Chapter 244: Chapter 244: Do you want to join your daughter in the Sky Prison?
"Deserved punishment?"
Madam Lin’s face turned hideous. This little wretch dared to say her daughter deserved punishment!
"You wretch! Today, I will kill you, mutilate your face, and blind your eyes. I want you to live with a face just like my daughter’s. Anything she can’t have, neither can you!"
Madam Lin felt a surge of anger. Last night, upon returning from her maternal home, she had forced Madam Luo to kneel on the pebbles in the courtyard all night. As soon as daybreak came, she began seeking favors, hoping to find someone influential to convey to the Palace that her daughter’s horoscope destined her as a Phoenix.
Everything had been progressing smoothly, and she anticipated news by that afternoon. She’d heard the Empress Dowager was very anxious about the current Emperor’s delay in appointing an Empress and filling the harem, so she decided to take a gamble.
She recalled how, when she had secretly leaked this information to the Lu Family previously, they had shown interest in discussing marriage with the Xie Family. So, this time, she set her sights on someone within the Palace.
She intended to use the same tactic to draw out that important figure in the Palace and then get her daughter released from the Celestial Prison. However, she hadn’t anticipated that the news of her daughter offending the Princess the previous day had already circulated among the nobility, and now no one dared to associate with her.
What was even more infuriating was that some loose-tongued maid or servant at home had let slip the news of her daughter’s disfigurement and blindness.
She had run around all morning and couldn’t find any way to make progress. That’s when she thought of taking her anger out on Xie Pan’Er.
When Xiaosuisui came flying down from the wall, she saw Madam Lin about to gouge out Xie Pan’Er’s eyes with a dagger!
"Hold her! Today, I’m going to gouge out her eyes and make her join my daughter in blindness!" Madam Lin shouted, the dagger raised in her hand poised to brutally gouge Xie Pan’Er’s eyes.
Xie Pan’Er’s face paled in terror. She shook her head, her voice choked with fear as she struggled desperately. However, the two strong maids holding her were powerful, and she couldn’t move at all.
"Madam Lin! You will face retribution! Everything you do today will be returned to you tenfold, a hundredfold in the future!" Xie Pan’Er roared, cursing, as she watched Madam Lin’s dagger descend towards her. Just as it was about to pierce her eyeball, a childish roar suddenly echoed in her ear.
"Stop! I won’t let you hurt my beautiful sister!"
Madam Lin’s hand suddenly halted. She turned her head and saw a four-and-a-half-year-old child with a long scar on her face.
"Where did this little freak come from, daring to tell me to stop?" Madam Lin looked at Xiaosuisui’s face, her own filled with disgust. She lifted her foot and kicked at the rapidly approaching Xiaosuisui.
Xiaosuisui, quick-witted and swift, met her kick with her own, retorting, "I’m not a little freak!"
THUD! Madam Lin was sent flying backward by Xiaosuisui’s defensive kick, smashing straight into the courtyard wall!
"You... who are you? Why are you so strong?" Madam Lin grunted, a choking sensation rising in her throat. She climbed up from the ground, her eyes blazing with anger.
"Are you blind? This is our Chang Rongshun, the Princess Shunhe! You audacious shrew! How dare you carry out your own justice? Do you want to be sent to the Celestial Prison to join your daughter?" Zhu Xiuxiu’s voice drew nearer, and then she and Huo Xing’Er leaped down from the roof, landing beside Xiaosuisui.
Xiaosuisui scrambled over, pushed away the two maids pinning Xie Pan’Er, and helped her up from the ground.
"Beautiful sister, are you okay?"
"This humble one is fine. But are you alright, Princess? Are you hurt anywhere?"