Transmigrated into a vicious female supporting role, reborn as a hostage to the paranoid male protag

What's more, Zhang Susu also understood that Chu Xingchen would kill her, Su Yingxue, but not now, but on the day when he led the Da Qi cavalry to break through the gate of Da Sheng, and he would skin her alive in broad daylight to vent his personal hatred.

On this point, we have to say that Chu Xingchen is a man who dares to act and take responsibility. At least his revenge will not be like that of the mastermind this time, who only does it in secret.

"Since you said you saw Chu Xingchen, then you must have seen clearly what color the silk gown Chu Xingchen was wearing when he pushed me into the lake that day. Did you see it clearly?"

Zhang Susu recalled the day when Qiu Shuang reported everything that had happened in detail to her in the bedroom when Chu Xingchen was unconscious. Suddenly, a flash of light flashed through her mind, and she remembered what Qiu Shuang had said to her.

That day, when the maids took His Highness back to the palace for medical treatment, she saw with her own eyes that His Highness was holding a piece of cloth tightly in his hand.

Because the situation was urgent and Su Yingxue was not in good condition, Qiu Shuang did not report the matter to the Internal Affairs Supervisor. Instead, she secretly took the opportunity to hide the piece of cloth, intending to hand it over to Her Royal Highness the Princess after she woke up and then make plans.

Qiu Shuang, like Chun Feng, Xia He and Dong Xue, has always been a loyal servant and confidant of the late imperial concubine's mother's family. Therefore, although Her Royal Highness the Princess is arrogant and domineering in the eyes of others, she is very good to them. At the same time, the four of them are absolutely loyal to Her Royal Highness the Princess.

Qiu Shuang has always been cautious and did not hand over this thing because she was afraid that there were powerful people in the palace who wanted to harm Her Royal Highness the Princess. She was afraid that there were also such people in the Internal Affairs Bureau, and she was afraid that someone would see through her plan and alert the enemy.

However, because of this, when Qiu Shuang handed the cloth to Su Yingxue, she had already sent people to the palace of the Internal Supervisor and Chu Xingchen, searched his entire palace, and took back all of the Internal Supervisor's belongings and clothes.

The material that the person who pushed her, Su Yingxue, into the lake was wearing was the finest silk. When she carefully looked through and compared the cloth sent by her trusted guard, she realized that the fabric of the clothes Chu Xingchen had worn over the years was not silk.

Even the material of the clothes of ordinary maids and palace slaves was softer than Chu Xingchen's coarse linen clothes, which were old and full of patches.

This kid is a hostage prince, yet the servants dare to treat him so harshly, giving him the lowest grade coarse linen fabric, which is not even as luxurious as the clothes worn by palace maids.

What's worse, she ordered people to search the entire palace, but there was not a single piece of clothing made of fine silk, not even a thick cotton coat or a thick quilt.

Later, Zhang Susu herself didn't believe it, so she went to see the side hall of the cold palace where Chu Xingchen lived in person. Only then did she find out that the place where he lived was actually called a side hall and a small courtyard, which sounded better.

The courtyard was overgrown with weeds, the hall was covered in cobwebs. The window coverings were old and tattered, and the tiles above had fallen into disrepair, allowing a trickle of rainwater to seep through the holes.

It was drizzling inside the house. When Qiu Shuang walked into the inner hall with her, wearing an umbrella and lighting a lantern, a disgusting musty smell filled the entire cold palace. She was so disgusted that she covered her nose with a handkerchief. This was not the treatment a prince should have.

Zhang Susu had never expected that Chu Xingchen was living such a miserable life as a hostage in the Dasheng Palace.

She saw his room with broken walls, the quilt soaked by the leaking rain, the tattered clothes, and there was nothing worth seeing in the house.

Zhang Susu asked Qiu Shuang to call the manager with red eyes. There was not even a stool in this cold palace except Chu Xingchen's wet bed.

When the supervisor of the cold palace saw her, he kowtowed and knelt flatteringly and greeted her with a smile.

Zhang Susu suppressed her inner anger, forced a smile, and softly asked the supervisor about Chu Xingchen's daily life.

She listened to the supervisor flattering her about how she and other palace servants had treated Chu Xingchen harshly, and how he lived in the cold palace with little food and clothing, and even had to eat rotten rice.

During the day he had to clean the chamber pots sent by the masters of the various palaces in Dasheng Palace, and at night he had to clean and do chores for the eunuchs. Sometimes he would even be beaten and scolded if he did not do his job well.

Because the original host, Su Yingxue, would find various excuses to whip and punish Chu Xingchen every once in a while after being rejected, so the servants in the cold palace also followed suit.

Therefore, Zhang Susu looked at the servant's mean face and was filled with resentment. She was angry at Su Yingxue for taking human life and abusing and beating Chu Xingchen at will. She also hated these servants who flattered the powerful and bullied the weak.

But she hated herself even more, because at this moment, she, Zhang Susu, was Su Yingxue.

She was using Su Yingxue's body. At this moment, Zhang Susu's hands were stained with Chu Xingchen's blood and the blood of those who were whipped by Su Yingxue.

After Zhang Susu understood the situation and obtained solid evidence that could prove Chu Xingchen's innocence, she did not alert the enemy. In order to paralyze others, she handed a silver ingot to the palace servant to calm him down.

Su Yingxue also assigned a dozen guards to surround the entire cold palace, making it watertight.

Now that she knows the suffering Chu Xingchen has endured because of Su Yingxue, and since she, Zhang Susu, has become Su Yingxue, she must find a way to atone for Su Yingxue's cruelty to Chu Xingchen.

So, Zhang Susu arranged a good show today to lure someone into a trap.

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When the yellow-robed palace maid heard this, beads of sweat rolled down her temples. She seemed a little scared. At that time, she only saw the eldest princess falling into the lake and calling for help from a distance, and saw a black figure jumping into the lake to save her.

Later, she heard that the guards had captured Chu Xingchen, and she was terrified that she would be treated as a suspect and taken to the Internal Affairs Bureau for interrogation because she was cleaning the imperial garden at that time.

What kind of place is the Nei Si Jian? Even a good palace maid would be skinned alive if she entered there.

With her delicate skin and tender flesh, how could she come out safe and sound after going in?

In two years she will be sent out of the palace, and nothing can happen to her at this critical juncture.

Then, she remembered the rumors that the palace maids in various palaces usually gossiped about. It was rumored that Her Royal Highness the Princess particularly hated and despised this man named Chu Xingchen, and it happened that he was the first one to be arrested that day.

Even the young eunuch who interrogated her under the command of Eunuch Shen of the Imperial Household Department said that as long as she went along with the situation and pushed the disaster directly onto the hostage, the Imperial Household Department would be able to report to their superiors, and she would not only be blameless but also receive a reward.

So, she was also bewildered for a while. After all, who would have thought that the eldest princess hated Chu Xingchen so much before, but now she protects that man like the apple of her eye and would speak up for him to overturn the verdict?

Forget about rewarding me now! It’s good enough that Her Royal Highness the Princess doesn’t whip me and give me a good beating!

She looked up and saw Her Royal Highness the Princess slowly walking towards her and asking her a seemingly unimportant question.

But for some reason, she felt a glimpse of a chilling coldness as Her Royal Highness's casual eyes swept across her, making her feel guilty and nervous. She subconsciously knelt lower, even more frightened.