"How did you end up like this?" Xia Siheng's expression remained indifferent as he glanced toward Liu Wan's study again.
To beat someone into this state, Wan'er's hands must have hurt terribly.
The thought made Xia Siheng's heart ache.
A trace of it showed on his face.
Ruyun thought it was meant for her.
She wept. "As you instructed yesterday, I brought the Jade Seal and the Account Books to the Princess Consort. But not only did she refuse to let me into the study, she even had the maid from the palace beat me like this."
"Prince, it doesn't matter if I suffer a little injustice, but I was acting on your orders! I... have never endured such humiliation."
"If the Princess were still here, she would never let anyone bully one of her own..."
As Ruyun spoke, tears pattered down.
Her face and mouth were swollen red.
The tears soaking them only made them hurt more.
"My mother had someone beat you?"
Xia Wanwan tilted her head as she asked, her face full of concern, innocent and adorable.
"Yes!"
Ruyun answered without hesitation. If she could turn mother and daughter against each other, so much the better.
Xia Wanwan nodded, then smiled at Xia Siheng. "Father, thank goodness Mother didn't do it herself."
"Why?" Xia Siheng's eyes brimmed with tenderness.
"If Mother didn't do it herself, her hands won't hurt. When Mother hits someone, her hands get ouchies, and Wanwan feels sad."
She blinked her big eyes as she spoke.
Xia Siheng gently rubbed her little head. "Father thought the same thing."
Ruyun was utterly dumbfounded!
What did they mean, the Princess Consort's hands wouldn't hurt?
She had been beaten into this state!
How could the Prince ignore her?
Even after she brought up the Princess, he still