The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

......Princess Jinxiang, when did you become so familiar with Princess Fengning?

Princess Cheng'an worried for a moment out of habit, but quickly forced herself to let it go.

Princess Fengning noticed her elder sister's gaze and took the little county lady from the Princess with a smile: "Okay, okay, Auntie will hold you."

The joy on her face seemed out of place with the solemn atmosphere in the palace at the moment, but Lu Zaiguang didn't care much. He picked up the little county lady and stood up to pay his respects to the emperor and empress, then said in a brisk tone: "Don't let my niece get suffocated by so many people. Father, mother, I will take her to the side hall to relax."

The emperor didn't respond much. Xie Yuzhen nodded at her and said, "Go ahead."

Princess Fengning left leisurely under the envious gaze of Princess Yongtai.

As soon as they left, the Princess stood up and explained in a calm and even indifferent tone how the Prince of Jinxiang was approached by the Hongyang Cult, how he was easily persuaded by the other party, and how he decided to kill his father and mother without any hesitation... everything was explained in detail.

The Princess of a County Prince was also a daughter of an official. She had studied with her father and brothers since she was young and was quite talented. Unfortunately, when she was ten years old, she was thrown back to the backyard to learn how to take care of household affairs from her mother. Later, when the Prince of Jinxiang was about to get married, Princess Cheng'an was impressed by her knowledge and ability, so she personally asked the emperor to hire her for the Prince of Jinxiang.

However, the Prince of Jinxiang did not like his wife, who was very eloquent and capable, because her appearance was only decent and she was always better than the Prince of Jinxiang in poetry and literature, which made him dislike her even more.

As for the Princess of the County, she had long since given up hope on this husband who was always incompetent and furious, and only knew how to have affairs with other men. But similarly, she didn't feel very close to her sister-in-law, Princess Cheng'an.

It can even be said that the two have always been vaguely opposed to each other.

What the Princess was concerned about was not the fact that Princess Cheng'an chose her as the wife of Prince Jinxiang, but the fact that whenever there was something wrong between the siblings, Prince Jinxiang would always take it out on her, insulting and blaming her. Although Princess Cheng'an would try to persuade him, after that, what the Princess would often receive was double the humiliation and cold treatment.

Of course, that’s all.

What the Princess couldn't tolerate the most was that the brother and sister were fighting each other and even had to use their own daughter as a stake!

Therefore, when Princess Fengning showed some signs of closeness, the Princess accepted the olive branch without hesitation. She had no psychological barriers to betraying her husband and aunt, and never hesitated at all.

As she gradually uncovered what the Prince of Jinxiang had done - colluding with a cult, assassinating his king and father, murdering his brothers, and even trying to push his sister, who had always been very kind to him, to block the knife in order to appear real enough when the first assassination happened.

"...If it weren't for His Highness Cheng'an's good luck and his ankle just happened to be sprained, the knife would have stabbed you." After the Princess finished speaking, she pulled the corners of her mouth stiffly and whispered, "The foster mother killed the biological mother, and the brother killed the sister... It's really interesting."

Princess Cheng'an clenched her fingers, and all the muscles in her body suddenly tensed and stiffened. She was angry, felt it was ridiculous, and was filled with sadness. She didn't know what to say.

The Prince of Jinxiang, who had also heard the charges clearly, lost his quick wit to defend himself at this moment, and his eyes were blank: "How could it be... Impossible... Impossible..."

He turned his head suddenly and took two steps on his knees towards Princess Cheng An: "Mother is such a gentle person, how could it be possible... Sister! Sister! It must be someone else who instigated it!"

The hot tears and the blood on his face flowed down, making the Prince of Jinxiang look even more embarrassed: "Sister!"

"Sister! Look at me!"

"I..." He choked and cried, "I didn't mean to kill you. I just... I just subconsciously wanted to run. I don't know why they would really point a knife at you. I... I told them! I confessed!"

Princess Cheng An looked at Lu Jingcheng, gritted her teeth, and scratched her palm with her fingers: "It's meaningless to say this now. Don't look at me, don't call me, no matter what you do in the future, I won't care about you anymore!"

After she finished speaking these words, which sounded full of blood, she hurriedly stood up and walked out of the palace, not caring whether her action was disrespectful in front of the emperor. She ran away aimlessly with stiff hands and feet in the opposite direction of the family member who was once the most important to her.

Princess Yongtai stood up immediately upon seeing this and said, "Father, Your Majesty, Mother, I will go and look after my sister."

"Go." This time, it was the emperor who spoke.

After saying this, he looked at the Prince of Jinxiang, who was sitting on the ground like a lost soul: "The Prince of Jinxiang will be demoted to a commoner and will be poisoned to death on a chosen day. His bloodline will be confined to the ancestral mausoleum."

"Princess Gao, the princess of the county, has made meritorious reports to the emperor. She is allowed to divorce and be granted the title of county princess and return home."

Lu Jingcheng was completely unresponsive and lying there like a corpse.

The princess knelt down calmly to express her gratitude.

Seeing this, Xie Yuzhen added, "Your daughter is of royal blood after all. Considering your willingness to sacrifice your own family for the greater good, I will not have her confined to the ancestral mausoleum. I would like to raise her in the Princess's mansion and you can visit her from time to time. Do you have any objections?"

Princess Gao: "I thank the Queen for her grace."

Finished dealing with this family's affairs.

The Prince of Jinxiang and the people of the Hongyang Sect were taken away and imprisoned by the Yulin Guards. Gao, who was promoted from the Princess of Jinxiang to the Princess of the County, went to the side hall to stay with her daughter.

The shouting and screaming outside the palace never stopped.

But the atmosphere in the bedroom always maintained a very strange sense of solidification.

This made the Sixth Prince very uneasy.

The emperor, who had not seen his son much in the past decade, was staring at him: "Xiao Liu, you saw what happened to your second brother. Do you understand why he became like this? Are you afraid?"

The father's voice was cold and erratic, like the sound of a poisonous snake.

The Sixth Prince subconsciously hid himself behind Concubine Chen Hui: "I understand. I am... afraid."

If you know that you don’t have the ability, you shouldn’t have unrealistic fantasies; if you know how to cherish the people around you, you won’t regret losing them; understand the fear of death and keep it in mind.

"Remember this fear." The emperor said calmly, "Liupin, take Xiaoliu to rest. Huifei, go outside and take a look. Once the fighting is over, come back immediately."

Everyone received the order and left.

Only the emperor and the empress were left sitting in the bedroom.

The emperor suddenly covered his chest and coughed a few times, with a bright red tinge on the corners of his lips: "If I die, this thing will indeed dissipate with me, right?"

"I can guarantee that there will never be such a thing again in this world, in our Great Sheng, causing chaos."

The emperor leaned against her tiredly and said, "I always believe in you, but sometimes, I can't see through what you are thinking, so I can't help but worry about gains and losses."

"Xianming, do you know what that thing is doing in my mind right now..."