Chapter 262: Sun Tina Died
And Sun Tina collapsed entirely on the ground. When a piercing pain came from her head, she subconsciously pressed her hand on the grabbed spot, but Wan Qing used all her strength, causing her to scream in pain.
Wan Qing dragged her entirely while cursing. Sun Tina tearfully and snot-nosed begged for mercy, but Wan Qing acted as if she hadn’t heard, showing no mercy at all, and literally yanked out a large lock of her hair.
Jiang Ruanxi looked at that hair and felt greatly relieved in her heart. She couldn’t help but pick up the melon seeds on the side and crack them.
The doctor saw Jiang Ruanxi’s reaction, lowered his head and didn’t dare look anymore, but the corners of his mouth couldn’t help twitching.
He was Grand Tutor Ling’s man. When he came, Grand Tutor Ling had already instructed that no matter what happened in the Crown Prince’s Manor, everything should follow the Crown Princess’s orders, and some things should be treated as unseen.
He had come prepared mentally, but he didn’t expect that Grand Tutor Ling’s this daughter was truly different from the others.
Wan Qing looked at the hair in her hand and felt a wave of disgust, then turned to the side and vomited.
“Doctor, help Wan Zhaoxun take her pulse and see if the fetal energy has been harmed.” After speaking, she coldly looked at Sun Tina, her voice carrying chill, “Sun Tina, this palace has always treated you well, but this palace didn’t expect that you repeatedly tried to harm this palace. What exactly is your intention.”
Sun Tina knew the matter was exposed and no longer pretended.
She burst into loud laughter.
After laughing enough, Sun Tina looked at Jiang Ruanxi with a face full of mockery.
“Ling Lin, what are you pretending? When have you ever treated me well? If not for you, our Sun Family wouldn’t have fallen to this state now. When our Sun Family had the incident, as long as you spoke to the Empress or His Majesty, at least our Sun Family wouldn’t have been exiled to such a bitterly cold place and suffered endless torment.”
“I already said long ago that this matter was all decided by Emperor Qin. If your Sun Family members behaved properly, Emperor Qin would also show leniency, but the things you did, every single one was about beheading and harming people.”
Actually, Emperor Qin’s anger toward the Sun Family wasn’t entirely because of Lin Qingqing; there was also the late Sun Chengye’s arson, murder, forcing good women into prostitution, forcibly taking legitimate daughters, and so on. Emperor Qin had long been dissatisfied with the Sun Family, but because Sun Chengye was dead and he was the Sun Family’s only son, he thought to suppress those matters.
But unexpectedly, the things Lin Qingqing did reminded Emperor Qin of the sealed-away matters of Sun Chengye, finally giving him a reason to act against the Sun Family.
These were all told to her by Wei Chang.
So when Sun Tina came to find her, she already knew some things she couldn’t help with.
“You’re talking nonsense. You’re just selfish and unwilling to help us. You knew that during that time the Crown Prince favored me and were jealous of everything about me, so you designed those things.” Sun Tina roared with a ferocious face.
A sarcastic smile appeared at the corner of Jiang Ruanxi’s mouth as she tossed the melon seeds into the dish.
“I’m jealous of you? You didn’t know that the person in your bed every night was a beggar from east of the city, while the Crown Prince was in my bed every night.”
Jiang Ruanxi knew that Wan Qing was now her person and wasn’t afraid of her knowing.
Originally, she felt that some things Wei Chang did were excessive, but now it seemed he wasn’t excessive at all.
Sun Tina’s face suddenly changed. “You’re talking nonsense, you’re talking nonsense.”
“Whether it’s nonsense, you know in your heart. Every time, you quickly fell into a daze and slept, and when you woke up, you felt you’d had relations—that was all that man groping you, while the Crown Prince was in my room every night. Tell me, if that man really wanted to grope you, would he need to drug you?”
These words were like a bolt of thunder, directly stunning Sun Tina’s mind.
Her entire person directly collapsed limply on the ground.
Thinking that for so long, she, the legitimate daughter of the high-and-mighty Sun Family, had actually been sleeping with a beggar all along—Sun Tina only felt her mind buzzing.
A few seconds later, unable to bear the stimulation any longer, she let out a loud cry and fainted.
Hearing Jiang Ruanxi’s words, Wan Qing also took a long time to recover.
She hadn’t expected it to be like this.
In her heart, she also felt fortunate that she had kept herself pure for Wu Lin. Every time Wei Chang came, she pretended to entangle him; sometimes when Wei Chang was annoyed, he would leave directly, and sometimes he would act with her.
The time she drugged Wei Chang, she had been forced by the Empress to stimulate Jiang Ruanxi.
If she acted recklessly, she believed her end wouldn’t be better than Sun Tina’s.
She also realized that Jiang Ruanxi wasn’t as foolish and sweet as she had imagined.
After Sun Tina was carried away, the doctor also left.
The living room was left with only Wan Qing and Jiang Ruanxi.
“Crown Princess, what do you plan to do with Sun Tina now?” Wan Qing voiced the doubt in her heart.
Jiang Ruanxi contemplated for a moment, then slowly said, “She has always harbored intentions to harm me, so naturally I cannot keep her.”
Jiang Ruanxi’s gaze became stern.
She was no longer the foolish and sweet girl from her previous life. Since Sun Tina wanted to harm her, naturally she wouldn’t let her go.
Not to mention that she was also the Empress’s person.
Looking at the expression on her face, for some reason Wan Qing always felt she was like a devil that had walked out of hell, not like her usual demeanor.
Her heart couldn’t help but feel apprehensive toward her.
She also recalled Wu Lin telling her to stand on the side of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess, since in the future when the Crown Prince ascends the throne, the Crown Princess would be the Empress, and the current Empress might not necessarily be the Empress Dowager.
At the time she heard this, she felt it strange and wanted to ask the reason, but Wu Lin told her not to overthink, and as long as she returned to the Crown Prince’s Manor, she should stand on the side of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess and not cause trouble.
Thinking about it now, she felt Wu Lin seemed to know something.
Meanwhile, Sun Tina returned to the courtyard. After waking up, recalling Jiang Ruanxi’s words, she felt herself utterly filthy and scrubbed her body forcefully with her hands until it was soon covered in blood, but she didn’t care about that and only wanted to wash away those disgusting things from the body that had been touched.
The next day, after days of heavy snow, faint sunlight finally shone into Jiang Ruanxi’s room.
Jiang Ruanxi reached out her hand, and the warm sunlight sprinkled on it. She closed her eyes and enjoyed the warm sun.
“Crown Princess, Sun Tina died.” Yushui came in and said softly.
Jiang Ruanxi opened her eyes, a calm in them.
“How did she die?”
“Her body is full of nail scratches, probably self-inflicted, and she died from blood loss.”
Jiang Ruanxi was stunned. A few seconds later, she nodded faintly. “You go out first. I’ll stay by myself for a while.”
After Yushui left, Jiang Ruanxi looked outside and fell into contemplation.
She thought that since Sun Tina entered the manor, during the time when the Sun Family had their incident, she didn’t seem to have done anything out of line.
But after the Sun Manor incident, everything changed.
Provoked by the Empress like that, she directly wanted to kill her.
She had originally planned to lock her in a dark secret room to spend the rest of her life there, but unexpectedly she died so quickly.
Fine then, dead is dead.
Jiang Ruanxi sighed softly.
