flstandardbreds Chapter 526 The Prince's Promise
Chapter 526 The Prince's Promise
"I'm guessing your grandfather is the most disappointed. He worked diligently his entire life, planning for the Yelan Kingdom. He was loyal to the monarch and his subjects, and never acted like a fence-sitter. I never imagined that his bloodline, his own granddaughter, would actually murder the crown prince for a man. Have you ever imagined how disappointed your grandfather would be if he knew?"
"I didn't force you to marry the Crown Prince. You had a choice. If you didn't like the Crown Prince, I definitely wouldn't force you into marriage. But you didn't say so back then, and instead waited until now to help others murder the Crown Prince."
"Or did you marry into the Eastern Palace just for someone else, just to help them murder the Crown Prince?"
"What did Second Prince Mingyue promise you that would make you risk everything to murder the Crown Prince, even risking the lives of your entire family?"
"Plotting to murder the crown prince is equivalent to treason, punishable by the extermination of all nine generations of your clan. You deserve death for murdering the crown prince, but have you ever thought about your sixty-year-old grandfather, your parents, your brothers and sisters, and the honor of the Qi family? Once this matter gets out, your Qi family will completely go from being a family of great scholars admired by everyone in Yelan Kingdom to being condemned as criminals who plotted to murder the crown prince. No one will be able to protect them. Your grandfather, father, and your sisters will be executed directly. The Qi family members farther away will be exiled, and the women will be forced to become official prostitutes, bullied every day. This is what you, **yue, want."
"As the most beloved woman of the Qi family, you enjoyed the resources and love they bestowed upon you, yet in the end, you stabbed them all in the back, repaying their kindness with hatred. Or perhaps you have some deep hatred for them, and you're using this opportunity to kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred of your own to avenge your loss."
"I've seen idiots before, but this is the first time I've seen an idiot like you."
Originally, after being discovered by Su Tang, ** Yue was a little scared and depressed. Now, after hearing Su Tang's words, she was completely panicked. She knelt on the ground, trembling all over, and kept shaking her head, "No, I didn't."
** Yue crawled to Su Tang's feet on her knees, her hands tightly tugging at her dress. "Sister, I didn't. I didn't intend to kill my family. I didn't know there would be such serious consequences. I didn't know it would implicate my clansmen, and I certainly didn't know it would harm the Crown Prince."
"The Second Prince sent me this rouge powder box, saying there was a poisonous insect inside and asking me to be careful and wait for his order. A few days ago, the Second Prince sent me a letter asking me to mix the poisonous insect into the Crown Prince's food and have him take it. He also said that the poisonous insect was to give him a stomachache and prevent him from continuing negotiations with the State of Jin. It wouldn't pose any life-threatening threat. I helped because I thought there was no risk to my life. I didn't intend to kill the Crown Prince."
"The Second Prince promised me that if I could put a poisonous insect in the Crown Prince's food, he would find a way to reconcile me with the Crown Prince and then marry me. I had no other thoughts. I fell in love with the Second Prince when I met him once as a child, but my grandfather was from the Crown Prince's lineage. When the Princess came to discuss marriage, I had no choice. My grandfather would never let me marry the Second Prince."
"I knew I would never be able to marry the Second Prince in my lifetime because of my family's stance, so I obediently chose to obey my grandfather and marry the Crown Prince. I don't know how the Second Prince knew that I liked him, but he came to me and made many promises. I was really deceived by his sweet words and thought that what he said was true, so I chose to help him without hesitation, thinking that this would give me the chance to marry him."
"And I really didn't intend to harm the Crown Prince. It was the Second Prince who kept telling me that the poisonous insect was harmless and wouldn't endanger the Crown Prince's life that made me dare to do this. If I had known it would kill the Crown Prince, I would never have done it."
Su Tang was really amused by ** Yue's stupid smile. She raised her hand and slapped ** Yue directly.
The sudden slap knocked ** Yue to the side, and she staggered to the ground.
"**yue, as the granddaughter of the Grand Tutor, are you truly stupid or just pretending to be? Even if the Heart-Eating Gu doesn't pose any threat to the Crown Prince, the things you've done alone are enough to kill him. Do you know that if the Crown Prince returns from Jin with nothing, the Second Prince will do everything he can to attack him, and even try to provoke a conflict between the two countries. Then it will be the people along the border who will suffer."
"How could such a wise man as the Grand Master teach someone as stupid as a pig?"
"Do you really think the Second Prince likes you?"
"The Second Prince is just using you, you idiot. If he really liked you, he would have found a way to marry you long before the Crown Prince got married. Even if the two families were on opposite sides, he would have found a way. He wouldn't have waited until you married the Crown Prince to contact you and say he liked you. Besides, you know that the Second Prince has married a legitimate wife, the daughter of the Minister of War. Do you know how much benefit the Minister of War can bring him? Why would he give up the daughter of the Minister of War who could help him for a woman who might be abandoned by her family and who the Crown Prince doesn't want?"
"Tell me why?"
"You don't really think that everyone is like you, with their heads filled with those illusory loves. Those in power never value these things. They only care about power and how to maximize their rights and interests. Even the women they marry are those who can bring them huge benefits, otherwise why would they marry them?"
"Even the women in the Emperor's harem represent the power of one side. A woman like you, as stupid as a pig, can only be a pawn abandoned by the power."
After saying so much, Su Tang couldn't help but sigh and said, "Has the Second Prince ever thought about you? What if you were discovered by me? Would you still have a chance to survive? And what about the entire Taifu Mansion?"
"The Crown Prince died, and everyone in the Grand Tutor's Mansion was buried with him. It really was a great move that killed two birds with one stone. You only cared about your so-called love, and have you ever thought about these things?"
After hearing Su Tang's words, ** Yue sat down on the ground dejectedly. She had never thought that she would be used by the Second Prince in this way, and even the lives of the entire Taifu Mansion would be implicated.
The second prince only told her that he would marry her once the matter was settled, but he never mentioned these dangerous things.
**Yue still couldn't believe that the Second Prince was using her from beginning to end.
Seeing ** Yue's expression, Su Tang knew that ** Yue had not yet recovered from all this and did not believe that the Second Prince was using her completely.