The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law-Chapter 952 - 946: The Outcome of Jin Fengzhao

"Jin Fengzhao, how dare you come to me? What gives you the right to hit me, you shameless bastard who emerged from nowhere? I’m going to fight you to the end."

Thus, Jin Fengzhao and Concubine Xu grappled with each other.

The maids and older servants, upon seeing this, panicked and hurried forward to separate the two, until a commanding male voice came from behind.

"What are you doing?" Xiao Jinfei, twenty-seven or twenty-eight, had already grown a light beard.

His slightly dark skin and firmly set features on a tall frame left no doubt that he was a man long accustomed to the battlefield.

The two stopped fighting, and right away, Concubine Xu began to cry softly.

"General, she hit me."

"You little wretch, don’t play the victim first, Jinfei. This wretched girl disrespects me and even insults me."

"I did not!" Concubine Xu protested to Xiao Jinfei through her tears. "General, I was merely reminding Madam that she is no longer a princess and should not constantly refer to herself as if she still were in the Imperial Palace. It would be a crime of deceiving the emperor if word got out... but Madam, without a word, started hitting me with a stick."

"You..." Jin Fengzhao swayed, glaring ferociously at Concubine Xu. "It’s none of your business to interfere in my affairs."

"Silence." Xiao Jinfei spoke sternly. "Madam Xu is right; you better understand your position."

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"My own position?" Jin Fengzhao muttered to herself, nearly unable to stand steady.

Seeing the triumphant smile on Concubine Xu’s face made her so furious that she nearly fainted.

She pointed at the man and yelled fiercely, "Xiao Jinfei, you are just a vain and greedy man. When I was a princess, you married me and only then did you receive your military rank. Now that I am no longer a princess, you discard me like a worn shoe. You are heartless..."

"Heartless?" Xiao Jinfei looked at her indifferently. "You’re talking to me about heartlessness? Do I need to remind you of how you came to marry me?"

Jin Fengzhao turned pale and stepped back.

Xiao Jinfei let go of Concubine Xu and advanced two steps forward.

His gaze filled with unresolvable hatred.

"You are four years older than me. To force me into marriage, you begged the emperor for a decree. Because of you, I had to marry at the age of twelve. Riding on horseback to the Imperial Palace for the wedding, all of Beijing stood by the roadside and laughed at me; this has been the shame of my life."

He still remembered the quietly mocking laughter of the onlookers.

That year, he was only twelve, dressed in the festive garb of a groom, marrying a princess, while everyone laughed that he wouldn’t know how to consummate the marriage...

This humiliation had followed him for more than a decade.

But for the Xiao Family, and for Jin Zijin, he had endured it all.

What does the Imperial Family want now? They already know she is a fraud, so why not simply execute her? Why send her back to continue humiliating him?

Xiao Jinfei’s eyes, venomous as a snake’s, made Jin Fengzhao slightly afraid. She said, "I remember when you were a child, you liked to play with me."

As a child, he did not know his cousin was fake; he found her pitiable because she had lost her mother young and was always bullied by the Empress in the palace.

But later, her arrogance became apparent, and even the Empress couldn’t bully her. Once he knew she wasn’t his real cousin, his disgust only grew.

Remembering their past interactions only deepened his revulsion.

Xiao Jinfei scoffed coldly and said indifferently, "Jin Fengzhao has damaged the virtues expected of a wife, indulged in pride, and exhibits disruptive and domineering behavior, truly unfit to be the wife of this general. As of today, she is demoted to a lowly concubine."