Chapter 276: Is it worth exchanging power for a woman?

After court adjourned.

Prince Yong called Xiao Jinxuan to stop him. For the first time, he did not show any signs of hostility. Instead, he showed a look of regret, "Seventeenth brother, is it worth it to exchange your power for a woman?"

As he spoke, his eyes roamed over that elegant and handsome face, trying to find any sign of regret.

Xiao Jinxuan did not hesitate at all and said without hesitation, "It's worth it."

After hearing this answer, the last bit of King Yong's doubt disappeared.

Xie Zhuoning was really capable. After losing her position as Crown Princess, she turned around and bewitched her seventeenth brother to the point that he even gave up his power and position.

He smiled and patted Xiao Jinxuan's shoulder, "Then I wish you a long and happy marriage."

Xiao Jinxuan nodded, "Thank you, brother."

Soon, what happened during the morning court session spread throughout the capital.

Everyone inside and outside the palace knew that Xiao Jinxuan was going to marry Xie Zhuoning.

"This evil creature made such a big scene, he was afraid that others wouldn't know, right?"

The Empress Dowager was angry and annoyed but had no choice but to ask people to keep it a secret from Zhuang Qingyi.

But no one knew where the news leaked out. Zhuang Qingyi had just gotten better when she heard the news.

She held the wooden doll tightly in her hands, which was carved for her by Xiao Jinxuan when she was a child.

That already pale face was even colder than ice and snow.

"Brother Heng, how could you treat me like that? Was it Xie Zhuoning, was it that bastard who seduced you?"

"You can't marry her, you can only be mine!"

Xie family's old house.

When Xie Heng brought the news back home, Mrs. Xie was shocked beyond words.

"Prince Xuan wants to marry the girl Zhuoning? Are you sure?"

These two people have nothing in common at all!

Xie Heng took a sip of tea and explained, "When Princess Jing'an held the Civil and Military Conference, some rumors leaked out, but I didn't pay much attention to it at the time. I didn't expect it to be true."

Judging from the situation at the court this morning, His Royal Highness Prince Xuan must be determined to marry Xie Zhuoning.

Old Madam Xie sighed, "I was worried that she wouldn't be able to find a good family after her engagement was broken off, but I never thought she would have such good fortune."

Miss Zhuoning has suffered so much, this can be considered as a reward for all her suffering.

She reminded her son and grandson, "The second son is not in the capital, and there are no elders in the Marquis Mansion. As relatives of Zhuo Ning, we should go and help when it's time to help. As a family, there is no overnight feud, don't you think?"

Xie Heng nodded, "It should be so."

Xie Mingyuan sneered when he heard this. "My mother was sent to the family temple, my sister was imprisoned, and my wife not only lost her child, but was also sent to Jingxin Nunnery. A blood feud, and you want to write it off with just one sentence from your grandmother: family grudges don't last overnight. Aren't you too naive?"

"Yuan'er!" Old Madam Xie frowned and scolded in a low voice, "Your mother was sent away because she embezzled your second uncle's property and sold the gifts. Your sister went to jail because she wanted to steal business from others and framed someone to cause a death. As for Jinyun, she committed a sin and harmed Zhiqing like that. She was stabbed by Aunt Liu and lost her child. She deserved it."

"How can any of these things have anything to do with the girl Zhuo Ning? Isn't it all their own fault?"

Xie Mingyuan couldn't listen any longer, and stood up immediately, shaking his head in disappointment. "I think since grandma woke up, her heart has been completely on Xie Zhuoning's side. Grandma, why don't you think about it carefully, which of these things has nothing to do with Xie Zhuoning?"

Every detail and clue behind those events showed that she was behind them.

They underestimated Xie Zhuoning from the very beginning.

I thought what could she, a lady from a noble family, do?

But now it seems that she can do too much.

She single-handedly caused chaos in the Xie family, but she herself left the family to keep herself aloof.

Not only did she turn around and try to get close to King Xuan, but even her grandmother, who had been on their side, began to speak for her.

If anyone were to come here, they wouldn't give her a thumbs up and say something like, "Do you think she is so easy to scheme against?"

His eyes swept across the faces of his grandmother and father, and Xie Mingyuan said resolutely, "You may forget these grudges, but I will not. You may settle this account, but I will not!"

So what if Xie Zhuoning is about to marry Prince Xuan?

Sooner or later, he will repay all this pain a thousandfold!

East Palace.

Although the Queen kept the matter a secret, Xiao Bicheng still found out that Xiao Jinxuan and Xie Zhuoning were going to get married.

His rage almost destroyed all his rationality, and he smashed everything that could be thrown in the palace.

"I gave you my true heart, but you didn't want it and went to marry someone else!"

"Good, very good!"

"Xie Zhuoning, I will make you regret it. I will definitely make you regret it!"

His eyes turned and glanced at the shivering palace maid beside him.

He grabbed the man, threw him on the bed, and rushed over to tear him apart.

But no matter how hard we tortured him, he no longer responded.

Looking down at what was beneath him, he grabbed his head with both hands and roared in pain.

"Xie Zhuoning, I hate you! I will cut you into pieces!"

In a blink of an eye, he saw the palace maid looking at him with watery eyes, and he narrowed his eyes with a gloomy face.

"What do you mean? Are you unhappy? Do you despise me? You want to leave me too? Who do you think you are!"

He drew out his sword with a swish and stabbed the palace maiden several times in anger.

Blood gushed out, soon staining the bed.

Bai Yingxue stood at the palace gate and saw Xiao Bicheng in pain and madness. Without any hesitation, she lifted the hem of her skirt and walked in, hugging him from behind.

"Brother Acheng, don't be sad. You still have me and our child."

Xiao Bicheng let go of the sword in his hand and turned around in shock, "Xue'er..."

Bai Yingxue raised her hand and wiped the blood off his face bit by bit, "Xue'er will never leave you in my life."

She would squeeze Xie Zhuoning out of the prince's heart little by little, just like he did to her!

Of course, the most outrageous news about Xiao Jinxuan and Xie Zhuoning's marriage came from the public:

"His Royal Highness Prince Xuan is going to marry the eldest daughter of the Xie family? No, I don't believe it, it must be a rumor!"

"In fact, I think there are still clues to this matter. Haven't you noticed that the eldest daughter of the Xie family looks a bit like Madam Xu, the concubine of His Royal Highness Prince Xuan? I heard that it was because Madam Xu died of illness that Prince Xuan fell in love with the eldest daughter of the Xie family who looked a bit like her!"

"No, no, no, I heard that after the eldest daughter of the Xie family was rejected for engagement twice, she went to the mountain in a rage and asked the Yellow Fairy to possess her. That's why His Royal Highness Prince Xuan was so bewitched by her."

"I think what you said is wrong. In fact, the eldest daughter of the Xie family is a man! His Royal Highness Prince Xuan didn't want to be forced into marriage, so he married a fake wife to be his brother!"

"No, no, I think it's like this..."

These rumors soon reached Xie Zhuoning's ears. She opened her mouth in amazement.

"No, couldn't Xiao Jinxuan marry me just because he loves me?"

How could you rather believe in strange and bizarre stories rather than believe that they truly loved each other?

Song Yuqiu asked her, "Sister Zhuoning, are you really not motivated by any other selfish motives in marrying His Royal Highness Prince Xuan?"

Xie Zhuoning: "...It's not impossible to write mountain and wild strange stories, but I want to be a fox spirit."

What the hell is Huang Xian? How does she look like a weasel?