Chapter 124 Qian Yueshu pulls the Crown Prince's ear!
The Empress looked at her son protecting Qian Yueshu and smiled instead of being angry.
You two are showing off your love.
Are they making a fool of her?
Then don't blame her for being ruthless!
After all, sometimes she really can't stand seeing lovey-dovey scenes.
She slowly stood up, walked to Xiao Qingxuan, and stared at him with piercing eyes: "Didn't you tell me to punish your wife? And that I should teach her how to serve her husband well? Hmm?"
The empress deliberately elongated a few special words.
But it struck Xiao Qingxuan's heart like a heavy hammer.
He opened his mouth, but was speechless for a moment.
Qian Yueshu suddenly raised her head and looked at Xiao Qingxuan in disbelief.
What a scoundrel.
When did you become so scheming?
After stating the facts, the Empress glanced back and forth between the two men, a meaningful smile curving her lips: "Never mind."
The Queen sat back down in her chair, her voice weary, "You may all leave."
Xiao Qingxuan reached out to help Qian Yueshu, but she gently avoided him.
She stood up on her own.
Because he had been kneeling for a long time, his steps were a little unsteady.
Xiao Qingxuan wanted to step forward to help, but Qian Yueshu stopped him in his tracks with a single look.
That moment.
Xiao Qingxuan clearly saw the tears that flashed in her eyes, and the pain of being betrayed.
The Empress took it all in and gently shook her head.
"The word 'love' is the most difficult to understand," the Empress sighed softly, her voice barely audible.
She saw it very clearly.
The son adores Qian Yueshu.
But today's events have deeply hurt Qian Yueshu.
For women.
Some things we can discuss behind closed doors between husband and wife.
But if you secretly complain, that's a big deal!
Moreover, the person being sued is the mother-in-law, whom every daughter-in-law cares about most.
They left the palace gates.
The prince's carriage made a dull rumbling sound as it rolled over the bluestone road.
The atmosphere inside the carriage was so oppressive it was almost palpable.
Qian Yueshu sat upright on the cushion, her back ramrod straight.
She didn't even bother to glance at Crown Prince Xiao Qingxuan, her gaze fixed on the rapidly receding street scene outside the carriage window.
The car interior is spacious, and in the corner, an incense burner emits wisps of smoke—the finest ambergris, which is said to calm the mind and soothe the spirit.
But this did nothing to quell the anger in her heart.
She felt the fragrance was cloyingly sweet, like invisible threads wrapping around her neck, making her breath feel like it was burning with heat.
Xiao Qingxuan sat not far from Qian Yueshu.
He could clearly feel the anger emanating from Qian Yueshu.
It appears calm, but it harbors a power to destroy everything!
The crown prince tried to speak several times, his lips trembling, but he ultimately swallowed his words.
He knew that whatever he said at this moment might trigger Qian Yueshu's outburst!
So the prince leaned as close to the carriage wall as possible to minimize his presence.
At the same time, he secretly rejoiced.
At least on the way from the palace back to the Crown Prince's residence.
In front of the accompanying guards and palace servants, Qian Yueshu still gave the crown prince some face and did not make a scene on the spot.
This "giving face" is more like the calm before the storm!
The Crown Prince's residence.
Once the carriage came to a stop, the eunuch respectfully lifted the curtain.
Xiao Qingxuan got out of the car first, almost with a hint of imperceptible haste, and then reached out to help Qian Yueshu as usual.
Qian Yueshu didn't even look at his outstretched hand; with a slight movement of her skirt, she nimbly got out of the car.
Her movements remained elegant, displaying the poise befitting a crown princess.
But that aloofness made Xiao Qingxuan's hand awkwardly hang in mid-air, and he eventually withdrew it sheepishly.
Stepping through the gate feels like crossing an invisible barrier.
When the palace maids and eunuchs serving in the front courtyard saw their master return, they all bowed and bowed, keeping their heads low and not daring to breathe.
They are all shrewd and calculating.
They had already sensed something unusual from the strange silence between the two masters and the Crown Princess's icy expression.
I had just stepped into the main hall.
Qian Yueshu's anger, which she had been forcibly suppressing, suddenly erupted!
She didn't even bother to dismiss those around her.
Amidst the horrified gazes of the maids and eunuchs filling the hall.
Qian Yueshu darted forward, stretched out her right hand, and grabbed Xiao Qingxuan's ear with perfect accuracy!
"hiss--!"
A collective gasp filled the hall.
The palace servants standing by were terrified. They all knelt down and buried their heads in the ground, wishing they could disappear into a crack in the ground and pretend they were blind and deaf.
The Crown Princess dared to pull the Crown Prince's ear.
This is outrageous!
"Xiao Qingxuan! You've gotten quite bold, haven't you? Huh?" Qian Yueshu's voice was clear and crisp, with a noticeable tremor: "You actually dared to go and complain to your mother? You've really grown some guts!"
The sharp pain in his ear made Xiao Qingxuan cry out "Ouch!" and his handsome face instantly turned bright red.
Half of it was pain, and half of it was embarrassment.
He is a prince, when has he ever been treated like this?
Especially in front of so many servants!
He instinctively tried to break free, but Qian Yueshu held on very tightly.
He dared not actually hurt her, so he could only tilt his head and plead for mercy in a disheveled manner: "Moon...Moon! Be gentle, be gentle! It hurts! Let me explain...I...I just..."
He stammered, trying to organize his thoughts, "I just wanted the Empress Dowager to teach you some palace etiquette... I was mainly angry that you didn't care about your own life! And... and even though you were clearly in the wrong, you still gave me the cold shoulder... but I didn't want the Empress Dowager to make you kneel as punishment!"
He tried his best to make his eyes appear sincere and innocent.
Upon hearing this, Qian Yueshu not only did not let go, but instead laughed angrily: "Hehe... Xiao Qingxuan, do you take me, Qian Yueshu, for a three-year-old? Don't tell me you didn't consider that your mother, who values rules and etiquette the most, would only give me a few gentle words of admonishment after hearing that I 'behaved out of line' and 'disrespected my husband,' without imposing any punishment?"
"I believe..."
"You think?" Qian Yueshu was even angrier: "Xiao Qingxuan, don't tell me you don't know that kneeling as punishment is a common practice in the palace?"
Her gaze was sharp as a knife, as if it could cut through all his pretenses and pierce straight into his heart: "You clearly calculated that the Empress Dowager would punish me severely, and then you would act like a savior and rush to my rescue, so that I would be grateful to you and be forced to admit my mistakes and bow my head!"
Qian Yueshu grew angrier as she spoke: "Xiao Qingxuan, your tricks of using someone else's strength against them and playing the good cop/bad cop are all things I've already learned! It's true that you people who can climb to high positions... are all corrupt! You're calculating everything from the inside out!"
She grew angrier as she spoke, her chest heaving violently, and the hand gripping his ear tightened unconsciously.
Xiao Qingxuan winced in pain.
Hearing her last sentence, he couldn't help but blurt out a rebuttal: "Moon! It's one thing for you to be angry and scold me, but how can you scold yourself as well?"
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