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The Imperial Guards immediately surrounded the woman wrapped in the blanket, making sure her face was visible so that everyone could see her clearly!

The old woman stepped forward, forcefully pried open the hands that were tightly gripping the quilt, ripped the quilt off, grabbed the woman's hair, and forced her face up.

When everyone saw the woman's face clearly, gasps of surprise erupted in the dead of night.

"It's Madam Xie!"

"How could it be her? Isn't she sick? What's she doing in a young girl's tent in the middle of the night?"

Jiang Ruining sneered: "With all these dignitaries present, and the matter involving the woman's innocence, who would be willing to help the mother and daughter? Madam Xie will personally step in and impersonate Lingyi, putting on an act of secretly meeting with a man, while Miss Xie will act as a gossip. Then she can insist that it was Lingyi who was secretly meeting with the man!"

"Fortunately, Heaven has eyes and exposed Madam Xie's true colors, otherwise Lingyi would be in no position to clear her name! The women living with her would also be gossiped about, accused of deliberately protecting a lewd person, thus tarnishing their reputations!"

She slowly looked at the mothers of the women.

"Ladies, she has staked your daughters' reputations and futures on this!"

The ladies were all furious.

Some people with strong tempers will rush up and slap you!

"Your Xie family is truly despicable! Unable to save your son yourself, you want your future daughter-in-law and a bunch of innocent women to be buried with him. How could you be such a vicious woman!"

Madam Xie wanted to retort, but she had broken her jawbone, and the slap she received was also followed by a tail sweep across her chin, sending a sharp pain straight to the top of her head, leaving her unable to utter a single word.

But that's clearly not how it is!

She clearly saw Zheng Lingyi enter the tent and then never come out again!

After the bribed guards entered, they remained silent. Fearing that the guards might actually rape someone and then repay the favor, she had no choice but to sneak over to check after the patrolling imperial guards left.

To my surprise, I was dragged into a tent, blindfolded, stripped of my outer garment, and my inner garment torn.

The stove was overturned by the person who framed her.

The person who claimed to be able to put out the fire was the one who framed her.

The tent flap was on fire and nailed shut from the outside, so she couldn't get out at all!

Someone plotted against her!

It's the Zheng family!

It's Jiang Ruining!

They must have discovered her plan and turned it on to harm her!

Xie Qinghe couldn't believe it. She stared wide-eyed at her disheveled mother. The word "It's over" exploded in her mind like a firecracker. Anger, embarrassment, fear of a difficult future... a barrage of negative emotions pounded into her brain like countless fists.

Overwhelmed by intense emotions, she rolled her eyes and fainted.

Jiang Ruining glanced at her: "Wake her up!"

One of the consequences of acting recklessly is experiencing the torture of being stared at by others!

Did she want to faint?

That's wishful thinking!

Madam Xie would rather burn to death in the fire than suffer such a humiliating disgrace at this moment!

"Everyone can see who the culprit is now!"

This kind of thing happens every year in Beijing.

Not shrewd, not perfect, and even easy to find out everything.

The schemers rely on the fact that the victims' reputations are irretrievably lost, leaving them with no choice but to either die to uphold their family's honor or accept their fate and be manipulated.

But regardless of the outcome, as long as there is no concrete evidence to prove who the schemer was, the person who did it wins.

Of the many people present, not all of them had grown up witnessing filth and scheming, but at least half of them saw through all the scheming the moment they saw Madam Xie!

Madam Xie wanted to ruin Zheng Lingyi and make the Xie family Zheng Lingyi's last resort. This forced the Zheng family to go all out and force Jiang Ruining to join them in begging the Regent so that Xie Lanheng could be rescued unharmed!

The woman caught in the crossfire sneered repeatedly: "How could I not understand! What else is there to not understand? This kind of person deserves to be torn to pieces!"

Xie Qinghe was slowly awakened by the fumes of the "passing-through powder." Before she even opened her eyes, she heard the words "a thousand cuts and ten thousand deaths." In extreme fear, she felt extreme malice: "No! That's not how it is! Don't slander my mother! It was you!"

Her trembling hand pointed at Zheng Lingyi, then at Jiang Ruining.

"It was you! It must have been you who conspired against my mother! Seeing that my brother was in jail, you wanted to break off the engagement, but you didn't want to be talked about as shameless, so you plotted to shift the blame onto us!"

"Aren't you afraid of retribution for being so vicious!"

Jiang Ruining raised an eyebrow and retorted, "What a question! You evildoers aren't afraid, so why should I be? If there's retribution, it'll be your Xie family who suffers, what does it have to do with us!"

To turn the tables, someone has to come up with a wicked plan first.

Those who devise wicked schemes reap what they sow; isn't that retribution?

She is an envoy who carries out retribution on behalf of Heaven!

Her smile was cool, and she answered irrelevantly, "When you're dealing with your servants, and they feel you're disregarding their lives and question you about whether you're afraid of retribution, do you care?"

"When there is an absolute disparity in status and power, the so-called 'retribution' is simply the exertion of power. What makes you think you have the ability to inflict 'retribution' on me, huh?"

Xie Qinghe looked at her arrogance and remembered her recklessness. Her face, which had been twisted with jealousy, fear and resentment, suddenly froze. A chill ran through her body because she heard the sharp malice in Jiang Ruining's words. She wanted to take revenge on her!

She will definitely get revenge on her!

Her mother was a master of scheming. Even the most cunning concubines and illegitimate children in the household were as obedient as dogs in front of her, and they all fell for her tricks. If she were targeted, how could she possibly escape?

"You're threatening me?" she cried, grasping at a lifeline in despair, accusing the others, "You all heard it! She framed my mother, and now she's trying to frame me!"

The others just stared at her coldly, with disgust and contempt!

Jiang Ruining raised her hand, her slender white fingers flicking in the air.

Upon receiving the order, Yun Mi rolled up her sleeves and went up to give him a good beating.

clap clap clap!

It was fast and crisp, like clapping.

Xie Qinghe felt as if her cheeks had been slashed by a knife, her ears were throbbing with pain and ringing, and she felt dizzy and disoriented, before collapsing to the ground.

Jiang Ruining walked slowly to Xie Qinghe, bent down and looked at her: "Your mother was the mastermind behind tonight's events, and you must have been involved. You deserved this beating!"

"My only redeeming quality is that I hold a grudge. Anyone who dares to offend me or touch someone I care about will come to a bad end! If you don't believe me, you can try again, but by then, you'll only be dead."

Xie Qinghe was so badly beaten that she felt dizzy and her cheeks were swollen and red.

The mocking gaze and disdainful sneers made her feel as if she had fallen into a pile of thorns, leaving her completely battered and bruised. Hatred roared wildly in her heart, and venomous thorns sprouted from her eyes as she stared intently at Jiang Ruining.

It's all because of this face!

If she didn't have this face, the Regent would never have favored her again, and none of the men who had surrounded her would have given her a second glance!

Scratch her!

Overwhelmed by jealousy, Xie Qinghe lost all reason and lunged at Jiang Ruining, wanting to tear her face apart!

Unfortunately, she forgot how much these onlookers despised what she and her daughter had done that night.

Without the Regent giving any orders, she was kicked away by a quick-thinking bystander and slammed hard on the ground, curling up in pain so badly she couldn't even groan!