Reborn as the Crippled King's Beloved-Chapter 201 - Righteousness Destroys Relatives and

Chapter 201: Chapter 201: Righteousness Destroys Relatives and Does It Well

Chapter 201 -201: Righteousness Destroys Relatives and Does It Well

“You, a prostitute, dare to come out and disgrace yourself in public, and even dare to browse a Jewelry Building with us—where do you get the nerve?”

“If I were you, I’d cover my face with a cloth every day, too ashamed to step outside!”

“Exactly! You don’t even consider your own status, brazenly showing up like this—it serves you right to be beaten!”

“Someone like you could be beaten to death by their Main Wife and no one would gossip!”

The crowd of women chattered incessantly.

It turned out that inside the shop, Wang Baozhu had already endured a loud slap, delivered by none other than a beautifully dressed, opulent woman adorned in gold and silver.

“That’s Young Madam Chen.”

Fu Han thought Ah Jiu might not know and introduced her, so she could understand the spectacle before her.

Murong Jiu instantly realized—the person who had bought Wang Baozhu from Niu Tianbao was Young Master Chen, thus this Young Madam Chen must be Young Master Chen’s principal wife.

She watched with great interest.

Indeed, Wang Baozhu was audacious, her reputation well-known throughout the Capital City, yet she still dared to go out to buy jewelry—truly, her thick skin was astonishing.

Did she desire jewelry so much that it outweighed shame?

In her past life, Wang Baozhu had been instrumental in the downfall of the General’s Mansion; seeing her being so universally scorned, Murong Jiu felt a surge of satisfaction within her heart.

The sorrow she felt from parting with her father and brothers also vanished.

However, she had still underestimated Wang Baozhu’s audacity.

To everyone’s astonishment, Wang Baozhu loudly exclaimed, “My husband sent me here; this shop belongs to the Chen Family. My husband told me to take whatever I like, who are you to stop me? If you have the guts, go find my husband!”

Murong Jiu was shocked.

She remembered that Chun Tao had said that Wang Baozhu didn’t even qualify as a concubine, having never gone through the concubine induction ceremony; naturally, she couldn’t be considered one.

This casual way she called him ‘my husband’ so affectionately and naturally was something probably only Wang Baozhu could pull off.

Young Madam Chen’s complexion turned ashen, and she scoffed repeatedly:

“My husband? What do you count for, calling him ‘my husband’? You are nothing but a trinket my husband casually bought. You are even worse than the prostitutes of the Flower Tower; do you think you are still the miss of the General’s Mansion? Lady Wang and an adulterous butler brought forth a bastard like you!”

Wang Baozhu, whether hardened by thick skin or simply indifferent to such remarks, retorted with a sneer:

“At least for the first sixteen years of my life, I was the young lady whom all of you looked up to. Now, I have simply fallen from grace, and when the wall falls, the crowd pushes—but in my bones, I still carry the noble upbringing of the General’s Mansion. Can any of you compare to that?”

Murong Jiu was smiling at first, but her brows furrowed upon hearing this.

Was Wang Baozhu trying to drag the reputation of the General’s Mansion down with her?

“What noble upbringing from the General’s Mansion! Wang Baozhu, our General’s Mansion brought in famous tutors for you, taught you zither, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine, flowers, and tea; your father and brothers personally taught you to ride and shoot; we even employed nannies from the palace to teach you from a young age about propriety, righteousness, integrity, and shame, all with the deepest devotion. Our family tried its best to make you the brightest jewel of the Capital City,” Fu Han advanced on his horse, addressing her in a cold voice.

Wang Baozhu, seeing him, first felt a twinge of guilt, but then her face lit up with joy and she shouted loudly, “Third Brother! Third Brother, please help me; this woman is hitting me!”

After numerous attempts to visit the General’s Mansion without seeing anyone, she never expected to run into them on the street.

With sixteen years of kinship at stake, Wang Baozhu believed that after this period of cooling off, they would surely miss her, forgive her.

Murong Jiu was once again shocked by Wang Baozhu’s thick-skinned audacity.

What was key was that the other party’s tone was so entitled, so brazen.

Fu Han’s tone was chilly to the extreme:

“Don’t call me Third Brother! We only have one sister, and that is Xiao Jiu! The dirty blood of that vile woman, Lady Wang, runs in your veins. Born lowly, you are an ungrateful white-eyed wolf. The sixteen years of nurturing grace shown to you have been met with nothing but betrayal, smearing the General’s Mansion at every turn! You are truly heartless and beastly!”

Fu Han rarely spoke with such heavy words, and even he felt a bit venomous now; no one was born lowly, but he had reached his limit. After raising Wang Baozhu for sixteen years, she kept attracting trouble for the General’s Mansion, and now she had even brought up publicly that she had benefited from the General’s Mansion’s care—it was simply beyond redemption!

“Third Brother! How can you speak to me like this! I am but a weak woman. Is it my fault that I have fallen to such a state? There was nobody to save me from this distress. I cried my eyes dry every day, waiting for you—why didn’t you come? Now you actually scorn me! You clearly sacrificed an innocent person for Murong Jiu’s sake!”

Wang Baozhu’s voice was also loud, with the resentment in her eyes making no attempt to hide.

This was her most genuine emotion when facing Fu Han.

All the suffering she was now enduring was given by the General’s Mansion and Murong Jiu.

If the General’s Mansion had been willing to care for two daughters, how would she have come to be a lane courtesan, scorned by all?

Murong Jiu found it laughable.

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She lifted the curtain of the carriage, and her aloof voice said:

“Wang Baozhu, even now you still think to blame others. Don’t you know that it was you who pushed yourself away from the General’s Mansion? How did it become the fault of the people of the General’s Mansion for being heartless?”

Only then did Wang Baozhu see Murong Jiu. She hadn’t expected that Murong Jiu had witnessed every humiliating moment.

Looking at Murong Jiu’s exquisitely pale face, which was stunning to behold, the resentment in Wang Baozhu’s heart intensified.

Since when had Murong Jiu, the girl with the hideous birthmark, who came from the countryside and was not fit to be seen in society, been someone she deigned to notice? But now, Murong Jiu sat in a carriage, surrounded by guards, looking down at her from on high.

Wang Baozhu’s distorted sneer echoed, “What did I do wrong? I only kept my true identity from them, because I feared being cast away. It’s natural to keep silent about such things; where is the fault in that!”

“Indeed, ‘natural for humans,’ such thick skin you have! But what I want to say is not this. You intended to marry the Western Region Prince and unite with him overnight, single-mindedly thinking of becoming a Prince’s Consort in the Western Regions, forgetting how the Western Regions once invaded our Central Plains, slaughtered countless civilians and soldiers at the Frontier Pass. Today’s peace was bought with the lives of those brave soldiers back then! And our father was the General in the great battle against the Western Regions. You, as a daughter of the Fu Family, wanted to marry into the Western Regions—that is the biggest reason the Fu Family disowned you!”

Murong Jiu’s voice was modulated and her words struck to the heart; the more she spoke, the paler Wang Baozhu’s face became.

The people around looked at Wang Baozhu with increasingly angry expressions.

Yes, during the invasion by the Western Regions, many men of Great Yan had gone and not returned, among them were brothers and sons of those present.

Wang Baozhu feared losing her gold, silver, and jewels, as well as her status and hence, she tried her best to please the Western Region Prince. Had her origins not been revealed and had the Western Region Prince not had a change of heart at the last minute, Wang Baozhu might have succeeded!

A woman like that deserved to live a lowly life!

The General’s Mansion did well to cast her aside for justice!