Chapter 40

  Although the imperial concubine has great power and high status, the people of the Yan Wang Fu are even more difficult to provoke.

  Her fierce gaze fell upon the trembling servant kneeling on the ground, yet not daring to move. Suddenly, Xia Ziying understood something. With a wave of her wide sleeve and a cold laugh, she spoke in a mocking tone.

  The long skirt fluttered step by step around Xia Ziyu standing still on the spot.

  "This palace almost forgot, Yan Wangfei, the legitimate wife of Yan Wang who no one in Muxuan country dares to offend, however... "the tone changed," Xia Ziyu, a neglected legitimate wife's life is not easy either."

  Xia Zi Li stood still for a moment, her eyebrows slightly furrowed with a hint of melancholy. What did it matter whether she was favored or not? Everything seemed so insignificant to her now.

  "Moreover, leaving the man you like and staying with a man who hates and torments you all day, isn't this kind of suffering even more capable of wearing down one's spirit? Isn't it even more likely to cause unbearable pain?"

  A faint smile

  "I suppose you're now aware that the evidence was fabricated. Are you angry with me? But can you blame anyone else? It's your own fault for being so foolish. The seal was stolen by me when Xia Yan wasn't in his study, and I used it to stamp the document. And don't you think the handwriting on the paper looks familiar? Ha ha, isn't it ironic? You've secretly liked him for so long, yet you can't even recognize his handwriting."

  "What do you mean?" - She gazed at her sideways with a cold stare.

  "What does it mean? Xia Ziyu, when he handed you that letter, didn't you realize that the handwriting on it was your beloved Hu Ge's own handwriting?! It was his own handwriting! He was the one who forced you to marry into the Yan Wang Fu, and all along it was just your own imagination, he never liked you, never had!"

  Never! Never! A sweet and bitter taste rose to her throat, Xia Zi's body softened, and the words echoed in her mind. The tenderness she had always expected was something she had never experienced before, never belonged to him. Why was that? If there was no future, why did he have to forcibly insert his past into hers? But all of this, hadn't she already understood it? Clearly, she had already given up, so why was it still painful? Heart-wrenching pain. Cold tears fell down in large drops.

  "Why, what did you do?"

  She casually wiped her lips with the back of her hand, revealing a bright red lip print.

  "Why are you asking me why? Xia Zixi, I have been enduring in the Xiangfu for so many years, just for this day. I want to make the Xia family disappear completely, they all owe me, you, your father, and other members of the Xia family, I will not let a single one remain——"

  Xia Zi was stunned on the spot, half a sound, her eyes surging with anger, a resolute voice.

  "No matter what your reason is, Xia Ziying, I won't let you have your way—"

  A cold laugh came from beside him, with a tone of disdain and sarcasm.

  "You think you can stop me? You don't know who's behind me, do you? Let me tell you, it's the Emperor, it's Prince Ning. And what about you? What do you have to back you up in a fight against me?"

  "Never mind that wretched woman, Rui Fei. Xia Zi Chuan, I wonder if anyone will come to rescue you after you die here today. What was the purpose of your visit to the prison today? To send yourself to death?"

  Xia Zi Li's resentful eyes

  "Xia Ziying, before the trial results are out, you have no right to privately punish the offender here, let alone a noble imperial concubine..."

  "Do you think she can still live? I want her dead, and she will not survive. Usually, seeing her like this is really disgusting. Now, even your husband is on my side, do you have the ability to turn things around?"