TFWYH – Chapter 548 Mother and Son’s Sophistry

So… so vicious… to do such a thing to a girl who hadn’t even come of age yet.

Is this really his son?

Huangfu Yi stared at Huangfu Rongsheng in disbelief.

Yet Huangfu Rongsheng showed not a trace of remorse. The moment he saw his father, he immediately shouted arrogantly:

“Father, hurry and kill them! They’re bullying Mother and trying to arrest me—they—”

“Beast, shut up!” Unable to bear it any longer, Huangfu Yi slapped him hard across the face.

Huangfu Rongsheng was stunned by the blow and looked at him in disbelief. “Father, why are you hitting your son?”

Huangfu Yi pointed at the corpse with a trembling hand, grinding his teeth. “Say it—did you do this?”

Huangfu Rongsheng curled his lips and muttered, “She was the one who wouldn’t behave. If she had just pleased me properly, I wouldn’t have accidentally strangled her to death.”

“You unfilial wretch! You unfilial wretch!” Huangfu Yi exploded in rage, rushing forward and kicking him to the ground, then stomping on him again and again.

Huangfu Rongsheng immediately screamed as if his parents had died, crying and begging Huangfu Yi to stop.

At this moment, Gu Yanshuang rushed over and shoved the Second Prince aside. “Why are you hitting our son?!”

Huangfu Yi was nearly driven mad with anger, instantly turning into a roaring fury. “He harmed and killed an innocent young girl—am I not allowed to beat him?!”

“Innocent girl?” Gu Yanshuang snapped disdainfully. “She was just some shameless woman trying to climb into nobility. She seduced Sheng’er first. When he refused to marry her as his main wife, they argued. Besides, she wasn’t killed by Sheng’er—it was his servant who killed her.”

As she spoke, Gu Yanshuang shot the servant a warning look.

The servant immediately dropped to his knees with a thud. “Y-yes… I was the one who killed her. It has nothing to do with the young lord!”

He was a family-born servant—his entire family’s lives were in Gu Yanshuang’s hands. He didn’t dare refuse.

Huangfu Yi was so angry he laughed. Pointing at Huangfu Rongsheng, he said, “He just admitted himself that he strangled her to death!”

“That’s because Sheng’er is close to this servant and wanted to take the blame for him!” Gu Yanshuang said, while continuously signaling to Huangfu Rongsheng.

Huangfu Rongsheng quickly caught on. Crying, he said, “Yes, Father! I thought—I’m a noble heir, even if I confessed, I wouldn’t be punished. But he’s just a servant—if he confessed, he’d definitely die!”

“You two really…” Huangfu Yi was too exhausted to even be angry anymore. “Do you take me for a fool, or the whole world for fools?”

He waved his hand tiredly at Ji Wushuang. “Take him away. I’ll go to the palace with you.”

“Yes!” Ji Wushuang, all business, had Huangfu Rongsheng dragged away.

Gu Yanshuang kept trying to stop them, crying and shouting, but as a woman, how could she struggle against these men?

Huangfu Rongsheng was still taken away.

Huangfu Yi didn’t spare him another glance. He mounted his horse and left for the palace with Ji Wushuang and the others.

Panicking, Gu Yanshuang quickly told the maid beside her, “Quick! Go to the Prime Minister’s residence and inform my father—tell him to enter the palace immediately!”

“Yes!” The maid nodded and hurried off toward the Prime Minister’s residence.

…

By the time Ji Wushuang and Huangfu Yi arrived with Huangfu Rongsheng and the girl’s corpse, the first session of the metropolitan exam had already ended.

The next session would take place in three days.

Wan Zhenxiang knew the Emperor did not want this family scandal to spread, so he had already arranged for people to wait at the palace gates—

ready to report the matter to the Emperor the moment they arrived.