She felt utterly chilled to the heart. Gritting her teeth, she crawled on her knees toward Xi Hanzhou, her face covered in tears as she pleaded, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, you must not listen to the slanderous rumors of vile people!"
"My daughter is still young and doesn't understand anything. She doesn't understand the relations between men and women at all. She's merely a little too fond of playing and eating. She..."
"Shut up. Don't say anything more." Before Xi Hanzhou could grow impatient, Prime Minister Su strode forward, yanked her to her feet, and flung her aside.
"Get back there and think carefully about how you've raised your daughter all these years. You took a perfectly good daughter and raised her into someone so foolish and hopeless."
Xi Hanzhou raised his brows and said leisurely, "Could the difference really be because her birth mother was unpresentable?"
"From the looks of it, Qiao'er's mother was indeed, as the rumors say, a well-read, reasonable, gentle, virtuous, and accomplished noble lady who knew how to manage the inner household. Otherwise, after she left, the entire Prime Minister's Estate wouldn't have descended into such chaos, while Qiao'er, despite having no one to teach her, wouldn't still have grown into such an outstanding, sensible, and proper young lady. Truly, this is my good fortune."
"Cough, cough." Su Qiao coughed lightly several times, suddenly feeling a little embarrassed.
You're scolding them, so scold them. Why are you praising her too?
Prime Minister Su's expression was already beyond merely ugly, yet he still couldn't utter a single word of rebuttal.
That was because everything the Crown Prince had said was true. Not one word was false.
As for Madam Su, she was so furious that her eyes rolled back, and she finally fainted.
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