Reborn to Become A Queen: The Real Heiress's Comeback
Chapter 544: Who Resembles Whom!

Chapter 544: Chapter 544: Who Resembles Whom!

Zhan Lan stood silently watching the mother and daughter. She had seen everything that had just happened; Li seemed insane, hugging a scarecrow and calling out her name.

Zhan Xuerou shook Li’s body with her arms, trying to wake her up.

Li suddenly laughed, "My Lan’er has come!"

Zhan Xuerou twisted her arm, "Madwoman, Zhan Lan is now the Empress. Do you think she’d come to see you? Foolish!"

Li was hurt by Zhan Xuerou’s grip. She stood up and rushed toward the prison door, bypassing Zhan Xuerou.

The long iron chains made a piercing sound on the ground.

Zhan Xuerou turned her head abruptly and saw Zhan Lan in splendid attire.

Her stunning face, luxurious clothes, and accessories exuded the dignity of an Empress.

Behind her stood Xiao Tao and Qiuyue, both wearing bright outfits of top palace maidens, confidently and gracefully behind Zhan Lan.

Zhan Xuerou plopped onto the ground; Zhan Lan had arrived!

A person rises to power, and even those who betrayed her, like Qiuyue, now shine following Zhan Lan!

Now, in Nanjin, no, in the entire Dayu, no one can control Zhan Lan anymore.

Zhan Lan now holds the supreme power of Dayu and can do as she wishes.

Qiuyue looked at the young lady she used to serve. If she hadn’t looked closely, she couldn’t recognize the disheveled, wounded woman in front of her as Zhan Xuerou.

Luckily, everything is over. She’s met a good Master. If not for the Empress, she might still be imprisoned.

"Lan’er!" Li smiled lovingly at Zhan Lan, "Lan’er, you came to see your mother. I knew you were a good child!"

She was excited, but when she saw Zhan Lan’s incredibly cold expression, Li stiffened, her eyes welling with tears, "Lan’er, Mom was wrong. I shouldn’t have treated you that way. Mom realizes you’re the one who loves Mom the most."

Zhan Xuerou often beat and scolded her in prison, the hatred engraved deep in her bones.

In this lifetime, Zhan Xuerou would never be kind to her.

Maybe one day she’d die at Zhan Xuerou’s hands.

The more Zhan Xuerou treated her this way, the more she missed Zhan Lan’s kindness. How obedient Zhan Lan was before she turned fourteen!

Zhan Lan would save the food she didn’t want to eat for her.

Whatever she said at home was law, and Zhan Lan never contradicted her.

She feared the cold, so Zhan Lan moved the heater from her room into hers.

Her stomach was bad, Zhan Lan went to the mountain to find herbs for her, and even when she hurt her arm, she didn’t call.

She loved Buddhism, and young Zhan Lan knelt in the snow for two hours to get the abbot to give her the hand-copied Buddhist scriptures she loved most.

Thinking of all this, Li felt a lump in her throat.

Zhan Lan treated her so well, while she exhausted her thoughts tormenting Zhan Lan, or ordered Xiao Tao around.

Zhan Lan, though not her biological daughter, was a thousand times better than her actual daughter!

Through the iron bars of the cell, she knelt before Zhan Lan, "Mom was wrong, it’s all my fault, in the next life I’ll repay Lan’er as a horse or ox!"

Zhan Lan listened to Li’s heartfelt words and remained indifferent. Even if Li sincerely repented, she would never forgive her.

"I came today to tell you both—you can leave."

"What!" Zhan Xuerou got up excitedly, walked to the iron bars, and knelt gratefully before Zhan Lan, "Thank you, Empress, for your generosity. I am willing to repay your grace with my life."

Li looked incredulously at Zhan Lan. Zhan Lan wouldn’t let them go.

"Zhan Xuerou, you’re happy too soon. I don’t need you lowly ones. I just think you’re tired of the Ministry of Justice prison, and it’s time to let you go to the Ghost Market, brothel, or the border... Whether you’re whipped and scolded or become prostitutes or beggars, I allow you both to experience different lives."

Zhan Xuerou’s pupils dilated suddenly, trembling all over, feeling numb, Zhan Lan was going to send her to the Ghost Market as a slave, a brothel as a prostitute...

Zhan Xuerou’s expression went from excitement to fear, then deep terror, "No! Empress, I beg you to spare me. I will mend my ways. I won’t covet your things anymore!"

Li collapsed on the ground, also realizing Zhan Lan wouldn’t spare her.

How could she, in middle age, endure humiliation in such a place?

She put down the scarecrow, bowed her head to Zhan Lan, "Lan’er, Mom was wrong. I’ll listen to you, I sincerely repent. You might as well kill me!"

"Don’t call me Lan’er, and don’t call yourself my mother!" Zhan Lan saw Li’s false face, unable to hide her hatred. Everything originated because of her!

Li was silent, suddenly more lucid.

Zhan Lan glanced meaningfully at Zhan Xuerou and Li, letting them die tortured in a living hell!

After Zhan Lan left with Xiao Tao and Qiuyue, Zhan Xuerou glared at Li, spat at her.

"Pah, look how disgusting you are, being subservient, yet gaining no sympathy, serves you right!"

Li ignored Zhan Xuerou. Had she known Zhan Xuerou would grow to be like this, she’d rather have strangled her at birth.

With nowhere to vent her fury, Zhan Xuerou grabbed Li’s hair from behind.

Li was pulled down, feeling her scalp tear painfully.

Unable to stand it, Li cursed, "Zhan Xuerou, you will get your comeuppance, hitting your own mother, you’re heartless!"

Zhan Xuerou gritted her teeth and yanked Li’s hair hard, "Heartless? That’s what you gave birth to, like mother, like daughter!"

Li, tearfully, said, "I should’ve just killed you when you were born!"

Zhan Xuerou’s eyes turned vicious hearing Li’s words, "You want to kill me?"

Li, in panic, blurting impulsively, hesitated and didn’t answer.

Suddenly, Li felt tight on her neck, struggling to breathe, Zhan Xuerou gripped her throat.

Li tugged at Zhan Xuerou’s hand, her ungrateful daughter. Didn’t she remember how she sacrificed ten years for Zhan Xuerou?

Zhan Xuerou clearly intended to kill her!

Zhan Xuerou exerted all her strength, Li, fighting for survival, pushed Zhan Xuerou, her fingernails inadvertently leaving deep scratches on Zhan Xuerou’s cheek.

Zhan Xuerou screamed and violently shoved Li away.