ASTRP -Chapter 209 Planning Revenge Against the Feng Family

“She was nothing more than the Empress Dowager’s child with another man outside the palace.”

“A disgraceful existence like her should’ve been grateful to marry this prime minister.”

“After giving birth to you, she stopped putting me in her eyes altogether.”

“She really thought the Empress Dowager would protect her.”

“But she never realized the Empress Dowager never wanted to acknowledge her in the first place.”

“The Empress Dowager wished for her death more than anyone!”

“As long as she died, no one would know about the Empress Dowager’s affair with another man.”

“And since we’re already talking about it, I may as well tell you this too—your mother didn’t die from illness. The medicine Chen Jinfeng gave her came from me.”

“That medicine was mixed into your mother’s food. It wouldn’t kill her immediately.”

“It would only make her body weaken day after day…”

After saying that, and forcing Feng Jingge to swallow the medicine, he released her and waved his hand with a smile.

“Run. Hurry and run.”

“Father will count to three… If you don’t run, Father will keep stabbing you with needles.”

Feng Jingge covered her mouth.

This could no longer even be considered human.

Look at the excitement on his face—it was as if he were tormenting some cat or dog.

But even cats and dogs shouldn’t be abused like that.

Was this something a father should do?

Taking pleasure in torturing his own daughter?

Bastard!

Little Feng Jingge cried as she ran away, but in her memories, she still heard Feng Qiancheng speaking behind her.

“Tell the Empress Dowager that jade pendant belongs to that man.”

“Carefully observe her reaction.”

“If she cares about it, then she can be controlled.”

“Yes.”

A guard then spoke up.

“Master, the physician said the medicine given to Eldest Miss—if she takes too much of it, not only will it paralyze her, it could also drive her insane. In serious cases, it could even kill her.”

“Oh? Is that so?”

“Well, I still have two other daughters anyway. If this one lives, she lives. If she dies, then so be it.”

After that, every time little Feng Jingge was forced to drink the medicine, she would immediately force herself to vomit after they left.

She threw all the medicine back up.

But eventually Feng Qiancheng found out.

Still, seeing Feng Jingge grow into a graceful beauty, he no longer forced her to take the medicine.

Instead, he developed other twisted ideas.

He wanted to give her away.

Later, he planned to send her to Wuxing Kingdom, but what he hadn’t expected was that the people of Wuxing Kingdom were actually rather upright.

They never touched Feng Jingge.

After enduring Feng Qiancheng’s treatment and one disappointment after another, little Feng Jingge had long since fallen into utter despair.

So Shen Nan wasn’t truly the one who drove Feng Jingge to death.

It was Feng Qiancheng—and all the hopeless futures she could not escape—that truly cornered her.

Feng Jingge also saw how, during her childhood, the original Feng Jingge deliberately pretended to be useless just to protect herself.

She lowered her presence as much as possible.

She wanted the Feng family to think she posed no threat.

But they still never let her go.

By the end, she no longer even had the strength to struggle.

At that time, little Feng Jingge could no longer see hope.

Only despair remained.

Feng Jingge could even clearly feel the emotional journey the girl had gone through.

No one could save her.

No one could help her.

She had resisted before. She had refused to accept fate before.

But sadly… she believed she was too weak.

Just staying alive had already taken everything she had.

Before her death, she also discovered why the Emperor had become interested in the princess of Wuxing Kingdom in the first place—it was all because of Feng Qiancheng.

Because the people of Wuxing Kingdom hadn’t touched Feng Jingge before, Feng Qiancheng deliberately praised the Wuxing princess in front of the Emperor, saying she was not only beautiful, but also skilled in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting.

The Emperor became interested and ordered the Wuxing princess brought into the palace.

The Emperor, who had always loved beauties, immediately took a liking to her at first sight.

Whether she agreed or not, he insisted on taking her as a consort.

After seeing all of this, Feng Jingge finally woke up.

The moment she realized she was still inside the giant bug’s mouth, she hurriedly patted Xiao Jinghan.

Xiao Jinghan also woke up, and the two of them crawled out of the giant insect’s mouth together.

“Ugh… ptoo!”

“You’re practically dead already, yet you still wanted to swallow me? You think this lady is something you can digest?”

Shen Nan froze.

His body swayed as he collapsed onto the ground.

Feng Jingge quickly said, “I’m not dead, so stop mourning already!”

“And besides, your enemy isn’t me. It’s Feng Qiancheng of Jing Kingdom!”

Xiao Jinghan paused.

How did his wife start saying such strange things after fainting for a while?

But after another thought, he realized Feng Jingge must have remembered something again.

Feng Jingge told Shen Nan to first take her somewhere to change clothes and bathe.

She felt absolutely disgusting.

Unexpectedly, one of Wuxing Kingdom’s guards suddenly knelt down.

“Y-you… you killed the Gu King?”

Feng Jingge thought they were going to blame her.

So she waved her hand.

“I’m telling you all right now—raising Gu insects is not a way to strengthen a nation!”

“It’s still the same problem. Your geography traps you here and keeps you from leaving.”

“And this thing alone—how many of your own people has it eaten? Do I even need to say it?”

Hands on her waist, Feng Jingge declared,

“This thing can never become a weapon against enemies. If anything, it’ll backfire and devour you instead!”

Shen Nan pressed his lips together.

He carefully studied Feng Jingge’s face.

Because that face truly was Feng Jingge’s face.

Although Feng Jingge believed Shen Nan was also one of the people responsible for the original Feng Jingge’s death, compared to Feng Qiancheng, he was far less guilty.

“We… should find another place and properly talk about the Feng family’s eldest daughter again…”

“No matter what happened with the Feng family’s eldest daughter, since you survived on Witch Gu Mountain… I won’t trouble you anymore.”

Shen Nan lowered his head to look at his hands.

He truly had spent all this time searching for someone to love him.

And during that process, he had unknowingly fallen in love with Feng Jingge.

But asking him to control this person with Feng Jingge’s face all over again—

He couldn’t do it.

“Did I… really frighten Feng Jingge into giving up her will to live?”

“If we divide the responsibility into ten parts, you only account for one.”

“Feng Qiancheng of Jing Kingdom accounts for five.”

“And I myself account for four.”

Xiao Jinghan immediately grabbed Feng Jingge.

“Wife, what nonsense are you saying?”

“It was Wuxing Kingdom that put your soul into Miss Feng’s body. It wasn’t something you chose willingly.”

“That’s not what I mean. I’ve already seen everything Feng Qiancheng did to the Feng family’s eldest daughter.”

“I saw despair inside her…”

Thinking about everything Feng Qiancheng had done—including the Empress Dowager’s secret, and his attempt to control her—

Feng Jingge knew she would have to destroy these schemes one by one.

Even while soaking in the bath, Feng Jingge continued thinking.

Could that jade pendant really have been given by the Empress Dowager’s lover?

That man was very likely Madam Feng’s father.

So Feng Qiancheng wanted to use it to threaten the Empress Dowager.

But what did he want from controlling her?

Previously, the original Miss Feng had told Shen Nan she wanted to overthrow Jing Kingdom.

Could it be because she already knew Feng Qiancheng intended to seize power through the Empress Dowager?

As this possibility crossed her mind, Feng Jingge clenched her fists inside the wooden tub.

Letting out a breath, she muttered softly,

“Since fate placed my soul inside your body, then I will accomplish what you wished for.”

Just… in a different way.

She was going to take revenge on Feng Qiancheng!

And Chen Jinfeng too.

She would avenge Madam Feng!

Avenge the original owner of this body!

After a while, Feng Jingge finished bathing.

She remembered that only a screen separated her from Xiao Jinghan.