Tearing the Prince's Clothes after Withdrawing Marriage
Chapter 182: Let this miss scratch your fox-like charming face!

Chapter 182: Chapter 182: Let this miss scratch your fox-like charming face!

Feng Mingzhu was supporting Chu Qianli as they prepared to leave.

Accidentally, she touched Chu Qianli’s shoulder.

Chu Qianli immediately winced in so much pain that she grimaced.

"Is your shoulder injured?" Feng Mingzhu was startled.

Chu Qianli nodded slightly, "The bone is damaged."

"Heavens! I just saw Yu Linglong strike you exactly where your hand is!"

Seeing Chu Qianli’s face turn instantly pale with pain, Feng Mingzhu was so furious she ground her teeth.

"Yu Linglong, that evil woman, is utterly wicked! She did it on purpose!"

Of course, it was on purpose. Chu Qianli knew better than anyone how malicious Yu Linglong could be.

However, she was not fond of speaking ill of others behind their backs.

It wasn’t necessary.

Next time, once she had recovered, she would just hit her back.

At any time, fists were always more useful than tongues!

... Feng Mingzhu brought Chu Qianli to the banquet.

As soon as they arrived, Feng Mingzhu was pulled away by a group of girls to catch up on old times.

Chu Qianli walked into the venue alone, attracting odd glances wherever she went.

In fact, the original Chu Qianli seldom attended such banquets.

First, being completely unversed in literature, each banquet she attended would end in ridicule.

Second, with Chu Huaiyu stealing the limelight every time, the original Chu Qianli eventually lost the will to attend.

But tonight, the Empress had issued a decree, insisting that all unmarried daughters of the Duke Residence attend.

And she, the "dismissed" former Princess of Prince Yexuan, was now, by all accounts, a single lady.

In ancient times, dismissed women were very much disliked, and it was unclear what got into the Empress’s head to insist on inviting her.

The daughters of the Duke Residence sat together.

Chu Qianli, not knowing where she should sit, wanted to find a random vacant spot to sit down.

But before she could take her seat, she was stopped by several voices:

"Oh, isn’t this the seventh daughter of the Duke Residence... no, now the fifth daughter!"

"That’s not quite right either; she has another identity, the discarded Princess of Prince Yexuan."

"After being discarded, she can’t be considered a Princess anymore. Now she is single again, presenting herself as if she’s still an unmarried lady; otherwise, why would she attend the banquet expressly for unmarried ladies hosted by the Empress?"

"Exactly, regarding herself as an unmarried lady with such thick skin, I have never seen such a person."

"She’s not thinking of sitting with us, is she?"

As someone cast doubt, others immediately looked disgusted.

"Surely not, a discarded woman wanting to sit with us? She doesn’t even think about whether she has the right to!"

"If she touches that chair, we can’t sit in it. What if we catch her bad luck?"

"Indeed, if we were to sit with her, how would others see us? They might regard us like her."

"Sister, hurry and drive her away, I don’t want to sit with her, it’s too disgusting!"

Several girls watched her.

The one leading them approached Chu Qianli with a dark face and said, "Get lost! This isn’t a place for you to sit!"

Another girl even rushed over and kicked the chair over.

"This chair, tainted by the touch of a discarded woman, is unlucky! Servants, take this chair away and throw it out for this lady!"

Chu Qianli did not know which official’s daughter this was, but clearly, she carried quite an attitude.

Most likely, her family held a significant status.

As a daughter of the Duke Residence, she should not be demeaned, but now, because the Duke was seriously ill, her status in the palace had clearly diminished.

Not to mention Chu Qianli, even the seats arranged for the daughters of the Duke Residence were quite secluded.

Previously, when the girls’ grandfather was strong and healthy, any banquet they attended would guarantee them prominent seats.

Walls fall and everyone pushes.

Once the Duke had fallen, what was left of Chu Hongtao, a mere Grand Tutor, was hardly of any significance in the court.

A group of pampered young ladies surrounded Chu Qianli, each with a mocking smile on their lips.

Chu Qianli pursed her lips, indifferent, and turned to leave.

But who would have guessed that the girl who had just kicked over the chair would charge right up to her face.

"You think you can soil my lady’s place and just walk away? It’s not that easy!"

"Then what do you want?" Chu Qianli had just been injured, and her shoulder still hurt fiercely.

She didn’t want anything to do with these spoiled and willful young ladies.

She just wanted to wait, to wait until after the Empress arrived so she could leave quickly.

That would mean her mission was completed.

But the lady in front of her obviously didn’t want to let her off easy, "I want you to kneel and apologize to me!"

The crowd around them suddenly quieted down.

They looked at Chu Qianli, snickering among themselves.

Prince Yexuan was the peerless gentleman whom over ninety percent of the ladies in the Imperial City wished to marry!

Chu Qianli had the audacity to monopolize such a catch and marry him.

Even though she was now discarded, once having been intimate with Prince Yexuan made her an enemy to everyone!

Seeing Chu Qianli bullied, who wouldn’t take pleasure in it?

"Aren’t you going to kneel quickly?" that young lady looked down at Chu Qianli with arrogance.

"Your Duke Residence is now in precarious times. If you anger me, I’ll go back and complain to my father. Then just watch as your Duke Residence gets unlucky!"

Chu Qianli still pursed her lips, looking at her calmly, "May I ask, who exactly is this young lady’s father?"

"She is none other than Mo Rushan, the honorable daughter of the Minister of War, and her grandfather is the Prime Minister!"

The young ladies on the side seemed to be smug about their connections with the daughter of the Minister of War, all of them showing off their flattery.

"You discarded wife, how dare you disrespect Miss Rushan. Kneel down and kowtow for mercy at once!"

"All right, tomorrow I shall have my grandfather write a letter and ask the Emperor what crimes I have committed that I need to kneel and kowtow to Miss Mo."

"You!" Mo Rushan glared at her, pondering her words.

Wasn’t the Duke bedridden, unconscious, and uncertain of life and death?

Everyone in the court was saying that the Duke was undoubtedly done for and that the Duke Residence could not possibly recover.

How could Chu Qianli still expect an autographed letter from the Duke?

She was most likely just trying to scare her!

Mo Rushan’s expression darkened as she snapped, "How dare you scare me! Someone, seize this discarded wife for me! I want to watch her kneel on the ground and beg for mercy!"

At Mo Rushan’s command, immediately two maids swiftly approached.

One on each side, their fingers curled like claws, about to seize Chu Qianli.

These two maids were not weak in martial arts!

Chu Qianli was about to defend herself, but she didn’t expect that just as she gathered her breath, the injury from Yexuan’s inner strength that had shaken her chest went into disarray in an instant.

Her breath disrupted, her arms suddenly weakened.

The pain in her shoulder was tearing at her as if aflame.

She couldn’t muster any strength at all!

The two maids firmly restrained her shoulders, and Chu Qianli’s face turned pale with pain, almost unable to stand steady.

Spying this, Mo Rushan’s face lit up with joy!

"So you’re injured in the shoulder? That’s just too perfect!"

The smile at the corner of her mouth vanished instantly, her face turning fiercely sinister.

"Relying on your good looks, you schemed against Prince Yexuan? Wait until I scratch your face to shreds; let’s see what tricks you’ll have left to seduce men!"

She raised her hand, her sharp nails slashing fiercely towards Chu Qianli’s face...

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