The mistress is reborn, no one who bullies me can escape

After hearing what the prince said, Old Madam Xue's face turned pale as paper, her body trembled uncontrollably, and she said with trembling lips: "You...how dare you do this to me?"

However, the prince's face was as gloomy as water, and his eyes were so cold that they seemed to freeze into ice. He snorted coldly and said, "Humph, it seems that the Xue family has relied on their high position and power over the years and no longer regards me as a minister. Come on, drag this criminal woman away!"

As soon as the prince finished speaking, several guards rushed forward like wolves and tigers, grabbed Madam Xue's arms tightly, and tried to take her away from there by force.

At this moment, Ling Yan suddenly said, "Wait a minute! The crime of treason committed by the Imperial Master should not be forgiven lightly. In my opinion, both his hands and feet should be chopped off and then hung on the city wall as a warning to everyone."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present took a deep breath.

Old Madam Xue widened her eyes, her face full of disbelief and fear.

She looked at the cold-blooded Ling Yan in front of her and the ferocious guards around him, and finally understood in her heart - this time, the prince was definitely not joking with her.

Thinking of this, Madam Xue felt dizzy and almost fainted.

You know, her son had died tragically, and her husband had abandoned her and fled alone after the incident.

At this moment, the entire Xue family was in ruins, and no one could come forward to save her from the dire straits.

Moreover, even her own daughter, whom she usually despised and hated, was missing at the moment. Naturally, it was impossible for her to come and plead for her with the prince and others.

When she thought about the miserable end she was about to face, Mrs. Xue couldn't help but feel sad and tears welled up in her eyes.

She screamed at the top of her lungs: "No, please let me go! I don't want to die, I really don't want to die..."

Unfortunately, no matter how hard she begged, she could not change her destiny.

"Your Highness, please spare my life! As long as you are willing to let me go, no matter what you ask me to say or do, I will do it!"

Old Madam Xue's face was filled with fear and she pleaded with tears in her eyes. Her cries were so miserable that they seemed to penetrate one's soul.

Ling Yan remained unmoved. His stern face was expressionless as if it had been frozen for a thousand years, and his cold eyes stared straight at Madam Xue.

At this time, Madam Xue was already frightened out of her wits. Her legs were shaking as if they had lost support, and her body was limp, as if all the bones in her body had been pulled out.

The guards beside her dragged her mercilessly, and she was dragged forward in such an embarrassing manner...

The whole person looked completely devoid of dignity, and finally fell heavily onto the cold, hard ground.

"Don't you want to know Xue Jinhua's true life experience? I can tell you right now!"

Just as she was about to be dragged out of the hall and was on the verge of life and death, Old Madam Xue suddenly screamed at the top of her lungs. Her voice was sharp and piercing, like the cry of an owl in the night, as if she was afraid that Ling Yan could not hear what she said.

Finally, Ling Yan's handsome face frowned slightly, as if his heart was shrouded by a dark cloud.

He slowly raised his right hand and gently rubbed his slightly tired brows, as if trying to dispel some of the tiredness.

Then, he suddenly shouted in a deep voice: "Wait..."

The guards who were originally dragging Madam Xue forward stopped in their tracks and dared not move an inch.

Then, the guards showed no mercy and threw Madam Xue heavily onto the cold and hard ground as if she were a piece of worn-out rag.

At this moment, Ling Yan exuded a chilling and violent aura, like a towering mountain, looking down at the miserable Madam Xue in front of him.

"Tell me! Who is Xue Jinhua's father? And why can she cure the poison of the insect?" Ling Yan's voice was extremely cold, and the pressure contained in it made everyone present feel suffocated.

Old Madam Xue knelt on the ground trembling, her body shaking like a candle in the wind, which could go out at any time.

At this moment, she had long lost her former dignity and nobility, and was left with only fear and helplessness in her heart.

"I...I really don't know who that person is!"

Old Madam Xue sobbed and spoke intermittently, "It was just that not long after my son Sanlang was born, he suddenly brought back a so-called good friend from outside and claimed that this person would stay at home for a few days. At that time, I only regarded this person as a close friend of General Xue, so I didn't think much about it, and just told the servants to take good care of him. However, who could have expected that one night, the two of them would get drunk. That man actually broke into my room..."

At this point, Madam Xue's face turned paler. Recalling the past that she could not bear to recall, her heart felt as if it was being stabbed by thousands of sharp blades at the same time, and the pain was unbearable.

At this moment, Madam Xue closed her eyes with a look of pain on her face, her body trembling slightly, as if she was enduring tremendous torture and torment.

At the time when that incident happened, General Xue had not even returned home.

Faced with such an unbearable situation, Madam Xue was filled with fear and shame, and dared not say a word.

"Then, do you know who that person is?" the prince asked.

Upon hearing this, Madam Xue shook her head vigorously, her voice filled with a trace of panic: "When General Xue was young, he was keen on making friends with heroes and people from all walks of life. How can I, a woman, know who that person is? However, as far as I know, General Xue went to the southern Xinjiang area during that period. If my guess is correct, I'm afraid that person is from the southern Xinjiang area..."

Looking back on this experience, it was undoubtedly the greatest humiliation in Mrs. Xue’s life.

Especially after the incident, Madam Xue had no time to investigate the man's true identity. She only hoped that this person would disappear from the world immediately and never appear in front of her again.

When she made such a mistake at that time, she naturally tried her best to conceal it.

However, truth will eventually come to light, and this scandal was eventually discovered and known by General Xue.

Old Madam Xue had lived for most of her life, and had never felt so ashamed and humiliated as she did at that moment.

She originally thought that given General Xue's upright character and his great emphasis on the family's reputation, he would be furious once he learned the truth, and would most likely take his own life in order to protect the Xue family's reputation.

But what she never expected was that General Xue did not act as she expected.

Instead, he brought back a child and claimed that the child was his own flesh and blood...

At that moment, Mrs. Xue realized as if struck by lightning that she had been deeply involved in a carefully planned conspiracy.

When the truth came to light, she felt dizzy and could barely keep her footing.

She could never have imagined that her husband, who had slept with her for many years, was such a despicable and shameless person! In order to bring the child born by his mistress home to raise, he was so cruel that he instigated others to defile his innocent body.

This fact made Mrs. Xue feel like her whole world had collapsed, and her heart was filled with endless pain and anger.

At that time, Old Madam Xue felt that life was worse than death. She hated that man to the core and even wanted to cut him into pieces to vent her anger.

However, just when she was about to collapse, she thought of Sanlang, who had just been born, and her other two grown-up sons, the eldest and the second sons.

He thought that if he chose to commit suicide at this moment, then it would undoubtedly be a waste of money for that hateful mistress.

How will the children face their future life after losing their mother? Thinking of this, Mrs. Xue's original determination to die could not help but waver a little.

In the end, under General Xue's soft and hard tactics, coercion and inducement, although Mrs. Xue was full of resentment, she had no choice but to agree to the various harsh conditions he proposed for the sake of her children.

From then on, the couple became completely alienated from each other, and their once loving feelings disappeared in an instant. From then on, they never stepped into each other's room again.

However, fate always seems to like playing tricks on people. Just one month later, a piece of news like a bolt from the blue once again fell on Mrs. Xue - she found out that she was pregnant!

You have to know that since that incident, she and General Xue have never had any physical contact again.

So whose flesh and blood is this child? The answer is actually self-evident.

Although family disgrace should not be made public, General Xue did not deliberately make things difficult for her after learning about it. He just coldly told her to find a way to resolve it as soon as possible.

I originally wanted to abort the child, but after trying every possible method, it was as if the child had grown inside my body and I couldn't get rid of it.

Later, after a careful diagnosis and consideration, the doctor told her solemnly that if she aborted the baby, it would cause great damage to her body and might even lead to serious consequences such as lifelong inability to conceive. Faced with this situation, she had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​abortion.

However, despite deciding to keep the child, her heart was filled with endless shame when she thought about what Xue Jinhua's existence meant.

Even though she had to let this child come into the world, she still felt heavy and unhappy.

For this reason, she secretly made up her mind that after giving birth to the child successfully, she would give the child away immediately and sever all ties with the child from then on.

However, simply sending the child away like this will inevitably lead to a lot of suspicion and speculation.

After all, Madam Xue's giving birth to a child is a big event in the family. If everyone eventually finds out that she doesn't even have a child, there won't be many pairs of curious eyes staring at her.

After much thought, she racked her brains and came up with a solution to conceal the truth and avoid unnecessary trouble - find a suitable child from outside to replace the child.

After a lot of searching and screening, the child finally chosen was Xue Qing'er.

Coincidentally, Xue Qing'er is not someone else's child, but comes from her own mother's family and is related to her by blood.

Recalling the complicated experiences of the past, Mrs. Xue couldn't help but feel a splitting headache. It was as if countless bees were buzzing in her mind. All kinds of scenes from the past flooded into her mind like a tide, making her upset and unable to calm down.

Her heart was torn as if by a knife, and the pain kept surging into her heart like a tide. Every breath felt as painful as being hit by a heavy hammer.

She was filled with resentment when thinking of her daughter Xue Jinhua, and wished she could erase her from her memory immediately.

Why on earth did she bring upon herself so many unbearable painful memories?

Therefore, even after she brought Xue Jinhua back home, she never even looked at her.

Whenever her eyes met the face that looked like that man, all the humiliations of the past would flood into her mind like a flood.

So many years have passed, and she has been trying hard to forget that unpleasant past, and even once pretended that she had never given birth to this daughter.

At this time, Ling Yan finally understood why the Xue family treated Xue Jinhua so cruelly.

However, the truth behind this made him feel extremely shocked and indignant.

Ling Yan frowned slightly and asked Madam Xue again, "Since you said you came from Southern Xinjiang, you must have some tokens that can prove your identity, right?"

Having said that, he actually knew very well in his heart that it was absurd and irrational for Old Madam Xue to put all the blame on Xue Jinhua alone!

She did not dare to blame General Xue, nor did she dare to accuse the unfaithful man who had abandoned her after having affairs with her. Instead, she vented all her anger on the innocent baby Xue Jinhua, who had just been born and was still in her cradle.

Thinking of this, Ling Yan couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, feeling that this behavior was extremely ridiculous.

When he thought of the tragic experiences Xue Jinhua had gone through, Ling Yan's originally strong heart instantly softened, and he felt unbearable pain in his heart.

When Xue Jinhua first married into the Zhao family, he was not completely unaware of the situation.

In order to please the Xue family, even though she was extremely reluctant in her heart, she had to grit her teeth and swallow her anger, and agreed to the marriage with a forced smile.

However, unexpectedly, her compromise did not receive any reward.

On the contrary, in order to maintain the marriage, she even gave up everything she had, but even so, the cold-hearted mother still ignored her and disdained her.

From the beginning to the end, Old Madam Xue regarded her as a thorn in her side and wished she could be removed as soon as possible.

"No."

Old Madam Xue closed her eyes tightly, her brows furrowed, her face full of pain, as if she was suffering tremendous torment in her heart.

At this moment, she just felt like a naked person, with the fig leaf on her body torn off and exposed to everyone without reservation. The feeling of shame and helplessness surged into her heart like a tide, making it difficult for her to resist.

Thinking back to the past, the marks that man left on her body were simply a great shame to her! How could she be so stupid as to leave behind any tokens related to that unbearable past?

Ling Yan naturally understood that what Madam Xue said was true, but now that things had come to this, he had no choice but to get to the bottom of it: "Madam Xue, please think about it carefully again. Do you really have no impression at all?"

If Xue Jinhua's biological father cannot be found, the matter of the poisonous insect will always remain an unsolved mystery.

Old Madam Xue slowly closed her eyes and tried hard to recall every detail of what happened many years ago.

Time passed minute by minute, and the room was dead silent. Everyone held their breath, waiting quietly for her to speak.

At this moment, Madam Xue suddenly opened her eyes, with a look of sudden enlightenment on her face: "Indeed, it is..."