Gu Jiangru snapped out of her shock, her left cheek burning with pain.
Gu Jiangli stood in front of her, swinging his wrist with a smile on his lips and disdain in his eyes.
"You dare hit me?!"
Gu Jiangli didn't say anything, but slapped him again with a "smack".
A handprint was also visible on the other side of Gu Jiangru's face.
Gu Jiangli smiled, quite satisfied with her work, "Hmm, it's symmetrical."
Gu Jiangru felt a burning pain on both sides of her cheeks.
"Gu Jiangli!!" she screamed frantically, "Are you crazy!!"
She charged at Gu Jiangli, baring her teeth and brandishing her claws, attempting to retaliate with a slap, but Gu Jiangli caught her with lightning speed.
She never expected that Gu Jiangli was so strong that she couldn't break free from his grip on her wrist.
Gu Jiangli watched her struggle frantically and sneered:
"Is this how you let Lotus be bound and then slapped?"
Gu Jiangru wouldn't listen to Gu Jiangli's question and tried hard to pull her wrist away, shouting, "Let go of me!"
Seeing that Gu Jiangli remained unmoved, she shouted frantically at the people beside her:
"Are you all dead?! Hurry up and drag her away!"
Several palace servants hesitated to step forward, but Gu Jiangli said:
"I am a fifth-rank concubine, His Majesty's woman. Anyone who dares to touch me will have their entire family executed."
Upon hearing this, the palace servants who had originally intended to step forward to help stopped in their tracks.
With a cold face, Gu Jiangli slapped Gu Jiangru hard once again.
Gu Jiangru's hairpins were all knocked off the ground.
"Lotus is a servant; they have the right to obey you and restrain her for you. But I am a concubine; who do you expect to help you?"
Snap!
Another slap in the face.
"Gu Jiangli...you give it to me..."
Snap!
"I need to see His Majesty..."
Snap!
"You're dead..."
Snap!
"I won't let it go..."
Snap!
"Go ahead and kill me if you dare..."
Snap!
"...Stop hitting me..."
Snap!
"......"
Gu Jiangru's eyes were glazed over, and half of her face was so swollen that her eyes were no longer visible.
Gu Jiangli was ruthless, using all her strength in each slap.
"Why aren't you saying anything? Weren't you being quite stubborn, Consort Gu?"
"...Don't hit me..."
"Is this how you hit lotus flowers? How many times did you slap them? Haven't I done enough?"
"...That's enough..."
Gu Jiangli smiled contemptuously, released his grip, and threw Gu Jiangru to the ground like trash.
She was helped to sit up by the palace maids behind her, her expression dazed, slowly regaining her senses.
Gu Jiangli squatted down to be at eye level with her. "Consort Gu, your rank is higher than mine. It's not appropriate for me to stand up and speak to you from a superior position. Can you hear me clearly if I squat down like this?"
Gu Jiangru's lips were swollen on one side, and she moved her lips twice but couldn't make a sound.
Gu Jiangli's eyes were filled with sneer, "Listen, if I beat you today, all the eyes in Lanfang Palace can only watch helplessly. They can't deal with me. You have to go to His Majesty, the Empress, and the Empress Dowager. Only then can they subdue me, understand?"
Gu Jiangru seemed to have finally come to her senses a little, and upon hearing Gu Jiangli's words, she spoke in a vicious tone.
"You... vicious... madman! His Majesty... will not let you get away with this!"
"It seems you've regained your senses. Good. I've already shown mercy by not beating you into facial paralysis."
After saying that, Gu Jiangli stood up gracefully.
This time, she truly looked down at Gu Jiangru, who was sitting on the ground, and said:
"Consort Gu, so what if I hit someone in your palace?"
"When I leave, the palace servants in your palace still have to bow to me and let me go. Just like you said, that's the hierarchy."
Gu Jiangli laughed heartily because Gu Jiangru really did look like a pig's head.
“Sister, I advise you that if you want His Majesty to uphold justice for you, you should go immediately. After all, you do look like a victim right now.”
"I won't stay here with you. I'll wait for you at Guangming Palace."
After saying that, she turned around, head held high, and strode away from Lanfang Palace.
The palace servants still had to kneel and bow in the direction she left before helping Gu Jiangru up.
As she left the gates of Lanfang Palace, she could still hear Gu Jiangru shouting wildly inside, mixed with the sounds of her throwing things and throwing a tantrum.
The crazier Gu Jiangru became, the happier she was.
Without turning her head, Gu Jiangli took the sachet that the emperor had given her to repel insects and ants from her waist, and tore it open with force.
She smiled brightly and then walked back to Guangming Hall.
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When Lotus saw her return, she was so excited that she couldn't stop crying.
"My lady, you're finally back! I hope Consort Gu didn't do anything to you?"
Gu Jiangli comforted her, "I'm her sister, what could she do to me? Lotus, you've gotten your revenge, her face is swollen like a pig's head!"
"What?"
Judging from this, it seems that the young master really went to beat someone up?
What should we do?
"Lotus, don't worry. I can see that the medicine has been applied to your face. The imperial physician shouldn't have left yet, right?"
Lotus shook her head blankly, "The imperial physician... is behind us..."
Seeing her in a daze, Gu Jiangli felt a sense of familiarity.
The lotus flower's dazed and blank expression only appears after one's guard is down.
This means that Lotus has completely trusted him.
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