Chapter 249: Beautiful General’s Wife (Side Story)

Li Shuning sat in the sedan chair, her heart full of despair.

Clearly, she had done so much for the General Mansion, clearly, she was not that kind of wanton person, why was there no one to speak up for her?

What exactly was going on? Why didn’t the General even ask her a single question?

Why did the General still form a good relationship with Tong Linglong?

Why did Prince Gong have to coerce her, even though she had no entanglements with him?

Now that she had been dismissed, he acted the good man and came to marry her?

Forget it, she would never let him have his way. He was a Prince, the younger brother of the Emperor, even if he did something wrong, no one would blame him, and she too was merely a person, why should she be at their mercy?

Li Shuning took out the dagger she had long prepared and directly slit her wrist.

Blood dripped down drop by drop, yet Li Shuning kept smiling. She would make him regret it, it was Prince Gong who had destroyed everything for her.

After a long while, she felt as if she was floating, yet inexplicably, there was an attraction pulling her towards the direction of Prince Gong Mansion.

She witnessed some things that she found hard to believe.

When Prince Gong opened the sedan door and saw Li Shuning covered in blood, he was completely stunned.

After a long time, he suddenly went mad and drove all the guests away.

Li Shuning saw Prince Gong carefully lift her up, muttering: “I’m sorry, I didn’t make it clear to you, I’m sorry, please don’t leave me, alright?”

Prince Gong carried Li Shuning to their bridal chamber.

The bridal chamber was decorated very delicately, very beautifully.

Prince Gong, however, was only focused on holding Li Shuning, lamenting: “Sorry, I didn’t know it would come to this. Clearly, I met you first, do you still remember the Flower Festival? You saved me then, it was I who wasn’t brave enough to ask Brother for a marriage decree, fearing you wouldn’t like me, and Brother ended up bestowing you to Feng Chuan, I hated it, hated myself, why wasn’t I a little braver. But I didn’t dare to do anything, I knew you were married, I wouldn’t ruin your world, I have been controlling myself all along.”

“At the feast, I drank a lot, but my mind was clear, yet inexplicably, there was an impulse to possess you. Afterwards, I regretted it, feeling I had ruined you, but I was also afraid you’d commit suicide, so I could only threaten you, I’m sorry, it’s all my fault.”

“Clearly, at other times, I can control myself, but when the Great General returned, seeing you, inexplicably I went to find you again, I’m also someone who practices martial arts, I know I was set up, sure enough, not long thereafter someone came to arrest us.”

“It’s my fault for not protecting you, Shuning, why did you leave me, why?”

Li Shuning was very shocked, did this Prince Gong like her?

This man crying like a child, was he really the one who forced her?

Yes, she remembered, when she was thirteen, during the Flower Festival, she went to Chunling Lake to play and ran into a man being chased by others, looking a bit embarrassed, she helped him once, hid him among the guards.

Was he Prince Gong?

Then why did he repay kindness with enmity?

Li Shuning didn’t know why she existed in this form, she kept watching Prince Gong investigate the affairs of the General Mansion.

Not long thereafter, he found out that Tong Linglong knew medicine.

Prince Gong just had someone probe a little and knew that Tong Linglong had a kind of drug that made people “unable to control themselves”.

Li Shuning was really stunned.

The late emperor passed away, the Crown Prince ascended.

However, the Great General controlled the army, wielding great power, commanding the court.

The Crown Prince was just a puppet.

As the Imperial Uncle of the Crown Prince, Prince Gong also became busy.

When he confirmed that Tong Linglong was the mastermind who harmed him and Li Shuning, he started arranging some things.

He intended to cooperate with the current emperor to take down the Great General, thus also avenging Li Shuning.

They secretly arranged, during a summoning of the Great General, they trapped him in the palace.

However, the Great General had long been prepared, not only was he not taken down, Prince Gong was instead seriously injured.

The current Majesty was a puppet, the Great General indeed had thoughts of replacing him, yet his reputation was too good, if he did that, there would surely be issues.

So some things, he did cautiously.

The Emperor couldn’t be abolished yet, the time wasn’t ripe, but Prince Gong could be killed.

Prince Gong was not reconciled, he looked at Feng Chuan, suddenly asked: “General Feng, do you know one thing?”

Feng Chuan frowned, quietly watching Prince Gong.

Prince Gong smiled: “You know, I met Li Shuning first, yet she married you, I had already decided to watch from afar as long as she was happy.”

“Do you know why I was in the same bed with your wife? It was designed by your current wife, Tong Linglong.”

Feng Chuan sneered: “So what? Linglong admires me, has followed me since childhood, Li Shuning herself wasn’t capable, got framed, who is to blame? Could I harm the woman who loves me for a woman who has already lost her purity?”

Prince Gong spat blood: “The Great General is indeed cold-blooded, yes, the most pitiful one is Li Shuning, treating the General Mansion as her own home, caring for the old madam as her own mother, treating Tong Linglong as her own sister, but what did she get? In your eyes, she lacked capability, deservedly treated so, it turns out no one could remember her kindness.”

“Feng Chuan, dying at your hands today, I can also go find Shuning. If I could live again, I would definitely let Shuning know my love for her before you. Let His Majesty grant me marriage, Feng Chuan, your wife knows many things, you should be careful, lest one night in your sleep, you are killed by someone, hahaha, hahaha…”

Prince Gong laughed as he spat out blood and died.

In the air, Li Shuning felt only deep sorrow.

Was everything she did truly meaningless?

To say, she and Prince Gong were so innocent, were good people never rewarded?

She and Prince Gong had become pieces in others’ hands, and her husband, in turn, regarded her so.

Had she been hating the wrong person all along?

If as Prince Gong said, she could live again, she would never want to encounter that Great General again, never want to know that family, if she could live again, Prince Gong, please speak out your affection earlier, could you?

Li Shuning only felt something flow from the corner of her eye, gradually, her body grew lighter, gradually, she could no longer see the faces of those people below.

PS: Grateful for the suggestions from the Q Reading colleague Qing Si Bu Dai. The ending with Xiao Qing was too hasty, causing some controversy in this story, Xiao Qing will pay attention in the future~ Also very thankful for the student “Qing Si Bu Dai”’s reward, muah~

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