She originally thought that the Fourth Prince liked her, and that her life wouldn't be too miserable if she married him, but she was wrong. Being punished and beaten was a common occurrence.
The child in her belly was murdered on the way to Qing State just after she left the palace.
She was not very sad, after all, this child was her means of staying in Xiali Country.
She couldn't stand the torture anymore, so she ran away.
This was not her first time running away. The injuries on her back and the missing fingers were left over from being caught during previous escapes.
This time she was lucky, as the palace maids she brought with her protected her and she was able to escape.
She wolfed down her food before being taken to take a hot bath. The maid who served her glanced at her fingers for a second longer, and she flew into a rage, demanding that the maid be taken away and punished.
The emperor got to know about her movements. Thinking that she had suffered a lot, he did not intend to make things difficult for her. He just rescued the palace maid and never let her in to serve again.
The emperor had been waiting outside for a long time, and Jiang Yuchu came out just when he was about to get impatient.
The clothes she wore were too big and didn't fit her well, but they were also the best clothes she had worn in the past few months.
There was an obvious missing finger on the wrapped little finger. After all, this was the emperor's sister whom he had loved for many years. Seeing her like this, he couldn't help but feel guilty.
"Yu'er, you..."
"Brother, where is Mother? Why doesn't she come to see me?"
"This... Your Majesty Queen Mother hasn't woken up since you got married. The imperial physician said the chances of her waking up are slim. Now we can only keep her like this."
Jiang Yuchu was angry after hearing this. The first person she asked for help was her mother, but she didn't show up no matter when she wrote to her in the past or when she asked for help today. She thought she didn't want to take care of her, but it turned out that she hadn't woken up yet.
"Royal brother, how did you take care of our mother? We only have one mother. How could you bear to see her like this?"
The emperor was also angry. He was busy with state affairs every day. Now the queen was pregnant. As for Concubine Xia... he was already exhausted. What could she understand and still blame him here?
"I do things, why do I need you to teach me?"
He felt a little regretful after saying this, after all, she was his sister.
As for the fifth princess, she originally thought that she had found someone who could support her after arriving in Xiali Kingdom. However, she did not expect that after only a few months of marriage, there was no place for her in the palace.
That's right, she didn't want to marry there in the first place. It was her brother the emperor who treated her as an object and a commodity and married her to the Kingdom of Qing in order to consolidate his own throne.
"Royal brother, I really misjudged you. I used to call you the royal brother who always protected me when we were little, but I never thought you would become so cold-blooded now."
"you……"
The emperor's face changed with anger. "How dare you say that to me? Why did you come back? Do you know how much trouble your unauthorized return will bring to Xia Li Country?"
"That's all you know. Have you ever truly cared about me? I'm living a life worse than death in Qing Country. Have you ever considered that I might die there?"
She said this excitedly, tearing off the cloth wrapped around her hand, "Look, this is what the people of Qing did to me. If you want me to go back, you're sending me to death."
The scar from the severed finger, which had not yet healed, was exposed nakedly in the air, like a hideous wound, shocking!
The emperor's eyes widened in shock, and he was obviously frightened by the sudden scene. He involuntarily took a few steps back.
"Brother, do you want to see more? I still have some on my back..."
As she spoke, she was about to take off her clothes, not caring about propriety or morality. She just wanted to let the emperor see what kind of torture she had suffered.
Seeing that she was too excited, the emperor had to have her restrained. "Yu'er, what do you want to do?"
Jiang Yuchu's face was full of disappointment. Even though she was in this situation, he was still asking her what to do. He was really her good brother whom she had respected for more than ten years.
She was placed in the Empress Dowager's palace. In order to prevent people from knowing that she had returned to the palace, the emperor kept the news secret.
The emperor is now extremely worried. Someone from Qing Kingdom will surely come soon. If it were in the past, he would have asked Shen Ze'an to come to the palace to discuss and hand over this matter to him.
But as luck would have it, he was injured at this time. If the imperial physician had not personally examined him, he would have suspected that Shen Ze'an had known the news for a long time and was deliberately hiding at home and not doing anything.
The news of the fifth princess returning to the palace soon reached Shen Ze'an. He didn't expect that the fifth princess would come back.
This is good too. The muddier the water is, the more interesting it is.
A letter was delivered to the hands of the Fourth Prince of Qing Kingdom in the dark of night. Following the instructions, the 'Fourth Prince' immediately brought his men to Xiali Kingdom. As soon as he saw the emperor, he asked the emperor to hand over his concubine.
The emperor was speechless for a moment. The people from Qing Kingdom arrived too quickly. Who leaked the news?
"Fourth Prince, what are you talking about? My sister married into the Qing Kingdom a few months ago. You're coming to my Xiali Kingdom to ask for her. Do you think my Xiali Kingdom is easy to bully?"
The emperor's tone was a little cold, but the 'Fourth Prince' below did not show any fear at all.
"Your Majesty, my people have received news that my concubine has come to Xiali Country and is now in this palace. Your Majesty should hand her over."
Jiang Yuchu, who was hiding in the harem, was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan when she heard that the Fourth Prince was coming. She didn't want to go back to Qing Kingdom. She knew very well that if she went back with him, even if the prince would not kill her because she was the fifth princess of Xiali Kingdom, he would not let her have an easy time.
She knelt before the Queen Mother's bed and cried, "Mother, please wake up quickly. I really don't want to go back. Mother, please get up and save me."
I don’t know if the Queen Mother heard it, but she actually opened her eyes.
The nanny beside her was wiping her tears, thinking that His Majesty had done a wrong thing and also felt sorry for the princess. She turned around and saw that the Queen Mother had opened her eyes.
She quickly asked someone to call the imperial physician.
The Queen Mother was awake, but she was extremely weak after lying in bed for several months. Seeing her daughter like this, she was so angry that she almost fainted again.
Fortunately, the imperial physician was watching nearby and gave acupuncture as soon as he saw any signs.
"Yu'er, you, what on earth have you suffered?"
She was unconscious, but she could hear everything. She couldn't remember how she fainted.
"Mother, please save me. I don't want to go back to Qing. I will die."
"Don't worry, as long as I'm here, you won't be taken away."
The emperor saw this scene when he arrived. He stood outside for a long time and heard all their conversations. He blamed all the mistakes on himself.
As the emperor of this country, there is nothing wrong with him worrying about his people. Why doesn't anyone understand him?
He turned and left. After the emperor left, a young eunuch also quietly left and soon appeared in the Governor's Mansion.
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