Chapter 320 The House Was Stolen by a Concubine
When Yun Jiaoyue saw the guard, she cursed him inwardly as useless. He couldn't even kill a woman and was caught.
She turned the tables and preemptively struck, "Yun Zhaoxue, in order to exonerate Consort Chen, you've arrested a guard from our Xuan Prince's mansion to take the blame. Do you have no respect for the Prince?"
"Someone, go back and invite the Prince."
A maidservant obeyed the order and left to fetch someone.
"Judging from the degree of blood clotting in his wound, the injury occurred at least 25 minutes ago, probably around the time of the incident."
I do not possess the ability to foresee the future, nor could I have predicted that you would drive someone to their death based on baseless speculation, and then try to frame a guard in the Prince Xuan's residence. If I were to frame someone, why not just pick any random person instead of a guard?
Xiao Xuanwu also came forward to testify, "He was the thief. At night, I took my nephew to the toilet and was waiting for them in the yard when I saw a dark figure pass by the door. I chased after him and caught him."
This was partly true and partly false. He did discover the thief, but with the help of his bodyguards, he was able to capture him so easily.
Doctor Chen stepped forward to examine the guard's wounds and bloodstains.
"It was a cut from scissors. Judging from the bloodstains, it was indeed made about 45 minutes ago. In such darkness, the princess was able to see it from such a distance. I admire her."
"You scoundrel, what are you doing in Aunt Chen's room in the middle of the night? Did she seduce you?"
The guard was captured and interrogated, but he didn't confess to anything. After she reminded him, he went along with her and said, "Yes! She seduced me. She said she would spend one night with me for one tael of silver. I tried to negotiate with her, asking if it could be two nights for one tael. When we couldn't agree on a price, she tried to hurt me with scissors."
I chased after her, and she hit me with something. Otherwise, with my skills, how could I have been injured by her?
Yun Jiaoyue was quite satisfied; he wasn't stupid after all.
"You're talking nonsense. You're a guard of the Prince Xuan's mansion. Yun Jiaoyue would love to kill me. How could I seduce you? She sent you to kill me, to humiliate me and then to kill me, right?"
Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves approached.
"What's going on? Why are you all gathered around here in the middle of the night instead of sleeping? Go back to sleep."
Xiao Xuanwu pointed at the people on the ground, "Sir, someone is trying to kill someone. Should the city defense battalion take charge of this?"
The purpose of practicing martial arts is to protect one's home and country and to safeguard the weak behind one's back. However, using force to bully the weak goes against the original intention of those who practice martial arts.
He should have his hands and feet crippled so he could experience the feeling of being powerless to resist and being bullied.
Chen Yuru picked up a stone and lunged at the guard, smashing it over his head and pinning him to the ground, yelling, "I'll beat you to death, you lecherous thief! You even tried to kill me..."
He slapped him twice, breaking his head until it bled, before kneeling before Zhang Kui and begging him for justice. "Sir," he pleaded, "he broke into my room in the middle of the night, attempting to rape me and then kill me! Please, do justice for me!"
Zhang Kui understood the whole story. "Guards, take him away and hand him over to the county government tomorrow."
Yun Zhaoxue said, "Wait, sir, why don't you interrogate him in public and find out who instructed him?"
Everyone present knew exactly what was going on.
Yun Jiaoyue harbored hatred for Chen Yurou, so she sent her guards to humiliate and kill her. Killing someone is just a matter of a quick death, but to insult her reputation before she dies is truly vicious.
Some people who still had humanity looked at Yun Jiaoyue with contempt.
"When did it become your place, a woman, to teach this lord how to do things?" Zhang Kui's sinister gaze swept over Yun Zhaoxue. Seeing that she was still unafraid of death and dared to meet his eyes, he rode over and lashed his whip across her face.
"Don't touch my wife!" Xiao Xuance raised his hand to intercept the whip, and the two of them pulled hard on the whip, which snapped in the middle under the force of the two powerful pulls. "Snap!"
Xiao Xuance stood still.
Zhang Kui, on horseback, felt a powerful surge of energy. He nearly fell off the horse, but managed to regain his balance by clinging to its head.
"Hiss~"
"How dare you disrespect us! You're asking for death!"
Upon seeing this, several soldiers drew their swords and surrounded Xiao Xuance.
Zhang Kui raised his hand, "You can't beat him. Take the one on the ground with you, let's go!"
"Sir, this boy has been disrespectful to you. Are you just going to let him go like this?"
Zhang Kui didn't answer, tightened the reins, turned his horse around, and rode away.
Yun Jiaoyue had a gut feeling that Zhang Kui's arrival was related to Zhao Xuan, so she asked Shaoyao, who had just gone back to fetch people, "Your Highness, why didn't you come?"
Peony stammered, as if she couldn't bring herself to say it, "Your Highness, he is... busy."
"What are you busy with?"
If everyone's asleep by midnight, what else is there to be busy with?
"Your Highness will know when you get back." Peony lowered her head, her eyes darting away.
Yun Jiaoyue turned and went back.
The others have to get up and work in the fields tomorrow, so almost everyone has left.
Chen Yuru kowtowed to Yun Zhaoxue to express her gratitude, "Thank you, Princess. You have saved my life again. I, Chen Yuru, will never forget your great kindness. If you don't mind, I will serve you like a slave in the future to repay your life-saving grace."
“Get up. The more others look down on you, the more you should strive to be better than them. Hu Feng asked us to tell you that he is still alive. Once they are settled in the city, he will come to find you.”
Chen Yuru's lifeless heart was rekindled with hope. He was still alive, he still remembered her, and he wanted to come back to find her.
"Is he still alive? How is he now? Is he in danger?"
"They are safe for now, so you don't need to worry. I don't need anyone to work for me. Just live well and that will be your way of repaying my life-saving grace."
"Thank you, Princess. You are really different from before."
People change, and you're different now, aren't you?
“Your Highness is right. In the future, if Your Highness ever needs my help, please feel free to ask me to do so.”
"We'll see."
When Yun Jiaoyue returned home, she heard a woman's soft moans coming from the master bedroom, and she could also vaguely hear a man's panting.
That room belongs to Liu Yiyi.
The man with her was His Highness. He turned his head and his sharp gaze fell on Peony's face. "You knew all along, why didn't you tell this princess?"
Concubines are all vixens, equally disgusting, hateful, and deserving of death. Aunt Chen and Liu Yiyi both deserve to die.
"This servant...this servant dares not speak ill of my master."
How can you blame him? He only found out when he got back. She was too embarrassed to say anything in front of so many people.
Yun Jiaoyue was filled with hatred, wishing she could rush in and drag that bitch Liu Yiyi out to beat her to death. She had only been gone for a short while and had already seduced His Highness into bed. Damn bitch, bitch, ahhhhhh!!!
She hated it! With anger burning inside and nowhere to vent it, she turned around and slapped Peony across the face.
"Smack!"
She turned too sharply, twisting her abdomen. The pain made her bend over, her face contorted in agony. "Hiss~"
"Your Highness, Your Highness, what's wrong?" Rose helped her fall down, her voice very low, afraid of disturbing the good thing inside and being punished by the prince.
"My stomach hurts so much..." Yun Jiaoyue held her arm, pinched it hard, and gestured with her eyes for her to scream louder.
Rose understood and cried out desperately, "Your Highness, Your Highness, please hold on! I'll go get a doctor right away!"
"Peony, what are you standing there for? Hurry up and fetch the doctor..."
"Yes, this servant will go right away."
The three of them, master and servant, made quite a commotion in the courtyard, while the two inside the house were getting carried away, their intimate sounds growing louder and louder.
Rose helped Yun Jiaoyue back to the main room, and the ambiguous sounds clearly reached their ears.
"Hmm, Your Highness, please, please don't do it again, I can't take it anymore, sob sob..." The woman's sobbing pleas aroused the man's desire to conquer her, making him crave more and unable to stop.
"Your Highness, please don't do this. It seems the Princess Consort has returned. Please go and keep her company. My leg is much better now; you don't need to do this. Hmm... Ah..."
"Never mind him. She just had a miscarriage and can't have sex. There's also a strange smell in the room that makes me want to vomit. You smell much better."
"My Yiyi, you smell so good~ Just as your name suggests, Yiyi's figure is as delicate as a willow branch, I can bend her however I want, again..." Zhao Xuan picked her up and changed her position...
"Your Highness is joking with me again, um~"
The talking stopped, but even more ambiguous sounds came from inside the room, one after another, like knives piercing her eardrums, wandering through her body, and shattering her heart into pieces.
Yun Jiaoyue's eyes were bloodshot as she stared intently at the door, her nails digging deep into her palms, her teeth clenched, and her whole body trembled.
She wanted to push open that door, drag that vixen Liu Yiyi off the bed, and beat her to death.
Then she questioned Zhao Xuan about why he was so cruel to her.
She lost her child and was still immersed in grief.
He said he would sleep with her for the next few nights, feeling guilty for not taking good care of her, and promised her that if she wanted more children in the future, she could have as many as she wanted.
In just two days, he was having sex with another woman. How could he do that to her and to their dead child?
She suddenly trembled violently, her eyes rolled back, and she fainted, collapsing into the arms of her maid.
The doctor arrived, said it was due to anger attacking the heart, so he administered acupuncture, prescribed a few more doses of medicine, and then left.
Zhao Xuan didn't go into her room once that entire night; he stayed in Liu Yiyi's room the whole time.
Yun Jiaoyue felt as if her heart was being torn apart. She lay on the bed, tears streaming down her face, soaking her pillow.
Why is God so cruel to her in this life? Her father and mother are gone, and her child is gone too. The only husband she could rely on was the one who favored his concubine in front of her when she lost her child.
She had such a smooth life in her past life, so why is she being given so much suffering in this life?
Why is Yun Zhaoxue, who suffered a life of hardship in her previous life, living a better life than her? Her husband loves and protects her, listens to her every word, and doesn't take concubines...
God is unfair, so unfair! She hated it, she hated it so much…
She can't give up like this, Liu Yiyi! You bitch! You must die!!!
Yun Jiaoyue gripped the blanket tightly to her chest with both hands, gritted her teeth, her eyes bulging, and her eyes bursting with intense hatred and murderous intent.
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