Chapter 59: Your Highness The Crown Prince, Stay Your Hand
“Madam is mistaken. The person who wanted to exchange fates with Madam has never been the Heir Apparent’s Wife. It is someone else.”
Jiang Ruanxi was stunned.
Not her?
Then who?
A hard-to-describe feeling immediately filled her heart.
In her previous life, all the things she encountered changed because of Jiang Xuerou’s appearance.
The man she deeply loved was together with Jiang Xuerou, and he betrayed her.
Her closest relatives never treated her as family for the sake of Jiang Xuerou, because Jiang Xuerou had taken her place in their hearts.
So after rebirth, she schemed step by step to expose Jiang Xuerou’s hypocrisy, but now she was told that everything she did was wrong.
Jiang Xuerou was not the person who exchanged fates with her.
“Then who?”
Jiang Ruanxi’s voice trembled uncontrollably. If it was neither the Lin Family nor Jiang Xuerou, then who exactly was it?
The one who made her previous life so miserable.
She had no grudge against him, so why exchange fates with her.
“This poor Daoist wanted to peek at Heavenly Secrets, but discovered someone was desperately hiding it. I could only calculate that the person who exchanged fates is not the Heir Apparent’s Wife, and it has already consumed quite a bit of mental energy.
This poor Daoist’s Daoist Magic is still shallow, and the tribulation crossing has not yet succeeded, so I cannot peek at more. If Madam wants to know who that person is, I’m afraid we can only wait until my Master returns to the Capital.”
Jiang Ruanxi composed her emotions.
“Thank you, Master Bian Du. If the Nameless Daoist comes to the Capital, please inform me, Master Bian Du.”
“Madam, rest assured. Madam is this poor Daoist’s tribulation. This poor Daoist will do everything to help Madam.”
After seeing off Bian Du, Jiang Ruanxi fell into contemplation. Besides Jiang Xuerou, who else could be the person who exchanged her fate?
No matter who that person is, having relived her life once, she would definitely find him and tear him to pieces.
**
In the dim and damp room.
Jiang Xuerou’s hands were hung up, her hair disheveled, bloodstains mottled on her body, her face deathly pale, with some blood trickling from the corner of her mouth.
“Crown Prince, this subject wife is wronged. I really don’t know who it is.” Jiang Xuerou frowned tightly, muttering to herself nonstop.
“Seems like a tough mouth. Gong Yi, hit her for me, hit her until she talks.” The Crown Prince sat on the chair, his eyes shooting sharply at Jiang Xuerou like shattered ice.
Gong Yi was the Crown Prince’s personal guard.
“Yes, Crown Prince.” Gong Yi replied.
He picked up the whip with hooks and lashed fiercely at Jiang Xuerou, showing no mercy.
“Ah.” Jiang Xuerou, who was in a semi-coma, was immediately awakened by the pain.
Seeing the Crown Prince sitting in front of her, her face grew even paler, and her shoulders involuntarily shrank.
“Ah, it hurts so much.”
She cried out in pain, but Gong Yi acted as if he heard nothing, each lash harder than the last.
The entire room was filled with Jiang Xuerou’s wails.
“Crown Prince, show mercy.”
Jiang Changjun and Jiang Linlei, who hurried over, entered and saw the half-dead Jiang Xuerou. They heartbrokenly stepped forward quickly but were stopped by the Crown Prince’s guards.
They glared fiercely at the guards, but the guards remained unmoved.
“Crown Prince, I don’t know what crime my younger sister committed to deserve such a beating from Your Highness. If Your Highness doesn’t give us an explanation today, our entire Jiang Family will not stand for it.”
This was a blatant threat. The Crown Prince’s hand at his side clenched slightly, his brows furrowing imperceptibly, but unless one looked closely, no one would notice.
The Crown Prince gestured for Gong Yi to stop.
Gong Yi stepped aside.
Jiang Changjun and Jiang Linlei, faces full of heartache, hurried forward to release Jiang Xuerou. Seeing no part of her body unscathed, Jiang Changjun was filled with killing intent.
He turned to look at the Crown Prince, but was lightly pulled by Jiang Linlei beside him, and only then did he restrain himself a bit.
But still indignant in his heart, he stood up and questioned, “Crown Prince, you must give our Jiang Family an explanation.”
“Heh, Imperial Physician Jiang is quite bold? Does this palace have to report everything to your Jiang Family? So your Jiang Family is even greater than this palace.” The Crown Prince’s face was full of sharpness.
Jiang Linlei was much calmer than Jiang Changjun. He raised his head and said, “Crown Prince, calm down. My Second Brother spoke without thinking out of care for our younger sister. I hope Your Highness is magnanimous and overlooks my Second Brother’s impulse.”
The Crown Prince gave Jiang Changjun a cold glance. “Your Jiang Family has some nerve, not only scheming to send an assassin to assassinate this palace, but now threatening this palace as well.”
Jiang Changjun and Jiang Linlei exchanged glances, both stunned. Jiang Linlei said, “Crown Prince, our Jiang Family has always been loyal to Your Highness and His Majesty, and would never do such dirty deeds.”
They finally understood why the Crown Prince was beating Jiang Xuerou. They thought it was them who sent someone to assassinate him, so he took it out on Jiang Xuerou.
Seeing Jiang Xuerou covered in injuries, Jiang Changjun finally couldn’t hold back his bad temper and disregarding status questioned, “Crown Prince, using baseless matters to beat my younger sister like this, without giving us an explanation, is too disheartening for our Jiang Family.”
“Baseless?”
The Crown Prince tossed him a copied Buddhist scripture and that day’s note.
“You still have the nerve to say I’m making things up. Open your eyes and look. These are all admitted by Jiang Xuerou as her handwriting. If it weren’t for you instigating her to investigate this palace’s whereabouts and then sending an assassin, this palace wouldn’t have settled accounts with you yet, and here you are questioning this palace first.”
Jiang Linlei and Jiang Changjun picked up the copied Buddhist scripture and note, and seeing the familiar handwriting on them, both were stunned.
They were very familiar with Jiang Xuerou’s handwriting; the writing above was indeed hers.
But Jiang Linlei immediately spotted the anomaly. “This is not written by my younger sister. Someone imitated her handwriting.”
“Didn’t expect the Jiang family members to dare do but not admit.”
Jiang Changjun, who had always been proud and arrogant, had never been questioned like this before. His heart was extremely displeased, and just as he was about to say something, he was interrupted by a loud voice.
“Crown Prince, this… what’s going on?”
The late-arriving Old Marquis of Zhenguo was startled to see Jiang Xuerou so severely injured.
“Jiang Xuerou is from both your families, either your Jiang Family or your Zhenguo Marquis Manor. Do you know that assassinating imperial relatives is a capital offense?”
The Old Marquis of Zhenguo didn’t know the details, but hearing the Crown Prince say this, he was so scared that he immediately knelt on the ground, trembling as he said, “Crown Prince, our Zhenguo Marquis Manor has never had any disloyalty toward Your Highness.”
“If not, why would your family’s daughter-in-law investigate this palace’s information, and then this palace was assassinated right after.”
Li Xi roughly understood why the Crown Prince had summoned him; it turned out Jiang Xuerou had caused trouble.
He was initially shocked and angry, but seeing Jiang Xuerou covered in wounds, thinking of his son who died young and left her living as a widow, and then thinking of her giving birth to their manor’s only legitimate grandson, his anger subsided quite a bit.
“Crown Prince, please investigate clearly. Our Zhenguo Marquis Manor’s loyalty to the Crown Prince can be seen by the sun and moon; we would never harm Your Highness.”
