The Evil Emperor's Favorite: The Sickly and Poisonous Concubine Goes Crazy

Su Jingchen looked at her coldly, feeling even more disgusted. After so many years, this was the first time he discovered that their adopted daughter of the Su family had such outstanding acting skills.

"Tu Fei, bring the person in." Su Jingchen shouted outside the door.

Then the burly Tu Fei walked in with a middle-aged man. When Su Ruofu saw the man, she was so scared that she fell off the chair.

It's over! It's all over! How could he appear here?

"This is the owner of the stone shop in the north of the city. He is from the southern border. Have you ever seen him, Third Sister?"

"No, I didn't. I haven't seen him." Su Ruofu panicked and quickly denied it.

"But he has seen you. Boss, don't you think so?" Su Jingchen looked at her with a smile

"Yes, this lady has been to our shop. It's a remote place and not many people come to our shop. This lady has an extraordinary temperament, wears expensive clothes, and buys things like talc, so I remembered her face..."

"You are lying. How could you have seen my face? I clearly..." Su Ruofu's face turned pale. She wanted to defend herself, but she regretted the moment she said it.

When everyone heard this, their faces suddenly changed, and the old lady's face instantly darkened.

"Madame Qin, go and invite the Master and Madam over."

"No, grandma, please listen to my explanation. No, second sister, it really wasn't me." Su Ruofu burst into tears, looking so pitiful.

"Take the third young lady to the side hall and take away the irrelevant people." The old lady gave the order in a cold voice without showing any mercy.

Su Ruofu struggled and cried as she was taken to the side hall of Songhua Courtyard. Everyone in the room looked at her coldly. You know, Ning'er almost lost her life because of her.

Soon, Duke Su Bo and his wife came in a hurry. Mrs. Su's face was terribly gloomy. She had been investigating the incident of her daughter falling into the water and the rumors about her daughter and Prince Ling. Unexpectedly, she found out that Su Ruofu had an affair with Prince Ling. The two of them designed to make Ning'er and Prince Ling entangled, and wanted Ning'er to marry into Prince Ling's mansion. To gain the support of the Su family for Prince Ling! She wanted to find Su Ruofu to ask for clarification, but was called by the old lady.

That’s perfect, let’s settle this account together.

Mrs. Su looked at her daughter, feeling distressed, and gently stroked her daughter's thin cheek.

"Don't be afraid, Auntie will take care of it for you."

"Bring Su Ruofu here." The Duke of Zhenguo also looked unhappy and ordered the servants.

As soon as Su Ruofu saw Duke Zhenguo, she rushed over to him.

"Father, father, I didn't do it. It really wasn't me. Father, please believe me."

The Duke of Zhenguo took a step back to avoid Su Ruofu, looked at her with disappointment, and said nothing.

Mrs. Su pulled her away and slapped her in anger. She was extremely disappointed and angry.

"Su Ruofu! Our Su family took pity on your miserable life. You lost your parents at a young age and were helpless. So we took you into our family, gave you the surname Su, and protected you. Do you know how much risk our Su family took to adopt you? Over the years, everyone in our Su family has protected you and loved you. How could you repay kindness with enmity? You framed Ning'er and caused her to fall into the water, nearly killing her. You also spread rumors, making outsiders think that Ning'er was entangled with Prince Ling, ruining Ning'er's reputation. Tell me, who is the person who is entangled with Prince Ling!"

"Mother, I was wrong. I was bewitched and believed what Prince Ling said. Please don't abandon me. Father, mother, please don't abandon me." Su Ruofu knelt on the ground and kowtowed to them to admit her fault and beg for forgiveness. She didn't care even when her head was bleeding, and her expression was miserable and pitiful.

"Don't call us, we only have four children. From now on, you are no longer the third lady of my Su family." Mrs. Su's eyes were red with hatred. For so many years, they had kept a poisonous snake around them, and it almost harmed their own children.

"Bo'er, the Su family cannot keep an ungrateful person! If you can't bear to do it, I will be the evil one." The old lady looked dignified, sitting upright in the main seat, looking at the Duke of Zhenguo Su Bo.

"Mother, I understand." The Duke of Zhenguo bowed to the old lady and turned to look at Su Ruofu.

Looking at the pitiful crying Su Ruofu, his eyes were cold. If this child had not been raised by him for more than ten years, she would have been a corpse here now.

"I adopted you back then because of the friendship between your father and me over the years, and I couldn't bear to see you wandering outside. Over the years, I, Su Bo, raised you as a legitimate child in the Su family and treated you as a young lady of the Su family. But you ignored our kindness and did something to let the Su family down, so the Su family can't keep you. From now on, you will change your surname back to Chen, and I will announce to the public that you no longer have any relationship with the Su family. Starting tomorrow, you will leave the Su family, and I will send someone to send you back to the southern border. From now on, don't return to the imperial capital, and the Su family will no longer protect you. You'd better take care of yourself." The Duke of Zhenguo said to Su Ruofu in a deep voice.

"No, no, Father, I don't want to. I was wrong, I will change, I don't want to go back to the southern border." Su Ruofu cried bitterly. She didn't want to leave the imperial capital and become the daughter of a criminal again.

"You almost caused Ning'er to lose her life. We didn't kill you, we just sent you back to the southern border. What else are you dissatisfied with?" Su Jingchen held back his anger, fearing that he would strangle her to death.

Su Ruofu's body trembled, a trace of determination flashed in her eyes, and she kowtowed three times to the Duke of Zhenguo and his wife.

"Fu'er is sorry to the Su family and to my second sister. So today I will give my life to my second sister and to everyone!" Su Ruofu said with tears in her eyes, and while everyone was not paying attention, she rushed towards the pillar behind Su Jingning and wanted to commit suicide by hitting the pillar.

"do not want!"

"what--"

Everyone was frightened by this sudden action. The old lady and the third lady Li screamed. The second lady was so frightened that she suddenly closed her eyes.

"Hmm..." A muffled cry woke everyone up.

Su Ruofu's move to hit the pillar was stopped by Su Jingning who was closest to her. She used her body to block Su Ruofu. In fact, the collision did not hurt. Su Ruofu was so afraid of death, how could she be willing to die? She just wanted everyone to pity her and let her go. How could she give her such an opportunity?

"Ning'er!"

"Ning'er, how are you?" Everyone was startled by Su Jingning and quickly pulled Su Ruofu away. They surrounded Su Jingning with concern.

Su Ruofu didn't expect that Su Jingning would save her and ruin her good deeds. She stared at Su Jingning hatefully from outside the crowd.

"I'm fine, I just don't want her to die in grandma's yard and dirty grandma's place." Su Jingning shook his head and was helped up by Su Jingchen. He looked at Su Ruofu with disgust.

"Pa——" Su Ruofu was slapped again by Mrs. Su.

"You want to die? Then I'll grant your wish. Come, take her to the Punishment Hall and give her seventy lashes."

"You want to repay the Su family's kindness? Then go to the Punishment Hall and receive seventy strokes of the cane. If you survive seventy strokes, the Su family's kindness to you for more than ten years will be over, and you will have nothing to do with the Su family in the future. If you don't survive, you can only blame God for not letting you go."

Madam Su looked down at Su Ruofu who was lying on the ground, and said coldly. She didn't want to take Su Ruofu's life, after all, she had raised this child for many years. But she repeatedly touched her bottom line and hurt Ning'er, so don't blame her for being ruthless.

Su Ruofu was completely depressed. Seventy lashes! What's the difference between this and taking her life!

"No, seventy lashes will kill you! No..."

"Shut her mouth and take her away!" Madam Su stopped looking at her and ordered the palace soldiers to take her away.

Su Ruofu wanted to ask for help from the people around her, but she found that everyone was surrounding Su Jingning and no one cared about her.

In the end, Su Ruofu was taken away by the palace soldiers.

"Ning'er, it's your father who failed to protect you and let you suffer." Duke Zhenguo looked at his daughter's pale face after she had just recovered from a serious illness and felt regretful in his heart. He wondered why he insisted on adopting Su Ruofu, causing his daughter to suffer.

"I'm fine, Dad, don't worry." Su Jingning smiled and comforted them.

Su Jingning's face was already pale, and now it looked like he was forcing a smile to comfort them. After something like this happened, Ning'er should be the one who felt the most uncomfortable. She had treated Su Ruofu like her own sister since she was a child, and now Su Ruofu was plotting against her like this.

Seeing her family caring about her, Su Jingning felt warm in her heart. She must have been blind in her previous life to have let them down for a heartless man.

"Chen'er, send your sister back." The old lady ordered Su Jingchen in a deep voice.

"Ning'er, let's go. I'll take you back to rest." Su Jingchen looked at Su Jingning, whose face was pale, and said with pity.

"Brother, I want to walk around by myself. I'll go back by myself." Su Jingning looked calm. He bowed to them before leaving Songhuayuan.

After leaving Songhua Courtyard, Su Jingning did not go back to his own courtyard directly, but took a detour to the Punishment Hall.

The Su family has been a military family for hundreds of years, and they have always been strict and rule the family with martial arts. The Punishment Hall is where the Su family punishes their descendants or servants who make mistakes. In her previous life, thanks to Su Ruofu and King Ling, she also received forty strokes of the cane in the Punishment Hall, and she was only half dead after the beating.

"Second Miss." The guard in charge of guarding the palace saluted hurriedly when he saw Su Jingning.

Su Jingning nodded at him and walked straight in.

Su Ruofu was being beaten with a stick by two people, screaming in agony. Su Ruofu was pressed on a bench for execution, and her personal maid Chunlan wanted to step forward to take her place, but was stopped by someone.

Seeing Su Jingning coming, the person in charge of beating stopped.

"Second miss."

"Go down first, I have something to say to her." Su Jingning said in a cold voice.

"Yes." The palace soldiers obeyed the order and retreated, leaving only Su Jingning and Su Ruofu.

Su Ruofu was beaten 31 times and was unable to move. She stared at Su Jingning fiercely, wondering how she would have ended up in such a situation if it weren't for her.

"Su Jingning! Don't be so complacent. I will make you pay the price for what I suffered today!"

Su Jingning looked at her for a long time, then slowly squatted down and looked her straight in the eye.

"Su... No, I should call you Chen Ruofu now. Do you know how my brother suspected that you were the one who caused me to fall into the lake? And how did you find the boss who sold you the talc? You clearly sent someone to kill him." Su Jingning stroked her cheek gently, his eyes full of bloodthirsty murderous intent, and said with a smile.

"It's you! It's you! You have suspected me for a long time." Chen Ruofu suddenly realized that her plan was so meticulous, how could anyone have noticed it? It turned out to be her.

"Yes, I deliberately let Big Brother and Father hear that you and Prince Ling have a special relationship, so that Big Brother and Father would be suspicious of you. I also had someone pretend to be the boss and wait for Big Brother's investigation in the north of the city."

"You have known about the relationship between Prince Ling and me for a long time! Then why didn't you expose me? And you fell into my trap and fell into Chenxin Lake." Chen Ruofu was filled with hatred. She didn't even know when she was exposed.

"If you hadn't fallen into the Chenxin Lake, how could you be beaten here now? My dear sister." Su Jingning looked at Chen Ruofu with a smile, and suddenly pinched her neck fiercely, using all his strength, pinching Chen Ruofu's veins bulged and she couldn't breathe. Just when Chen Ruofu was about to die, Su Jingning slowly let go of his hand.

Chen Ruofu looked at Su Jingning in horror. At that moment, she felt like she had stepped into hell. She had never seen Su Jingning's eyes like this before. They were so cold that they made her tremble all over.

"Chen Ruofu, it would be fine if you only harmed me, but you should never, ever target the Su family!" Su Jingning stood up and looked down at Chen Ruofu. His almond eyes were cold, and he looked at her as if he was looking at a dead person.

"No, you can't kill me! If anything happens to me, Prince Ling will not let the Su family go." Chen Ruofu threatened, looking somewhat smug.

"Kill you? Do you think you can die so easily, Chen Ruofu? This is just the beginning. Don't let me down. It would be meaningless if you died so easily." Su Jingning had a beautiful smile on his lips and looked down at Chen Ruofu with cold eyes.

Chen Ruofu saw deep hatred in her eyes. The hatred seemed to have seeped into her bones, making her shudder.

"As for Prince Ling? Haha, is he worthy of threatening the Su family!" Prince Ling was like a tumor growing on Su Jingning's wound. Whenever she thought of him, she felt sick.

After saying that, he didn't even look at Chen Ruofu, turned around and walked out.