"Ulanara Yan Yu, you are truly despicable. Killing a maid, stealing a child to fill a quota, and plotting to harm an heir—any one of these deserves death." The Fourth Prince was speaking to his wife rather than Yan Yu.
The princess consort did not really want Yan Yu to die, but she did so much anyway, and now that the wet nurse's child has died, she fears she will not be spared.
"Yan Yu's crime is unforgivable. I beg Your Highness to consider that she gave birth to Hai Lan and allow her to spend a few more days with the little princess. Then I will send her to receive her punishment." The Fujin naturally knew that if she didn't say something now, Yan Yu would probably be pushed to the limit and might even bite someone.
Sure enough, when the Fujin said this, Yan Yu, who was about to speak, closed her mouth again.
The Fourth Prince refused to even glance at her again, and announced as if to say, "Take her back with your wife. She shall not come out. Three days later, she shall be given three feet of white silk. Take that child out, and Hailan shall be raised by your wife."
After saying this, Fourth Master kept only Lanqin and all the others took their leave.
Yan Yu was pulled out by Lingxiu and Jinzhi. The room, which had been full of people just moments before, was now empty except for Fourth Master and Lanqin.
"Do you think these things weren't solely Yan Yu's doing?" Fourth Master asked, looking at Lan Qin's expression.
"I was unaware. Your Excellency has already obtained an explanation for Wuxiha, the deceased Yun Yuan, and the wet nurse's child. I had no idea that Yan Yu would resort to such unscrupulous means; it's simply incomprehensible." Lan Qin also felt a vague unease; she didn't feel much pleasure in dealing with Yan Yu.
"Don't think about her anymore. How is Wuxiha? Come on, let's go see him." Fourth Master grabbed Lanqin's hand, knowing that the little princess was frightened by these underhanded methods.
Meanwhile, when the Fujin brought Yan Yugang back to the main courtyard, she suddenly broke free from Jinzhi and Lingxiu's control and ran around the courtyard like a madwoman.
"Grab her!" Behind the princess, the main courtyard gate was already bolted.
"You can't let me die, you can't!! Don't think you can get away with what you did by having Granny Li take your place." Yan Yu was just a weak woman with no strength to even kill a chicken, how could she outrun the strong old women? In no time, she was dragged back by the two old women like a little chick.
“If it weren’t for me, you would have been strangled to death just now. Do you think you could escape what you did?” The princess stared at the now insane Yan Yu.
"You're a monster! You'd even harm your own sister for your own sake. Even if I die, I'll become a vengeful ghost and haunt you!" Yan Yu cursed the Fujin, filled with hatred for her.
"Gag her." The Fujin had other matters to attend to and didn't have time to listen to her nonsense, so she led her people to Yan Yu's room, took Hailan away, and as for the child that was brought in, she only ordered that he be taken out.
The wet nurses who were serving the two children suddenly saw their mistress collapse, and the children were either taken away or sent away. They had no idea what had happened.
When the Fujin brought Hailan back to the main courtyard, Yan Yu had already been tied up and locked in a room.
"Chunliu, take Hailan to the Second Princess's side. Also, find her wet nurse and maids, and tell the head maid. I don't have time to care for her right now; you can look after the child for now." Since Li Mama left, the Princess Consort had become distant from the maids who had come with her. Now, Lingxiu was her favorite, while Chunliu and Xiahe, her two most capable maids who used to serve her inside, could only serve outside.
At this moment, the Fujin (principal wife) sent Chunliu to serve Hailan, which was a clear way of transferring her away from her side.
Chunliu was taken aback, but said nothing. After bowing to the Fujin, she carried Hailan to the back of the main courtyard.
"Let's go. My dear sister will never be willing to give up. We're sisters, I can't just abandon her." The Fujin saw that the Fourth Prince was willing to entrust Hailan to her, which meant that he no longer rejected her as much.
The Fujin entered the room where Yan Yu was being managed, and saw that she was tied to a chair with her hands behind her back, her mouth gagged with a strip of cloth. She looked extremely tired and had fallen asleep on the back of the chair.
Seeing her like this, the Fujin felt a little guilty, but when she thought about the mindless things she was doing and how they would cause even bigger trouble sooner or later, she felt no remorse.
Daughters born out of wedlock are meant to help daughters born out of wedlock.
The Fujin sat opposite Yan Yu, not waking her, but simply watching her quietly.
Yan Yu gradually woke up. She slowly opened her eyes and found that the Fujin was looking at her quietly. However, her mouth was gagged and her hands were tied behind her back to the chair. Otherwise, she would have pounced on her and strangled her.
"Lingxiu, remove the thing from her mouth." Seeing that Yan Yu's eyes seemed to shoot out thousands of tiny knives, the Fujin sighed and gave the order.
"Go ahead and curse if you want. In two days, you'll have to go there. Don't worry, I'll take good care of Hailan. After all, she's my own niece. Don't blame me for being heartless. If you hadn't been so clever, how could this mess have happened today?" the Fujin said calmly.
"How are you going to explain this to your father?" Yan Yu knew at this point that no matter how much she cursed, it wouldn't make a difference.
“No need to explain. Are all the things you did not happen because I framed you? If you weren’t so ambitious and insisted on raising the child yourself, would you have been allowed to see him even on ordinary days?” the Fujin said.
"If I don't fight, I'll spend my whole life crawling at your feet, letting you bully me. What you don't want, what's left, is what we illegitimate daughters will get." Yan Yu finally revealed the resentment that had been hidden in her heart. If she didn't speak up now, when would she?
"If you have someone to blame, it's only because you were born to the wrong mother. From ancient times to the present, children born of the principal wife have always been more noble than those born of concubines like you. Even in the current royal family, isn't the crown prince born of the empress?" The princess consort said excitedly when she saw that Yan Yu was dissatisfied with the distinction between principal and concubine.
"Hmph, don't think that by playing the good guy this time you can win the Fourth Prince's heart. His heart belongs to that Niohuru woman. I'm watching from below, watching how you are driven step by step into a corner by her. Hahaha!" Yan Yu started laughing, laughing until tears streamed down her face.
"Yu'er, I know you love beauty. Why not drink a cup of poison and go with dignity? Otherwise, hanging yourself is a very unsightly thing." The Fujin seemed to be telling Yan Yu something very lighthearted. Yan Yu looked at the Fujin, knowing that her sister was actually a hundred or a thousand times more vicious than herself.
"I thought you would save me, but it turns out you're afraid I'll tell Fourth Master about your misdeeds. I won't die. I'll wait until Su Peisheng comes to give me the white silk ribbon, then I can expose your evil deeds to the world," Yan Yu said coldly.
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