The next afternoon, the prince entered the palace. He first sat in the Queen Mother's palace for a while, and then went to Princess Xinyang's palace and asked the princess to help him make an appointment with Ruhuan. He wanted to ask Ruhuan if she was interested in him.
Princess Xinyang readily agreed and ordered her maid to invite Ruhuan over.
Ruhuan was good friends with Princess Xinyang, so she naturally went when the princess invited her. When she arrived at the princess's bedroom, she saw no one but the Prince of Qinghe.
Ruhuan bowed according to the rules, and the Prince of Qinghe said there was no need to be so polite, and then closed the palace door.
Ruhuan asked, "Why did the prince close the door? Where is the princess?"
Prince Qinghe said, "The princess is not here. I asked her to invite you here. It's not that the princess wants to see you, but I want to see you."
Ruhuan asked, "Prince, do you have something important to discuss with me?"
The Prince of Qinghe stepped forward, took Ruhuan's hand, and said bluntly, "Huan'er, are you willing to be my Crown Prince Consort?"
Ruhuan broke free from the hand of the Prince of Qinghe. She said, "I don't want to, Prince. My father made it clear several months ago that I don't want to marry you."
Prince Qinghe refused to give up. "Why wouldn't you want to? The position of Princess Qinghe is something many people dream of. Marry me, and you will have a position second only to the emperor, and enjoy endless wealth and glory."
Ruhuan said, "Prince, I don't like you, so why should I marry you? I don't care about the status of a princess, or the glory and wealth."
The Prince of Qinghe suddenly grabbed Ruhuan's hand, his face twisted like a mad dog, and he roared and snarled, "If you don't like me, who do you like? Tell me, who do you like! If you don't marry me, who do you want to marry? Who do you want to marry?"
"Prince, let go, let me go!"
"Zhao Jue, if you don't let go, I'll call for help. Let go, you let go."
While dragging Ruhuan, Prince Qinghe said, "Ye Ruhuan, no one will come even if you scream at the top of your lungs."
Ruhuan stumbled and fell to the ground. Prince Qinghe reached out to grab her, but Ruhuan was quick to grab Prince Qinghe's hand and bite it hard.
"ah--"
Prince Qinghe felt the pain and slapped Ruhuan with great force. Ruhuan crawled on the ground with her right cheek burning with pain. She felt like she was not her own.
The Prince of Qinghe half-knelt, pinching Ruhuan's chin with a wicked smile, "Huan'er, when you become mine, you will have to marry me even if you don't want to."
He stretched out his restless hand towards Ruhuan, trying to untie her belt, but Ruhuan slapped him back.
The Prince of Qinghe dodged Ruhuan's slap.
Ruhuan pulled out the hairpin from her head, but the Prince of Qinghe rushed towards her and pressed her under him. "Interesting, beautiful but with a strong temper. Huan'er, this prince likes people like you."
Taking advantage of the Prince of Qinghe's unpreparedness, Ruhuan stabbed him in the neck.
The Prince of Qinghe screamed loudly.
Ruhuan pushed Prince Qinghe away, quickly got up and fled.
The autumn afternoon sun was warm, but when it shone on Ruhuan, she felt particularly cold.
If she hadn't fought back, the consequences would have been disastrous.
After leaving Princess Xinyang's bedroom, Ruhuan didn't know where to go. She wanted to leave the palace, but the selection process was not over yet, so she couldn't. She missed her parents, brothers, and the sister-in-law whom she disliked.
Sister-in-law...
Ruhuan thought of someone, and she quickly went to Lu Tianyun's bedroom, Fengyi Pavilion.
"Sister Lu." Ruhuan walked up to Lu Tianyun tremblingly.
"Miss Ye." Lu Tianyun saw Ruhuan's messy hair and several obvious red marks on her face, and she looked a little embarrassed.
She asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Ruhuan said, "I want to leave the palace. I miss my father, mother, brother and sister-in-law. Can you help me leave the palace?"
"What happened to you?" Lu Tianyun helped her sit on the couch and ordered Bisi to serve tea and water. He said gently, "Sister Ye, first tell me why you want to leave the palace. The selection process hasn't ended yet, and according to the rules, you can't leave the palace."
Ruhuan said, "I, I injured the Prince of Qinghe."
Ruhuan choked up, terrified at the memory of what had just happened. "Prince Qinghe was unkind to me. He forced me. I... I hurt him with my hairpin... It was the princess who made an appointment with Prince Qinghe. I, I..."
Listening to Ruhuan's story, Lu Tianyun was shocked. A prince of the same clan actually behaved improperly with a woman who was participating in the selection, and in the important place of the imperial palace!
"Sister Ye, do you have any?"
Ruhuan shook her head. "No, I injured the Prince of Qinghe. I don't know how badly he's injured. I, I... I don't know what to do. Sister Lu, I..."
Lu Tianyun comforted Ruhuan for a while, and then went to Kunning Palace in person to tell the Queen about this matter. The Queen Mother was also there at the time. The Queen Mother and the Queen were quite shocked when they learned about it. The Queen Mother immediately ordered the Queen to go to Xiangning Palace and report to His Majesty.
As soon as the Queen left, the Queen Mother said to Lu Tianyun, "Yun girl, Ye Ruhuan doesn't know you well. Why would she think of looking for you when something happened?"
Lu Tianyun said calmly, "Her Majesty, the Ye family sister is looking for me because I know her sister-in-law. The Ye family sister said... the princess has an appointment with the prince."
The Queen Mother was surprised and looked over.
Lu Tianyun lowered his head in a hurry.
The Queen Mother moved to Princess Xinyang's bedroom, but saw the imperial physician bandaging the wound of Prince Qinghe. Princess Xinyang was waiting on the side, and when she saw the Queen Mother come in, she felt inexplicably nervous.
After the imperial physician had bandaged the wound, Princess Xinyang sent a palace maid to send the imperial physician away and silenced him with silver.
The Queen Mother glanced at the Prince of Qinghe without saying a word, her eyes full of anger and rage, and then she ordered someone to escort the Prince of Qinghe out of the palace.
The Queen Mother said to her daughter, "Yinong, you're not young anymore, how could you act so rashly? Fortunately, you didn't make a big mistake. Otherwise, how would you explain to General Ye? Your brother didn't want to grant the marriage between the Ye Mansion and the Qinghe Prince's Mansion because he was concerned about the court. Now that the selection process is not over, Zhao Jue's attempt to do something inappropriate to Ye Ruhuan is disrespectful to His Majesty and an act of insubordination."
After hearing this, Princess Xinyang turned pale. She just wanted to help her cousin express his feelings to his beloved girl. She didn't expect her cousin to do anything bad to Ruhuan, and she didn't expect that her cousin's actions would offend His Majesty.
Zhao Zixu was also furious when he learned about it. The Qinghe Palace was so arrogant that they attacked the family members of his important ministers in the important place of the imperial palace. It was obvious that they did not take him, the emperor, seriously, and their wolfish ambitions were obvious!
Zhao Zixu sent someone to Fengyi Pavilion to pick up Ruhuan, and then sent her back to the General's Mansion at night...
In the room, Madam Ouyang felt distressed as she listened to her daughter telling about her experiences in the palace.
In the main hall, everyone looked at each other in surprise, especially Ye Shiheng and the old general. A little prince actually attacked the only daughter of the Ye family.
This is intolerable. We must seek an explanation from the Qinghe Palace!
The old general cursed, "How dare this bastard insult my granddaughter!"
Ye Shiheng also said: "A toad wants to eat swan flesh, it's dreaming!"
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