CHAPTER 340: CHAPTER 282 HAND IT OVER!_3

"Hold your tongue!" Princess Rong stood up, her voice trembling as she spoke each word clearly, "Dare you say you didn’t know about this long ago? Dare you say that when you initially enchanted Yongping, it wasn’t with ulterior motives?

"Xu Yin, you’re so ruthless, using Yongping for so many years, and in the end, she’s been demoted to a commoner, left with nothing, and you still want to drain her dry. You even use her to ask me for this fan!

"How can this fan fall into your hands? You just want to use her hand to destroy the Prince Manor!"

The words on those few pages were already etched into Princess Rong’s mind, each character capable of driving her mad!

She could not stand the Zhang Family, nor Mrs. Zhang. She even looked down on Prince Rong, even after so many years of marriage, even though she became the esteemed princess because of Prince Rong, she never felt he was worthy of her, but they were all her family!

That was her husband!

Mrs. Zhang was Yang Zhan’s wife, and Yang Zhan was her own son!

Their crimes were intimately connected to her!

The Zhang Family may have been hateful, Mrs. Zhang may have been detestable, but they would never kill their own mother-in-law!

But this fan would be the death of her!

The fan behind the fan could completely eradicate the Prince Rong’s Mansion!

She endured humiliation and carried heavy burdens for so many years, her prideful honor and status, her dream and desire for power, all would be destroyed in an instant!

She knew Xu Yin wasn’t a good person, but she never thought he would be so malicious, so insidious as to aim for the death of the Prince Rong’s Mansion!

"After all these years, you’ve finally gotten clever once."

Under Princess Rong’s stern questioning, Xu Yin stood still for a moment, and responded slowly, "You actually know I want the fan to deal with your Prince Rong’s Mansion. But even if you know, so what? Tonight, I must succeed."

Princess Rong said, "What did Yongping ever do to you, what did our Prince Rong’s Mansion ever do to you! Do you think that just because you have grown wings, you no longer need the Prince Manor to support you?"

"Depend on you for support?" Xu Yin sneered, "Do you think too highly of yourself? Being the son-in-law of the Prince Manor merely gives me an additional identity outside, what use is it to my career?

"Before marrying Yongping, I was already appointed by the Emperor as the new top scholar of the imperial examinations, I entered the Hanlin Academy by my own merit, my promotion from the Hanlin Academy to the Ministry of Rites was also thanks to my strategies that earned the Emperor’s favor, what have you done for me?

"Even if you might have helped behind the scenes, have I not brought benefits to your Prince Rong’s Mansion by rising through the ranks these years?

"You truly can’t figure out what qualifications you have to stand tall in front of me!"

Princess Rong gritted her teeth, "So you just don’t want to be suppressed by the Prince Manor, just because it has no more value to you, you want to burn your bridges and overthrow the Prince Manor?"

"There’s some truth to that." Xu Yin slightly furrowed his brow, "After all, I have indeed endured you for a long time. I’ve long wanted to tell you, you, a country bumpkin who married into the royal family, have no right to look down on a humble family heir. Having a mother-in-law like you is a disgrace to me."

"You ungrateful beast!" Princess Rong pointed at the ancestral tablets beside her and cursed, "When you married Yongping, you also came to burn incense and pay respects, and now you dare to speak such heartless words before the spirits of the Yang Family ancestors, aren’t you afraid of being struck by lightning?"

Xu Yin laughed upon hearing this, "If the dead truly had spirits, I would have been struck a thousand times over! Would it still be the Yang Family’s turn to strike me?"

He extended his hand, "Give me the fan."

Princess Rong’s face turned ashen, she gritted her teeth and sneered, "You’re truly indulging in wild fantasies! In our Prince Manor, can you be so arrogant as to snatch away its belongings?

"—Guards!"

She suddenly shouted, her voice bright and full-throated!

Yet as her voice fell, not a single Prince Mansion Guard appeared!

Her expression changed slightly, she stepped forward two steps, "Liu Sheng, Jiang Fu!"

Outside the door, apart from the wind, there was no sound!

She swiftly turned to face Xu Yin, "What have you done?!"

This shouldn’t be!

Even if the two guards from the temple he brought along had likely been overpowered by Xu Yin’s men, it was impossible that they had no time to send a message to the guards left at the temple!

"When have you seen me as a rash and reckless person?" Xu Yin blocked her path, "By the time I came here, someone had already cut off your guards in the temple.

"Thanks to you, those who should’ve been on duty at the ancestral temple were sent far away, too.

"Now, hand over the fan!"