Chapter 48: Infighting and Estrangement in the Qin Princes Mansion

Chapter 48: Infighting and Estrangement in the Qin Princes Mansion

She knew nothing about the secret discussion between Qin Zhenbei and the Family elders.

The memory flashback she witnessed in the Yaochi Sacred Land made it even harder for her to believe.

She never would have dreamt that Qin Zhenbei would commit such a vile act, framing his own son just to obtain the Supreme Bone.

It was simply shocking!

She did not lash out in the Yaochi Sacred Land because she did not want to put Qin Zhenbei in the line of fire.

But that did not mean she had no anger or resentment in her heart.

Now that they had just left the Yaochi Sacred Land, Shangguan Ya could no longer control the anger in her heart and unleashed it all upon Qin Zhenbei.

"You are the exalted Qin Prince, how could you be so heartless and unrighteous? Qin Xuan and Hao'er are both our children! We already owed Qin Xuan so much when we chose to abandon him. After the Saint Doctor healed him, how could you, how could you possibly covet the Supreme Bone within his body and treat him with such vicious means!?"

Shangguan Ya's tears fell like rain.

Thinking of every little detail from when she had believed Qin Zhenbei's one-sided words and falsely accused Qin Xuan.

It was no different than casting her, as a mother, into an endless Hell, to suffer endless torment and torture!

Self-reproach and regret left Shangguan Ya unable to extricate herself from this abyss of pain and despair.

Qin Zhenbei gritted his teeth, "Others may not understand or know, but must you and I, husband and wife, also harbor suspicions and turn against each other?"

"That person in the Ziyang Imperial Capital, in order to prevent my Qin Family from having the opportunity to produce an Emperor, did not hesitate to have the Saint Doctor cut off Qin Xuan's future."

"Everything he did was merely to keep our Qin Princes Mansion firmly under his control, to do with as he pleases."

"Whenever he is unhappy, he can destroy my Qin Princes Mansion at any time."

"Everything I did was for the sake of the Qin Princes Mansion, for our Qin Family! To gamble for that sliver of opportunity!"

The elders of the Qin Family chimed in to persuade her, "His Highness has good intentions, Your Highness, you cannot hurt His Highness's heart like this."

Shangguan Ya turned her head and glared at them, "All of you, shut up!"

She pointed her finger at these accomplices who had framed her son, "If it weren't for you, Qin Xuan would not have been expelled from the Qin Family. If you had the slightest regard for blood kinship and offered even a little bit of advice, things would not have reached such an irredeemable state!"

With a sneer on her face, she stared at Qin Zhenbei and said cuttingly, "Everything you say is for the sake of the Qin Princes Mansion and the Qin Family? Then, I ask you!"

"Just now, Qin Xuan already crushed the Supreme Bone, so why are you still being so aggressive? Why did you force the Yaochi Sacred Land to attack him, as if you are afraid that he might live well?"

"He is our child, not an enemy. Why can you not wish for him to have even a little bit of goodness!?"

Qin Zhenbei lowered his head, anger bursting in his eyes. When he looked up, he roared, "That is because he deserves to die!"

"As a member of the Qin Family Bloodline, he defied his superiors, disregarded his father's dignity, and repeatedly humiliated me, his father, in public. His heart deserves to be punished!"

"If he does not die, my Qin Princes Mansion will never have peace in the future!"

Qin Zhenbei felt regret in his heart, regret to the point of heartbreak.

But the deed was done, and it could not be undone.

He could only continue on this wrong path.

As the perpetrator, he knew better than anyone how aggrieved Qin Xuan was.

That grievance would have to be washed away with blood.

If he did not kill Qin Xuan, his Qin Princes Mansion would inevitably face crazy retaliation in the future!

Shangguan Ya shook her head desolately, "Even now, you still cannot recognize your own mistakes and insist on continuing down this wrong path."

"Forget it. I, this biased mother, have caused no less harm to Qin Xuan than you have, so I have no right to continue blaming you."

"But!" Shangguan Ya stared straight into Qin Zhenbei's eyes, her fists clenched, and said with hatred, "I am telling you, Qin Zhenbei, if I ever find out again that you dare to lay a hand on Qin Xuan, if you hurt a single hair on his head, I, Shangguan Ya, will kill one person from your Qin Family. If you move a single finger of his, I will take your life, Qin Zhenbei!"

She looked at Qin Hao, who had already woken up, and said with disappointment yet reluctance, "Hao'er, come with me, Mother will take you to the Butian Holy Land."

Qin Hao lowered his head, pondered for a long time, and then replied, "Mother, I want to return to the Qin Family. When the Butian Holy Land Saint trial begins, I will come to find you."

He could not agree with his mother's current thoughts.

His resentment toward Qin Xuan was even deeper.

It was Qin Xuan who caused him to lose all face.

It was Qin Xuan who caused him to lose his complete Supreme Bone.

It was even more Qin Xuan who took away the mother who had originally loved him wholeheartedly.

He would absolutely not allow himself to lose to Qin Xuan again.

He could feel that the Supreme Bone powder obtained by his father had a subtle resonance with the incomplete Supreme Bone in his body.

If those bone powders were integrated into his body, it might not be impossible to forge a complete Supreme Bone that truly belonged to him!

"Hao'er, you must know that Qin Xuan is your older brother, your sibling, your own flesh and blood from the same father and mother!" Shangguan Ya saw the hatred in Qin Hao's eyes clearly.

She could turn hostile and heartless toward Qin Zhenbei, but she uniquely had no way to rebuke Qin Hao or scold him!

Qin Hao lowered his head and said nothing.

Shangguan Ya lifted her head in disappointment, letting her tears flow backward. When she looked at Qin Zhenbei again, her expression was full of indifference, "Qin Zhenbei, you and I were once husband and wife. The scene of brothers killing each other today is entirely our fault."

"You should not, and even more so must not, let Hao'er be blinded by hatred. Otherwise, one day, the current state of Ye Feng of the Yaochi Sacred Land will be Hao'er's future!"

Shangguan Ya's heart ached unbearably; she could not imagine the desperate scene of brothers killing each other.

She could not forgive these Qin Princes Mansion elders who had meticulously plotted to frame her child.

She could not forgive herself even more for having once been an accomplice and treating Qin Xuan with cold eyes.

Perhaps those three kowtows were Qin Xuan's final attempt to hold onto her as his mother.

And she had failed to seize that opportunity.

When he was young, Qin Xuan was coldly abandoned by the Qin Princes Mansion because his Supreme Bone was misdiagnosed as a terminal illness.

After growing up and returning to the Qin Princes Mansion, not only did he not receive the love he deserved, but he was framed by his biological father and treated with bias by her, his mother.

She owed Qin Xuan too much.

So much so that now that she realized her mistakes, she did not know how to make up for them.

As a mother, she didn't even have the courage to see Qin Xuan one more time.

She did not have that qualification.

Furthermore, she had not fulfilled even a shred of a mother's duty to care for her child.

Qin Hao only heard the words "the current state of Ye Feng is his future." He clenched his fists so tightly that his fingernails dug into his flesh, yet he was completely unaware. He turned his head, looked at Qin Zhenbei, and said, "Father, I do not want to lose, I cannot lose to Qin Xuan again!"

"I will let Mother know that your choice back then was correct. Qin Xuan is not as good as me; sooner or later, I will leave him far behind!"

The emotion in the depths of Qin Zhenbei's heart became hardened once again under Qin Hao's determined gaze. He took out the Supreme Bone powder and handed it to Qin Hao, saying, "This bone powder still retains the divine charm of the Supreme Bone. Absorb it into your body in time, and it may be able to make up for the Innate deficiency of the Supreme Bone in your body."

He regretted it, regret that was too late.

But he could not admit his mistake, and he absolutely could not admit defeat.

He would exhaust the power of the Qin Princes Mansion to let Shangguan Ya know, and to let his father know.

That his choice back then was correct.

That he was thinking for the sake of the Qin Princes Mansion, for the overall situation!

Sooner or later, his Hao'er would trample Qin Xuan underfoot.

"Even if brothers break their bones, they are still connected by tendons; why has it come to this!?"

Shangguan Ya, disappointed to the extreme, could no longer bring herself to dissuade them. She could only leave desolately and part ways with the people of the Qin Princes Mansion.

She stared in the direction of the Yaochi Sacred Land, her beautiful eyes moved, her eye sockets filled with mist, and her choked voice trembled, "Xuan'er, Mother was wrong!"