"By now, you'd better fend for yourself. If you can resolve this matter, that's fine. But if you can't, His Highness will, out of consideration for your infatuation, arrange a proper burial for you!" Ji Yunqing said. Then, as if remembering something, he suddenly grinned merrily. "After you die, guess how long it'll take for His Highness to win Wen Yu's heart?"
Hearing this, Pei Shen could no longer contain his anger. He lunged forward and punched Ji Yunqing in the face twice.
"Even if I'm going to die, it's not your turn to touch her!" Pei Shen growled, his hands showing no restraint.
But Ji Yunqing was no pushover. He immediately grappled with Pei Shen.
After Pei Shen left the Third Prince's Mansion wounded, he had just arrived at the Pei Mansion when Eunuch Su came to deliver an imperial edict.
The situations of the Wen and Pei families were reversed overnight.
Pei Shen was only allowed to stay in his bedroom and couldn't even step into the courtyard.
Before being confined, he spent a large sum of money to ask Eunuch Su to convey a message to Wen Yu, telling her that she was no longer the wife of the Pei family.
He wanted to sever ties with Wen Yu to protect her.
Eunuch Su looked somewhat mocking, but still delivered the message.
However, after receiving the news, Wen Yu still went to the Pei Mansion in high spirits.
Now the Pei family was under much greater suspicion than the Wen Mansion had been. The entire Pei Mansion was sealed tightly, and the guards inside and outside were so strict that not even a fly could get in.
But Wen Yu got in and smoothly opened the door of the bedroom.
She entered with a smile and opened the closed window. Only then did light enter the dark room.
"Pei Shen."
She called softly.
Hearing the voice, Pei Shen looked up in disbelief. He looked at Wen Yu in surprise and joy. Just as he was about to step forward, he remembered his current embarrassed and wounded appearance.
He turned sideways, trying to hide his wounds, and then said extremely gently, "Sister-in-law, didn't I ask Eunuch Su to convey a message to you? You're no longer a member of the Pei family. Don't get involved in this mess. Go back quickly. The situation of the Pei Mansion is still unclear. If it can't hold on, at least you can't be implicated, sister-in-law."
"I'll try my best to exonerate myself. When it's safe here, I'll welcome sister-in-law back."
"But if I can't survive this calamity, at least I can't implicate sister-in-law. If anything unexpected happens, I only beg sister-in-law not to forget me..."
Pei Shen's tone was extremely cautious, as if he was humbly pleading, lowering his stance very low.
Hearing this, Wen Yu couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"Pei Shen, by now, you still think about exonerating yourself? Do you think it's possible?"
Wen Yu's tone was extremely mocking, with exaggerated sarcasm.
Hearing such a tone, Pei Shen frowned instantly. When he turned to look at Wen Yu, he couldn't help but be a little stunned.
Why was she looking at him so coldly?
A buzz suddenly exploded in Pei Shen's mind. He belatedly realized something. He took two steps back in disbelief but still refused to give up. "Sister-in-law, you're just saying this for others to hear, right? I know that sister-in-law has to protect herself now and really has to draw a clear line from the Pei Mansion."
"But sister-in-law, there's no one else here. You... you don't have to be like this. You don't have to deliberately say such heart - rending words."
Seeing that he pretended not to understand, a smug smile appeared on Wen Yu's face.
Since Pei Qing's death, she had been forcibly taken by these men. She couldn't remember how long it had been since she last felt so carefree.
Every time she forced herself to smile at these people, she felt nauseous in her heart.
But today, she finally laughed heartily from the bottom of her heart.
"Pei Shen, with your intelligence, don't you understand what I mean?" She lifted her skirt and stepped forward. Smiling sweetly, she stroked Pei Shen's cheek, her voice full of mock pity. "Look, you're so badly injured. You look like a pig's head. How ugly!"
Seeing Pei Shen's expression crack slightly, Wen Yu laughed even louder. "So ugly, and you still want me to remember you? Remember what? Remember your lusting after your brother's wife, or your dirty and despicable means?"
"Or remember your stupidity of being played by me?"
"I won't sever ties with the Pei family. I'm just waiting for you to go down and meet Pei Qing, and then I'll take everything of the Pei Mansion into my pocket!"
"Although there's nothing good in the Pei Mansion, but... it can be regarded as a slight compensation from you. Anyway, something is better than nothing."
Her tone was very gentle, just like the whispers in his ear on countless nights.
But the words she said were as poisonous as venom, instantly making Pei Shen's eyes turn red with anger.
"It was really you. You did it on purpose?! Why!" Pei Shen roared. He looked at the still extremely beautiful woman in front of him with full disappointment. "You deliberately used the Third Prince to provoke me and sow discord between me and the Third Prince. Why? I clearly love you so much!"
[No way, my god, what's going on? Is this all the heroine's doing?]
[Little Pei Dog was so good to her. For her sake, he even gave up the best opportunity to deal with the Wen family. But in return, she actually set up the Pei family?! Does this heroine have a heart?]
[The heroine's character is so disgusting. She enjoyed the hero's unreserved love, but then stabbed the hero in the back. Such a heroine should just die! I've been reading this and now I feel like I've been fed a mouthful of shit. I can't stand it!]
[Is the author brainwashed by feminism? Does she just hate men? It's a forced reversal. I'll avoid this book.]
The bullet comments snapped out of the initial shock and instantly flooded the screen. The words were extremely vicious as they cursed the entire Wen family.
The overwhelming curses and insults sounded like praises to Wen Yu.
She looked up in the direction of the bullet comments, and the corner of her lips curled into an almost crazy smile. "Love? Pei Shen, how dare you mention this word?"
"You love me, but you sent me to Ji Yunqing's bed. You love me, but you dragged me into an incestuous situation. You love me, but you deliberately planned to destroy my family!"
"If this is what you call love..."
Wen Yu paused as she spoke, and her gaze fixed on Pei Shen again.
The latter's face was now completely distorted. He gasped for air and reached out to grab Wen Yu's neck, as if he wanted to strangle her to death.
But even though he exerted so much force that the veins on his hands bulged, there was still no sign of discomfort on Wen Yu's face.
He let go in disbelief and looked at his hands in shock.
With his body trained in martial arts for years, he couldn't even feel his own strength now.
"Wen Yu, what did you do to me?" He slowly looked up at Wen Yu. The woman in front of him was smiling like a flower, so bright that it almost burned him. "Why are you doing this to me!"
Being betrayed by Wen Yu was so painful that the heavy despair in his tone was almost unbearable to listen to.
"Pei Shen, if what you did to me is love." Wen Yu repeated again. Her smile instantly disappeared, and endless coldness and hatred appeared on her face. "Then isn't it a proof that I'm crazy in love with you that I'm personally sending you to hell now?"
[Crazy woman, go to hell! This is the hero, your hero. What on earth are you doing!]
[If you ask your father to plead guilty to the emperor now and take all the blame, I can barely forgive you. Otherwise, I'll surely throw you into the latrine!]
[So vicious. Such a black - hearted person. She pretended to be a pure - love character before. Which part of the author's body did she use to write this story?!]