Chapter 329 Dealing with Chu Yanluo

Shen Wantang remained calm and unmoved by her provocation: "Even if Huayi gains status because of her son, how much more status can she gain? Regardless of whether she has children or how many children she has, I am still the heir apparent of the Ning Prince's Mansion."

"That's not necessarily true!"

Chu Yanlu gritted her teeth and said, "Today, Huayi can steal the prince's favor from me. In the future, she can steal your position as the prince's consort! You have no idea how much the prince dotes on her now. For her, the prince would even risk his life. He could divorce you as the prince's consort and make Huayi the official consort. He is capable of doing it!"

Shen Wantang said casually, "He did want to divorce me and make you his wife before, did he succeed?"

Chu Yanluo choked for a moment, her heart filled with unbearable regret and pain. Her eyes reddened: "It didn't work out, but the young master loves Huayi a hundred times more than he loves me. Just because he didn't divorce his wife for me doesn't mean he won't divorce his wife for Huayi!"

"I was too arrogant, so I failed to win over the prince's heart, which is why Huayi took advantage of my weakness."

"Now that things have come to this, I won't hide it from you anymore. I've actually lived a lifetime, just like your elder sister. In my previous life, the prince only loved me. He didn't have any other women. In fact, he even died for me!"

"I thought this life would be the same, but I didn't expect the prince to have changed! To steal the prince's heart, Hua Yi's scheming and methods are far beyond what ordinary people can match!"

"Only by joining forces can we drive her away and get the Crown Prince to focus his attention on us!"

Shen Wantang looked at Chu Yanluo indifferently, a hint of mockery on her lips.

Chu Yanluo still doesn't understand that Xiao Qingyuan doesn't only love her, not in the previous life, and certainly not in this life.

When she was first reborn, Shen Wantang also thought that Xiao Qingyuan was a devoted and affectionate person. Because he died for Chu Yanluo in her previous life, he left her with too deep a memory, which led her to form a fixed impression of Xiao Qingyuan.

However, now that she has been married into the royal family for so long and has been listening to Qin Xin tell her all sorts of gossip every day, she already knows that before Xiao Qingyuan met Chu Yanluo, he had also liked other women, and at one point he was so infatuated that he couldn't eat or drink.

However, after meeting Chu Yanluo, Xiao Qingyuan quickly forgot about that woman and started pursuing Chu Yanluo instead.

He had always been infatuated with Chu Yanluo. Firstly, he had not yet won Chu Yanluo's heart, and secondly, Chu Yanluo was extremely jealous and did not allow Xiao Qingyuan to have any other women or maids around him. She even persuaded Granny Chai to drive Xiao Qingyuan away.

Xiao Qingyuan was left with only Mo Ji, who obeyed his every command. This meant that Xiao Qingyuan had no contact with other women. His world consisted only of Chu Yanluo. He even thought that he could not live without Chu Yanluo.

In her past life, Shen Mingxuan was too stupid and unwilling to give Xiao Qingyuan any pretty maids, so Xiao Qingyuan only had Chu Yanluo by his side, and other women had no chance to please him.

But now, Shen Wantang has only given Xiao Qingyuan a maid, and Xiao Qingyuan's love has quickly shifted.

If it can be transferred once, it can naturally be transferred two, three, or even more times.

Therefore, for Shen Wantang, neither the painting nor her child was a threat.

"Aunt Chu."

Shen Wantang said calmly, "Huayi will soon be promoted to concubine. From then on, she will be just like you, a concubine of the heir apparent. You should address each other as sisters and must not be jealous or suspicious. You must not talk nonsense about kicking her out."

Chu Yanluo looked at her in disbelief: "You want to elevate her to be the prince's concubine? You want me to be her sister?! That's impossible! I would never be sisters with a maid!"

"I am, after all, a young lady of the Chu family. How dare someone like Huayi, who sold herself into the household as a servant, be worthy of sitting on equal footing with me?!"

"A person of her lowly status should be a slave for life, serving me forever!"

Shen Wantang looked at Chu Yanluo. She no longer had any white clothes to wear. Now she was wearing a gray-green dress. Coupled with her messy long hair, the wounds and scars on her face, she no longer had any fairy-like aura or arrogance.

Since entering the Ning Prince's Mansion and following Xiao Qingyuan, her ethereal aura has been gradually disappearing.

Originally, she possessed six parts beauty and three parts ethereal grace, making her an outstanding and proud beauty. Now, her appearance is half-ruined, and her ethereal grace is completely gone. Let alone comparing her to the great beauties of the capital, she is now far inferior to Huayi, which is why Xiao Qingyuan fell in love with her so quickly.

Of course, all of this was Chu Yanluo's own doing, and Shen Wantang had no sympathy for her whatsoever. Her voice was very cold: "Aunt Chu had better recognize her own status. You are the young master's concubine, and you are not much better than Huayi."

"Your heart is impure and your desires are too strong. Go back and copy the Heart Sutra, the Avatamsaka Sutra, and the Lotus Sutra once each. Once you have tamed your temperament, then you can go out again!"

Chu Yanluo was furious: "I kindly came to enlighten you on the art of painting and help you secure your position as the Crown Prince's consort, and you repay kindness with enmity, asking me to copy scriptures? I won't copy them!"

Shen Wantang said indifferently, "Copy it five times!"

"Shen Wantang, don't try to intimidate me with your status as the Crown Prince's consort!"

Copy it ten times!

"Shen Wantang, why are you punishing me? Yes, I wasn't respectful enough to you before, but haven't I changed now? Get this straight, your enemy now isn't me, it's Huayi and the child in her belly!"

"Copy it twenty times!"

"Shen Wantang, listen to me. You force-feed Huayi a bowl of abortion medicine and make her miscarry! If she's lucky enough to survive, you can kick her out. If she's unlucky, then both she and her unborn child will die, and you'll save yourself trouble!"

"Copy it fifty times! If you don't finish copying it, you're not allowed to eat or sleep. Once you're done, show it to me. If you make a single mistake, you have to rewrite it all!"

Chu Yanluo's expression changed drastically: "Shen Wantang! How could you be so cruel?! You're trying to work me to death!"

"Granny Chai!"

"exist!"

"Pass on my message: order the kitchen to stop preparing meals for Qingwu Courtyard. Meals will only be served to Aunt Chu when she brings up the copied scriptures for me to review!"

"yes!"

"Shen Wantang, how dare you?! I need to eat, I need to recover!"

"Nourishing your body? You're not worthy! Granny Chai, take her away and keep a close watch on her. She's not allowed to eat a single grain of rice until she finishes copying the scriptures!"

"yes!"

Chu Yanluo was both terrified and furious. She was dragged out without any politeness by two rough old women, and her arms were sore from being pulled.

She shouted angrily, "Shen Wantang! You dare not deal with Huayi, so you take it out on me! You bully the weak and fear the strong, you are despicable and shameless!"

"I came here seeking cooperation, but you took the opportunity to kick me when I was down! Bullying an unfavored concubine like me, what kind of hero are you!"

"If you're so capable, go and deal with Huayi! Are you too scared? Are you a coward and incompetent fool? You're just a spineless opportunist!"