Rebirth: After Becoming the Villainess-Chapter 365: Why Don’t You Go With Him?

"Ah! Madam! Madam!" Nanny Tian rushed to support her.

Chaos erupted all around.

Song Xilan only managed to stay on her feet with Kong Qing’s support.

"What’s going on? Zhang Yu... How did Zhang Yu die? How am I supposed to explain this to the Prince?"

Although Song Xilan knew the contents of the book, the character Zhang Yu was never mentioned in it.

He was the "variable" in the entire book. It was only because Song Lianhe had stumbled upon her mother’s affair that a character like Zhang Yu was introduced.

If Zhou Junlin hadn’t mentioned it to her, she never would have known that Zhang Yu was a spy from the Nanchen Kingdom! If this matter were to become public knowledge, it wouldn’t just be her mother—the entire General Mansion, and even the Ling Prince Mansion, would be implicated!

Therefore, even if just to atone for her family’s mistake, she had to bring Zhang Yu back and hand him over to Zhou Junlin.

She had thought it would be a simple matter, especially since Zhou Cangyan had already agreed to help her, but then this happened!

Song Xilan truly didn’t know how to face the Prince! ’Will he think I can’t even handle such a small task? Will he be disappointed in me?’

And, of all times, Zhou Junlin arrived just then.

It was too late to send someone to stop him. Song Xilan hurriedly had Mrs. Liu carried back to her room, but just as she turned around, Zhou Junlin walked in.

"Your Highness..."

Song Xilan immediately curtsied, but Zhou Junlin’s gaze was fixed on the corpse.

"Is this... Zhang Yu?"

"Your Highness!" Song Xilan said hurriedly. "Your Highness, it was Lan’er’s oversight. I didn’t expect that he was already... already dead! Your Highness, Lan’er truly didn’t know beforehand, that’s why..."

Zhou Junlin raised a hand, cutting her off.

Song Xilan looked up at him, biting her lip without saying a word.

"The Prince Qing Mansion summoned Huai Xu." He directed the statement at Gu Ha.

"Yes. Huai Xu rushed over. Someone must have been injured."

"Someone..."

Zhou Junlin stared intently at Zhang Yu’s body and suddenly added, "He was bitten to death by a snake, wasn’t he?"

Gu Ha glanced over. "Replying to Your Highness, he was scared to death."

From the horrifying state of the corpse, it wasn’t hard to imagine what terrifying things he had experienced before his death.

Hearing this, Song Xilan was also startled.

"Take the body away."

"Yes."

Gu Ha called his men over, and they carried Zhang Yu’s body away.

But just then, Mrs. Liu rushed out again. "Don’t take my Yu Lang away! Yu Lang! Yu Lang!"

Song Xilan’s face instantly flushed red. She snapped at Nanny Tian, who had followed her out, "Get Madam back inside, quickly!"

"Yes, yes..."

Nanny Tian tried to grab her, but she didn’t know where Mrs. Liu found the strength to shove her aside.

"Yu Lang!"

Zhou Junlin stood there, his brows furrowing slightly.

Song Xilan’s face felt like it was on fire. Furious and frantic, she yelled, "What are you standing there for? Get Madam out of here now!"

Kong Qing rushed to help, and together with Nanny Tian, they finally restrained Mrs. Liu, one on each side.

Mrs. Liu suddenly raised her head, her bloodshot eyes glaring at her daughter. "You said you would help me rescue Yu Lang! How did he end up like this?! And you call yourself my daughter! You get to marry into a prestigious family, but you can’t stand to see others happy together! I don’t ask for much, only for my Yu Lang..."

She mumbled, her gaze growing unfocused as she muttered Zhang Yu’s name.

Song Xilan was already trembling with anger. With Zhou Junlin still present, ’what would he think of me after hearing my mother’s shameless, debased words? Mother is doing this deliberately to humiliate me!’

Just as she feared, Zhou Junlin, already annoyed by Zhang Yu’s death, was further displeased by Mrs. Liu’s display. He turned his head and said to Song Xilan with a cold expression, "This is the Princess Consort’s family matter. It is not my place to interfere. I trust the Princess Consort will handle it appropriately."

"I understand, Your Highness..."

Song Xilan was mortified.

Only after Zhou Junlin had left did she finally explode. She whirled around and roared at Mrs. Liu, "You really are a shameless slut! Can’t you live without a man? He’s a filthy piece of low-class trash who lives off women, and you want him?! It seems my father was right. You’re nothing but an uncouth country bumpkin who can’t be presented in polite society! You’ve brought shame upon Father, and you’ve made it impossible for me, your daughter, to face anyone! Why are you my mother? Why?!"

Mrs. Liu tilted her head up, looked at her furious daughter, and suddenly gave a cold laugh.

She shoved Nanny Tian and Kong Qing aside and staggered to her feet. "So I’ve embarrassed you? I’ve made you unable to hold your head high in front of your princely husband, is that it? Heh, you’ve finally said it... All this time, you’ve looked down on me, your own mother! Even if I laid the best things in the world before you, in your eyes, I would always be someone unpresentable."

"And aren’t you?" Song Xilan pointed at her mother’s stomach, enraged. "What kind of mother would be so depraved as to carry the bastard child of a boy toy?!"

"Depraved... Yes, I am depraved! But back then, if it weren’t for my ’depravity,’ how could you be acting so high and mighty today? It was me! I was the one who climbed into Song Xingfeng’s bed! It was me who made you the great young miss of the General Mansion you are today!"

Song Xilan had heard these same words since she was a child and was sick of them. She sneered. "What do you expect me to do, hearing all this? Thank you? You did all of it for yourself! You’re the one who enjoyed nearly twenty years of life as a high official’s noble wife! You’re the one who was respectfully addressed as the ’General’s wife’! You’re the one who couldn’t bear the loneliness, who couldn’t stand being in an empty marriage bed! But you were the one who debased yourself and ended up in this state. How can you blame me for that?" 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

"No! You don’t understand! Your father was away at war for years on end. How was a woman like me supposed to manage everything? I... I needed to be cared for too..."

Hearing Mrs. Liu try to justify herself, Song Xilan wanted to laugh.

"Well, now you’ve found the one you wanted to be with forever. As your daughter, I suppose I should say ’congratulations.’ But he’s dead now. Since you were willing to throw away all your dignity for him, why don’t you just go join him?"

Song Xilan slowly stepped forward, her gaze falling on her mother’s lower abdomen. Her eyes turned frigid as she spat out, word by vicious word, "Take your bastard child with you, and the three of you can have a family reunion in hell!"

Mrs. Liu’s face turned deathly pale.

Nanny Tian also cried out in shock, "Young Miss, how could you..."

"I can and I will!"

Song Xilan straightened up and looked coldly at Mrs. Liu. "A person like that is not worthy of being my mother."

She turned and walked away.

Mrs. Liu curled up on the ground, sobbing to the point of fainting.

Even as Song Xilan reached the doorway, she could still hear the mournful cries of "Yu Lang" from behind her. ’Truly... utterly disgusting!’

"Madam!"

Nanny Tian suddenly shrieked in alarm.

Song Xilan’s steps faltered for a moment, but in the next instant, they quickened, showing a hint of panic.

"Young Miss!"

Nanny Tian ran out from inside, calling after her in a panic.

Seeing that she had already boarded the carriage, Nanny Tian rushed forward to block its path. "Young Miss! Please, save Madam!"

Song Xilan sat in the carriage, her hands twisting a handkerchief, her expression ugly.

Kong Qing didn’t know what to do either. "Princess Consort..."

Song Xilan narrowed her eyes. She suddenly looked up, her gaze sharp and cold. "Go."

"Yes..."

Kong Qing timidly complied and ordered the driver to ignore the person outside.

Outside the carriage, Nanny Tian was still shouting, "Young Miss? Young Miss! Madam, she..."

Song Xilan clamped her hands tightly over her ears, not wanting to hear another word.