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

"A sinner like you can be forgiven with just a dozen lashes?" Su Yingxue took out the torn piece of cloth that she had held in her fist that day and threw it in front of Eunuch Shen, the internal supervisor, the sinner and the guards.

"Take a look at this. Is this fabric something Prince Chu can afford to wear?"

"Qiushuang, bring out Prince Chu's clothes for me and show them to Eunuch Shen, the Internal Affairs Supervisor. Also, show them to this guilty maid. I want her to bow her head and confess her guilt!"

Su Yingxue said coldly as she returned to the main seat. Qiu Shuang clapped her hands, and palace servants filed out, carrying a wooden tray on which were placed several worn-out pieces of clothing.

The palace maids placed the wooden pallets on the ground, and one of them was the black gown that Chu Xingchen wore that day.

Indeed, anyone with a discerning eye could tell at a glance that the piece of cloth was not the same as the fabric of Chu Xingchen's clothes, both in terms of material and color.

After the people present saw the piece of cloth, those involved in the case were so scared that they knelt down and kowtowed and begged for mercy.

Especially Eunuch Shen, who originally thought that helping Su Yingxue punish Chu Xingchen would gain favor with the eldest princess. However, the eldest princess now seemed like a different person, as if she had suddenly turned from a dandy fool into an extremely intelligent person.

Eunuch Shen recalled how she had just set up traps one by one to lure the maid into her scheme, and now she was convicting the maid of the crime by accusing her of "severely injuring the prince of Qi, who was held hostage, and destroying the friendly alliance between the two countries". With such meticulous thinking and clear logic, was she still the domineering eldest princess they knew?

Shen Ruhai felt a chill in his heart.

Eunuch Shen knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and confessed his guilt in a mournful voice, "I am guilty. I failed to supervise the internal affairs supervisor properly and did not realize that the maid was disobedient. I was deceived by her false confession and tortured Prince Chu. I am guilty and ashamed of your majesty's wisdom and the Princess's safety!"

Seeing this, the maid knew that the truth could no longer be hidden. She ignored the pain in her body and knelt on the ground, begging for mercy. As she knelt, she cried out in a mournful voice, "Your Highness, please spare my life! I have been possessed by a ghost! Your Highness, please spare my life!"

Seeing that Su Yingxue was unmoved, the maid pointed at Eunuch Shen and shouted at the top of her lungs, "Eunuch Shen, you can't burn your bridges! Didn't you send a little eunuch to tell me and put all this on Prince Chu?"

"The eunuch should have explained this to His Majesty and the Princess! You also asked that young eunuch to tell me that as long as I said so, you would protect me until I was safely sent out! Now what? The truth has been revealed! You're putting all the blame on me!"

"Your Highness, Princess, please forgive me. I was just bewitched and deceived for a moment, so I wrongly accused Prince Chu!" The palace maid climbed up and kowtowed, leaving a red mark on her head, and blood was even coming out from the middle!

Upon hearing this, Eunuch Shen's face turned pale and he kicked the maid away, sending her into a bloody mess and causing her to faint. Shen Ruhai, his face filled with rage, shouted at the fallen maid, "You daring criminal! You're still talking nonsense and accusing us of this when you're about to die!"

"Please, Princess, trust our sincere heart towards Your Majesty! Please understand!" Eunuch Shen now understood. He knelt before Su Yingxue and kowtowed. Seeing this, the guards also knelt and kowtowed.

The entire Princess's Hall was silent, with only the clatter of kowtows ringing out. At this moment, a cry of "Your Majesty has arrived!" interrupted Eunuch Shen and the others from kowtow.

"Yingxue, when did you get so angry?" Su Qinhuai received a message from Su Yingxue when he was reviewing memorials in the imperial study. He cared about this imperial sister very much, so he put down the memorials and hurried over.

He originally thought that Su Yingxue had caused some trouble. After he listened for a while outside the hall, he had roughly guessed what was going on.

"Brother Emperor, I dare to ask you to make the decision between me and Prince Chu!" When Su Yingxue saw Su Qinhuai, the king of Dasheng, coming, she immediately changed her appearance to one that was frail, pitiful, and pitiful.

After reading the entire original novel, Zhang Susu knew that this brother was the person in the entire Dasheng Dynasty who loved and cared about the eldest princess Su Yingxue the most, and was also her only relative in this life.

For some reason, looking at their kneeling faces arguing and sophistry, Zhang Susu suddenly thought of Su Yingxue in the original book.

In fact, Su Yingxue in the original novel is also a pitiful person. Her parents died young, and only her brother treated her sincerely. Su Qinhuai was busy with government affairs and had no time to care for her when she was young, so he left her to be raised by his first wife, the Empress.

The queen was jealous of the eldest princess's status and the emperor Su Qinhuai's favor for Su Yingxue, so she committed suicide to spoil her, causing Su Yingxue to be spoiled and arrogant throughout her life and make countless enemies.

No matter whether they were people in the palace or censors in the court, they all hated the eldest princess when she was mentioned.

In the original book, Su Yingxue, after Su Qinhuai died of illness a year before Chu Xingchen destroyed the country, the entire inner palace of the Dasheng Dynasty was controlled by the queen. In accordance with public opinion, the queen placed Su Yingxue under house arrest in the cold palace and ignored her.

All the palace maids and concubines who had been whipped and punished by her made things difficult for her, humiliated her and bullied her.

It was not until Chu Xingchen peeled Su Yingxue's skin and made her into a daylily that her absurd, pitiful and lonely life came to an end.

This is Su Yingxue in the original novel, and this is also the plot where she needs to change her fate. In the Dasheng Palace, the only person who treats her well is Su Qinhuai.

Therefore, she invited Su Qinhuai this time, not only because Su Qinhuai was her backer, but also because she did not trust Eunuch Shen.

Eunuch Shen closed the case so hastily, which might not be due to his claim of lax supervision. Just now, Su Yingxue saw Eunuch Shen and the palace maid fighting each other, and she felt that Eunuch Shen was not as simple as he seemed.

The Dasheng Dynasty is a complicated place. Now Zhang Susu wants to use Eunuch Shen and this palace maid as a breakthrough point to dig out the mastermind behind the scenes who wants to harm Su Yingxue. She needs to find a trustworthy person, an upright person, and a person with more power than the person behind the scenes, so that her fall into the lake will not be in vain.

Su Qinhuai had always been willing to grant his youngest sister's requests, but now he felt that she had been wronged and felt even more distressed. He heard from the imperial physician that if she had not been sent to the hospital in time, she would have died by now and would be separated from him.

Therefore, the person who fits the bill, Su Yingxue, and is also in a high position of power, is Su Qinhuai. With Su Qinhuai's involvement in the investigation, Su Yingxue has essentially won half the battle.

Taking advantage of Su Qinhuai's love for Su Yingxue as his sister, he could ask for some favors from him on behalf of Chu Xingchen. This could also be regarded as using Su Qinhuai's authority to give Chu Xingchen a talisman of protection. At least in this way, those who want to bully Chu Xingchen again would have to think twice before taking action!