The crisp sound of porcelain falling to the ground was heard again in the house, accompanied by Murong Tao's heart-wrenching roar: "Get out, all of you, get out! Get out!"

Murong Jue stood with his hands behind his back, looking gloomily at the maid in the house being driven out by his nephew.

"Second Master!" The panicked maid saw him outside the door, trembled with fear, and quickly knelt down.

"The fourth young master refuses to take the medicine again?"

"I am incompetent. The Fourth Young Master smashed all the medicine bowls." The maid lowered her head and answered in a trembling voice.

Murong Jue's expression turned even uglier: "You go down! And have someone boil some more medicine and bring it back."

The maid left immediately.

Ever since my nephew broke his legs, his temperament changed drastically and he became gloomy. He chased away countless maids and smashed countless things. The whole Zhenbei Marquis Mansion never laughed again because of his injuries.

He took a deep breath and was about to push the door open when he saw his trusted guard rushing over: "General, we found it!"

His pupils shrank slightly, and he grabbed him and asked, "Who is it?"

The guard whispered something, and his expression suddenly changed: "Have you checked it out? Are you sure it's him?"

"We've checked it out. It's definitely him who set up a trap to break the Fourth Young Master's leg!" the guard said with a firm tone.

Murong Jue gnashed his teeth, his face was full of murderous intent, and veins on his forehead throbbed: "Good, good, very good, I thought I was smart, but I never thought I would be played around like this! I will not be a human being if I don't take revenge!! "

**

That night, Wei Junhang left the yamen much later than usual. There were only a few pedestrians on the road. He was very tired after a busy day. He closed his eyes and rested for a while. Suddenly, he noticed that the carriage stopped. Just as he was about to ask in detail, he heard the attendant outside say, "Duke, there is a person lying on the ground at the intersection ahead."

"Go and see what's going on!" Wei Junhang ordered.

But in a moment, the attendant came back and said, "My Lord, I have seen clearly that it is the eldest son of the former Honglu Temple Minister Zhou. I don't know who attacked him and he is unconscious on the ground."

The eldest son of the Zhou family? Wei Junhang suddenly opened the curtain: "I'll go take a look!"

He walked quickly towards the figure lying on the ground not far away, walked to the side of the person, squatted down and took a look, and recognized that the man covered in blood was Zhou Chang!

"Quick, send him to the nearest hospital, and then send someone to the Zhou Mansion to inform Madam Zhou!" he ordered loudly.

When they arrived at the clinic, after the doctor bandaged Zhou Chang's wound, Wei Junhang frowned and asked, "Where was he injured? How serious is the injury?"

The doctor sighed, "This young man has multiple fractures all over his body, especially his legs, which are the most seriously injured. Fortunately, the injuries were discovered in time, otherwise his life would be completely ruined. However, even if his injuries are cured, I am afraid he will not be able to walk as well as before in the future."

Wei Junhang's expression was somewhat complicated as he looked at Zhou Chang's pale face, his gaze falling on his injured legs that were firmly fixed with splints.

So, these legs are almost destroyed?

A vague guess formed in his mind, he sighed, and ordered someone to send him back to Zhou Mansion.

Jiang, who was five or six months pregnant, almost fainted when she saw the miserable state of her husband being carried back.

When Zhou Chang woke up and learned of his condition, his face turned pale as paper.

"Husband...how could this happen? Who did it?" Jiang asked with swollen eyes, holding his hand and sobbing.

The severe pain in his body came in waves, causing cold sweat on his forehead, but he just clutched the quilt on his body tightly. After a long time, he murmured, "Retribution, retribution, this is all retribution..."

"Husband, what are you talking about? What retribution? Why is there retribution?" Jiang asked, wiping her tears.

Zhou Chang seemed not to have heard her words, and just continued to mutter words like "retribution".

It's all retribution, it's all retribution...

Jiang saw that he seemed to be crazy, just mumbling to himself, and her heart ached.

The news of Zhou Chang's injury soon reached Prince Ping's mansion, and Zhou Wanning returned to the mansion accompanied by Prince Ping. When she saw her brother's pale face lying on the bed, and then looked at the wounds of varying sizes bandaged on his body, she could no longer hold back her tears.

After finally stopping crying at the maid's persuasion, she walked out of the room, came to Jiang's place, wiped her tears and asked, "Do you know who hurt my brother..."

The words stopped abruptly when he saw the undisguised resentment on Jiang's face: "Sister-in-law, what's wrong with you?"

"Now that things have come to this, why, why can you still continue to live a stable life with peace of mind?" Jiang stared at her closely with sharp eyes.

"I..." Zhou Wanning was shocked by her reaction.

"Everyone has paid a price, so why can you still live your peaceful life with peace of mind! Murong Tao's leg was broken, Wei Chenglin left, your father was demoted, and now even your elder brother has suffered this terrible crime, and all of this is all because of you!! Everyone is wrong, and everyone has paid a price for their mistakes, so why are you the only one who is innocent!!" When she spoke to the latter part, Jiang's voice had become quite sharp.

"Sister-in-law, I..." Zhou Wanning wanted to hold her back to explain, but Jiang brushed her hand away. "Do you want to say that it has nothing to do with you? If it weren't for you, how could father set up a plan to destroy Murong Tao's legs? If it weren't for you, how could he go to deal with the Duke of Ying's Mansion? If it weren't for you, how could your elder brother suffer such revenge today! All of this is because of you!!"

Jiang became more and more excited as she spoke, her body shaking with anger. She pointed at the door and screamed, "Get out! Get out of here!"

As soon as she finished speaking, her eyes went dark and she fainted from being too excited. Fortunately, her maid who had been keeping an eye on her quickly supported her.

"Call for a doctor!" The maids' panicked cries rang out. Zhou Wanning looked at the scene with a pale face. The people coming in and out seemed to have completely forgotten about her.

"Madam fainted suddenly because she was too emotional. This pregnancy of yours is not very stable. You need to rest and recuperate." The old doctor sighed.

"Thank you, doctor." King Ping glanced at Zhou Wanning, who was sitting stiffly on the side without any reaction, and ordered someone to send the doctor out.

Zhou Wanning didn't know how she got back to the palace. She only knew that Prince Ping accompanied her back to the main courtyard, and then Concubine Kong found a reason to invite her over.

Since Concubine Kong came into the palace, she quickly took over the power to manage the inner house. Although she was not very favored, she had the support of Concubine Li in the palace, and no one in the mansion dared to disrespect her.

She watched him leave blankly, Jiang's words echoing in her ears again and again.

Murong Tao's legs were broken because of her, Wei Chenglin left because of her, his father was demoted because of her, his brother was retaliated because of her, the source of all the troubles was her...

Was she wrong? Two lines of tears slowly fell. Maybe she was really wrong, but is it too late to regret now?

When King Ping returned, it was already time to light the lamps.

"I heard everything my sister-in-law said to you today." King Ping looked at her calmly and said slowly.

Zhou Wanning bit her lips lightly. Under his indifferent gaze, she suddenly felt as if she had nowhere to hide for some reason.

"Wan Ning, is your heart still there?"

Looking at the face in front of him that was still as beautiful as before, he suddenly lost the courage to continue speaking and smiled bitterly: "You should have a good rest!"

"Your Highness..." Zhou Wanning subconsciously wanted to call him, but he could only see his leaving back.

The next time Shen Xinyan saw Zhou Wanning was at Lingyun Temple.

Since she had seen Zhou Wanning once when Prince Ping took a concubine, she had never seen Zhou Wanning again. In the past, when she entered and left the palace, the only female member of Prince Ping's family she saw was Concubine Kong. It can be said that in the eyes of the ladies of the various palaces today, Zhou Wanning, the legitimate Princess of Prince Ping, has become an invisible person, and the one who interacted with Prince Ping's palace in the past was Concubine Kong.

She was not surprised by this.

Kong Shi was a very resourceful person in her previous life, and this life would be no exception. If it came to disputes within the inner house, Zhou Wanning's personality would make it impossible for her to defeat her. Now, the only thing she could rely on was the favor of King Ping.

But how long can this pampering last?

Zhou Wanning had not expected to meet her, and was obviously stunned for a moment, then he came forward and said, "Madam."

"princess."

After the two greeted each other, they passed each other as if the other was really just an acquaintance.

"Madam." Shen Xinyan was stopped after taking a few steps. She stopped and turned around, and saw Zhou Wanning said calmly, "I'm sorry for offending you in the past. I hope you can forgive me, Madam."

Shen Xinyan was surprised. Before she could say anything, the other party bowed to her and turned away.

"She is such a beautiful lady, and she is also a princess. But I feel like she seems to have seen through the world and has a calm heart." Xu Sumin, who came over, shook her head regretfully.

Shen Xinyan's feelings were somewhat complicated. She had long heard that Princess Ping lived in seclusion, but she didn't take it seriously. After all, given Zhou Wanning's personality and the current situation of the Zhou Mansion, it was not surprising that she didn't like to go out. But now that she heard Xu Sumin say this, she actually felt that Zhou Wanning really seemed to have seen through the world.

Zhou Wanning was very strange like this, but she couldn't be disgusted by him.

At this time, Wei Junhang was sitting in front of the brothers of Zhenbei Marquis. Facing the brothers' gloomy faces, he said slowly: "I am not doing this for the Zhou family, but for the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion."

"The Wei family and the Murong family have been brothers for generations. In terms of closeness, neither can be compared with the Zhou family."

"If that's the case, why did you go to the trouble of saving Zhou Mao?" asked Zhenbei Hou with a cold face.

"Because Lord Zhou cannot die, and he must not die at the hands of the Zhenbei Marquisate. If he dies in office, what will happen to Xiyan City, which has gradually shown signs of life? What about the people of Xiyan, who have been resettled with great difficulty? The court is not short of capable ministers, but it lacks a capable minister who can take root in Xiyan with all his heart!"

"If Lord Zhou dies, will the Marquis be able to give the people of Xiyan a 'honest and fair ruler'? If His Majesty knew that the chess piece he had placed with great difficulty was taken away by the Marquis, would he not blame the Marquis?"

Seeing the slight change in the expressions of Zhenbei Hou and Murong Jue, Wei Junhang sighed and continued, "Sir Zhou will not be able to return to the capital unless he dies. He will die just to be the magistrate of a county. And with Zhou Chang's legs, isn't that enough?"

After a brief pause, he said sincerely, "The grudges between the younger generations have been entangled until now, and it is no longer clear who is right and who is wrong. Why don't the Marquis and the Second Master let it go?"

Marquis Zhenbei and Murong Jue looked at each other and fell silent.

***

Inside the house, Murong Tao smashed the medicine bowl into pieces in anger again, and the maids were scolded away one after another.

Looking at his legs that still had no feeling, he felt even more desperate.

The door was pushed open from the outside, and he shouted angrily without even looking at it: "Get out!!"

The person who came stood quietly for a long time without any movement. He could no longer bear it and looked at him angrily, but was shocked when he recognized the person's face.

"Awan?"

Zhou Wanning looked at him quietly, cleaning up the mess on the floor without saying a word. Finally, he walked to the bedside and called softly, "Brother Murong."

"Why are you here?" This was the first time Murong Tao saw her after all these years since the accident, and he was still in shock.

"I asked Your Highness to accompany me." Zhou Wanning's eyes fell on his extremely thin legs. Murong Tao noticed her gaze and panickedly pulled the blanket beside him to cover him, "Don't look, don't look..."

The man in front of her had a thin face and a gloomy aura lingering around him. He was completely different from the confident and vigorous young general Murong in her memory.

It was her father who destroyed his legs and his will. In the final analysis, she was the culprit of all the trouble.

"I hurt you." She said softly.

"It's none of your business." Murong Tao subconsciously wanted to comfort her.

"If it weren't for me, your leg wouldn't be broken. All the misfortunes are caused by me. It's my own fault, but the people around me have to bear the consequences..."

…

King Ping, who was outside the house, didn't know how much willpower he had to control his legs that were about to move forward.

Now he couldn't tell how he felt about Zhou Wanning. He still liked her, but he was also disappointed, which made him unsure of how to get along with her. Therefore, in the past six months, the number of times they had met was very few.

Yesterday, Zhou Wanning took the initiative to find him, but it was to ask him to take her to see Murong Tao. At that moment, he was quite angry, but he finally agreed.

He had long known about the suppression of the Zhou Mansion by the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion. His elder brother-in-law Zhou Chang was bedridden all the time, and Xiyan's father-in-law had difficulty walking. He finally understood why his father-in-law had asked him for help before leaving Beijing.

He felt that the key to resolving the hatred between the Murong and Zhou families lay with Murong Tao.

When Zhou Wanning came out, Zhenbei Hou, who was also waiting outside the house, looked at Murong Jue, then walked in quickly. They saw Murong Tao sitting in the house in a daze, with a little moisture in his eyes, but the hostility in his body had faded a lot.

"Dad, Second Uncle!" Murong Tao noticed their arrival, turned his head away, wiped the tears from his eyes, and called out.

It was just a simple title, but it made the Murong brothers breathe a sigh of relief. They suddenly felt that today's adventure was worth it.

Prince Ping and his wife returned to the palace in silence. As usual, Prince Ping ordered his servants to send Zhou Wanning back to the main courtyard, while he went to the study.

Zhou Wanning quietly watched his departing back, and saw Kong Cefei walking towards him with a smile not far away.

She was a little confused, and couldn't tell what she felt in her heart, like a sense of loss and unbearable sadness.

"Sorry, thank you!" She said softly to the straight figure.

The next moment, she smiled bitterly again.

She has lost everything that belongs to her and everything that doesn't belong to her. Those who like her and those who don't like her have all left.

She thought that this would probably be the end of her life!