Chapter 1713 - : Punish Her Again
Once Huo Yunshen gave the order, two guards came out from his side. They pressed Jin Hua down. One of them pressed her left hand to the ground. He used a sharp dagger and with a thump, he cut off the ring finger on her left hand straight away.
“Ahhh!!!” Jin Hua wailed in pain.
The guard removed the ring from her chopped-off finger, wiped it clean, put it on a towel, and handed it to the king.
Huo Yunshen took back the ring and held it in the palm of his hand. He said furiously, “You are not worthy to have this ring!”
After he finished speaking, he said to the guard, “If she is not willing to talk, punish her again!”
The guard received the command and looked like he was about to cut off her other fingers. Jin Hua’s entire body trembled from the pain. At this moment, she had a deep realization that she had angered a person she shouldn’t have. She no longer dared to impersonate Jing Xi.
She had no choice but to speak the truth. “I will speak… I will speak… don’t kill me…”
The guard let go of her hand. Jin Hua crawled on the floor and cried heavily. She said while her lips trembled, “I… I am an imposter… I had plastic surgery… that ring… is not mine…”
“Where did the ring come from?” Huo Yunshen asked again.
Since Jin Hua couldn’t become the queen, she also didn’t want to let Jin Xiaoxi have that life. That’s why when the king asked her, she lied again. “I picked it up on the beach in the past… I don’t know who it belongs to!”
“I will chop off your head if I find out you muttered even half a lie!”
“I…I… wouldn’t dare… your majesty… forgive me please, your majesty…”
“You should’ve known this would be the result when you were impersonating Jing Xi. If I forgave you, how would I be able to face Jing Xi? Guards! Lock this lying wench in prison!”
At this time, Jing Xi frantically ran in from the outside. She begged for mercy. “Your majesty, please forgive her!”
Huo Yunshen turned around and saw a panting woman at the front of the floor. He said coldly, “What right do you have to beg mercy for her?”
“Your majesty! I know my sister had plastic surgery to look like Jing Xi. It is unforgivable for her to impersonate Jing Xi. However, as you are wise and brilliant, don’t punish her. She only became mad from wanting to become the queen!”
The reason why Jing Xi begged forgiveness for her was mainly that she wanted to show the last bit of kindness to Jin Laohan by protecting his daughter on their behalf. She also hoped to use this chance to educate Jin Hua properly. That she should live with the proper attitude from today onwards and stop indulging in daydreams.
It wasn’t clear what Huo Yunshen was thinking when he heard what she said. He stayed silent for a while before agreeing unexpectedly.
“Then I will spare her from death. However, from today onwards, her entire family will have to leave the Dragon Kingdom and return to Starstan. They can never come back again.”
This was the greatest forgiveness Huo Yunshen showed to the Jin family on Jin Xiaoxi’s behalf.
Jing Xi immediately knelt down when she heard the king wanted the entire Jin family to leave the Dragon Kingdom. “Your majesty, do you mean I have to go back to Starstan as well?”
Jing Xi was finally able to have a career in the Dragon Kingdom after great difficulty. She wanted to keep on singing and didn’t want to leave!
Huo Yunshen already got up and was about to leave. At that moment, he turned his head and glanced at her. He said, sounding indifferent, “You are exempt.”
Jing Xi let out a sigh of relief. “Thank you! Thank you, your majesty, for your mercy!”
After the king left, Jing Xi helped Jin Hua up from the floor. She picked up her finger and sent her out of the palace.
Jin Hua was completely scared stiff and even her nerves were shattered from being scared. All the while, she looked expressionless and didn’t recover.
Her finger had been chopped off and she was still bleeding. She looked completely battered and exhausted.
Outside the palace door, Jing Xi sat Jin Hua down first and then called an ambulance.
When the ambulance arrived, Jing Xi took the opportunity to say, “Sis, return the ring to me!”
“Gone… it’s gone…,” Jin Hua murmured as if her soul had left her. Jing Xi looked at her chopped-off finger and guessed the ring might have fallen off when they chopped off her finger. She would look for it later once she returned.
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