At the same time, Zhu Zhenzhen and Tang Qianran returned to the East Palace together. Both of them were very angry and blamed each other.

"I'm going to find the prince, and you're going to find the prince too. Zhu Zhenzhen, you have to go against me, right?" Tang Qianran said angrily.

Zhu Zhenzhen said slowly, "You can find it, but I can't. Does the prince belong to you alone?"

"He..." Tang Qianran paused, not knowing how to reply for a moment. Her eyes were full of helplessness. "Even if the prince belongs to both of us, I won't argue with you."

Zhu Zhenzhen also stopped making moves. That's right, the Crown Prince is not theirs, but the Crown Princess's. Ever since the Queen stopped caring about the affairs of the Eastern Palace, the Crown Prince has been favoring the Crown Princess every night.

At this time, Tang Qianran suddenly said, "Why don't we join forces!"

Zhu Zhenzhen looked at her and stopped talking.

Tang Qianran said, "I've thought about it. What's the point of us fighting to the death here? Instead, both sides will suffer and no one will get any benefit. There are only three young ladies who have entered the palace, not counting those who have been sent to the cold palace. Now Song Jing is pregnant. The Crown Princess protects her belly like her eyes, and she has been promoted to a concubine. What's even more annoying is that there are ten young ladies living in our East Palace.

Didn’t you hear those young masters gossiping about us? They said we are not favored and will have to live in the west forever.”

Tang Qianran became angrier and angrier as she spoke. If there hadn't been a new person in the Eastern Palace, she wouldn't have resorted to the same old tricks to go see the prince again. But Zhu Zhenzhen followed suit and was determined to ruin her good fortune.

Zhu Zhenzhen also fell into deep thought. Why did the emperor suddenly faint? Eunuch Wuxin told them not to say anything, but what happened to the emperor's health?

If the emperor falls ill, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will ascend the throne and become the emperor. They are the first batch of ladies to enter the palace. She said, "Okay, I agree to cooperate."

The two of them agreed that from now on they would never undermine each other and would help each other to gain the favor of the prince.

After the two of them planned for a while, the prince finally asked someone to invite Tang Liangdi to have dinner together in Chengguang Hall. That night, Tang Liangdi really stayed in Chengguang Hall.

Zhu Zhenzhen has the same status as her, and she also showed her face in front of the prince, but the prince just didn't turn over her card for such a long time.

She became more and more anxious. Even the new people in her palace had seen the prince, so Zhu Zhenzhen ran to Gao Lianghuan's room again.

Gao Lianghuan's real name is Qingtong. The Gao family has a high status and position. Since she moved into Yuling Palace, she has never gone to the main house to pay her respects. She thinks it is unnecessary.

When Gao Qingtong saw Zhu Liangdi coming, she said lightly, "Qingtong greets Zhu Liangdi." She also bowed to her symbolically and sat back in her seat.

She was the first of the new concubines to be summoned by the prince. Gao Lianghuan also knew that Zhu Liangdi had once had a miscarriage and the prince had never summoned her to sleep with him since then, so he thought that Zhu Zhenzhen had fallen out of favor.

Zhu Zhenzhen saw her domineering attitude, but she was just the daughter of a fourth-rank official, so why was she so arrogant?

She suppressed her anger and smiled, "Gao Lianghuan, are you used to coming to the palace? Now that we live in Yuling Palace, we are considered sisters. If you have any questions, just ask me."

"There's nothing to be uncomfortable with. I'm used to it." Gao Qingtong didn't know why she came here suddenly. She had lived in Yuling Palace for more than two months, and Zhu Zhenzhen had never taken the initiative to greet her, so she didn't bother to curry favor with someone else. Her father said that once she entered the palace, she should just cling to the Crown Princess, and no one else mattered, because her family had already found out clearly that the Crown Prince doted on the Crown Princess very much, and if she wanted to live a stable life in the Eastern Palace, she just had to avoid offending the Crown Princess.

Gao Qingtong has an arrogant personality, just like Zhu Zhenzhen who also has an arrogant personality.

Zhu Zhenzhen put her warm face in front of others but was ignored, but she endured it.

She said in a gentle voice, "Gao Lianghuan, you know that we still have two young ladies in the East Palace!"

Gao Qingtong overheard that two ladies were banished to the cold palace, but she didn't know what happened. She heard that one of them was pregnant. What happened to them?

Zhu Zhenzhen ordered Meixiang to go out and guard the door and closed it. Gao Qingtong was curious and did not stop her.

Zhu Zhenzhen didn't say anything, and Gao Qingtong became a little anxious, "Why?" She had found out clearly when she entered the palace that the Crown Princess was deeply loved by the Prince, so as long as she didn't offend the Crown Princess, it would be fine.

Zhu Zhenzhen seemed to see through her thoughts. "Do you think you will be safe as long as you don't offend the Crown Princess? That concubine Ye Liang and Concubine Su both followed the Crown Prince from outside the palace. Wouldn't it be easy for the Crown Princess to suppress them? If you don't provoke others, others will provoke you, just like me at the beginning. I didn't provoke anyone, but I didn't know I was pregnant, and the child was lost inexplicably."

Her eyes were red, and she seemed very sad. Gao Qingtong was also moved by her look and comforted her, "Don't be sad, Zhu Liangdi. You will definitely have another child after you get well."

"Yes, I thought so too, but for so long, the prince only went to the Crown Princess's Dawn Palace every day and never summoned me." She added, "I also know the reason."

"What's the reason?" Gao Qingtong asked.

"When I first entered the palace, I was just like you. I thought that as long as the Crown Princess liked me and treated me well, I would not care about anything. I didn't expect that my non-competitive character would harm me." Zhu Zhenzhen felt more and more aggrieved. "Now the Crown Prince also hates me. I have only been in the palace for a year and I have fallen out of favor."

Gao Qingtong also thought that as long as she didn't fight or compete and wasn't greedy after entering the palace, she could live a stable life. But now it seems that it is not easy to live without fighting or competing.

Zhu Liangdi is so miserable.

Could it be that her miscarriage was caused by the Crown Princess's secret manipulation?

"I'm just kindly reminding you that you've already slept with the emperor and could get pregnant at any time. Please be careful with the tonics that the Crown Princess sent." She seemed to be doing Gao Qingtong a good favor.

After she finished speaking, she stood up and was about to leave, but Gao Qingtong stopped her, "Thank you, Sister Zhu. I'll need your advice in the future."

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince doesn't like me at all. I don't have anything to advise you. I'm just worried that the new lady in the palace will encounter the same fate as I did." Zhu Zhenzhen shed a tear, and I felt pity for her.

Gao Qingtong was not as pretty as Zhu Zhenzhen, but the prince favored her. She didn't know that the prince chose his favorites based on who was beneficial to him and to his governance.

Another reason is for the royal heir. The royal family needs the women in the harem to give birth to royal heirs from different maternal families. This way they can check and balance the court, consolidate the imperial power, and even cultivate suitable heirs for the Xie family's kingdom. The prince just treats dealing with them as a job, and those who can give birth to royal heirs will be given dignity and status.

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