Zhang Mama's face turned ashen, but she still had to comfort her: "Your Highness, please don't be angry. The Prince would never look at that little slut. You're overthinking it."

Consort Duan had a cold face, her chest heaving violently.

Granny Zhang whispered again, "What the prince said is actually not wrong. After all, that little wretch's status is what it is. She died not long after entering the palace, which is also bad for the prince's reputation. It would be better to let her have a few days of peace. In any case, she has already entered the Prince An's palace. The prince has a lot of official duties and cannot stay in the palace every day. We have plenty of time and it doesn't matter if it's just for a short while."

Consort Duan looked at Zhang Mama.

Granny Zhang nodded to her.

Consort Duan's expression softened somewhat: "Very well. Heh, once this period is over, let Yong'an marry into the family."

Granny Zhang pursed her lips, not daring to say anything more.

Lu Xiaoyun walked toward Feixue Garden with a grim expression. This Consort Duan was indeed a troublemaker. She wondered what the Empress Dowager was thinking, sending such a troublemaker to Prince An's residence.

They had only gone halfway when the guard who had just executed Ren Yong'an's maidservant reported: "Your Highness, Miss Yong'an's maidservant didn't receive twenty strokes of the cane and died. What do you think, should the body be thrown into a mass grave or returned to Miss Yong'an?"

Lu Xiaoyun was startled. Could it be that she died after twenty strokes of the cane? She remembered that when she watched TV dramas, the punishment was usually fifty strokes or more. Was this little maid so easily beaten?

"Dead? How could she be dead? I never said I wanted her dead."

The guard was startled when he saw this; he was in deep trouble. Miss Yong'an held such a high place in the Prince's heart; his punishment of that little maid today was merely a minor slap on the wrist.

As a result, they thought the prince was extremely angry with her and, without thinking, beat her to death!