Xia Miaoyuan shook his head: [Are you kidding? How could Prince Yu, with his temper, intentionally kill his wife?]
Before Prince Yu could open his mouth to explain, his confidant hurried forward and knelt down with a thud.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please understand that our prince has nothing to do with the death of our princess. Our prince has been wronged."
Prince Yu looked at his confidant and shook his head vigorously at him, signaling him not to continue, but the confidant pretended not to see it.
"Our prince has suffered so much. It was clearly the princess who started the fire. She wanted to burn herself and the prince to death."
[What? Is it that explosive? The princess set the prince on fire to die with him?]
"I was standing outside the door yesterday and clearly heard the princess say she wanted to avenge her lover and wanted the prince to die with her."
Xia Zhengqi was stunned for a moment: "The princess wants to burn you to death!?"
Prince Yu closed his eyes in pain and nodded silently.
"Royal brother, it's understandable that the princess hates me, but please don't take your anger out on her family."
[No way, Prince Yu is such a love-brained person. They want to kill you, and you're still begging for mercy?]
[Her lover got drunk and had a horse riding accident and became disabled. What does this have to do with you?]
[That was the result of an adult's personal behavior. He was negligent in his actions and failed to foresee the danger, which led to the tragedy.]
[Don't drink while riding, and don't ride while drinking. This is common sense for adults, okay? Why do you blame others for the consequences of your own actions?!]
[There's something wrong with the princess's values!] Xia Miaoyuan clenched her fists in indignation.
Prince Yu's eyes lit up and he looked at Xia Miaoyuan approvingly.
Yes, why didn't I think of that? The little princess is right.
My lover got crippled from riding a horse while drunk, so what does that have to do with me?!
"Your Majesty, I have something else to report!" Before Xia Zhengqi could reply to Prince Yu, the confidant spoke again.
Xia Zhengqi used his eyes to signal him to continue.
"The last time Prince Yu was hit by a carriage in front of the restaurant, it was also the princess's doing."
[Ahhhhhh! Murdering her own husband! Isn't this melon too big?]
Xia Miaoyuan looked at his confidant and then at Prince Yu with a gossipy look on his face.
The book simply mentions that Prince Yu had an accident and was hit by a carriage, breaking his bones. I always thought it was an accident. It turns out it was a conspiracy.
Xia Zhengqi and the Queen were also shocked and felt their hearts tighten.
"Is this true?" Xia Zhengqi was calm and composed, suppressing his emotions.
"I guarantee with my life that this is true. The princess admitted it herself yesterday."
Prince Yu's face was extremely dark, and his expression was complicated and painful.
"How can this be! The princess has repeatedly harmed you. She is truly cruel."
"Prince Yu, although you love the princess, it is always one-sided. She is a vicious and cruel person to you. You should stop defending her."
"When you proposed to her, you ruined her marriage to her lover, but it's not entirely your fault."
"Don't she and her family have big mouths? Don't her lover's family have big mouths? Her parents have always been greedy for power and wealth, and have always wanted to marry their daughter off to a wealthy family."
"Even if she hadn't married you, her parents wouldn't have agreed to her being with her lover."
"Yes, Uncle Prince Yu, please wake up. How dare she put all the blame on you?"
Prince Yu lowered his head and fell into deep thought.
Xia Zhengqi immediately ordered the princess's title to be stripped away, and Prince Yu to divorce her on the charge of misconduct and harming Prince Yu. His body was then sent back to her parents' home.
In addition, the princess's father was also punished by being demoted three levels for not educating his daughter properly.
In Daxia, even though the princess had died, she was still divorced after her death. Losing her status as a princess was a severe punishment for both her family and herself.
After listening to Xia Miaoyuan and Emperor Mingxi's advice, Prince Yu's mindset, which had been brainwashed by the princess, finally returned to normal. His guilt was much relieved, and his spirits also improved.
"Greetings to the Emperor, Empress, and Little Princess. I have made some soup for you all."
Suddenly, a gentle voice came.
"This is Concubine Xu," Prince Yu introduced.
Xia Zhengqi hurriedly asked Xu to stand up.
"The concubine is thinking about Prince Yu, right? This soup is a blessing to the emperor and me." The queen joked.
Xu's face turned red.
【Hahahaha, my mother was right.】
This concubine, Xu, truly loves Prince Yu. She has meticulously cared for him for over a decade, bearing him children. Even when she sees Prince Yu being overly indulgent towards his concubine, she never complains.
[It's a pity that Uncle Prince Yu is blind and can't see the kindness of the concubine to him. He only treats her as a tool.]
Once, Prince Yu contracted an epidemic and fell into a coma, and Xu was the one who took care of him. But when Prince Yu woke up, the princess consort was so overbearing that she forbade Xu from visiting Prince Yu's room again.
The princess also threatened her not to tell anyone about her care for Prince Yu, and then pretended that she was the one who took care of Prince Yu without taking off her clothes.
What? The one who risked her own life to take care of me that time was actually Concubine Xu?!
Prince Yu felt his blood boiling in his chest and his mood was extremely complicated.
After hearing the concubine's story, Emperor Mingxi and the Empress couldn't help but nod in approval.
"Xu, what does your family do?" Xia Zhengqi asked gently.
"My father is Xu Zhiyuan, the Junior Minister of the Imperial Household Department."
"Oh, so you are Lord Xu's daughter." Xia Zhengqi twirled his beard and pondered.
He had an impression of Master Xu, the Junior Secretary of the Imperial Household Department. Although his abilities weren't outstanding, his character was excellent. He was down-to-earth and reliable.
No wonder Xu is so virtuous. It seems that the Xu family has a good tradition.
"Are the two sons and one daughter of Prince Yu all yours?" asked the queen.
"The two sons were born to me, and the daughter was born to a maid. The maid died of illness, so I took the daughter in and raised her." Xu answered calmly.
[Ah, speaking of which, that concubine is also pitiful. It was all the princess's fault.]
The concubine was weak and listless after giving birth, and her posture was not very good when she saluted the princess. The princess accused her of becoming spoiled after giving birth to a daughter, and insisted that she was deliberately using the child to put her down.
Later, she repeatedly made things difficult for the concubine, withholding her belongings. When she was ill, she deliberately refused to let her see a doctor. She tortured the concubine to death.
Prince Yu's eyes flashed with shock and hatred.
He never expected that the concubine would die in this way. He had always believed that the concubine died of illness because of the damage she suffered during childbirth.
Oh my God, the princess is such a vicious woman. I am so blind and stupid that I didn’t realize it for more than ten years.
If I hadn't heard the little princess's voice, I would probably have been deceived for the rest of my life.
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