Chapter 2 Complacency

"Why? Hehehe… my dear sister, at this point in time, you might as well stop pretending."

"I'm not pretending, I truly don't understand."

"Giggle giggle giggle, whether you're pretending or not, it's too late now. You are destined to be a loser, and everything that was yours will belong to me, including your man, hehehe…"

Situtu Qinger let out a series of proud laughs. Usually, her laughter sounded so pleasant, but now, in this blood-scented cell, it seemed somewhat chilling.

"Why? I treated you so well, why would you do this to me?"

"Pah, you treated me well? Do you know? From the very first day you returned to the General's Mansion, you took everything from me just because you are the legitimate daughter and I am the concubine-born. In public and private, you always suppressed me, one level below you. I hated you to the bone, yet I had to greet you with a smile every day. Do you know how miserable and hateful I felt? Every time, in my midnight reveries, I wished I could strangle you to death."

As she spoke these last words, Situtu Qinger's stunning face twisted into a horrifying snarl.

"So, in order to get back at me, you seduced the Crown Prince?" Situtu Xueer mocked herself inwardly, thinking how foolish she had been her entire life to believe in sisterly love.

"Hehehe, you're wrong. The Crown Prince and I are mutually in love, where is there any seduction—you say."

"The Crown Prince was deeply devoted to me. If it wasn't for your seduction, how could he have treated me like this?" Situtu Xueer couldn't help but burst into tears; the man she loved most had given her the most cruel punishment imaginable.

"Deeply devoted? Hehehe…it's laughable. We were together before you two were even married. His marriage to you was merely a use of your status as the legitimate daughter to secure his position as the Crown Prince."

The truth was so cruel that tears blurred Situtu Xueer's vision. She was foolish her entire life, having been deceived by them for so long.

Situtu Qinger: "Sister, I couldn't bear for you to be too lonely on the Yellow Spring Road, so I specially arranged for Xiuxiu to accompany you on your journey. It's better to have someone to look after you in the Underworld, isn't it?"

"Situtu Qinger, what are you planning to do? If you have any grievances, direct them at me. Don't harm my Xiuxiu; she is still young, only a few months old."

Situtu Xueer, who had been sobbing, suddenly screamed frantically upon hearing her daughter's name, "If you harm Xiuxiu, Zhang Ruixuan won't let you off either."

Nailed to the wall, Situtu Xueer couldn't believe everything she was hearing.

"Giggle giggle... You are such a foolish woman. Would I dare to kill his daughter without the Crown Prince's orders?"

"Xiuxiu is his own flesh and blood, how could he kill her? Even a tiger wouldn't eat its cubs—the Crown Prince won't kill Xiuxiu."

"The Crown Prince has said, 'If you don't eliminate the roots, the spring breeze will bring them back to life.' Besides, in the future, the Crown Prince will be the Emperor of Moli Country. With Three Palaces and Six Courtyards, Seventy-Two Concubines, plus me, the Empress, he won't be short of children. How could he tolerate your daughter being alive in this world?"

Situtu Qinger raised her delicate hand and gently clapped twice...

"Clap clap..."

A maid holding a few months old little kid walked in from outside...

The little kid was very cute, with a rosy face, big rolling eyes, and chubby fingers suckling on her mouth, making smacking sounds, both clueless and adorable.

The maid approached Situtu Qinger: "Second Miss."

Situtu Qinger reached out to tease the little kid.

The little kid looked at Situtu Qinger with big round eyes, batting her long eyelashes. Suddenly, she cracked a smile and laughed in a gurgling sound.

Situtu Qinger's expression turned cold, she indifferently retracted her hand and asked the maid, "Is everything ready?"

"It's ready."

"Bring it in!"

"Yes."

The maid complied, raised her voice, and shouted to someone outside, "Bring in the fire basin."

Several maids carried in a very lively burning fire basin.

Regardless of how Situtu Xueer pleaded and screamed, Situtu Qinger was unmoved, ordering her servants to throw the little kid into the fire basin and burn her alive.

"Ah…"

Nailed to the wall, Situtu Xueer let out a heart-wrenchingly painful scream, witnessing her daughter dying a tragic death, her heart in indescribable agony.

Suddenly, her eyes shot open as she shouted towards the top of the cell, "Heavens above, I, Situtu Xueer, swear by my life that if there is an afterlife, I will utterly destroy those who harmed my daughter and me, with no mercy."

Having said this, she spat out a mouthful of fresh blood and drooped her head, falling silent.

Situtu Qinger covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief, a look of disgust on her face: "Prison Warden, come in and take a look."

"Yes." The dwarf outside responded, pushed the door open, and stepped forward to check.

"Reporting to the Second Miss, the Crown Princess Consort has passed away."

"Prison Warden, throw that lowly woman into the Mass Grave."

"Yes, your servant obeys!"