"Hahaha!"
Concubine Dong suddenly threw her head back and laughed wildly. Sitting on the ground and acting so frantically, one might think she had gone mad.
Even Concubine Chu frowned and looked at her with annoyance.
"I never thought that after being so cautious all my life just to protect my family, I would end up like this!" she roared, tears streaming down her cheeks one by one. Her face streaked with tears made her look extremely pitiful.
Seeing her reaction, Concubine Chu smiled triumphantly in her heart. The corner of her mouth curled up in a meaningful smile, but the next second she put on a sad expression again. She said to the woman in front of her, "Sister Concubine Dong, don't you want to know who killed your whole family...?"
Only then did Concubine Dong suddenly wake up. Immediately, she stood up from the ground, rushed over with red eyes and asked, "Who? Who on earth killed my whole family?!"
She was desperately eager to know who those people were who had ruined her.
After hearing this, Concubine Chu replied word by word, "It's Dongfang Yi! It was the Dongfang Prime Minister's Mansion that did it!"
She said so. Then, while the woman opposite was still in a daze, she continued, "Because they guessed that it was you and the Dong family who planned to assassinate the emperor. But unfortunately, they couldn't find any evidence. So they couldn't quell their resentment in their hearts. That's why they killed your whole family to vent their anger. You know that the Dongfang family now has great power in the court, and Dongfang Yi is favored by the emperor. What can we do..."
She shifted all the blame onto Dongfang Yi and the Dongfang family, as if everything was really as she said. But she was just taking advantage of the fact that Concubine Dong was isolated in the harem and knew nothing, so she told such a lie.
And that was exactly her purpose for coming here today. She wanted to tell the woman in front of her about the extermination of the Dong family, and at the same time, blame the Dongfang family for all this. In this way, she could arouse Concubine Dong's hatred. After all, for her, family was everything to her. Once she lost her family, she would become the sharpest killing knife.
Thinking of this, the corner of her mouth curled up. And the woman standing opposite her now had a muddled mind and couldn't think clearly at all. Now that Concubine Chu told her that it was Dongfang Yi who killed her whole family, she believed it without a doubt.
Because she thought it was reasonable. She had indeed planned to assassinate the emperor, and also caused Dongfang Yi to be deposed from the position of queen and be sent to the cold palace. So it was normal for her to hate her.
But even if she hated her, why did she have to kill her whole family? The old and young of the Dong family were all innocent. Her eight - year - old younger brother was also innocent. Why did she have to be so cruel?
Thinking of this, the anger in her heart welled up. For a moment, it seemed that it couldn't subside. Then she raised her hand and overturned the table beside her.
All this was within Concubine Chu's expectation. She knew that the woman in front of her would lose control after hearing all this. Even if she had been such a kind - hearted and submissive person before, as long as her bottom line was touched, she would be more ruthless than others.
After thinking about it, she frowned and pretended to be concerned and said, "Sister Concubine Dong, you must not be impulsive. After all, our enemy is the Dongfang family and that woman named Dongfang Yi!"
"So what?!" Concubine Dong suddenly shouted. Then, with red eyes, she continued, "So what if it's the Dongfang family? How can they kill the innocent people in my mansion just because of their family's power? And now Dongfang Yi is just a concubine. She is on the same level as me. Why should I be afraid of her?! I must make them pay the due price!"
Saying this, the killing intent in her eyes became even stronger. And the woman sitting opposite her slightly curved her eyebrows, as if she was very satisfied with the scene in front of her. Then she said, "So, sister, do you have any plans?"
After hearing this, Concubine Dong sneered. She thought to herself what plans could she have? Now she only had a worthless life left. She had neither a way back nor a future. So she had nothing to worry about no matter what she did. Then she said, "They took something from me. I will make them return it one by one!"
Looking at her appearance, Concubine Chu probably knew what was on her mind. She also knew that her plan had been a success. Then she continued with a worried look and said, "Sister, you'd better not do anything stupid. After all, the people of the Dongfang family will definitely not admit that they did such a cruel thing."
Now everyone inside and outside the palace knew about the extermination of the Dong family. Only Concubine Dong was kept under strict surveillance by her and thus couldn't get any news from the outside world. But once she went out, she would naturally hear all these rumors and would also know that the Dongfang family was not the murderer of her family.
So just in case, she could only say such things to the woman in front of her, making her firmly believe that it was the Dongfang family who killed her family, and making her think that what others said outside was all false.
Hearing her words, Concubine Dong raised her eyebrows and slapped the table hard and roared angrily, "What a joke! Can the whole capital be controlled by the Dongfang family?"
"That's true, but..." Concubine Chu wanted to say something else but was interrupted by the woman in front of her.
"There's no 'but'. I have nothing now but my life. What else do I have to be afraid of? At worst, we'll fight to the death. It's either her death or mine."
Hearing her say these words, the corner of Concubine Chu's mouth could hardly be controlled from smiling. She didn't expect the effect to be so unexpectedly good. She came to find Concubine Dong just to make her the perfect scapegoat. As long as she did something even more excessive, the attention on herself would be diverted. Then she could say that everything she had done was misled by Concubine Dong. In this way, although she couldn't completely clear her suspicion, at least she could survive.
As long as she could survive, she had nothing to be afraid of. After all, she still had the support of the Nangong family. There was still a long way to go in the future.
Thinking of this, she felt secretly happy. Then she stood up, patted the woman in front of her on the shoulder and comforted her, "Sister Concubine Dong, you should take good care of yourself. But I, your sister, will definitely support you from behind!"
Saying this, she turned around and left Concubine Dong's palace without looking back.
The woman who was still standing there watched the back of the woman in front of her gradually disappear from her sight. A sense of sadness welled up in her heart. She never thought that the person who finally stood by her side and encouraged her would be Concubine Chu, the person she had least trusted at first. Truly, things had changed...