Rebirth: The Journey of an Heiress novel Chapter 87

Chapter 87: Chapter 86: Poor Person_1

“Protect the Fourth Madam!” Mrs. Dong shouted, her eyes wide open.

Xiao Rongyan’s guards moved swiftly, catching Fourth Madam Wang just an inch away from the coffin.

Bai Qingyan felt her whole body tense up, as if a bucket of hot oil had been poured over her heart. Only when she saw her fourth aunt being held tightly by Xiao Rongyan’s guard, did she slowly relax the hand clenched in her sleeve.

Mrs. Dong rushed over, hugging Fourth Madam, choked, “Fourth sister-in-law! You must not do anything foolish!”

“That damned King Xin! Heartless dog! What right does he have to treat the Bai family this way? What right does he have to treat my son like this? Oh, heaven! Are you blind? Why didn’t you let that dog King Xin die on the battlefield? Why didn’t he die!”

The frail Fourth Madam had nothing left to fear after the deaths of her husband and son. Regardless of the Royal Family or the emperor’s son, she had resolved to die. Could she not curse once freely?!

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“Mother!”

“Mother!”

The Fifth and Sixth girls rushed over, kneeling and hugging Fourth Madam’s legs, crying.

“Mother, we’ve already lost our grandfather and father! We can’t lose you too!” Sixth Miss Bai Jinhua choked through her tears.

Fifth Miss Bai Jinzhao cried, “Though we are not your biological daughters, you raised us from childhood. You are our real mother… If you follow Father and Brother, what will we do?!”

Fourth Madam Wang lowered her head to look at the pair of twin concubine daughters clinging to her legs. Her heart softened, and she collapsed, hugging the two girls and weeping bitterly.

That day, King Xin returned to the city with the Duke’s and the Bai family’s young master’s remains in paper-thin coffins. When the Bai family’s seventeen sons went to war, they had barely grown as tall as horses. Arriving back from the battlefield, King Xin cruelly brought back the young master’s head, unsewn. It was an unforgivable insult!

At just ten years old, the child fought for his country and died a tragic death. His stomach was found full of dirt and tree roots… Jin had been prosperous with the Bai family guarding it. Who of the children in Jin’s good times had ever starved?! Even street beggars had likely never eaten dirt and tree roots.

Yet this cowardly, evil Prince, a grown man taller than a horse, had committed such atrocities. Pushing all blame onto the noble and loyal dead, he was shameless and despicable.

Bai Qingyan gritted her teeth. After crying and going mad, hearing these military records again, she thought her heart had become numb. But still, her chest felt as if hot oil had been poured into it, and hatred burned fiercely.

With tears in her eyes, she took the bamboo slips from her mother, aunt, Bai Jintong, and Bai Jinzhi, held them close to her chest, and knelt solemnly in front of the Bai family’s spirit hall.

When she looked up, her eyes blazed like fire, and her entire being radiated intense killing intent, as if she had returned from a sea of blood and corpses. “Grandfather, Father, Uncles, and Brothers were persecuted by treacherous villains. Today, I vow before the loyal souls of the Bai family to seek justice for the wrongs done to our family. If Liu Huanzhang and King Xin don’t pay with their lives, I will not rest in peace even in death!”

With that, Bai Qingyan stood up decisively, her spine straight, and walked out of the Duke of Zhen’s mansion.