Quick Wear Beauty

Chapter 767 The Saint is Cruel and Merciless (22)

Chapter 767 The Saint is Cruel and Merciless (Twenty-Two)

Shen Tiaotiao nodded quickly and said, "Brother, Duan Jingwu wants to kill me! Please save me!"

Shen Hechang stood in front of Shen Tiaotiao, looking at his sister.

"You're still pregnant with his child, how could he kill you? And you say Duan Jingwu is rebelling, do you have any evidence? Weren't you and him newlyweds in love? How did you suddenly become enemies?"

Shen Tiaotiao defended himself: "Brother Emperor, because I discovered that he was thinking of rebelling! He was afraid that I would inform you, so he wanted to kill me!"

"Where is the evidence of rebellion?"

"I...Tiaotiao has no evidence. I overheard him talking and learned of his rebellious intentions. If you don't believe me, you can go and investigate. He even planned to wait until I gave birth to the child and then replace it with a concubine's daughter. My child also has Shen's blood in it. He has long been dissatisfied with the royal family!"

"A concubine? He has a concubine? Where is she?"

Shen Tiaotiao's eyes flashed with jealousy, and she said with a hint of annoyance and pride, "I took the initiative and I sent people to kill his concubine. Humph, Duan Jingwu only likes pitiful servants like Wan'er, and he doesn't even take me, a princess, seriously! He even wants to kill me!"

Shen Hechang grabbed her shoulders.

"What did you say? Wan'er? What does she look like?"

Shen Tiaotiao felt puzzled, while Shen Hechang had already asked his personal eunuch to bring the scroll.

Looking at the gorgeous beauty in the painting, Shen Tiaotiao said hatefully, "It's her! She's the one who seduced my husband!"

Then she wondered again: "How come my brother has her portrait?"

Shen Hechang's expression had turned grim. "Shen Tiaotiao, she was the most beautiful woman in Lianyi Pavilion. She would never have liked Duan Jingwu. She was already burned to death, yet Duan Jingwu kidnapped her and now you've killed her. You're truly audacious."

Shen Tiaotiao was frightened by his eyes, but when she came to her senses, she felt dissatisfied. She was defending her own interests, what was wrong with that!

"Duan Jingwu wouldn't turn against you for a woman. He wouldn't dare rebel now, and I can't arrest him based on your one-sided statement. I don't want to force him to rebel, it's just you who's cowardly. Hurry back to the princess's mansion to avoid alerting the enemy."

Shen Tiaotiao was unwilling to go back, so she quickly confessed what she had hidden.

"Brother, I can't leave the palace! He's about to die, and it's inevitable that he won't want to kill me before he dies. My princess's mansion doesn't have many guards, and if he wants to kill me, I can't stop him at all!"

Shen Hechang was very puzzled: "How many things have you concealed? If you don't tell me clearly, your life or death has nothing to do with me."

Shen Tiaotiao quickly told Duan Jingwu about her dream and the poisoning she had done to him.

"You're going to kill your own husband just for a dream?"

Shen Tiaotiao retorted, "That wasn't a dream. It was a foreknowledge given to me by God! I didn't know beforehand that someone was being kept in the courtyard, but the people I sent confirmed the truth. Moreover, the scene where Duan Jingwu killed me was definitely not fake. I can even feel my heart ache right now!"

Shen Hechang, already feeling a headache, quickly dispatched his secret guards to investigate outside the palace. An hour later, Shen Hechang learned that Duan Jingwu had been poisoned and was currently bedridden. Numerous doctors had come to the General's Mansion, but none had found a cure. If an antidote wasn't found, he would only have two days to live.

"Where's the antidote?"

Shen Tiaotiao shook her head. She hated Duan Jingwu, the scumbag, so much that she didn't want him to live. She had thought that Duan Jingwu would slowly die of illness, and then she would give birth to a child, inherit the general's mansion, keep a few lovers, or remarry. Who knew that the poison would be discovered like this?

"Did he know it was you?" "I bribed the servants around him and had that person do it. Duan Jingwu suddenly had a bad reaction to the poison, and that person didn't have time to deal with it. If Duan Jingwu was quick, he must have known it was me who poisoned him."

Shen Hechang couldn't help but slap him.

"You piece of trash, since you've done it, clean it up and don't let anyone catch you."

Shen Tiaotiao covered her face and cried, but Shen Hechang did not comfort her.

"How about asking the imperial physician to take a look? Perhaps there's hope?"

"You want him to die, and I go to save him. If he comes back to life and wants revenge, are you prepared to die?"

Shen Tiaotiao quickly shook her head. She didn't want to die.

Shen Hechang understood that the Duan family was now hostile to the imperial family. If Duan Jingwu died, Duan Yingsheng, who was guarding the border, might rebel to avenge his only son. He had to send someone to the border to take back Duan Yingsheng's military power.

Shen Hechang's breathing was unstable. He had a premonition that this matter would not be resolved easily. If things went wrong, the Duan family would rebel.

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Hopefully I can finish three chapters! Fingers crossed!