"What?" Everyone present was shocked.

Wei Wangqing was also startled. As for this servant, the fact that he made such a big fuss about the Crown Princess's disappearance meant that the woman herself probably already knew about it.

The matriarch quickly reassured everyone and sent people to search the mansion.

Although the Crown Princess was flustered, she tried her best to remain calm.

Wei Wangqing also went to look for the place he came from.

Not long after, the servant shouted again, "Found her! We found Her Highness the Crown Princess, she's over in the peach grove."

Upon hearing this, everyone hurried towards the peach grove.

When they arrived at the location, they found it so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

But a palace servant was kneeling beside him.

Palace servant?

How did he end up at the Grand Tutor's residence?

Everyone couldn't help but think of it.

Unless... unless it was brought by the Crown Princess.

Wei Wangqing felt that the person kneeling looked somewhat familiar.

The male relatives who arrived later looked at the Crown Princess, whose expression was somewhat embarrassed.

The Grand Tutor's face, however, was extremely grim.

Everyone couldn't help but imagine a dramatic scene unfolding before their eyes.

The Crown Princess walked straight over and asked the Grand Tutor, "Grandfather, what's wrong?"

The Grand Tutor was furious. "Ask her yourself," he said, no longer using any honorifics.

The Crown Princess felt somewhat embarrassed: "I, I..."

She gritted her teeth and declared loudly, "I and Hongchou are truly in love."

Upon hearing this, the Crown Princess nearly fainted.

The Grand Tutor also spoke frankly, saying that with so many people present today, it was impossible to keep quiet, and besides, the Grand Tutor's family did not want to or could not swallow this insult.

"Truly in love? Then where do you put the Crown Princess? Where do you put Xiao Bao? If you really like him, you can take him as your concubine, and no one will say a word. But what's the meaning of bringing him to the Grand Tutor's residence like this, being all lovey-dovey? Are you trying to humiliate the Grand Tutor's residence?"

Before the Crown Princess could speak, the palace servant kneeling on the ground spoke first, "Please, Grand Tutor, do not blame Her Highness the Crown Princess. It is all my fault. I feel unworthy of Her Highness the Crown Princess and do not wish to be taken as a concubine."

Wei Wangqing suddenly remembered that this was the palace servant who had broken the plate at the last palace banquet.

Listening to Wei Wangqing's thoughts, Chen Zhiyan thought to himself, "Being a man is really too difficult. If my future wife dared to do this, I would definitely..."

"Who do you think you are? How dare you speak to me?"

The Crown Princess felt somewhat guilty, but the Grand Tutor's relentless pressure left her embarrassed and somewhat annoyed. Especially compared to Hongchou's gentle and pitiful appearance, even the Crown Princess herself felt a bit resentful and didn't try to persuade the Grand Tutor on her behalf.

"Teacher, if he is not worthy, then am I worthy? It is probably not up to the Grand Tutor to decide who I want to take on! Besides, I think it is indeed a waste for Hongchou to be a mere servant. How could my beloved be just a servant?"

The Crown Prince finally couldn't take it anymore. How could his wife humiliate him like this! How could she humiliate his family like this!

"So? So Your Highness is going to give him the position of Crown Princess?"

"Why not?" The princess seemed to straighten her back, no longer needing to bow and scrape before her teacher's family.

Upon hearing this, the Crown Princess took two steps back, feeling as if she had never truly understood this wife.

This is not his honest and dutiful wife, nor his wife who respected her teachers, nor the wife who smiled and coaxed Xiao Bao to look at her!

With a bang.

The Grand Tutor suddenly collapsed and could not get up.

The scene was chaotic.

The Crown Princess was also flustered; she hadn't expected things to develop to this point.

"Grandfather!" the Crown Princess cried out in anguish. She remembered how her grandfather had always doted on her, getting her whatever she wanted, and the same was true for her.

The Crown Princess suddenly turned to look at the Crown Prince, "If anything happens to my grandfather, I will never forgive you for the rest of my life!"

With this incident, the banquet was naturally canceled.

Less than half a day later, the Crown Princess was also summoned to the palace.

No one knows what the mother and daughter said, and even when the Empress rushed over to plead for mercy, His Majesty refused to see her.

All that is known is that the Crown Princess was confined to the Eastern Palace that day, seemingly under house arrest.

The palace servant was not executed, but only imprisoned. It is said that this was the result of the Crown Princess's strong intervention.

When the Crown Princess, who was guarding the Grand Tutor's bedside, heard this news, she no longer dared to hold any hope for the Crown Princess, and her heart was filled with despair.

The incident has been brewing for two days, and now everyone in Kyoto is saying that the Crown Princess, in a fit of rage for her beloved, actually made her teacher, the Grand Tutor, faint.

Logically, the news shouldn't have spread so quickly, becoming common knowledge even among ordinary people. Moreover, Wei Wangqing, the servant from that day, felt that he had deliberately led everyone there.

Who will benefit from the Crown Princess's loss of power?

The Third Princess!

She had been subtly targeting the Crown Princess, and the Empress seemed happy to see her two daughters competing against each other.

Li Nuo reported: "Your Highness, the Crown Princess has eloped."

"What did you say?" Wei Wangqing was stunned, truly speechless with shock.

"Your Highness, after the Crown Princess ran away from the East Palace last night, she secretly released the palace servant, and the two of them disappeared without a trace. Commonly known as, they eloped."

Li Nuo repeated it again. She understood her princess very well, because even she was incredibly surprised when she heard it, and couldn't understand what the Crown Princess was thinking.

Wei Wangqing was so shocked by the Crown Princess's outrageous actions that he was completely disoriented.

What an extraordinary genius!

She abandoned her husband and children, her country and her family, just like that, leaving everything behind and running away?

Wei Wangqing almost wanted to cut open the Crown Princess's brain to see how she was made. This didn't seem like some melodramatic romance novel, so how could there be a plot like eloping, especially happening to the heir to a country?

This behavior goes beyond simply being a scumbag! Wei Wangqing thought.

This isn't just a lack of responsibility; it's as if they don't even know how to write the word "responsibility"!

Fortunately, the Crown Princess did not ascend the throne. Otherwise, what would happen to the country if she abandoned the country and the throne and ran away one day?

Wei Wangqing wasn't the only one with this idea; the Empress thought the same way.

When the Empress heard the news, she was so furious that she almost vomited blood.

Even after the incident involving the Grand Tutor's residence, the Empress never considered changing the heir. She only thought that the Crown Princess was reckless and needed to be reprimanded.

But can someone who can abandon her position as crown princess and elope with a palace servant truly become an emperor? The empress questioned this for the first time.

She couldn't help but feel relieved that there was still a chance to salvage the situation.

When the Queen heard the news, she could not believe it. How could this be? How could her daughter, her pillar of support, have abandoned her father and run away?

The Queen looked at the Fifth Prince, "Fifth Prince, this can't be true, can it? How could your sister abandon us, father and son? She's not that kind of person!"

"Yes, it's the red silk. It must be that red silk that instigated my son."

Looking at his father's ferocious expression, the Fifth Prince felt for the first time that his father was somewhat terrifying. How could things have turned out like this? How could his eldest sister have abandoned them and run away for a lowly man? Why did everything change overnight?