1722 She Brought It Upon Herself
No matter how well she did something, she would never earn her father’s approval. In his eyes, all she did was create trouble.
Why did her father not understand this?
Just as she was about to leave, Ji Xiu’s wife, Madam Guo, quickly came forward and held her back. She said softly, “Don’t do anything rash, Xiuxiu. Father is just too heartbroken and spoke without thinking. How can you break the bond between father and daughter so easily? Besides… Linghui is gone now. If you leave and never return, Father would be even more heartbroken.”
She actually agreed with what Ji Lingxiu did. She had known early on that Ji Linghui was a troublemaker who would end up destroying their family eventually.
When Ji Linghui was staying at home, she would listen as Ji Linghui spat terrible things and cursed at Her Highness. This frightened her tremendously; she was worried Ji Linghui’s words would end up reaching His Majesty’s ears. Their family might get implicated.
Ji Linghui had gotten into plenty of arguments with Ji Xiu over this but unfortunately, her father-in-law had always been protective of Ji Linghui. There was nothing Madam Guo could do—she could only try to stay away and avoid listening to or seeing Ji Linghui.
It was only after she had given birth that her father-in-law finally had enough sense in him to send Ji Linghui away.
However, she never thought that Ji Linghui would continue to create trouble even after being sent away to the villa. It was only a few days ago when Butler Zhao came with some men to take care of Ji Linghui quietly. She ended up dead without a trace of her body remaining, and no one from the Ji Family was allowed to take her body back.
They had no idea what terrible crime had Ji Linghui done.
It was only after investigating through the villa’s servants that they found out Lingxiu had been to the villa. Not long after she left, Butler Zhao came knocking at the villa’s door with his men.
When her father-in-law found out about this, he blamed Ji Lingxiu for everything.
Ji Lingxiu did not deny it either.
It seemed that Ji Linghui’s death had something to do with Lingxiu.
However, it also meant that their family was now safe because Ji Linghui was dead.
She was quietly relieved over this.
When Ji Lingxiu met her sister-in-law’s judgemental look, she said wearily, “Sis-in-law, it’s not what you think. This time, it wasn’t a minor situation of Ji Linghui simply cursing at Her Highness. If I hadn’t reported her immediately, it would have been the end of both our families.”
Madam Guo was startled. “What exactly did she do?”
“Stop asking, Sis-in-law. All you need to know is that if His Majesty and Her Highness began investigating deeper and found out it was Big Sis’s doing, none of us would have come out of this safely. It’s serious enough to for a nine kinship extermination.” Ji Lingxiu added miserably, “I didn’t want to do this, but Big Sis just wasn’t being reasonable. She was too selfish and never spared a thought for any of us. All she cares about was getting her revenge and nothing else. It’s just as well that she’s dead now. She has been released from her misery and she can never hurt anyone again.”
Ji Qingyuan trembled with anger. He pointed at her nose and shouted, “Your sister has always treated you so well, how can you be so cruel as to cause her death? What terrible sin has she done to deserve this? You should explain yourself.”
Ji Lingxiu started crying as she said, “I can’t tell you what it was, Father, or it will only spell trouble for our family. All I know is that His Majesty isn’t in the Palace right now, but when he returns and finds out about what happened, he might still punish our family. You have to be mentally prepared for it.”
Ji Qingyuan’s heart sank when he heard this. “You’re lying. Linghui can’t even walk. What could she have done?”
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