Chapter 336 Heartbreak
Gu Ruanci said, "I no longer accept your apology now."
Her tone was full of ridicule, which made Concubine Wen feel humiliated.
Wen Zimei looked at Gu Ruanci with eyes full of resentment.
"You don't have to look at me like that. It's useless to me. Your sister might be grateful to you and willing to die with you, but she will always blame you for her children."
Gu Ruanci is good at grasping human nature, and he is confident about it.
Wen Zimei knew it very well, but he couldn't care less at this moment.
"You came here today just to ridicule us?"
Gu Ruanci smiled lightly, a hint of disdain in her eyes: "Mocking you? You don't deserve it. I just came to tell you that some debts can't be resolved with just an apology. What you owe, someone must pay it back."
Concubine Wen was even more panicked: "Gu Ruanci, what are you going to do to my children? I beg you, you are all coming for me, let them go, they are innocent!"
Gu Ruanci slowly stood up and stood not far away, looking at Concubine Wen's sincere expression. Concubine Wen now looked like a wounded she-wolf.
"Innocent? There are not so many innocent people in this world. Your children are innocent, but what about my mother? Just because of your sister's jealousy, you attacked my mother. Should I bear the pain of losing my mother?" Although Gu Ruanci's voice was soft, it was like a heavy hammer, hitting Concubine Wen's heart with every word.
Concubine Wen collapsed on the ground, her vision blurred by tears. She finally realized that the mistake she had made was irreversible.
"I... I didn't know it would turn out like this. I just... just wanted to make my sister happier..." Concubine Wen choked, her voice full of regret.
At this moment, Wen Zimei was the one suffering the most.
Her younger sister, who cared so much about her and regarded her as a role model all her life, was ultimately harmed by her.
"Your sister's way of being happy is truly unique. She insisted on killing the woman who gave birth to her son. What has your sister gained over the years? Has she ever been truly happy? All her plans have ultimately been in vain. I no longer expect you to realize your mistakes. What I need is not your regret for my mother, but for your own child. Now, everything has come true for your sister."
Gu Runci gestured to Nong Chun and Zang Xia. The two understood and opened the box that Gu Runci handed to them.
"Do you remember this waist badge? It was left behind when someone was hunting my mother. I kept it safe. After returning to Dizhou, I've been searching for the Zhou family's assassins. By chance, I learned that this waist badge actually belongs to Prince Duan's mansion."
Gu Ruanci threw the token on the ground right in front of Wen Zimei.
"At that time, I knew it was you who did it. I thought your evil was just jealousy of my mother and bullying us everywhere. After we left the Imperial State, we never had anything to do with you. I never thought you would be so ruthless."
"I really underestimated the evil in your nature, so I put all the blame on the Zhou and Ye families. But they are not innocent either. It's just that you two were added later."
Wen Zimei's face turned pale, and she thought of Zhou Qingdai's death again.
"I...I..." Wen Zimei opened her mouth, but found that she had nothing to say.
Gu Ruanci looked at her coldly, without a trace of warmth in his eyes.
"You don't need to say more. I'm here today to tell you that debts must be repaid. I will recoup every bit of pain you've inflicted on my mother and me."
Wen Zimei closed her eyes and tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes.
Qingdai, my daughter, it is your mother who has implicated you after all.
Gu Ruanci took out something else from the box and threw it at Wen Zimei's feet.
"Do you know what this is? It's evidence that the Ye family bribed a beggar to deliberately overturn your daughter's carriage. Maybe one day when I'm in a good mood, I'll help hand it over to the authorities and make the Ye family pay the price... But definitely not now."
Wen Zimei widened her eyes. She should have thought that these things were related to Gu Ruanci.
"Although the Ye family did it, I wasn't idle either. After all, I was the one who saved those beggars, and the Ye family was also unknowingly using me. As for why they hate you, it's because I deliberately allowed the person who killed Ye Chengyao to appear near the Zhou family... Zhou Zhili and the others would definitely not harm Ye Chengyao. Of course, you are the only one who could harm others among those living in the Zhou Mansion... You don't know, but it's really boring for me to deal with you families. I prefer to watch you fight each other..."
Wen Zimei felt a chill running from the soles of her feet straight to her head. She asked in a trembling voice, "You...what do you want?"
Gu Ruanci chuckled softly, but her voice was as cold as the winter wind. "Why? Of course I want you to pay for what you did back then. I don't want you to die too easily, I just want you to taste the feeling of losing everything bit by bit."
Wen Zimei also collapsed on the ground. She finally understood that the evil she had done over the years had come back to haunt her daughter.
She recalled all her past calculations, the days when she would do anything to gain power and status. Now, they all seemed like a joke.
Gu Ruanci looked at Wen Zimei's desperate expression, but she didn't feel any pity in her heart.
"Look, you can't stand it anymore. I haven't finished yet... Never mind. I'm here anyway. I can't not finish what I want to say. That's not my character."
"During this time, the Ye family and the second branch of the Zhou family have been putting on a show in front of you. They clearly hate you to death, but they still maintain a calm appearance, acting very well. Ye Lanxin knows that you deliberately chose those young masters to ridicule Zhou Qinzhu. How could she let you go? Your daughter's tragedy is all caused by you, and has nothing to do with anyone else."
"I know all the methods you used to take revenge on the Ye family. After all, you hired those bandits to attack the Ye family, but left Zhou Yuzhi there alone, creating the illusion that he had killed the Ye family's eldest son, trying to turn the two families against each other. My people witnessed the entire process..."
When Wen Zimei heard this, her head exploded. She actually knew all this?
"To make it easier for the Ye family to bite back, I naturally have to go to the Five Dragons Palace. After all, something happened at the Xuandi Temple recently, and no one else would dare go there. Zhou Qingdai's mother-in-law is quite good at currying favor. After finding out that my mother would be going with me and hearing some rumors I deliberately spread that only targeted the second branch of the Zhou family, she naturally wanted to take Zhou Qingdai up the mountain..."
"Zhou Qingdai was forced by her mother-in-law to establish a friendship with me at the mountain gate. Later, she came to my room and said she wanted to reminisce about the past. Seeing her sincerity, I naturally had to tell her that the Ye family already knew that it was you who did those things and wanted to harm you. You, a filial daughter, hurriedly brought your mother-in-law down the mountain to find you, and you didn't dare tell her the reason for going down the mountain, for fear that the evil things you did would be exposed... Alas, the Ye family's ambush had just been set, and Zhou Qingdai walked into the trap. All this is such a coincidence. Wen Zimei, are you happy? Your daughter has prevented disaster for you. She took all the retribution for you. Are you proud? You didn't give birth to a daughter, you gave birth to a scapegoat. Are you proud?"
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