Rebirth and Marriage: I am the Mistress of the Palace

Chapter 688 I will avenge myself

After a few more days of recuperation at home, Shen Wantang's head wound had healed.

Now that the injury has healed, it’s time to find someone to settle the score.

The first place she went was the prison cell.

Because Shen Guannian had been dismissed from his official position and imprisoned for his involvement in a corruption case.

When Shen Guannian saw her, he felt like he had seen a savior. He tightly grasped the door bars of the cell and said anxiously, "Tang'er, you finally came to see me! Quick, hurry up and rescue me! I've been wrongly accused!"

"Unjustly accused? But I heard that there is evidence for all the crimes my father committed!"

"What evidence? They fabricated it all. They're slandering me! I'm an upright official and never abuse my power for personal gain!"

"Oh, speaking of favoritism and cheating, how come I also heard that you, father, were involved in a cheating case in the imperial examinations?"

Shen Guannian's face changed. "Don't talk nonsense! I have nothing to do with that case. The masterminds of the scientific exam cheating case have all been beheaded!"

Shen Wantang sighed, "Yeah, with this kind of case, if you don't get involved there's naturally no danger, but if you do, your life is in danger!"

"I told you, that case has nothing to do with me! I'm only a fifth-rank official, how could I possibly be qualified to even touch the exam questions! How could I possibly cheat?!"

"You didn't touch the exam questions, but you still accepted a lot of money from others and provided them with a lot of convenience, didn't you?"

"What nonsense! Is that what Gu Qianhan told you? He's a liar, you can't believe a word he says! I'm your biological father, you should trust me, not let love cloud your mind and trust a disloyal and shameless person!"

Shen Wantang looked at him calmly, "Father, why are you so anxious? What does it matter whether I believe it or not? What's important is that the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple believe it. Otherwise, you wouldn't have been dismissed from office, nor would you have been imprisoned here, right?"

"I--"

Shen Guannian was stunned for a moment: "They-they are in cahoots with Gu Qianhan!"

Shen Wantang looked at him sarcastically. "Tell me, how could you have committed so many deadly crimes and left such a huge evidence behind? Since someone else had such a huge evidence, why didn't you just behave yourself? Why did you have to go along with Xiao Qingyuan and even plot against your own daughter?"

Speaking of this, Shen Guannian finally lost his temper.

He sat down on the ground dejectedly, with endless regret and unwillingness on his face.

His voice was filled with sorrow and vicissitudes. "I was wrong to trust Prince Xiao. I thought he could protect me. I thought the play was perfect."

"I thought that even if Gu Qianhan wanted to settle the score later, he would only go to Xiao Qingyuan. After all, I was too sick to get out of bed at the time, so I could completely deny everything."

"But I didn't expect that Gu Qianhan would be so cruel and actually push me into a desperate situation!"

Shen Wantang's voice turned cold. "You finally admitted it. The day I returned home, you were pretending to be sick. You were acting! Just to give me to Xiao Qingyuan!"

Shen Guannian said confidently, "So what? I pretended to be sick and acted because you forced me to do that. If you had taken the initiative to marry Xiao Qingyuan, would I have resorted to such a desperate measure? Would I have been subjected to such crazy revenge from Gu Qianhan? Would I have been thrown into jail?"

"You seem to have forgotten that it was you who arranged my marriage to Gu Qianhan! Now, you blame me for not taking the initiative to marry Xiao Qingyuan?"

"I was engaged to the Duke's family, but I regretted it later. Is that not okay? What's wrong with regretting it? As long as the marriage hasn't taken place, there's room for regret!"

"Since you regret it, you must bear the consequences! The Duke's Mansion is not some small family that will allow you to break off the engagement so easily!"

"What else can I do if I don't regret the engagement? You saw it too. Prince Xiao helped me get my official position back, and I have no way to repay him!"

"So a father can sacrifice his daughter?"

Shen Guannian jumped up again: "How can this be a sacrifice? Prince Ning's Mansion and Prince Xiao are not wolves or tigers. If you marry them, you will only enjoy happiness! I am doing this for your own good! By the way, I am just looking for a good son-in-law who knows how to respect me!"

Shen Wantang sneered, "Really? Then why doesn't your good son-in-law come to the prison to rescue you now?"

Shen Guannian gritted his teeth: "Of course it's because you were disobedient and refused to go back with Prince Xiao! If you go back to Prince Ning's Mansion with him and become his Prince Consort, he will naturally come to rescue me!"

"Then I might as well tell my father that I will never be Xiao Qingyuan's prince consort in this life, because I have already married into the Duke's Mansion. A woman cannot marry twice. You still understand this principle, right? You have no shame, but I still have it!"

Shen Guannian's expression changed again and again, but he knew in his heart that it was unrealistic to ask Shen Wantang and Xiao Qingyuan to be husband and wife at this time.

Not to mention that Shen Wantang herself would not agree, the Duke's Mansion and Gu Qianhan would never allow such a thing to happen.

He changed his tone and said earnestly, "Tang'er, since you don't want to marry Prince Xiao, your father will naturally not force you."

"But now you're married to Gu Qianhan. Doesn't he love and cherish you the most? I'm your father. Even if he doesn't care about my dignity, he should at least care about yours! If I go to jail, you'll lose face, right?"

"Go and beg Gu Qianhan to let me go! Tell him not to worry, from now on, I will never go against him again, I will listen to whatever he says!"

Shen Wantang suddenly laughed. Shen Guannian was really adaptable. He would have a different face from moment to moment. If you didn't know him, you would think he had the unique skill of changing his face!

She was smiling, but her tone was a little cold. "My father is in jail, and I am ashamed, but it's better than losing my life. I'm afraid that after my father gets out, he will team up with Master Xiao or someone else to trap me to death and hit me with stones."

Shen Guannian already knew that Qi had deliberately fallen into the secret cave with Shen Wantang, and he also knew that Qi was cruel and ruthless, and he actually took advantage of Shen Wantang's unpreparedness and hit her on the head with a stone, causing her to bleed.

He secretly resented the Qi family for their inability to accomplish anything and their frequent failures. "Tang'er, Qi is a treacherous woman. I was deceived by her for many years. I had no idea she hurt you beforehand. This matter has nothing to do with me! But don't worry, as long as I can get out, I will definitely avenge you!"

"No need."

"Tang'er!"

"I will avenge myself!"

"What about me? What should I do?"

"You should just sit in jail and be quiet."

"No! I won't go to jail! Tang'er, I beg you, as your father, to ask Gu Qianhan to let me out!"

"After your sentence is completed, the prison will naturally release you. Then, you can return to your old home in the countryside to farm and raise chickens. Never set foot in the capital again!"

Shen Guannian's face was filled with despair: "No!!!"

Shen Wantang didn't look at him again, turned around and walked out.