Shuzhen stormed back to the Prince. The servants, seeing her unfriendly expression, knew she was in a bad mood, so they all buried themselves in their work, not daring to even breathe loudly, for fear of offending Shuzhen and being punished.
Shuzhen asked, "Where is Prince?" She wanted to tell Hongshi what had happened today.
The butler answered tremblingly, "The Prince is in his study."
Shuzhen snorted and turned to walk towards the study.
Pushing open the study door, Shuzhen frowned. She saw Hongshi completely drunk, and Shuzhen was furious.
She stepped forward and snatched Hongshi's wine glass, shouting, "Stop drinking!" Shuzhen smashed the glass on the ground.
"What are you doing!" Hongshi said angrily.
Shuzhen pointed at Hongshi and said, "Today, I humbled myself and begged the Empress so that you could become a prince again, but you just sit here drinking. Look at yourself now, you don't look like a prince at all. You deserve to have your title revoked by the Emperor."
Hongshi said, "Are you doing this for me or for yourself? You just want to become the Prince's wife again, so stop talking about doing this for me."
Shuzhen said, "So what if it is? I want to be the Prince's wife again. Don't forget, I married you in the first place so that I could become the Crown Princess and eventually the Empress! Who knew you would be so useless? Now you've not only been demoted to a commoner, but you've also dragged me and our Ulanara clan down with you."
Hongshi said, "How dare you speak to me like that? Do you believe I'll divorce you?"
“Go ahead and divorce me if you dare! I’d like to see if you dare,” Shuzhen said.
Hongshi angrily raised his hand and slapped Shuzhen. Shuzhen was stunned; she hadn't expected Hongshi to hit her.
Shuzhen covered her face and said, "You hit me! You hit me over a wine glass! Look at yourself now, you're not like a man at all."
Hongshi wanted to hit her again, but Shuzhen raised her face and said, "Go ahead and hit me! Even if you beat me to death, you'll never go back to the way things were before."
The two started hurling insults at each other, and the servants all hid to the side, not daring to intervene.
Hongshi said, "Let me tell you, I have been putting up with your Ulanara clan for a long time."
Shuzhen raised an eyebrow and said dismissively, "So what? You still have to rely on our family."
Hongshi said, "I have been plotted against by the Ulanara clan. Before, I needed your family's power, but now it's different. Your father, the Duke of Ying, has also fallen. So I will not care about anything and settle accounts with you."
Shuzhen asked, "What accounts do you want to settle?"
Hongshi said, "Do you think I know nothing about the death of the Irgen clan? The reason I pretended not to know before was only to protect your family. Now if you dare to talk nonsense again, we will settle both the old and new scores together."
“You…” Shuzhen was speechless with anger because Hongshi had hit a nerve.
Seeing that she didn't speak, Hongshi knew she had tacitly agreed, so he angrily ran out of the house.
Shuzhen's voice came from behind: "Stop right there! I won't let you leave!"
Hongshi ignored her and walked away quickly.
Watching Hongshi's departing figure, Shuzhen could no longer hold back. She turned around and slapped the maid, knocking her to the ground in anger. The maid kept begging for mercy, "Stop hitting her, Madam, stop hitting her!" None of the people around dared to speak. If they pleaded for her, they might be the next ones to be hit.
They could only pray silently for the maid, hoping she could save her life.
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