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

"What's wrong?" Su Yingxue saw this and suppressed her anger, forcing a smile. She gently helped the yellow-robed palace maid in front of her to stand up. She said softly to Qiu Shuang, "Qiu Shuang, why don't you give me a seat?"

"You have to think about it carefully," Su Yingxue said casually, but she slammed her whip heavily on the desk.

The voice was extremely harsh and abrupt in the silent hall. "This palace has always been clear about rewards and punishments. If anyone dares to deceive, I will whip them without mercy!"

"If someone is honest and loyal to me, the reward will naturally be high, right? Qiu Shuang." Su Yingxue closed her eyes and gestured to Qiu Shuang to massage the acupoints on her head.

Qiu Shuang, after all, was an elder by her side, and she immediately understood Su Yingxue's intention and offered her a massage. The eldest princess probably wanted to impress Eunuch Shen and the palace maid that she was still her flamboyant and brainless self, lowering their guard.

But it must be said, Qiu Shuang thought, since Her Royal Highness the Princess woke up this time, she seemed like a different person. She couldn't say why exactly, but how could the Princess in the past be as smart and strategic as she is now?

Just now, Her Royal Highness the Princess finished her questioning and went to Prince Chu's cold palace. Although Her Royal Highness the Princess did not express her plan, Qiu Shuang could feel that she had already made a calm and calculated plan. If it goes as expected, there will be a good show next...

The hall was completely silent, a dead silence so deep that one could hear a pin drop. Even though the yellow-robed maid had already sat down on a stool, she couldn't change her inner panic.

She tried hard to recall the memories of that day, and suddenly remembered that when Chu Xingchen was captured that day, she looked at him from a distance and saw that Chu Xingchen was wearing a black robe.

As if grasping at a lifeline, the maid rose and knelt, her voice trembling as she said, "Your Highness, Your Highness, I remember now!"

"It's black! That day, Prince Chu was wearing a black robe!" The palace maid replied with a trembling kowtow as if relieved.

"Oh?" Su Yingxue smiled and waved her hand to stop Qiu Shuang's movements. She opened her eyes and asked gently, "Have you thought about it carefully? Are you sure it's correct?"

"You must know that I hate being deceived the most!" Su Yingxue said softly, her voice gentle, "If you deceive me in the slightest, don't blame me for being ruthless and punishing you severely..."

"No! Your Highness, no! Everything I say is true!" The woman in yellow kowtowed and spoke louder, as if she had gained confidence.

"That day, in the Imperial Garden, many guards saw Prince Chu wearing a black robe. If Your Highness the Princess doesn't believe me, you can ask someone else!"

"So, you saw with your own eyes that Chu Xingchen, wearing a black robe, pushed me into the lake?" Su Yingxue looked up at her and said with a faint smile.

"Yes, Your Highness the Princess. Every word is true." The maid confirmed again.

Su Yingxue, having received the answer she had expected, suddenly laughed. Her face was grim, her tone was cold, and she slammed the teacup on the table beside her to the ground. She said coldly, "What a sinful servant who deceives her master and the world! Even kneeling before me, she still has to make such a sophistry! Not a single word of truth!"

Su Yingxue pointed at the guards kneeling on the ground, beating and executing the executioner, and ordered them coldly, "Come here, fetch my whip and tie up this slave girl. The rest of you, whip her mercilessly. If this slave girl doesn't tell the truth today, I will beat her until her skin is torn and her flesh is bruised!"

Upon hearing this, the kneeling guards swiftly took the whips and benches handed to them by the palace servants. After a few lashes, the entire palace of the eldest princess was filled with the wails of the yellow-robed maid. Her back was covered in bloody whip marks, and her face was covered in tears. She cried out in pain, "Your Highness, Your Highness, this servant has been wronged!"

The guard whipped her more than ten times, and the maid fainted from the pain. Seeing this, the guard stopped whipping her, as if he was afraid that the maid would be killed by the heavy whipping.

"Your Highness the Princess, someone has fainted." Several guards knelt down to report.

"She fainted! Bring some water and wake her up." Su Yingxue felt a surge of indignation when she thought of the woman's nonsense, which had left Chu Xingchen covered in wounds. Chu Xingchen had been whipped for a whole day and night, his upper body covered in welts, with hardly a single piece of healthy flesh left. As she applied medicine to him, her eyes welled up.

Chu Xingchen's body was not what a young man should have. His body was covered with old wounds mixed with countless new wounds. She was shocked and felt pity when she saw him.

When Zhang Susu read the novel before, she only thought that the hero's personality was weird, yandere, and twisted, and his strong desire for control was frightening. After he took over the Great Sheng Kingdom, although he made the heroine the queen and changed the name of the country to Qi Sheng, he did hurt the heroine's relatives a little, so the heroine hated him.

At the ceremony of coronation, Chu Xingchen tied up the heroine and performed state ceremony with him. Afterwards, he kept the heroine under house arrest in Fengxiang Palace until she gave birth to a little prince. Only then did the relationship between the two men ease because of the child.

Now that Zhang Susu knew about Chu Xingchen's tragic past, she realized that it might be the shadow of his childhood that made Chu Xingchen have such a sickly and twisted personality.

If Su Yingxue repented now, she would take Chu Xingchen to her side while he was still a minor, treat him well as an elder sister, educate him well and protect him, and not let outsiders hurt him in the slightest.

It may be feasible to ask a gentleman with profound knowledge and good moral character to teach him how to read and write, let him learn literature and cultivate his mind, and educate him to be a humble gentleman.

If jade is not polished, it will not become a useful object; if a person does not learn, he will not know the meaning of morality. Su Yingxue thought so. After all, he is still young and can still be trained.

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The bucket of cold water suddenly woke the yellow-robed maid. She felt a burning pain in her back, her voice hoarse and weak, and she felt utterly exhausted from the pain.

"Your Highness, what this slave said is true. Please, please, Your Highness, have mercy on me... let this slave go... please let this slave go..."

When Su Yingxue heard this, anger burned in her eyes. The palace maid was stubborn and refused to give in at this moment.

She suddenly sneered, walked over to the maid, and said softly, "But the cloth that the Japanese maid tore off, the one who pushed me, was clearly this light blue. You, a daring criminal slave, deceived me, lied to the Internal Supervisor, and slandered my savior, causing Prince Chu to be severely injured by the Internal Supervisor and now remain unconscious and in danger!"

"You single-handedly messed up the situation on that day! You slandered Prince Chu with evil words, so that the Internal Supervisor was deceived by you and seriously injured Prince Chu! If Prince Chu's life is in danger, you are trying to destroy the friendly alliance between Qi and Sheng!" Su Yingxue shouted angrily. Everyone knelt down in silence, and no one dared to stand up.