Marrying a concubine and swallowing her dowry? The mistress turns around and marries a high-ranking

Chapter 396

Wan Minsi was distraught and wandered aimlessly for an unknown amount of time before finally arriving at a dark alleyway.

A dark figure appeared in front of her, blocking her way.

Wan Minsi didn't even glance at it, and walked straight past numbly.

"Go away."

She had been high and mighty her whole life, and even now, she still had that habitually condescending tone.

But the other party did not move.

Wan Minsi grew impatient: "Didn't you hear me tell you to get out of here?"

Instead of moving aside, the other person approached her, raising his hand to reveal a gleaming, sharp knife.

Wan Minsi was startled and instinctively took a step back. When she turned around, she found two figures standing behind her, one on the left and one on the right, blocking her way.

More people emerged from the darkness and surrounded her.

One of them stepped forward, and a beam of light from a street lantern fell upon her, illuminating her unmasked, disfigured face, covered in burn scars, making her look like a terrifying monster.

Ding Yunniang gave a sharp laugh.

"Princess Pingkang, do you still remember my face?"

Wan Min remembered that Ding Yunniang was one of the many women whose faces she had disfigured. At the time, she had someone forcibly hold Ding Yunniang down and shove her face into a burning charcoal brazier.

Ding Yunniang was also carrying a stove, the embers inside flickering brightly.

"We've finally waited for this day..."

Ding Yunniang's tone carried a faint sigh, but the implied meaning within it sent chills down one's spine.

"Good and evil will ultimately be rewarded; the cycle of karma is inescapable. Finally, our time for revenge has come..."

The clouds that had been obscuring the moon slowly moved away, and the hazy moonlight illuminated the outlines of everyone.

At the very front were the few women who had survived Wan Minsi's disfigurement. Most of the group consisted of the victims' families.

Like ghosts seeking death, they eerily and silently surrounded Wan Minsi in the darkness.

Previously, although Wan Minsi's case had been exposed, the emperor had suppressed all the cases and given the victims and their families a large amount of compensation in order to settle the matter peacefully.

Some victims' families accepted the compensation and let it go. But many more, especially the victims themselves, remain filled with hatred.

No amount of compensation can make up for their ruined lives or bring their murdered loved ones back to life.

They dared not cause any more trouble, otherwise they would be going against the emperor and would only face death.

They could only suppress their hatred temporarily.

It wasn't until they learned that Wan Minsi had been stripped of her title as Grand Princess, expelled from the royal family, and demoted to a commoner like them.

Heaven has eyes; their time for revenge has finally come.

For the past two weeks, Wan Minsi has been staying at the Song family's house, so they haven't had much of a chance yet.

But today, Wan Minsi was divorced by Song Yong and kicked out of the Song family.

Not only was he a commoner, but he also became a homeless, destitute, and vagrant commoner.

Even if such an abandoned person died in some remote corner of Kyoto, no one would care, and the government wouldn't bother with it, right?