"Why?" Ji Yingying looked at him warily, and if she was not satisfied with the topic of conversation, she would immediately start verbally attacking him.
"The Queen will hold a Spring Banquet tomorrow, and you should come too."
[Host, you promised him that we'd have some gossip. Usually, at these kinds of banquets, there's the most gossip from the harem. For example, a concubine's daughter frames a legitimate daughter, a concubine's son seizes the legitimate son's position, a legitimate son frames a concubine's son, a legitimate daughter frames a concubine's daughter, or a concubine frames the mistress, the mistress banishes the concubine. Who knows how many lives they've taken? Everything depends on these large banquets.]
[And there's something even funnier: you fall into the water and I save you, you take responsibility, I argue, you secretly pull my hair, I secretly trip you up, etc. The funniest one is the drugging trope. At any banquet, whether modern or ancient, they love to drug people to catch them in adultery. Throughout history, how many novels' love stories begin with a rapist?]
[By the way, there's also the matchmaking. How many people come to participate ostensibly to find a partner, and how many are truly serious? Aren't they all just blinded by lust?]
[Yeah, it's such a big event, I'd be doing myself a disservice if I didn't participate!]
"Okay, Your Majesty, I will go to the palace to attend the Spring Banquet tomorrow." Ji Yingying didn't laugh out loud, at least she saved face for the emperor.
Otherwise, that obscene laughter would probably sound again.
"Retreat, and remember to enter the palace tomorrow!"
"yes"
I originally thought that Ji Yingying would not attend the Spring Banquet, but I didn't expect that she actually did.
Those with ulterior motives panicked. After all, with someone using magic here, how could they dare to act recklessly?
After returning home, Ji Yingying went to see Fang Yulan first, after all, she had just made someone angry.
After confirming that Fang Yulan was not angry, she breathed a sigh of relief and returned to her Four Seasons Residence. As soon as she came out of the shower, Yanni came over.
I brought a set of clothes with me.
"Sister, my second sister-in-law has prepared the clothes for you to wear to the Spring Festival Banquet tomorrow."
"Thank you, second sister-in-law. Did mother let you manage the household?"
"Yes, I'm suddenly looking forward to my sister-in-law coming home. This housekeeper isn't as comfortable as having her myself."
In the past, she would have been willing to take the power of managing the household, but after spending a long time with Ji Yingying, she felt that it was really good to just let things slide, and besides, her dowry was generous, and her husband didn't need her money.
Then look at my younger sister, she gives up at the first opportunity, preferring to lie down rather than sit.
Look at the mother-in-law again. It’s the same. As long as she controls her husband, nothing else matters.
"Does your older brother have someone he likes?"
Jenny shook her head: "I've never heard of it, but Mother isn't in a hurry."
“What’s the use of being anxious? There are people in my family who don’t have a throne to inherit. My brother can do whatever he wants. As long as he can bear the consequences of the path he chooses, that’s fine.”
"You're right, sister, no one is as insightful as you!"
[Haha, she was still emo the day before yesterday. She's insightful? Insightful my foot!]
【Shut up.】
After chatting for a while, seeing that she was sleepy, Yanni went back.
March is a month of green grass and blooming flowers. Early in the morning, Ji Yingying was forced to get up and dress up. Today she was wearing a palace dress, the attire of the eldest princess.
After all, it was the day when the Queen held a Spring Banquet, and as the eldest princess, she could not wear official uniform, but had to wear palace dress.
However, this headdress, this dress... made Ji Yingying unable to help but complain: "Can you please not wear this jewelry? It's making it hard for me to breathe."
Apple shook her head, and Granny Xia said, "My lord, you are the Princess Protector of the Nation. Apple has already simplified your attire to the bare minimum. It cannot be any less."
Ji Yingying, at such a young age, let out a long sigh and, dressed in her finest attire, prepared to enter the palace for the banquet.
Hundreds of flowers are in full bloom in the Imperial Garden. The gentle spring breeze carries the fragrance of the newly faded crabapples and the sweetness of the newly blooming peonies. The warm wind makes the visitors intoxicated. This is probably the description of the garden.
The maid helped Ji Yingying into the Imperial Garden, where the Spring Banquet was held. The eunuch at the door shouted loudly, "The Protector Princess has arrived!"
[Oops~ I'm so embarrassed. I've been in the palace for so long, and this is the first time someone has sung and cheered for me, and the first time someone has helped me up. These shoes... I can't even look at them!]
Ji Yingying wore a long black dress, and the pearl tassels on her golden hair ornament swayed gently with her movements. Despite her young age, she exuded the majesty of a princess in every gesture.
"Your humble servants pay their respects to the Protector-General Princess!"
[Every time this happens, I'm always shocked. Haha, this time it was even more shocking because someone was holding me up. I'm only ten years old, but I have the demeanor of a grandmother!]
【Host……】
The kneeling crowd: ... almost couldn't help but laugh.
"No need to be polite, just stand up." After being helped to her seat, Ji Yingying complained, "Today, I absolutely will not leave this chair. I want to grow on it. These shoes are so disgusting, even more terrifying than those vase shoes."
[You've never worn those "vase shoes," so how do you know they're scary?]
"I have eyes!" Ji Yingying said after cracking open two melon seeds. "The Empress hasn't arrived yet. I'm so bored. Gouzi, find melons to pass the time."
[Okay, okay, I'm bored now, so I'm going to eat some melons. This is definitely a big one, it'll blind you!]
The people sitting below started looking for sunflower seeds. Here we go! Who will be the unluckiest person today? Let's wait and see.
Ji Yingying rolled her eyes. Hadn't she eaten enough outrageous gossip already?
[Tell me quickly, let me see how your eyes became blind.]
[Well... we have a lady here named Zhang Xuefan, the wife of a minor official. She has a secret crush on someone.]
[What's the big deal? She just has a white moonlight, but I have a whole lot of white moonlight.]
[Haha, all of you combined can't compare to her alone; her ideal woman is a girl.]
Oh wow~ the lilies in my hometown are blooming again!
Moreover, Zhang Xuefan suffers from Stockholm Syndrome; the "white moonlight" she loves is the very person who abused her.
[Hiss~ He's definitely blind, tell me quickly.]
Before she married her current husband, she was imprisoned by another woman who beat her daily. After beating her and then having sex with her, the woman would call her "sister" and pity her. Not only that, the two almost had that kind of... relationship.
【Anyway, there is kissing.】
【Then what?】
Then, Mrs. Zhang was in agony, utterly miserable, begging for mercy, asking for this and that. Finally, after being rescued, she let that man go.
[Finally, I fell in love, right? Otherwise, why is it called Stockholm syndrome?]
Yes, sometimes she even missed that woman terribly, and even went so far as to send someone to find her.
[She looks like a normal woman, but I didn't expect that. But how long did that relationship last?]
Two years.
【That's enough!】 Ji Yingying doesn't understand people with Stockholm Syndrome, but she does understand yandere because she loves watching yandere stories.
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