After being reborn, he was doted on by his scumbag brother.

"Your Highness, please listen to my explanation. I didn't do it on purpose. It was because the princess punished me too harshly that I was so angry that I said something irresponsible. Your Highness, please believe me!"

Xiao Jingyi had already made up his mind that Lin Qingrou had been lying to him, and he didn't listen to what she said at all.

"How many times have I told you to recognize your own identity? You are just a lowly servant. Can you insult the princess at will? Don't waste your energy. I don't believe a word you say now. I hate being deceived the most. I don't know how many times you have deceived me in the past few years. I will get back at you today. You are still stubborn. You refuse to admit it. It seems that you will not give in unless I use some tricks on you today."

Upon hearing this, Lin Qingrou panicked completely. She knew Xiao Jingyi's methods very well and he never showed mercy.

It sounded like Xiao Jingyi was going to torture her. With her frail body and her previous injuries not yet healed, how could she withstand it?

Seeing that she was no longer soft, Lin Qingrou became a little anxious and stopped acting.

"Xiao Jingyi, what are you going to do to me? I helped you so wholeheartedly in the past, but in the end you treat me like this, you really have no conscience!"

Xiao Jingyi sneered upon hearing this, "Oh, why don't you continue pretending? It seems that you are really anxious and have revealed your true colors. You even dare to call me by my name, you are really brave. Lin Qingrou, stop saying these high-sounding words here, you tried so hard to help me in the past, in the end it was all for your own benefit. After all, I was deceived by you, and I once said that I would make you the queen when I ascended the throne. I am ambitious, but you are not small either. A daughter of a bastard still dreams of becoming the queen, isn't that a bit too presumptuous?"

Xiao Jingyi's sarcasm completely angered Lin Qingrou. Since Xiao Jingyi said that to her, Lin Qingrou naturally could not show weakness.

"Oh, you only know how to talk about others. Why don't you think about yourself first? It's true that you are a prince, but you are just an unpopular bastard. You are still dreaming of competing for the throne with the legitimate son of the empress. Aren't you overestimating yourself? Don't you see how much power is behind the prince? Look at yourself, what do you have? Besides Ji Weiwei who loves you wholeheartedly, plus Tang Yingqian, and Concubine Ji Shu who loves her son like her life, with these little backers, what are you fighting for with the prince? You can't get Lin Qingyao, so you put all the blame on me, and you act like nothing happened. Ask yourself, are you a man? You have no responsibility at all."

Xiao Jingyi was very angry at Lin Qingrou's words, "You..."

But Lin Qingrou couldn't help but speak out at the moment and didn't give Xiao Jingyi any chance to retort.

Before Xiao Jingyi could say two words, Lin Qingrou took the lead and continued what she was saying.

"What do you mean? You keep saying that I deliberately deceived you, but you have to fall for it. If you don't have such intentions, how can I deceive you even if I have a great personality? Besides, even if you were deceived by me, ask yourself, how sincere are you to me? I know you very well, you are very snobbish, and you always use people first and don't use them later. Maybe you treat me better than others, but haven't you used me enough?"

Xiao Jingyi was filled with anger at what Lin Qingrou said. "Well, you finally admitted it. You have been trying to deceive me to achieve your own goals. Lin Qingrou, aren't you too heartless for what you said just now? No matter how I treated you over the years, you really don't feel anything in your heart. Maybe I owed others, but I have always been sincere to you. Even though my mother asked me to stay away from you many times, I never wavered. I have a clear conscience on this point."

Lin Qingrou seemed to have heard a huge joke at this moment, "A clear conscience? Hahaha, Xiao Jingyi, you really dare to say that. In order to help you remove obstacles, I bit the bullet and seduced Xiao Jingxuan, and suffered great humiliation. To this day, Xiao Jingxuan still hates me. Have you forgotten this matter? Let's talk about the incident at the palace banquet. If it wasn't for helping you get Lin Qingyao, how could I be framed and lose my innocence. As a result, the incident was exposed, and not only did you not say a word to help me, you also pushed all the responsibility onto me. When have I ever refuted it? If it weren't for that incident, I, the legitimate daughter of the Marquis's Mansion, would never have fallen to the point of being your concubine. All the humiliation I have suffered is because of you!"

Xiao Jingyi sneered when he heard this, "Okay, you have been acting considerate and devoted to me for so long, and today you finally couldn't help it and told me everything? It was indeed me who asked you to seduce Xiao Jingxuan, and I have always remembered the sacrifices you made for me, and I have been doubly nice to you since then. I didn't expect that you are still so unsatisfied. But I still have doubts about what happened at the palace banquet. Wasn't all this directed and acted by you to force me to marry you? In the end, you actually blamed me for all this?"

Xiao Jingyi's words made Lin Qingrou laugh out of anger. It was really ridiculous.

"Listen to what you said, aren't you contradicting yourself? Since I have deliberately won your heart, why do I have to use such a despicable method? Is this good for my own reputation? Xiao Jingyi, you should not take yourself too seriously, as if I can't live without you."

The quarrel between the two seemed to have no end, but Lin Qingrou's status and position in Prince Kang's Mansion was at a disadvantage. Even if she was sharp-tongued, she could not escape the fate of being punished by Xiao Jingyi in the end.

It’s a pity that Lin Qingyao didn’t get to witness this dog-eat-dog battle with her own eyes, otherwise she would have woken up laughing in her dreams.

Lin Qingyao only heard about Lin Qingrou's fate from Tang Yingqian. Xiao Jingyi locked her up and she was treated inhumanely every day.

Xiao Jingyi was much more cruel than any of them. Although he also tortured her while she was still alive, he had all the torture instruments used on her.

Xiao Jingyi knew that Lin Qingrou was weak, so in order to prevent her from dying, every time Lin Qingrou was punished, Xiao Jingyi would ask Doctor Ding to treat her. After she recovered a little, he would continue with the next punishment.

If Lin Qingrou fainted due to exhaustion, she would be woken up by a basin of cold water, and this cycle would repeat.

Tang Yingqian and Ji Weiwei were very happy about this, but the scene was too bloody. Even though they wanted to see Lin Qingrou's miserable condition with their own eyes, they finally gave up the idea.