The princess's face was cold; although she wasn't too angry, she was clearly very dissatisfied with Wan Ge.
However, the eldest princess did not expect that the emperor would arrive shortly after Wan Ge left.
She hadn't seen the emperor for quite a while; the last time seemed to have been about six months ago.
Qi Yan stood there without saying a word, yet the Princess could feel the oppressive aura emanating from him.
"Ayan, what brings you here to visit your aunt today?" The princess asked with her signature smile.
Qi Yan merely glanced at her coldly before speaking, "Your aunt, who is usually rarely seen, has personally met with the Imperial Concubine, hasn't she?"
"What does Ayan want to say?" The eldest princess had a bad feeling.
Qi Yan grabbed the princess's chin, his grip firm, judging from her expression. "What are you? You dare to provoke my people? Do you want to die?"
"Ayan..." The princess's words were barely audible.
Finally, Qi Yan shook her off, and before leaving, he gave her a final warning: "You'd better not meddle in my affairs, and you'd better not touch my people."
After Qi Yan left, the princess's face remained extremely gloomy, and the prayer beads in her hand finally broke under her force.
Originally, the eldest princess wasn't particularly angry, but now she was genuinely furious, though she also harbored a deep fear of Qi Yan.
She and Qi Yan used to have a good relationship, provided that he didn't discover what she had done.
And it all started with the story of the princess marrying the general.
The eldest princess was once the most beautiful woman in the capital, surpassing all other women in talent, looks, and wealth. Therefore, she married a highly decorated general.
Originally, the couple were deeply in love, and she loved the general very much, but she died on the battlefield while going to war with her younger brother.
After making some inquiries, she learned that her younger brother had actually fled in fear on the battlefield, which led to the general's death.
She didn't show much change on the surface, but she had long harbored resentment towards her younger brother.
The eldest princess was unaware that the former general had long harbored rebellious intentions. The late emperor, in order to prevent his sister from being implicated, devised a plan to have the general killed in battle, so that his father would not know and would not blame his sister.
The eldest princess, filled with hatred, constantly harmed her younger brother and sister-in-law. She added a colorless and odorless, slow-acting poison to their food, which would not elicit any response from silver needles, thus causing the late emperor and empress to die from chronic poisoning.
At that time, Qi Yan was only thirteen years old, quite young, so the eldest princess, who had always been very kind to him, took care of him.
Qi Yan was initially very grateful to his aunt who had always taken care of him. However, he was also someone who habitually controlled everything, and he would investigate even those closest to him. It was through this investigation that he learned about the good deeds of the Eldest Princess.
Qi Yan was furious. The hatred for killing her father was irreconcilable, but she was also her only family member, and the memory of how kind she was to him when they were children kept flashing through her mind.
So in the end, Qi Yan didn't kill her, but he effectively put her under house arrest. However, even after all these years of vegetarianism and Buddhist chanting, he still couldn't change her vicious heart.
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Seeing the princess's exasperated state, the nanny slowly approached, lowered her head and whispered something in the princess's ear. In the end, the princess revealed a satisfied smile.
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