Chapter 293 The Taste of Losing a Loved One
"I don't believe Your Highness would dare to kill her in public."
"After all, the Prince's military power is not to be underestimated. Does Your Highness think that you can win by killing the Prince with just your 50,000 troops?"
The Grand Princess sneered, "Hmph, since killing him or not will bring any benefit, then I will kill him."
"At least it will let you experience what it's like to lose a loved one."
Jiang Wan Ning glanced indifferently at the Duchess of England, "She's not my birth mother, so why would I really feel heartache? Kill her if you want."
"Jiang Wanning, your acting is so bad. Don't you know that if the Duchess of England dies, Pei Yanchuan won't survive either?"
"How do you know I don't have a way to break this Golden Silkworm Gu?" Jiang Wan Ning said calmly. "The Gu worm in the prince's body has long been gone."
“Jiang Wan Ning, you think your medical skills are superb, but this Gu poison is not something your medical skills can solve,” the Grand Princess said. “This Golden Silkworm Gu is not so easy to break.”
"If you really don't take the Duchess of England seriously, why did you rush here in such a hurry?"
The Grand Princess raised her hand slightly as she spoke, "I'd like to see if you can do what you say."
"Completely unconcerned."
As soon as the Grand Princess's arm fell, a guard drew his sword and thrust it into the heart of the Duchess of Yingguo.
Just as the sword tip touched her clothes, the Duchess of England tilted her body slightly, kicked the man to the ground, and swiftly dealt with the two men who were controlling her.
Although they are blind, they are agile and can hear the sounds around them.
The Grand Princess's face tightened, then she gave a cold laugh, "I didn't expect you to know martial arts, and your skills seem quite good."
"It seems you were prepared," the Grand Princess said. "But so what? Do you think you can handle so many of my guards with just a few of you?"
"Xiao He, you were competitive and always wanted others to give way to you when you were young. Now that you're this old, you're still so willful."
The Duchess of England said to the Grand Princess, "You harmed me and Zhou Rong, and now it's time for you to suffer your retribution."
The Grand Princess curled her lips into a wicked smile, "How could you say I'm the one who harmed you? That's quite a huge accusation."
"What does your affair have to do with me, Su Li? Why don't you talk about what I kept from you back then? I haven't told anyone about this matter until now."
"Speaking of which, shouldn't I call you Imperial Sister-in-law?"
Speaking of this, Duchess Su Li of England's aura suddenly turned cold, unlike someone who was still ill.
“Xiao He, if it weren’t for you back then, how could I have done something to betray the Duke? You led me there. If I hadn’t believed you and drunk the tea you gave me, none of this would have happened.”
"You swore to the late emperor that you would never reveal this matter, otherwise you would have been shot to death by a hail of arrows. Xiao He, have you thought this through?"
"Do we really have to say all this in front of everyone today?"
The Grand Princess declared loudly, "What is there that I wouldn't dare to do? I even swear that as long as I live a peaceful and safe life, I will be a vegetarian for the rest of my life."
"But what happened? My peace still died, killed by people like you!" The Grand Princess pointed at Jiang Wan Ning and said viciously, "So what's the use of swearing an oath? If swearing an oath were useful, then there would be no need for laws to restrain people in this world."
"All I need to do is make you swear an oath!"
"I used to keep quiet, but now that my only concern is gone, there's nothing left to fear."
The Grand Princess pointed at the Duchess of Yingguo, "Sulli! You are a shameless woman! After marrying the Duke of Yingguo, you still had an affair with the late Emperor and gave birth to another child."
"If I am not mistaken, then the child is Prince Jin, isn't he?"
"You want to use your son and the Duke of England to pave the way for your son and the late emperor's son. You have been pretending all these years. You probably know better than anyone who planted this Gu worm."
"You haven't been idle in the cold palace all these years, have you?"
Lady Su Li, the Duchess of England, had a listless look in her eyes. Her ears twitched, and sensing the location of the Grand Princess, she pounced on her like a phoenix.
"Xiao He, you deserve to die!"
"It's all because of you!"
“I’m doing this for their own good,” said Su Li, the Duchess of England, as she gripped the Grand Princess’s neck fiercely. “You don’t understand anything, yet you still try to sow discord between us.”
"I've been lying low for so many years, but I was just one step behind. I never expected you to suddenly appear!"
The Grand Princess was not to be outdone, holding a short dagger close to the heart of Duchess Su Li of England, saying, "You want to die with me?"
"Have you thought this through? I am a member of the royal family. If you kill me, can you guarantee that I won't have any backup plans?"
Do you think your two sons are still alive?
Su Li loosened her grip on the Grand Princess's neck. "Do whatever you want to me, just don't hurt them."
Grand Princess Suhe sheathed her dagger. "The person I want to kill is not you, but Pei Yanchuan. If you help me kill Pei Yanchuan, I can still keep Prince Jin alive."
"How about it? Isn't this a good deal? After all, keeping Prince Jin around might allow you to sit in that position that all women dream of in the future."
“I don’t care about being an empress dowager or empress,” Su Li said. “If I did, I wouldn’t have refused the late emperor back then.”
"You, Xiao He, will always be the one who covets that position. The Imperial Son-in-Law liked Zhou Rong back then, and you liked Zhou Rong too, but Zhou Rong liked the Marquis of Ningyuan."
"But you still didn't let her go because of jealousy. No matter how hard I've been in the Cold Palace all these years, it's not as hard as Zhou Rong's. At least I haven't suffered your secret harm."
"You think I like Chen Jie because of him?" Grand Princess Suhe laughed twice. "I do like Chen Jie, and I admit that I want what I like, even if it belongs to my closest relatives."
"But what I hate even more about Zhou Rong is that she was on good terms with me, and she was also on good terms with you, and she was also on good terms with other people."
"It's as if all the noble ladies in the capital are Zhou Rong's friends. After our marriage, she never replied to a single letter I wrote to her. When I invited her out, she was always unavailable, instead telling others that she was out shopping or chatting."
"You all think it's my fault, but how good is Zhou Rong then?"
“My mother has never received any letters from you,” Jiang Wanning interjected. “I’m quite certain of that.”
When she was first reborn, Jiang Wan Ning wanted to understand the past of these elders and why the Grand Princess was targeting her mother, so she asked her mother to tell her everything in detail.
She was quite certain that her mother had not received the Grand Princess's letter.
The Grand Princess's pupils flickered slightly. "Hmph, there's no need to defend your mother here."
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