Yuanyuan frowned and said, "This servant is just indignant! How can this be? Besides, who said that you, my lady, have fallen out of favor!"
Consort Shen shook her head: "Never mind, we didn't have much of a relationship to begin with."
"Fine." Yuanyuan's face darkened, but she didn't say anything more.
Just when the two thought nothing was wrong, Consort Qi stormed in and slapped Consort Shen across the face without saying a word.
Consort Shen's tears fell down in an instant.
She looked at Consort Qi in disbelief: "What do you mean by this, sister?"
Yuanyuan also recovered from her shock and hurriedly stood in front of Consort Shen, afraid that Consort Qi would make another move.
Consort Qi burst out laughing in anger: "You ask me what this means? Why don't you tell me what you did!"
Consort Shen covered her face and looked at Consort Qi with a wronged expression: "Sister, please just say what you want to say. I really don't know what you're talking about."
"Don't you know what I'm talking about?" Consort Qi was so angry that she started breathing heavily. She shouted at the outside, "Come in!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the two palace maids who had been talking in front of Consort Shen's door walked in with a wronged look on their faces: "Your Highness."
When Consort Shen saw the two women's swollen faces, she immediately understood why Consort Qi was angry.
Consort Qi pointed at the two and said, "Sister? No, I should call you sister! Even when beating a dog, you have to consider its owner. I don't understand what those two did that warranted Consort Shen personally taking action against them."
Upon hearing this, Consort Shen immediately knelt down with a thud: "Sister, this was not made by your younger sister."
Consort Qi sat down on a chair to the side, looked at her with a cold smile, and said, "Are you implying that I have wronged you?"
Consort Shen looked at her with a wronged expression and shook her head: "She's really not my sister."
Then she looked at the two palace maids and said, "Why are you framing me when I have no grudge against you?"
Upon hearing her words, the two palace maids immediately knelt down in front of Consort Qi, crying pitifully, and said, "Your Highness, we didn't, we don't understand either. Why would Consort Shen, who has no grudge against us, want to harm us? Is it because the Emperor has been favoring Consort Shen recently that she can be so arrogant?"
As soon as she finished speaking, another palace maid immediately chimed in, "Yes, even when beating a dog, you have to consider its owner. We servants are, after all, Consort Qi's people. If we have done anything wrong, Noble Lady Shen can simply take us to my lady to reason with her. Why be so cruel to us?"
The two started crying again as they talked.
Their words were also very skillful, almost every sentence hit Consort Qi's sore spot.
She glared coldly at Consort Shen, finding her utterly displeasing: "I clearly saw those two come to you this morning!"
Consort Shen was immediately alarmed. Listening to the three of them talking at once, she quickly cried out, "Sister, please understand! I really didn't do this. This morning, the two of them were slandering me in front of my palace gate. I couldn't stand it, so I went to argue with them for a bit and they left. I really didn't lay a hand on either of them."
One of the palace maids turned to look at Consort Shen: "Consort Shen, you clearly called us in and scolded us for a while, and even slapped us in the face before letting us go..."
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