Chapter 323 Zhu Zhenzhen's Raging Hatred
Xie Shang, seething with anger, grabbed Jiang Fenghua's hand and quickened his pace. Jiang Fenghua was held tightly by him; if she hadn't been physically strong, she really wouldn't have been able to keep up with him.
The crown prince was furious, his eyes blazing with murderous intent, and Lianye and Lin Feng only dared to follow from a distance.
When Lianye saw Empress Cheng slap her young lady and then point at her nose and curse, she was furious. Luckily, the Crown Prince arrived in the next second, otherwise she really wanted to rush up and fight the Empress. It was too much of a bullying.
Lin Feng could guess what had happened even with just a rough guess, otherwise his master wouldn't be so angry.
Xie Shang pulled Jiang Fenghua directly toward Chenxi Palace, as if that were where he was healing.
How could Jiang Fenghua not hate her? In her previous life, Empress Cheng would slap her left and right at the drop of a hat. Whenever she was wronged by someone else, she would always take it out on Jiang Fenghua. Helpless and alone, Jiang Fenghua could only endure it.
Xie Shang consummated their marriage, and she thought he had finally seen her. Later, she became pregnant, and Empress Cheng looked at her like she was a hot commodity. During that time, Empress Cheng protected her, but only under the pretext of prioritizing the imperial heir. However, Xie Shang disliked her even more, thinking that she was scheming for being pregnant with the imperial heir and for trying to curry favor with the Empress Dowager.
Jiang Fenghua finally understood why the Crown Prince looked at Empress Cheng with such hatred during that time—because he genuinely believed that Empress Cheng had killed his biological mother.
He ascended the throne only because of the ancestral system of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and because she was still his nominal mother, which is why he made Empress Cheng the Empress Dowager.
However, Xie Shang made Empress Cheng the Empress Dowager, and to further disgust her, he also made Su Qingqing, who should have been a concubine, the Empress Dowager of the West Palace. This move was truly ruthless.
Jiang Fenghua now understood that they were just fighting like the snipe and the clam, while the fisherman benefited.
Xie Shang and Empress Cheng were the former, while the Su family were the latter.
If he really made Su Qingqing the Empress Dowager of the Western Palace for Su Tingwan's sake, then he would be the most incompetent person ever.
Xie Shang back then was the same as he is now; his eyes were almost entirely filled with cold-blooded ruthlessness, so cold they could freeze a person to death. The anger in his chest seemed to have no outlet, making her hand ache from gripping it.
At this moment, Xie Shang calmed down. There was still an important thing he hadn't done. He couldn't let Empress Cheng disturb his mind. So what if she wasn't his biological mother? He was the master of the world. He wanted to seize the world and become the ruler. The Great Zhou Dynasty was his chessboard, and everyone else was a pawn. The pawns had been placed, and he was the one who would play the game.
Seeing that he had stopped, Jiang Fenghua remained silent and tentatively asked, "Your Highness."
Xie Shang's gaze softened, and his fingers gently stroked her slapped face. The cool breeze had already erased the marks, leaving only a slight blush. "Ruan Ruan, I've made you suffer again."
Jiang Fenghua's gaze towards him changed, becoming gentle and tender, with a hint of worry in it. "Your Highness, are you alright? How can I force out the hatred in your heart if I don't get slapped by Empress Cheng?"
Xie Shang pulled her into his arms and whispered in her ear, "I'm fine. I have a lot to do. Ruan Ruan will stay with me, right?"
"Yes, Your Highness, I will always be with you. We will never be apart." She hugged his waist, trying to give him warmth like a mother would. He lacked both maternal and paternal love.
Xie Shang only needed this little bit of warmth in his heart; he didn't need anything else.
He felt as if he wanted to meld her into his body, into his heart, so that his heart wouldn't feel cold, and only warmth would remain.
However, his outer shell remained as hard as iron, and no one could penetrate his heart.
For a moment, Jiang Fenghua even had a sudden realization that she hadn't truly entered his heart, or made him love her to the core.
His true feelings seem to be reserved for only one person, and perhaps they will never be opened to him in his entire life.
She had loved, loved wholeheartedly, so she knew the pain of loving someone; she had loved like this in her past life.
At that time, she thought that Xie Shang loved Su Tingwan to the core. Strangely, he also loved other concubines, but not her.
First love is always beautiful. Xie Shang's first love was Su Tingwan, while her first love was him, but loving him for a lifetime was too painful.
In this life, she closed her heart, making it as hard as iron, and no one could enter it.
Xie Shang escorted her back to Chenxi Palace. He kissed her lips tenderly, as if gently coaxing her, "I can't be with you tonight. I have very important things to do."
Jiang Fenghua smiled sweetly, "Your Highness, please go ahead with your work. If Your Highness cannot stay with me, I will stay with Yan'er and Hongyou. However, as the Crown Princess, is it really appropriate for me to leave early?"
She wanted to see how Xie Shang would punish the Qin family. Qin Yunyan was very favored in her previous life and was the most beautiful woman in Quanzhou. She was as beautiful as a lotus flower and was indeed very pretty and pleasing to the eye. She was also a strong competitor of Su Tingwan. Xie Shang was the kind of person who judged people by their appearance at first glance.
Why didn't Qin Yunyan enter the palace in this life? It's a good thing she didn't. Otherwise, if Xie Shang had favored her, she would have felt very resentful. Although her appearance was superior to Qin Yunyan's, Xie Shang would eventually get tired of looking at her. If he and Qin Yunyan were to be affectionate with each other again, she would have killed her. But now she doesn't need to.
Ha! Even God is on her side.
Xie Shang secretly didn't want Xiao Yu to see her, because Xiao Yu was the chief judge in charge of purging the court tonight. Scholar Xiao was indeed very capable, capturing the Qin family so quickly and finding out all their crimes and bringing them to justice.
He felt very uncomfortable that his wife was being coveted by another man. Xiao Yu hid it well, but his eyes didn't lie.
At the same time, Zhu Zhenzhen was helped back to the East Palace by servants. From afar, she saw Jiang Fenghua being held in the arms of the Crown Prince. He kissed her affectionately, giving all his tenderness and affection to Jiang Fenghua.
Zhu Zhenzhen could only sneer. The Crown Prince left immediately upon hearing that the Crown Princess was in trouble; it turned out he had come to be all lovey-dovey with her.
She thought the incredibly handsome Crown Prince wouldn't kiss people, so when they shared a room, he wouldn't even kiss her once.
His Highness the Crown Prince was extremely noble, and no one dared to disobey his will, so she dared not either. She could only endure the uncomfortable first time. She also knew why she entered the palace: for the glory of her family and for the royal bloodline to be on the Zhu family's genealogy.
But she's a woman too; she needs her husband's care and love, and she needs warmth.
However, Zhu Zhenzhen was unaware that her dream of running into the palace to find love and warmth was nothing but a pipe dream, the biggest joke in the world.
Zhu Zhenzhen touched her belly. She was already pregnant, so why was God treating her like this? Her heart was filled with hatred, an overwhelming hatred.
Zhu Zhenzhen stared in the direction of Jiang Fenghua and Xie Shang; it was their fault.
If the Crown Prince could share some of his affection for the Crown Princess with her, she wouldn't want to compete for his favor. If the Crown Princess weren't so hypocritical, pretending to be generous and sending her tonics all day, she wouldn't have avoided the imperial physician's examination and would have discovered her pregnancy sooner.
Yes, that's right.
Zhu Zhenzhen begins to plot her revenge; she wants to find the enemy for her child and take her revenge.
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