered a talented woman?" Xie Yang continued, "Unless you kill Zhang Yumo, your secrets will never be known."
“Kill…kill her.” Zhang Yurou stammered, “I can’t possibly kill her. The Jiang family is full of guards, and she doesn’t trust me much after she married into the Jiang family. It’s very difficult for me to ask her out alone.”
"No matter what you were like before, you are now in the same boat as me, so you must not say anything wrong or do anything wrong, otherwise you, your daughter, and your Zhang family will die without a burial place."
Zhang Yurou dared not say anything out of the blue, "I understand."
Xie Yang was just testing her, "What did you gain from your trip to the Jiang family today?"
Zhang Yurou answered honestly, "I went to the Jiang family today and didn't get anything. Everyone in the Jiang family was wary of me. I was really taken to Minister Li's residence by Jiang Fenghua. How did Your Highness know that she would definitely take me to the Li family?"
Xie Yang thought it was incredibly stupid of her to ask such a question. "Jiang Fenghua is outside the palace. If she doesn't go to the Li family to inquire about the situation, where else would she go? The women of Shengjing City, as well as the Third Princess Consort, have all gone to the Li family to offer their condolences. You are the Fourth Princess Consort, aren't you going? Shu Xue is usually closest to you, is it reasonable for you not to go?"
"Shu Xue's two maids have been arrested by the authorities. Will they talk nonsense?"
"How can a dead person talk nonsense?" Xie Yang said coldly. "Even if they want to talk nonsense, they will insist that Jin Ji killed Madam Li. As for Li Cheng, he can never get away with it for the rest of his life, so you don't need to worry about him."
Zhang Yurou felt terrified. How could he control so many people so that they dared not speak the truth?
She said, "The Jiang family doesn't trust me. Does that mean I don't need to go to the Jiang family anymore?"
"Did the Jiang family kick you out? Did they tell you they didn't believe you, or did Zhang Yumo sever ties with you?"
Zhang Yurou shook her head. "No, she didn't say anything else."
“Since that’s the case, you should go and associate with her. Zhang Yumo and Jiang Jinyan are husband and wife. I will need her sooner or later. Can you even think straight?” He was extremely disgusted by Zhang Yurou’s stupidity.
She nodded. "I understand."
After Xie Yang left, Zhang Yurou sat in front of the dressing mirror, dumbfounded. She felt like she was only now getting to know Xie Yang. The gentle, refined, timid Xie Yang from before seemed to have completely disappeared.
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