The Third Princess's face immediately turned cold, and she said angrily, "I finally had a moment of peace, and some blind fool comes to cause trouble!"
The Crown Prince glanced at Jiayin, who was drinking tea with her head down, his face showing embarrassment and anger.
My father doesn't have many concubines anymore, and even if he does, they're all getting on in years.
Almost every young woman he encountered in the palace was one of his wives or concubines.
Needless to say, this is someone who found out his whereabouts and followed him to try and win his favor.
The woman in the light red dress, unaware that she had been seen through, continued her dramatic performance.
She was having a great time when she "occasionally" turned her head and seemed to suddenly notice everyone. Her expression showed a mix of panic and shyness. She then quickly walked over, bowing and speaking in a sweet voice.
"Your Highness, Princess, are you well? Peipei was just being playful and disturbed everyone's enjoyment. Please forgive her, Your Highness."
The Third Princess hated people who lied through their teeth, and immediately confronted them.
“The three of us brought so many palace maids and eunuchs, more than a dozen in total, and you walked straight over without seeing us?”
"Are your eyes just for decoration? If you're going to come here to compete for favor, just be open about it. Do you have to act like this? Do you think we're fools?"
"Princess, please calm down. I really didn't see anything." The woman in red blushed from the scolding and quickly knelt down, but her peach blossom eyes glanced at the Crown Prince with a wronged look.
Unfortunately, the crown prince was focused on drinking tea and didn't receive her distress signal at all.
As for Jiayin, she kept her head down, fiddling with her purse, completely ignoring him, and there was no way she would say a word.
The third princess is getting married tomorrow. Although she says she hates this palace cage, she is uneasy about her future life and still has some attachment to the place where she grew up.
She had hoped to enjoy the scenery and chat with her best friend to ease her tension.
As a result, she suddenly encountered the Crown Prince, and she endured it.
Although they hadn't spent much time together, the Crown Prince had taken good care of her.
But who does this scheming woman think she is? She doesn't deserve to take up her last moments before her marriage!
She simply went all the way with her "badness"!
"What Peipei, you said you wandered in here by mistake, right?" The Third Princess picked up her juice, took a sip, and continued to ask.
"Then let me ask you, where did you come from? In such a vast imperial garden, is there anything missing?"
"Then this princess should really ask the head eunuch in charge of guarding the garden, so that no random cat or dog can come and go as they please in the future."
The woman in red gritted her teeth in hatred when she heard the Third Princess compare her to a cat or a dog.
If it weren't for the Crown Prince, she wouldn't have come here to suffer this humiliation.
But she dared not say it aloud, and could only vaguely reply, "I entered through the garden gate. There was no one there at the time, so I..."
“Caiyun, go ask him. When we came over just now, we clearly instructed the eunuch guarding the garden to stop any unauthorized personnel! Not only did he fail to do so, but he also neglected his duty. How outrageous!”
With a wave of her hand, the Third Princess sent Caiyun running to the garden gate. Then, to the alarm of the woman in red, she returned, dragging the eunuch guarding the gate with her.
The gatekeeper eunuch was terrified and knelt down on the ground as soon as he got there.
"Your Highness, I was wrong. I was guarding the door the whole time, and when Consort Fu came, I clearly told her that you, the Crown Prince, and the Princess were all there and that we shouldn't disturb them. But..."
“But Consort Fu’s maid forced me to take in a silver ingot! It was all my fault for being greedy. Please forgive me, Princess.”
The Third Princess glanced at the Crown Prince and, seeing that he still acted as if it were none of her business, became even less polite.
"Guards, drag this greedy lackey away and give him twenty lashes. He only has money in his eyes and no regard for his master's possessions. Let him learn a lesson!"
Immediately, a eunuch stepped forward and pulled the person away.
Perhaps in an attempt to please his master, the eunuch chose a location not far away for the execution.
The eunuch who was being beaten wasn't gagged, so everyone could clearly hear the screams.
Fu Peipei's face was deathly pale, and she looked so frail and delicate that she was about to faint.
The third princess rolled her eyes and began to settle accounts with her.
"Consort Fu, what other excuses do you have? You clearly knew we were here and deliberately came to cause trouble. Yet you pretended not to know. This is knowingly committing a wrong!"
Tell me, what punishment do you want?
Fu Peipei's tears fell in a torrent, and she hated the Third Princess to the core.
She was about to get married, but she was still acting like a tyrant in the palace.
Once she gains favor and gives birth to a grandson of the emperor, she will surely avenge today's humiliation!
She crawled two steps on her knees, then suddenly stepped forward and hugged the prince's leg, sobbing uncontrollably.
"Waaah, Your Highness, I have been in the palace for several days, but I have not seen Your Highness's face. I rushed in because I was anxious."
"Waaah, I know I was wrong. Please forgive me, Your Highness, just this once, okay?"
She tilted her head back, tears streaming down her cheeks, which only added to her pitiful beauty.
Unfortunately, the Crown Prince was as hard as iron. He pulled his leg away from her pull and said calmly, "Someone has already arranged your schedule. As long as you wait patiently, you will eventually have the opportunity to meet me."
"If everyone else were as unruly and acted on their own, wouldn't I be disturbed every day?"
"Step down and reflect on your mistakes for a month in seclusion."
Fu Peipei was immediately anxious. All thirteen women who entered the palace were eager to attract the Crown Prince's attention as soon as possible in order to give birth to a grandson of the Emperor.
If she were locked up for a month, she would probably be far behind when she got out.
"No, no, Your Highness, please calm down and forgive me this time."
Fu Peipei wanted to hug the Crown Prince's leg, but was stopped by Steward Feng.
In her desperation, she changed direction and lunged directly at Jiayin.
"Princess Kang Le, please plead for me! I...I know Madam Wen, Madam Wen is my mother!"
Jiayin was holding a teacup when she was suddenly jostled, and the tea spilled all over half of her skirt.
Fortunately, it was summer, so the tea was only lukewarm; otherwise, she would have been scalded.
She frowned, and just as she was about to speak, Fu Peipei was kicked to the ground by the Crown Prince!
"Insolence!" The Crown Prince roared in fury, quickly glancing at Jia Yin's wet skirt. His face darkened further, and he coldly ordered, "Drag her away, slap her twenty times, and confine her to her quarters for six months!"
"No, Your Highness, you can't do this to me! My father is the Marquis of Dingbei!" Fu Peipei was frantic, even changing her self-identification, and quickly brought up her biological father's title.
Jiayin was initially puzzled, thinking that Madam Wen couldn't possibly have such a grown daughter.
But upon hearing the words "Marquis of Dingbei," she suddenly understood.
This Fu Peipei is the daughter of that scumbag, the Marquis of Dingbei. It's possible that when Lady Wen was still the wife of the Marquis of Dingbei, she was Fu Peipei's mistress.
She immediately lost interest. Like begets like, and the daughter of a scumbag is always scheming!
It's no surprise that Fu Peipei is here today to compete for favor.
Of course, they deserved this fate.
Unfortunately, she, an innocent bystander, was caught in the crossfire and ruined a beautiful dress.
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