Yan Chaoxi said understandingly, "Your Highness, rest assured, the Crown Princess is kind-hearted. As long as I abide by etiquette and respect her, she will not deliberately make things difficult for me."

The Crown Prince was very satisfied with Yan Chaoxi's attitude and waved his hand to allow her to leave.

Turning around, Yan Chaoxi rolled her eyes at him behind his back. Just because she obeyed etiquette didn't mean she wouldn't take action.

With Bichun's help, she dressed neatly, ate breakfast, and then strolled leisurely toward the Crown Princess's Jinhua Garden.

Inside Jinhua Garden, Crown Princess Yang hadn't slept well all night and got up early to wait for Yan Chaoxi to come and pay her respects, hoping to give her a taste of her own medicine. She waited and waited, but the Crown Prince's other women arrived one after another, and Yan Chaoxi was nowhere to be seen.

The Crown Princess harbored a burning anger within her.

An Liangdi, always eager for drama, chimed in, "I've heard that the concubine is stunningly beautiful, and the Crown Prince adores her. He probably didn't sleep a wink last night, so it's normal for her to be up late on her second day in the palace."

The Crown Princess gave her a cold glance.

Everyone wanted to laugh but dared not. The Crown Princess was narrow-minded and jealous. Whenever the Crown Prince visited their courtyard, she would find an excuse to beat him up. Now that a princess had entered as a concubine, and the Crown Prince had personally begged the Emperor for her, it was no wonder the Crown Princess was so jealous.

"Your Majesty, Consort Yan has arrived," a palace maid announced as she entered.

The Crown Princess said coldly, "Let her wait outside."

The palace maid delivered the message, and Yan Chaoxi simply nodded obediently. She then found a flower bed in the courtyard, sat down along the edge, and smiled at the palace maid as she turned her head.

The palace maid was speechless. Waiting like this seemed fine; the Crown Princess had told her to wait, not to stand and wait.

The palace maid pretended not to have seen it.

While waiting, Yan Chaoxi didn't sit idle. She opened the shop and bought a long-lasting nightmare talisman, a long-lasting bad luck talisman, and a long-lasting insomnia talisman.

Long-lasting nightmare charm; will cause nightmares for up to a month.

A long-lasting curse that will make even drinking cold water get stuck in your teeth, lasting for half a month.

This is a long-lasting insomnia talisman; it will cause insomnia for up to a month.

He then leisurely looked around at the scenery in Jinhua Garden, showing no impatience at being neglected.

Yan Chaoxi was left out in the cold for half an hour before the Crown Princess let her in.

"This concubine greets the Crown Princess and pays respects to her."

The Crown Princess glanced at her and was instantly stunned by Yan Chaoxi's flower-like beauty. She really did have a foxy look, no wonder the Crown Prince, who had many beauties, was bewitched by her!

The Crown Princess was not particularly beautiful; she was chosen to marry the Crown Prince only because of her good family background. Therefore, she was jealous of all the beautiful women in the mansion, and the more beautiful they were, the less she could tolerate them.

Yan Chaoxi has now become her biggest threat!

Suppressing her jealousy, the Crown Princess raised her chin and said, "Serve the tea."

Immediately, a palace maid brought up a tea tray, the tea deliberately boiled to a scalding temperature. When Yan Chaoxi took it, her fingertips were burned. She raised the teacup without changing her expression, but before she could curtsy, the teacup slipped from her hand as if she couldn't hold it, and the full cup of hot tea was unexpectedly poured onto the Crown Princess's hand.

"ah!!!"

"Oh! Your Highness, are you alright?" Yan Chaoxi hurriedly got up and frantically took out a handkerchief to rub the burned area. "I didn't mean to, let me clean it for you."

As she wiped, she patted the insomnia talisman into the Crown Princess's body.

She was already burned, and then Yan Chaoxi rubbed her hand back and forth with a handkerchief, making her entire hand burn with pain.

The Crown Princess angrily shook off her hand, "Alright, you're so clumsy. I asked you to serve tea and you deliberately spilled it on me?"

Yan Chaoxi frowned slightly, and said matter-of-factly, "I didn't mean to, the tea was just too hot. Who was the maid who brewed the tea?"

"Did you deliberately bring me such hot tea to embarrass me or to burn the Crown Princess?" Yan Chaoxi stared intently at the palace maid who had just brought the tea. Her voice was not loud, but it carried the majesty of a royal princess.

She stood in front of the Crown Princess, looking as if she wanted to seek justice for her.

The palace maid immediately knelt down and begged for forgiveness, "No, I didn't mean to."

The Crown Princess, who was actually instigating it, was speechless. This woman had said everything!

The Crown Princess breathed a sigh of relief. "Fine, I'm not that petty. You maid have done a poor job. Go and receive ten strokes of the cane."

The palace maid quickly thanked the emperor and withdrew.

Yan Chaoxi smiled and said, "It's good that you've figured it out, so that the Crown Princess won't misunderstand that I did it on purpose and hold a grudge."

After she finished speaking, she found a seat and sat down. The Crown Princess didn't feel comfortable asking her to serve tea again.

The people below could see clearly that this Princess Dongqi was indeed quite capable; even the Crown Princess had been outmaneuvered by her.

Yan Chaoxi also looked around at the people sitting there. The Crown Prince was a womanizer, and there were many women in his mansion. She was the only concubine, there were three concubines, seven or eight concubines including Cheng Hui, and about twenty concubines. There was no place for concubines to sit, so they could only stand.

Yan Chaoxi realized she was in trouble; she hadn't bought enough props. She quickly bought a long-lasting headache talisman. She'd deal with the three concubines first; the others could wait until next time.

"Before leaving Dongqi, I specially brought some jade unique to Dongqi, which I will give to you sisters today as a greeting gift." She instructed Bichun to open the things she brought.

First, she gave one to the Crown Princess, and then she had those of lower rank come and take it one by one. Yan Chaoxi kindly handed them over to each of them personally.

On Leong-tai liked to stir up trouble and was always sarcastic towards her, even giving her a headache talisman.

Xu Liangdi was arrogant and domineering, and led the bullying against her, giving her a talisman of bad luck.

Zhao Liangdi, a seemingly innocent but actually naive woman, frequently slandered her and even gave her a nightmare charm.

After delivering the gifts, the Crown Princess felt that Yan Chaoxi had stolen her thunder, so she warned, "Once you enter the Crown Prince's residence, we are all sisters, all the Crown Prince's people. You are no longer a princess of Dongqi, but a concubine of my Crown Prince's residence."

The implication is that you are already a concubine, so don't even think about acting like a princess and trying to ride roughshod over me!

Yan Chaoxi disagreed, "You're wrong. If I weren't the Princess of Dongqi, how would I be qualified to marry into the Crown Prince's residence? So, while I am the Crown Prince's concubine, I am also the Princess of Dongqi."

The Crown Princess was speechless for a moment, then angrily changed the subject, "It's almost noon. Today, everyone will have lunch at my Jinhua Garden. Does Consort Yan have any dietary restrictions?"

"I cannot eat peanuts, as they cause me to have an allergic reaction and develop rashes. Everything else is up to Your Majesty."

Upon hearing this, a calculating glint flashed in the Crown Princess's eyes.

At noon, lunch was served on time. There were too many attendants, so the Crown Princess didn't bother with their food and drink and sent them home early.

Exquisite dishes were laid out on the table one by one, and palace maids served everyone a bowl of soup.

The Crown Princess said, "My sisters, please don't be so formal."

Yan Chaoxi picked up the spoon and gently scooped up a spoonful.

"Host, there are peanuts in this soup," the system accurately reminded, even though it didn't know why Yan Chaoxi said she didn't eat peanuts.

Yan Chaoxi smiled and lowered her head to drink her soup. "Isn't this creating an opportunity for the Crown Princess?"

The Crown Princess is both stupid and ruthless; she doesn't believe she'll let this opportunity slip by.

"Rabbit, exchange one fake illness pill for me and put it in my soup."

"Okay!"