"When you meet Concubine Duan, why don't you pay your respects immediately?" The palace maid beside Concubine Duan spoke sternly.

Jiang Ziyi yawned and ignored her.

Sitting up and adjusting his hair, he lazily said, "A rude person is worthy of this?"

"You!" Concubine Duan seemed furious when she heard her words. She was clearly just a hostage, how dare she talk to her like that? She herself was the daughter of a minor official and had risen to her current position. Even though she had a status now, she hated others looking down on her the most.

She has been accustomed to being praised by the people around her in recent years. No one dares to speak to her like this. At this moment, Concubine Duan is like a cat whose tail has been stepped on.

Even if this person is the princess of Shen Kingdom, she is now just a useless person with no backing in Yao Kingdom Palace!

Thinking of this, Concubine Duan's eyes flashed.

"Qingxue, slap her in the mouth!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" The maid named Qingxue received the order from Concubine Duan and immediately approached to open the fan. Caiyun and Caixia rushed over to stop her. Seeing this, the other three maids of Concubine Duan also rushed over to help. They wrestled with each other and the scene was chaotic for a while.

"Stop it!" Jiang Ziyi spoke as she looked at the mess in front of her.

She was a bit grumpy when she woke up. She was already unhappy about being woken up so early in the morning by a woman she had never met, and she was even more annoyed that she was making such a scene in her territory. She really couldn't tolerate it.

Although the voice was not very loud, due to the combination of grumpiness and anger, it also contained a certain kind of pressure, which really calmed the situation.

She stood up. Although she was not wearing fancy clothes or makeup, and her face looked a little childish, her posture was clearly like a lotus emerging from clear water, but she had the feeling of a natural phoenix.

"I am an envoy of the Lord of Shen to the Kingdom of Yao. Your Majesty treats me with courtesy. Are you more noble than Your Majesty?"

Jiang Ziyi directly brought up the issue of His Majesty, leaving Concubine Duan speechless for a moment.

She originally thought that the princess of Shen State lived a life of luxury and was a paper tiger away from her own country. Moreover, since His Majesty neglected her, she could be bullied at will, so she chose an early morning to add insult to injury.

Unexpectedly, this princess was completely different from what he had imagined. Even without any material possessions, she still possessed majesty. In contrast, he, with his heavy makeup on, looked like a clown.

This further stimulated her jealousy. She had worked very hard, and everything she had obtained was not easy. In order to make His Majesty believe in her, she sacrificed herself to save him. Her body was also left with hidden injuries from rolling down the stone steps. Whenever it rained, her bones felt like there were millions of ants crawling on them, causing both pain and itching.

She has paid so much, why can a princess of Shen Kingdom step on her head!

"Sunny Snow, Sunny Rain, hold her bitch down."

"Cai Die Cai Wei, hold her down! I want to personally teach this ignorant person a lesson!"

Two fists are no match for four hands. After Caiyun Yunxia was pinned down, the other two palace maids easily escorted Jiang Ziyi to Concubine Duan.

Concubine Duan scratched her long nails across Jiang Ziyi's face and murmured, "What's the point of being beautiful? In this deep palace, if you don't have the favor of His Majesty, you are nothing."

"Do you think you're so great just because you're a princess from an enemy country? The fact that they sent you here means you've been abandoned by your country. Do you really think you're some big shot?!"

Concubine Duan became more and more excited as she spoke. The pleasure of pulling the person down from the clouds and stepping on him made her feel extremely happy. She even laughed.

“Hahahahahahaha…”

When Jiang Ziyi saw her like this, she thought the women in the palace were ridiculous. She was obviously a poor person trapped in this deep palace, and she didn't even have a child. Her status was also illusory. She didn't know where she got this sense of superiority from and felt that she was superior to others.

Jiang Ziyi's disdainful look irritated her.

Concubine Duan slapped Jiang Ziyi in the face, leaving a red slap mark and even scratches caused by her fingernails.

"Your Highness!" Seeing Jiang Ziyi being beaten, Caiyun Yunxia was extremely anxious, but they were outnumbered and could not break free.

"Nothing." Jiang Ziyi spat, raised her head, and there was no emotion in her eyes.

"I can understand this as you declaring war on me, right?" she said coldly.

Although she clearly did not possess any power at the moment, Concubine Duan heard a hidden threat in these words.

Normally, she would beat up some women in the harem who wanted to curry favor with His Majesty. Even if His Majesty knew about it, he would not blame her afterwards, let alone she was a hostage from the enemy country!

Thinking of this, her back straightened again.

"I'll beat you up if I want to. Do you think you have the ability to turn things around?"

Then she slapped Jiang Ziyi twice, as if to give herself more confidence. The two slaps were fast and hard.

Jiang Ziyi's head was hit so hard that it tilted to one side and her cheek was a little swollen.

As if he was still not satisfied and was about to slap her a few more times.

"His Majesty has arrived!"

When the palace maids heard the sound outside the door, they immediately let go of Jiang Ziyi and knelt down.

Concubine Duan was shocked. Why would His Majesty come here at this time?

She quickly tidied her appearance and ran to the door to greet him.

"Your Majesty..." She bowed, but the emperor didn't even look at her.

As soon as the emperor came in, he saw Jiang Ziyi’s face swollen from being beaten.

"Why is that?" Although it was not stated explicitly, everyone knew that His Majesty was asking about Jiang Ziyi's face.

The emperor's majesty spread throughout the room, frightening the palace maids kneeling on the ground into silence.

Concubine Duan even seemed to hear a hint of displeasure in His Majesty's tone...

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