"And there's more!" the man holding the tabloid exclaimed again, and everyone pricked up their ears to listen.
"Prince Ding, Miss Ye's fiancé, broke off the engagement with her yesterday evening with Princess Ruijia without even verifying the facts!"
The young lady was jilted by Prince Ding? Uncle Tan felt a sharp pain in his heart!
The man holding the tabloid continued, "Prince Ding and the second daughter of the Marquis's family are deeply in love. After breaking off his engagement with the eldest daughter, he turned to the second daughter for marriage and has already left her a betrothal contract. They will be married on the auspicious day!"
This is outrageous! Uncle Tan was furious. This Prince Ding has gone too far!
Back then, it was because the eldest daughter was abandoned in the manor when she was young that the Marquis of Zhongyong felt sorry for her and thought that Prince Ding was a good man. That's why he asked the emperor to give the eldest daughter the marriage contract he had been given!
Now, the Prince of Ding has become ungrateful and has failed to repay the Marquis of Zhongyong's life-saving grace!
No matter how capable the young lady is, she is still a girl. Now that she has been jilted, what good family can she find in the future?
Prince Ding is disregarding the young lady's life!
The man with the tabloid continued: "Miss Ye is so magnanimous. When Prince Ding broke off the engagement, she only told him not to regret it!"
A gasp of surprise rippled through the crowd, a mixture of shock and regret.
Uncle Tan stood there in a daze for a long time, then suddenly squatted down, covered his face, and cried so hard he couldn't straighten up.
Yesterday, he misunderstood the young lady. She is the daughter of the Marquis of Zhongyong. How could she be so dissolute and ruin her reputation?
Now he realized that the young lady was indeed worthy of being the daughter of the Marquis of Zhongyong. She had the blood of the Marquis of Zhongyong flowing in her veins and shared the same resilient personality. Even in the face of rumors and gossip throughout the city, she could still firmly do what she had to do.
Despite the blow of Prince Ding taking the initiative to annul the engagement and the humiliation of him turning to the Second Daughter for marriage, she was able to calmly remind him not to regret it.
Her courage and magnanimity are just like her father's!
This Prince Ding... is not good enough for his eldest daughter, he really is not good enough!
Uncle Tan suddenly felt very fortunate, fortunate that he had listened to the young lady's words yesterday and waited for dawn today.
This wait not only allowed him to see a different side of the young lady, but also gave him considerable comfort.
"General, if you have a spirit in heaven, you can rest in peace seeing how outstanding the young lady is," Uncle Tan said, looking up at the sky with tears streaming down his face.
In the streets and alleys of the capital, besides praising Ye Qingxue, there was also condemnation of Prince Ding.
They condemned him for breaking off the engagement without investigating the truth, causing serious harm to Ye Qingxue, betraying the kindness of the Marquis Zhongyong who saved his life, and being ungrateful.
Some speculate that he didn't actually want to marry Ye Qingxue as a concubine; he wanted to marry the second daughter of the Marquis's family. That's why he took the opportunity to quickly break off the engagement and instead ask for the second daughter of the Marquis's family in marriage.
This statement only fueled the public's anger and criticism of Prince Ding.
As these voices began to resound throughout the streets and alleys of the capital, the steward of the Marquis of Zhongyong's mansion slowly opened the vermilion gates in the morning light, beginning a new day for the mansion.
When Ye Qingxue opened her eyes in bed, she found that it was just beginning to get light.
She lay there motionless for a while, quietly watching the light and shadow dance on the windowsill—the faint shadows cast by the leaves outside the window, swaying gently in the breeze.
It's another new day. Her life countdown has only eight days left.
Back when I lived in the village, when I woke up in the morning and saw the sunlight streaming onto the windowsill, I would subconsciously feel that today was brand new and joyful.
Now...
Ye Qingxue held her palm up to her eyes and felt that the skin on her palm had become slightly more transparent, and the red lines inside were even clearer and more glaring.
These days... well, they're brand new and joyful!
This is the time she borrowed from the hatred of her past life, giving her the opportunity to take revenge on her enemies!
The time was short, but it's better than nothing.
Hatred surged through her body with a vengeance. Ye Qingxue withdrew her hand and sat up abruptly. Hearing the commotion, Chunqian immediately came over and lifted the curtain.
I helped her get dressed, comb her hair, and wash her face.
Chunqian and the others didn't say much about her poisoning, only delivering medicine to her on time. The medicine couldn't cure the poison, but it could relieve her pain and slow down the spread of the toxin to her limbs and bones.
After finishing all that, Ye Qingxue sat down at the dining table. Xiao Bao and Qi Zai were playing in the yard, and they ran in when they smelled the aroma of the food.
Xiao Bao climbed onto the chair and sat down obediently, while Qi Zai squatted between Ye Qingxue and Xiao Bao.
Chunqian brought water for Xiaobao to wash his hands before they started eating breakfast.
Ye Qingxue asked, "How is the person in the room? Has their fever subsided?"
Chunqian replied, "He took medicine last night, and his high fever has subsided a bit, but he still has a fever. I brought him porridge and steamed buns this morning, but he didn't touch them much."
Ye Qingxue looked at Xiaobao. If what Xiaobao said was true, and the deposed prince had silver needles in his body and blood clots in his brain, then it would be difficult for the deposed prince to bring down his high fever unless the silver needles were removed and the blood clots were taken out.
But how difficult this is for them now?
It would be easy to expose the fact that the deposed crown prince was hiding here, so the deposed crown prince could only endure it for now.
Ye Qingxue hadn't finished eating when Dongbai walked in from outside with a grim expression. "Miss, someone from the palace has come to summon you to the palace again, and you must go now!"
Everyone turned to look at Ye Qingxue, knowing that a summons from the emperor at this time could not be good news.
Xia Lu said, "Miss just received a reward last night, and this morning the palace summoned her again... It must be that the Marquis's mansion has come up with some tricks to use the emperor to deal with Miss."
Ye Qingxue smiled and said, "I know they won't let me have an easy time. Besides, what happened last night hurt the Prince Ding they're trying to curry favor with. Even if it's just for the Prince Ding, they'll still come after me."
Dongbai said, "In that case, Miss, please do not go when the Emperor summons you this time."
“Since it’s a summons from the Emperor, if we don’t go, we’ll only die sooner,” Ye Qingxue said.
"Dongbai, you will remain in Guanju Courtyard. Xialu, you will come to the palace with me."
It should be white in winter and green in summer.
Today, Ye Qingxue was wearing a light blue dress and a matching cloak. When she arrived at the front courtyard of the Marquis's mansion with Xia Lu, she encountered Ye Cunjin and Madam Min.
The way they looked at her was like they were looking at a dying person.
It's clear they were very confident that her entry into the palace was a one-way trip.
The people who came to pick her up this time were not Eunuch Huaifu, but two unfamiliar eunuchs who were very arrogant and indifferent towards Ye Qingxue.
The reason was simple: they knew that the emperor had summoned them to the palace in a fit of rage.
When they arrived with their orders, Eunuch Huaifu was standing beside the emperor, trying to calm him down.
Ye Qingxue and Xia Lucai boarded the carriage, and without saying a word, they told the driver to hurry up and ride away.
If Ye Qingxue and Xia Lu hadn't steadied themselves in time, they would have crashed into the carriage wall.
Unlike her audience with the Emperor last night, almost everyone gave Ye Qingxue the cold shoulder when she approached the Imperial Study today.
The emperor she saw again was no longer kind and gentle; he was like a raging lion.
As soon as Ye Qingxue knelt down to pay her respects, the emperor angrily asked, "Ye Qingxue, do you know your crime?!"
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