Nan Xingyao's personal maid, Hongye, immediately knelt down to stop her:
"Princess! You can't go! Everyone knows how much His Majesty favors this Consort! If you go, His Majesty might not only reprimand the Consort, but he'll also become her enemy!"
"What a joke! I am a royal princess, and she is merely my uncle's concubine! Do you think I'm afraid of her?"
You're not afraid!
The Prince of Anping's mansion is terrified!
Princess, you've only been in the capital for a little over a month, and you've already offended so many families!
If things continue like this, when the Prince and his son arrive in the capital for the New Year, who will dare to associate with the Prince of Anping's mansion?
But how could Hongye dare to say such a thing?
The only recourse was to soften the tone and offer gentler persuasion:
“Princess, even if you are a princess, what if His Majesty gets annoyed if you complain to him twice in one day?”
And what if His Majesty reprimands the Imperial Concubine but then ignores the Chi family's affairs? Think about it, would you rather the Imperial Concubine be punished, or would you rather His Majesty punish the Chi family?
Hongye earnestly advised him.
His Majesty treats the princess with indifference, yet the princess has no self-awareness whatsoever and has come to the palace to complain.
Yes, it's true that the princess is of royal blood!
But the palace is not her home!
"Of course, we want our Imperial Uncle to punish the Chi family!"
Nan Xingyao said without even thinking.
Upon further reflection, I realized that what Hongye said made a lot of sense.
Compared to Consort Chen, she naturally hated Chi Tang even more!
What she didn't expect was that as soon as she returned to the Prince's mansion, she saw the eunuch delivering the imperial decree!
After the imperial edict was read aloud, Nan Xingyao was dumbfounded. She stood up in disbelief and screamed, "Uncle, could you have made a mistake? I... Waaah!"
Hongye quickly covered Nanxingyao's mouth, and the others immediately stuffed a large sum of silver into the eunuch's hand and sent him off properly.
Hongye only dared to let go after the eunuch left.
"Princess, spare my life!"
Hongye immediately knelt down!
This also caused Nan Xingyao's slap to miss its mark!
But how could Nan Xingyao let someone go if she wanted to beat them up?
He immediately kicked her and drew his whip from his waist, viciously lashing out at Hongye!
Having grown accustomed to this, Hongye immediately curled up, mainly protecting her face, occasionally letting out a few mournful howls before pitifully begging for mercy.
After about twenty lashes, Nan Xingyao angrily threw down the whip, turned around, and left.
"Sister Hongye, you were clearly doing this for the good of the princess, and even more so for the good of the entire palace! How could the princess hit you like that?!"
Hongyue, with tears in her eyes, wanted to help Hongye up, but seeing Hongye covered in wounds, she didn't know where to put her hands. Sister Hongye wouldn't feel any pain.
Hongye lowered her head and coldly said, "You must never say such things again!"
If the princess finds out, death would be the least of my worries!
"……I know."
Hongyue bit her lip, her eyes brimming with tears of fear.
After Hongye staggered to her feet, Hongyue immediately went to support her, feeling extremely frightened and somewhat desperate.
"Sister Hongye, when will this end?"
They were all people who sold themselves into slavery, and their indentures were kept in the Prince's mansion.
Even if he were beaten to death by the princess, no one would know.
Perhaps they'd be thrown out with just a tattered mat, or perhaps... there wouldn't even be a mat; they'd be dumped directly into a mass grave...
"Don't think about the future, just get through each day." Hongye gritted her teeth, refusing to utter a sound of pain.
If you didn't know that if the princess didn't cry out in pain when she hit you, she would hit you even harder, and you wouldn't cry out in pain either.
Because when you cry out in pain, nobody cares.
After returning to the room, Hongyue skillfully and carefully took off Hongye's clothes and applied medicine to her.
Even though she was already used to it, seeing the various scars on Hongye's body, big and small, deep and shallow, Hongyue couldn't help but let her tears fall down.
When she was sold to the Prince's mansion, only Sister Hongye was willing to help her.
She only trusts Sister Hongye.
"Why are you crying? You're not dead."
"Sister, with all this... how will you ever get married?"
Hongyue's biggest wish right now is to get married.
Because they get married, they no longer need to serve the princess. They might be transferred to a certain estate or other places.
Hongye stared blankly at the wall, lost in thought.
Marrying?
No, not anymore.
She could make the princess happy even when she was being beaten.
When the princess went mad, she was able to assess the situation and stop her, preventing further trouble. Therefore, the princess was very satisfied.
Even if she gets married, she will never leave the princess's side.
After the medicine was applied, Hongyue was drenched in sweat.
Hongye endured the pain and got dressed. Looking at Hongyue packing her things, especially at the other woman's hands that looked like those of a forty-year-old woman, she felt a pang of pain in her heart.
Xiaoyue is only ten years old.
Can……
"Xiaoyue, remember what your older sister said, never stand out, play dumb. Even if you wash clothes for the rest of your life, no matter how hard or tiring it is, it's better than..."
"Sister, you don't need to say anything, I understand. You're doing this for my own good."
In the Prince's mansion, clever maids would be assigned to serve the Princess.
Of all the maids serving the princess, only the eldest sister could last three years.
"good."
Hongye thought she still needed to find an opportunity to transfer Xiaoyue away.
Even something as simple as washing clothes in the princess's courtyard could be met with a sudden, unpredictable outburst from the princess...
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