Forced to be a third person: I turned around and left the palace to marry a villain

"I'm sorry, fourth sister-in-law. When mother and Jiang Chongyi were talking, we were standing quite far away, and Jiang Chongyi's voice was very soft, so we couldn't hear clearly what they were saying." Xiao Gui shook his head, feeling guilty for not being able to provide Jiang Xue with useful information.

"What's there to apologize for? When the Queen is talking to concubines, you should keep a certain distance." Jiang Xue looked at Xiao Gui's apologetic expression and patted the back of her hand gently to comfort her.

"Come to think of it, I didn't see Xiaochun and Fudong after I woke up. Where did they go?"

Jiang Xue looked around but couldn't see Xiaochun Fudong. She felt suspicious and thought something was wrong.

From the time she woke up until now, only Lu Linyi and Xiao Gui had been with her in the room, but her two right-hand men were nowhere to be seen.

Xiaochun and Fudong have been with her since she was a child, and the three of them are almost inseparable. When she woke up this time and didn't see them, Jiang Xue felt empty inside.

"Xiaoxue, don't be anxious, listen to me."

Seeing her lifting the quilt as if she was going to get out of bed to look for someone, Lu Linyi quickly held her down and looked at her anxiously.

"What happened?"

Her intuition told her that something must have happened to the two girls, otherwise Lu Linyi and Xiao Gui would not have behaved so strangely from beginning to end.

From the time she woke up until now, she had seen every time the two exchanged glances.

She could clearly see the embarrassment and worry.

My heart suddenly tightened. Could it be that Xiaochun Fudong...

"Fourth sister-in-law, don't worry, the two girls are fine." Xiao Gui comforted.

"It's okay..." These four words are very meaningful.

Jiang Xue repeated in a low voice. "It's okay, so what else?"

As someone who had experienced life and death, she knew that death might not be the most terrifying thing in the world. Some tortures could make people feel that life would be worse than death.

Xiao Gui knew that she was worried about the two girls, so he would definitely say something that was easy for her to accept. As for the truth, he didn't dare to tell her everything, for fear that she couldn't bear it.

Jiang Xue understood it very well, so when Xiao Gui said these four words, her heart sank.

"Where are they?" Jiang Xue raised her head and looked directly at Xiao Gui. Her eyes were as sharp as an eagle and she could not avoid them.

No matter what, she had to know where they were first before she could find a way to get them back.

"Xiaoxue, calm down. I know the two girls are very important to you, but now they are being held by the Queen. It may not be easy for you to get them back." Lu Linyi pressed her shoulders and comforted her patiently.

It was hunting season, and the emperor and the princes had all gone to their respective enclosures to hunt. Only the women were left in the enclosure, and the queen had the highest status and the greatest power here. If she wanted to detain the two maids, who could say no?

Besides, the Queen hated Jiang Xue so much that if Jiang Xue ran to ask for her help now, wouldn't she be walking into a trap? His Royal Highness Prince Gong was not around at the moment. If the Queen ordered Jiang Xue to be killed, who could protect her?

She couldn't bear to watch her cousin fall into the clutches of the vicious Queen.

"No matter how powerful the queen is, she must have a legitimate reason to detain someone. I want to ask her what excuse she made up this time."

Jiang Xue said coldly, her eyes sharp enough to pierce through people's hearts.

Since she was reborn, she had sworn that if anyone dared to touch her or someone she cared about, she would make that person regret being born.

Regardless of her physical weakness, she got out of bed decisively, changed her clothes, and then strode towards the queen.

Xiao Gui and Lu Linyi couldn't stop her at all, so they had to follow her and go together.

Thinking of what the Queen had said in front of the iron cage just now, they both stared at Jiang Xue worriedly.

"Ouch."

In the garden where the queen was, Fudong and Xiaochun were hung upside down on a tree, with scars all over their bodies except their faces.

The two eunuchs whipped them with barbed whips and kept beating them! They were so tired that they were sweating and their whips broke countless times, but they still had no intention of stopping.

Xiaochun and Fudong gritted their teeth, and even though they felt unbearable pain all over their bodies, they only groaned a few times and refused to beg for mercy.

The queen sat aside, sipping the freshly brewed jade tea elegantly, and glanced at the two maids with contempt out of the corner of her eye.

"Hmph! I didn't expect that the two little girls would have mouths harder than steel. After being whipped for three hours, they refused to reveal anything." Yue Tao stood beside the queen, fanning her gently and spoke coldly to the two girls.

"Stop." Seeing that the two eunuchs wielding the whip were almost exhausted, but the two girls still kept their mouths shut, the queen signaled the eunuchs to stop.

The two eunuchs who were carrying out the whipping felt relieved and sat on the ground, breathing heavily. They had been in the palace for so long, and this was the first time they had seen someone who could take such a beating.

"I will give you one last chance. Tell me, did Princess Gong kill people to cover up the evidence after having an affair?"

The queen stared at the two people who had been beaten to a bloody pulp with a deep gaze, hoping that they would give in and put the blame on Jiang Xue. In this way, she could get rid of that bitch naturally.

By then, even if the emperor and that evil creature Xiao Zhan asked her questions, she would have an explanation.

However, what she got in response was still the rock-hard denial from the two girls, just like every other answer in the past three hours, rejecting her accusation in unison.

The queen's face darkened as she looked at these two ignorant little girls. She flicked her hand and splashed the scalding tea on their wounds.

The two girls convulsed in pain, but they just gritted their teeth and groaned, and managed to hold on.

"In that case, there's no point in you living." She never kept useless things.

The queen pointed her finger and ordered sternly: "Keep beating him, beat him to death."

"Yes." The two eunuchs who were carrying out the flogging heard the order, stood up, raised the whips and were about to whip again.

"Stop." A roar was as loud as thunder, and two golden needles whizzed through the air and accurately pierced the eunuch's wrist.

The whip was swung in the opposite direction due to inertia and flew towards the queen.

"Mom, be careful."

"Snap!" There was a crisp sound.

Yue Tao stood in front of the queen and blocked the flying whip for her, leaving a long blood mark on her pretty face.

"Jiang Xue, you are too brave."

The long whip fell to the ground, and Yue Tao saw a hideous scar on her originally pretty face.

When I think about it, if Yue Tao hadn’t reacted quickly, I might have been the one with the injury on my face.

Fear and anger intertwined, and the queen's rage was suddenly ignited.

"Someone, take Princess Gong down for me."

At the Queen's command, a group of guards quickly surrounded Jiang Xue.

"Cough cough." Jiang Xue felt the sudden pressure on her chest and covered her mouth with her hands, coughing violently. Blood could be seen seeping out from between her fingers.

"Xiaoxue." Lu Linyi exclaimed upon seeing this, and hurriedly supported her, calling her name anxiously.