Chapter 256 - An Eye for an Eye!

Bu Tinghe chuckled softly with a complacent smile on her face. “Princess Zhaohua is really smart. Haha, you don’t have to be too surprised. Anyway, you know my cousin’s real identity now. Then you should understand what to do, right?”

Shen Ninghua smiled coldly. “I don’t understand what you are talking about. Even if Chu Junyi’s identity is not ordinary, so what? We will still live our own life.”

“Live your own life?” Bu Tinghe tilted her head slightly and circled around Shen Ninghua. Seeing that her back was straight and she was not disturbed at all, Bu Tinghe burst out laughing. “Princess Zhaohua, didn’t you hear what Nanny Lan said? My cousin’s birth mother is Great Yue’s Princess Yunqing. His birth father is the Emperor of Da’an. He is a noble prince with the potential to become an Emperor. As for you, you are the daughter of the Shen family who caused the death of his birth mother. Why do you think he will continue to live with you?”

“Whether in Da’an or Great Yue, my cousin has an extremely prominent position. Why do you think he still wants to be your husband and depend on you and others for a living?”

“Shen Ninghua, you used your status as the Emperor’s fostered daughter to get married with my cousin. Do you think you can tie him up with the baby?”

Shen Ninghua looked at Bu Tinghe. The smile on her beautiful face was slightly arrogant, making her beautiful face a lot uglier. “You are not a fish, so how can you know the joy of a fish? How do you know that Chu Junyi will not choose me? How do you know that I deliberately tied him up and that he is unwilling to live with me?”

Anger surged in Bu Tinghe’s heart, and she immediately restrained the smile on her face and restored her original gentle appearance. “To be honest, I’m not sure what he will choose, so I simply didn’t give him a chance to choose. Now that the Third Prince has learned of his identity, what I have to do next is to spread the news that Aunt Yunqing was framed by the Empress and so she had no choice but to die to protect my cousin. Now that he has his own power and the support of the Great Yue Kingdom, it is time for him to take back his glory.”

Shen Ninghua’s expression turned cold, and the light in her eyes flickered continuously.

Bu Tinghe smiled. “Princess Zhaohua, what doesn’t belong to you will never belong to you. The whale won’t be trapped in the pond. If you have self-knowledge and leave him now, he might still remember some good things about you. If you refused to leave him, then you and the baby in your belly…will both be buried here…”

Shen Ninghua turned to look at Bu Tinghe. Her gaze was like a sharp blade. “If you dare to hurt my baby, I will put up a desperate fight. Let’s see if Chu Junyi cares more about a cousin coming out of nowhere or his own baby!”

“Haha, Princess Zhaohua, it’s useless for you to be brave in front of me. Today, you must settle the account with him because the person he wants to marry in the future is me, and I will also be his lifetime companion, bearing children for him! As for you, you are just a stain in his life, a bygone that he does not want to mention!”

As Bu Tinghe spoke, she pulled a mechanism behind her. With the tinkling of bells, a dozen strong men broke in from outside the door. They stared at Shen Ninghua and Hong Ling as if the two of them were fish on a chopping board.

“I’ll leave this place to you. Princess Zhaohua is shameless enough to have an affair with a man when she is pregnant. After they were discovered by our people, the man hurriedly pushed her onto the table in the room and made her miscarry. Do you understand?”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

Hong Ling suddenly pulled out the soft sword from her waist. Bai Ruo protected Shen Ninghua and retreated. “Miss…”

Shen Ninghua looked at Bu Tinghe with disgust.

Those strong men did not hesitate at all and pounced towards Shen Ninghua, Hong Ling, and Bai Ruo.

Hong Ling was adept at martial arts, but it was difficult for her to fight against so many people. She stopped three people, and the remaining men bypassed her and rushed to Shen Ninghua.

Bu Tinghe curled her lips. She knew that Shen Ninghua was smart, but no matter how smart she was, intelligence was useless in front of absolute strength. She did not know many twists and turns, and therefore she resorted to the most brutal method to destroy Shen Ninghua!

Bai Ruo was pushed to the side and was held in check. She looked at Shen Ninghua anxiously. “Miss!” Why didn’t you bring Qing Que today? If Qing Que was here, she definitely could protect Miss. At this moment, Bai Ruo deeply hated herself for being useless.

Seeing that a man was about to grab Shen Ninghua by the arm, Bu Tinghe laughed happily. The smile on her face was particularly sweet, and she looked like a demon. Suddenly, the man fell to the ground.

The smile on her face froze. “What’s going on?”

Under her astonished gaze, her people fell to the ground one after another. Their bodies twitched twice before they stopped breathing. Bu Tinghe’s heart sank. She turned around and was about to walk out when her body suddenly went limp and she fell to the ground.

Shen Ninghua took out a porcelain bottle from her sleeve and poured out a pill. She walked to the front of Bu Tinghe and stuffed the pill into her mouth. “Princess Wenhe, haven’t you investigated me before? Not only am I good at medicine, but I am also good at poison. However, the capital is different from other places. I haven’t used poison for a long time. I have planned to do good deeds for the sake of my baby. But you forced me. I’m sorry.”

Bu Tinghe felt a sharp pain in her chest, and the blood all over her body seemed to freeze. “Shen Ninghua…you…you are despicable!”

Shen Ninghua sneered and mocked. “Not so much as you.”

Suddenly, there was a sound coming from the door.

Bu Tinghe’s eyes lit up and she looked at the door with hope.

Shen Ninghua listened to the three short and one long knocks on the door, and her lips curled up slightly. “Come in.”

Chu Junyi, who was dressed in fine clothes, walked in with his hands behind his back.

Bu Tinghe widened her eyes in disbelief. Why was Chu Junyi here? How did he come here?

“Ninghua, are you alright?” Chu Junyi hurriedly walked to Shen Ninghua and checked her condition carefully.

“I’m fine.”

“Cousin…Cousin, save me…” Bu Tinghe’s face was full of pain. She raised her head and looked at Chu Junyi for help. Her eyes were filled with tears and she looked very delicate. No matter why Chu Junyi came over, she had to finish the act. “Cousin, Princess Zhaohua had an affair with someone. I found it and they even wanted to kill me…Cough cough…Cousin, save me.”

Chu Junyi lowered his head to look at Bu Tinghe. Under her expectant gaze, he slowly squatted down. “Cousin, I should thank you for bringing Nanny Lan here to tell me the truth.”

Bu Tinghe reached out and grabbed the hem of his clothes. Tears rolled down her face. “For you, I’m willing to do anything.”

Chu Junyi smiled gently. His handsome face made Bu Tinghe blush. “Since you said that you are willing to do anything, then how about doing me one more favor?”

Bu Tinghe’s heart trembled. She felt that Chu Junyi’s smile was cold and made her shiver. She asked, “What favor?”

Chu Junyi turned around and looked at the door. The Third Prince walked in quickly and saw Bu Tinghe lying on the ground. His face was full of care. “Princess Wenhe, are you alright?”

Why was the Third Prince here? Shouldn’t he have gone into the Palace to report to the Emperor? What went wrong?

Bu Tinghe widened her eyes in shock and looked up at Shen Ninghua. “Did you plot it?”

Shen Ninghua ignored her and looked at the Third Prince. “Your Highness, Princess Wenhe was attacked. Fortunately, my maids and I found this and killed the assassins. However, Princess Wenhe was also drugged with an aphrodisiac and needed someone to detoxify her. You and she are in love, so…”

Third Prince’s eyes lit up as he turned to look at Shen Ninghua and Chu Junyi. “Alright, I owe the two of you a favor. You have my word.”

Shen Ninghua smiled. “It’s nothing. We are happy to see lovers becoming a couple.”

Third Prince laughed and bent down to pick Bu Tinghe up in his arms. “After this matter is done, I will definitely thank you properly.”

“You are welcome.”

Bu Tinghe gritted her teeth. Her gaze towards Shen Ninghua seemed to be able to peel her skin off and break her bones. She opened her mouth and was about to scream when she suddenly felt a pain in her throat. She wanted to speak again but could not say a word. The hatred in her eyes surged wildly.

Shen Ninghua, you bitch! You will die a horrible death, Shen Ninghua!

Cousin, save me, I only like you, cousin…

Sixth Brother, Sixth Brother!

Soon, another person who looked exactly like Chu Junyi walked in, picking the trembling Nanny Lan in his hand.

Nanny Lan was dumbfounded. She looked back and forth at the two identical Chu Junyi and did not know how to distinguish them.

The Chu Junyi who came in later glanced at the dead men on the ground and bowed to Shen Ninghua. “Ye Yi greets Your Highness.”

“Well done. You can go outside now. When the play starts in a while, you can lure people here.”

“Yes, I will leave now.”

It turned out that Shen Ninghua and Chu Junyi had already been on guard before coming to the banquet. They had even found out about Nanny Lan’s existence early on. When Ye Yi disguised himself as Chu Junyi and talked to Nanny Lan, Chu Junyi showed up in front of the guests outside. Therefore, even if Nanny Lan revealed the conversation she had with him, he had evidence that he was not with her at all. Who would believe an old crazy woman whose face was ruined?

After Ye Yi left, Shen Ninghua looked at Chu Junyi. “I didn’t expect that Bu Tinghe even informed the Third Prince. Did he hear anything?”

Chu Junyi shook his head. “I happened to see a maid holding Bu Tinghe’s silk handkerchief to lead the Third Prince to the backyard, so I stepped forward to block him. He did not hear anything. However, even if he didn’t hear the conversation, when the matter between him and Bu Tinghe is revealed, my identity will be exposed. Since I know the truth now, it is not a bad thing to take back my identity ahead of schedule.”

Shen Ninghua frowned slightly. “It’s too risky for you to do this. So many years have passed. It’s hard to find evidence that the Empress framed Princess Yunqing. The oral statements of Nanny Lan and Bu Jinglan alone won’t work at all. If you can’t reverse the case, even if you take back your identity, I’m afraid you will be suppressed.”

“I know that it is very risky right now, but there are many things that can’t be done unless my status is high. Moreover, you are pregnant, so I can’t let you continue to take risks. With the double identities of princess and imperial daughter-in-law, you can suppress many people. So, even if there is a risk, I have to give it a try. I have collected a lot of evidence before. This time, even if I can’t take down the Empress, I can recover my identity.”

The expression in Shen Ninghua’s eyes changed continuously before turning into a firm look. “Alright, since that’s the case, then we shall make use of Bu Jinglan and Bu Tinghe to take back your identity as a prince!”