Chapter 498: You came to the Regent's Palace, told me what to do and how to behave?
Princess Wenshu's slender fingers tapped impatiently on the rosewood armrest, making a dull sound. Her delicate eyebrows furrowed tighter and tighter, and finally she snorted coldly, breaking the silence:
"Hmph! This Lan Xiyue is so arrogant! How dare she keep me waiting for so long? What a jerk!"
Nalan Mei, who was standing beside her, also frowned slightly, a trace of anxiety flashing across her eyes. She leaned forward and whispered, "Mother, could it be that she knew our intentions and was deliberately leaving us alone to embarrass us?"
Upon hearing this, Princess Wenshu raised the corners of her mouth in a sarcastic arc, and a cold light flashed in her eyes: "Oh! The Queen Mother is disgusted with her now! It seems that I was too polite and made her forget her own weight! I will write a letter to inform the Queen Mother, and wait until a new beauty comes into the Regent's Palace, and see if she can still be so complacent!" She deliberately emphasized the words "new beauty".
Nalan Mei hesitated and said, "But... my uncle dotes on her right now, treating her like a treasure. How could he easily take a concubine?" Even if he would take one in the future, the novelty hasn't worn off yet. How could it be so easy to enter the palace?
Princess Wenshu curled her lips in disdain, her well-maintained face filled with a firm belief in men's nature. "Silly girl, didn't you think that a cold-hearted man like Mo Liyuan would never be moved by a woman? What about now? Doesn't he treat Lan Xiyue like he's holding her in the palm of his hand, afraid of dropping her? It shows that those mediocre women in the past were completely in his eyes! Since he could be fascinated by Lan Xiyue, he can naturally be seduced by other beauties! Men..."
She drawled out her words, with the sarcasm of someone who had experienced it, "How can there be such a thing as a lifelong couple? Just wait and see. When Mo Liyuan falls in love with someone else, I, Lan Xiyue, will be like yesterday's flower, discarded like a worn-out shoe!"
"Oh!"
A clear sneer suddenly came from outside the door.
Princess Wenshu and her daughter were both startled and turned their heads to look.
I saw Lan Xiyue standing at the door without knowing when, with a lingering sneer on her lips, and her eyes were like cold stars, shooting straight into the hall.
A trace of embarrassment flashed across Nalan Mei's face.
Lan Xiyue walked in, went to the main seat at the top, and sat down gracefully. She straightened her back and looked down at Princess Wenshu with a condescending gaze. Her voice was calm, but every word was as icy as ice beads.
"The Princess has come here today, so you're here to 'kindly' tell me that if the Prince falls in love with someone else, I'll be abandoned like a worn-out shoe."
Princess Wenshu was choked by her impolite attitude and straightforward questioning. She frowned and looked closely at Lan Xiyue's face. The outline of her eyebrows and eyes made her feel vaguely familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen her.
She suppressed the strange feeling in her heart and put on the airs of an eldest princess, her tone filled with condescending admonition: "Lan Xiyue, it is natural for a man to have three wives and four concubines! Mo Liyuan is the regent of a country, how could you be the only one in his mansion? I am only speaking the truth to you and trying to wake you up!"
Lan Xiyue raised her eyebrows slightly upon hearing this, and a captivating gleam suddenly flashed across her calm eyes. "That's really unfortunate." Her tone remained calm. "This princess is very petty. The backyard of the Regent's Palace can't tolerate even a single unnecessary woman. If the prince really loves someone else one day..."
She paused slightly, her eyes sweeping across Princess Wenshu's suddenly changed face, each word clearly spoken:
"This princess must either resign and leave this palace, or kill him with her own hands."
"you.....!"
"Lan Xiyue!"
Two exclamations rang out at the same time.
Princess Wenshu trembled with horror, pointing her well-maintained finger at Lan Xiyue, shaking like a leaf in the wind, her voice distorted. "You, you... it's perfectly normal for a man to have three wives and four concubines! How dare you... how dare you say such outrageous, jealous words! It's simply... simply appalling!"
Nalan Mei also gasped and screamed, looking in disbelief at the woman in the main seat who had a calm face but spoke shockingly.
Lan Xiyue, however, simply stared at Princess Wenshu's expressionless face, as if she were enjoying a farce. A faint, almost cruel, sarcasm curled up at the corner of her lips:
"At least, I act uprightly, unlike you, the eldest princess."
Her eyes swept meaningfully over Princess Wenshu's well-maintained face, and her voice suddenly turned cold, with a chill as ice. "You kept concubines all over the mansion and trampled on the reputation of the Nalan family. This incident has become known to everyone in the capital, and you have become a laughing stock in the royal family. Princess, where do you get the courage to come to the Regent's Palace, dictate to me, and teach me how to behave? Hmm?"
"You...you are so outrageous!" Princess Wenshu was like a cat whose tail was stepped on, her fur instantly standing on end. Her carefully painted face was distorted and flushed with extreme shame and anger. Her chest was heaving violently, she could hardly breathe, and the finger pointing at Lan Xiyue was shaking even more violently.
"Mother!" Nalan Mei's heart tightened when she saw this. She shouted in a low voice and tugged hard at Princess Wenshu's sleeve. Her anxious eyes sent a strong signal to stop her. They didn't come here today to quarrel with each other!
Princess Wenshu was pulled by her daughter and felt the force coming from her sleeve. She finally managed to regain a bit of rationality from the edge of rage.
She took several deep breaths of the sandalwood-scented yet still stuffy air, suppressing the fishy-sweet feeling and raging anger surging in her throat. She dug her nails deep into her palms, barely maintaining her composure.
She retracted her hand that was pointing at Lan Xiyue and swung her sleeves heavily. Her voice was hoarse and stiff from trying so hard to suppress it:
"Lan Xiyue! I'm not here today to argue with you!" She practically gritted her teeth, pausing each word, "I'm just reminding you, as we're both women, that it's natural for a man to have three wives and four concubines! Since you're sitting on the throne of Regent Princess, you'd better give up those wishful thinking and do your duty peacefully! Otherwise... it will be too late to regret it later!"
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