"You evil woman, stop telling lies and misleading people here!" Tan'er pointed at Jin Xiwen, very dissatisfied with her bullshit behavior.
The fingers were grasped by her hand and bent, and the crisp sound of bones breaking reached Jin Suting's eardrum.
"What are you doing?!" Qin'er's fingers were broken by Jin Xiwen.
Qin'er didn't cry out in pain, but she was sweating profusely. Jin Xiwen's movements were so fast that she didn't even have time to react.
"Be careful next time. I don't like people pointing fingers at me." Jin Xiwen pulled away quickly and decisively, clapped her hands, took out a handkerchief and wiped them carefully.
"And you, Jin Suting." Before leaving, Jin Xiwen glanced at Jin Suting, who was slumped on the bed. She saw fear in her eyes and smiled with satisfaction. "Can't you bear a little blow? There will be more fun things to come."
"You pervert." Jin Suting gritted her teeth as she watched the departing black figure.
She thought about it again and again, and she seemed to have never offended this woman.
She had disliked the way she looked from the beginning, and now it was getting worse.
"Qin'er, are you okay?" The next second, Qin'er cried out in pain.
"I'm fine, just a minor injury." But his index finger was clearly broken.
"Miss, I'm going to find Xiao Hei. You should have a good rest. I'll have Cao Cao bring you dinner." Tan Er was sweating, but Jin Su Ting didn't notice. She just said, "Okay."
As soon as Tan'er left, the old general came over.
"Dad." Jin Suting spoke lightly without getting out of bed.
"What's going on at the door?" The old general, sitting opposite Jin Suting, asked as soon as he opened his mouth.
Jin Suting didn't know how to start, so she just said, "They're just a bunch of troublemakers."
The old general looked at her nonchalant expression. He valued his reputation the most and was a little angry. "As the eldest daughter of the General's Mansion, you should be in charge of these matters when the mistress and master are away. You've made such a big fuss. Where is the reputation of the General's Mansion?"
Jin Suting looked up for a moment. Was the reputation of the General's Mansion more important than her? She paused before speaking, "This isn't what I thought, and it's certainly not something I can control."
The old general felt that she hadn't listened to him at all. Thinking back to the rioters on West Street and the pointing eyes of the common people, he said, "If you just go out, you will be able to control it. As the eldest daughter, you can't even shoulder this little responsibility? I'm often at the training ground, your mother has returned to her parents' home, your aunt has taken your third sister to the mountains to pray, and your brother is going into seclusion again. You say you can't control it? Then the elite soldiers I left at the general's mansion are just decorations?"
Jin Suting was stunned for a moment, holding back her tears, "I really can't help it."
"And that Taoist priest you took in, he was the one who started the trouble, leading a bunch of beggars to fight with a group of aunties!" The old general was so angry that he was shaking all over. "What the hell did you bring back? If I hadn't handed him over to the authorities, who knows what would have happened!"
When Jin Suting heard the first sentence, she was confused. Did Xiao Hei lead his men to fight with those aunties? When she heard the second sentence, did the old general send Xiao Hei to the government?
"Dad! How could you do this?" Jin Suting thought that Xiao Hei was most afraid of the government, so she shouted at the old general.
"Xiao Hei is my friend!"
The old general stood up in anger, knocking his crutch against the ground loudly.
"What a shitty friend! He's just a slave! An unruly dog slave!"
Jin Suting's eyes widened, and she suddenly felt that the old general looked very unfamiliar. "You have always cared about face. Have you asked me?"
The old general was angry and replied, "What's wrong with you? Isn't the injury healed now?"
The wound on his right hand ached faintly. "Today, those women at the door threw those filthy things at me. I was standing there alone as they pelted me with rotten eggs and tomatoes. And it was that dog slave you were talking about who brought people to vent my anger! What gives you the right to lock him up in the government office?!"
The old general was stunned for a moment, looked at Jin Suting, opened his mouth, but said nothing in the end.
Jin Suting stood up and wiped a tear with her left hand. "Don't you care about your reputation? Well, I'll tell you today. People outside say I'm cheap and worthless. I took a good girl to someone else's bed, murdered my own sister, and killed my brother-in-law out of jealousy. Then I ended up unable to be a mother, and they all applauded!"
"You know what? They didn't have a single piece of evidence. They relied on witnesses and victims who appeared out of nowhere, and their wild imaginations to fabricate a story about me as a vicious and evil woman. They said I was unqualified to be the Crown Princess, that I was a disgrace to the General's Mansion, and that I was a witch from the Fuding Kingdom!"
"I thought I had a father? He came here to blame me and even jailed my friend who spoke up for me. What kind of world is this?"
Jin Suting finished her speech in one breath, and the old general looked at her in shock.
What did he do to make his precious daughter cry like this?
"Su'er, I..."
"Get out!" Jin Suting pointed at the door without mercy, "I don't want to see you now!"
The old general leaned on his cane, like a child who had done something wrong, "I didn't know things would turn out like this. Su'er, please forgive your father."
Jin Suting looked like she had heard a funny joke, "Forgive?"
"Ever since you protected and shielded Jin Xiwen and allowed her to spread rumors about me, I can no longer forgive you, Daddy." She emphasized the last word "Daddy". Her father had always given her all his love, but at the critical moment, he did not make the right decision.
The old general looked at his daughter. He was wrong as a father. He had doted on her, given her privileges, and shown her unlimited tolerance. But the hurt she ultimately suffered was also his responsibility. If he had been more fair, if he had been able to hold back when he saw through Jin Xiwen's schemes, perhaps her life wouldn't have been so miserable.
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