Granny Hu held a handkerchief and wiped the blood off Ye Yabing's face, but instead wiped away deep, bone-revealing wounds, which frightened Ye Yabing so much that she fell to the ground.
"She's disfigured! The second young lady is truly disfigured. Such a deep wound, I'm afraid it can't be healed..."
Ye Yabing had just woken up when she heard these words, and her heart shattered once again, causing her to faint.
Madam Zhou couldn't tell whether she was cold or angry. In any case, she was trembling all over. She couldn't believe her youngest daughter's face was injured, but the wound was so obvious and still bleeding.
"You wretched child, she is your sister! How could you be so cruel to her?" Madam Zhou's gaze finally fell on Ye Qingxue's face.
Her eyes were cold and filled with anger. She strode up to Ye Qingxue and slapped her hard across the face.
Ye Qingxue looked at her without flinching: "Are you sure you want to slap me, Mother? You gave birth to me, and if you slap me, you will be severing the bond between us as mother and daughter."
Madam Zhou paused for a moment, then gathered all her strength in her arm and slapped Ye Qingxue hard across the face.
*Smack!*
Ye Qingxue's ears were ringing and blood was coming from the corner of her mouth.
Madam Zhou was still not satisfied and was almost screaming: "You laid a hand on your own sister and killed Granny Lai. This slap is a lesson for you!"
"Granny Tu, take the second young lady away and quickly fetch the family physician!" Madam Zhou glared at Ye Qingxue: "If anything happens to your sister, I will not forgive you!"
Ye Qingxue laughed, revealing her neat, white teeth, with blood seeping between them: "Now that I've taken action, even a god couldn't cure Ye Yabing's face. Wouldn't that be considered a double tragedy?"
Madam Zhou was so angry she almost fainted. She roared, "You are truly a jinx! You've only just returned to the manor and you've already caused a huge uproar, making people injured and even killed because of you! Why don't you just die already?!"
Ye Qingxue had heard these words since she was a child: "A jinx, a harbinger of misfortune." People in the village said that she was sent to the village to fend for herself because she was a jinx.
The Marquis of Zhongyong's mansion didn't want her, and neither did her parents.
When she was two years old, Ye Yabing was born on the same day as her cousin, but she cried every night and refused to drink milk. Many doctors came to see her, but to no avail.
Grandmother then invited a master to the house. The master predicted that she was a jinx, and that it was because of her existence that her younger siblings cried day and night. If this continued, her younger siblings would surely be killed by her, and any other children she had in the future would be difficult to raise.
Therefore, she was sent to the Jingzhou estate.
After she was sent away, her younger siblings indeed stopped crying and started eating and sleeping well, further confirming the claim that she was a jinx.
During her fifteen years in the village of Jingzhou, her mother never visited her. When she saw other children rushing into their mothers' arms, she imagined her mother's appearance countless times.
The mother in her imagination doesn't need to have a beautiful face, but she will have a pair of loving eyes; she doesn't need to have fair and soft hands, but those hands can have a few calluses, but they should be very warm; she doesn't need to have a graceful figure, but she must be full of love when she hugs her.
However, when she actually met her mother, she found that her mother was completely different from what she had imagined.
My mother is beautiful. Even though she is nearly forty, there are no wrinkles on her face, her skin is very fair, her hands are soft and without a single callus, and her figure is very graceful. But there is no affection in her eyes, her hands have never touched her, and her arms have never been opened to her.
“Even if I am a scourge, it was you who brought me into this world. You gave me life but did not raise or teach me. You have not been killed by me yet, so why should I die first?”
Madam Zhou's eyes reddened from her words, and she raised her hands as if to strangle her.
Ye Qingxue straightened her neck and raised her chin: "Mother, I am already seventeen years old. If you want to strangle me now, it's too late! If you try to strangle me now, I will only make you regret messing with me!"
Madam Zhou's hands trembled slightly, her face deathly pale. She was torn between pinching him and not pinching him.
"Speaking of which, you are really ridiculous, Mother. As a mother, you want to discipline me and strangle me, but since you entered Guanju Courtyard, you haven't asked me what happened that made you want to kill Ye Yabing and Granny Lai. Is this how you act as a mother? What right does a mother like you have to strangle me?"
Madam Zhou took a deep breath, her gaze sharp as a sword: "I don't need to ask, and I know perfectly well why you killed your own sister and Granny Lai! Now you will come with me to the front hall to beg for forgiveness! I will have a doctor treat your sister's face!"
She grabbed Ye Qingxue's wrist, intending to drag her to the front hall. Just before taking a step, she seemed to remember something and turned back to look at Granny Tu, "Hurry up and fetch a doctor to treat the Second Miss! Anyone who dares to utter a single word about her injured face will die!"
Granny Tu quickly agreed. She took care of Ye Yabing and asked the other maids to fetch the family doctor.
Madam Zhou tried to pull Ye Qingxue away, but Ye Qingxue shook off her hand: "My marriage to Prince Ding is a gift from His Majesty. How can I break off the engagement? To defy the imperial decree and break off the engagement would mean the execution of the entire family. Whom does Mother want to die?"
"Your elder brother and second aunt will handle the troubles after you break off the engagement; you don't need to worry about it! You are not worthy of His Highness Prince Ding, so don't even dream of using this marriage to rise in status!"
"I am the eldest daughter of a noble family, and His Majesty has personally bestowed this marriage upon me. Who dares to say that I am not worthy of Prince Ding?" Ye Qingxue questioned in a deep voice, without even wiping the blood from the corner of her mouth.
"Or is it that Mother believes I am unworthy of His Highness Prince Ding because I grew up in the countryside? But wasn't it you, Mother, who personally sent me to the countryside? Wasn't it you who gave me life but did not educate or raise me? I have already lived as you wished, as a rough and uncouth girl in the countryside for fifteen years. Today, I will not listen to you again and take the initiative to annul the engagement and ruin my reputation!"
Madam Zhou was furious: "I am your mother, I order you to annul the engagement!"
"My mother? My mother would let me live in the countryside for fifteen years without caring about me? My mother would not care about me at all when I was given the deadly poison of the Broken Moon Orchid by Ye Yabing and only had ten days to live, and would even force me to bear the guilt of breaking off the engagement?"
Ye Qingxue raised a cold laugh, her voice as frosty as ice.
"Anyway, I don't have much time left, so no one can force me to do something I don't want to do!"
Madam Zhou was furious: "What deadly poison? What ten days to live? Your sister has been looking forward to your return home day and night. How could she possibly poison you? You are truly wicked. Not only did you ruin your own sister's appearance, but you also gave her the infamous name of poisoner!"
Upon hearing this, Granny Hu sneered, "The physician will be here soon to treat the second young lady. Why not also take the pulse of the eldest young lady to see if she has been poisoned? Madam, don't be fooled by her!"
Madam Zhou said angrily, "Fine, then let's wait for the doctor to come!"
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