Chapter 1656 - 603: Speaking Up

"I’m not some real Lady who was deliberately switched at birth. I grew up with no father, no mother, just my younger brother and me depending on each other!"

"Princess Yongping galloped her horse down the street and trampled my brother to death right in front of me, and then... then forbade anyone to collect his body."

"...I racked my brains to set up that flawless fake-real swap, all just to take revenge on Princess Yongping and Prince Qi’s Mansion that enabled her!"

After Jingniang finished speaking, she took advantage of the moment before Wei Wuyou could react and stabbed her, leaving her gravely injured, even carving a long scar down her face.

After hurting someone, she tried to kill herself, but was rescued.

Emperor: ...

He didn’t care about any real or Fake Lady. As long as someone was connected to Prince Qi’s Mansion, they were to be confined until they died of old age!

Princess Qi, however, was not left to rot in confinement. She had always been proud and simply could not endure the humiliation of becoming a prisoner.

The whole "real vs Fake Lady" affair was the final straw that broke her.

She spat out a mouthful of blood and collapsed into illness.

She was ruthless too; she understood that as long as Prince Qi lived, the Emperor would never let Prince Qi’s Mansion off easily.

If Prince Qi died, perhaps the Emperor, remembering their former brotherhood, would leave a way out for the Heir of Prince Qi and the gravely injured Wei Wuyou.

So, Princess Qi seized the chance when Prince Qi came to care for her and dragged him to die with her.

Prince Qi and his wife died, and the Emperor did, indeed, soften.

He no longer kept the Heir of Prince Qi and the others confined, but instead stripped them of nobility, granted them a manor in the suburb of the capital, and sent them off to be simple farmers.

As for the real/Fake Lady pair, Wei Wuyou and Jingniang, one could not bear the blow of being disfigured and eventually went insane and died, while the other disappeared.

"This is the last time I’ll help you. I hope you can start over!"

Though the Ma Family was no longer as illustrious as before, she was still the daughter-in-law of the Marquis Mansion and the daughter of the Duke Mansion.

Helping Jingniang obtain a brand-new identity and sending her far away was still within her ability.

"Benefactor, you truly are a Living Bodhisattva who saves the suffering! Your great kindness and virtue, Jingniang will never forget in this lifetime!"

After undergoing another plastic surgery, Jingniang changed to a wholly new face. She left the Capital City and started over in a distant foreign land under the identity of a "new widow."

"Living Bodhisattva? Heh, more like a clay Bodhisattva that can barely save herself!"

The Ma Family watched Jingniang depart, laughing bitterly to herself again and again.

She hadn’t completed a single one of her tasks. She couldn’t leave the novel world ahead of time and could only keep butting heads with this Small World.

"Fine, butt heads it is! I refuse to believe Gu Jingyuan can stay glorious forever!"

Freed from the constraints of tasks, the Ma Family instead felt the burden lifted.

After the pain came clarity; she began to reflect and realized that it was her "overconfidence in the script" that had led to her failure.

She started using her Skill: making glass, making gunpowder, searching for high-yield crops, and at least securing some military achievements for her son.

She also laid out a scheme that pulled Gu Jingyuan down from his horse.

Because of "dereliction of duty," Gu Jingyuan was stripped all the way down, once again becoming a playboy who knew only how to idle away his days Waiting to Die.

Ahem, without He Tiantian’s involvement, the Ma Family finally revealed the terrifying combat power of a Wild Writer.

The scumbag Gu Jingyuan was punished miserably.

By this point, it wasn’t that the Ma Family didn’t want a divorce anymore; it was that Gu Jingyuan clung to her and refused to let go.

He Tiantian: ...

What is this supposed to be, some twisted "love-hate marriage"?!

But as for whatever happened to the Ma Family and the others, He Tiantian could no longer be bothered to get involved.

On the surface, she was still just a Medicinal Food Lady who knew a few folk remedies.

But in reality, the Royal Family valued her very highly and protected her in secret.

Of course, what the public saw was that she was close with the County Lord’s wife of Prince Dongchang’s Mansion, and that many noblewoman all held her in great esteem.

So even though He Tiantian never married, even though she held no titles at all, she still remained the most unique existence in the wealthy family circles of the Capital City.

She had no children, yet countless disciples and grand-disciples.

Her folk remedies also benefited innumerable people.

"Ding! Task of suppressing the Wild Writer completed, reward: 20 points!"

"Ding! Reward: 1000 achievement points."

"Ding! Received reader tips: 10,000 Dian Niang Coin!"

He Tiantian finally outlived the Ma Family. After confirming that there were no longer any Wild Writer altering the plot in this novel world, she left the novel world at the ripe age of ninety.

At the instant her Divine Soul departed, mechanical chimes rose one after another in the depths of He Tiantian’s sea of consciousness.

Student Xiao D was finally freed from Blocking and once more rolled up in front of He Tiantian.

"Tiantian, this time the task might be completed, but the爽度 just isn’t there!"

Student Xiao D sounded a bit disappointed.

It had wanted to watch two major writers go head-to-head.

In the end, He Tiantian kept dodging at every turn, refusing to face the Wild Writer head-on.