Chapter 87: Never Give Up

Only Qing Huan and the palace maid were in the room.

The palace maid was frightened to see Su Mixue in such a hysterical state. In her memory, Su Mixue had always been gentle and virtuous, and her tone of speech had never been harsh.

Today, she threatened to kill the doctor and her step-sister.

The palace maid looked at Qing Huan fearfully.

Qing Huan gave her a look, signaling her to leave.

Once the palace maid left the room, Qing Huan held the struggling Su Mixue: “Princess, you can’t keep saying such angry words. If the prince knows, he will only drift further away from you.”

Su Mixue had a glimmer of hope for the prince before. But at this moment, she had had enough.

“I was confused before. Seeing my mother being gentle and virtuous, always yielding to my father, that’s why I held my father in my palm. As long as I am gentle and considerate, the prince will like me one day. But everything that happened today gave me a wake-up call.”

“Su Wan poisoned me, dislocated my arm, drugged the guards, and the prince still indulged her. It made me realize one thing, Su Wan is the one in the prince’s heart. Even if she is willful, cruel, and ruthless, she is perfect in his eyes, and he will even clean up the mess for her. The prince doesn’t like me, even if I did nothing wrong, marrying him is an unforgivable mistake.”

So why should she compromise?

Just now, she ordered someone to catch Su Wan, something she had always wanted to do, but dared not use her identity as the princess to do. She could only plot in secret, letting Su Wan die an unnatural death.

As long as Su Wan is alive for one day, the prince will not see her.

Su Mixue’s eyes were filled with murderous intent.

She will no longer tolerate it, so what if the prince likes Su Wan? In order to stabilize his position as the crown prince, didn’t he still marry her?

It doesn’t matter if he hates her, it doesn’t matter if he despises her.

As long as Su Mixue has power in her hands, what does it matter if the prince knows she killed Su Wan? He will be tied to her for life! They must be buried together even in death!

She can no longer win the prince’s love with her weakness, she needs to become strong, so strong that the prince can no longer ignore her!

Su Mixue clenched her teeth tightly, and as the unbearable itching intensified, her hatred for Su Wan reached its peak.

From now on, she and Su Wan will never give up until one of them is dead!

Qing Huan saw the astonishing fire in Su Mixue’s eyes and couldn’t help but tremble, knowing that the princess had changed.

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The prince sat in the carriage, leaning against the wall, his handsome face covered with a layer of fatigue.

He was not the queen’s biological child. The queen had two miscarriages and finally gave birth to the eldest prince, who was intelligent but eventually died of illness.

His birth mother, Madam Xiao, gave him to the queen to raise, and that night his mother hanged herself.

The queen poured her heart and soul into him, raising him as the crown prince. When he was eight years old, the wife of Marquis of Dingyuan brought Su Wan, who was still in swaddling clothes, into the palace.

The queen put Su Wan in his arms and asked bluntly, “Feng’er, do you want to be the crown prince?”

Ji Wufeng was stunned.

The queen smiled gently, “If you want to be the crown prince, you have to marry her when you grow up.”

Ji Wufeng looked at Su Wan in his arms, she was blowing bubbles of saliva, and smiled at him, revealing two smooth, pink gums.

This smile was imprinted in the heart of the little Ji Wufeng.

The two of them were engaged.

Seven or eight years later, the queen was pregnant again. The imperial physician diagnosed that it was a boy. Ji Wufeng felt a sense of crisis and began to secretly deploy his own forces to stabilize his position as the crown prince.

Even though the queen eventually gave birth to a stillborn child, Ji Wufeng felt a distance from the queen, especially after the death of General Qi, the whereabouts of the Qi family’s army was unknown, Ji Wufeng was busy dealing with the regent king, and became more and more distant from the queen.

Until one day, the regent king gave him a choice: “The throne or Su Wan, choose one.”

Ji Wufeng chose the throne.

Not long after, the emperor declared to his ministers that Su Mixue was born noble. If she were to be the princess, she could make the Zhou Dynasty prosperous.

The regent king created auspicious signs and suppressed those who opposed this matter with thunderous means.

Since he was a child, Ji Wufeng treated Su Wan as his wife, and Su Wan did the same. She often followed him like a little tail. When she learned to cook and sew, she would personally make snacks and send them to the palace every few days. His underwear, silk stockings, sachets, and handkerchiefs were all sewn by her stitch by stitch.

His marriage to Su Mixue was already a foregone conclusion. Ji Wufeng was filled with frustration. He went to the queen’s sleeping quarters, and his aunt said, “Your Highness, the queen has gone to bed. You should go back and rest early.”

Ji Wufeng suddenly came back to his senses, realizing that over the years, he had become more and more distant from the queen, maintaining only superficial mother-son affection.

If it were in the past… even if the queen really went to sleep, hearing that he had come, she would also get up to see him.

Now, apart from the position of the crown prince, he has nothing.

The regent king supported him, as if cultivating a puppet.

Ji Wufeng raised his hand to pinch his brow bone, and the image of Su Wan’s robust figure lingered in his mind.

It reminded him of when he was punished, Su Wan secretly climbed through the window to bring him snacks.

The snacks were wrapped in a handkerchief, and when she climbed the window, they were crushed and crumbled.

But that was the most delicious snack he had ever eaten.

That was also his most carefree moment.

There will be no more in the future.

“Your Highness, where are you going?” The eunuch asked cautiously.

The prince uttered two words: “Post house.”

The carriage moved slowly.

After a long time, a hoarse voice came out: “Go to Xinghua Village.”

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After finishing her business, Su Wan went straight back to Xinghua Village.

Su Mixue stole the original owner’s man and targeted her everywhere. Su Wan taught her a lesson, ruined Su Mixue’s face, and made her despised by the prince. In the future, when the prince ascends the throne, she may not be able to rule the world as a mother.

In history, many crown princes ascended to the throne, but their princesses did not become queens.

Now that the prince is here, Su Wan touched her chin, a sly look flashing in her eyes.

Su Mixue loves to steal other people’s men, so let’s give her something to do. Let Su Mixue taste what it’s like to have her man stolen by others, so she won’t have the leisure to provoke her.

Su Wan moved her nose and smelled a fragrance of wild vegetables mixed with a hint of meat.

Following the scent, Su Wan walked into the kitchen and saw Gu Huaizhi standing next to the square table in the middle, his sleeves rolled up to his elbows, revealing his smooth forearm, making dumplings. He had prepared two kinds of fillings, shepherd’s purse meat filling, and vegetarian three delicacies.

“Gu Huaizhi, did you make all these dumplings on this table?”

Su Wan washed her hands clean, picked up a round and cute dumpling, and said with sparkling eyes, “Is there anything you can’t do?”

Gu Huaizhi pinched a dumpling, a small and round dumpling took shape and was placed in the sieve.

He spoke in a leisurely tone, “What you can’t think of, I can’t do.”

Su Wan’s old face turned red, feeling a sense of being flirted with.

“I want to eat steamed dumplings, steam a pot for me.”

Su Wan picked up the dough and started making dumplings.

Gu Huaizhi glanced at her, scrubbed the pot and boiled water to steam the dumplings for her.

Mother Gu came back from outside and muttered, “There is a richly dressed man standing outside the door, about the same age as Huaizhi. Wanwan, is he here to see you for treatment?”

“Looking for me?” Su Wan came out of the kitchen in confusion, opened the courtyard door, and saw a man standing not far away.

She recognized him in a strange way – the prince!