That night, Shen He gave Chu Xuan the testimony of Prince Jin handed over by Concubine Lin.

However, since the testimony came from Concubine Lin, Chu Xuan did not dare to believe it completely. The next day, he went out of the house to look for the old people mentioned in the testimony to verify the truth of the testimony.

So when Zhong Xiu finished packing and came to bring pastries to Chu Xuan, there was no one in the study.

Zhong Xiu lowered her head somewhat unwillingly as she looked at the exquisite pastries in the food box. Suddenly, an idea came to her mind and a dangerous smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

It was autumn in the back garden of the palace. The chrysanthemums, roses and hibiscus were in full bloom, and the garden was full of vitality.

Chu Yuan walked with difficulty among the flowers with his short legs. Next to him was a small basket covered with a layer of chrysanthemum petals.

Ever since that woman came into the house, my mother has been unhappy and depressed all day long.

Chu Yuan was a little worried and kept pestering Chu Yao to ask what to do.

Finally, Chu Yao was so annoyed that he had no choice but to ask Chu Yuan to come and pick some apples, dry them into apple tea to help his mother get rid of her anger.

Chu Yuan carefully brushed the dust off the petals and placed them cautiously in the basket beside him.

Suddenly, a sound of slow and steady footsteps was heard not far away. Chu Yuan looked up curiously and saw a woman in a lotus pink dress, holding a food box in her hand, walking slowly towards him.

Chu Yuan frowned. She didn't know this person, but she guessed that this was the new concubine, the woman who made her mother unhappy.

Zhong Xiu walked closer with a smile: "Your name is Chu Yuan, right? Are you picking flowers here?"

Chu Yuan frowned and said nothing. He lowered his head and picked his flowers carefully without even looking at Zhong Xiu.

Zhong Xiu thought that the child was innocent, so she thought of bribing Chu Yuan with food. When she saw that Chu Yuan ignored her, she took out the cakes from the food box and handed them to Chu Yuan.

She coaxed him, "Look, this is the jujube paste cake I just made this morning. It's delicious. Can I give it to you?"

Chu Yuan had a blank expression on his face and refused: "No! I don't want to eat your food, you are a bad woman! You make my mother unhappy, I don't like you!"

When had Zhong Xiu ever been treated like this before, and the other party was just a young boy? He immediately became furious and pulled the person over.

"What did you say? How dare you say that about me? Tell me! Did your mother teach you that? You are so young and yet you are so ignorant! Let me show you how I will teach you a lesson today!"

Chu Yuan became furious upon hearing this, thinking that Zhong Xiu was going to hit her. She struggled violently to break free from Zhong Xiu's shackles and raised her hand to grab her arm.

Zhong Xiu screamed in fear, fell to the ground, and looked towards the garden gate with extreme grievance.

There was a figure walking quickly towards them. Zhong Xiu secretly curled up a cunning smile. Everything was within her expectations.

After leaving the study in the morning, Zhong Xiu sent someone to the gate to wait for Chu Xuan to come back, saying that he had something to say to him.

Then he came here to act out a sad drama. Now that he was injured, he could say that Lu Yanluo was dissatisfied with his entry into the mansion and instigated his young son to become her enemy.

In this case, let’s see what Lu Yanluo has to say!

Sure enough, Chu Xuan heard the voice and came over to ask, "What happened?"

Zhong Xiu stood up hurriedly with tears in her eyes, looking extremely aggrieved: "Your Highness..." She began to play the victim.

"I met the young lady in the garden by chance, and wanted to give her some food to cheer her up, but I never thought..." Zhong Xiu raised the arm that was scratched by Chu Yuan: "Not only did the young lady not eat, but she also scolded me fiercely as a bad woman, and finally scratched me. I had no ill intentions, I just thought the young lady was cute and wanted to get close to her..."

Chu Xuan glanced at Zhong Xiu's scratched arm, frowned at Chu Yuan, and scolded: "Chu Yuan, how can you be so rude! What did your father teach you? You are ignorant, why don't you apologize to the princess!"

Chu Yuan looked at his father with tearful eyes, tears falling down like water. He hugged Chu Xuan tightly and cried even more aggrievedly than Zhong Xiu.

"Daddy... Yuanyuan didn't mean to hurt her, it was her... She called mom a vixen, and also called mom rude, unruly, and domineering. Daddy will divorce her sooner or later."

Chu Yuan tightly grasped Chu Xuan's clothes, as if he was really afraid, and asked tentatively: "Will Daddy really divorce Mom? What will happen to Yuanyuan and brother without Mom? Yuanyuan wants Mom! Yuanyuan doesn't want to be a child without a mother!"

Chu Yuan cried so hard that it shook the earth and he cried at the top of his lungs. Chu Xuan felt so distressed that he bent down, picked up the child and kept comforting him.

"Alright, alright, don't cry, Daddy doesn't want to divorce Mom. How could Daddy divorce Mom? Don't listen to her nonsense."

Chu Yuan was crying and hiccuping. He lay on Chu Xuan and looked at Zhong Xiu with secret pride.

Are they competing to see who cries the most miserably? When Chu Yuan bullied Chu Yao on weekdays, he cried even more miserably in front of Lu Yanluo.

Zhong Xiu's plan suddenly failed. This little thing was full of nonsense! In the end, he actually bit her back!

This made Zhong Xiu furious. For a moment, she even forgot her manners and pointed at Chu Yuan and said angrily, "When did I ever scold your mother? Your Majesty, she is young and ignorant. She doesn't know what she is saying. Your Majesty, you must not believe me! I have never insulted the princess!"

Chu Xuan, who was holding the child, was about to speak when Chu Yuan immediately burst into tears again: "Bad woman! You wanted to hit me just now, you lied! Bad woman!"

Chu Xuan patted and comforted the child, turned sideways and looked at Zhong Xiu with an ambiguous expression, and said coldly: "The princess said that he was an ignorant child. Then I would like to ask the princess, if he is ignorant, why did he make up a lie to frame you?"

"They are all kings..."

"It was the princess who instigated this?" Before Zhong Xiu could finish, Chu Xuan interrupted him: "Then I will ask the princess again, why did the princess come here with cakes when she had nothing else to do but stay in Lan Fanghua? How did the princess know that my daughter was here?"

The implication of Chu Xuan's words showed that he already knew that she had done it on purpose and had been planning it for a long time.

Zhong Xiu was speechless after being questioned by Chu Xuan, and for a moment he didn't know how to defend himself.

Chu Xuan hugged Chu Yuan, who was trembling with tears, with a distressed look on his face. He stared at Zhong Xiu with meaningful eyes: "I thought the princess was a sensible person who could understand what I said yesterday. Now it seems that the princess didn't understand. So I might as well explain it more clearly."

Chu Xuan was intimidating without being angry, and said in a serious manner: "Princess, please behave yourself in the palace and do not try to harm the princess and the two children. Otherwise, without waiting until the matter is settled, I will write a divorce letter and personally send the princess out of the Yewang Palace. I can do what I say!"

After saying that, Chu Xuan held the child, turned around and left indifferently.

Only Zhong Xiu was left standing there, his face as pale as paper.