Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“You dare! I’m the madam, and my daughter is the county lord! You dare to kill us?” Su Xinlan said, hands on her hips, looking arrogant.
“What’s to fear? Military orders are authoritative. One must not act recklessly in front of the prince’s mansion. We have Your Highness’s orders. Those who cause trouble can be executed first, with the report to follow!”
His gleaming blade shimmered under the moonlight, sending chills down the spine from a distance.
Su Xinlan couldn’t tolerate such a threat. She immediately pulled Ye Zhenzhen into the carriage.
On the way back to Changxin Marquis’s Manor, Su Xinlan still felt a lingering fear. She patted her chest. “I was scared to death! The palace guards of this prince’s mansion are too terrifying. They disregarded the face of Changxin Marquis’s Manor and even mentioned acting first and reporting later!”
If they hadn’t left earlier, they might have already become corpses!
Su Xinlan sighed secretly. Luckily, they ran fast!
Su Xinlan saw that Ye Zhenzhen hadn’t spoken for a long time. She covered the back of her hand with her palm and said with concern, “My daughter, are you scared silly? What’s going on?”
“Mother, we’ve been played by Su Yingxue!” Ye Zhenzhen gritted her teeth with half of her face buried in the shadows.
“Su Yingxue knew we were waiting for Your Highness, but she deliberately delayed Your Highness’s time. It’s fine if she didn’t let Your Highness see us, but these people must have been ordered by her to chase us away! That insidious and vicious woman, after obtaining Your Highness’s imperial seal as a betrothal gift, became arrogant. How dare she not put you, her aunt, and me, her cousin, in her eyes!”
Ye Zhenzhen kicked the wall of the carriage angrily, her eyes red.
“So it’s Su Yingxue!” Su Xinlan exclaimed. “Strangely, Your Highness doesn’t want to see us, but he doesn’t drive us away either. It’s that little b*tch Su Yingxue who’s deliberately messing with us. She even made us go a day without food or water!”
Su Xinlan slapped her thigh in anger. She had seduced Marquis Changxin and had been living a life of luxury. She had never been hungry before. Today, she was exhausted and starving.
Clutching her growling stomach, she sighed heavily. “Daughter, we can’t go back to the Ninth Prince’s Mansion. With Su Yingxue around, not only will you not see Your Highness, but you’ll also be in danger of losing your head!”
The palace guards of the Ninth Prince’s Mansion could act first and report later. They wouldn’t even give a face to Marquis Changxin!
They couldn’t gamble with their lives!
“But I’m not willing! Mother, I’m also grandfather’s granddaughter and the county lord. That Su Yingxue isn’t even the village head, so why can she marry the Ninth Prince and I can’t even be a secondary consort!”
Ye Zhenzhen’s ambition grew even more after witnessing the power and wealth of the Ninth Prince’s Mansion.
Su Xinlan was unwilling to accept this, but she had been warned and taught a lesson by Su Yingxue several times. Today, even a palace guard from the Ninth Prince’s Mansion almost killed her.
She thought about it and said, “Zhenzhen, actually the Prime Minister’s Estate is also very powerful. You see, even the emperor can’t decide for the Ninth Prince, but the Ninth Prince has always been polite to the old Prime Minister. The Prime Minister’s son is handsome, and he was elected at a young age. He is now a sixth rank official in the Imperial Academy. With the Prime Minister’s support, he will also be an extremely powerful official in the future. Why don’t you forget about the Ninth Prince?”
“So what?” Ye Zhenzhen threw Su Xinlan’s hand away with a look of disdain. “How could he compare to the Ninth Prince? Or can he kill his way into the palace and snatch the emperor’s imperial seal to give me as a betrothal gift, making me a woman more noble than the empress? Compared to the Ninth Prince, the son of the Prime Minister and a sixth-rank official is just trash!”