The fifth prince sneered: "I have never considered her my wife. You are the only one who can be my wife."
Ren Jiayu asked, "Then where did Your Highness place Wang Xipei?"
The Fifth Prince said lazily, "If she can be of use to you, like now, I'll have her make soup and snacks for you and your son, handle your funeral, kneel before the spirit, and manage the palace's private property accounts. In the future, all of this will be handed over to you. Just treat her as an unrelated servant or concubine and don't bother with her."
Ren Jiayu: Well said, keep going, it’s not enough.
Ren Jiayu said, "Do you just treat her as a servant? You've been married for five years, so you should be husband and wife, right?"
The Fifth Prince said, "How could I possibly be willing to soil myself for her? I haven't slept with her in the past five years. I know you're arrogant. If I marry her, you'll definitely abandon me. Don't worry, she's not allowed to come even a step near my courtyard or study."
Wang Xipei felt her blood rush to her head. What had she done wrong to these two people? They were just trying to step on her. Why? Was she supposed to stop them?
Didn't Ren Jiayu know that there were people around him? She raised her voice and asked.
Wang Xipei used to have a good impression of Ren Jiayu. She was the daughter of a general and a woman who supported the general's mansion. Even though she felt a little embarrassed when she was handling the funeral, she didn't think about Ren Jiayu.
The Ren family army was stationed at the border, and she was a new widow, so although she felt more like a widow, she decided to help, and maybe they could get a divorce after that.
She retreated step by step and endured everywhere, but they pushed her to death. If she remained silent today, these insults would be pinned on her.
Just as she was about to speak, she heard a sneer in the air, and a voice said, "How ridiculous! A sister-in-law and a brother-in-law, how dare they talk about uncleanliness? Just listening to this makes me feel dirty."
Ren Jiayu's expression changed.
The voice continued, "It's said that Miss Ren is well-educated and knows how to manage the household. But it turns out she can't make snacks or soup, manage accounts, or handle funeral ceremonies. She can't even kowtow as a daughter-in-law or son. Yet, she loudly flirts with someone else's husband in public, and she has to choose a place surrounded by people. The Ren family is well-educated! Miss Ren is so thoughtful! At the funeral, they were the ones doing the work, but what were her brother-in-law and sister-in-law doing when they were nowhere to be seen? The body was still warm in the hall!"
Ren Jiayu's originally complacent face now turned red and white.
The fifth prince was furious and shouted, "Who are you? You are hiding your head and showing your tail. Come out and speak."
The voice continued, "You're not even a bit better than the Fourth Prince. He refused the marriage because he didn't like Sister Ren. Even if the Emperor, Empress, and Mother Consort were all in favor of her, he still had the courage to refuse. He's so open and honest.
The Fifth Prince, who claims he doesn't like her but still goes to His Majesty and kneels down to ask for her hand in marriage, is just a cowardly person, deceiving a good girl with his mean intentions!"
The little grandson of the emperor looked at the faces of the crowd and sensed that something was wrong. He suddenly shouted into the air, "You are not allowed to bully my mother or my fifth uncle!"
The voice said, "That's right, that's right. They are the only ones allowed to bully others! Even if they bully others to death, it's still their fault. It's the fault of the wife they married. What could be wrong with your mother being in mourning? Little kid, what did you just say? These are your mother and your father?"
The three-year-old was a little confused: "No, it's my mother and fifth uncle."
“That’s why I heard wrong.
Ren Jiayu knew she had run into a tough guy who didn't even care about his status as a prince. She had assumed the soft-hearted Wang Xipei would just have to swallow this humiliation. The Fifth Prince held royal status and was her husband. Even if she jumped in, how could a woman like her win an argument against a prince who could punish her at any moment?
With the Fifth Prince protecting her, Ren Jiayu couldn't possibly lose. How could the Fifth Prince let her jump around in front of him? If she jumped out, it would only bring further humiliation upon herself. But unexpectedly, such a voice came out.
Who is this person?
That was the kite that Luo Yunyan left for Wang Xipei. The hexagram she used to predict their marriage was not good, so Luo Yunyan was feeling uneasy when she left.
So she folded three kites out of talisman paper and cast a spell on them. She said they were message kites. Luo Yunyan said, "For example, if you want to call for help or leave a last message." Wang Xipei was so angry that she never used them, but always kept them in her purse.
When life got really tough, she would lie on the bed and chat with the kites. The three kites were like friends, and this one talked the most.
Today it seems that this was not a message kite, but a quarrel kite. The moment Wang Xipei was so angry that blood rushed to her forehead, the kite disappeared from her purse. Only a very faint shadow of the kite seemed to be hovering in the air. Then Wang Xipei heard its voice, as if it were a real person, cursing for her.
When the Fifth Princess first heard her brother's words, she was also surprised and angry. How could her brother say such words? Her five brothers were never like this. They were so mean and hurtful. Hadn't the Fifth Brother been close to Xi Pei before? Even if he didn't like her, why did he treat her like this?
After that magical voice appeared, the fifth princess was the first to react. Run, if the fifth brother gets angry, they won’t be able to protect Xi Pei.
So the fifth princess tugged at Xi Pei's sleeve, and the girls gestured to each other, then bent down and crouched down in unison, quietly walking back under the cover of the dense bushes.
Fearful and cautious, they tiptoed past the bend where the Fifth Prince and Ren Jiayu were, and then they took off running, dashing towards the exit. This frightened the maids waiting at the carriages, who thought there was some ferocious beast behind them.
The Fifth Princess said to Wang Xipei, "Come with me into the palace and go to the Queen Mother. She is protected by the Imperial Guards sent by our father. Even if Fifth Brother is a scoundrel, he wouldn't dare to enter the Queen Mother's Phoenix Palace."
Wang Xipei shook her head. "Usually he would send Ren Jiayu and her son home and would not return home until the evening. He must have extra care today. I'm going to go back and pack my things first."
Wang Xipei misunderstood. She felt that if the matter reached the Queen, it would become a big deal, and it would be exposed to the public eye. Now that the quarrel had already broken out, a direct divorce would be enough.
The kite mentioned it subtly, but it aroused countless fantasies. It turned out that the third prince's body... Whose child was this?
Everyone behind the trees and flowers heard these words. Ren Jiayu wanted to trample Wang Xipei into the mud, but now it seemed that he had fallen in too.
The Fifth Prince was furious. This was throwing dirty water on Ren Jiayu and himself. He waved to the two accompanying guards and pointed at Yuanwan next to him: "Go and bring the princess here."
If I can’t find that voice, can I still not find Wang Xipei?
Ren Jiayu thought: It turns out he also knew that Wang Xipei was here.
After a while, two guards came back and said, "Your Highness, there is no one behind the bend in the bushes next door."
The fifth prince stood up and said, "You escort the emperor's wife and the little grandson back to the palace."
Not long after Wang Xipei's carriage entered the palace, the fifth prince also came galloping over on a tall horse. As he jumped off the horse, he saw Wang Xipei's back from afar and felt a little satisfied: he still knew to go home and didn't run around.
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