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Chapter 218 The Soul of an Old Woman!

Sensing that the Crown Prince intended to kill her, Mei Xingyue was not afraid, but only gave a sad smile.

"Your Highness, are you so heartless because you're afraid of what I might say?"

The crown prince's expression stiffened, and he said coldly, "I am the heir apparent. The auspicious beast has chosen me as its master, which is truly the mandate of heaven. What do I have to fear?"

Mei Xingyue laughed twice more, and perhaps due to a final burst of energy before death, her breathing became much smoother.

"Your Highness need not worry. We were husband and wife, and I have borne you three children. How could I bear to leave you with nothing?"

Upon hearing this, the crown prince's gaze grew even colder.

"Xingyue, your injuries are serious. Do not say anything more. I will send someone to fetch the imperial physician. Perhaps he can save your life."

Mei Xingyue's smile widened. How could the Crown Prince not see that this was a final burst of energy before death?

Knowing she was going to die, he still said those things to gain fame. How ridiculous!

"Your Highness, there's no need to trouble the imperial physicians. I only have enough strength to finish speaking."

The crown prince looked at Mei Xingyue nervously, afraid that she would say something detrimental to him.

Unexpectedly, Mei Xingyue asked him, "Your Highness and I fell in love at first sight and had three children. Is Your Highness really not curious about my origins?"

“Xingyue, your ancestral home is Mingzhou Prefecture, and your parents owned hundreds of acres of fertile land,” the Crown Prince said, looking at her as he spoke. He really didn’t understand why Mei Xingyue always talked about her background. “Later, your Mei family suffered a great fire, and your parents also perished in the fire. You, an orphan, sold your property and came to the capital alone.”

"I know your background, so what's there to be curious about?"

Mei Xingyue smiled, a smile tinged with madness.

"Your Highness is right, but there is one thing that is not correct."

"What's wrong?" the crown prince asked, puzzled.

“The fire at the Mei family’s house… I set it!” Mei Xingyue’s tone became somewhat frantic. “I set a fire with my own hands, burning my parents to death.”

The Crown Prince was taken aback upon hearing this, clearly indicating that the Imperial Guards had not investigated these matters at all.

Seeing the Crown Prince's expression, Mei Xingyue was very satisfied: "Does Your Highness want to ask why I did this?"

"Because the Mei family wanted to arrange a marriage for me, to marry the son of the wealthy Li family, so that I could live my whole life in a village in Mingzhou Prefecture."

"I was unwilling and unable to persuade the Mei couple, so I burned them to death, sold the family's land, and came to the capital."

Mei Xingyue spoke calmly, as if burning her own parents to death was a common occurrence in her eyes.

Chen Wenyu couldn't stand it anymore and shouted angrily, "You poisonous woman, you burned your own parents to death and you have no remorse whatsoever. You are worse than an animal."

A group of officials also angrily berated Mei Xingyue.

No wonder she was able to raise three devilish children; it turns out she herself was a devil!

The Crown Prince was also full of confusion: "Xingyue...why did you do this? If you didn't want to marry, you could have just said so. Why did you set fire to the house and kill people?"

Mei Xingyue chuckled and glanced at everyone present.

Apart from Bai Xiaoxiao on the dragon throne, the eldest princess and Zhou Wei standing in the hall, the room was filled with men.

"Simply tell your parents properly?" Mei Xingyue sneered. "Your Highness is truly naive. I was born a woman, and who has ever cared about a woman's thoughts?"

"Your Highness believes that expressing your unwillingness will earn you understanding, but is that really the case?"

“We women are born inferior, suffering from the very first day we are born into this world. Has anyone ever wanted to hear what we have to say?”

Aside from the sorrow in the hearts of the women present, all the men looked on with disdain at Mei Xingyue's words.

Even well-read scholars like Chen Wenyu and Li An felt that Mei Xingyue's words were exaggerated and merely an excuse for her misdeeds.

Zhou Wei sighed inwardly. Mei Xingyue was indeed pitiful, but she was also hateful!

Women are born pitiful, so they should not become accomplices. However, Mei Xingyue understood the suffering of being a woman, yet she still transferred the misery onto other women.

“Xingyue, you are too extreme,” the Crown Prince said with a pained expression. “The Mei family only has you as their daughter, and they have hired famous teachers to educate you since you were a child. Yet you have the worst intentions towards them. You really shouldn’t have done that.”

Mei Xingyue remained unfazed by the accusations.

He chuckled self-deprecatingly and said, "Me, presuming they are the most malicious? Your Highness was born a prince, of high status, how could you know the kind of suffering a woman like me lives in?"

“I am not deceiving Your Highness by saying that I am a goddess, because I do indeed come from another world.”

Upon hearing this, everyone was shocked!

Some people already believe that Mei Xingyue is seriously injured, causing her to become delirious and talk nonsense.

The eldest princess stared at her thoughtfully, a hint of understanding flashing in her eyes.

Zhou Wei finally understood what Mei Xingyue was trying to do, and she couldn't help but shake her head in disappointment.

woman!

Even on the verge of death, she was still thinking about love for men.

The Crown Prince couldn't understand Mei Xingyue's words, so he could only ask her, "Another world, Xingyue, what does this mean?"

Mei Xingyue took a deep breath; the sharp pain in her lungs made her break out in a cold sweat.

But when facing the Crown Prince, she still slowly recounted her life experiences before she transmigrated!

As Mei Xingyue recounted her story, a vicious and shrewish image came to mind for everyone.

Mei Xingyue's life before her time travel was like a microcosm of countless other women who suffered persecution.

Some people listened with a sigh, while others didn't care at all, treating it as just a story, since these things had nothing to do with them, these men.

Only the Crown Prince's expression kept changing, and his lips were trembling.

As Mei Xingyue spoke, she observed the Crown Prince. Seeing his strong reaction, she felt extremely pleased.

"So, Your Highness, I really am a goddess, a goddess who was reincarnated from another world and brought to the Great Zhou!"

The crown prince's face grew increasingly pale, turning somewhat bluish-purple.

Seeing this, Mei Xingyue's smile grew even wider: "I came to the Great Zhou, burned my own parents to death, and fell in love with Your Highness at first sight in the capital."

"Besides my beauty, Your Highness also admires my refined and unconventional character, which is untainted by worldly affairs. Your Highness feels that I am different from the ordinary women in this world."

“I, Mei Xingyue, am unique, the most special, and an irreplaceable lotus in Your Highness’s heart.”

With each word Mei Xingyue spoke, the Crown Prince's expression darkened further.

Until Mei Xingyue said, "But the Crown Prince doesn't know that as noble as I am, in another world, I married a fool, drowned my daughter in a chamber pot, and after giving birth to three sons, I became a notorious shrew in the surrounding villages."

“Everyone in the village is afraid of me. I use foul language, throw tantrums on the ground, extort money from people in the village, and do everything that rural women do.”

Seeing that the Crown Prince was already on the verge of collapse, Mei Xingyue had no intention of letting him go.

"When I, in this physical form, make love with Your Highness, whispering sweet nothings in your ear, do you ever imagine that inside this body lies the soul of an old woman, utterly vulgar and despicable?"

Hiccup—

The crown prince could no longer hold back and rushed to a corner of the hall, where he began to vomit violently!