Lady Sun was taken aback: "You’ve never been there..."
Lady Sun’s face changed rapidly, gradually turning black. Seeing the smile on Ji Xinhe’s lips, she finally realized that she had been played. She pointed at Ji Xinhe’s nose in a rage, shouting, "It was you! You knew from the beginning, you knew everything! You knew I was having you followed, you did it on purpose! Ji Xinhe, Ji Xinhe! You mean person!"
Xinhe gave a faint smile: "There’s no need for you to lose your temper in front of me. Instead of being angry with me, you should think about how to deal with the Emperor now that he has followed your words and gone to Lotus Alley to seize me, only to find nothing. I’ve heard of our Emperor’s reputation. He’s never merciful to discarded chess pieces, let alone those who dare to deceive him."
Xinhe paused and looked at Lady Sun with a deep gaze: "I’m afraid your days ahead are not going to be easy."
Lady Sun shook her head vigorously: "Impossible, impossible, the Emperor will surely find out that this is your trick!"
Xinhe blinked: "Really? After today, the Emperor will know that I was never in Lotus Alley, but here. But who was the one who confused the Emperor in the first place? It was you. And who was the one who leisurely came to chat with me while the Emperor found nothing in Lotus Alley? It was also you. It won’t take much effort for the Emperor to find out all of this. Now, do you think the already suspicious Emperor will choose to trust you?"
Lady Sun’s face alternated between pale and blue, looking quite terrible, she ground her teeth and said: "Ji Xinhe!"
Xinhe smiled slightly: "Lady Sun, why are you so angry at me? You brought all of this on yourself, I gave you a choice."
Remembering something suddenly, Lady Sun exclaimed: "Impossible! Impossible! I clearly saw you in the house in Lotus Alley these last days. How could it not be you? If it wasn’t you, then who it could be!?"
As if she had realized something, Lady Sun’s face turned even paler. Looking at Ji Xinhe in shock, she began to tremble.
Xinhe gazed at her somberly: "In this world, the person who looks most like me would naturally be my half-sister. She turned out to be useful at this crucial moment. I didn’t regret sparing her life."
Upon hearing this, Lady Sun seemed to collapse. Bulging her eyes, she flew into rage and lunged at Ji Xinhe: "I will kill you, you mean person!"
With a simple twist of her wrist, Xinhe caught her hand, coldly saying: "Lady Sun, as I said, you brought this on yourself, you can’t blame anyone else. If you had followed my instructions and did as I told you, instead of creating this mess, you could’ve seen your beloved daughter in Lotus Alley as you wished. Instead, you’re here to meet me. We could have both been happy, it would have been much better than this. But this outcome, it’s all your doing."
Lady Sun laughed a bitter laugh, looking like a venomous snake: "Both of us happy? Ji Xinhe, you’re worthy?"
"Why am I not?"
"Anyone from the Le Yuanhou Mansion is not worthy!" Lady Sun glared at Ji Xinhe in hatred, her eyes seemingly enough to kill someone.
Ji Xinhe’s gaze became even colder, she harshly threw Lady Sun away. As Lady Sun stumbled and fell to the ground, Ji Xinhe stood above her, looking down and coldly saying: "Really? Today, I’ll show you that the only one who’s not worthy is you and your daughter."
Upon hearing Ji Xinhe’s words, Lady Sun’s face turned even paler. Thinking of her daughter being assassinated in Lotus Alley by the people she arranged for, she found it hard to breathe.
"Jun Yan, Jun Yan... It’s my fault, it’s your mother’s fault! I shouldn’t have used your life as a bet, I was wrong." Lady Sun broke down and started crying, kneeling on the ground, her image as a lady of Hou Mansion was gone, only regret remained in her heart.
She hated the Le Yuanhou Mansion and Ji Xinhe, but how could she risk her own daughter’s life? How could she?!
When she thought about Li Junyan being targeted by Ji Xinhe and being hunted by the Emperor’s men, Lady Sun was so angry she wanted to vomit blood.
Her beloved daughter was not dead, but she was going to die at her hands, at her hands!
Ji Xinhe coldly watched Lady Sun as she wailed and pounded her chest, standing in front of her indifferently before squatting down to look at her: "Now I’m giving you another choice."
Lady Sun froze for a moment, then quickly grabbed Ji Xinhe’s skirt and begged on her knees: "What choice? Tell me, tell me, I’ll do it. Ji Xinhe, I beg you, I beg you, save Jun Yan, she’s innocent, she doesn’t know anything!"
Ji Xinhe looked at her coldly: "I’ll only ask you one thing, you tell me truthfully. If your attitude is sincere, I may consider letting you go now."
"Let me go?" Lady Sun cried out in disbelief: "I’m talking about saving Li Junyan!"
Ji Xinhe blinked: "Letting you go means you can save Li Junyan on your own. But if you don’t want to, that’s fine, I won’t force you. The choice is in your hands. If you want to stay here and chat with me until you receive the news of your daughter’s death, I don’t mind."
"But can you help me save her..."
Ji Xinhe looked at her with an almost mocking smile: "Do you really think I’m a living Bodhisattva?"
Lady Sun choked, but in the end, she could only nod her head and gritted her teeth, saying: "Fine."
Xinhe smirked: "Isn’t it better to cooperate from the start?"
"What do you want to ask?" Lady Sun asked impatiently.
She was eager to leave now. Even though she knew that she wouldn’t be able to save her daughter on her own, at least it was better than waiting here. She couldn’t waste any time.
Ji Xinhe looked at her intently: "I want to ask you, how did my mother die twenty-two years ago?"
Lady Sun turned completely pale at once: "Wasn’t she... didn’t she die from a difficult childbirth?"
"I know it was a difficult childbirth, but I’ve heard that my mother was specifically sent back to the capital from the border by my father to ensure her safety. However, after returning to the capital, she was pursued and killed. They said it was people from the enemy country, but I find it very strange. I want to know the truth." Xinhe’s voice was icy, and her gaze at Lady Sun was murderous.
Lady Sun shivered all over: "I, I, I don’t know."
Ji Xinhe’s eyes grew colder: "Won’t tell? Fine, then wait to collect Li Junyan’s corpse!"
After saying that, she stood up and began to walk away.
But Lady Sun was desperate, she hastily grabbed Ji Xinhe’s sleeve: "I’ll tell! I’ll tell you! Back then, your mother didn’t die at the hands of the enemy. It was the late Emperor! He was plotting a coup, but then your mother returned to the capital and disrupted his plans. The late Emperor couldn’t let her live, so he ordered her assassination. Your mother died on the way back."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
