Chapter 120: What on you isn't mine?

  Yan Beiting's face suddenly sank, and a strong killing intent swept through the entire hall once again.

  Three hundred lashes? Dare to move him, as if he doesn't exist?!

  Sheng Jinxiu handed the little princess she had just held in her arms back to Xianfei, and hastily walked forward. As she passed by Yan Beizheng's side, she said in a low voice: "Huajin, don't get angry first! I'll personally go deal with them!"

  After finishing speaking, she ran past Meng Qiuyu and rushed towards Zhou Shuibei.

  "Jin Xiu, I...I really didn't expect it. So you gave me the jewelry not for my own good...but to harm me?" Zhou Shui Bi's voice trembled as she spoke, her face filled with pain, before Jin Xiu could even get close to her.

  "Jinshu, I am your best friend?"

  "You clearly know that as a younger daughter in the family, I've been oppressed by my elders since childhood and bullied by my siblings. I've always dreamed of having a good marriage, and the Spring Festival banquet is my only chance! But you... how could you treat me like this?"

  She thought that after today, she would no longer have to look at the faces of the madam and those legitimate children, so she even didn't mind stepping on her own family members...

  "Sheng Jinxiu, all these years, I've been so good to you! You chased after the Second Prince, and I accompanied you through thick and thin!"

  "You write love letters for the Second Prince, and I'll help you think of words."

  "I put aside all my dignity for you, but you're harming me just because you can't keep the heart of the Second Prince?!"

  "Sheng Jinshu! I never want to be friends with you again! I'm going to cut ties with you completely!"

  She not only had to step on Sheng Jinxiu to climb up, but also had to cut off the Regent's thoughts of Sheng Jinxiu.

  But... she herself was of course magnanimous and kind —

  "With a thud" she knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty! Empress Dowager, Empress! I, your subject, was blind and couldn't distinguish between good and evil. I dressed up like this to attend the Spring Day banquet, deceiving everyone's eyes. I am ashamed, remorseful, and indignant!"

  "My daughter will break off all relations with Sheng Jin'ou in public today!"

  "But my daughter and Sheng Jinshu have a deep emotional bond, she is unfilial, my daughter cannot be unrighteous! My daughter dares to plead for her... three hundred lashes will take her life, although she has harmed my daughter with cruel intentions, the crime does not deserve death..."

  "My daughter requests Her Majesty the Empress to reduce the three hundred strokes of the rod to one hundred..."

  "Hmm?" Sheng Jinxiu smiled and said: "Zhou Shui Bi, are you done speaking?"

  Zhou Shui Bi was taken aback for a moment, then turned her head back to face Shang Jing Xiu's pair of icy and profound eyes. The gaze in those eyes carried the sharpness she had seen before, which made her feel somewhat fearful and apprehensive!

  How come?

  How could Sheng Jinxiu look at her with such eyes?

  Is this still the same extremely foolish Sheng Jinxiu?

  It's not... necessarily that she misjudged, how could Sheng Jinyu make people feel afraid?

  "Jin Shu! You're hurting me like this, I don't want to say anything else to you!"

  "Please beg Her Majesty the Empress to agree to change the three hundred strokes of the cane to one hundred! After all, you are just a woman... Ah!"

  Zhou Shui Bi's words were cut off as his face suddenly received a heavy slap.

  It was Sheng Jinxiu who hit it!

  "Slap!" A loud slap with great force.

  She was caught off guard and fell directly to the ground.

  "Am I bothering you?"

  "I didn't know this set of jewelry would make people look ugly when worn!"

  "But isn't this set of jewelry what you wanted yourself?"

  "This is what I wanted... but this is what you gave me!" Zhou Shui Bi didn't expect Sheng Jin Xiu to slap her in public, she widened her eyes and covered her face.

  "The jewelry was mine to give you, wasn't it? The priceless jewelry, if you want it, I'll give it to you."

  "But why did you say that this set of jewelry was given by me alone?"

  "Isn't the beautiful skirt you're wearing made from the fabric I gave you?"

  Sheng Jinshu chased after him, picked up Zhou Shui Bi from the ground with one hand, and slapped her on the other side of her face again.

  "Bang!"

  "Didn't you take those embroidered shoes on your feet from my family's store?"

  "Bang! Bang!"

  "Didn't I give you that eyebrow pencil?"

  "Bang! Bang! Bang!"

  "Isn't the perfume you're using the one I gave you?"

  "Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

  "Isn't the lip balm you're using the one I gave you?"

  "Bang bang......bang bang bang!"

  "Which of these things you've been eating, wearing and using over the years wasn't given to you by me, Sheng Jinshu?"