TFWYH – Chapter 707 Cruelty to Siblings

With a thud, Huangfu Rong’an dropped to her knees in terror.

Hearing the commotion from outside, Prime Minister Gu and Ling Yu also entered the room.

One look at the porridge splattered across the floor and the dead mouse lying by the wall was enough for them to understand what had happened.

Prime Minister Gu’s face turned green.

He had guarded against every possible danger, even lowering himself and shamelessly coming to the Second Prince’s residence in person.

All because he feared Gu Yanshuang would do something foolish.

But he had never expected that Gu Yanshuang wouldn’t be the one to act recklessly.

The fool had been Huangfu Rong’an.

Ling Yu cast a half-smiling glance at Prime Minister Gu, his eyes filled with bone-chilling coldness.

Prime Minister Gu nearly fainted from anger.

Striding forward, he slapped Huangfu Rong’an hard across the face and demanded furiously,

“Rong’an, why? Why would you poison Ronglan? Why?”

“Why? And you’re asking me why?”

Now that things had reached this point, Huangfu Rong’an knew there was no escape. She dropped all pretense.

Her vicious gaze swept across everyone in the room before finally settling on Huangfu Ronglan.

The jealousy and hatred in her eyes were no longer concealed.

“She’s already been an idiot for so many years! Why couldn’t she stay that way? Why did she have to be cured?”

“Since ancient times, the eldest legitimate child inherits. If she stops being a fool, won’t she take away my title as Princess?”

“How could I possibly allow that to happen?”

Prime Minister Gu stood frozen.

It was as though he were seeing this granddaughter for the very first time.

Huangfu Yi also found it incomprehensible.

Half enraged and half incredulous, he asked,

“Just because of that, you wanted to poison your own elder sister—your flesh and blood?”

“Not only have I never intended to strip you of your title and give it to Ronglan, but even if I had, how could you commit something so utterly heartless over the mere title of Princess?”

“Why can’t I?”

Huangfu Rong’an shouted.

“I’ve been a Princess since childhood. Why should I give it to her?”

“Father, because of this fool, how much humiliation have I suffered growing up? Whenever I went out, people laughed at me!”

“And now she’s going to take away my title as Princess? How could I ever let her off?”

“I hate her!”

“One daughter should have been enough. Why did you and Mother have to give birth to another?”

Her accusations came one after another.

Twisted by obsession and fury, even her face had begun to distort.

Huangfu Yi could no longer endure it.

Stepping forward, he slapped her across the face.

Pointing at her, he roared,

“You wretched creature! Attempting to murder your own sister—you’re worse than an animal!”

Clutching her cheek, Huangfu Rong’an sneered.

“I’m worse than an animal?”

“Aren’t you exactly the same, Father?”

“Uncle and Third Uncle have been fighting you endlessly over the throne. Haven’t you ever thought about killing them?”

“Nonsense!”

Huangfu Yi was both shocked and enraged.

Under Huangfu Xiao’s half-smiling gaze and Huangfu Que’s disbelieving stare, he felt deeply wronged.

Yes.

He disliked the eldest prince and the third prince.

But he had never once thought about killing them.

Even though the eldest prince had repeatedly sent assassins after him, even though he hated him to the core, he had never considered retaliating in kind.

Did people think his reputation for benevolence and righteousness was undeserved?

He simply wasn’t capable of doing something so monstrous.

“You think I’m like you?”

“Fratricide and the slaughter of one’s own kin are unforgivable sins that condemn a person to hell!”

“I dare swear before Heaven that I have never harbored the intention to kill either of them.”

“If I lie, then after my death, may I descend into the eighteen levels of hell and never find redemption!”

Everyone was stunned.

Among the people of this era, oaths were taken extremely seriously.

No one had expected Huangfu Yi to swear such a vow.

Even Huangfu Xiao looked astonished.

It seemed he had never imagined that despite everything he had done to Huangfu Yi, Huangfu Yi had never wished him dead.

As for Huangfu Rong’an…

She appeared completely dumbfounded.

It had never occurred to her that her father had never intended to kill the two princes.

“Excellent!”

At that moment, a voice praising loudly came from outside the room.

“It was well said!”