Chapter 509: Chapter 169: Don’t Come Near Me_2
Just because she’s pregnant, she can do whatever she wants in this family!
"Let’s go and see," Xie Ruilin couldn’t be happier inside.
"Miss, it’s snowing heavily outside, and the roads are slippery."
"Just help me walk," Xie Ruilin completely ignored the advice, "Right now, I’d love even more to see Xie Ruotong in a wretched state. I’d love to look down on her with condescension! To see if that conceited face of hers can still be so arrogant!"
"Yes," Chun Tao quickly agreed.
She supported Xie Ruilin and left the courtyard.
Outside, the snow was fluttering down.
The temperature outside was bone-chillingly cold.
Even though Xie Ruilin was dressed warmly and had servants carrying charcoal for her, stepping out into the cold made her shiver all over.
You could only imagine what Xie Ruotong would look like, freezing in the snow.
After a while.
Xie Ruilin walked into Xie Ruotong’s courtyard, and from afar saw Xie Ruotong and Qiao’er kneeling on the ground, their bodies already covered with a layer of white snow.
Xie Ruilin walked cautiously.
Now that the child inside her was so useful, she naturally didn’t dare be careless in the slightest.
It was not easy.
Finally, she arrived in front of Xie Ruotong.
Xie Ruotong’s eyes made a slight movement.
Just like that, she watched Xie Ruilin standing in front of her, looking pompous and high above.
At this moment, a crowd surrounded her.
Someone held an umbrella for her.
Someone supported her.
Someone carried charcoal for her.
The entourage made even Ming Yufang seem less imposing.
And now she looked down on her with an air of supremacy.
Xie Ruotong lowered her gaze.
She knew Xie Ruilin would definitely come.
Such a good opportunity, how could she not come to humiliate her?
She continued kneeling calmly.
Qiao’er next to her was so cold that she couldn’t even speak out.
Trying to defend her mistress, but her teeth chattered beyond her control.
"Sister," Xie Ruilin called out to her.
Xie Ruotong did not respond.
"Cold, huh?"
Xie Ruotong still maintained her silence.
"So cold that you can’t even speak, is that it? As your sister, it really breaks my heart to see this," Xie Ruilin pretended to be sympathetic, but her tone was full of sarcasm.
Xie Ruotong remained silent, giving no response.
"I originally thought Mother was just going to punish Qiao’er, but I never imagined that she would punish you as well. Sister, haven’t you always prided yourself on being the legitimate wife? How is it that your status as a legitimate wife is now worse than that of a mere concubine like me?! Now you’re even being punished to kneel in the snow because of a concubine, and if this gets out, it really would be a laughing stock!" Xie Ruilin continuously ridiculed Xie Ruotong.
Seeing Xie Ruotong so embarrassed, her heart felt extremely satisfied.
Ever since Xie Ruotong returned, Xie Ruilin always felt suppressed. Now, finally, Xie Ruotong was tasting the bitterness she deserved.
"Do you know what Brother Yanqing told me when he carried me back just now?" Xie Ruilin smiled cunningly.
As far as Xie Ruotong was concerned.
Whatever Song Yanqing said to Xie Ruilin, she didn’t care.
Her feelings for Song Yanqing, from the day he married her and spent the night in Xie Ruilin’s room, she had let go.
Some things.
Are not worth forcing.
"He said, from beginning to end, he actually never laid a hand on you," Xie Ruilin said more and more smugly, "When we returned to the Duke Mansion, even under grandmother’s pressure, you two just shared a bed to keep up appearances. Later, when he stayed in your courtyard for a month, you also slept separately without consummating the marriage. And then yesterday, when he was drunk, he only shared a bed with you because it was cold, and he never touched you."
Xie Ruotong listened quietly.
She had thought that Song Yanqing had already told Xie Ruilin these things long ago.
So Xie Ruilin’s boasting and sarcasm didn’t cause any emotional reaction in her.
She was rather surprised instead.
It was only now that Song Yanqing had gone to explain to Xie Ruilin.
"Turns out that all along, I was just wishfully thinking. Foolishly thinking that Brother Yanqing could fall for you," Xie Ruilin said more and more sarcastically, laughing triumphantly, "I really underestimated my own place in Brother Yanqing’s heart, and I was belittling myself."
Xie Ruotong listened indifferently.
Xie Ruilin’s words, in truth, could not provoke the slightest anger in her.
Because she didn’t care.
So in fact, she really didn’t mind.
"Think about it, today’s incident is the same. You claim that Brother Yanqing is the top scorer, and how intelligent one must be to achieve that in Daxuan Kingdom. So, such a clever Brother Yanqing would surely know that today’s incident was my doing—where would Qiao’er get the guts to treat me so, yet Brother Yanqing unconditionally sided with me. You say Mother shows favoritism towards me because of the child in my belly, do you think Brother Yanqing cares only for the child too?" Xie Ruilin laughed in triumph.