Marry my elder sister? Fine! I'll give you the letter of annulment and marry someone else.

After several days of torture in prison, Sun seemed to have aged by ten years.

Her hair was messy like a hen, with a few straws stuck in it.

The prison uniform was also dirty, with a few faint bloodstains on it.

As arrogant as she was before, she is now in such a mess.

Song Zhi stood in the crowd and looked at her coldly.

Not long ago, Sun made a scene in the government office, demanding that she pay for Song Yale's life. Not long after, the positions were reversed, and Sun became the one being judged.

Song Zhi felt no emotion at all. On the contrary, Sun Shi laughed crazily after seeing Xie Yinyin with her face covered in gauze. "Bitch, I told you to seduce other people's husbands with your vixen face. Now that you're disfigured, I want to see who still wants you."

Xie Yinyin didn't say much to Sun, but turned to the county magistrate, "Sir, Sun has injured a woman. There is both witnesses and evidence. He is guilty. How should he be punished according to the law?"

The county magistrate said righteously, "You intentionally injured someone. According to the law, you must compensate for all losses and be sent to do hard labor for a year. If the offense is serious, you will be exiled to a cold and harsh place."

Xie Yinyin bowed respectfully, "I have a request. I do not want compensation, nor do I want her to be exiled. I only ask that her viciousness be returned to her intact."

The county magistrate was stunned for a moment, "You mean..."

He looked meaningfully at Song Zhi in the crowd, and Song Zhi nodded secretly.

Sun realized the meaning of Xie Yinyin's words and her face suddenly changed. "No, my son is the eldest son of the Minister of Rites. How dare you treat me like this?"

Xie Yinyin sneered, "No one owes you anything. It was you who broke up Brother Yang and me, yet you still cry thief and hurt me time and again. I'm just giving you a taste of your own medicine."

Sun was very excited. "How can a barren woman like you be worthy of him? Do you want him to have no descendants?"

When this was mentioned, Xie Yinyin's momentum suddenly dropped by three points.

Her physical defect was an indescribable pain to her. If it weren't for this, she wouldn't have let go so easily.

Sun shrieked, "I've been by his side for so many years, I've given birth to his children. Why on earth can't he forget you? In order to bring you back to the capital, he actually arranged for me to live out my life somewhere else alone to make room for you. You were the ones who were so unkind and unjust first. You've let me down!"

"Has my father been bad to you all these years?"

Song Zhi finally couldn't help but stood up.

"Those ten years of comfortable life you've led, could it be that they were given to you by your impoverished Sun family? Just ask yourself, what other lady in the capital is respected by her husband like you are? It's true he doesn't love you, but it's also true he treats you with deep loyalty. It's you who have brought yourself to this state step by step. Furthermore, it's precisely because you gave birth to us that even though you were so disgusting, Dad didn't abandon you. He wanted to find you a good place to live so you could live the rest of your life without worries. How could you distort right and wrong like this?"

Song Zhi's eyes were filled with disgust. "In this life, you are the only one who has let us down, not us."

Sun was stunned by what she said, and a brief flash of regret appeared in her eyes.

But this regret was too heavy for her current situation, making her completely unable to accept it. So she could only shout, "No, you...you are ganging up on me, Song Zhi. I am your mother after all. If you help her instead of me, won't you be struck by lightning?"

It seemed that the louder she shouted, the more confident she became.

Xie Yinyin also reacted at this moment. She ignored Sun and kowtowed heavily, "I beg the Lord to make the decision for me."

The county magistrate felt no pressure to handle the matter after receiving Song Zhi's signal. He had long since disliked the ruthless Sun family, so he waved his hand and said, "Your request is not excessive. I have the authority to deal with it. I will do as you say."

"Thank you, sir." Xie Yinyin said gratefully.

Sun became frantic and tried to break free from the yamen runners' grip, but was pinned to the ground.

"I don't want to be disfigured. I don't want to become a ghost, neither human nor ghost. Let me go."

The bailiff quickly brought boiling hot water. Xie Yinyin took it and slowly walked towards Sun.

"Don't come over here, don't come over here."

Sun's face was distorted with fear and she tried to struggle desperately.

"Snapped!"

Xie Yinyin didn't hesitate and poured a basin of boiling hot water over her.

The yamen runner who was guarding Sun had already moved away at Xie Yinyin's signal, so the entire basin of hot water was poured on Sun alone, but most of it was splashed on her face.

Heart-wrenching screams echoed throughout the county government office, and Sun fell to the ground and rolled around in agony.

She wanted to touch her face with her hands, but she was afraid to do so because of the stinging pain, so she had to cover her face with her hands and trembled all over.

"My face, my face!"

Sun's voice was desperate and painful, "Find a doctor, find a doctor for me quickly, ah ah ah ah."

Xie Yinyin threw the basin aside and said, "Do you feel the pain when the knife pierces your body?"

Sun knew that no one here would sympathize with her, so she placed her last hope on Song Zhi. "Zhi'er, I know you blame me, but you've already hit me and you've vented your anger. I don't care about your rebellious behavior. Please take me to see a doctor."

Song Zhi stepped forward with a look of pity on his face. "Mrs. Sun, how could you be so ignorant? The doctors in the clinic are busy treating Dad and Aunt Xie, so how could they have the energy to treat you?"

Sun couldn't believe what she heard. She endured the pain and said, "If this continues, my face will be ruined."

Her face was now red, swollen and peeling from the burns, revealing the scarlet flesh underneath, which looked very scary.

Song Zhi disagreed, "There are only so many medicines for treating burns in this small town. As the perpetrator, you should let Aunt Xie heal her first."

Sun was so angry that she almost couldn't breathe. "Why should I let her?"

Song Zhi calmly shook his head, "You really don't have the slightest tolerance for others."

Sun, who was twisting and crawling on the ground, was stunned.

Ignorant, give in to her, no tolerance...

These words were so familiar that Sun realized without much effort that these were all the words she had said to her.

"I wasn't... but at that time..."

Sun's speech was incoherent and he couldn't utter a word in defense.

Xie Yinyin had her revenge and didn't want to stay any longer, so she asked to leave to continue taking care of Song Yang.

Seeing that the matter had been resolved, the county magistrate waved his hand and asked everyone to disperse.

Song Zhi followed him out, and someone suddenly grabbed the corner of her skirt.

"Don't leave me,"

Sun now looks ugly and disgusting, like a ghost.

"Mom was wrong, Mom was really wrong."

Song Zhi pulled her skirt back up and said, "Whether it's right or wrong, it doesn't matter to me."

She left resolutely, walking into the bustling crowd, quickly blocking out the pleading voices behind her.

Sun was thrown out of the yamen and struggled to crawl to a corner of the wall, crying silently.

Children passing by would throw stones at her and make faces at her, and adults who knew what she had done would also throw rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs at her when they passed by.

Sun was unable to resist and curled up in the corner of the street looking extremely pitiful.